The San Francisco call., 1898-12-16
FINEST GIRL
 EVER BORN ON
 THE HIGH SEAS Weighed a Pound and
 a Half. BUT SIX INCHES IN HEIGHT CAME INTO THE WORLD DURING A ROWLING NORTHER. City of Peking Delayed-Coots Sold as Sprig-Record Breaking Runs of the Beulah and W. E.
 Jewett.
BUT SIX INCHES IN HEIGHT
CAME INTO THE WORLD DURING
 A ROWLING NORTHER.

Strange things happen at sea- but the | strangest experience that ever occurred in the life of an old salt was what hap | pened to Captain F.. J. Dunham on tht 1 last voyage of the steamer Weeott. II was during the mortimer and the wind was | howl1ng through the steamers rigging al | the rate of ninety miles an hour Captair | Dunham was on the bridge, looking afte, the safety of his vessel when Purser E. Dey came to him and said that the only lady passenger on board was about to be confined. The captain turned the vessel over to the mate and went below With the assistance of the purser (they are both married men, with large famiIies) he delivered the woman of a girl baby that weighed scant pound and half and measured six inches in length. The mite was alive and hearty, and the can tain made cradle for it out of a cigar box.
 The Weott sailed from San Francisco TOT faquina Bay on December s at Il D.. m. Among the passengers was Mrs. G. W. White, wife of an employe of Morton,s special delivery, and her two children. one aged eight years and the other 4 She was on her way to Corvallis to pay her sister visit, and was in good health when the steamer left San Francisco All went well,' said Purser Dey. "until we ran into the mortimer Then if blew great guns and we had a terrible time There were a lot of cases of kerosene on deck. and 1t is lucky they were lashed down. The wind came along and ripped the tops off them as easily as you would tear a piece of paper from the wall. It was during this war of the elements that Mrs. Whites baby was born. It was as bright a new dollar and Its face wa q not much larger than that coin. It had black hair and eyes and was very pretty as babies go Of course, the mother had no clothes for it, so we bundled it up in cotton batting and put 1t to sleep in a cigar box. Talk about your small babies! to cradle two babies the size of that one. At Corvallis we fixed the mother and child up and sent them ashore
 The little mite that was born in howl ing norther on the bosom of the Pacific Ocean Is to be named Grace Dey Weeott White, so If she lives to be old enough her name will always remind her of where and under what circumstances she came into the world.
 Quite fleet of ships put In an appear ance yesterday. The British ship Was dale dale, got in from , Antwerp; the Fintshire Annie Johnson and the brig Lurline from the Hawaiian Islands, the French bark Louis Pasteur from Swansea, and besides these there were two barkentines and a bark outside.
 The Mail Companys steamer City of Peking will not get away until the 21st inst. On her way here from China she cracked her tall shaft, and an attemnt was made to repair it. This was found impossible, so new one had to be made Hence the postponement of the sailing date.
 The remodeled steamer Crescent Citv had her trial trip on the bay yesterdaV and proved to be a wonderfully improved vessel. She has had new boilers and a new high-pressure cylinder put in and her cabins remodeled. She is now one of the finest vessels of her class on tha coast.
 The Italian fishermen are back at their old tricks again. Yesterday boatload after boatload of coots were landed at Fisher men's wharf, and after being plucked and their heads taken off were sold to peddlers who retailed them all over the city as sprig. They catch them in their nets and smother them. They are in conseoI,ence unfit for food. The Health Officers vii stop the practice.
 The schooners Beulah and w. F. Jewett have made record-breaking runs up tho coast They both left here on the 10th inst, and the Beulah made the run to Willapa Bay in three days while tha Jewett went to Port Gamble in four dave The Jewett is the vessel that made fha l record breaking run of ten days from Unalaska to Grays Harbor.
 The engines of the Japanese cruiser Chitose were turned over yesterday. To | limfnary spin around the bay and some | time next week will go to the Santa Bar bara channel for her official trial trip