The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-08
HERMAN SHOULD
Be PROGRAMMED
At POINT REYES
From There Easy to
Notify the City.
FARALLONES OUT OF THE WAY
THREE SAILING VESSELS WILL
RACE TO HONOLULU.
Plenty of Room in Hunters Point
Drydock for the Hancock-New
Vessels Building-over-
due Ships.
FARALLONES OUT OF THE WAY
THREE SAILING VESSELS WILL
RACE TO HONOLULU.

The transport Morgan City was sched-
uled to sail for Manila to-day with 500
recruits, but owing to the nOn-arrival of
some freight she will not now get away
before Thursday. The st. Paul is going
to Seattlet to help carry the Fourth Cavalry
to Manila. the Siam will not be ready
for her cargo of horses for ten days, the
Hancock will be at least six weeks at the
Union Iron Works, the Relief Will be
overhauled and will go back to the Philip
pines for another load of wounded, the
Senator is coaling at Broadway wharf and
the Leelanaw discharged her Filfpinos
Yesterday and went to the Union Iron
Works.
In connection with the arrival of the
TRANSPORT Sherman with the California
boys big mistake has been made. Colo
mel Duboce has cabled that he will so ar
range matters that the transport Will be
off the Farallones at noon of the day
she will arrive. What he SHOULD nave opne
was to have her off Point Reyes at that
hour. The Point is the first land Captain
Grant will make on direct course from
Yokohama to San Francisco, and IN or
der 10 make the Farallones he Will nave
to go out of his way. Directly the Sher-
man is spoken off Point Reyes the 1act
would be known in San Francisco, thus
giving at least two hours and a halt 10
make necessary preparations. From the
Farallones the proposition is to bring the
news in by tug, but there is not tug IN
and more than likely both will be sighted
together by the Merchants Exchange
lookout at Point Lobos. 1t should be SO
arranged that the Sherman will be report
ed from Point Reyes and then everybody
will have ample time to reach the water
front before the transport gets in;
A three-cornered race from mere TO
Honolulu will begin tomorrow and con
siderable interest is attached to the event,
as the vessels are three of the fastest OF
the sugar fleet. The barkentine 5. n.
h ic Of
the barkentine Planter and the bark s. Z.
Allen will leave together early Wednesday
morning. Captain Hubbard of the Castle
is going to make the most OF his start
and expects to get to Honolulu first even
If he does not win the race. Captain Nc
Neil Of the Planter is sure that he Will
bet Captain Perriman suit Of clothes
that he will make the islands first. The
vessels are very evenly matched and 1t is
toss up as to which one will win.
Two new vessels for the lumber trade
and one for the oil trade are being built
at Eureka. One of the lumber vessels Will
be the, steamer Dispatch, n. for Gray q &
schooner Alexander, for Charles Nelson;
The Alexander will carry 100000 feet of
lumber, and Captain Schage of the Allen
a will command her The Dispatch will
have first-class passenger accommoda-
lions, and will carry $50 900 feet of lumber.
The transport Hancock Will dock a t the
Hunters Point drydock. 1t was stated
few days ago that the vessel would have
10 go TO HOngkOng or Port Orchard to
drvd0ck as she was too long for Hunters
Point This was incorrect, as there Is
not only room for the Hancock there but
eighteen feet to spare. All arrangements
for docking the vessel have been made,
and as soon as she is overhauled at the
Union Iron Works she will go on Hunters
Point It is the intention of the California
Drydock Company, shortly, to lengthen
the Hunters Point drydock to $40 feet on
the sill and Howard G. Holmes, the chief
engineer of the Harbor Commission, is
engaged in getting up the plans and speci-
fcations.
The British ship Hyderabad is lying in
the stream. loaded and ready to sail for
England, but it will be several days be-
fore she will get away, as Captain Scott
Is living aboard dangerously i'll.
The British ship Macduff is now out $50
days from Calcutta for Astoria, and 80
ner cent reinsurance is being paid on her.
IF she does not arrive soon her grain bags
will be of no use for this seasons crop.
The President Theirs. now out 229 days
from San Francisco for Liverpool, is be-
ing reinsured at so per cent, and the Cas-
we'll, III days out from Newcastle, n. 5.
w. for Guayaquil, at 80 per cent.
The Mail companyS steamer San Jose
arrived from Panama and way ports yes
terday. She brought up a large New
York cargo and sixteen cabin and ten
steerage passengers besides six Chinese
in transit to Hongkong.
The tug Rescue arrived from san Diego
with the schooner Sequoia in tow. The
Seouoia was on fire, and has been brought
here for repairs.