The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-29

The vessels behavior during the trial
trip was magnificent Under an ordinary
| draught, which lasted four hours, she
| made nineteen and half knots.
| She was tested in turn to both star
board and port and checked while going
ahead full speed, coming to a standstill
in an incredibly short space of time, prov
| ing herself to be under every test still the
| peerless Olympia. She rolled comparatively
| little demonstrating that all statements
regarding her being unsteady by reason of
high-armed superstructure were totally
without foundation.
The Olympia is stronger ship than the
Philadelphia, as the Pacific ship has the
advantage in armament over the Atlantic
built vessel. The formers four S-ineh
rapid-firing rifles and ten 5-inch rapid-fir-
ing guns are more efficient than the twelve
6-inch rifles that look out from the sizes of
the Eastern craft. In fair fight the ship
| from the City of Brotherly Love would
fare badly before the Olympia's rapid rain
| of metal.
The Philadelphia is a partially pro-
tected cruiser of 1924 tons displacement
and 1915 indicated horsepower engines.
The San Francisco is partially protected
| cruiser of 40S3 tons displacement and
10, 400 indicated horsepower and twelve
guns in main battery. The Olympia is a
protected cruiser of $500 tons displacement
and Ii, 500 indicated horsepower.
A dispatch was received by Captain
Cotton yesterday morning directing him
to remain in San Francisco till after the
Fourth of July and take part in the cele-
bration here The Philadelphia battalion,
numbering zoo men, will take part in the
parade.
The Olympia will continue her inspection
| tests to-day in the bay, and will then re-
., rfaI hr,r
| to get the ship ready for China is prob
ably due to somebody's strong magma
ton and there is apparently no reason
! why the Olympia cannot be kept in this
| harbor, also, until after the celebration
and her fine battalion take part in the
| parade.
Yesterday the steamer Merren towed the
| big barge Attus down from Stockton with
| 15 600 sacks of barley, which is to be loaded
| in the whaleback City of Everett for New
York by way of Panama.
| The Harbor Commissioners intend to
construct wharf at the foot of Pacific
street 1t will be of concrete and iron, 900
feet long and 100 feet wide, and will be
supported by piers of tubes of boiler iron
four feet in diameter and fifty feeti in length,
and each tube will contain three piles.
They will then be pumped free of water
| and filled with concrete and old iron
"a mined down hard. The fender poles OF
the wharf will be constructed like those in
the ferry slips, connected with ribbing and
standing out about foot from the wharf
frame. This will make the new wharf al
| most indestructible.
| Chief Engineer Holmes estimates the
cost to be about 5000, and the work will
be done by contract.
A new boathouse, costing $4,000, will be
| built for the Naval Battalion, near Howard
street No. 3. 1t will be 20x60 feet in di-
mansions, of which twenty feet will be used
| for Office purposes.
| The Spreckels tug Relief returned from
| Astoria yesterday, where she has been on
duty for the last ten months.