The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21

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sels' however, are very much at the
mercy of the wind, and about half an
hour after Captain le Seven directed
his boy TO get out his shore clothes and
press them a northwest gale came
along and blew the Blum far out to
sea.
The shore clothes were put back in
me camphor wood chest and the skip
per gave his attention to handling the
snip. The storm did not last very
lons, but was succeeded by five days
OF perfect calm. Storms that keep a
fTehcn snip moving, no matter in
What direction. have their compensa
ions as the ship collects a bounty
1lonl the government based on the
NUMBER OF miles travelled. Gains. how
SuIlace OF the water was again rippled
Dy breeze Captain lie Seven would
nave welcomed a typhoon.,
- Inc calm was followed by light winds.
with the aid OF which the Leon Blum
Slowly regained the lost ground 1t
has cargo of general merchandise.
ChiyO Maru Due Today
Accorolng TO wireless message re-
eGeelXed Yesterday by the Toyo Kisen
the Japanese turbine liner Chiyo AIaru.
which is due today from the orient
VIII VIII reach quarantine about o'clock
the tide the big liner viii not be
docked until noon. The Chiyo has on
BOARD the largest number of cabin pas
Sengers that the new liner has ever
carried coming this way. In the hold is
cargo which includes a valuable ship
ment of raw silk.
The Chiyo viii sail again November
80 and already large number of pas
sengers has been booked. Among those
who will leave here on the Chiyo are
the members of the japanese CONNER
clal party that has been making a
tour Of the United States.
Catches SwOrdfsh With Hook and Line
S. Sperry, steward on the steamer
Yosemite, brought TO port yesterday a
marine curiosity in the shape OF a
sWOrdhsh, which he caught the other
day with hook and line off Catalina
Island. The fish is nearly y feet
long and its sword measures four feet
from base to tip. The swOrdfish is
the busy ally Of the thrasher in the
latter-S warfare on the whale family.
The swordfish, underneath, by prod
ding the whale with its sword, keeps
the leVlathan on the surface of the
water and prevents his sinking to es-
cape me thrasher' whlch literally beats
The whale 10 death. A good healthy
thrasher VIII weigh about 400 pounds.
He is able to leap high in the air
He does this when fighting the whale
and falls with all his terrible weight
on top of the whale.
While the thrasher is doing this the
cunning little sWordfish is punching
the whales underside full of holes III
the thrasher and swordfish have moth
ing else to do and usually get the de-
cision.
Alameda Sails for Honolulu
The Oceanic steamship company S
liner Alameda. Captain DowdelI, sailed
yesterday for Honolulu crowded with
passengers and carrying a full cargo
Among the passengers were the mem
bers of a theatrical troupe and large
number of tourists from southern Cali
fOrnia and eastern states.
The Alameda's twin sister. the Mari
pOsa, Captain Hayward, will sail to-
morrow for Tahiti. also with a large
number of passengers. Business con
ditions in the south seas are improv-
/ ing. Recognition of this may be found
! in the fact that among the Mariposa's
passengers viii be a number of com
mercial travellers who consider the
! prospect good enough to warrant them
in investing a month of their time in a
journey to Papeete.
The Mariposa's s passeng gers viii in
/ clude a number of tourists who are
booked for the circular tour of the
south seas. At Papeete, where they
] viii spend three DAYS they will take