The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-01-20
Collides With the Drummuir
During Fog in Mission Bay

! The steamer Dimond startled the wa
ter front yesterday by putting in an
appearance at Broadway street wharf
wearing it's pilot house tilted askew
and battered out of shape. like the
plug ugly of a Berkeley junior. 1t
happened. explained Captain George
Thompson, during the fog Monday aft
ernoon. The Dimond was on its way to
| this city with a cargo of salt from Al
varado Suddenly through the mist
there doomed ahead the Uruguayan ship
| Drummuir, which is lying at anchor In
Mission bay. 1t was too late to do any
| thing, for even as Captain Thompson
! saw the ship the Drummuir's bowsprit
smacked the Dimond's pilot house,
crumpling it up, knocking 1t off its base
and partly capsizing it. Captain Thomp-
son Jumped out of the house in time
| to save himself and made his way to
! the engine room.
| "Why don't you stop herr" he yelled
at Chief Engineer John Babue.
why don't you give me some bells?"
demanded the engineer. reaching for
the lever.
Bell wire carried away" said the
captain.
why didn't you shout down the
tube. then?e insisted the engineer, as
he closed the throttle and brought the
engines to a standstill.
There amt no tube, there amt no
pilot house. and If we'd been little
higher there wouldn't have been any
Dimond left. We're shipwrecked IN
Mission bay. Let go the anchor.
The launch Brother Jonathan later
towed the damaged river steamer to
Broadway wharf. Captain Thompson
saws that no fog bell was sounding
on the Drummuir at the time OF the
collision.
| Schooner Delayed by Storm
Tahiti is not very far away if you
travel on the liner Mariposa, put II you
depend upon the wings OF lumoer
the earth. The schooner r. w. Bartlett
/ arrived here yesterday from Papeete
and Captain Olsen came in through the
Golden gate wondering II Bryan mac
been elected to succeed President
Roosevelt. The Bartlett left Papeete
october Is and the latest news OF the
outside world then available was Two
weeks old. The schooner took TO Pa
peete cargo of lumber and left there
! for Grays Harbor and would nave peen
at the northern port now but Tor the IN
! terference of the elements. Captain
Olsen came in here because the food
| SUNNY was running short and they
were dependent for drinking water
upon what fell from the CLOUDS. Inc
| sails and will be measured for few
new suits while here.
Bad weather began for the Bartlett
soon after leaving Papeete. In the VI
! cinity of Honolulu some heavy gales
/ were encountered in which sail after
! sail was blown away captain olsen
| and january found himself off Cres
| cent City with the expectation OF max
] ing a quick run to Grays Harbor. The
glass began to fall and suddenly there
| swept down on the schooner what Cap
| tain Olsen describes as a black north
easter After that he gave up trylng
his course for San Francisco, where he
! arrived 54 days from Tahiti.
While the Bartlett was at Tahiti
Darling. the mature, man., was fire.
] ouently on board with two lightly clad
| converts to the easy life. Darling, ac-
cordiIg to Captain Olsen and. others,
! has degenerated into beachcomber.
He lives the simple lie r OF a + Vegetarian Il,
Paneefe of an American ship he is
| Johnny on the spot at meal times and
when an invitation to throw his Feet
| and accept without disdain the humble
! shandout" AS there are three nature
9ow all md hqng often for for mss the
! than the invitation to dinner.
saunders Fate Undecided
The Pacific Mail liner Manchuria Will
/ sail Saturday for the orient with more
! than 900 cabin passengers and a large
Cargo The cargo will include big
ointment of raw cotton. The Pacific
mail company has made no statement
yet as to whether or not Captain
| big liner. Charges were filed against
| Saunders by the ships surgeon, who
| saws that the captain called him
| fghting name, hit and kicked him
While The liner was at Nagasaki This
! alleged violence was the genial skip
ner's alleged reply to supposedly re-
pecfu request On l re par ao a 81 ene sur
| nedice was detached when the liner
arrived here. The cigarette board"
as unofficial rn n,1 Is dig a fed on the
! ders also will be suspended and that
CAPTAIN Dan Friele, who was detached
from the Chino; VIII III. relieve lis him as
far re declaration the Cigarette board
! reports that when the China was leav-
| ing the wharf Captain Friele sang out
! 70 one of the passengers: "Goodby, I'll
| meet YOU in Hongkong." But the ak
| has not yet fallen and Captain Saun-
ders still wears his yellow jacket, his
peacock plume still waves and he still
| carries the captains latchkey on the
Manchuria.
whistIing Buoy on Cruise
| IF the whistling buoy that used to
blow itself in the vicinity of Fort
Ross does not i sstray some r. wandering
na,,se the local branch of the hydro
rranhic Office has kept close tab on
| the runaway whistle and has spread its
ar'e ink and wireless telegraphy will
take it. The buoy ,y. which vas a red
1aeKeo II" in black. broke adriff Nee yea
vamber % from its mornings at Fort
| Ross. The motion of the waves works
! a compressor and the compressed air is
/ of 4 whistle. The buoy is guaranteef5
| to whistle as long as 1t stays af7oat
and It win f1oas until N ~, It falls to pieces
/ man got the first glimpse of tina run