The San Francisco call., 1899-10-18
Steamers and Schoon-
ers Driven Ashore.
EL PRIMER0 A LUCKY VESSEL
BOUGHT FOR A SONG, SHE rs
NOW COMING MONEY.
Cruiser Newark Takes Mail to Philip.
pines-City of Papeete Arrives
From Tahiti-Transport
From Honolulu.

Vessels going to Cape Nome with pas
sengers and general merchandise have a
hard time of 1t. Many of the smaller
craft 1rag their anchors and go ashore,
while nearly a third of the merchandise
is lost by the capsizing Of the lighters.
Some of the boats that go ashore get
off, but quite a few have left their bones
to bleach on 1.-The golden shore"
E. Nanny Foge has just returned
from a trip to Kotzebue Sound, Golovin
Bay and Cape Nome. Yesterday he was
telling his friends on the front what he
thought of the different districts.
"Kotzebue is a good place to stay away
from" he said. "GoIovin Bay is all right,
but it is not a poor mans diggings.
However, at Cape Nome there is gold for
everybody. When 1 left there the min
ers were washing from $40 to $50 day
out Of the sand of the beach.
1T is a terrible place to land at, how
ever. There is q gravel beach and no
holding ground. In consequence the yes
their passengers and cargo in lighters.
Sometimes the steamer is driven off and
then it occasionally takes her a week to
get back again. Barges going ashore
ers and rolled over, and that is the end
of the merchandise. l think l am safe
in saying that a third of the goods that
THE old pilot-boat Caleb Curtis is a
total wreck. She dragged her anchor,
was lost. The schooners George Swan,
R. Eckert and Lady George laid their
bones on the golden shore, while
go nf off The M Steamer ms' joe aSFGf S~
was not so successful. She went
ashore and nothing but her machin-
the Joe Matthews on the beach and
her owners thought so little of the chances
Of getting her off that they sold her as
she lay for 500 to Jim Kennedy, who was
first mate of the steamer Bertha not long
ago. Kennedy gave George Brown half
interest in the steamer to get her off.
and before l left Nome they started for
the Siberian coast after load of rein
deer Kennedy and Brown will get rich
out of that investment of s10O" Fogel
brought down quite a sack of gold with
him from the mines and is going back
to Anvil City in the spring.
The cruiser Newark came down from
Mare Island yesterday afternoon and will
sail for Manila via Honolulu and Guam,
cials put about ten tons of mail matter
aboard her. Nearly all of 1t is for the
Philippines and Guam. Twenty tons of
fresh provisions were also taken aboard
the cruiser. so the crew will not suffer for
want of delcacies during the run to Ma
Mia.
The transport Centennial arrived from
Honolulu yesterday and will be got ready
to take away another load of horses at
once. She brought up First Lieutenant
W. d. Strong of the Thirty-third In
fantry, six soldiers and seven civilians.
Lieutenant Strong was taken sick at
Honolulu and was invaded home. The
soldiers are time-expired men and the
civilians were in the employ of the Gov
ernment at Honolulu
The barkentine City of Papeete arrived
from Tahiti yesterday. She brought up
large cargo of cocoanuts and copra, be-
sides the following passengers: Captain
D. Dexter, Miss Pauline Drollet, w. Bry-
ant, C. Ross. M Mccarthy, Charles Olsen
and five natives. Captain Dexter and all
the male passengers, including the ma
tives. have come here to take the new
schooner built by Matthew Turner back
to Tahiti. Captain Berude of the City
Of Papeete is accompanied by his wife
and Miss Drollet comes to San Francisco
on a visit. as their guest.
Reinsurance on the American ship
Charles r. Moody jumped to 90 per cent
yesterday. She is now out 1S3 days from
of coal The general impression among
shipping men is that she has gone to Ha-
wall via the Cape of Good Hope. The
British ship Queen Victoria on which Is
Port Townsend yesterday and it now
transpires that the st. Enoch, which is
overdue here from Panama, and on which
Is per cent reinsurance has been paid
was spoken when f1fty-three days out, in
Panama Bay She was in the doidrums
and was making no headWay. The St
Enoch, therefore, cannot be considered
overdue.
The steamer North Fork has been laid
up to have her boilers repaired and the
steamer Luella will go out on her run
next Saturday The North Fork will not
be ready for sea again for over a week
The delegation from Iowa, to greet the
returning Iowa regiment, now in Naga-
saki on the Senator, went for ex-
cursion around the bay yesterday. They
visited Hunters Point, the Union Iron
Works and the battleShip Iowa,