The San Francisco call., 1897-01-29

''she was the best wife man ever had.
Hundreds of times when l have gone off
on spree she would brace me up and
bring me around into working shape
again"
What excites the envy of the neighbor-
hood Is the fact that during the thirty-six
years Mrs. Thomp mpson has been in the
sailor clearinghouse business with her
husband she has a,nassed fortune of
about $4,000 unknown to him. ''The
only person who knew anything about it
was Mrs. Lane (the wife of another board
ing-master)," said Thompson. my wife
told her some time ago that she had been
saving up money since 1861 and that she
hoped she would die first so that | could
have the use of 1T after she was gone
Some months ago Thompson joined the
Salvation Army, and short time ago was
promoted 10 be a sergeant. Knowing that
she was dying, she informed her husband
OF the little nestegg she had been saving
up for him and signed her passbook over
to him.
There was a short but lively session of
the Harbor mmissioners yesterday.
Three sweepers, Frank G. O'NeIl, P. w.
Winkley and ]. T. Bloomer, were dis
charged, and Foreman of Sweepers
Thomas Kane had to be protected from
their vengance by Sergeant Hayes.
took more liquor than was good for them,
and Kane brought them to account. The
men got angry and one of them struck the
old man. They then seized him and
rushed him up to the Chief Wharfinger' 8
office, where they demanded that he be
dismissed.
Chief Wharfnger Root told the men to
go to work and make their complaint next
day. They got abusive and he at once
suspended them. Before their sentence
of dismissal was passed Sergeant Hayes
was telephoned for and he was instructed
to take Kane under his charge.
The yacht Idier, from which J. C. Will
son Jr. was drowned some time ago, will
90 to Honolulu After the sad occurrence
the little vessel was sold to the Naval
Battalion and her name was changed to
Natalie. Her new owners soon tired of
her and she again changed hands. She is
now being fitted out for an ocean voyage.
II is expected that as she is handsome
and speedy craft a good price will be OBJ
tanned for her at the islands.
The Pacific Steam Whaling Company 8
steamer Golden Gate will be launched
from Hay & Wright's yard, Alameda
Point, tom orrow. The Golden Gate has
during the winter been leng gthened % feet
and raised feet which gives her water
line of 105 feet ana good freeboard, m ak
tenders sailing out of San Francisco.
Special attention has been given to her
crew accommodations, which gives them
large and com Portable apartments. Her
new engines-11x24, 18-inch stroke-will
give her speed of 91z knots per hour.
Her reconstruction has been under the
direct supervision of Captain o. J.
Humphrey of the whaling company. The
Golden Gate sails for Alaska the middle
of March, where she will be employed as a
tender to one or more of the company 8
canneries. Captain S. F. Snow goes out
in the Golden Gate in command.
The wife of Captain A. G. Sherman, the
well-known whaling man, died in Ala
media yesterday of typhoid fever. Her
little daughter, Helen HerscheI Sherman.
the first white child ev-r born in the Arc
tic Circle, had been very sick with the
disease and the mother nursed her
through it only to succumb herself. Cap
tain Sherman will go out next season on
the Orca, but will leave his children at