The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-31
THE CAPTAINS KICK.
Norwegian Shippers Criticise
Seattle Wharves.
AN ANSWER FROM THEIR CONSUL.
Their Kick Only Applies 20 Loading
Lumber at Smiths Cove-rhe UNA
tiIla's Passengers.


masters against the inconvenience with
which they had to contend in Seattle har-
Dor was printed in the Port Townsend
Leader, and this is how it happened to be
brought to the notice Of the Chamber Of
Commerce yesterday.
The protest recites that its object is to
caution persons interested in vessels
against sending them to Seattle to load
lumber because the vessel has to lie in an
exposed position. moored to long, narrow
wharf originally built for loading coal;
that there is but a single track for lumber
cars and no room for handling, and the
wharf is dangerous to walk over. The re-
suit is thai stevedores charge 10 to Is cents
per thousand more for loading than they
do at regular mill ports. They suggest
that vessels coming to Puget sound for
lumber cargoes have clause inserted in
their charter barring Seattle and Smiths
cove without getting at least % Sd extra
freight. The protest was signed by Cap
tain Signard Olsen, of the bark Ingrid;
Captain J. Bjorsen, of the bark Posledon.
and Captain G. Wagle, of the bark Elora.
Captain Il. Biondi, of Port Townsend,
Norwegian consul and underwriters sur
veyor. has sent the following letter to the
reason for such an unfair protest and
showing that it does the port of Seattle
serious injustice:
PORT TOWNSEND. Aug. 80, 1892.
To THE EDITOR: / notice in one or two Sound
papers what purports to be a communication
from the masters OF the Norwegian vessels Posei-
don, Ingrid and Eilora to their owners, which.
If true, is detrimental to the shipping interests
of your city, as these the first vessels of that
H~LA
your port l beg to make the following state
ment in defense Of your city. as well as the
gentlemen who are reported to have sent such
communication broadcast:
Being the Norwegian consul at Port Town
send and these vessels arriving there for orders,
the masters entered their vessels through this
consulate. had the pleasure of meeting them
officially and otherwise. After discharging bal
last here they proceeded to smith cove, and on
one occasion the 1ngrid went adrift in blow.
Now, you well know. the long wharf at
Smiths cove was built to load coal vessels from,
and for that purpose it was planked some
twenty feet higher to run the coal shutes down
into the matches. There is only room for the
car track, and, rs 1t was never intended for .
lumber wharf, it is very difficult to load lumber
from. The lumber must be handled several
times before it is properly slowed in the vessel,
and therefore, rs it requires more labor to load
from that wharf than at a regular mill wharf,
stevedores charge more to load vessels from
Smiths cove. As these vessels got the same
freight for carrying that lumber as other vessels
received to carry the same cargoes from other
mill wharves, 1t is easy to understand why
Captains Wagle, Bjorsen and Olsen wish to give
their owners and others interested the reason
their expenses were much greater at Seattle
than that of vessels of the same nationality
loading at Port Bakeley.
1t is not the fault OF Seattle, rs explained to
mr. nj hne osfa hon, fhnv horn 10
clear their vessels through this Office, that his
expenses were greater; that the mill-owners
where the lumber was cut chose the coal wharf
at Smiths cove, because they had railroad
communication to it; but that had the same
lumber been hauled down to Colman's wharf it
would not have cost the additional charges
made by the stevcdores, and therefore they
must not condemn Seattle 1 must acknowl-
edge, however, that the coal wharf at Smiths
cove is not a tit place to load lumber vessel
Steamship Umatilia sailed for San Fran
cisco at 5 O'Clock last evening carrying
LAO tons of coal, 80 tons of general freight
and fair list of passengers from here.
Among her cabin passengers were the fol-
lowing from this port: II. Whitehouse,
S. Calhoun, q. Calhoun, r. Banning, Miss
NJ. Kennedy, Mrs. G. Richards, ID.
Graham, NJ. McGrath, J. W. Combs, NJ. P.
Detels, f. ]. Hilton, Mrs. NJ. Lee, Miss A.
Struthers, B. Frink, b. Buck, A. Gardner,
Roy Ballard, w. H. Reeves, Miss Reeves,
Miss Grace Mclaughlin, N. 3. Frisbie and
wife, Mrs. Wright, Mr.. Cuse, Mrs. Z. Elliott
and three daughters, Mrs. V. Beecroft,
Mrs. G. G. Phinney, Mrs. G. w. OdeIl and
child, +. Elliott, J. Argall, Q. C. Will
Hanson, B. NJ. Gilman and wife. Mrs. NJ.
T. Lord. Mrs. p. Mcdonald, F. Kelley and
wife. Miss ID. Eiwood and Colonel Bond.
There were about twenty-five passengers
in the steeraCe