The San Francisco call., 1898-03-09
To Captain c. M. Goodall and c. c. Lacey the
 Credit Is Due.
The Blairmore Litigation Has Ended in Favor of the
 Underwriters
An EIoping Wife From Petaluna Caught at the Ferries by Her
 Husband.

Captaln .. Miner GoodaI and Charles c. Lacey, chief engineer of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's Umatilla, have done some very clever work In getting the wrecked steamer Corona off the rocks at Lewis Island. The vessel went ashore while on her way to Dyea and SkaSuay, and Captain Goodall and Mr. Lacey were at once sent north to see what could be done toward saving the vessel. How they have succeeded is told in the following dispatch re- ceived by Goodall, Perkins GS Go. yes terday: Latest arrivals say the Co., roma has been moved to a safe place. Expect she will be repaired and come to Victoria. B. C.. in a few days
 .. Captain c. M Goodall has had an incentive to do his best. He is to be married on the 18th inst, and 1t was the fear of having to postpone the cer- emony that has made him so eager to get the Corona to San Francisco. He got the vessel off the rocks once, but found that she was leaking from dam age she received under the engines, which could not be reached by the div CTS. She was placed on a flat rock near the one from which she had been taken, and after the hole had been patched up she was beached and got ready for the trip to San Francisco via Victoria, B. c.
 Yachtsmen are making great prepar- ations for the 10th inst. On that date the draw bridge at Tfburon will be opened and the following fleet of yachts will come out of winter quar- ters: Clara, Seven Bells, Queen, Speed well, AeOlus, Thelma, Freda, Mignon, Cisne, Juanita, Will O the Wisp, Magic Eli, Flirt, Freddie, Florence, Pride, Se- cret, Guinevere, Bonita, Scout, Cornelia and Nereid.
 The owners of the boats and their friends have been hard at work on them for a week past, and canvas has been overhauled, spars scraped and oiled and cabins repainted and uphol- St6red, so the fleet will come out of re- tirement in spick and span order. The Florence and Secret had their masts taken out last Sunday, while the Juan ita has had her decks canvased. The Florence is to have new cabins, masts and sails, and, in fact, all- the yachts are to be thoroughly equipped for the season. It therefore looks as though next season was to be a most success full one in yachting circles.
 very handsome steamer is being built at Alameda Point for Captain Charles Nelson. She Is 210 feet over all. 2S feet broad and 14 feet deep. She is to be fitted with two Babcock boil CTS which are coming from the East. and her machinery is being built by the Fulton Iron Works. Her speed is expected to be about twelve knots an hour The new steamer is to be called the Charles Nelson, after her owner and she will have accommodation for 150 passengers. Captain Nelson does not know whether or not he will put her in the Klondike trade.
 Aluite a number of people must intend nAk king their home on the water next summer At the present time five arks are being built al Tiburon, two more are nearly completed at the foot of Berry street and three more are being built at South San Francisco. This will make a fleet of about twenty-five arks that will be In the Sausalito, Tiburon and San Rafael waters in another month or so.
 The agents of the steamer lines who have vessels on the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers are apprehensive over the rainfall. Neither river has ever been so low at this time of the year as it is now. and unless there are some good heavy rains this month it is not at all beyond the range of probability that steamers will be unable to reach Stockton and Sacramento.
 E. K. White, agent of the Sacramento Transportation Company's steamers, says that last month the boats found navigation difficult, and that it was getting worse every day. If that is the case now, what will it be during the summer months?
 Mrs. Jennie Parrish of Petaluma and young horse-dealer of Santa Rosa named Spears eloped from Petaluma last Monday, and. coming to San Fran cisco, put up at the Golden West Hotel James Parrish, the husband, followed his wife to this city and caught her and her paramour at the ferries, where she was getting her trunk out of the bag gage-room. He reasoned with the run .I1 4.-11 H. L had joined the Salvation Army and taken the pledge never to drink, smoke or swear again. She finally agreed to go back to Petaluma with him, and Spears was left on the wharf disconso- v late. Parrish buys old horses and pslaughters them at Petaluma, where he sells them to the farmers for chicken feed He has not hitherto treated his wife well, but he proposes to do better in the future. They are going to break up their home in Petaluma and move to Stockton.
 The British ship Blairmore arrived here on February 2, 1896, and early in March she capsized in Mission Bay and several of her crew were drowned. Captain Burns was sent out from Eng land by the Underwriters Association, and, after weeks of hard work, she was finally raised on July IS, 1896 Then the litigation began The owners of the
 
 insurance companies insisted that they were only liable for one-third of the cost of the repairs. From court to court the case was taken, first one side gain ing an advantage and then the other, until finally it reached the House of Lords That is the court of last appeal in England, and it has decided against the owners of the vessel.
 The repairs to the Blairmore would have cost in the neighborhood of $20,- GOO. and over $200, GOO has been spent in litigation. Now that the matter has been settled and the insurance com panies have only to pay one-third of the repairs, the wonder is what will be done with the vessel. Captain Cav, her master, is still here, and the vessel lies in Oakland Creek. For the last eighteen months watchman has been the only perscn living on her, but now she will probably come out of her long retire ment. Her owners may repair her and load her with wheat, or she may be sold to the highest bidder, in which