The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
RACE BETWEEN
MAIL STEAMERS
FROM HONOLULU
Gaelic Won From the
City Of Peking.
THE SHIP RELIEF DELAYED.
WAS IN YOKOHAMA WHEN THE
GAELIC SAILED.
Two Fatalities on the British Ship
Ancaios-Woman Stabbed in
Fremont-Street Lodging
House.

EremOnt-Street Loo QR1nS
House.
1t was the busiest Sunday the water
front has seen in many month yester-
day. The transport Hancock got in with
the Nebraska volunteers during the night;
the steamer City of Sydney arrived from
Panama; the City of Peking and Gaelic
from the Orient; the British ship Ancalos
from Liverpool, and the French bark
Tourane from Swansea.
The Hancock and City of Sydney docked
during the morning, but the Gaelic did
not get alongside until late in the after
noon, and the Peking will not be Released
from quarantine until this morning. The
Gaelic brought 5S cabin, 8 second cabin, 13
Japanese and 209 steerage passengers,
while the Peking carried % cabin, y Euro
pean steerage and 139 Chinese passengers.
The two steamers had quite an eXclt-
ing race from Honolulu, the Gaelic win
ming by ten hours. The Peking got away
first, but the Gaelic soon overhauled ner'
Then they lost sight of each other, only
to meet again outside the Heads yester-
day morning when the fog lifted. The
Peking had every stitch of canvas set and
was bowling along at great rate, and
beat the Gaelic twenty-five minutes in
the race from the Heads to the quaran-
tine grounds. The Gaelic made the run
in days l hour and 90 minutes and the
City of Peking in days IL hours and 50
minutes from Honolulu.
The hospital ship Relief was in trouble
at Yokohama on July 2. While making
port from Nagasaki she went ashore on
the Saratoga Spit and stayed there for
twenty-four hours. The Norwegian
steamer Thyra tried to pull her off, but
her hawsers parted. The next day there
was an unusually high tide and the
steamer fioated off. The Relief was still
at Yokohama when the Gaelic sailed.
The British ship Ancaios arrived from
Liverpool yesterday after an unusually
long passage of 1S2 days She had d sue
ceSSiOn of southwest gales after leaving
the British Channel ana mad another age
of the same kind of weather off the Horn.
There We're couple OF sad fataHues dur
ing the voyage. one OF the men feH
overheard from the jibboom and was
drowned. His companion took his death
so much to heart that he went insane,
jumped overheard and was also drowned
On January 81, in latitude II north, IonSi-
tude IL west, Arthur Smith, aged % years,
was lost overheard. He was out on the
jibboom in company with Leon PetitSren,
and losing his balance fell into the ocean.
Petitgren seemed parayzed by the acci-
dent, but managed TO get inbOard again.
From that time on he was crazy, and on
February 2, in latitude AZ north, IL west,
he yelled. I'm coming" and jumped
overheard. The ship was hove to and II
boat lowered, but not trace of the crazy
native of New York, aged 40 years.
The Ancaios was one of the fleet Of YES
sells that lay in Manila Bay during the
destruction of the Spanish men-of-war.
Captain Fulton says 1t was a mastery
piece of work and Admiral Dewey de-
serves all the credit he has received, and
more too.
The Mail Company's steamer City of
Sydney arrived from Panama and way
ports early yesterday. She brought up
large cargo, nearly all of which came
from New York, and a good many passen-
gers The San Bias will take the sgd
ney's place going out on August 8. The
latter vessel will probably be turned over
TO the Government for use transport.
The French bark Touraine arrived from
Swansea after quick passage of 129 days.
The TOuraine is on her maiden voyage
and is a very handsome vessel. She is the
first of a big fleet of French built vessels
that are now heading this way: Since
France began paying a mileage subsidy to
its merchant marine the number of yes
sells flying the tricolor has nearly doubled.
In the case of San Francisco alone there
are on the way here dozen French
vessels nearly all new, While last year
there were only two.
There was a good sized row in the fam
lily lodging-house at 343 Fremont street
Yesterday. and as a result John Donahue
is charged at the HarbOr Police Station
with an assault with a deadly weapon,
while Mrs. Mary Johnson had a slashed
cheek and a black eye fixed up a the
Harbor Hospital. 1t appears that Mrs.
Johnsons S rooms are over those occupied
DN DOndnuS- lie ldlltl NOihS dlt HtSIlt
and has to get his sleep during the day.
He says Mrs. Johnson makes his life mis-
cradle by the racket she and her friends
kick up when he is trying to sleep. Yes
terda he met her on the stairs. and when
he spoke to her she tantalized him, and
he forgot himself and struck her. The
cut on her cheek she got on the banister.
Mrs. Johnson says Donahue Is the most
ouarrelsome man alive. Saturday night
he promised to make her an inmate of the
Morgue and Yesterday he. tried to kill
her. He stabbed her in the face and then
tried to throw her down stairs. She called
assistance. Donahue ran away when he
heard the policeman coming and locked
himself in his room. He would not come
forth when called upon, and the officer
Rad TO break down the door to secure him.
Both the man and woman were taken
away in the patrol wagon.
The Harhor Hospital is the most neces-
sary institution on the water front. and
there viii be a howl of Indignation If the
board of Health closes the place. This
month has not been as busy some of
the preceding ones, yet up to noon yes
terday 1926 cases had been treated. or an
average of more than ten cases a day.
The members of Court Apollo. A. O. f..
and their friends had jolly time on the
bay yesterday. They chartered the
Steamer Caroline and to the number of
o6O went for a cruise. After visiting the
yartots points of interest they became
the guests of the Lynde & Hough Com
nany at California City. and there spent
the remainder of the day. The Caroline
was the first steamer to salute the trans
port Hancock and the Foresters gave the
returning Nebraskans three rousing