The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-22
A SUDDEN DEATH. A COUPLE OF
ACCIDENTS AND A HORSE
KILLED.
THE BIG BATTLE-sHIP OREGON.
HER BUILDERS EXPECT THAT SHE
WILL MAKE SIXTEEN KNOTS
AN HOUR.

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had been driving an express wagon, died
quietly in bootblacks chair on Howard
street, near East A pair of horses har-
messed to truck took fright on Mission
street wharf at steamer blowing off,
her boilers and ran away. On the corner
of Mission and East streets they collided
with telephone pole and cast-iron
! trolley pole, which stood side by side.
One of the animals broke his back and had
to be killed. George Hight, employed
on the piledriver now working at the Mis-
sion-street dock, got his right hand caught
under the roller. and two of the fingers had
to be amputated. He was taken to his
home by Chief Wharinger Root. Harry
| Peterson got under the bunkers on Mission
street wharf and lump of coal fell on
| him. He was stunned, but, thanks to a
| thick skull, was not seriously injured.
! "Old man" Thompson was well known
| to almost everybody on the water front.
| In the days of gold'' he was miner and
| when that job proved failure he became
a cook on the river steamers. Latterly he
| grew too feeble for the work and about six
| months ago, when his friend, an express
man named Pierson, died, the widow pre-
sented the old man with the horse and
wagon. Since that time he made living
| by doing odd jobs around the front. Yes
| terday he climbed into the bootblack
stand to die and the shoe-polisher talked
| to him for twenty minutes before he dis
covered that he had passed away.
| The following changes in buoys on the
Pacific Coast are noted by the Hydro
| graphic Office:
San Francisco Bay entrance-The black nun
| buoy, No. 3, shown in Bonita Channel, about
| one and quarter miles northwest bywest three
| quarters west from Bonita Point light, has been
moved to the bearings: Bonita Point light,
| east by south three-quarters south; north Seal
| Rock, southeast one-eighth east.
| The II. S. can buoy shown just west of Anita
| Rock has been moved TO the bearings Fort
Point light, west by south one-eighth south;
AlcatraZ light, northeast one-half north; Lime
| Point fog signal, West-northwest
| Columbi River entrance-The outer P. S. can
| buoy, marked IN. s., is shown moved to the
| bearings: Cape Disappointment light, northeast
| five-eighths north; Point Adams light, east
| one-eighth south. The P. S. nun buoy-bar
| buoy-iS moved to the bearings: Cape Disap-
pointment light, northeast tve-eighths north;
| Point Adams light east three-quarters south.
Peacock Spit buoy, black can, No. 1, is moved
| to the bearings: Cape Disappointment light,
| northeast fve-eighths east; Point Adams light
| east southeast seven-eighths east.
| Grays Harbor entrance-The outer 2. S.
| buoy, Grays Harbor entrance, is shown moved
| to the northwestward TO the bearings Lone
| Tree, Damon Point north by east seven-eighths
east; Wlllapa Bay light, southeast five-eighths
| east.
| About three months ago, while the
ton, Engineer Frank Skinner was found in
| the engine-room unconscious When the
| steamer reached her destination medical
| aid was summoned, and it was then found
that the unfortunate man was paralyzed.
He was taken to his home but the i'm
provement in his health is very slow. He
has a wife and two children, and, in order
to assist him, Captain Leale of the Caroline
gave an excursion around the bay last
Saturday. The gross receipts were $3.50,
and every cent of it has been turned over
to Mrs. Skinner. Captain Leale donated
the steamer and paid for the band out of
his own pocket, and every one of the crew
of the Caroline purchased ticket so that
there was not a deadhead on the steamer.
Skinner has worked On mum Der of steam
ers on the bay and is general favorite.
The boatmen at Folsom-street wharf are
very much pleased over a letter received
from Henry Peterson, the oarsman, yes
terday. In it Henry says that the regatta
at Austin, Tex, to be held on the 4th, 9Th
and 9th OF next month, is going to be a
success. Rowers from all over the world
will be there, and some of the contests will
and rows from ten to twenty miles day.
Many of the oarsmen have been there for
months and are now thoroughly accli-
mated, while Peterson will be Handicapped
in that respect, as he has only been in
Texas about three weeks. Still, he tells
| of himself. AT one time there was no one
to row double with the Pacific Coast cham
pion, and he was thinking of coming back
home. The committee then secured eau
daur and he and Henry will row in
double-oar shell against all the rest of the
| world.
At low water the dock at the foot of
Clay street is place to be avoided. The
stencil is something awful and how the
passengers who daily take the Stockton
steamers and the people whose offices abut
in that part of the front can endure it is a
| mystery. The Clay-street sewer that
drains Chinatown empties itself right
under the landing stage which accommo-
dates all the men-of-war and half the deep
water ships that come into the bay. At
high water it is not so bad but when the
tide is out all the filth accumulates in the
slip and the stencil can be better imagined
than described. 1t would not cost the City
a great sum to divert the sewer and carry
| it out into deep water under either the
Clay or Washington street wharves. The
sooner it is done the better.
The fact that there was not dock on the
| Atlantic coast of the United States in
which the line of battle ship Indiana
| could be locked has raised the question as
| to what will be done with the Oregon
| when the time for her trial trip arrives.
| The Oregon will be all right, however, as
Hunters Point drydock will be able to &C.
| HeIs lie Uedm OF the Dig DdL-
| tle-ship is 50 feet 5inches, and the entrance
to the dock is seven or eight inches more
! than that. The Government dock at Mare
Island is big enough to accommodate the
Oregon, but the gate or entrance is not
| wide enough.
The builders of the Oregon expect her
to make at least sixteen knots, and in that
event she will easily outshine the Indiana.
! During her run on the bay the big vessel
! logged seventeen knots, but then she was
only down to 1000 tons displace-
ment. Of course the shoal-water of
the harbor was very much against her
and cut down her speed considerably.
Since then all her protective armor has
been put on and one of her guns has ar
rived. The barbettes will next be placed
| in position and the guns mounted and the
Oregon will then be ready for her sea trial.
Her displacement will be 10, 2G0 tons, but
the deep water will be greatly in her favor.
and her builders fatter themselves that
! sixteen knots will be her record.
| The sealers as a general rule had a bad
year of it, and many of the schooners are
being "laid up" to await better times. The
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