The San Francisco call., 1898-04-30
The PilOt-BoatS Am erica and Oracle $ Caught
 in It.
Men Wanted for the Coast De- lenders Fearless, Vigilant
 and Active.
Trouble Between the Crew of the Collier Lucille and the Sea-
 mems Union.

| very heavy northwest storm has been
 raging up the coast for the last forty l eight hours, and the captains of the | coasters now due are sure to have some l hard-luck stories to tell when they reach
 port. Thursday night it blew over seventy
 miles an hour at Point Reyes, while at | Fort Ross the seas were running noun
 tains high. A private dispatch from
 that point says that it Is many day
 since such a terrific sea has been seen off
 that point.
 At Point Reyes yesterday morning it
 was still blowing fifty-eight miles an hour, but at noon it had subsided to
 forty-f1ve miles an hour. During the
 night the pilot-boats America and Oracle
 s caught it. A heavy sea swept the
 America and carried the yawl overheard
 Some other minor damage was doneabout
 the deck, but no one was hurt. Outside
 of most uncomfortable night the pilots on the Oracle s did not suffer. The bark Alaska got away for Kotze | bue Sound yesterday morning with no | gold hunters aboard. She must have got
 a full share of the storm, and the for
 tune seekers must have had a hard time
 of it. The majority of the men had never l been to sea before, so when the bark be- | gan to plunge into a nasty cross sea their condition can be imagined.
 The ship Lucille got away for Seattle l yesterday after a brush with the walk | ing delegate of the Coast Seamens Union. 1 The men all belonged to the union, and l shipped for $35 a month, or $5 more than l the Ship-OwnerS' Association is paying sailors in coal ships. Just before the Lu- 1 cille sailed the walking delegate put in
 an appearance and said the men had to | strike for $40 a month. This they refused | to do, and a Wordy warfare enSued. The | walking delegate insisted that the should do as they were told or take the 1 consequences. The sailors had a confab | together, and then said they had decided | to stay by the ship. The walking dele | gate then demanded their union cards 1 and books, which were given him. He l then started for headquarters to make a
 report, but by the time he got back the captain of the Lucille had procured a | tug and the ship was on her way to Enlistments for the navy are now being | made at the rendezvous, 10 California | street, Lieutenant-Command T. S. | Phelps Jr. in charge, as follows: Chief
 machinfsts, engineers, for cruisers, three years; first-class machinists, engineers, | for cruisers, three years; chlef machinlStS, | engineers, for tugs, one year, frst-claSS
 machinists, engineers, for tugs, one year, i first-class tiremen, for tugs. one year; i frSt-claSS firemen, for cruisers, three | years; second-class firemen, for tugs, one
 year; oilers, f9r tugs, one year; seamen' | for tugs, one year; seamen, for cruisers, | three years; ordinary seamen, for cruis- ! | tugs, one year; landSmen, for tugs, one | year; carpenters mates, for tugs, one 1 year; stewards, for tugs, one year; cooks, 1 for tugs, one year; mess attendants, for 1 tugs, one year.
 1 The men for the tugs are wanted for | the Fearless, Vigilant and Active, recently | purchased by the Government from the 1 Spreckels Towboat Company.
 The Mare Island dispatch-boat Unadilla came down from the yard yesterday and ! went alongside the Monterey. She put | aboard a luIanfitV Of munitions of and then went to Pacific-Street wharf,
 where she landed some stores to be sent to Portland. The big tug looks well in | her war coating, and in company with the | Fearless, Vigilant and Active should give | a good account of herself
 Captain James E. Rowland died in this l city yesterday. He was well known Tn
 the coasting trade and was for many
 voyages master of the ship Invincible. 1 The remains of Robert Cowes, late chief | steward of the steamer Zealandia, were | buried in Odd Fellows cemetery yester- l day. It was at first intended to send the | body to Honolulu for interment, but the | plans were changed and the funeral took place yesterday.
 Joseph Seely, the popular chief steward l of the Australia, will make one trip on
 the Zeaandia. By the time he gets back | the Australia will be ready to resume her
 old run to Honolulu, and Mir Seely will
 resume his old position as chief stew
 ard.
 There was a surfeit of lively scenes on
 Pacific street wharf yesterday. w, Daley, freight clerk on the wharf, rescued a ! Spaniard from drowning; Charles Olsen, | the boss SteVedore, put out a fire that at one time threatened to burn down the shed, and T. McCombe, purser of the 1 Zealandia, stopped runaway team. The Spanish boy jumped overheard to earn | 50 cents by saving a hat. His suspenders broke while be was diving and his panta- looms fell down until his legs got en- tangled in them and he could not swim. It was at this juncture that Daley gal lantly went to the rescue and kept the drowning boys head above water until assistance came.
 Some one dropped lighted match be- tween the boards on the sidewalk on East
 street, and the strong breeze soon quick
 ened the dry timbers into blaze. Olsen
 came along in the nick of time and or ganiZing a bucket brigade soon had the ire out. The draught was beginning to
 carry the flames under the wharf. and a few minutes later big ire might have been raging.
 The horses in one of the delivery wagons on Pacific street wharf took fright at a steamer whistle and began to run away The team was headed right for a group of women, and some of them would surely have been hurt had not Mir. McCombe grabbed the near horse by the head and hung on to him until the wagon
 came to stop by coiliding with heap
 of freight.
 Charles Ketler was injured while work ing on the new military road near Lime Point yesterday. The earth caved in on
 him and injured him so seriously that It was 1OunQ neCSSSdIS lO SeIlO llIfl to
 the city. The lighthouse tender Yosemite
 brought him over, apd at the Receiving Hospital he was found to have fractured his shoulder blade and seriously injured his back
 Herzog & Co.,, the Pacific Coast passen-
 ger agents of the Hamburg-American line of steamers deny most emphatically that the Furst Bismarck has been sold to the United States Government. The steamer sailed yesterday from New York for
 Paris, London and Hamburg with the fol- lowing passengers from this coast:
 MT. and Mrs. M. A. Gunst, Mir. and Mrs l. Kahn, MT. and Mrs. I. N. Walter child and maid; Jose Prochazka, Karl Wolbach,
 Benno Triest, D. Marx, Gustavo Corso Knoth, Miss Clara K. Campbell, P. J. Williams, Frank Planter, Louis Arzner
 and son, Miss Julia Keller, Mr. and Mrs.
 H H. Young and family, Miss F. M. Van
 Pelt. Fred Hurst, Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Overton, Miss Eva Overton, Miss Louisa
 Seyfried, Mrs. Robert ZenlSer, Master Herbert Zenker, Miss Elley Zenker, H. Detiens, Miss H. Moses, s. Bendit, M
 Fleisher, Jacob Nielsen and Mrs. Marie Martens.
 Town Talk.
 Patriotism is plainly defined in this