The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-16
HARD LUCK
TALES FROM
OLD OCEAN
Escaped the Ice to Go
on a Sandbar.
CLOSE CALL FOR THE JEANNE
STEAMER SOUTH PORTLAND
RUNS INTO A WHARF.
A Leak on the American Bark Hollis
wood That Has Caused Trouble
and Loss for Over
Five Years.
CLOSE CALL FOR THE JEANNE
STEAMER SOUTH PORTLAND
RUNS INTO A WHARF.

The Pacific Steam Whaling Company s
tender jeanne arrived in port yesterday
after a most eventful voyage. Since leaY-
ing here on July I, 1887 she has been
caught in the ice and compelled TO re-
main all winter in the Arctic, while, after
escaping that danger, she was nearly
wrecked in McLeod's Bay, Alaska. The
crew, as a whole, are Jubilant. They
have got over their hardships in the
frozen north and are now basking in the
expectation of payday. Every man aboard
has over fifteen months salary coming TO
him, and many a Jackie among them will
receive more money than he ever handled
at one time in his life. The least any one
of them will receive will be $500, so there
will be lively times on the front when that
vessel is paid off.
The Jeanne left here with supplies for
the whalers that were to winter off the
mouth Of the Mackenzie River. She also
took up about sixty men, who were to
supply the places of the sailors coming
home. The supplies were delivered, the
men transferred and the tender was on
her way back to San Francisco when she
was caught in the ice off Point Barrow.
Every effort was made to get out of the
pack, but it failed, and the jeanne had
to remain in the ice for nearly year.
When the ice broke up she had narrow
escape of being crushed to pieces, but
finally got clear and steamed away for
the canneries.
Captain Mason's report of her next
trouble is as follows: ION September %
at p, m. while going into McLeod's Bay
(west side Of Montague Island) the
steamer went ashore. she got on a sand
bar and hung there The tide was fall
badly. She hung in the center, and so
far as l could see, all the scarps and
butts were started by the strain. The
engine and bolIer settled aft, the smoke
stack broke and the steamer was badly
hogged We lay in that position for
twenty-four hours and then we got her
steamer was not making any more water
than usual, so we took on board 16 900
cases of salmon for San Francisco.
After getting off the sand bar and into
a safe anchorage the Jeanne rode out one
of the heaviest storms 1 have ever been
in
The Jeanne has gone to the Arctic Oil
Works to discharge, and will then go on
the drydock for an overhauling.
Captain Seeley of the steamer South
Portland is playing in hard luck. About
a week ago he was fined 500 for not an
swering the signal of the revenue cutter
Rush. and now he has run his vessel into
the wharf at Tacoma The vessel left here
on the lC5n ins b and only reached sba Ta
the wharf with such force as to wreck
1t. Her own partitions and bulkheads
were broken, ana a plate on the star
board bow was so bent that 1t Will have
to be replaced. It Will cost $1,000 to re-
pair the wharf and $1,000 TO repair the
steamer. The South Portland came out
here from the East to go into the Klon-
dixie trade, but when the bottom fell out
of the boom she was turned into a freight
boat, and has been carrying wheat from
Tacoma to San Francisco for month
past.
The steamer Aztec arrived from the
Orient yesterday, after long passage.
She was to have come here from Japan
direct, but on her arrival at Yokohama
there were 719 contract japanese laborers
bound for the cane fields of Hawaii await
ing her. These she took aboard and
landed at Honolulu. The United States
cruiser Baltimore got into Hongkong from
Manila as the Aztec was leaving. She
was to take the place of the Boston on the
drydoek. the latter vessel being ready to
start for the Philippines.
Commodore Kautz is now in command
of the Pacific Coast station. Yesterday
Rear Admiral Millers flag was hauled
down from. the cruiser Philadelphia and
the commodore's run up The customary
salutes We're given during the ceremony.
The British ship Wayfarer, now laid
UP at Sausalito, is q good example of the
fluctuations in the wheat market. When