The San Francisco call., 1898-12-19
DECK OF THE
 TRAINING SHIP
 ADAMS SPRUNG Boys Marking Time" Did the Damage. TWO MORE TUGS FOR THE BAY THE NEW FEARLESS AND THE RELIEF FROM PORTLAND. Runaway Son of Baron Pfugk Com ing Here as an Ordinary Seaman
 on the Ship William
 Mitchell.
TWO MORE TUGS FOR THE BAY
THE NEW FEARLESS AND THE
 RELIEF FROM PORTLAND.

The Tinted States training ship Adams is not likely to go to Samoa or any port far away from home. She may go 10 Magdalena Bay for gun practice, put the authorities may not even allow Ael .o s' that far Her spar deck beams nave opened LID and other defects have sho"eu themselves, so the vessel IS not no" coh- sidered safe for a long voyage.
 The Adams went into commission nearly +bree months ago. and 200 naval appren- tices were put aboard her from the re- ceiying ship Independence. Her guns hao not arrived from the East, so the Vessel came down from Mare Island and an chored on the easterly side or Goae 1si- and. It was thought that she would ohIy be there for a week or so, as her ar"a- ment was daily expected from the EasC' The guns have not arrived as yes' lpen mp@ ever, and no one seems to Know when @ they Wlll get here. In the meantime lne apprentice boys have been drilled uadIy' and that is what has caused the oaih- age. 4, s,ar daclx marking time at the double quick causes to stern and the result Is the startlnS or the deck beams. The chances are thaI @ when the cannon arrive the Adams Will go outside for gun practlce, ana ,,I;1e tlen turn to Mare Island for an oVernduiils. If however, the stamping or ZOO poyS causes the deck beams 10 open, what VIII the cOncuSSton rom the Hllhs oA Iho S Oii" do to the vessel!
 The apprentice boys thoroughly enjoy their life aboard the training snip. They like their officers, are well 1eo ana well treated and in consequence there naS not been a single desertion since the vessel went into commission. ',
 The British ship William Mitchell, which is coming here from Hiago, Japan, to load wheat for Europe, will lose one of her crew as soon as she reaches port. Herman von Pfugk, the runaway son of an ordinary sailor, and as his father wants him at home the chances are that he will go back to Germany from San Francisco.
 in Antwerp, preparing to leave for the United States in ballast. Young Phugk had run away from his home in Hamburg, taking with him POO marks (about S5O), and had made his way to Antwerp. There he made the acquaintance of some Ger man sailors, who had shipped aboard the William Mitchell. There was s no vacancy h,,;' away, and when the ship had cleared the Scheldt River they brought him be1ore the mate, who set him to work FnugK could not speak a word of English, but by the time the vessel reached Philadelphia he could make himself understood in any company. Captain Cutting took a great liking to the handsome 1b-year-olo lad, and when he refused point blank to go home, saying he would ship on another vessel if he couldn't go on the Mitchell.
 
 for the voyage to Hiogo. Japan, and thence to San Francisco. Baron PhuSk has got on the track of his son and heir, however and the boy will be persuaded to % home via New York from San Fran cisco. 4,. company will have it's force of tugs reor- ganfzed The taking of the Fearless, Active and Vigilant into the Government service left the concern with only two tugs to handle its large business, so a chartered. new Fearles now being built by the Union Iron Works is soon to be launched and the Columbia River. This will give the company the Fearless, Relief, Reliance and Alert, four of the finest tugs on the Pacific, with which to handle it's business.
 The Relief has been under charter for long time to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. That company is now having completed for 1t. at the Union place of the Relief. She will be called the Wallowa and is almost duplicate of the Fearless. Both tugs are being built side by side New boilers have been built for the Relief and she is to come here at once and have them put in. At the same time she will receive a thorough over hauling and will go into commission on Dan Thompson will sail to-day for the Columbia River to relieve the Relief.
 The landing float at the foot of Folsom street suffered during the norther. It be- came waterlogged and now if there is any kind of a sea on people using it get wet feet. It is to be pumped out and put in first class repair again in few days
 The Japanese who came from Clipperton Island on the steamer Alice Blanchard refuse to leave the vessel unless to land In San Francisco They were taken to Clipperton from Honolulu and the Im- migration Commissioner refuses to land them on the ground that they are con- tract laborers. The Japs are going to fight the case and in the meantime the steam ship company will have to feed and house the natives.
 The old whaling bark Mermaid that made trip to Kotzebue Sound last spring with gold hunters, Is to be fitted out for another cruise In the Arctic. She was purchased by B. H. Madison and she will go whaling in place of the schooner Ro- sario that was wrecked. The steam whaler Alexander, that came in clean, Is also being fitted out for another cruise
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