The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-08-19
1T WENT UNDER.
Dealers in Sailors Win
Their Fight.
WEEK-KNEED SHIPMASTERS.
Three Harbor Commission Officials
''Get 1t Where the Chicken Got
the AKA Collision.

The combinatiou formed last week be-
tween the British masters and the Ship
owners Association TO put down "blood
money" after an existence of eight days,
was broken yesterday. and ships will once
more be given over to the tender mercies
OF the boarding master. The British mas
ters were formally notified that the Ship
owners Association would not undertake
to furnish them with men, for the reason
that the shipmasters had not kept good
faith in their agreement. 1t was known
In advance that the first ships 10 sail would
be subjected to delay, but for the benefit
Of the cause the masters offered to supply
the Inconvenience.
The first man to recede from the stand
taken was Captain Rollo OF the Palgrave.
His reason was that the men who had
been placed aboard his ship were not CON-
petent seamen. This was true concerning
three out of the ten men furnished. The
next man to back down was CAPTAIN Dodd
OF the Manchester. He had been the head
and front. the chief organizer and leading
spirit Of the British masters. He was very
anxious to get to sea early next week, and
feared because of the prominent part he
took against them that his ship would be
the main target for the boarding house
keepers. So on Thursday be asked the
BOardlng-masters' Association to furnish
him crew. This being reported to tie
Ship-owners' Association. Secretary VIII.
liams Immediately severed all relations
with the British masters.
Several who signed the agreement last
week called upon him yesterday and ex-
pressed much indignation over the course
Captain Dodd had pursued, particularly
as Ii was through his solicitation that they
had joined in the fight.
Coming into her berth at Clay-street
wharf yesterday morning the steamer Cap
tain Weber struck the steamship Humboldt
and smashed her own side. She then
carromed against thestug Tiger and took
away part of the tugs wheelhOuse. This
is the ninth collision in the past twelve
months by the Union Transportation Com
pany's steamers at this wharf. the Dauut-
less and Captain Weber having struck the
General Mcdowell, the Tiger and the
Humboldt each three times. These accl-
dents were not due TO unskillfulness, but
TO the cramped quarters. The slip is only
140 feet wide, while other openings pe-
tween piers along the front are 200 to 30
feet.
Three employees of the Harbor Commits
sion will be let out on September l to
make room for Commissioner Coles ap-
pointees. They are Charles II. Putnam,
who has given eight years of faithful and
efficient service as assistant chief wharf
niger. to make room for G. FL. Root of San
Benito; c. 81. Titus, assistant supsrir-
tendent of urgent repairs, who will De
succeeded by Ii. B. Taylor, and Marston
Campbell. assistant engineer TO the board.
who will he suDplanted by S. G. Hines
Inc HaIbor Commission has an ele-
plant on Its hands. Two weeks aga the
barkentine Katie FlickiDger arrived at
Beale street with $4,000 feet of lumber
from Seattle mill consigned to Louis
LANDER The cargo was discharged on
the wharf. but the consignee either can
not or will not take the lumber and there
it lies.
The outer 81" of Fishermen's wharf is
very weak and it is doubtful whether il
will stand the next season. So the Harbor
Commission is considering a plan to ex-
tend the south wing so as to join the outer
IL, thus forming q complete breakwater,
with the exec ption Of twenty-foot open
ing In the south wing, and giving the little
fleet perfect "land-Iocked" protection.