The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-16
Five Transports Now
Gettin 2 Ready.
THEY WILL SAIL NEXT WEEK
NEWSBOY STRIKES ON A ROCK
NEAR GREENWOOD.
Los Raft Adrift at sea-ship Stand
ard Purchased-Wo Rec
ord of the Mail Steamer
Alameda.

Two TRANSPORTS laden with soldiers and
supplies Will sail for Manila next week
The Zealandia and Valencia are TO get
away on the 22d, the Pennsylvania will
follow on the 25d and the Sheridan and
freight steamer Wyefleld Will get away
about June "a.
The Zealandia and Valencia will be
cen them take the Twenty-fourth In
lintry (colored) The headquarters and
band Will go on the Zealandia, and as
there will be no crowding the voyage
should be a very pleasant one. The Va
!encia is ready to receive troops a. any
time, and the Zealandia will be in shape
to-day. Yesterday she was towed to the
sugar refinery and coaled and this after
noon she will be back at her dock ready
Tor business. Her berths for soldiers had
been taken out, as it was the intention
OF the Oceanic Steamship Company to
send her TO Honolulu in place of the Aus
tralia for a trip or 50, but it Will not
take long TO place the berths in place
again.
In order to make minor repairs, the
Australia has been ordered TO leave HO-
nOlulu for san Francisco two days ahead
of her regular schedule time. mat VIII
bring her into port about next Monday
morning. She viii not leave again for
Honolulu until TWO days after her regu-
lar sailing date, and in that time all the
necessary overhauling can be done.
The Pennsylvania was coaling yester-
been filed she Will begin loading sup
plies. She will carry regiment OF regu-
lars and will follow the Zealandia and
Valencia 70 the seat of war.
The Sheridan viii probably have all her
repairs completed by next Tuesday In
that event she will sail promptly on the
4th inst. She Will carry a few regulars
and nearly a thousand of the recruits
now stationed at the Preside. The Wye
field Will carry freight only. Yesterday
she was moved TO the Government wharf
and viii begin loading to-day. About 900
tons OF supplies Tor the soldiers VIII go
down on the Wyefed and about 5000 tons
more on the other transports. 50 there IS
ne fear OF provisions running short in the
Philippines.
The steamer Newsboy returned to port
yesterday in pretty bad order She had
an encounter with a rock off Greenwood
and viii have 20 go on the urydock Tor
18th inst for Usal Captain Enefsen steer
ed a course that took him too close in
shore and off Greenwood the Newsboy
badly and the donkey pump was started.
Robert Dollar, owner Of the vessel was a
passenger and he advised returning TO
san Francisco. so the vessel was headed
this way. She will go on the California
drydoCk this morning.
The Oceanic Steamship Company's
steamer Alameda started on her SiXtieth
round trip 40 Australia last Wednesday
night There are few vessels aflOat that
can show such a record as she has. She
went into commission IN lHS3 and since
then she has made twenty-five round
trips 20 Honolulu and is now on her six
-ieth 10 sydney. y. ;. W. via Honolulu,
Eu.8 and Auckland. In all those years
she has never had a breakdown and
has never been late with her mails.
Storm or calm she comes right along and
lands the mail bags in time to catch the
overland. She is making better time now
than she old ten years ago and her ma
Chinery is as good now as the day it went
into the vessel. Chief Engineer Little is
particularly proud Of her record.
The Argentine training ship Presidente
Sarmiento VIII sail for Honolulu next
Monday. From Hawaii she will go to
Japan and the Philippines Next Sunday
she will be open for inspection and ViSi-
tors will be carried from the Folsom
street float in launches.
The tug Rescue left for Grays Harbor
yesterday She will bring the steamer
Aberdeen back with her. The Aberdeen
is TO have her engines and boilers put
The steamer Noyo is in from Fort
Bragg. She brought the barge Fort
Bragg in tow. The barge is to be used
in the grain trade on the Sacramento
The American ship Standard has been
purchased by James Brown Of this city
for $4,000. She is now at Honolulu and
will load sugar for San Francisco.
On June IS. at 7 p. m, the tramp steam
er Carlisle City passed a raft 90 feet long
and % feet broad. This was in latitude
IS degrees % minutes north. longitude 124
degrees 30 minutes west. The captain re-
ports that the raft had not been long
In the water. The chances are that it is
a raft Of logs adrift from some of the
coast ports, as none such has been tOwed
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