The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03
A Fleet Will Be Ready to Sailfor the Golden Yukon
 via St. Michael.
Brothers and Sister Meet After
 a Parting of FOrty-Sev Years.
Remark able Swim of a Llewellyr, Softer From Berkeley to San t. .. Francisco.

Travel to the Klondike via Dyea and Skaguay is gradually falling away, and steamers that were overcrowded month ago are now going out half empty. Gold hunters who will try their fortunes on the Yukon this year will now await for the opening of the river and take the St. Michael route. All kinds of craft are being got ready for the great day on which the ice will open up and leave clear way to the gold fields.
 Down at Third-street wharf the steamer Portland is taking aboard the boilers and machinery for four steamers, the hulls of which are now being built at Unalaska for the Alaska Commercial Company. Out at Hunters Point two sternwheel steam CTS are being built, while at the Fulton Iron Works four Stern-wheelerS are near ing completion, all for the Yukon trade.
 The brig Geneva has been withdrawn from the, sugar trade and is to be fitted out for the St. Michael run. She sailed from the sugar refinery to Turner's yard at Benicia yesterday, and presented very pretty sight as she moved along the front with all sail set save the foresail.
 The steamer Cleveland is to be with drawn from the Dyea-Skaguay route, and will run in the coast trade until the u- kons opens, when she will go on the St. Michael run.
 The steamer Humboldt will take away 160 Klondikers next Tuesday. Last trip she took away over 300. so on this occa- sion she will be compelled to fill up at Seattle, Among those who nave taken passage on her are "SWiftwater' Bill Gates and party of thirty friends. They are taking with them thirty dogs, nine horses and an immense store of goods.
 Henry Peterson had a narrow escape on FolsomIstreet wharf yesterday. He was learning to ride bicycle, when the ma chine got away from him, and he crashed into a stringer. The bicycle was wrecked and Peterson was sent head first into the bay. He was none the worse for his ducking, but Is broken-hearted over the wreck of his machine.
 , The British bark Helen Denny has been ready to sail for Australia for nearly week but has been detained from day to day by the inness of Captain smith. The bark will probably get away early this week.
 Q James J. Flynn, ex-County Clerk. has been appointed storekeeper and purchas- ing. agent on the water front by the Har- bQr Commissioners. He takes the place of. H. W. Peterson, resigned.
 4 very affecting scene was witnessed at the ferries yesterday when the passen- landed. Ex-State Senator Thomas Kane and his brother Michael Kane, the capi- talist, were standing on each side of the apron and gaping intepuy at the pas sengers as they stepped ashore They were looking for a sister, whom neither of them had seen for over forty-Seven years, and both the old men were doubtful as to their ability to recognize the young girl they remembered in the old woman of 50 and over.
 .When the last passenger was off the ferry-boat they looked at each other in despair, and each said We've missed her,,'- '.There is an old lady ahead who might be. she;'' said the Senator, and she has a slight limp, and you know sister , met with. ara accident since we left home and now walks lame. I'm going to speak to; her.:
 Excuse me, madam, but is your name Kate Kane?"' The answer, "Yes,' was given in: a very trembling voice, and the Serfator threw his hat In the air, and, grabbing. his sister in his arms, he said. And I'm Tom and there's Mike" The rest of the. joyful reunion can be Thomas. Kane bade his sister good-by tn :Bdstcn. on November 6, 1851, and worked lis way to San Francisco before the mast on the bark Flying Fish. Three years later his brother joined him here Their sisters. home has been in Wiscon- sin nearly all the time. and 1t has taken the brothers five years to persuade her to come to California
 ..Lightshtp No. 70 comes oyer rom Goat Island tomorrow and will dock at Union street: wharf. If Captain Lowell has re- covered from an attack from the grip the .lightship will be taken out on the bar and . anchored next Thursday.
 The .barkentine Bering, which arrived from Kahului, reports the British ship Lord Ripon. When off the Farallones the men on the barkentine caught a gooney tag g. was painted March 24 42 N, 40 w, Br.a sh Lord Ripon." The Lord Ripon left Liverpool for Puget Sound on No veniber Is. and when the gooney was caught and labeled she was about 300 miles northwest of San Francisco.
 Assistant Chief Wharfinger Scott is the owner of a wonderful Llewellyn setter named Count" of which he Is very proud. Friday last he took Count over to Durant avenue, Berkeley. and tied him securely in friends back yard. Yes terday morning the dog was at the chief wharfnger's off1cei at the foot of Clay street, as soon as Mir. Scott. During the night he slipped his head out of the col lar. and making for the bay, he swan from the Berkeley side to San Francisco. One of the ferry boats was stopped and an effort made to get the animal aboard, but he swam away from all offers of as- sistance and finished his journey alone. Covered with mud and more dead than alive; the poor brute reached the chief Wharfnger's office, where he lay down and, barely moved for four hours. Count . is a. full brother to c. F. Crocker's v.yJ Llewellyn setter, and is a very hand some animal.
 The steamer Belgic sailed for Hong kong, via Honolulu and Yokohama, yes terday. She took away a large number of passengers, among whom were l. F. da Cunha, the Brazilian Consul to Kobe,