The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-25

owners Association. Early in the morn
ing squad of Harbor police officers in
charge of Sergeant Mahoney went to TIC
Prospect place to escort five japanese to
trolls already on the ground, and a short,
sharp conflict occurred. William Aiken,
one of the strikers, refused to leave the
locality and was severely handled by the
police.
The unionists claim that the Japs had
been mdl ted by Kane, the boarding mas
ter, and the japanese landlord of one of
the houses $40 apiece, which is in violation
of the new shipping laws, the little brown
sallormen being Ignorant even that their
wages were being tempered with in adj
vance of their proposed voyage. The
strikers also claim that the officers forced
one of the "scabs" to go aboard the vessel.
They allege that he was the only one who
could speak English, and finally learning
of the imposition refused to go.
Besides the japanese the Elwell took
seven Italians, three of whom were off the
ship Macdiarmid and run aboard by
Cocoa Lanteri the Italian boarding
house keeper at 116 Broadway; also a
Greek, Chilean and an American de-
serter from Mare Island.
The schooner Laura Pike went out in
the stream with two non-union men. The
schooner Charles r. Wilson went to sea
with $50 crew after waiting several days
for noD-union men. The bark Columbia is
unable to get a crew and is held back from
sailing. The ships Cyrus Wakefield and
Two Brothers and the bark Ceylon are
almost ready to sail and will each need full
crews. A battle royal is being quietly
fought between the union and the associa-
ton over their equipment. The union is
determined that the law making the accept
ance of sailors advance and the holding
of his clothing for debt punishable by fine
and imprisonment, shall be strictly en-
forced. The case of Edwards, who signed
an advance of $22 rs, will be prosecuted,
as Secretary Furuseth of the Seamen's
Union has the order in his possession
The Seventh Day..Adventist missionary
brig Pitcairn is fitting out for cruise
among the South Pacific islands. She was
built at Vallejo several years ago to take
the place of the missionary schooner
Phoebe Chapman which was lost in the
South Seas. This disaster was looked upon
by large number of the members of the
Adventist church as Judgment sent upon
her and her co-religionists because she was
purchased at auction in Honolulu on
Saturday. For a while the question of
accepting her even after the purchase was
completed was subject of much dissen-
sion, but the elders considered that as she
was hard and fast on their hands the end
must sanctify the means and she was sent
away with a load of missionaries and
station supplies and disappeared forever
from the ocean, leaving not vestige of her.
self and people behind.
Her successor, the Pitcairn, was built
from the penny contributions of the Sab
bath-school children of that church all
over the United States. The little tots
brought their cent-pieces, stamps, nickels
and dimes TO the treasury until the pur-
chase price was raised and she is known as
the "Childrens Brig" The vessel is
valued at $4,000. She is found to be too
small for the service and will be sold after
this coming trip and larger vessel built.