The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-17
SHIPS SALUTE MIR. MENZIES.
Telegraph Hill to Be Moved to Stock.
ton in Part.
GOT IN THE WAY OF THE FERRIES.
The Sleep Yacht Sappho Breaks From
Her Mornings and Plays Havoc
With Herself.

The city front was sea of water yester-
day from the barge office to the Pacific
Mail docks. and passengers found it quite
difficult to get to any of the ferry depots
without wetting their feet. The prevailing
southeaster raised a heavy swell and a
choppy sea in Mission Bay. Chief Wharfn-
ger Boobar had been on the alert, however,
and conveyed to all masters of vessels Mr..
Hammon's warning of the approaching
storm. In view of this notification they
were all prepared for anything that might
come. Storm signals were out at Eureka,
Point Reyes and Point Lobos.
A dispatch to the Merchants Exchange
by the way of London conveys the Informal
ton that the City of Rio de Janeiro has
arrived at Nagasaki. The water had been
pumped from her hold and she had been
made tight by divers. The cargo will be
discharged and the vessel docked for re-
pairs.
The people of Stockton, or rather the
authorities OF the Slough City, have struck
upon a novel idea. They propose to play
Telegraph Hill against the tramps and
Migrants who are now invading their city.
This is regarded as superior plan to
that adopted by the citizens of Sacra-
mento, who organized a vigilance commit
tee. The proposition has been submitted
TO the City Council and wholly approved
by that body. Yesterday a. L. Compton,
the City Engineer of Stockton, and W. II.
Taylor of the City Council came down to
this CITY to make arrangements for quarry
ing and shipping the rock. Arrangements
were made by which the contractors would
furnish the rock for 45 cents ton and the
California Navigation Company would con-
vey it to Stockton for half price. AT the
present time there are about seventy-fve
of these men at work on the streets up
there, but tramps are coming in too strong,
and work has got to be found for at least a
hundred more.
The proposition embraces quite extern
sive improvements as soon as the rock
taken from Telegraph Hill arrives. The
city's streets are not only to be paved, but
the roads leading into it for several miles
out The genus tramp Will simply accept
the terms proposed and work for what is
offered him or seek new fields of operation.
If he fails in either, Messrs. Compton and
TAYLOR say that it will go hard with him.
This scheme will procure to Stockton what
she has long needed, and that is good roads
and approaches to the city. The beauty of
it is that it will be done at such a small
outlay, but San Francisco will lose great
deal OF the historic hill.
The Yacht Sappho, which belongs to Mr..
Engelberg of the firm of Iillmann, BendeI
q Co., was badly damaged in the storm OF
Tuesday night and narrowly missed total
destruction. She was anchored to one of
the moorings near the San Francisco Y acht
Club house, Sausalito, and when the storm
was at its highest she broke loose and
drifted into the wharf, where she stove her
bulwarks, shipped her ruddeT and carried
away the bOwsprit. 1t is owing to the
efforts of the Waterman, George Storey,
that she did not break herself to pieces.
Chief Whar1nger Boobar was aroused
last evening by telegram from Mr.. Wilder,
division superintendent, informing him
that there was a vessel directly in the line
OF the ferry-boats. The chief took the tug
Vigilant and went for the derelict. 1t was
the schooner Free Trade, and she was
lying directly in the way of the ferries,
swinging to two anchors, with fifty fathoms
of chain out. 1t took two hours to get her
away, during which time Boobar got the
benefit of the drenching rain and the
bowling blasts.
A part of the south side of Pacific street
wharf gave way about o'clock yesterday
afternoon IN consequence OF its rottennesS
and the storm. A large coal screen with
about ten tons of screenings was precipita-
ted through the wharf, leaving a hole
about twenty-five by thirty feet in size.
Only one vessel was lying alongside at the
time of the collapse. The wharf was to
have been abandoned to-day and the Har-
Dor Commissioners were to begin the con-
struction of a new one in its place.
Thomas Cosgrave, who is working on
McMullens piledriYer at the foot of Mar
ket street, had his leg broken yesterday
afternoon. He got it caught between the
driver and the wharf. The injured man
wOs removed to st. Mary's Hospital in a
police patrol wagon, at his own request.
1t was expected that the United States
steamers Ranger, Alert and Bennington
would come down from Mare Island yes
terday in order to join the Philadelphia in
a trip south for the purpose of conducting
squadron maneuvers off San Diego, but
they did not arrive. They did not come
because the Bennington had not yet COM
pleted her repairs. 1t will be over week
before she is ready to make the trip.
The British ship Ecclefechan towed to
sea yesterday with all her signal flags fly
ing. The ships Clan Graham and Clan
Mackenzie were decorated in a similar
manner. 1t was done in honor of the ap-
pointment of Stewart Menzies as Police
Commissioner.
The steamer Australia is receiving a
coat of paint at the drydocks of the
Union Iron Works and will sail Saturday
morning on her new schedule time
A postal card was received at the office
of a morning newspaper which left Libau,
Russia, November 11-19, 1894. There is a
bet that the card will go around the world
and return to its original place of depart
ure in ninety-three days from the time it
started. The card contained a large num-
Der of postmarks which were scarcely legi-
bic. 1t goes from here to the New York
Herald and thence to Jeannot Ed Smit,
Libau, Russia.
The passengers who left this city on the
steamer Oceanic for Yokohama on her last
trip have sent back copy of resolutions
passed before landing which are highly
complimentary to the officers of that
vessel.
Captain Green of the Eureka had to take
command of the steamer Pomona yester-
day in consequence of the illness of Cap
tain Hannah of the latter vessel.
The steamer st. Paul is to be laid up on
her next trip and the Willamette Valley
viii take her place between this city and
Mexican ports.
MILL -sInt Machina