The San Francisco call., 1899-10-24
Vessels Arrive From
the World Over.
SCHOONERS FROM CAPE NOME
TYPHOID FEVER IS RAGING ON
THE GOLD FIELD.
Arthur Sewall the Largest Vessel
Ever Placed on the Floating
Drydock = New Boats
Being Built.

! day. Many of them had been off the Far
! allones for days and took advantage of
| the favorable wind and sailed in The
sugar fleet was we'll represented, and
about the last of the Hawaiian crop is
now in port. Several coal ships arrived
from Newcastle, Australia, and Swansea,
and couple of schooners from the far
north also put in an appearance.
Among the arrivals were the barks
! Martha Davis, Andrew Welch and Dia-
mond Head barkentine W. H. Dimond,
brig Consuelo and ship Falls of Clyde,
from Hawaii; ship Alex Gibson from Bal
timore, ship Lord Cairns from Swansea
and ship Helensburgh from Newcastle,
Australia. Of the sugar fleet the brig
CUnsuelo, from Mahukona made the best
| run, coming up in seventeen days The
w. II. Dlmond made the passage in
eighteen days, while the Falls of Clyde
was nineteen and a half and the Martha
Davis twenty-four days
The Alex Gibson is commanded by Cap
tain Holmes, formerly of the Charmer-
This is his eightieth time of rounding the
Horn, and he says that the longest time
he ever took to get from so to 80 was
twenty-one days, and that was due to an
accident TO one of the masts. On this
I occasion Captain Holmes brought the
Gibson from 50 in the Atlantic to 90 in
the Pacific in eleven days, and says he
never had the topsails in during the en-
tire run Captain Holmes was here last
in the ship Charmer, but when she was
sold to w. i1. Mighell and others for the
coast trade he went back East and was
appointed to the Alex Gibson.
The British ship Lord Cairns made the
run from Swansea to San Francisco in
131 days. She encountered three storms
during the run. but none of them did
much damage. The Cairns made the run
from so TO so in ten days and like the
Gibson, was detained outside for two days
by light winds and calms.
Another vessel that got in from Sydney
n. S. w, was the British tramp Pathan:
She comes here with cargo of coal, and
as soon as 1t is discharged she will be
fitted out as a transport The Pathan
made the run from New South Wales in
the good time of twentysiX days. The
schooners Luisa D and Louisa ]. Kenny
arrived from the frozen north. The Luisa
u came from Cape Nome in twenty-seven
days and brought down forty-three gold
hunters, while the Kenny had been on the
Siberian coast on a trading cruise, but
stopped at Cape Nome and brought down
twenty--nine gold hunters. Among the
Luisa d crowd is party of thirteen
from Iowa. who bought and fitted out the
schooner last spring. They have done
fairly well and are going back to Nome
next spring. During the voyage home
Charles Hough died from general debility
and was buried at sea.
The Louisa j. Kenny was fitted out on
Puget Sound and has been some time in
the Arctic. She brings back 1000 pounus
of whalebone and eighteen bear skins. On
putting In at Cape Nome Captain Everson
out of the country, so he brought them
down. The men on the Kenny and those
on the Luisa D say that typhoid hold fever
deaths had occurred. An exodus was on
and ali the steamers will come down with
crowds.
The schooner Jennie Grifen arrived
from San Diego Yesterday. She used to
run between here and Point Reyes, but in
June last started on cruise to. Southern
California. She left San Diego forty days
ago, but went to the guano islands and
brought up twenty-five tons of fertilizer.
John Hyslop, the Merchant Exchange
reporter at Point Lobos. did some good
work yesterday. He made out the coll
lier San Mateo when she was thirty miles
off shore She was from Nanaimo for
Port Los Angeles and has been out five
days, being delayed by the heavy weather
that made the Walla Walla late. Hyslop
also made out the collier Bristol when
a 'square-rigger when she was thirty
five miles away, which afterward turned
out to be the Helensburgh.
The steam schoCners Ruth and Luella
had an interesting race down the coast
from Coos Bay. The Luella won the race
by comfortable margin She was bar
bound at Tillamcok for nearly a month
and had to discharge her cargo in order
to get out. The work of getting her
ready for trip to Eureka will be rushed
night and day and she will sail tomorrow
morning.
There is now nearing completion in
Turner's yards. Benicia. a schooner for
the 1anlt traue, an duXllldry schooner
for the Hawaiian interisland trade, a pas
senger schooner for the Carolines and a
schooner for the French Protestant Mis-
sion in the Marquesas and Tahiti
A new four-masted schooner is being
built at Coos Bay for Captain James H.
Bruce and others. She will be 700 tons
burden 100 feet long 80 feet 8 inches
be ready for service in June, 1906.
The big four-masted bark Arthur Sewall
went on the floating dock at the foot
of Spear street yesterday. She is the
largest vessel that has ever been on the
dock and attracted a great deal of atten-
not the least trouble in handling the big
ship and when safely on the float she
only extended over the end about twenty
feet The Sewall goes on the dock for a
general overhauling and painting In
about thirteen of the plates some riveting
will have to be done and then the largest
American ship afioat will be ready to load
a general cargo for Europe.
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holders and discuss with them the
policy which shall be enforced for the
next two years The ever tiring but never
abandoned story of the creation of the
charter was told for the twentieth time
Another fling was taken at the office
the new organic law and the Mayor in
sisted that the very men who fought the
charter are now seeking to obtain office
under its administration as the law.
His Honor says that all his enemies are
enemies of the charter and he wants the
He says the Republicans want to keep
San Francisco in her swaddling clothes
These men. he declares. are the men of
the days when the water came up to