The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-01
MAIL STEAMERS
FROM HAWAII
AND ORIENT
Australia and Gaelic
Reach Port.
WHO HAS H00VER'S PIGEON 4?
CAPTAIN OF THE ]. C. PFLUGER
LOSES a CARRIER.
Breakdown on the River Steamer
Captain Weper-Mishap Occurs
at Launching-TwoR Run
ners Nearly Drowned.
WHO HAS H0oVER'S PIGEON i?
CAPTAIN OF THE J. C. PFLUGER
LOSES a CARRIER.

Iwo mail steamers arrived in port yes
terday, the Gaelic from the Orient and
the Australia from Hawaii The former
encountered heavy weather from the time
she left Yokohama, While the Australia
ran into northeast gale as soon as she
left Honolulu and carried it with her I'M
III port was nearly reached.
Inc Gaelic brought up a very large
cargo, in which We're AIS boxes of opium.
she mad torty-one cabin, nine second
cabin and fourteen Japanese and ninety
four Chinese steerage passengers.
Inc battle ship Oregon left Honolulu
Tor Manila on February 90 She was &C
companied by the refrigerating steamer
Iris. The collier Scindia will come to San
FRANCISCO as soon as her boilers can be
hXed up to make the voyage practicable
1t will be remembered that while on the
way from Callao to Honolulu the crown
sheets of the Golfers boilers gave out
which necessitates her coming to San
Francisco for an overhauling instead Of
accompanying the Oregon to Manila
peculiar mishap occurred at an at
tempted launching in Kobe, Japan, the
other day. 1T was one of the most ex-
asperating things 1 ever heard Of" said
one of the officers of the Gaelic yester-
day. The steamer Taigen Maru had
been completed at the Kobe shipyard and
was all ready for launching. A big party
or invited guests were present and en-
Joyed an elaborate luncheon provided by
the builders of the vessel. Speeches were
made, wine flowed and everybody had a
good time. Then the guests went out on
the platform to witness the launching
The bottle of wine was broken and the
vessel duly named as the shores were
knocked away, but the Taigen Maru re-
fused TO move. While the guests were
enjoying the banquet, the grease on the
ways had frozen and the steamer was
held as though in a wise. The day we
Yokohama another Wa IA
TO launch her"
The Australia brought from Honolulu
two in the steerage, of which thirty
eight were conyalescingr soldiers and six
encountered all the way up.
Captain Hoover of the German bark J.
c. Phuger is bewailing the loss of a car
rier pigeon that was the pet of every
tory, and the captain was in hopes that
he might take it back to Europe with
noIulu on June 80, 1893. When a fort
night out and when the vessel was
tude As degrees Is minutes north, longi-
tude degrees "a minutes west, the pigeon
came aboard in storm. 1t was tired
and made no effort TO escape, so Captain
Hoover took it to the cabin and gave it
into the care of his wife. There were
other pigeons aboard and during the voy>
age the carrier became very friendly with
them. After crossing the equator it be-
gan to mott, and when it's wing feathers
two of them were stamped with indell-
BILE ink. On one was '156 I. T. and what
looked like "Maguile,'' while on the other
was 81 H and what looked like or
mand." These two feathers are all that
Captain Hoover now has to show for the
pigeon.
- At Honolulu the carrier was admired
by everybody who saw it, and when the
Pfiuger arrived here and went to the
sugar refinery a number Of pigeon fam
ciers made the journey to South San
Francisco in order to get look at the
bird A few days ago the pigeon disap
peared. 1t was strutting around the deck
with its plebeian companions when the
crew went to dinner. On their return the
carrier was gone.
The river steamer Captain Weber broke
down on her Monday night run to Stock
ton, and it will take over a month to get
her ready to go back on the route again.
In the meantime the Union Transporta-
ton Company will have TO get along the
best way it can with the Dauntless alone.
The Captain Weber left Clay street wharf
at 8 o. m. for Stockton with 100 passen-
gers aboard. Shortly after passing The
Brothers her shaft broke, and she had
to be anchored. The breaking of the shaft
caused a great shock, and some of the
passengers thought the vessel had run on
q rock. Half an hour later the California
Navigation and Improvement Companys
steamer Mary CARAT came along, and
the captain of the Weber blew a distress
signal The CARAT interchangeable the
disabled steamer, took her passengers off
and carried them to Stockton. Yesterday
morning the Dauntless on her down trip