The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-29
The WAR AGAINST COMPULSORY
PILOTAGE HAS BEGUN IN
EARNEST.
HUGHES OF THE BEACON ROCK
How THE THRIFTY SKIPPER CUT
DOWN EXPENSES ABOARD
HIS SHIP.

The question agitating the water front
just now is, Are the pilots to go2" The
Ship-owners' Association started the ball
rolling in the affirmative on the ground
that San Francisco is the most expensive
port i'll the world and that shipping charges
must be reduced. One of the incidentals
tn at the association thought could be
Topped off was pilotage, so they sent out a
circular calling for a conference. A num-
Der Of organizations have responded and
appointed committees as follows:
Merchants Club-H. D. Keil, W. G. Doane,
William Doxey, J. R. Freud, J. T. Terry.
Half-mllIon Club-Wiliam NJ. Bunker, W.
L. Merry, H. ]. Croker, James D. Phelan,
David Rich, Alfred Bouvier, Hugh Craig, !. W.
Hellman Jr., Louis sloss Jr., Albert E. Castle.
Chamber of Commerce-Wlllam l.. Me1ry,J
]. McKinnon Charles Nelson, J. N Knowles,
W. E. MigheIl, Z. L. hentfeld, George W. Nc
Near, J. n Leyinson, William Greer Harrison,
Louis Sloss Jr.
Julisn Sonntsg, R. S. Moore, c. E. Worden, c.
s. Laumeister, c. f. A: Talbot, George W.
| Dickie, J. y. Knowles, Albert E. Castle, James
Trafic INSTRUMENTATION Baker, John
T. Doyle, Leon Sloss, Levi Strauss, A. Schilling,
Sperry, w. B. Curtis (manager}.
Board OF Manufacturers and Employers OF
Califernta-C. F. A; Talbot, n; A. Judd, James
!
! Thomas J. Parsons, John f. Merrill.
| The association will meet tomorrow and
decide when a public discussion of the
matter shall take place. The subjects will
/ be State Tax on Ships Compulsory
Pilotage" and Reduction of Port
| Charges Among the speakers will be
! George W. Dickie. Hugh Craig, Congress
man Loud and President Colnon OF the
Harbor Commission.
The British ship Moresby, which arrived
at Queenstown yesterday, had a number
of narrow escapes from icebergs during
/ the voyage. According to the report tele-
graphed to the Merchants Exchange, the
vessel was for some time in the vicinity
/ OF berg that was forty to fifty miles in
| circumference and over 200 feet high.
T Again she was in a field OF ice and the
running rigging was frozen, and in con-
| sequence the Moresby was nearly crushed
on several occasions. Insurance men
seem to think that the Lord Spencer and
! other overdue ships encountered the same
| kind of obstacles, and in consequence
! there is next TO no reinsu ring.
| Inc brlgantlne Pitcairn, which lett here
with party OF Seventh-day Adventists
about year ago, has been reported from
Nukualofa, Tonga. The Adventists had
called at Tahiti Rarotonga, Rurutu, Nue.
! in the Savage Islands, and Pitcairn.
At the latter place they landed a number
of the islanders, who had been on a visit
to San Francisco, and at the other places
! they distributed pamphlets and did their
best toward making converts.
Captain Hughes of the British ship
Beacon Rock apparently has not an envi-
a bic reputation among the seafaring men.
! a few days after the vessel locked the
crew left her in a body, preferring to lose
! their hard earned wages to remaining
aboard on short rations. The only people
now on the ship are the captain, first and
] ! n,,o
the latter is chief cook and bottle-washer
and another is steward and cabln-boy.
When the Beacon Rock was lying at
Harrison wharf Captain Hughes
measured out everything that was used
! on the ship. In order TO be certain that
nothing went TO waste he kept the pump
| handle under his bed and locked the pota-
toes up in his bathroom. Fresh water
costs money" says the economical skip
| per, so all the dishes on the Beacon Rock
were washed in bay water. Captain
Hughes is now seeking crew, as his ship
is almost ready for sea, but the chances
are that he will be at least a week getting
men to sail his craft.
In direct opposition to the Beacon Rock
| is the Carnavonshire. On the latter is an
other Captain Hughes, but for him his
crew has nothing but good to say. The
run around the Horn from Swansea occu-
pied LEO days and ice was encountered
! again ana again. Inc running rigging
was frozen and the men had a hard time
OF it, yet they never grumbed, and the
chances are that this Captain Hughes will
not have a single deserter.
The British ship Marechal Suchet is in
! quarantine. She arrived from Japan last
| Sunday night. and, as cholera has been
raging there, DR.. Chalmers decided to hold
and fumigate her. 1t is expected that she
will be released tomorrow, but just what
good the fumigating will do Is mystery.
as Captain Read was ashore and driving
around town yesterday. Perhaps Dr..
Chalmers is going to fumigate the cargo of
coal.