The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-05
The Ship Benjamin F. Packard
Will Be Discharged and
Repaired.
STRAINED BADLY AND LEAKING.
Captain Lewis of the British Ship
Senator Is Held Up by
FootpadS.

ard is more seriously damaged than was at
first surmised. After being towed off the
rocks last night she began to make water
rapidly, so the tugs Sea Queen ana oea
King beached her on the MISSION muu
flats. While the tide was low the snip
did not leak, but when it began to now
the ship came off the bottom and the
pumps had to be started. A. Chesebrough
of Williams. Dimond & Co. and the steve
dores were early on the scene and the
work CT Tightening the cargo was at once
begun. The greater part of the wheat has
been removed and the loss on the re-
mainder will not be great.
If the Packard is not too much damaged
she will be towed to Mission Rock to-day,
where the remainder OF her cargo will be
| taken out The ship is leaking so badly,
! however, that it is doubtful whether her
pumps Will be able to keep her clear.
| Should they fail the big centrifugal pumps
owned by the Spreckels Tow boat Company
will be put aboard. Ship captains esti-
mate that it will cost at least $4,000 to
nut the Packard in the same condition
She was IN prior to the accident. The
owners of the ship will of course look to
the insurance company TO cover the loss
and then there will be fight between the
com pa0N anu the IONDOdG company.
The disengaged vessels in port are now
looking for the Packard's charter. The
British ship Senator would like the job,
and the chances are that Captain Lewis
will secure it. FreightS are not very pIenti-
full Just now, and the chances are that the
wheat will be carried for considerably less
than Captain Aliens charter called for.
The John Ena, which came here from Aus
tralia in record time, is going back there
q iS cb of hoo
and California has to supply the demand.
Tie Ena, it is said, will take away over
5000 tons for Sydney at the low rate of
19s Sd. The Senator could have had the
charter, but Captain Lewis wanted more
money.
What might have been a serious cutting
ARRAY occurred on the steamer Monowai
yesterday morning. It was in the fire.
mems department, and one of the men is
now in Jail with charge Of assault to MUIR
der against him. The Monowai is now
loading at Folsom-street wharf for Aus
trala and several of the crew went up
town last Tuesday night.
Mike O'Connor, one of the firemen, had
a splendid time, and when he cot back to
the steamer was in good humor. He be-
gan to tickle James Johnson, one of the
oilers, and as the latter was asleep when
the tickling process began, he awoke in an
angry mood. He got out of his berth
with an open knife IN his hand and in
doing so stumbled. He fell against o Con-
nor and cut him in the stomach. There
was an immediate outcry and the police
and the ships surgeon were called. The
latter fixed up OConnor's wound and
Johnson was marched away to jail. O'Con-
nor says the stabbing was an accident and
as he is now rapidly recovering the chances
are that the case against Johnson will be
dismissed.
7 - L;
tor had an experience on the water front
last Tuesday night that he will not forget
in a hurry. He had been spending the
evening at a friends house, and about
1890 o'clock was on his way back to his
ship, which is doched at Main-street wharf.
When near the Sailors Home two men,
with sacks over their head and shoulders,
stood him up. They both seemed to be
well-built fellows, but all the skipper could
see was their eyes cleaning through two
holes cut IN their headgear They de-
manded his money and watch, but Lewis
objected. AS the men advanced the cap
tain hit one of them a blow with heavy
walking-stick he carried that disabled
him. AS the second man raised his arm
Lewis struck him over the wrist and fol-
lowed up the attack. At this the men
broke and run, and then Captain Lewis
resumed his walk to the ship. The police
are now on the track of the highway rob-
bers, but Captain Lewis is very doubtful
as to whether or not he could identify
them owing to the sacks that covered
their head and shoulders.
The steamer State of California, which
sails for Portland this morning, will take
away an enormous cargo. She will lnaugu-
rate the $1-a-tOn rate between here and
the Columbia River, and the merchants
are taking advantage of the situation.
Over 10 cabin passengers will avail them
selves OF the So rate, and the steerage is
already crowded.
The British ship Lord Spencer has been
posted at Lloyds as missing. She left San
Francisco 239 DAYS ago with cargo of
wheat for Queenstown, and has not since
| been spoken. As high as 80 per cent re-
insurance has been paid on her, and now
that she has been posted as missing the
gamblers will have to stand the loss The
captain was well known in San Francisco,
and the entire crew was shipped here in
the British consulate.
The tramp steamer Progressist has had
her bottom repaired at the Hunters Point
drydock, and she will dock at Main-street
wharf for a thorough overhauling to-mor-
row. Several new plates have been put
in, and all the loose rivets frightened up.
It will probably be the first of the Kew
Year before she is ready for sea again.
President Colnon of the Harbor Com
mission and delegation from the Good
Government Club had conference yester-
day on the question of civil service reform
on the front. Mr.. Colnon told them he
was very much in favor of the movement
and that the members of the commission
and the Governor were shortly to have
conference on the subject. He also said
that the chances were that bill putting
the wharfingers and collectors under civil
service rules would be introduced in the
next Legislature.
Captain w. E. Bushnell of the ferry
steamer Piedmont has resigned his COM
mand. He is suffering from cancer and
his life is despaired of.
The agents of the Occidental and ORR
entail Steamship Company expected the
tramp steamer Evandale, which they have
running in the Belgic's place, to arrive at
Yokohama yesterday. She has not yet
been reported, but the Mail people do not
seem to be bit anxious. They say she is
a slow boat and that anything from
twenty-five to thirty-five days is good time
for her.
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