The San Francisco call., 1897-04-17
If THE LIZZIE
PR|EN GOT IN
Why Shouldn't the Samaria
Be Heard of Before
Long?
Was Twenty Days From Tacoma
and Did Not Sight the
Samaria.
Good Frilay Was Observed as a
Holiday on All the British
Merchantmen.

Sound yesterday. The little schooner
Lizzie Prien made an unusually long run
| OF twenty days from Tacoma.
Her owners had given her up as lost and
were much surprised to learn that she was
passing through the Golden Gate. When
she reached the Golden Gate Lumber
Com pany's wharf in Oakland Creek no
! one was more surprised than the manager
of the concern. The little boat did not
engage a tug, but with a fresh breeze
sailed ND the bay and making the mouth
of the creek sailed in and the breeze hold
ing good made her landing without assist
ance. 1--WE never expected 10 see the ves-
sci again, said George Fisher, manager of
the company. "She was an unusually
long time out, and judging from the re-
ports of the weather and the hard times
that other vessels had encountered we
naturally feared the worst. However,
ALPS we'll that ends WELL and the Lizzie
Prien is safe and sound in Oakland
Creek"
1.-THE Lizzie Prien sailed from Tacoma
twenty days ago." said Captain Anderson
yesterday, while the Samaria left week
ahead of u.s. The first day out we got it
hot and heavy, and from that on it was
passed no wreckage and saw no vessels in
the distance. We passed an cid spar. but
| 1t had been so long in the water that we
! did not pay any attention to II. IL the
Samaria did not go down during the seven
days prior to our sailing date, she GER
tainly did not founder in the storms we
! encountered
| II the captain of the Rufus f. Wood is
correct in his surmises, then the last time
| the Samarla was seen was on April =. In
| that event Captain Anderson is willing TO
! swear that she is still afloat, as after that
date there was no storm sufficient 10 sink
| q longboat. The owners of the missing
vessel have nothing TO say about the
! after, and will not express an opinion
units after the return OF the revenue-cutter
Rush.
Yesterday was practically a Sunday on
the water front Being Good Friday, not
| one of the British ships was at work and
all the men were uptown having good
time. The American ships kept right on,
| however, and on one side of the Pacific
| street wharf might be seen the Australia
loading and unloading prior TO her de-
parture for Hawaii next Tuesday, while
! on the other side of the dock was the
| Monowai, with not dozen men aboard
! living in idleness al her moorings. Nearly
! all the British fleet had their flags at half
mast, but among the American mercaa-
tile marine no notice was taken of the
day.
! Chief Officer R. T. Lawless of tie Aus
tralia ran across an old acquaintance in
| Honolulu last voyage. He was walking
along the main street when he saw a man
| of-warsman approaching whom he thought
he knew. After a second look he ex-
| claimed, "Hello, Somers, old man, how
! are your" The sailor stopped in aston
ishment and then managed to say, "Wny,
| Lawless, is that your" Just thirty-one
| years ago Lawless was a boy aboard the
| old scboolship Sabine and he and Somers
were mates. The latter used to play the
organ on Sundays, and many time the
two sailors sang TO The same accompani-
ment. Lawless served through the last
year of the war and then joined the mel
chant marine. Somers stayed in the navy
and is now gunner on the Marion, sta
| toned at Honolulu.
General Manager Pryor OF the Piper,
Aden, Goodall Company was determined
to see just how matter. were under water
in regard TO the wIeckage OF the steamer
Sunol yesterday, so he went down in a
diving suit. Strange to say he did not re-
| turn empty handed, but brought back
with him the nickel-in- -the-slot machine,
in which was found 81 80 and ten lead
nickels. Pryor is now satisfied that his
| silver mine IS a payi ing one and the work
of exploring it will continue. He made
his way over lead bars and poked around
! until he had a fair knowledge of the sur
roundings. Then big Sacramento River
salmon took u look at the diver and Pryor
gave frantic pull az the rope to be hauled
! on deck again. He thought it was a shark.
Diver Dolph and the crew nf the
| schooner tried their best to persuade Mr..
| Pryor from making the descent; but he
| persisted, and made a success of the
venture. In talking about the matter
yesterday, Mr.. Pryor said that the work
of recovering the remainder of the bullion
/ No IL - l.
wreckage. According to him, the greater
part of the bullion will be recovered and
nearly all the steamers fixtures. Since
Pryor has taken char e of the work of
salving the wreck remarkable progress has
been made. Fully $4,000 worth Of bu-
lion has been recovered and the good work
still goes on.
Mrs. Warner, wife of a fireman on the
steamer City of Para, attempted 10 COM
nit suicide from the Mail dock last night
She jumped into the bay, but was rescued
after some hard work by Night Watch
man I. W. Neiland. When she recovered
sufficiently she stated that she wanted 10
die under the bow of the ship on which
her husband worked. Some of the men
! on the dock took her home.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
Queen has been withdrawn from the
southern route and the Santa Rosa will
take up her old running again. The
Queen will make couple Of trips to
Portland in the place of the State of Cali
fornia, and when the latter has been re.
| paired the former will go on the Alaskan
route.
The schooner Vine is going on a cruise
alter salmon for @. Z. Whitney & Co.
The fish when caught will be packed in
| brine.
William Webster, young man in the
employ of w. w. Montague e. Co., 315
Market street, and Frank Def. student,
had free fight on the sidewalk in front
OF Montague store yesterday. The two
lads Quarreled over young lady and
Def knocked Webster down. The latter
pulled pistol and fired, but did not hit
his mark. Both then got ont of the way
as quickly as possible. and Officers Ellis
and Shaw of the harhor police, who were
put on the case, have been unable to To-
cate them.
Tomorrow an excursion will be run to
Mare Island Navy-yard and Vallejo. The
steamer Monticello leaves Mission street
dock, pier 2, at l0:3O A. NJ, returning at
$3.50 P. NJ. The iare viii be rs cents.
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