The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-06
PANAMA RAILROAD BOATS,
The Cruiser Olympia Now Has
the Empty Harbor to
Herself.
NO DIsENGAGED TONNAGE.
a List of Deep-Water Vessels That
Should Come in During This
Month.

The Panama Railroad Company, of
which the Johnson-Locke Mercantile Com
pany are the agents, is largely and con-
stantly increasing the efficiency of its SER
vice. The big whaleback City of Everett,
lately chartered by the company, sailed
last Wednesday with almost 1000 tons OF
freight, leaving much freight on the dock
which she was unable to crowd IN her
capacious hold. The steamship Saturn,
which has a cargo capacity of $500 tons, IS
not large enough for the service, and she
has been chartered to Balfour, Guthrie d
Co., who will dispatch her to London with
a cargo of salmon and barley. The 5OOO-
ton steamer Washtenaw, which is being
brought out from New York by the john
son-Locke Company, is now due with her
cargo of rails for the Valley Railroad, and
will take the place of the Saturn.
The cruiser Philadelphia yesterday
weighed anchor and steamed to Mare
Island, leaving the Olympia mistress over
the few schooners moored IN the harbor.
1t is not in the memory OF the Oldest IN
habitant when the bay was so empty OF
vessels. Every craft is snapped up by the
wheat firms, hurried to the wharf and I'M
loaded for departure with full cargo for
way from New York to this port Is the
American ship Benjamine Sewall, l31 days
out, and the American ship A. G. Ropes,
81 DAYS out From Baltimore is due the
American bark Guy E. Goss, 128
days out, and the American ship
Mary Flint, 50 days out. From
Antwerp is the British bark Helenslea, Us
DAYS, and the British ship Port Patrick,
126 days. From Hongkong is the British
ship Queen Margaret, 80 days. From Llv-
erpool is due the British ship Sokoto, 148
days, and the British ship Sierra Nevada,
I13 DAYS. From London is due the British
ship Crown of Denmark, SO days, and the
German ship Aida, 63 days. From New
castle, England, is due the British ship
Otterburn, l04 days, and from Newcastle,
Australia, is the American bark Caronde-
let, Il days, and the barks TOpgallant and
Largiemore, 56 days. From Chile the
American bark Cleaner, so days, is due.
From Swansea are due the British ships
Lord Templeton and Manydown, 124 days
out.
These deep-water vessels available for
foreign charters II not already taken will
be the next, or should be if not delayed by
bad weather. They will be arriving one
by one the latter part of next week, and by
the end of the present month there Will be
a large feet of ships in the bay. There is
now 1868 foreign and Atlantic disengaged
tonnage in port, against IS, 494 tons this
date last year, and 40, 179 tonnage engaged
against 81, 274 last year.
A private letter dated June 3 from Will
lam Laurence of the cruiser Charleston,
now at Nagasaki, Japan, states that the
ship will remain in that place for two
months, as she is in need of repairs after
her heavy work in the severe weather on
the China coast. The Baltimore, Concord
and Yorktown are also in that port. The
Detroit is at Chemulpo, the Machias at
Cheefoo, the Petrol at Shanghai and the
Monocacy at lien Tsin. Laurence says
when the ''Sloper," as the Charleston is
called from the fact of her being built on
the Pacific Slope, starts in to drill, all the
"snow-diggers" eastern built ships) stand
and gaze in awe, having never seen such
speedy work before.