The San Francisco call., 1905-01-31
BAIILESHIP Ohio ANNOUNCES APPROACH TO PORT
By WIRELESS 1ELEGRAPHY WHILE SIXTY MILES OUT
Monitor Wyoming From BrenerOn Is Here for Ammunition
Steamship Curacao
Brings Treasure
From Mexico.

The United States battleship Ohio,
Captain Logan, returned yesterday
from a cruise in Magdalena Bay. The
monitor Wyoming, bound from Brem-
erton, met her big sister outside the
heads and in company the two fighting
machines came in through the Golden
Gate. The Wyoming is bound for San
Diego and put in here for ammunition
and stores.
Long before the Merchants Ex-
change observer at Point Lobos sighted
the Ohio the warship was in wireless
communication with Mare Island, Yer
ba Buena, Point Reyes and with Dem
mis- OBrien. Captain Logan did not
know he was talking to Dennis O'Brien
and as far as O'Brien was concerned
the conversation was all on the other
side.
O'Brien is interested in numerous
inventions and among the scientific ap-
paratus OF which his laboratory at 106
Union Square is a maze is a wireless
telegraphy outfit. The instrument was
tuned to catch any aerial talk that
might happen to be floating about and
at o'clock yesterday morning O'Brien
was awakened by the ringing of an
electric bell, which told that his word
went to the instrument and found that
talk waves from one of Uncle Sans
finest battleShips had washed against
the receiver and touched off the alarm
which had disturbed his slumbers.
The Ohio asked for Goat Island and
when Goat Island answered the opera
tor at the naval training station was
informed that the Ohio was sixty miles
away, homeward bound. Captain Lo-
gan asked to be reported to Mare ISL
and and notified the commandant of
the navy yard that the Ohio would
proceed to her anchorage off the Union
Iron Works.
The Ohio asked and obtained the cor
rect time. Then the battleship was
supplied with the latest news from
Russia and Japan and furnished with
few items of social interest in naval
circles. In return the Ohio told Goat
Island how the big battleship's engines
had worked during the trip.
The officers of the battleship sent
messages to fair friends in San Fran
cisco, and when both sides were talked
out the letter V was sent every five
minutes for the purpose of testing the
working of the apparatus. The Ohio
began calling Goat Island and ringing
Dennis OBrien's bell at a. m. She
entered the harbor at o'clock.
The Ohio has been away for about
l"o Weeks. captain Logan overlooked
the quarantine boat, but when Pilot
Jordan called his attention to the ap-
preaching General Sternberg the Ohio
returned to the quarantine limits and
hoisted the yellow flag as evidence of
submission to the Federal health reg
ulations. Everybody on the battleship
was glowing with health and the Ohio's
detention was brief.
At Magdalena Bay the Ohio's big
guns had chance to speak right out
in war time style, and although the
Official report of the firing test will
not be made public until it has reached
the Navy Department the Ohios off,
GERS appear to be satisfied that the bat
tleship's heavy battery will be able
to give a good account of itself when
called upon.
The Wyoming, Captain Roller, had a
stormy passage from Puget Sound. The
coast defense ship lies low in the water
anyhow, and the waves through which
she made her southern way were un-
usually high. With only her. super
structure above water for most of the
time, the Wyoming came through the
ordeal in good shape. No damage was
done to the vessel, no member of the
crew was injured and the run from
Bremerton to San Francisco was made
n three and half days.