The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-02
The City of Peking' Arrived
From China and Was
Ouarantined,
CABIN PASSENGERS RELEASED.
Captains and Boarding Masters at
War Over Wages to Be Paid
Sailors.


dental Company's steamer Gaelic attracted
an enormous crowd to the Mail dock
yesterday. There were forty cabin pas
sengers, among whom were many mis-
sionaries, and these all had a host of
friends down to see them off. There were
also 226 Chinese from San Francisco and
80 from Havana in the Storage. A praise
service was held in the cabin just before
the steamer sailed, and the last hymn
sung was, "God be with you till we meet
again"
The passenger list was as follows:
Yokohama-Miss Elizabeth Rabbit, Rev.
Leigh Layman, Mrs. Layman, Kew. j; X klch-
ardson, Mrs Richardson, d. Soutar, F. J. Hor-
nimann, Ho Tung and family, George B.
Swayne, Miss Louise Imhoff and servant Mrs.
James Jones and infant, Charles Rayner, Miss
Emma Silver, c. Harrison, Mrs. Z. Harrison,
Mrs s. b. Morgan, C. K. Harrington, Miss Jessie
P. Rhind, Wilfred Webb, Mrs. l. L Smith, IF.
Brown, Mrs Brown, Mrs; A: Z; W1li nan Ho-
ilton Miss l.. E. Hamilton, l.. ID. Chick, Mrs.
Chick, Oscar Rowe, Rev. George E. Partch,
Mrs. George E. Parteh.
Hongkong-R. Ellington, D. n. Longden,
Ralph Slater, George Eckley and Mrs George
Eckley.
There were twenty-three detained Chi
nese on the Gaelic on whose cases Collector
Wise had not passed. 1t was the intention
OF the Custom house officials to transfer
them to the City Of Picking, but as that
vessel was in quarantine, and there was
not another steamer at the dock the COM
pany was in quandary. The tug Mi1len
Griffeths was at the quarantine station in
attendance upon the City of Picking, and
that added to the difficulty. Finally Dep
uty Surveyor Ruddell was appealed to
and he had the Chinese aud their baggage
transferred to the customs launch. This
I j IN,e hxTf I,af ria dc
of the detained Mongolians, and when the
Gaelic began to back away from the dock
with, as they supposed, their friends on
board they raised a howl that could be
heard blocks away. The Government
launch, however, carried them to Angel
Island and placed them on the City Of
Picking.
The latter vessel arrived from Hong
kong via Yokohama yesterday morning.
Cholera was epidemic both in China and
Japan, and that was sufficient to have the
vessel placed in quarantine, even though
there was no sickness aboard and twenty
days had elapsed since the last port was
touched. In Yokohama the dread scourge
was within the city limits, and while the
worst was feared, hopes were entertained
that the disease would disappear when
winter set in. There were only five cabin
passengers on the Peklng, and after their
baggage had been fumigated they were
landed. The steamer will be thoroughly
fumigated to-day and then taken to the
Mail dock.
! The barkentine Archer, which arrived
| from Honolulu a week ago and was placed
| in quarantine, was released yesterday. She
had a number OF passengers, but the bill
! of health signed by the United States Con
| sui showed that they had all been fumi
| gated before going aboard. Her cargo is
composed of sugar and some merchandise
that was taken down on the Australian
steamer and transhipped to the Archer.
The Seamen's Union of the Pacific and
the Ship-owners' Association are still al
outs-not to q very marked extent, but
nevertheless an armed neutrality exists
The coast seamen will not make a move
until the ship-owners attempt to sign men
| at the reduced wages, and the ship-owners
cannot make a move because there are nc
vessels requiring crews. A few days will
see the TWO concerns measuring strength
again, however.
While an armed neutrality exists be
| tween the Ship-owners Association anG
the union, there is open warfare between
the masters of deep-water ships and the
| boarding masters. The captains want meI
at $50 or SIS month and the boarding
masters viii not ship them for less thar
500 The American ship May Flint want
twenty able seamen and two boats
| wains, but Captain Nickels cannot procure
a man. The Sailors Home will not sup
ply him and he does not know where t.
turn. AS the ship has bad name among
the sailors owing to charges of cruelty
made against the officers during the las
voyage there will be some difficulty in fill
| ing her except at the full rate. Mrs. Ma.
Flint, after whom the ship is named, i
the chairman of the Ladies' Seamen'
Friend Society in New York.
The ship Conqueror was in the sam
plight as the May Flint. None of tn
boarding masters would supply her wit
men, and acting under his specific order
! United States Commissioner Gavin wen
| out and tried to secure crew for her. H
also failed, and then the skipper paid 81
a month and,got his men. The Conquero
| will sail to-day.
The Benjamin Sewell, which made sucl
! long passage from New York and had t
put into Tome, Chile. for repairs, had n
difficulty in securing crew for voyag
to Shanghai via Puget Sound. Captain
Sewell is q good man to work for and pay
full rates, so the men are only too glad t
work for him.
At the meeting OF the Harbor Commits
sioners, held yesterday, the captain of tn
bark Klikitat presented bill for 500 dam
ages. This was a great surprise to tn
members of the board, but when an inves
tigation was held it was shown that tn
captain had some justice on his side.
The Klikitat was at Little Fremon
street and the British snip Crofton Hal
lay in such a position at the dock that sh
could not get out. Chief Whartinger Boo
bar ordered the Crofton Hall to move u
twenty-five feet in order to allow the bar
to get out but Captain Parker would no
obey, and the Klikitat was detained tw
days The chief wharfinger was instructe
to arrest the captain of the British ship
He is subject to fine of 500 for refus1n
to obey the order of Chief Boobar, and
he does not pay he can be sent to Jail fo
100 days.
The managers of the Pacific Rolling
mills want the Harbor Commissioners
use 15-inch beams in the new ferry build
ing instead of 2o-inch ones as proposed b
Architects George Percy and A. Pag
Brown. BY this change saving of SIS, OC
would be effected. and the beams could b
made in California instead of having t
send East for them. The matter was yer