The San Francisco call., 1898-03-11
The Tug Governor Mark ham Renders Good
 Service.
Oilskins in Her Cargo Stop the Ship Sinram From
 Leaving.
Sixty Eight Sailing Vessels Enter the Golden Gate in Twenty
 Four Hours.

| From some unknown cause the South End boathouse at the foot of Third street caught fire yesterday and for a while it looked as if that region Of the city would suffer from the effects of a disastrous conflagration, for the fire was in the midst of many old wooden structures that would have burned like finder. As luck would have it the Governor Markham lay at the foot of Market street with steam | up, and telephone message from the wharfnger reached her in time for the tug to arrive at the boathouse and eX- tinguish the blaze even before the Fire Department had reached the spot. The roof of the boathouse has been newly Shingled and the fire spread more slow ly than 1t would otherwise have done else even the tug would not have cov- cred the distance in time to prevent a damaging blaze.
 The ship Sintram did not leave for Dutch Harbor yesterday as was ex- pected, because her owners had reck- oned without the customs authorities. | The Sintram has been loading barges and stern wheel steamers in sections at Spear street wharf, which were to be put together at Dutch Harbor for the
 
 cargo were a number of oilskins. When the customs authorities learned of this they insisted that the vessel should be unloaded and the oilskins placed where they could be got at readily in case of fire, as it is now believed that the Whitelaw suffered from fire on account of spontaneous combustion, the blaze originating among number Of oil skins. About five hundred tons of the Sintram'S cargo had to be left over on account of space, and the ship George Skolfeld has been chartered to take the surplus to Dutch Harbor.
 For the twenty-four hours ending at midnight Wednesday siXty-eight sail ing vessels entered the Golden Gate, exclusive of fishing schooners This Is said to break the record since the days of '49.
 James Ring, a miner from Butte, Montana, looked too often on the wine when it was ruby in the cup Wednes- day and fell off Steuart street wharf into the unsympathetic waters of the bay He was picked up by Henry Peterson, and was taken to the liar Dor Receiving Hospital. During the night James Sobered up sufficiently to wish himself in more congenial cline | and departed without saying to those who had ministered unto him good 1 by. His room would have suited as well as his company, were it not for | clothing and appropriated that of an- other. James was promptly arrested and brought back, to be released yes- terday.
 The schooner Winchester arrived here yesterday, seventeen days from Sanak, Alaska. On December 16 last the schooner Mary and Ida was sent to Sanak with provisions for the Win chester The latter reports that when she sailed the Mary and Ida had not arrived at Sanak. This news has caused some excitement, the natural in-
 ference being that the schooner has met with some mishap.
 The bark Theobald. which was
 bought in by Rosenfelds Sons at an auction sale for few hundred dollars, has been sold by a Seattle man to the
 Northern Transportation Company of
 Seattle for S10,000. Rosenfeld's Sons
 were in a quandary as to whether to
 sell the bark or convert her into a coal hulk. when the Klondike excite ment advanced her so in value that they received $5000 for her from the Seattle merchant.
 The bark Enoch Talbot has been sold by Joshua Green of Seattle to George Dickinson for $13,500.