HOW THE LATE STORM DEALT WITH THE SHIPS
Rush for Coal From Belated Colliers.
SAUSALITO YACHTS SUFFERED STRIKE OF LONGSHOREMEN ON THE WRECKED NOYO.
Arrival of the British Ship Wallacetown — She Was Compelled to Put Into Coqulmbo in Distress.
January 19, 1899 – The storm is over, but tales from vessels that suffered in it will continue to come in for some time. All the vessels in port took advantage of the sunshine yesterday and had their sails out to dry. A big fleet of fishing boats went but for the first time in weeks and they and the sailors at work on the ships at anchor gave an appearance of life to the bay that it has not had for two weeks.
The arrival of the overdue colliers made things lively on the front and long strings of wagons were waiting at each of the bunkers for a chance to load. The Wellington got in from Departure Bay late Tuesday afternoon, and some of the coal wagons were in line all night waiting to get the first load in the morning. The Charles Nelson came in from Seattle. Her delay was due to the fact that her captain did not like the looks of the weather, so he lay for a day and a night in Neah Bay. The Mineola from Seattle and the Wyefield from Naniamo, B. C, were seven days coming down, and they got the full benefit of the storm. They were hove to for thirty-six hours and had a very rough time of it.
Over at Sausalito the yachtsmen and others are repairing the damage done by the southeaster. The San Francisco Yacht Club’s float got loose and drifted down on Dr. McKenzie’s gasoline launch Alberta. The latter was driven on the beach and had her bottom considerably damaged. Later she drifted down on the yacht Ripple, and the Alberta had all her windows smashed while the Ripple was badly chafed. The yacht Catherine had her rudder broken, and a pleasure boat owned by Mr. Susaville was stove in by the derelict float. Six feet of the embankment around the Pacific Yacht Club’s boathouse was carried away, and the waves made a clean breach through the building. All the earthworks around the house were carried away and the are now stands alone in its glory in the middle of a lake.
The wrecked steamer Noyo has been docked at Little Main street and the work of unloading her is being rushed. Tuesday night J. H. Bullock of Kimball & got a lot of longshoremen together and set them to work at unloading the Tho men soon learned that it was “a rush job” and demanded 50 cents an hour instead of the regular 30 cents. Mr. Bullock had to pay it, but yesterday morning when he had the crew together he ordered them to turn to. Then the- crew said they wouldn’t work for less than 50 cents an hour. The matter was laid before the Shipowners’ Association, but It was powerless, so Mr. Bullock went back to the Noyo and put the longshoremen to work again. At the same time he told the sailors that all the overtime and overpay that the longshoremen were receiving would be stopped out of their pay. At 1 p. m. this brought the sailors to their senses and they turned to, so all yesterday afternoon there was a double gang at work discharging the vessel. As soon as the lumber is out the Noyo will go on the drydock for an examination. The captain of the collier Wyefleld, which arrived from Nanaimo, B. C, yesterday, reports that on January 17 he the schooner Mermaid with 404 seal skins. Between Point Reyes and the lightship the Wyefleld passed through a lot of wreckage, consisting of barrels, doors, portions of a deckhouse and lumber. This was probably stuff that had floated away from the wreck of the Noyo.
The British ship Wallacetown, 207 days from Antwerp, arrived in port yesterday. She is fifty-four days from Coquimbo, having had to put in there in distress. On September 22 last the Wallacetown was caught in a heavy west-northwest gale. Very high, confused seas broke clean over the ship, carrying away the steering gear stove in the forecastle, broke in doors and smashed windows, flooded the cabin and did other damage on deck. Coquimbo was reached on October 15, and it took five weeks to make the necessary repairs. From Coquimbo to port ordinary weather was encountered.
The British ship Falls of Foyer, from Junin for Hamburg, went on the rocks near Heligoland and will be a total wreck. She was to have loaded at Hamburg for San Francisco, and news of her loss was received by the Merchants’ Exchange yesterday. The Falls of Foyer was 2009 tons register, and was built in 1883. She was a regular trader to this port.
* Noteworthy
1419 – Hundred Years’ War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet ( name given to the 11 ships that left England on 13 May 1787 to found the penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia.) arrive at Botany Bay.
1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D’Aquino (a.k.a. “Tokyo Rose”).