The San Francisco call., 1899-08-26
RAN A MILLION
MILES WITHOUT
ANY BREAKDOWN
Splendid Record OF the
Alameda.
HER SIXTIETH VOYAGE ENDED
rs AS GOOD NOW AS THE DAY
SHE WAS LAUNCHED.
Two Steamer Men Injured-scurVy
Stricken Gold Hunters Home
ward Bound-Big Raft
Off Port.

The Oceanic Steamship Companys mail
steamer Alameda completed her siXueth
round trip to Australia yesterday She
was a few hours behind time through
having to buck a strong head Wlnd dll
the way across the Pacific
Before going on the Australian run
the Alameda made twenty-five round trlpS
to Honolulu. In all her Journeylh8s from
the time she left the Cramps yardS at
Philadelphia the Alameda has run over
a million miles, and during the sixteen
years it took her to cover that distance
she was not stopped at sea ten hours' all
told for repairs. She has never peeh ldte'
but frequently ahead of time, ana lheie
has never been an occasion Wnen Aer man
failed to overland on schedule time inns
is a record that very few steamers anoaI
can approach, and is a great feather Ill
the cap of American ship builders.
OF the ships crew that LETT Rnlldue4pI
in the Alameda, only one remains. he ls
A. ID. Little, the chief englneer' anu nr ae
she came around the Horn IN the TeCoIu-
breaking run of torty-hVe days -. N.
Clark, the chief steward; mas peen Htteeh
years on the Alameda, and MIS-. GidhdiA'
the StewardeSS, thirteen years. All lhe
other members of the crew joined the YES
sci at later dates. Clark was the nrst
American that ever went TO Australia as
chief steward of an American steamer.
He was on the old sideWheel steamer Ne
Vada in 1871, when she carried the mail
between Honolulu, Auckland and sydney.
In that year and also during 1878 the
Mohonga. Moses Taylor, Montana ana
several other steamers carried the man
to Honolulu and there 1t was transferred
to the Nevada, Nebraska and Dakota,
which steamers carried 1t on to the Colo
nies. After the old-timers had served
their turn the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany came into existence and the Ala
media and Mariposa were built. Ihese me
vessels have in turn grown too small for
the trade, and in consequence three hne
6000-ton vessels are now in course OF con-
struction for the company at Philadelphia
by the Cramps, the builders OF the Ala
media.
of passengers, many of whom are theatrl-
cal people The Maggie Moore-Roberts
Company stopped off at Honolulu and
after playing an engagement there will
come on to San Francisco on the Austria
liza. 1.-The Belle of New York company
came back home minus one of its num-
Der. W. Gerard died in sydney OF con
sumption. His widow came back on the
steamer Mr.. and Mrs. Coventry OF the
"Trip TO Chinatown" company also came
back on the steamer.
while the Alameda was in Apia harbor
the Government steamer Abarindo, from
Norfolk, Va, arrived with supplies for
the naval station at Pago Pago. She also
had the material for the new wharf, so
Healy, Tibbitts & Co., the contractors,
will be able to begin work at once.
er to the Samoan conference. came back
on the Alameda. He went to New Zea-
land to visit his sister, and Joined the
steamer at Auckland. Lieutenant Com
mander Guttner of the German gunboat
Cormorant and James II. Mulligan, ex-
United States Consul General to Samoa,
been to Apia adjusting claims for dam
ages done during the bombardments of
Apia and the native villages.
Lieutenant Philip Andrews of the Pen
Td hrfHn frnTf
Honolulu. Lieutenant Andrews and Miss
Fuller were married as soon as the Mari
posa reached Hawaii on her southwark
trip. The happy couple will make their
The tugs Relief and Rescue are outside
with the big raft they towed down from
against the towboats when they reached
the bar, so they stayed outside all night
The barkentine Monitor started for Eu-
reka yesterday, but sprang a leak off the
lightship and had to put back.
George Butler a deckhand on the
steamer J. D; Peters. fell from the hurri-
broke his left leg. He was treated at the
Harbor Hospital by DR.. Rice.
The steamer Grace Barton arrived from
head of consumptive cows. Health Off
Ger Lawlor examined the cattle and at
once condemned them. The animals were
will be slaughtered to-day and the meat
destroyed.
F. Harris and his brother sabin were
passengers for Stockton on the steamer
J. D. Peters yesterday. Both men are
suffering from scurvy contracted in
Kotzebue Sound and are going into the
went up to the supposed gold fields with
his sons, but he died on the Kowak River
of heart failure. The Harris brothers
Nome by the revenue cutter Bear, and
from Cape Nome they came to San Fran
cisco on the Portland. They have not
much faith in the Cape Nome diggings.
as they think everything is being held
for speculating purposes.