The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1896, Page 23

THE “SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1896. LD SAILORS declare that the British ship Rathdown is afflicted with a hoodoo. ‘“I'here’sa black cloud over the crait,” they say. The ship has suffered ill-luck on every trip since she first touched the water at Belfast, freland, a little over four years ago. The story of her calamitous ex i enceés would fill a book. trip, sailing from Belfast to Cardiff in order to take on a cargo for San Francisco, she was caught in a violent hurricane, and | narrowly escaped capsizing. Her capt: was compelled to run her into Fischard Bay for shelter, and a week was consumed in a passage that should have been made in twenty-four hours. Starting on her maiden Queenstown her third night at sea, whena rising wind necessitated her shortening saill. The royals having been clewed up, some of the crew, all negroes, were aloft furling them, when of a sudden she was | struck by an enormous sea from the weather side, and the crew was washed in every direction. When the gale eased up and the deck was clear, it was fou the foretopmast_and mai had been carried of the crew, and tb: Ethiopia were disaster. Then the gale grew furious again, and for a whole week afterward the Rathdown beat about before she managed to drop anchor in Queenstown harbor. Her force- pu i life boat had n destroyed by the heavy seas that altogether her co bad to be towed pairs. She was three months under repair, and when at last she was being towed out of the Belfast doc she struck the pierhead 50 hard a bic as to cause her to leak during her whole passage to the Pacific sons of was k to Belfast for re- On her initial | trip to this port, she was off | led in the | be ship, and | uch that she | | terrorized among them were certain that | the dead man’s shade was marking out somebody for de: ction. Near Havre one of the.crew died and was dropped tothe bottom of the sea. This made the fourth burial from the ship in about two years. In the English Chan- | nel the ship beat against a westerly wind | for seven days before she was picked up by a tug, 200 miles south of Havre. Three hawsers were parted before her head could | be brought to the wind, and then three | davs of hard towing were required before could anchor at Havre. he Rathdown next towed over to Car- diff and loaded coal for Montevideo. The captain wanted another negro crew, but | the owners opposed the scheme and whites | were taken out. The captain, at. the last moment, shipped a burly negro boatswain over them. At Montevideo the captain sought to shift the vessel to another anchorage under sail. Something went wrong with the steering gear, however. and_the Rathdown plowed into a sandbank. It required the united efforts of four tugs to drag her off. She was then so leaky that another turn at a drydock was necessary. The ship being ordered to Buenos Ayres, on arriving off that port a Spanish pilot was taken aboard. I!Ie brought a supply of liquor with him, and drank heavily. Taking offense at some fancied insult he drew a razor and slashed about like a madman. The captain and two of the crew were badly cut before the Spaniard was overpowered. The drunken pilot was semt ashore in a tug, and being tried there | for his offense was merely ‘‘reprimanded.” The moment the Rathdown docked at Buenos Ayres the whole crew deserted. In ballast the Rathdown sailed to New- | castle, N 'W., and took on coal for San iego. While being moored to a buov out in the stream at Newcastle, ready for sea, what is known as a “‘southeasterly buster'’ came full swing into the harbor, along | with a tidal wave, and in the wash that I followed the latter the Rathdown parted | 8. Gridley, commander of Kit Carson Post of Napa; Charles Ferber of Alameda; W. H. McNiel, member of California One Hundred; George W. Watts of George H. Thomas Post; Jobn A. Whiteside of TLincoln Post No. 1; J. B. Bowles of Lincoln Post No. 1; Har- vey Burdell of George H. Thomas Post; George F. Price of Indio, Cal.; J. C. Innes of Lincoln Post No. 1; George K. Trues- dale of San Luis Obispo County; W. B. Maydwell, 8. V. C. Department of Cali- fornia and Nevada G. A. R.; M. Kros- zynski of the Eleventh Connecticut Volun- teers; Edwin C. Seymour, P. C. Depart- ment of California and Nevada G. A. R.; Captain J. T. Morrison, Berkeley, U. 8. A., retired; John J. Shepheard of George H. Thomas Post; H. T. Smith of Oakland. The building and grounds committee re- Ported the completion of the new annex to the hospital, which will contain ninety- four more beds. Thecapacity of the home has been increased from 625 to 650. The upper floor of the Social Hall building has been enlarged and elegantly fitted up for the post at the home. The canteen storercom has also been' enlarged. The commiittee was instructed to change the plant, so as to use oil instead of coal for fuel. The treasurer’s report for January showed on the ‘3lst: Cash on hand, $1,884 42; cash received, $30,991 23; total, $32,875 60; disbursed, $10,547 75; leaving & balance on hand of $22,325 |MENACED AN OFFICER. Roughs in the Mission Try to Intimi- date an Officer of the Humane Society. Officer P. E. Lamar of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals stopped and attempted to arrest a_peddler at the corner of Eleventh and Howard streets yesterday afternoon. The horse the fellow drove was in a pitiable condition, and BURYING ONE OF THE CREW LFrom a sketch made by a *‘Call™ artist.] OF THE RATHDOWN. » and necessitated her being drydocked on te her mooring chains and narrowly escaped arriving at this port. collision with an iron bark that lay quite scarcely able to haul the rickety wagon it was hitched to. A large crowd gathered, Rounding Cape Horn she was held off four weeks in a succession of southwest and northwest sales such as few ships ever experienced and lost almost every stitch of canvas and had her maintopmast carried away. The trip to vort occupied 165 days, during which time the pumps had to be kept continuously going. Even in these caim waters, inside the Golden Gate, the dark clonds hovered over her. While Iying at the Oakland pier, discharg- ing coke, the truss of her mainyard carried away. Her return trip to Barrow, England, was comparatively free of either accident or incident, and her captain began to con- gratulate himself on the assumption that the ship had outsailed her bad luck. He was soon madé aware of his mistake, for the vessel had pot been long in dock at Barrow when, without any warning, her mainyard came tumbling down on deck, ana the stevedores and others who had been working underneath had a mirac- ulons escape. The recurrence of such ac- cidents drew the suspicions of Lloyd's surveyors, who inspected the Rathdown, end as a result, condemned all the iron- work appertaining to her yards, and com- pelled her builders to substitute new ma- terial, On her ‘second voyage the Rathdown brought a cargo of rails from England to British Columbis. Once more the captain selected a black crew. Wkrile anchored off Bydney, B. C., the crew received money from the captain and & Sydney barroom received it from the crew. A quarrel ensued, in which one of the blacks was knocked senseless. The fellow returned to consciousness, and get- ting more whisky in him sprang at the first negro within reach and buried a sheathknife in his heart, The ship’s crew g ex(pericnce of a murdep 3. C., and manslaughter hen the Rathdown set anee, e dark cloud stay with S trip, but shbe was haunted 2 ery super- they imagined they f the murdered man ehrouds, and the more Not only did {1 1k 1d see the ghost of skulking about the close to her. A timely anchor saved her | till tugboat assistance arrived. San Diego 1s the favorite port of the Rathdown, being the only one up to date wherein the ves- |sel has not sustained any accident. | From that port she sailed to Astoria, and while being towed from there toPort- land she stuck fast off Tongue Point for | some time, although in ballast. Loadiag half grain at Portland, she was returning to Astoria to complete ker cargo with sal- mon, when she ran into the immense steel bridge across the Columbia River, her fore- topgallant mast being carried away and her jibbooms bent out of all shape. The bridge was damaged to the extent of $1000 | and traffic over it was stopped for a week. | At Astoria the ship wasrepaired, and early | in last July she started from the mouth of | the Columbia, bound for Liverpool. Every- body here read about the Rathdown’s cargo shifting in rough weather off the Horn. and bow she put into Auckland, | New Zealand, to have her cargo righted. It was not until the middle of November that she was enabled to continue her voy- | age to England. The Rathdown certainly has a hoodoo. THE VETERANS HOME. A Large Number of Candidates Who Want to Be Commandant at Yountville. The directors of the Veterans’ Home As- sociation held their regular meeting yes- terday. The most important matter was the consideration of who shall be the new commandant at the home at Yountville. The vacancy in that position was caused by the resignation of General D. W. C. Tkompson, which took place on Janu- ary 31. There are plenty of gentlemen who de- sire to fill the vacancy, but the selection of the commandant was postponed for two weeks. Among the applicants are: Symmes H. Hunt of General Mead Post; Captain Charles Haskins, retired; Dr. W. Lovett, who held the position in 1884; E. among which were several roughe, who threatened to make it interesttng for Mr. Lamer should he lay his hands on the owner. The better element in the crowd, however, assured the officer that if he | did not arrest the peddler they would cause | him to be arrested. He was in_the act of climbing on the wagon after his man, re- gardless of either party, when the peddler jumped off the other side and escaped down Seventh street. Lamar found the horse too sick to carry go the home, and took it to a stable near Y. | essary to shoot the animal. OBK OFTHE CHUACHES An Address by Apostle Heber J. Grant of Salt Lake City. Fine Showing Made at the Annual Meeting of the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society. The joint trustees of the San Jose and Napa Methodist institutions of learning have concluded to close the Napa school, sell its buildings and use the.income from its endowment to pay the debt of the in- stitution. charged the endowment will be employed for the support of a theological school in San francisco. Dr. Beard, the president, has resigned and intends spending a year abroad. Rey. Benjamin ¥. Sargent has resigned his pastorate of the Congregational Church of Banta Rosa, the resignation to take effect April 1. Rev. F. A. Flawith will present the ‘When the obligations are dis- |- topic at the meeting of the Congregational Monday Club this week. The annual meeting of the Congrega- tional Church Extension Society will be held at the Third Chiurch of tais City on the evening of the 17th inst. The Golden Gate Union of Young Peo- ple’s Societies of Christian Endeavor held its thirty-seventh quarterly coavention at Plymouth- Congregational Church Thurs- day evening. X 'I“'he Christian Endeavor Society of the Lorin Congregational Church celebrated the twelfth anniversary of its founding last week. Rev. G. K. Berry, pastor of the Christian Church at Red Bluff, is about to sever nis connection with that church to assume a pastorate at Charleston, Til._ Rev. Mr. Romig, the Christian evangel- ist, will sail for Honolulu on Friday. He will engage in evangelistic labors In the Hawaiian capital. ¢ Rev. R. H. Bateman is making a canvass of the Christian churches of the San Joa- quin Valley in the interests of a proposed open church at Santa Cruz. Rev. A. H. Mulkey has taken up the work connected with the Christian church at Tulare. Rev. Allen Hastings was recently in- stalled pastor of the Congregational churches of Rialto and Bloomington. The annual report of the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society showed the receiptsfor the past year to have been $4034 52 and the expenditures $4734 60, leaving $700 de- ficit, to be made up from the assets. The membership was given at 325. The fol- lowing officers were elected by acclama- tion: President,Mrs.J:L.Dinkelspiel; vice- president, Mrs. Henry Wangenheim ; treas- urer, Mrs, G. Greenzweig; trustees—Mrs. Hugh Rothschild, Mrs. F. A. Haber, Mrs. M. g Greenbaum, Mrs. Sol Wangenheim, Mrs. H. Eppingerand Mrs. Juda Newman; board of councilors—Mrs. 8. Foorman and Mrs. Bertha Blum. Mrs. S. Foorman, who has been presi- dent of the society for twenty years, de- clined to serve again in that capacity. A course of four lectures for the benefit of the San Jose Hebrew Sabbath school and library fund has been arranged to be given at the Garden City. The speakers will be Rabbi J. Nieto, Rabbi Jacob Voor- sanger, Rabbi M. 8. Levy and Rabbi J. Frl{er. L ev. Fathers O’Shea and Lindner will open a two weeks’ mission at St. Francis Church on the 23d_inst. The sermons the first week will be for the women, the sec- ond for the men. H A mission for young men will be held for one week, commencing next Sunday, at 8t. Peter’s Church. It will be for young men and will be conducted by Rev. Fathers O’shea and Lindner. Rey. W. D. McKinnon will lecture on “Catholic Loyalty,” at Metropolitan Tem- vle, on the evening of the 21si inst. Apostle Heber J. Grant of Salt Lake City will address the Latter-day Saints at Pythian_ Castle, at 2and 7:45 ». u. to-day. Rev. Henry 8. Tanner has returned from a successful mission to Sacramento in the interests of the Mormon church. HUMBOLOTHAS RETURNED Strange Adventures of an Ala- meda Homing Pigeon in Oregon. Restored to His Owner After a Year’s Absence, He Fought for and Won His Nest. Humboldt has returned to his accus- tomed place in the pigeon loft of T. W. Levdecker in Alameda, and in conse- quence that gentleman considers himself the most fortunate fancier in California. Nearly a year ago Mr. Leydecker sent seven of his favorite birds—tive veterans and two that hatched in 1893—for a fly from Ashiand, Or., to Alameda. As the youngest had never been bevond Sissons he was not greatly surprised, though far from pleased, when the older birds returned without them. The libera- tion was in a snowstorm. He haa about given up hope of ever seeing either of them again, when he received word from Portland, Or., that one of the carriers, Humboldt, was at that point and would be forwarded to Mr. Leydecker on receipt of $50. The letter came from W. W. Bretter- ton, a brother fancier, to whom the bird had been offered by John Henderson, who had caught it after it had alighted on his house in an exhausted condition. 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