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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
CAPTAIN MAY OF H. B. M. CRUISER
HYACINTH BOARDS THE
OREGON.
QUESTIONED THE WoRKMEN.
WILL HIS VISIT ESTABLISH A
PRECEDENT IN INTERNATIONAL
Comfy?

Down in the Union Iron Works an odd
and amusing thing occurred recently and
the employees of the yard have been laugh
Ing over 1T ever since. When the British
cruiser Hyacinth was here Captain May
concluded to interview the Oregon. The
big battle-ship, as yet unarmed and un-
completed, was not ready for company, but
the bold Briton stood not on ceremony.
1t was hardly in good form to inspect the
war preparations of even peaceful neigh
Dor, but Captain May got into his royal
navy toys, called away his gig, and the
British tars at the oars pulled merrily over
to the Union Iron Works.
few years ago a United States naval
officer asked permission to visit Chatham
dockyard, where new armored cruiser
was being made into fighting trim. He
was soon sorry he mentioned the subject,
for the answer, though couched in elegant
English with Oxford binding, was so
strongly in the negative that he never
smiled again.
And not long ago Petaluma man tour
ing in Hongkong = the Petaluma man
should not have been so far from home
alone-and thinking nice sketch of China
tea-box scenery hand-painted on the spot
would be the best evidence of his having
been there set up his easel on the hill
above the city and went to work. He acct
dentally brushed about six inches
of a counterscarp of the English fortifica-
tions into his picture and two relocated
Tommy Atkinses sEatched HIM off to the
guardhouse. His unlucky sketch was
sent to the Tower for trial, charged with
treason, and the sketcher was told to go
back to Petaluma and paint nothing more
warlike than prize poultry.
The captain pulled alongside the Ore
gon, climbed up on deck and found no one
on board except the yard workmen, who
went on at their duties, paying no atten-
ton to the unknown and to them unusual
visitor.
For all purposes the ship was his. Not
an official of the yard, not United States
naval officer, of which there were several
stationed there, noticed the British sailor
having his own way on the Yankee vessel.
Such thing had never happened since
the boarding officer of the British frigate
Shannon took possession of the defeated
Chesapeake years ago.
The visitor went through the battle-ship
alone, asked questions of the genial and
intelligent workmen and during his long
visit picked up a deal of information re-
garding modern shipbuilding in the United
States.
Nobody questioned him in return, and
so much liberty did he have in his research
that he thought seriously of signaling for
his steam launch and having the big bat
tle-ship towed up to Esquimalt for COM
plerion and change of flag.
Then he went back to her Britannia
Majesty's cruiser hyacinth, and the yard
workmen are telling the story of how the
British captain captured the Oregon right
under the guns of the modern forts and
the powers peacefully slumbering in re-
serve at Mare Island.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
TRANSFER MEN AT WAR.
They Almost Come to Blows on Broad
way Wharf Yesterday Morning.

They Almost Come to Blows on Broad
way Wharf Yesterday Morning.
When the steamer Walla Walla arrived
yesterday from Puget Sound ports, the
runners for the Pacific Transfer Company
were In possession of Broadway wharf,
but the men employed by Morton's ex-
press were determined to have finger in
the pie. The fight between the express
companies had been before the Harbor
commissioners and in the courts, but yes
terday it came to climax. Morton's men
were elected bodily from the wharf and
now the enraged proprietor of the special
delivery is going to bring suit in equity
In the Federal courts.
When the WaIla Walla was docking her
stern swung up against the opposite pier.
Inc Pacific Transfer Company's runners
had been expecting this and they seized
the opportunity to Jump aboard. They at
once began canvassing the passengers and
nad secured the bulk of the luggage for de-
HVery by the time the steamer was fast at
the wharf. Morton's men were not idle,
however and when they were refused adj
MISSION by the gate they hired whitehall
and climbed onto the. wharf astern of the
steam yacht Eleanor.
IL was some little time before Captain
Bennett OF the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company became aware of the fact that
the runners were on the wharf He
promptly elected the men.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
SILVER CONFERENCE.
Senator Jones Reported as Favoring tn
Proposed Chicago Gathering of
BimetalIists

Secretary George P. Keeney of the San
Francisco branch OF the American BIZ
metallic League spent several hours in an
interview with Senator John P. Jones, at
the Palace yesterday afternoon, in relation
to the proposed Chicago conference of sill
yer men in December.
AS result of this interview, Mr.. Keeney
stated that Senator Jones favored the idea
of conference. If the conference is held,
it Is its purpose to form distinctively new
party on the financial issue.
"It has been claimed all along" observed
Mr.. Keeney in discussing the silver ques-
ton, ''at least the gold men have so con-
tended, that the free and unlimited COIN
age of silver would food the country with
the white metal. The fact is, that the
price OF silver is now going up and the ex-
ports from this country are greater than
ever. England cannot get along even to-
DAY day, without importing our silver; During
silver, and England required $4,000, 900
worth for India, China and the Straits
Settlements. Now, where did the differ
ence come from, if not from American"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
ROBBED OF THEIR HALOS.
THE UNIVERSITY ATHLETES WILL
FIGHT FOR THE GLORY THEY
HAVE WON.
A SACRED CAMPUS LAW VIOLATED
IN THE WEARING OF THE
YELLOW ARROW.

The big, brawny fellows over at the State
University, who usually win honors at the
intercollegiate athletic contests, are in a
disturbed and unhappy frame of mind.
They are fearful that the decorations OF
honor that have been so ostentatiously
thrust upon them, as a reward for their
feats, may not in the future be SO conspicu-
ously displayed upon their ample chests.
The trouble is all over the right the ordi-
nary tiaccid, insignificant, enervated
student has to publicly wear the insignia
that has always been confined to the
trophy taking athletes.
The athletic suits worn by the various
students are marked with the letters gu.
c." Those who have outdistanced and out
classed their opponents in the athletic
tournaments and thereby won honors for
the University are distinguished by the
slantlng figure of a golden arrow piercing
the two letters. CARRIED in their suits, the
students are in the habit of wearing them
indiscriminately, both in the gymnasium
and on tine campus.
Conscious of their physical superiority
those who have successfully vanquished
their opponents are inclined to swagger
about the grounds. submitting to the adj
mlrlng gaze OF the commonaltJ with dig
nlned federation. The envious and I'M
shapeiy weaklings have termed their pur-
poseless saunterings "the parade"
Some nifty OF the students at the institu-
ton have already, by the aid of their SYM
metrlcal sinews, either at golf, archery,
polo, the turf, regatta, solitaire aquatics
or some other of the various games, won a
point for the institution and are therefore
entitled to wear the arrow. The law
whereby the arrow is confined to the vic
tors alone is an unwritten one of many
years standing.
But the present condition of affairs has
been rudely interrupted by the lrreverent
and iconoclastic freshmen. During the
past week many of them have appeared
upon the campus clad in the regulation
practice uniform, with the sacred arrow
boldly emblazoned across their chest.
When those who claim the exclusive right
to wear the emblem first saw the open de-
tiance given them they were astounded.
That this brazen infringe ment upon their
privileges should be allowed was out of the
question. For what purpose had thev
gone into rigid training and eschewed all
forms of pleasure to be thus deprived of
their reward? To them the flaming arrow
was an apparition that foretold that their
tenure of admiration was at an end
meeting of the fifty immortals has
been called and steps will be taken to
! nullify the act of the freshmen. The
action that they propose to take has not
yet been divulged. The discounted ath-
letes do not propose to lose their individu-
atty by any means. Whether they will
choose some other design by which they
can knight themselves or not is unknown.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24

Frederick Bell of San Francisco Lost Ii
the Ice.

Frederick Bell of San Francisco Lost In
the Ice.
Frank Bonner, once bricklayer of this
City, returned from Alaska last Friday
He brought with him two ounces of gold
dust worth $35, and tale of terrible hard
ships and poverty on the Yukon diggings
as the result of seven months hard labor
and privatlon. He also brought the news
of the drowning of Frederick Bell.
Bell furnished the coin for Bonner and
an old man named John Barnes to accom-
pany him to the Alaskan mines. They
went to Juneau by steamer. From there
they took their traps, among which was a
canvas boat, by sledges. Bell was caught
in drift of broken ice while attempting to
carry some of their baggage up the liver to
the diggings and disappeared.
Since Bonner's return letter has been
received announcing the finding of the
body on September Is. 1t was identified
by means of the clothing and letter writ
ten by Bell and addressed to Harry Drach-
bar, care of John Mcknight of this City.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24

ers being on their guard on his arrival no
arrests followed. I never sought the ap-
pointment as member of the Game and
Fish Commission, l have never entered
any charge against the State for travelling
expenses, nor will / unless can feel the
assurance that through nv efforts the
game and fish are receiving adequate pro-
lection. AS a unit this cannot be done,
but if the commission will work as an en-
tirety and for the obiec:: for which the
members were appointed, 1t will, without
doubt, shortly result in an entire suppress
sion of illegal fishing and hunting through
out the length and breadth of the State"
A CALL reporter yesterday visited some
more of the Chinese fishing villages.
Point Pedro was the community investi-
gated.
Point Pedro is running at full capacity.
There are tons of dried little fish waiting
there for shipment to China and tons of
the tiny things curing in the sun. Even
the forbidden sturgeon graphing hooks-a
notwithstanding device formed by a lot of
barhed hooks arranged to be dragged along
the bottom of the bay were everywhere
seen. Drawn against the huge fish lying
on the mud these hooks either hold them
or tear them so badly that they die. 1t is
misdemeanor to use these cruel con-
trivances.
Along the shores of San Francisco Bay
are in constant operation from February
till November fully 500 shrimp nets.
These great funnel-shaped bags, 40 feet
long and about 25 feet across the mouth,
are dragged through the shallow water Of
the flats and nothing living escapes them.
The meshes of the net at the large part are
of an inch and half, running down to a
mesh of an eighth of an inch.
The bag is emptied into the tanklike
hold of the junk and the dragging goes on
from day to day, netting millions of the
tiny fish.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
PAWNED HIS WATCH,
HOW Senator Calvin =. Brice Wound
Up His Honey

story of Calvin Brice, United States
Senator from Ohio ana multi-millionaire,
which has never before appeared in print,
was told to CALL correspon 'ent by q
resident of Seattle, who knew tht. Senator
In his younger days. 1t shows how sudden
has been the rise in wealth of this man,
who now possesses over $50, 900, 900, and
whose children each have SIC, 900 a year as
pocket-money.
"When Brice got married he was young
and struggling lawyer, and didn't have
much ready cash" said the Senator's old
time friend. However, he took what he
had and with his BRIDE went to New York
City on wedding tour. They took in the
sights of Gotham, but by the time Brice
was ready to come home he found he had
not enough money to buy railway tickets.
Brtce had to get home so he went to a
they were on the cars his wife noticed that
his watch was gone, and said:
Why, Calvin, where is your watch?
Holy smoke, said he, Il took that
watch in to a jeweler to get it fixed, and
forgot all about it,
His wife wanted him to telegraph to
the ieweler, but he said it would be all
right Some years afterward, when Cal
had got pretty we'll on to his feet, his wife
and he held tin wedding, and some of
the boys who had got hold of the story had
monster tin watch made, and hung it up
over the place where he and his wife were
to stand and receive their guests. Cal did
not notice it hanging there for some time,
but when he did, he said:
might as well tell every body about it,
"Then his wife learned for the first time
how he had to pawn his watch to get her
home"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
THE FESTIVAL CHORUS.

More Contributors to the Childrens'
Hospital Benefit.
There is every prospect that the great fes-
tlval concert being arranged in aid of the
Chlldrens' Hospital will be great success.
Yesterday the following additional con-
trlbutors to the chorus were secured:
Professor w. H. Holt, hearty support, charge
OF music at Grace Episcopal; Professor R. ".
stephens Epsco opse' baroness ess Won MeyerncE
Ladies Ladies Giee Club Professor E. E. Werner
Wilkins, hearty support and pupils; Mrs. E. B.
Blanchard, hearty support and pupils;
Francis Stuart hearty support and pupils;
Willis E. Bateheller, hearty support and
pupils; Professor Green of Vallejo, brings
chorus; Professor Lippitt of Petaluma, brings
chorus.
Captain Harry Morse has sent greeting
to the management of the Childrens' Hos
pital Festival, through ]. j. Callundan,
and has offered gratuitously all gatekeep-
ers and watchmen that may be required on
the nights of the concerts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
EMERIC'S GAME WARDEN
deputy Fish Commissioner Guarding
His Chiefs Duck-shooting
Grounds.

Ever since the opening of the duck.
shooting season Fish Commissioner En-.
eric has been annoyed by hunters who
shoot ducks upon his salt marsh preserve.
Besides employed keepers Emeric has had
Deputy Fish Commissioner Davis stationed
at his preserve with instructions to keen
trespassers off the mud.
Mr.. Davis is supposed to be working in
the in terest of the State as Deputy Fish
Commissioner, and therefore it is but nat
ural that local sportsmen opened their
eyes in surprise when they heard that he
was looking out for Mr.. Emeric's personal
interests.
A man named Lambert, who is a we'll
known professional hunter, was arrested a
few days ago on Emeric's preserve and
he paid a fine of S. for trespass.
Last Sunday young man named Jones.
who Is member of the Sportsmen's Pro-
tective Association of this City, was inter.
cepted by Deputy Davis while trampine
over the Emeric duck-shooting reserve.
and ordered to leave Immediately. Jones
said to the deputy that he was not in
fringing upon the law, which gave him the
right to shoot on salt marsh lands, and
that he would not leave until he was ready.
Davis argued with the trespasser for
while and then left for San Pablo, where
he procured warrant from the Justice,
and, armed with this, Davis returned to
the marsh and placed Jones under arrest.
friend of the latter deposited $50 bail as
guarantee that Jones would appear
when the case came up for trial. The
trespasser notified Secretary Fitzsimmons
of the Sportsmen's Protective Association
OF the occurrence, and meeting of the
officers of the association was held on
Tuesday last, with the result that the as
ISOLATION, as body, will fight in defense
of its representative.
Attorney Wentworth, who has been en-
ployed to defend Jones, has asked for a
postponement of the trial. which was
booked for tomorrow, in order to look into
the law of trespass on salt marsh pre-
serves, and especially that part of the law
which refers to razorback CLANS and the
like.
This is the first time since its organiza-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
THE FISH Commission USED FOR BLACKNA|L.

sun looking for lawbreakers was job SO
undesirable that it was hard to find honest
men to take it. The result necessarily is
| that unpaid deputy wardens are tempted
to use the States badge on their coat lapels
as a means of blackmail, and get their pay
by protecting the illegal hunter and fisher
mon from the law instead of protecting the
game and fish from the hunter and fisher
man. These men so we'll understand their
work that they make no effort to conceal
their identity. Instead of acting in the
capacity OF detectives and catching the
lawbreakers unawares they cause to be an
nounced beforehand in the papers that
certain fishermen in a certain locality are
fishing with nets of an illegal mesh and
on a certain day they intend to go down
and arrest them. Some of them have
their business painted on the bow of their
boats. and it is not hard to believe that
they make as much out of their work as
they would if they drew salary from the
State.
"These things are hard facts but they
are notorious, and there is no use trying
to conceal them,'' continued Mr.. Nor
rison. There are three votes in the
commission, and l have but one, and
there is no use of my suggesting
a remedy for the evil only to be voted
down. Personally, I have not the slightest
doubt but what every word of the article
published in this mornings CALL is true,
inasmuch as it relates to the open and
fragrant violation of section 636 of the fish
and game laws of the State; that the law is
violated with IMMUNITY not only by the
Chinese fishermen, but by the Greeks and
Portuguese as well, is fact too well known
and apparent to even the most superficial
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24

BAGGAGEMEN's BICYCLE TRoUBLEs-Rail-
way men have come to the conclusion that
so great is the number of wheels consigned
to railways by passengers that special cars
will have to be provided, separate and dis
tinct from baggage-cars, for the Transports
ton of the machines. An idea of the
number of wheels that are now carried is
conveyed in the report of the baggage de-
partment of the Rio Grande Railway,
which shows that in the month of July
1864 wheels were checked by the company
over its line, an average of over tifty-three
daily for the month. In many baggage
cars racks have already been fitted up for
the reception of wheels, but the accommo-
dation is daily becoming more inadequate.
This rush of wheels has given great deal
OF anxiety to the baggagemen, who often
find themselves without the proper means
of providing for their custody. The conse-
quence is that a compromise is effected,
and if the baggageman keeps careful eye
on wheel a fee is in order. Some COM
panies are considering the question of
charging a small rate on all wheels carried
or their trains on the ground that they
cannot be packed together like trunks or
ordinary baggage, but there is no doubt
that such charge would be grudgingly
paid.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
INTERESTING FIGURES.
A SUBORDINATE OFFICER WHO GOT
TWENTY = FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS A MONTH.
HOW MUCH THE CHINESE PAID
THE ILLEGAL INDUSTRY GOES On
WITHOUT HINDRANCE FROM
THE AUTHORITIES.

The statement published in yesterday
CALL that the Chinese were violating the
law in destroying small fish has as yet
provoked no reply from the Fish Commits
sioners.
Deputy Commissioner Babcock, who is
the executive officer of the body, said the
Commissioners would discuss the matter
with him within day or so and that there
would probably be an investigation. 1t
has been a long time since anybody con-
nected with the Fish Commission inter
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
A NEW CHURCH.
Newsom's Plans for the Howard Place
of Worship Accepted and Work
to Begin Soon.

j. Gather Newsom's plans for the new
Howard Presbyterian Church have been
conditlonally accepted. Contractors bids
are being considered by the trustees this
week, and If a decision between the rival
claimants can be reached within a few
days, work on the new church will be
begun next week.
The edifice, which is TO be handsome
one, will be erected at chosen site on Oak
and Baker streets, and if the work pro.
crosses according to the expectations oil
the most sanguine among the friends OF
the church, the building will be ready fol
use early in the new year.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24

ton that the Sportmen's Protective Asso-
citation of this City has been called upon
to defend any of its members, and as a
matter OF fact great interest is attached to
the present case, not only by the men,
hers OF the association, but by hundreds
of sportsmen who are yearly being shut
out of their favorite hunting grounds by
the Inauguration of system of game
preservation
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24

PHoToGRAPHING THE BOTTOM OF THE
SEA.-Naturalists have been doing some
clever things by the aid of photogra ply.
A Western sportsman has been for years
making collection of photographs of all
kinds of wild animals in their native
haunts, and many of these pictures, espe-
cially of animals about to spring at their
intended prey, have been taken under con-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24

ditions that made the skillful handling of
the rifle highly necessary the instant after
the camera was snapped. Another en-
thusiast has devoted himself to photo
graphing the animals of the forest in their
nightly wanderings. He would set wire
in the path of the animal he wished to
photograph and adjust the camera so that
as the animal came along and made
contact with the wire magnesium
powder was ignited, and in the
flash the picture was taken. In
this way some beautiful specimens of deer
in all sorts of attitudes, of mountain lion,
badgers, opossums. etc, have been Sc
cured and many new features have been
developed of great interest to the natural
ist. NJ. Bontan, the European naturalist,
who studies the wild life of the Mediter-
ranean, in the garb of diver, has sue
ceeded in taking some photographs of the
sea bottom. He uses fashlight obtained
from a spirit lamp and magnesium pow
der, which is covered by a water-tight jar.
The lamp stands on a barrel containing
oxygen gas, which he employs to work the
lamp and the pneumatic shutter OF the
camera. He breathes through the supply
pipe of the diving dress. The camera IS
watertight and stands on tripod near the
barrel, so that the shutter and the fash
light can be worked together.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
Foreer and Thief.

Arthur st. Clair Damon, the sailor who was
arrested on Tuesday evening for passing a
forged check for $25 on AL White, water
front saloon-keeper, had charge of grand lar.
ceny booked against him yesterday. The com
planning witness was Mrs. Fernbach of the Ey
change saloon at the new racetrack Damon
was working around the saloon Saturday aft
ernoon and, it is said. stole 500
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
Appraisers, Convention.

The Secretary of the Treasury has called a
meeting of the Appraisers of the large cities of
the country to convene at New York on the
first Tuesday in January. Appraiser Tucker
will represent San Francisco. The following
cities will be represented: Chicago, New York
Philadelphia, Boston, st. Louis, New Orleans.
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, Buffalo, Cleye.
land, Portland, Or, and Portland Me.