The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-02
ALONG SEA And SHORE.
Nnyday Pleasure.Seekers Crowd
the Ferries.
Nusuzsnmsyeg's Trouble With the American
Navy -A Polieeman's Diplomacy.
ships Movements

Yesterday being Nayday there were
many happy children il the crowd that bent
their footsteps to the ferries and went
across the bay to enjoy the golden spring
time on grassy lawns and in shady groves.
The juvenile element also pred0minated
around tie whaTTes, where impTomptu
baseball mines, romping children and noisy
youngsters, bent on all kinds Of mischief,
could be found running In all directions.
The only blur on the bright picture Of
general happiness along the front was
caused by the arrival Of a horde Of poll
ticiaus late in the afternoon. They came
TO take the ! clock train for Stockton, an i
for some time before their departure the
ueiglJorhOod Of the Oakland ferry was
crowded with heeleTs, Hard-strikers and
N.Ie-pulers, whose blasphemOus CONVERSE
ton was i'll adapted to tie prevailing senti-
meDt Of innocent iOyfuiBess
A POPULAR FLOWER SHOW.
Soon after these had been carried across
the bay on their way to the Slough City the
returning boats commenced 10 land their
human freight Of pleasuTe-se home
ward bound. It was q pleasing sight TO see
them arrive. Nearly every woman or child
carried some token Of spring in the shape
Of ferns or flowers. The quantity Of roses,
holly and lilies brought home by the eXcur-
sIOnisls gave evidence that the suburban
gardens must have suffered heavily. while
the big loads Of wllddOWeT5 some of the
ladies had managed to gather showed
plainly that they had not spent their time in
ldleness.
Steuart street, from It's intersection with
Market, down along the lumber piles to the
dock, was lined all day with people who
came to see the new electric railroad in op-
GRAFTON, and, If possible, take a ride Every
Z ~ :
crowded to more than its capacity, and Il
was miraculous that no serious accident oc-
CURED.
Sergeant Fitzgerald, who for nearly three
years has been on duty brushing flies off his
classic cOuntenance at the South HsTbOr
Police Station, which is situated on Steuart
street, was awakened from his Rip Van
WnHe sleep by the people, the noise and
the cars. and was heard to remark, as he
wonderingly contemplated tile unusual
scene, that hereafter he would not be sur
pTised If a South HarbOT policeman made
an arrest, which IN his opinion would be
the only occurrence stranger than gather
ing Of the pOpulace on S.euart street on a
Sunday afternoon.
VISITING TIE WARsHIPs.
The three waTships now at anchor in the
bay received many visitors yesterday. The
Charleston and the Austrian frigate Fasana
were lying close together of Beale-street
wharf, but the latter carried oil the hOnors
Of the day as far as the number of callers
was concerned Five Austrian, Bohemian
and Hungarian societies had chartered the
tug Rescue, and we're sending hosts Of
people from the Oceanic dock to the Fasana
at 30 cents a head There were over 800
tickets sold, the money being intended for
the charity funds Of the societies which had
charge OF the excursion.
The French cruiser Champlain occupied a
separate berth off Yallej0-street wharf, and
quite number OF people also paid her a
Visit On the Clay and Washington-street
docks enierprising boatmen were doing
thriving business by Arranging impTOmptu
memo .-War excursions.
The Tug Relief took very elegant and
Jolly pleasure party out for a cruise to Benz
cla and Mare Island early yesterday morn
ing.
The City Of Papeete sailed at 4:45 A. NJ.
yesterday for Tahiti. Her non-union crew
was taken aboard on MissiOn-street Dock /
two hours previously 1t had been expected
that the Sailors Union would make trouble,
and Police Sergeant Helms, with Officers
y Maliey al d Kayanaugh, were on hand,
but their services were not needed, the
union men falling to put Ia an appearance
william Mitchell iSan Englishman and
sailor. and Knud ThoTson is a Norwegian,
who also DloWs the ocean deep. The two
met yesterday afternoon on the corner of
Drumm ana jackson streets. and IN nauti-
cal hall-fell0W- well-met sort Of way engaged
In conversation. They were not exactly
drunk, bat Just inebriated enough to be bel
llgerent Unfortunately they selected a
topic Tor conversation on which they had
opinions widely at variance. The labor
question, anarchism, socialism. the Paris
riots and recent strikes were the subjects
upon which they could not agree.
MIGHT VS.. RIGHT.
Mitchell maintained that poor man has
no show IN the world unless he uses dy-
Mantle. and ThOrson held that nothing can
be gained by violence. Tie more they
argued the more they disagreed, until the