The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-30
AT THE TIDES MERCY.
A Broken Shaft Causes Much
Delay
TO THE STEAMER WALKER.
The Stockton Boat Mary Garratt Also
Damaged.
CAPTAIN NEWT JORDAN has A MISHAP.
A COmmOdOre'S Flag to Be Presented to
Captain Wallace Of the Walla
Walla This Morning.

For the first time in twenty years there
was no steamer running up the river to
Stockton last evening. 1t was all through
a complication of irregularities along the
river in connection with the boats which
ply between here and the Slough City.
The steamship company was not altogether
to blame for the trouble.
On Monday evening the steamer T. G..
Walker left Stockton well laden with pas
sengers for this city. When off Turner's
Landing about 10 clock the main shaft of
the engine snapped and the steamers fur
Their progress was stopped. Communica-
ton was had with Turner's Landing and
notice of the accident was sent to Stockton.
The reply came that the steamer Mary
CARAT would be dispatched at once to the
relief of the Walker.
Soon afterward the steamer J. D. Peters
on her way up from here steamed along
side the Walker and took the passengers
aboard with the intention of taking them
to Stockton where they could take train
or the next boat. When she stopped at
the first landing, though, and communi-
Gated with Stockton, her officers received
word to take the passengers back to the
Walker, as the Mary CARAT would take
them to San Francisco. So the passengers,
with the exception of three, were taken
back.
But the CARAT never reached them. On
her way down she struck a snag in the
river and stove hole in her bottom. She
was towed back to Stockton by the Leader.
The latter then went down to the relief OF
the castaways, who were reported to be
| heartily sick of their position.
Captain Newt Jordan, the popular pilot,
|
| on Sunday morning. He was getting into
yawl with the intention of going out to a
| pilot-boat in the stream, when he missed
! his footing and fell into the bay. A boat
man threw him rope and he rescued him.
! self. His fine broadcloth suit, immaculate
! shirtfront and patent leather shoes were
! stained by the muddy water. Even his
! sparkling diamond pin, dripped muddy
! tears of woe at its luster being temporarily
dimmed. But what the captain regretted
most was that his glossy silk hat went
sailing down with the tide, and that it
would never again adorn his curly locks.
There will be a pleasant time on board
the steamer Walla Walla this morning be-
! fore she sails for Puget Sound. Captain
| Wallace, who has been elected commodore
of California Harbor No. Is of the Masters
and Pilots Association of America, will
| be presented with commodore's pennant
! by his friends. The presentation will be
made by Captain Lew Harvey, and as the
! Walla Walla leaves the harbor she will be
decorated with flags and the new penRant
will float from her mainmast.
Captain Scott, once master of the British
! tramp steamer West India, was on Change
yesterday for the first time in three years
| The West India was noted in her time fol
the many tits which Captain Scott had
with the Lailors' Union. At times he was
obliged to stand on the poop deck with 8
pistol in his hand to protect his non-unior
men. Scott is now managing superinten
dent aof a mining company in British
Columbia.
The pilots and others on the water front
are conjecturing as to whom Governor
Budd will appoint Pilot Commissioner in
the place of the late Captain Young
Among those mentioned as likely to gel
the appointment is Martin Bulger.
Among the passengers who sailed fol
South America on the steamer San Bla:
was William Bein, well known in this city
through his connection with the commits
sion house of J. o. Meyerink & Co. Mr.
Bein goes to Guatemala for a six months
trip, to look after his extensive coffee plan
tations there, in connection with othel