The San Francisco call., 1898-05-06
Revenue Cutters Grant, Rush and Corwin Put
 on War Paint.
Alterations to the Fearless, Viq- liant and Active Nearly
 Completed.
Tn a Week or So the Little Boats Will Be Ready to Back Up the
 Monterey.

The revenue cutters Grant, Rush and Corwin put on their fighting colors yes terday and are now ready for active ser vice as far as looks go. Early in the morning the sailors were put to work and before very long the white, trim looking cutters were the same color as the Monterey and equally as attractive look ing.
 Alterations on the tugs Fearless, Vigi lant and Active are rapidly progressing and in a few days they will be ready to join the revenue cutters, and then the uosoujto fleet will be ready for action. The Vie1lant has had her masts and tow ing bits taken out, her machinery and boilers have been overhauled and as soon as her guns have been mounted she will be ready for service. The boilers have been taken out of the Active and several alterations have been made 10 her null, and she will also be ready to give an &C., coun+ of herself as soon as her guns are mounted Very few alterations are to be made on the Fearless outside of painting her the regulation fighting color. After the war the chances are that the AcuVe and Vfeilant will be sold, but the Fearless will always remain part Of the United States navy.
 In week or so the entire fleet will nrobably be seen off Folsom street wharf keeping the Monterey company There will be eight vessels 1n all-tne Grant, Rush, Corwin, Vigilant, Fearless, Active, Unadilla and Monterey. Then if the Charleston should not have sailed for Ma nila and the rejuvenated Camanche should come down from Mare Island there would be quite a gathering oi Oicie o''il 'e' The a'- Irnited States steamship Albatross. late the Fish Commissioners steamer, IS also being fitted out al h hne o1lor heI creW lrol is now being enlisted at the naval rendez- vous at 10 California street. The suppo- sition is that either the Albatross or Grant will be the hagshlp or the ihosqui'o
 Captain L. H. Turner of the Naval Re- serve returned from tue north yesteroay and at once paid V1slt to the tra4illns ship Marion. He found that III nis ap sance Lieutenant Commander Nerney had taken all the necessary steps 10 nave the men ready for an instant call. me hovs in hlue are taking great interest in passing events and every one or them is honing that he will get chance 10 do some fighting under Old Glory.
 The mascot of the coast delehse e dns Ssean named Innoho and the canine's particular fr1enu is a sailor named Skelley. The latter was sIxyIarking with some or the men early vesterday morning, and, to escape rush made by one of them, he Jumped into cafamaran that was swinging in the dayits. The catamaran tipped over ana Shelley was dumped into ,,i, the Day 9sv fron9 r the Warship, but before he had gone thirty feet Jumbo was off to the rescue. He swan up to Skelley, and catehlng, nm nm head above water until the sillp s boat came along and picked them both up. The sailor was none the worse for his ducking and now Jumbo IS more or a pet than ever on the Monterey.
 The batteries at Fort Point, Lime Point and Point Bonita are to do some practice firing in a few days, ana the oIncers or 1t the forts have issued warning to ali kinds of craft to keep out of the line or fire. Notices in English and Italian were posted at Fishermens wharf, ana the fishing steamer Alphonso XIII was sent out to the fishing grounds to warn all the incoming boats Assistant Chief Whar- finger Scott took gang of men with him placed a red flag on Mile rock to warn everybody out of the line of fire. It was blowing almost a gale of wind at the heads. and in consequence the Iandlng lll party on the Irwin had considerable olfn- culty in planting the flag on the rock.
 The ship Louisiana, which arrived rom Australia with coal last Wednesday, dragged her anchor yesterday and nearly went ashore on Alcatraz Island. It took two tugs a long time to get her anchors up and the vessel to a safe anchorage.
 Several changes have been made in the officers of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's fleet. J. Judson Campbell, the purser of the Umatilla. has been trans ferred to the new steamer senator, ,aa1 G ana m Umatilla, has been made purser Of that vessel. Charles c. Lacey. who for years was chief engineer of the Umatilla, has been made supervising engineer of the companys fleet, with headquarters at Seattle Mir Lacey was at the head of the engineers force that assisted Captain C.. Miner Goodall in raising the steamer
 News was brought from Dyea the lat ter part of April that among those killed in the avalanche at Sheep Camp was C. was not correct, as his wife has received two letters from him since that date.
 The Yukon River steamer Rideout was shipyard at Stockton and was lowed to San Francisco the same night by the steamer A. c. Freese. The Rideout is 15O feet long 32-foot beam and 41A-foot depth of hold and will have two pairs of tandem engines IA and 24-inch diameter of cylin- der by 6-foot stroke. She is calculated to the Yukon as a passenger. and towboat combined, having accommodations for 200 passengers. The boat was put up by William Delaney at the yard of the C. N. down and shipped on the Whitelaw on March 10, but owing to the loss of the wrecker by fire at Dyea the managers of the California Yukon Trading Company decided to complete the boat and tow her to St. Michael. Captain R. Fredrick, who was placed in charge of the work, put a number of extra kelsons and clamps in her bracing her thoroughly under the deck with truss work and fastened her throughout with screw bolts, making her stiff enough to make the long ocean voy- age. She was ready for launching in twenty days, but was delayed by not be- ing able to secure calkers, and as the boat was set up 100 yards from the water, another delay of a week was caused in moving her to the river. The machinery will be rushed into her by Chief Engineer Fox and his assistants. as she should be ready for sea by the 10th of this month.
 A ROBBERS BOOST.