The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
Shipping Gold-Hunters on Whalers as "Green
 Hands,"
They Are to Desert in Kotzebue Sound and So Save Pas
 sage Money.
But the Vessels Never Stop in the Sound, So the Miners Will
 Hunt Whales.


 the beach without sailor" said well
 known shipping master yesterday.
 "fEverybody is on the rush for the gold fields, and if the sailors do not stop
 heading that way soon there will be
 no men left to man the coasters. Whethe, the shipping masters state
 ntcnt IS correct or not remains to be seen but one thing is cert3in, and that is that the whalers now flung out fer the Arctic find it almost impossible b
 secure crews. The steam whaler Will liam Raylies has been in the stream several days and outside of .ler officers
 not a man has been secured; III fact the runners and boarding house mas ters have asserted on several occasions that if the vessels are to be manned
 there will have to be some shangha1lng done. At the present time the boarding masters have cards, with their address
 only on them,i distributed all over the
 country. They read about as follows: For information concerning vessels leaving for Kotzebue Sound, St. Mi
 chael and Dawson City, or for infor- nation concerning the gold fields, ap-
 ply to -" The applicant seeking in formation is generally a green hand. = He is shown the circulars Of the va riouS companies that are carrying pas sengers to KotZebue Sound, in which 1t is stated that the Whalers stop there both going to and coming from the
 Arctic He is then told that the cheapest and easiest way in the world to get. to the KotZebue Sound gold l fields is to ship on a Whaler and then | desert as soon as the anchor is dropped at the mouth of the Kowak River One 1 thing is certain, and that is that any man who ships in this way will not see the gold fields this season, as the whal- CTS never stop at KotZebue Sound, but | go straight through to Point Barrow,
 occasionally stopping at Point Hope.
 There have been several changes
 among the officers of the Pacific Mail
 J. Bruguire of the Acapulco went out
 as chief officer of the City of Peking, vice G. G. Trask, who has remained ashore on waiting orders Second Of 1 ficer Charles Newman mas been pro-
 noted to the vacancy on the Acapulco,
 and Third Officer w. Jones has been
 promoted to second officer, also on the l Acapulco.
 A derelict fishing boat was picked up by the gunboat Pinta yesterday. The 1 sail was set and it came up the bay with the tide. There was no fisherman i in it. however, but everything was in l it's place and the boat looked as if it l had lately been used. At Fishermen's s
 wharf they said none of the fishermen | were missing, but none of the men ! would take the trouble to go to Fish l ermen's wharf to identify the boat. 1 They said that the craft had probably broken adrift and gone up the bay with | the tide, and the owner would turn up
 to claim it in due time.
 The Old Dominion line steamer Ro-
 anoke sailed from Philadelphia for San 1 Francisco yesterday with cargo Of
 coal consigned to John Rosenfeld's s | Sons. She has been purchased by the l ir1tp S. | portation Company for $210,0O0, and on | her arrival here will be fitted out for 1 the Klondike trade. The Roanoke is
 a first-class vessel and was built by the | Roaches in 1882. She is 265 feet long,
 40 feet broad. 26 feet inches deep and will accommodate about l000 hrst ana
 second class passengers.
 l Four guineas per cent reinsurance
 has been paid on the British shin Red l Rock, which left here September Is for 1 Cork. and the same amount on the
 British bark Glenleigh, which sailed for
 the same place from Astoria thirteen | days later On the Ravenscrag, which 1 left. Puget Sound for Callao on Octo-
 Der g 30 guineas per cent reinsurance
 has been paid The schooner Louis, which left here on the same date Tor
 Callao via Albion arrived at her desti- nation December 20.
 The schooner Charles Hanson has |
 mercial. and Mining Company, and IS
 being fitted out for a trip to the kotze- | bue Sound gold fields The men at the 1 head of the affair are Dr. Gleaves, Otto | ShackeIford and Louis Johnson of San | Francisco, l.. c. Frisbie of Anderson, | Dr. A. N. Gardner of Napa, l.. A. spit
 ger of San Jose and E.. J. Andrews Of Bedding. The company has also pur- l chased the river steamer Agnes E.. Boyd. and will send up provisions for a two years stay on the Kowak River.
 The schooner will be anchored in safe place in the sound, and the men will make their home on the river boat dur ing the winter.
 The ship Sintram, with the river steamers and barges for the Alaska Elk ploration Company aboard, will not get away until next Wednesday, if then. She may not be able to take away ev- erything connected with the steamers and barges, and another vessel will probably have to be chartered. The unfortunate part of it is that the sin tram has parts of all the boats and
 barges on board, while other parts of
 them are still on the wharf waiting to he shipped If another vessel can be chartered it will have to be steamer,
 IS it will be almost impossible to get tug to tow a sailing vessel to Dutch
 Harbor One hundred and thirty-hVe engineers, macnlnlStS, CdFpenieAS anu painters have all signed to go up on the ship. and are ready to leave at mo- ment's notice, but it will be several 1 days yet before their pay begins. The cannery owners have come to the
 conclusion that it will be next to inn possible to charter vessels this season,
 SO they are purchasing all the suitable l craft they can get hold of. The Alaska Packers Association has secured an op- ton on the ships Indiana, Two Broth CTS. Oriental and Tacoma and the bark Hector Captain Davis of the Sterling has gone to the sound to look the Ia coma over, and if she is all she is de- scribed to be. the purchase money for her will be paid at once. The Oriental will lay up in Oakland Creek for month. and the Indiana. as soon as her
 New York cargo is discharged. will probably fly the country's flag. George w. Hume & Co. purchased the M P 1 Grace. which arrived from New York last month, and she also will be addeS l tu the cannery fleet
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 A Dead Carrier Pigeon.