The San Francisco call., 1899-11-07
Most Valuable Cargo
- Ever Brought Here.
HARD TIMES OFF CAPE HORN
MANY SHIPS PUT INTO PORT
STANLEY IN DISTRESS.
Some Vessels of the Coast Fleet Over
due-Barbound Schooners Get
Out of Grays Harbor
in q Bunch.

The steamer Doric arrived from the
Orient a day ahead of time yesterday.
She made the run from HonRkong in Il
days 10 hours, via Yokohama l6 days i
hours and Honolulu days z hours. she
brought up IS cabin and Is second cabin
passengers and 8ls Chinese, besides the
most valuable consignment Of silk ever
brought TO this port She carries 2S46
bales of the raw material, valued at
g. 300 900. From Yokohama she carried TO
Honolulu 650 Japanese, who Will be dis
tributed among the various plantations.
When the Dor1o was q day out from
Yokohama she passed the transport 81
Paul, bound IN. The ST. Paul should
therefore reach San Francisco this week.
The transport Indiana, with the Tennes-
see troops aboard, was left at Nagasad.
She was to leave for San Francisco on
October p, and will probably not reach
here before Monday or Tuesday next.
Among those who came up on the Doric
were Lord Balcarres, who has been trav-
cling through Russia and Siberia with
ITuInbo White OF Chicagot MRS. +, A.
Beatty, wife of Lieutenant Beatty Of the
Monterey; Lieutenant Colonel a. d. Bay
less Of the Tennessee regiment Captain
w. H. Anderson, l.. S. A; Major Z, w.
McCaWley, United States marine corps,
and Mrs. w. II. Avery, wife OF the PACING
Mail Companys agent at Yokohama
Vessels from Europe and Eastern ports
for Pacific Coast ports are having hard
Iime OF II rounding the Horn, Cable dis
patches from Lonudon to the Merchants
Exchange state that the British ship
Blackbraes, from Newcastle, England, Tor
San Francisco, and the British bark
Beechbank, from Hamburg for Santa RO-
salia. had put into Port Stanley, Falkland
Islands, with the loss Of sails and decks
damaged, and In the case OF the Beech
bank The crew sick. The French bark
Francisco, had to put back TO Rio de jan
eirO, and the French bark Marechal Vii
lters, from st. Nazaire, France, for Port
land, had 10 put back to Montevideo, both
vessels partly dismasted.
Shipping men cannot understand what
was the matter with the American ship
A. @. Ropes. The general impression was
that she was we'll on her way here and
would arrive the latter part OF the month.
Instead OF that cable to the Exchange
yesterday says that she sailed from Port
Stanley on October 80. She is now 10l
days out from New York, and the chances
are now that 1t Will be January before she
reaches port. There is no telling how
seriously she was damaged, as the teIe-
gram simply announces her sailing.
The American ship Cyrus Wakefield is
now out 12l days from Port Stanley.
where she put in for repairs, and 70 per
cent reinsurance is being paid on her.
The general impression is that she has
followed the Charles <. Moody around the
Cape of Good Hope and will arrive here
in due course.
The bark Ferris S. Thompson and the
schooner American Girl left here on Oc-
tOber 5 for Puget Sound. Nothing has
been heard of them since and the owners
are beginning to feel uneasy. The pre-
vailing winds have been very strong from
the southeast and the chances are that
the vessels have been driven past the
Straits of Juan de Fuca and have been
unable TO beat back.
There are some fears for the Chilean
bark Libertad, now out seventy-five days
from Pisagua for this port with a cargo
Of nitrate She is an old vessel, built in
1871 and was formerly the Persian bark
Prince Hassan. The Libertad is not.
properly speaking, overdue, but she is an
Old vessel and the owners of the cargo
are anxious.
A big barbound feet got away from
Grays HarbOr yesterday. Among them
We're the schooners Dauntless, North
Bend. c. T. Fiji, Glen. Wing and Wing.
Twilight. Beulah, Emma Utter and OtiIle
F1ord, which sailed for this port in a
bunch and should make an interesting
race down the coast.
The Alaska Commercial Companys
steamers Bertha and Portland are not
going into retirement this winter Both
Of them have been chartered by the Ore
gon Railroad and Navigation Company to
carry grain from the Columbia River to
San Francisco The steamer Humboldt
due here tomorrow, will also probably