The San Francisco call., 1898-01-20

in her transformation is now being got ready and a double force of men will be put to work on her on the 3lst inst, when she is turned over to her charter@ CTS. The work of putting up accommo- dations for 1S0 passengers is not ex- pected to occupy more than six days, and on February she will be on her way to Dyea with a full passenger list, as a hundred berthS have already been engaged.
 The same company will dispatch to St. Michael on May 1 the bark Rufus F. Wood. On May 15 the ship Eclipse and May % the National City will take up the running. Both the sailing yes sells will carry coal in their lower holds for the use of the companyS Yukon River steamers. The ship Eclipse will not come back from St. Michael, but will be anchored there and turned into a hotel. All the passengers from the company's steamers will be landed on her and transferred to the river steam CTS on the arrival of the latter from Dawson City. Also if the steamer from San Francisco has not arrived when the river steamers get to St. Michael, the returning miners will be put aboard the Eclipse to await the coming of the San Francisco boat. The launch Het- tie B.. now on the Yukon, will be used as a tender between the ship and the shore, so that the guests of the floating hotel can come and go as they will. By using the ship as a hotel passengers will be saved the heavy charges in cured in transferring their baggage from the steamer to the shore at St. Mi chael
 Seattle Is purchasing all the old de- crepit vessels on the coast that nobody else has any use for. Some of the craft that will be put into commission on the Sound have been ready for the bone yard for and not Hlnfair in San Francisco could be hired to take them to sea. Some of them are fairly good; others again are regular death traps, and yet these boats are to be put in commission to carry miners from Se- attle to Dyea. Several boats have been sold within this last few days. among them being the old Louis Walsh, Enoch Talbot and now the old Theobald. The Walsh has long ago outlived her use fitness, the Talbot when she could be used for nothing else was turned into tank boat, and even at that she was a failure, while the Theobald changed hands many months ago, and was re- gently sold again for S1400. At that time her new owners did not know whether to break her up or turn her into coal hulk. It was found that she was not good enough for the latter pur- pose. and orders were given to disman- | tie her, but before anything was done Seattle people came along, and, 1t is said, paid $5500 for the old-timer.
 The bark Edward May, now on her way here from the East, via Honolulu, has been sold to Alexander & Baldwin of this city. The purchase price is said to be S10,000, and the vessel will prob ably be put in the Klondike trade when she reaches this port. Negotiations are now pending for the purchase of the ship Yosemite for the same trade and Captain Fullerton, who has been mas ter of her for eleven years, has been transferred to the bark Harry Morse. A new master will command the To- semitic when she goes into the Klondike trade.
 Hawaii is also to send her quota of miners to the Klondike. A corporation calling itself the Kohala Klondike Company has been incorporated with capital stock of s5O,00O, and c. T. and A. c. Ostrom will arrive from Homo lulu on the next steamer to outfit here. The two miners know the country we'll to which they are going. and every body in Hawaii expects to come back loaded down with nuggets.