The San Francisco call., 1899-07-07
OREGON'S BOYS
WILL Be GIVEN A
WARM WELCOME
A Siren to Announce
Their Arrival.
AN OCTOGENARIAN CAPTAIN
SKIPPER E. H. HOWARD VISITS
HIS OLD FRIENDS.
Reinsurance on Overdue Vessels
Jumping-Death of Captain
Hans Olsen of the Ship
st. Nicholas.

The United States transports Newport
and Ohio are now out twenty-three days
from Manila with the Second Oregon Vol
unteers aboard. On their last voyage to
this port from the Philippines the Ohio
took twenty-eight and the Newport
twenty-nine days to come up. Both
stopped at Nagasaki, but on this occasion
they are to come through without stop.
In that case both vessels should reach
here about next Wednesday afternoon or
early Thursday morning.
Preparations for the reception of the
Oregon boys are nearly all made Chief
Whartinger Henderson and Assistant
Chief Warfinger Dryden will see TO it
that all the ships along the front are
dressed for the occa sion. should the trans
ports arrive during the day. Directly the
vessels are sighted the big, siren on the
Eureka Planning Mills will be blown and
that will give everybody chance 10
reach the front before the vessels dock;
The Harbor Commissioners have placed
the tug Governor Markham at the dis,
Oregon and the Governor Irwin at the
disposal of the newspaper men. They
have also given the use of the grand nave
in the new ferry depot for the reception
to the returning volunteers. II Will be a
gala day on the front when the boys in
blue get home.
by the Indiana and Morgan City with in
valids, Senator with the Tenth PennSyl-
vania, Hancock with batteries A and b
of the First Utah and remains OF tne
First Nebraska, Warren with the FIRST
Colorado and Sherman with First Cali
Captain E. H Howard. the oldest ship
master on the Pacific Coast, was on
Change" yesterday for the first time IN
many months. He received a warm re
ceptfon and chatted for nearly an hour
with his friends and former shipmates.
Captain Howard is now IS years of age
and only left the sea three years ago.
made in the shin
Barossa in 1923. She was a 1200-ton mer-
chantman, armed with twenty guns and
carried 1Q4 men before the mast. ms 4ast
command was the bark Richard III, a
vessel of 1000 tons, carrying crew OF
twenty all told.
castaways of St. Paul Island. There
were two of them and they were taken
off the island by the ship Palmyra in 1856
CAPTAIN Howard was one of the boat
crew that took the castaways from the
island to the vessel
The desire of the old gentleman's heart
was and is that he might die al sea. For
over three score and ten years his home
was on the deep. and he wants TO end his
days far out of sight of land. Some Tune
ago he was going TO make trip on the
BristOl and some one told A. Dunsmuir
of the old shipmasters expressed desire
to die at sea. Mr.. Dunsmutr was afraid
that the very strength of the old man 5
desire might bring ABOUT his death, so ne
had his trunk removed from the steamer
and Captain Howard had to remain
on August 4 next Captain Howard will
celebrate the hftfeth Anniversary OF ms
arrival in San Francisco. He is as hale
and hearty now as man OF 90, but occa-
sionally suffers from neuralgia pains
The many friends of Captain II. Olsen
of the ship St. Nicholas will be grieve1
to hear that he died on June 13 in Lar
sen Bay, Alaska. He made hearty
meal off mussels and was poisoned. The
ST Nicholas was one of the cannery fleet,
and Captain Olsen went to her, from the
ship Undaunted. Before that he was in
the John D. Tallant. Captain Olsen leaves
a widow and three children and host of
friends to mourn his early death.
Captain A McPhail, late chief officer CT
the bark Andrew Welch, is going to sail
the schooner yacht La Paloma to Homo
iUII The schooner Falcon arrived from Unga
Island with a cargo of concentrates from
the Apollo mine. She was toWed to Sell
hv's Smelling Works, but new crew had
to he put aboard before she started up
the river. The old crew considered their
VOYAGE ended as soon as the anchor was
dropped off Meiggs wharf, so they went
ashore
jumping up rapidly. The rate on the ship
Macdutf now out 147 days from Calcutta
for Portland. has reached 10 per cent;
that on ro the 6aTK Sfswe Row out M
GIiavaquil has reached 70 per cent, and
that on the bark President .Thiers. now
ont 1q5 Cavs from San Francisco for I4V-
erpool' has reached 10 per cent.
The steamer Rio de Janeiro sailed for
the Orient yesterday. S. M. Damon, the
Hawaiian Minister of Finance, sailed on
her, as did also Captain j. c. MCGOWAN
and Lieutenant ]. Matthews The latter
gentlemen are bound for the seat of war.
The sailing of the Rio made room for tie
Coptic. so that vessel docked yesterday
The San Bias arrived from Central
American ports with a valuable cargo,
but no passengers: She also was able 10
berth at the Mail dock, as the City Of
para has gone on the drydock to get
ready for a voyage TO Manila with troops.