The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-20
SHIP CAPTAINS
NOW WRESTLING
FOR THE WIND
A Fleet Is in Trouble
Off the Heads.
THE BUCKINGHAM LEAKING
STEAMER NoYo NEARLY CAP
SIZED IN HER BERTH.
Union-Street Wharf Condemned-A
New Steamer Line for Tahiti.
Ferry Slips at Point
Richmond Begun.
THE BUCKINGHAM LEAKING
STEAMER NoYO NEARLY CAP
SIZED IN HER BERTH.

Ship captains are now complaining that
the weather has gone to the other ex-
IRENE. Last week it was blowing so hard
they had to heave to their vessels. Yes
terday It was almost a dead calm and no
Roadway could be made at all. Early in
the morning there was quite a fleet off
the heads, and those that refused assist
ance from the tugs did not reach port
until this morning. The ship Sintram
from Puget Sound, the bark Andrew
WEIGH and barkentine Planter from
Honolulu and the lumber schooners Laura
Madsen, Charles r. Nelson, Mizpah and
North Bend were all in a bunch at one
time, but they soon scattered. The An
drew WEIGH and Planter were out twenty
days from the islands, and each captain
was anxious to make port first in order
to win the race The bark was the first
picked up by a tug and she beat the
Planter in by nearly an hour. The cap
tain of the Sintram accepted a tow late
in the afternoon and his vessel was an
chored before shutdown.
The British ship buckingham put into
Rio de Janeiro yesterday leaking badly,
according to dispatch received by the
Merchants Exchange. No cause for the
the vessel was caught in very heavy
weather off the Horn and was badly
strained. The Buckingham left Tacoma
for Queenstown on October 81 last. She
has on board 91165 centals of wheat,
valued at ,$1O1,OOO, shipped by Balfour
Guthrie & Co.
now discharging at Main-street wharf,
very nearly capsized yesterday. Too much
lumber had been taken off the starboard
side and the vessel began to list to port.
Luckily, the mooring lines held her up,
but the longeshoremen lost no time in get
ting on the wharf. The wreching scow
Cataline was pressed into service and the
Noyo was fastened to her in such man
ner as will prevent her from turning
turtle. AS soon as the lumber is out an
attempt will be made to patch UP the
can be done it will obviate the necessity
of putting her on the mud flats and save
8, lot of expense. AS soon as the holes in
the hull have been plugged up the Noyo
will be pumped out and put on the dry
dock.
Union-street wharf has been pronounced
Holmes of the Harbor Commission, and
no vessels will be allowed to dock there
until the necessary repairs have been
made.
Passengers by the Tiburon and Sausa-
Tito ferries were struck by the strange
appearance of Telegraph Hill yesterday.
ton must have had fortnight's wash
ing on hand, because according to w. A.
Coulter, the marine artist, there was not
a house but what had 100 yards or more
of clothesline Lied with clothes out to
dry. From an artistic point of view the
picture was not all that might be de-
the housewives any.
The City of Sydney arrived from Pan
anna and way ports last Wednesday night.
Chief officer Connors IS a very sick man,
and yesterday he was removed to st.
Mary's Hospital.
Work on the ferry depot and slips for
the Valley road at Point Richmond is to
begin at once. Yesterday the contractors
and some of their men went up to the
point on Peterson's launch Amy, and in a
few days they will have. big gang of
men at work. The ShantieS for the nav
vies are all up, and there will be quite
small town there in day or so.
Some plum and cherry trees brought
over from Japan on the revenue cutter
McCulloch by Captain Hooper were de-
stroyed yesterday by Inspector Craw of
the Board of Horticulture. The trees
were badly infected with scale
F. S. Doty of Tahiti is at the Palace
Hotel. He says the long-talked-of steam
ship line between this port and Papeete
will be in operation in few months.
Three steamers have been purchased in
ready for the trade.