The San Francisco call., 1898-08-27
Two Vessels That Will
 
 :. Never Return Here.
BACK AGAIN ON HER OLD RUN
AUSTRALIA SAILS FOR HOMO
 LULU ON THE FIRST.
Numerous Place Hunters After the Positions of Attorney and Chief
 Wharfnger to the Har~ bor Commission.

Two old-tme San Francisco vessels are in trouble Tn Australian waters The bark Leon while on her way from New . castle, N. s. w, to Honolulu sprang a leak and had 10 put into Whangaroa a small port in New Zealand. in distress. while the harkentine Monitor sprang a leak in Sydney harbor and sank at her mooring- An attempt was made to get her on the mud flats, but it failed. and when the Moana left Australia the Moni- tors decks were awash at high water. The Leon is an old-timer, having been built at Sestri Ponente in 1875 At one time she was owned by the late Nicholas Richard, and was then known as the Don Carlos. Then she was rechristened the Quang Tung and later the Principe di Lucedlo. Last of all J. J. Moore x Go. purchased her. and placing her under the Nicaraguan flag renamed her Leon. She sailed from here with a cargo of lumber. and after discharging. loaded coal for the Hawaiian Islands. She has now been sold as she lies in Whangaroa har .bor to J J. Craig of Auckland. New Zea- land. and will be used by him in the Coasting trade. Captain Bergman, who was In command of the Leon. has re- turned 10 San Francisco, and Captain Williams, who was mate with Bergman, is now in command Of the vessel.
 The Marion was built at Boston, Mass.
 
 of life than the Leon. She was formerly owned by T. H. Minor of this city but was sold a few months ago to O. c. S.. Lane of Sydney, N. s. w. Both vessels were particularly well known on this :. coast, and the chances are now that they :, will. never be seen here again.
 The Oceanic Steamship Company's Aus tralia, which has been in use as a trans port for the past few months, has just been returned to her owners by the Gov erhment and will resume her run on the Honolulu route. She will leave here Sep tember l. and as there has been an ac- cumulauon of freight and passengers ow- out crowded.
 The Harbor Commissioners have their = hands full with applicants for office these days The nominations of Tirey l.. Ford Tor Attorney General and George w. Root for Clerk of the Supreme Court will leave the position of attorney for the board and chief wharfinger vacant and there are a host of applicants for the positions. The chances are that W. H. Afford will become the legal adviser of the commission, and that Harry s. Scott will become chief wharfinger. MT Scott Is undoubtedly the man for the office. As assistant chief wharfnger he has made . record Of which any man might be proud. Courteous to all he has made friends of every ship, captain, and ship owner in the port, and all of them would hail with delight his promotion. Will .Ashe is candidate for the position also, but the chances are that he will have  ant chief.
 George Edwards of 2o6 Sansome street is much exercised over the fear that the windows in the new ferry building may break. and in their fall injure somebody. In a letter addressed to the Farbor Com Tnissi0ners he suggests that the windows be protected with Q wire netting. so as to prevent the fall of the broken glass. For the information of Mr. Edwards and all passengers of the ferry boats the Har- b0r Commissioners state that all the glass used in the depot was nodded in wire netting with a three-quarter inch mesh so that at no time can piece of glass larger than the mesh fall, unless the en- tire roof comes down.
 The British bark Palmyra arrived from Gnga yesterday with a cargo of concen- trates for the Apollo Gold Mining Com pany. The Palmyra went to Unga from Newcastle, N. $. w, with a cargo of coal and will load wheat here for England The AIviso steamer F. M. Smith blew out her cylinder head on her maiden trip yesterday and had to be laid up for re- pairs After being disabled she nearly drfted down on the ship Thornliebank but was picked Up by a tug and docked . The Puget Sound Alaska stern wheel steamer Stickeen Chief is supposed to be lost with all hands. There were forty three people, all told. on the boat. 4 pri- 16 says: '"The steamer Dora. which ar rived here on the 10th. reports that on the trip to the westward. fin latitude 3S.3s north. longitude 142.13 west. on the 9th inst. she came across a lot of wreckace. presumably that of q sternwheeler. We afterward found that 1t was that Of the steamer StIckeen Chief. After steamirg along for some time, passing odds and ends of the wreck. we sighted what We supposed to be a raft with a man aboard but or coming up to # it turned out to be a piece of the lower homework (the hur- rfcane heck) the sole occupant being a dog. We lowered q boat and brought the dog aboard, and he is now one of our crew.
 lowing to the quantities of small pieces of wood afloat. we were under the impression that there had been an ex- plosion and that all hands were lost"
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