The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-20
PASSED AWAY
WITHIN SIGHT
OF HIS HOME
Captain Jacobsen Dies
Off the Heads.
TWO OF ATALANTA'S CREW
CAPTAIN MCBRIDE WRECKED
ONCE BEFORE.
Sorenson, A. B., Is Remembered by
Some Gold-Hunters Whom he
Piloted to the South
ern Seas.

The brig Consuelo returned to port yes
terday morning with her flag at half
mast Captain Jacobsen died when the
vessel was fifty miles off the Heads, so
Chief officer Page decided to return 10
port. During the afternoon the Consuelo
sailed again in command of the chief
officer
The Consuelo sailed from here for Ka-
hului on the 18th inst. The tug Reliance
towed her as far as the whistling buoy
and then Captain Jacobsen seemed TO be
all right. At 1890 p. m, however, he be-
gan to complain about pains in the re-
gion of his heart and on the advice of the
mate went to his room and to bed. He
grew gradually worse, and at $3.50 a. m
died. AS the vessel passed up the bay
with her flag at half-mast the fact Of
Captain Jacobsen's death was soon
known, and a great many of the flags on
the front were at once lowered in respect
to his memory. The deceased has been
in the Spreckels employ for nearly
twenty years. For a long time he was
mate of the brig ]. D. Spreckels, then he
was captain of the George H. Douglas
and for many years he was master of the
vessel on which he died. Captain Gilbert
H Brokaw of the tug Reliance was his
nenhew, and to him the news came with
a great shock, as it was only last Thurs
day he bade his uncle good-by outside the
heads.
Stories of very opposite character are
told along the front about two OF the men
who are supposed to have gone down IN
the wreck of the ATLANTA one is ABOUT
Captain Mcbride and the other about an
"a b." named Sorenson, who shipped on
the Inflated vessel at Tacoma. In 1881 or
1889 Captain Mcbride was master OF the
British ship Norman Court. While on
her way from India to England she was
wrecked on the Welsh coast and nearly
all the crew were drowned. Several of
he
and among the number was Captain Nc
Bride. He was so exhausted, however,
that for a long time it was feared ne
would die. He was removed to Anglesey
and there, through the careful nursing OF
Miss Helen Pritchard, he was brought
back to life. When Captain Mcbride lett
From that time until the Atalanta went
on the spit at Alseya Bay Captain Nc
Bride was never in a serious accident.
Sorenson Is known to great many
men whom he inveigled into gold hunt
ing trip to the Southern Seas. He showed
them samples of gold bearing ore and
Jumps of virgin sulphur that gave them
ali the fever The schooner Sophie Suth-
eriand was fitted out and with Captain
Alec Mclean in command started out for
the Solomon Islands The venture was a
dismal failure. There was no gold in .ne
Solomon groun and in disgust the
schooner was headed for Apia, Samoa.
Before that place was reached half OF the
men were nearly dead from scurVy and
nearly all of them had to go into the hos
pital there.
When the gold hunters found they had
been duped they at once put Sorenson
ashore in the Solomon group, after CIV
ing him enough money to pay his way to
sydney, N s. w. At that point he Sc
cured a berth on the British ship Belford
as boatswain and came to TINS port: FROM
here he went north In the parkentine
Cleaner and at Tacoma joined the Alta
lanta.
snlendid specimens of redwood lumber at
Beale-street wharf. 1t is from the mills
of Dolbeer e. Carson, Eureka, and goes
to show the size of clear redwood that
can be obtained from a single tree. There
are four piles of lumber on the wharf
containing in all 10000 feet. None of the
pieces are less than sixty inches wide and
vary in length from ten TO twenty rect.
All are of the highest grade OF soft-grain-
of any kind. These pieces of redwood
are to be used in their full width for the
interior decoration of an Eastern nome.
The Port Costa Fishing Company has
and Christopher Columbus to the italian
Benevolent Society for to-day. The use
of Henry Petersons launch Amy mas also
been secured, and all three vessels will
war Etna. The fare for the round trip
will be rs cents. and all the proceeds will
be given to the benevolent society
The State tug Governor Markham was
newspaper men and their wives from the
interior General Dickinson and Messrs.
Prisk and Chapman. the Senate Com
mittee nyestigEating the state 61nng
Harvey and Herold and H F. Emertc
were also of the party. The entire water
front was inspected and then visit was
paid to Hunters Point drydock and Inc
Union Iron. Works, after which the party
returned home.