The morning call., 1893-08-17
GRAIN RUSH OVER.
Plenty of Room Now at
the SeaWalI.
Farmers Holding Their Wheat and
Barley for Better Prices-Coast-
-. ing Steamers Laid Up.

+ -: The avalanche of grain which choked
sections 1 and of the seawall last week
and prompted the Produce Exchange to
:apply to the Harbor Commissioners for
more room has stopped for the time being.
There was plenty of space yesterday at
Section l and there will be more to-day at
section 2.
T 1t would seem that whatever the emer-
gency was which induced shippers at
coast ports to hurry the grain to market
it is now over. and the inference il that
farmers and warehousemen ara prepared
to hold the product tor a more favorable
market.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company
has: recently laid up the freight steamers
Yaquins. Bonita, Alki, Santa Cruz and
Coos Bay. This is only temporary. and
any and all of them are held in readiness
to start on the ms tant whenever more grain
is ready to move. Yesterday the company
telegraphed to its agents along the southern
coast for information as to the demand for
tonnage, and the answer all along the line
was that the regular steamers would be
able to movesall the grain now awaiting
shipment, and that shipments for the i'm
mediate future would be light.
/ The brigantine Courtney Ford will leave
in day or two for Sunshine, WIllipa Har-
Dor, to load lumber for Tahiti. tits IN
derstood that her master. Captain Miller,
will leave her and be succeeded by Captain
Bogen.
The steamship Bonita is on the Mer-
chants drydOck.
The vigilance of ]. A. Staples, night
Waterman on Captain Thetrie's Dlledriver.
prevented disastrous fire on Main-street
wharf Tuesday night. Planking had been
! torn up and "a cigar or cigarette dropped on
! one of The old. rotten beams, dry as finder.
set fire to It, Staples used the garden-hOse
| in the wharfDger's Office and sent man
/ to FouI's hose company Between hem the
fire " as extinguished before il reached dan
/ gProus proportions.
The steamship Newbern, from Panama,
/ left Ensenada at noon on Tuesday, and
will be due here about noon to-day.
| Tbs steamship Topeka. which was to
| leave Puget Sound for Alaska to-day, was
four days behind time, so her trip was
omitted. The Queen, which will leave
Seattle on the 22d. will take her freight
and passengers. This will be the last trip
| of the Alaska excursion season. Upon
her return, the Queen will come to San
! Francisco and be laid up.
The British four-masted ship Palgrave.
Captain R0llo. cleared at the Custom
house yesterday for London with 1O7. 600
centals of brewing barley. This amounts
to about 1900 tons and is said to be the
largest cargo OF barley ever shipped from
this port In single bottom. Besides the
barley the vessel carries 300 cases of
canned fruit and number of cases of PAM
pas plumes.
The British ship Boutwell, which has
been in port since February 20. 1892. will
sail to-day for Queenstown with a full
cargo OF wheat. Soon after she arrived
her commander. CAPTAIN Melmore, died,
and since then the chief officer, Mr.. Bell
ringer. has been nomnally in command.
As he had not got a masters certificate.
however, he could not go in command. and
Mr.. Hoggen, chief officer of the British
ship Bard0wie, has been appointed to the
command of the Boutwell, and will take
the vessel home.
Captain Dukeshire has taken command
of the ship NJ. 2. Grace, now loading here
in the Dispatch line for New York. vlct
Captain de Winter. who brought her out
Captain de Winter left on the steamer
Peru for Yokohama to take command oil
the ship A. }. Fuller, whose Captain, Wal
nut, was taken seriously i'll. The A. j
Fuller will take full cargo of tea from
Hiogo to Victoria B. G.