The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
ALONG THE WATER FRONT
Harry Howe Started to Become
a Doctor, but Has Become
a Sailor.
NO ONE WOULD HELP HIM OUT
Sad Fate of Soldier Who Told a Lie
About a Pair of Military
Blankets.

The British ships Falls of Alton and
Dundonald both got in from Swansea yes
terday with COAL The Falls of Alton
took a week longer to make the voyage
than the Dundonald, and both were off
Staten Island about the same time. Both
encountered heavy gales, in which hail,
sleet and snow formed disagreeable ele-
ments. On October last the Falls of
Alton was in the vicinity of two large
icebergs, and five days later an immense
field of ice was encountered. About the
same time the Dundonald had an en-
counter with three icebergs, which the
captain describes as being about 800 feet
high and 100 yards wide. The ship had
to be put about in order to get away from
her dangerous neighbors.
J. H. Tracey, who was dismissed from
his position as watchman at the Harbor
Commissioners storehouse by President
Colnon. lays all his trouble at the door of
Superintendent Haste. He haunted the
rooms of the commission yesterday, and
to all who would listen to him he detailed
the charges he was going to bring against
the Superintendent. Tracey, while in
charge OF the storehouse, found it had been
broken open and that the thief was inside
Instead of capturing him he went and
aroused the crew of the tireboat. By the
time they got to the storehouse the thief
was gone. President Colnon at once dis
missed the watchman.
The steamer Sonoma, now running in
the place of the Mcdowell between the
military posts, took broken-hearted man
to Alcatraz yesterday. After nearly
twenty years of service he has been con-
demned to imprisonment on the rock for
six months and then to be dishonorably
discharged from the army. In four more
weeks the prisoners last five years of SER
vice would have been up, and there would
have been nearly $500 in pay ana trans
portation coming TO him. All of this he
forfeited by his own folly. The prisoner
is H. King, late of Company G., First In
fantry. He was friend of Bartholomew,
the man who robbed the soldiers and
made his escape after beng placed under
arrest. Bartholomew stole a pair OF
blankets and gave them 10 King as part
payment for debt. The stolen blankets
were found on Kings bed, and he was
arrested. Had he then confessed how they
came into his possession he might have
got off lightly. He persisted, however, in
denying Bartholomew acquaintanceship,
and swore that the blankets were his own.
The result is that he is now dishonored
ana DrOk6n SOluleT Win SlX-MOntnS
sentence to serve.
Quite nun Der of steamers sailed yes
terday. The City of Puebla left for Puget
Sound, the Progressist for Departure Bay,
the Zealandia for Panama and the City OF
Peking for China. The Progressist has
just been thoroughly repaired and 1000
tons of extra ballast was put aboard. 1t is
now expected that she Will not thrash into
the seas as she did before when going up the
aSt If1h ha a mt
crowded with passengers and cargo, and
as she passed the Spreckels dock all the
tugs saluted her. The City OF Peking took
out twenty-five cabin and 125 Chinese pas
sengers. Among the latter were thirty
four actors from the Midwinter Fair and
Atlanta Exposition. Another passenger
was Yang Kay, who for twenty years was
interpreter for the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company. He has accumulated some
money and is now going to spend the last
of his days among his own people. Before
leaving the clerks IN the company's Office
presented him with a handsome testi-
monial. The Aztec also sailed last night
for Central America. She also was
crowded with freight, among which were
two surfboats, twelve head of cattle and
twenty-four horses for San Jose de Guate-
mala.
The steamer Czarina is now on her way
to San Francisco from Pensacola, to go
into the coal trade. The demand for Bever
Hill coal has grown to such an extent that
the Homer cannot supply the demand, so
the agents had to charter another vessel.
The CZarina was the most suitable, so she
was secured.
Captain Howard of the Oceanic Steam
ship Company gave boy job on the
steamer Alameda yesterday, just on &C
count of his wonderful perseverance,
Young Harry Howe thought he would
like to be doctor and accordingly went
to the State University to study. He cal
culated upon earning living by lunning
errands and doing odd jobs for the good
people of Berkeley. The largest sum he
earned was % cents, for moving two tons
of coal into cellar He gave that up in
despair and Captain Howard helped him
to get to Los Angeles. There Young Howe
got work, but unfortunately broke his
arm and lost his job. HE wrote to his
friend again and the captain told him to
come TO San Francisco and he would give
him work on the Monowai. The Mono
wal sailed on the 18th inst, but Howe did
not put in an appearance. Yesterday he
turned up, footsore and weary, having
tramped all but fifty miles of the road be-
tween Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Howe will probably be shipped as one of
the crew on the Alameda in a few days.
The captain of the ship Dashing Wave re-
ports that so miles southwest of Cape Flat
terry he passed quantity of lumber. He
thinks it was probably the deck load of
some vessel.
Daniel O'Connell, the well-known writer
and newspaperman, has been appointed
inspector of woodwork on the water front
by the Harbor Commissioners.
The tower designed by Chief Engineer
Howard Holmes to light the way of the
ferry steamers into their slips, has been
OF ic of
and will be great benefit TO the shipping.
There are three lights of 1000 candle power
each, which take the place of the old 200
candle power affairs.
ALUMNI ASSoCIATTON