The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-14
ALONG THE WATER FRONT,
The Stranded Steamer Belgic
Is Safely Floated From
the Beach.
ARRIVAL OF THE ELEANOR.
Cholera In the Steamer Benning-
ton-The Philadelphia VIII
Enlist Men Here.

The Pacific Coast Steamship Umatilla
arrived from the north yerterday forenoon
at 10 O'Clock and waited in the lower bay
for the quarantin officer who was delayed
by Board of Health meeting. He ex-
amined the vessel, passengers and crew,
and she was permitted to dock at noon.
Nobody was allowed to board the UNA
tilla in the stream except two Pacific
Transfer runners.
The officers of the Oriental and Occi-
dental Steamship Company are disposed
to disbelieve that the plague now raging at
Honolulu is Asiatic cholera and emphat-
ically deny that the Belgic brought the
disease to Honolulu. A letter from prom
inent merchant at the islands was re-
ceived per the steamship Australia, in
which the writer says that no fears are felt
by the white or any of the foreign popula-
ton of Honolulu. The sailor on the
United States gunboat Bennington was
taken sick before the Belgc arrived, a fact
which the writer considers as evidence
that the plague has local origin.
A letter was received Thursday by DIR.
Rupert Bin of the Marine Hospital in this
City from his brother, Ensign Victor Bin
of the Bennington, which states that the
plague Is genuine ASldLlC CuOloTd. iHeIe
had been six cases aboard of the war-vessel
up to September 4; but all, with the excep-
ton of the first case, had yielded to the
careful treatment of Dr. Hibbitt, the ships
surgeon. The Olympia had come into
port, but none of her people had gone
aboard of the Bennington; the yellow flag
at the masthead of the latter vessel had
kept visitors from her infected decks. En-
sign Bin stated that the deaths were about
90 per cent of the persons attacked. He
believes that the disease was brought in by
the Belgic's 538 Chinese contract passengers.
The Bennington is 100 miles down the
coast, where her patients are recovering,
and no new cases have appeared.
The Pacific Mail steamship City of Rio
Janeiro, which is due here from China,
Japan and Honolulu next Sunday, will be
quarantined on her arrival. There is feel
ing among shipping people that all steam
ers coming from Victoria and other Puget
Sound ports should be placed in quaran-
tine for the five days infection period.
Yesterday a dispatch was received from
the Oriental and Occidental agent at Yo-
kohama, announcing that the steamship
Beige had been tloated off the beach and
that the vessel was only slightly damaged.
Much of the cargo had been unloaded into
lighters and the vessel so lightened that
she drifted off at high tide. She will be
locked at Y Yokohama and repaired there.
After going to Hongkong she will return
to this port.
ticulars of the death of Second Officer
Beckman.
The steam yacht Eleanor arrived yester-
day from her Alaska trip, and dropped
anchor off Jackson-street wharf. w. A.
Slater, her owner, and family came down
from Tacoma by rail. The splendid vessel
met hard two days blow after leaving
the Sound, and weathered it like a daisy,
is the report of Captain Scott.
1t is the intention of Mr.. Slater to pay
off his crew and lay the Eleanor up
| probably at Sausalito, till about Novem Der
l. She will be locked and her hull scraped
and cleaned for her trip around Cape Horn.
The travellers will visit all the South
American ports, the West Indies, and
will be in Northern European waters. 1t
costs over $4,000 a month to run the
Eleanor, but Mr.. Slater's health demands
almost constant sea voyages, and the trim
little vessel has busy years before her.
The United States cruiser Philadelphia
will leave Vallejo for this City to-day,
reaching here late in the afternoon. She
will enlist about thirty-fiye men to COM
plete here complement of crew before sail
ing on cruise along the southern coast.
The billets to be filled are six oilers, one
water-tender, one fireman, six coal-passers,
eight seamen and eleven ordinary seamen.
Lieutenant-commande 1ngersoll. the
executive officer, states that only Ameri-
can citizens may apply for enlistment and
only first-class men will be accepted. The
Philadelphia has the name in naval circles
of being the best ship on the station.
Captain Cotton and Executive Officer In
gersoll are reported to be kind and con-
siderate officers and no complaints ever
come from the crew regarding harsh treat
were heard from the Olympia few months
ago. While the men of the latter cruiser
were complaining of poor food the Phila-
delphia men were living on shore pro-
visions, Notwithstanding the so-called
orders from the Navy Department to con-
fine the sailors to ships rations.
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