The San Francisco call., 1896-07-28
PEARS A DRUG
IN The MARKET.
The Jackson-Street Wharf
Crowded With the
Luscious Fruit.
NO BUYERS IN SIGHT.
Trouble on the American Ship
Sterling Over the Food
Served at Port Costa.
THE CREW LEFT HER IN A BODY
Captain Johnson Left the Bark Enoch
Talbot at Ventura Because of
Love Affair.

Pears are a drug on the market and
Jaekson-street wharf is crowded with
them. The canneries do not want them,
and as there is no outside market many
of them will remain on the wharf until
they rot or are given away, SIS several
loads of onions were last week.
Besides the pears there are large quanti-
ties of potatoes lying around, and if some
of the accumulations are not carted away
soon the river steamers will have no place
on which to discharge their cargoes.
Nearly all the fruit is from the Sacra-
mento Valley, but the Napa City and Zin-
fandeI also bring considerable from Napa.
The peach crop is light this year, so there
is no surplus of that fruit, but pears are
more abundant than usual, and in conse-
quence the supply far exceeds the de-
mand. Every river steamer that gets in
during the day brings a load and the piles
on the wharf are constantly increasing. A
dozen teamsters are hauling the fruit
away all day, but they cannot reduce the
supply.
The British ships Lauriston, eighty
three days from Newcastle Australia and
Queen Elizabeth, sixty days from Hong
kong, arrived in port yesterday. Both
masters report light and battling winds
throughout the entire passage. Both ves-
sells made unusually long passages The
Lauriston is loaded and the Queen Eliza
beth has general cargo of Chinese mer-
chandise.
The gasoline schooner Checto is unload
ing quantity OF wreckage from the CO.
lom bia at Howard 3. Among it is a piano.
two cases of machinery. wire. pots and
pans, laoies' underclothing and about
dozen sets of Waverly novels. Everything
was ruined, and, with the exception of the
machinery, will probably not bring enough
at auction TO pay expenses. As soon as
she is discharged the Checto will go back
for another load.
The buIwarks of the British ship Cedar
bank, which were damaged during a storm
of Cape Horn, were being repaired yes
terday. The vessel seems to be unfortu-
nate on her runs to San Francisco. On
the last occasion she arrived IN port with
her cargo of coal on fire.
. Captain Davis of the American ship
Sterling is having trouble with his crew.
While she was loading at Port Costa the
men say they were only half fed, and they
assert that on Saturday night and yester-
day morning they got nothing to eat at
all, as the vessel was in the stream and
there was no cook aboard. When it came
along toward noon the mems appet1tes
would not be gainsaid, so the mate, car
penter and three sailors-all the crew that
was aboard-packed up their belongings
and came ashore. The carpenter and men
are very bitter against theI skipper and do
not mince matters when talking about
him. They predict that if ne treats his
new crew in the manner he treated them
reaches Liverpool
Soon after the Sterling arrived here
from New York she was sold to
the Alaska Packers Association and
Captain Weldon was succeeded by
Captain Davis. The former was a uni
versal favorite, but Davis was not so well
liked. Many of the men left the ship and
were paid of. When, therefore, she went
TO Port Costa there was only a small COM
plement left and the three sailors had 10
take turns at doing the work of watch
man..
The plans of the whaling excursion have
been changed. It Will not leave San Fran
cisco until August % next, and the Pacific
Coast steamship Queen will go out with
the Fearless, instead of the steam schooner
Albion. Instead of anchoring in brakes
Bay at night the party will make its head
quarters at Santa Cruz. After the whale
is captured Monterey and the wreck of the
Colon bia viii be visited and the entire
party will be landed in the CITY about
noon on the following Monday. 7. c.
Wills, who is engineering the excursion,
resigned from J. g. Kim ball & Co. 70 &C.
cept position with Goodall, Perkins &
Co. He is one OF the best-known and best
liked men on the water front, and if any
body can make the excursion a success be
can. The whale when killed will be towed
TO port and placed on exhibition and the
proceeds were to go to the carnival fund.
If the carnival should not come off the
money will be donated to the Associated
Charities.
The oil bark Enoch Talbot arrived from
Ventura yesterday in tow OF the tug Res
cue. The crude material was wanted
badly at the refinery, so it was thought
best to send 4 tug after the vessel. Cap
tain Johnson did not come up on the YES
sci. He created a sensation in Los
Angeles by taking to sea with HIM 8 young
actress, who was formerly at the Orpheum,
as his wife. This gave rise to great deal
of talk, and when the vessel left Ventura
Johnson quietly walked ashore and Cap
tain Merriman took command.
Sodiom Asano, the representative of the
Japanese Steamship Company now seek
ing terminus in this country, will be en-
tertaIned by the Chamber of Commerce on
his return from Portland. verything
possible will be done to secure the line of
steamers for San Francisco.
Some time ago 1t was stated in The CALL
that there was no school of navigation in
San Francisco since the death of Captain
McNeyln. This was q great mistake, as
the well-known old masters two sons
have conducted most successful school
ever since their fathers death. During
the past month the following have gradu-
ated and received certificates from the
United States Inspectors of Hulls and
Boilers: As master and pilot-Al-
fred Johnson, Jacob Lossions and
Fred Warner; as mate-C. J. Hol-
land, E. T. Marshall, John d. Peyster
Down, Walter G. Aust and Joseph NJ.
Howarth. To Walter c. Aust, Ira Nor
dych and John Spie certificates of COM
potency IN navigation and seamanship
were issued by the Chamber of Commerce.