The San Francisco call., 1908-10-10
Shipping News and Gossip
of the Water Front
Overdue TonaWanda Reaches Port
With One Blade Left on Propeller


was beginning to cause anxiety, put in
an appearance yesterday morning,
crippled and rusty but with all on board
well and good excuse for being late.
The Tonawanda, Captain G. +. Trigg
left Moji 80 days ago in a hurry The
haste was impelled by the hosting of
a typhoon signal ashore. Moji offers
Indifferent anchorage under the most
favorable conditions, and to remain
there with a typhoon scheduled would
be inviting destruction. The Tona-
wanda left Moji in the morning and by
evening was in the midst of the
typhoon.
The Tonawanda was in ballast, but
in spite of the ample freehoard sew
eral seas piled over the high poop
Steaming ahead slowly, Captain Trigg
kept the Tonawanda's nose to the
storm. After II hours the typhoon
lost its fury, but it was four days be-
fore the sea lost Its anger.
With the calm came the realization
that something had gone wrong with
the propeller, which had been out of
the water every few minutes during
the typhoon, racing madly and shaking
the ship like a terrier shakes a rat.
Coal and ballast were shifted until the
Tonawanda was we'll down by the head
with the wheel out of water. The
chief engineer was lowered over the
stern TO inspect the propeller He
found that one blade had disappeared
altogether, the jarring of the ship hav-
Ing unloosened the screws that held it
to the hub. Another blade had broken
off close to the hub, and of the third
less than half remained. The fourth
blade was intact. Preparations were
made to ship a new propeller but Cap
tain Trigg decided, as the weather was
fine, to take chance with what was
left of the old one.
All hands We're put on short rations
as much sail as could be set was bent
and unfurled and the Tonawanda re-
sumed its way. The sea was smooth,
the wind fair, the big tanker came
along a a five knot gait and reached
this port about 10 days overdue. Sew
eral days before getting in here the
reefs were shaken out of the bill Of
fare and the steward was ordered to
feed full and plenty"
Captain Trigg says that the typhoon
was one of the worst he ever ex-
perienced. In spite of the accident to
the wheel he believes that he played
in good luck, as in the event of bad
weather the crippled tanker would
have been at the mercy of the ele-
ments.
MaripOsa Here from Tahiti
The Oceanic steamship company's
"
rived here yesterday from Tahiti after
voyage through a sea of glass. The
liner brought "a passengers and
cargo of tropical products, which in
cluded 1926 sacks of copra. 2,465 sacks
of cocoanuts, Ala cases or vanilla and
10 packages of fruit.
Among the passengers were ID. At
water, the uncrowned king of Tahiti.
and his sister in law, Miss T. Pomare.
If the royal line of Tahiti had con-
tinued it's sway. Miss Pomare would
haan a faf faS
ordered it otherwise, the royal line of
Tahiti is only memory and the prin
cess prefers to be known as Miss Po-
mare.
w. NJ. Brooks of Tucson, Ariz, who
was a passenger on the liner, has been
investigating the taro production of
Tahiti. He says that the taro of Ia
hiti is larger and better in every way
than the product of the Hawaiian isles.
If he finds that the market here will
justify it he expects TO import Tahiti
taro on large scale and expects to
develop its production into an inn
portant industry
B. Cottes. j. Rosser and P. Diaz, mem
bers of the crew of the Chilean bark
Mariposa The Eaton Hall put into
Tahiti in distress a few days before
the Mariposa left there on it's previous
trip. The Eaton Hall has on board a
cargo of coal from Newcastle, Aus
tralia- Hull and spars of the ship are
in good condition, but the rigging is
rotten and rather than go to the ex-
pense of making repairs the vessel and
cargo are TO be sold at Papeete. The
captain is staying by the ship to rep
resent the owners in the sale. The
members of the crew have been paid
off and all but the three who came ul
on the Mariposa are on the beach at
Papeete. They have spent all their
money and as there is no Chilean con-
sui at the south sea port they are
making the best of their lot until the
chance comes for them to ship on a
passing vessel One member of the
crew who killed a shipmate in a
drunken fight is in Jail at Papeete.
The Mariposa's passengers included: :
A. p. Kitching, A. p. Porter, Miss T.
Pomare, Miss kitching, Miss Porter,
Mrs. NJ Lepage, Miss X. Sanborne,
Master Porter, Master Lepage, A. s.
Todd. Fl. 7. Lee, w. NJ. Brooks and D.
Atwater.
Officer of Anubis Dies