The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
The Bark Strathdon Docked at
the Union Iron Works for
Repairs.
HARD AT WORK ON THE QUEEN
Harbor Commissioners Will Set Apart
Section for a Free Fruit
Market.

ages yesterday. The bark was taken in
tow early in the day by the tugs Fearless,
Vigilant and Monarch and docked at the
Union Iron Works. There she will receive
q new bowsprit and all the other repairs
necessary. Should the hull show any strain
the cargo will be taken out and the yes-
sci placed on the drydock. The repairs to
the Strathdon are being paid for by Good
all, Perkins & Co. This is not an admis-
sion of responsibility on the part of the
company, but simply desire to act in a
liberal spirit and not unnecessarily delay
a vessel that was ready for sea. While the
bark is being repaired her agents will
draw S129 day demurrage for her deten-
ton.
The repairing of the Queen is being
pushed. All the men that an possibly
| find room to work have been put on, and
in consequence the steamer presented a
very different appearance yesterday from
what she did few hours after the col
lison. ALI the wreckage has been cleared
away and some of the repairs to the decks
and railings have already begun. Inside
of a fortnight it is hoped TO have the
Queen as good as new.
Word was received at the Merchants
y
ship Shenandoah had just completed a
trip from San Francisco to New York III
the remarkably fine time OF ninety-seven
days. The voyage is not record breaker,
but still it is one of the best passages made
in years. Captain Murphy, the COM
mander OF the Shenandoah, is well known
IN San francisco, and his family live here.
He is a general favorite among shipping
men, and they will all be glad to hear of
the big ships smart run.
Misfortune seems to have overtaken the
opposition line of shippers just esta ablished
between Philadelphia and San Francisco
at the outset. The William S. Davis
which was to have been the first of the
line, has been abandoned off Cape Hat
teras and 1t will be some time before an
other vessel can be secured to take her
place. The Davis was on her way from
Manila to Philadelphia to load for this
port when she ran into succession of
heavy gales that completely disabled her.
AS she was expected to 60 down at every
moment the crew abandoned her.
The Independent Boarding masters As
ISOLATION of San Francisco have issued the
following circular and are spreading it
broadcast on the water front:
For the better government of shipping and
for the protection of ship-owners and seamen,
boarding masters. propose to do business at
the following rates and under the following
conditions:
Wages for seamen not to exceed "a per
month; allotment not 10 exceed $40.
Men to be shipped free Of charge to ship and
seamen alike; boating free.
Watchman to be supplied by this association
free of charge.
II was also resolved not to ship any men
with parties or so-called shipping masters not
| IN sympathy with this association, and ii was
further resolved that we Will give good and
sufficient bonds for the fulfillment Of our con-
tracts
p Mordanpt nras;dar+ and sb;n,;,x
agent; John Cane, weep president; B. Gaffney.
secretary; John Curtin, treasurer; John Lang
ford, chairman executive committee; D. NJ
Carthy, L. Gomez, A.. Nelson, B. Johnson K.
Geto, William Dockrile, G. Lanteri, S. Wynne
J. Dean, Richard Brewer, L. Foster John Cal
lander. n. Nelson, William Ahlstrom, j. K.
shoge, John Magner.
The old steamer Eastern Oregon. for
merly of the Oregon Improvement Com
pany's line, is to be brought out of her
retirement in Oakland Creek. A few days
ago she was purchased by Charles Nelson,
Lorentz Foard and others for $4,000, and
her days as steamer are now over. The
machinery will be taken out and the hold
cleared out. Then the Eastern Oregon
will be turned into four-masted
schooner, and it is rumored that the en-
gines will be used TO equip two new steam
schoOners. The Oregon was twin-screW
steamer, SO she had two sets of engines,
both of which can now be utilized.
The steamer George w. Elder is having
considerable trouble in getting rid of
10, 600 cases of kerosene which she brought
down from Portland. Wharfinger George
Dryden would not allow the stuff to re-
main on the wharf over night, so the
Standard Oil Company, TO which it be-
longs, has been compelled to cart it away
as soon as it was discharged from the
steamer. The wharfnger is only obeying
State law, which forbids the storing OF
n ny a w harf htlt hnfo f-
proving very inconvenient to the steamar
and the owners of the oil.
The whaling bark Lydia is discharging
$50 barrels of whale oil at Main street.
w hen she went out OF commission last
season the oil was kept in as ballast. Now
that she is about to be retitted it is being
taken out, and the bark will start on
another cruise in few weeks.
The schooner Barbara Henster is to
have gasoline engine put in her. This is
on account Of vigorous protest made by
the residents OF Bowens landing. T.
Hayward has contract to carry all the
lum Der produced in that part of the coun-
try to San Francisco, and he has been
doing it in sailing vessels. The people
protested and said they wanted quicker
facilities. If some quicker power than
sail was not forthcoming they said they
would build steam schoonerS and run an
opposition line. Hayward recognized that
tney were III earnest, anu he at once DeSan
putting gasoline engines in his fleet. The
Monterey, Newark and Barbara Heinster
are already equipped, and on her arrival
here the Ell Rio Rey will be laid up to re-
ceive her engines. The equipping of the
four schooners Will cost over $40, 600, but it
is thought that the increased speed and
increased trade will more than recoup the
outlay.
The steamer San Jose will sail for Pana-
ma and way ports on Saturday with big
cargo of general merchandise. Chief En-
gineer Mclean and Chief Assistant Garvey,
who remained over last trip for rest, will
go out on the vessel in their old positions.
While the schooner r. w. Bartlett
was unloading lumber at Mission
Rock timber fell on Henry Olsen, a
brother of the captain. and seriously IN
jured him. He was taken to ST. Mary's
Hospital, where his wounds were attended
to. He will probable be about again in
few days.
Hereafter the revenue cutters will have
nCthing on their sterns except the name.
A great deal of scroll work and coat-of-
arms was on all of them, but all that is to
be removed and everything now is to be of
the plainest. ALI the cutters are to be
white, and the work of Transforming the
Bear began yesterday. Orders to the above