The San Francisco call., 1895-12-06
THE WATER FROM I,
Charles Warren Wants the Har.
Dor Commission to Remit
His Fine.
A RATE WAR AMONG SCALERS.
Narrow Escape of Thirteen Coal.
beavers on the Ship Lancaster
Castle.

President Colnon was not present at the
meeting of the Harbor Commissioners yes
terday. There was very little business to
be transacted, and as he is sufferer from
rheumatism he decided to remain at home.
Charles Warren of Warren & Mal!ey was
present to petition for the removal of his
steamer Maggie from the delinquent list.
There was a small wharfage bill against
her which the contractors refused to pay.
When the matter was referred to the
president he at once issued orders to tie
the steamer up if she ever docked along
side State property, and then the Commits
s1oners fined the delinquents $40. Warren
wanted the fine remitted and the privileges
of the wharves accorded his steamer.
Commissioner Chadbourne said that as
Mr.. Colnon was very much IN earnest over
the matter of the fine, he refused to
take any move in the matter until the
president was in attendance. Warren
pointed out that his boat was practically
tied up, as he had to coal in the stream.
On the motion Of Commissioner Cole he
was allowed the use of the wharves until
next Thursday, on which day the matter
will be determined.
The rent of Martins restaurant, in the
ferry building, was raised 80 month, COM
mencing with January l.
Henry w. Titus, general manager for
Wells, Fargo & Co., asked that a shed to
cover their horses and wagons be erected
at the ferries. He did not want to pay any
rent for the accommodation, however, as
the company is already paying certain
amount yearly to the Southern Pacific.
Ii they had also to pay the State the cor
poration would be out and injured. Chad
bourne pointed out that the sheds would
cost $3.50 to erect and that the State would
insist upon deriving some revenue from
them. You see, Mr.. Titus" he said, 1--WE
have to do a little of 'all the traffic will
bear once in while ourselves. You come
around next Thursday and bring state
ment OF what rent you pay the railroad
company, and we will see what we can
do" After passing the weekly bills the
board adjourned to meet next Tuesday at
/ P. NJ, when the bids for the new ferry
depot will be opened.
The American ship Benjamin +. Pack
ard, which was run on rock when moving
from Long Bridge, is now safely anchored
alongside Mission Rock, and the work of
removing her cargo has begun. When
placed on the mud flats after the accident
she leaked badly, but after 800 or 400 tons
of wheat had been taken out the leaks
closed up and she was docked. When her
cargo is all out she will be placed in the
drydock and thoroughly overhauled.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company's steamer State of California
sailed for Portland with an enormous
cargo yesterday morning. Ali the freight
offering could not be taken, and what was
left will have to go up on the Columbia.
The 81 ton rate was the attraction.
About It's passengers went up in the
cabin and about 80 in the steerage. In
consequence many of the travellers will
have 10 sleep on cots. Among the cabin
passengers was Jesse /. Peck, who is well
known along the front. He has been with
7. B. Cornwall for fifteen years, and as his
health IS not very good he is taking holi-
day.
The coal-shovelers in the hold of the
British ship Lancaster Castle had a mar
row escape yesterday morning. AS one of
the tubs containing over a ton of coal was
being hoisted the tail-rope caught in the
coaming of the hatch and carried away
the hosting gear. The tub and all its at
tachment went flying into the hold and
fell almost in the midst of the thirteen
men employed there. Not one was hurt
except for few slight bruises from the
flying coal.
Captain Rasmussen of the tug Sea King
performed one of the neatest feats in the
docking of a ship ever seen on the water
front yesterday. He had to put the big
whale back Frogressist in at Main-street
wharf, and in his way there were two
schooners and the big ship John Ena.
There was barely room to pass through,
and a strong ebb tide made the work all
the more difficult. After considerable
maneuvering Rasmussen got the Progress
ist into her place and never even graZed
the Gher vessels.
Captains of vessels lying south of Market
street expected blow yesterday, and all
of them got out extra hawsers. In the
morning it looked as though the predicted
storm had begun, but in the afternoon it
died away, and at o'clock it looked as
though it was al over. The shippers aid
not relax their vigilance, however, as the
barometer was falling slowly.
Men who scale the inside of iron ships
for living are not at all pleased with
Captain Madison and the owners of the
Hawaiian ship John Ena. On the Mail
steamers and other large vessels the rate
has always been from 81 25 to 81 80 day.
The captain of the John Ena is only pay
ing the thirty men he has employed 81 a
day and their meals. The latter will not
cost the ship more than 35 or 40 cents a
man, SO that the cut is very big one.
The regular men are mad and say they will
form union and establish a regular rate
of wages.
The steamer Evandale, under charter to
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company, has not yet been reported. She
left here on November s last, and is now,
therefore, out nearly twenty eight days.
The agents have no fear for her safety and
point to the fact that under the most
favorable circumstances she was only able
to make the run to San Francisco in
twenty-three days.