The San Francisco call., 1898-01-19

Alaska, and getting his outfit together crossed the bay and spent a night in the Berkeley hills. It took him all of next day to thaw out, and now there is a Klondike outfit for sale, and MT. Tabrett is going to stay at home It was rumored yesterday that Chief En- gineer Little of the Alameda was about to purchase the outfit and take 1t to Australia as a sample of what a man who does not want to go to the Klon- dike requires.
 The Talrett- McElroy party will be outfitted for a two years stay in the frozen north. The crew will work on shares and the vessel will be their home until San Francisco is reached again. The vessel will be sailed from here to St. Michael and at that point her ma chinery will be put in and the ascent of the Yukon begun
 The steel steamers being built at the Risdon and the wooden vessel being put together at the Launch Company's yards are very much alike Both are almost flat-bottomed, but the wooden vessel will have a false keel put on and will be SchoOner-rigged in order to reach St Michael. On arriving at that point the masts and false keel will be discarded and when the engines and | smokestack are in position she will look very much like her steel sister.
 At the Fulton Iron Works four mag nificent river steamers are being built for the Alaska-Yukon Transportation | Company. Whitelaw is building four river steamers on Spear street for the North American Transportation Com pany, the Union Iron Works are com pleting a steamer, the Senator, for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and the St Paul for the Alaska Commercial Company. while the Fulton will be called upon in week or so to put the engines in the Dirigo, the fine new yes sel now being completed for Kimball &, Co. These latter vessels are for the St. Michael trade and all of them will be ready for business next March.
 All the river boats will be sent in sec tiOns to either St Michael or Dutch Harbor The North American Trans portation Company's fleet will go on sailing vessel and the chances are that the latter will be lowed to Dutch liar bOr, where the steamers are to be put together. They will then proceed to St. Michael under their own steam. Many of the river steamers are to be fitted with the Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers. one of which is now on Folsom-street wharf awaiting the ar rival of the Dirigo. It came from the East and is the first of its kind to be put into a steamer on this coast. The Risdon is building a number of them on the Heine plan and when completed they will be shipped to St. Michael. The new boilers are much lighter than the old they can stand pressure of 200 pounds to the square inch and steam can be got on them in a very short space of time.
 The steamer Columbia which sailed for Portland yesterday. took away over fifty miners for the Klondike. They will be transferred to the steamer Ore gon at Astoria and will go direct to Dyea. and will then cross Chilkoot Pass to the valley of the Yukon Among those who went away on the Columbia were:
 N. Lewis. F. White. c. Martin. H C. w. George. T. H. Clement. A. J. Vel Ter. T. Lynch. H. Brusse. w. F. Ketch- ins. J Hoffman. Fl. F. Morse, c. Fl. Gil- Ian, B. von Buskles.