The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1899, Page 30

80 INTERESTING HISTORY AND FATE OF THE SUNDAY OCALL THE OLDEST TUGBOAT ON_THE PACIFIC COAST ——x The Race Between the Gol in the tugboat so that she had go,it began to be gen- mmodations for a limited number of at W. H. Webb had com- - construction’ of a sidewheel sengers. 5 HE hull of the oldest tugboat Y b 1A Bt Aong att he Goliah reached San Francisco + steam vessel on the Pa- maritime York wondered. Many were D e %t cific Coast and the second the prophe Ag of ill luck to <umr‘, 3 ,-”)',nms m”'?;,? be‘:vrs‘cp}:] Lmi that were made concerning the Golia® cramento. Brown concelved 4+ tugboat built in the United % Btates was recently made a g bonfire of on the West Seattle ‘After the first wild rush for gold had the idea of entering into opposition to the subsided in this State and people began to ut Bell was not so sanguine of suc- s - turn their thoughts to other lines i av often AR s . ach. Her history is a pecu- ness San Francisco began to thous R wite mot thin 56 rleniledl % larly interesting one .and Gl s L in Califor: s they were along the Mis- + and shipping interests multiplied In great gisgippi that they could afford to tle a gt closely identified with the stir- % ring scenes of Pioneer days in 4 California. rapidity. During the early fifties W poor unfortunatc colored man on top of York Bell & Brown were one of the larg- the safety valve when they wanted more t shippers In America. They be- steam, there are plenty of instances on urn_ thelr thoughts towar record that the boilers of the Golian were ‘rancisco and concelved the idea ‘of in. often strained to_exploding point. ese QofieReBe ke N NeNeReR+ReR%+@ vading the shipping fleld here. Accord- races were not alfosether devold’ of danc {ngly they purchased the Goliah and mads ger either. To win the captains were al- SRR RN RNINIR N willing to take desperate chances and while good fortune fav them, many cc being narrowly averted, on one did not escape so luckily the instance in question the two b ere racing down the river. g hard pressed and was sed. The captain of the ght he had a chance to er and croes his bows, g the lead, a most import- In the narrow river, time the two_boats had ap- ose to each other that a as inevitable, no matter how rd nnr captains might try to avert it. alloway was in command of the an_excellent navigator, e, cool and collected, and quick to act n an emergency At once he realized that his boat would surely be run down, and ordered full speed astern. This permitted crowd his r the r:\n wn_capitalist, whose death oc- competitors, Captain Millen Griffith and 1 this city recently, was a large Captain Goodall. After the experfence as & tughoat in Sa a Gollah was again teamer. The Go- h success, the other boat to gain _somewhat until well-kn she w t of the Goliah, but still bearing down upon her, it having shareholder in the Steam Navigation been impossible to change the course and took an active in‘orest in quickly. Then C: y threw affairs of the rival concerns. his helm hard ovi possessed of capital he purchased tant the two boats crashed together. The re- a river boat which he entered Into com. of her ports being Hureka, at a huge paddle-box of the petition against the Goliah. This made mboldt Cour he vessel was then s a buffer, receiving the full th s-cornered ‘one and, of commanded b: Jonncr and the lision, and the t of Go- advent of his ¢ Hiitarolass Ban were saved. The other boat, however, did liah as well as the Navigation Company With the Goliah was made the occasion not fare so well. Nearly the entire por- went down with a rush. The owners of Of a great demonst , the Goliah then tion of her upper works were raked by the the Goliah were badly hit. They lost heay- being the large: ner that had ever Goliah’s paddle-box and she was, Indeed, ily, got into debt and finally the boat was entered the port. was in 157 and a a sorry appearing wreck when she finally libeled. i grand ball was given by the citizens on reached the city. Her days of usefulness were by no the decks of the steamer. In those vs stocks were much more means ended, however. She passed Into During the latter part of the ’60's the active than now and there were listed other hands and was reconverted into a Gollah again entered the tugboat busi- many more securities than are now to tughoat. The Goliah was not a great suc- ness 'n San Francisco Ba Sh e met vsllh be found on the boards. Stock in the rival cess in the tugboat business and the new indifferent success and as companies was very active indeed and owners were forced to succumb to the up to Puget Sound, where she rendered both were held high. Lioyd Tevis, the better business ability «of their principal exceilent service for her owners. Zoa Matthews at the Olympla, Who Has Her Own Ideas as to How a Cakewalk Should Be Domne.—Afier Photos by Coover & Rasmussen.