The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-19
Many Changes Have Taken Place
Among Captains and Chief
Engineers.
OPPOSITION LINE TO BERKELEY
Remarkable Run of the Little Steamer
Santa Lucia to San Jose de
Guatemala.

| The sailing of the Pacific Mail Com
| pany's steamer Peru was the only excite
ment on the water front yesterday. The
| steamer took away 191 Chinese in the
steerage and II cabin passengers. Among
| the latter were three missionaries, and a
great number of church members were
| down to see them off. AS the vessels
moved away from the wharf both parties
joined in singing "God Be With You Till
| We Meet Again" and "Nearer, NV God
to Thee" The hundreds of heathens who
| were there to see their relatives looked on
| in open-eyed establishment.
Among the passengers on the Peru was
E. st. Vraz, a Prussian zoologist, who has
been making tour of the United States.
He is member of the Royal Museum of
Prague, and in all the big cities wher-
ever there is Bohemian population he
has lectured in the Bohemian tongue. He
will remain in Japan about three months
and will then go to Europe via Hongkong.
E. c. Troy. the auctioneer, was another
passenger. He will buy a large assort-
ment of japanese goods in Y okohama and
on his return will enter into competition
with California articles.
A great number of changes have taken
place in shipping circles during the past
few days. Captain Green of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company's ST. Paul went
out in command of the Umatilla, Captain
Hunter being on the sick list Captain
Duggan is now master of the st. Paul.
Captain Jacobson of the barkentine Con-
suelo is also on the sick list, and Captain
Friis will take the vessel out on her next
trip to the Hawaiian Islands. Chief En-
gineer Holland, who has been laid up for
over year, was able to resume work last
week and went out on the steamer Peru.
Chief Engineer Rossiter, who filled his
place, has been transferred to the steamer
City of Sydney and Chief Engineer Don
nelly will take the Acapulco.
1t has been stated that the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company was about to
put the stern-wheeler Herald on the run
between San Francisco and Berkeley. At
present Piper, Alden, Goodal 81 Co. s
steamer Hope has the trade all to herself,
ard as the Herald is steadily losing money
for the railroad on the Vallejo run, Agent
White is said 10 be looking around for
new field in which there is more money.
When spoken to about the matter yester-
day, Harry Goodall laughed and said:
Let them go ahead. The Hope just about
pays expenses, and if the Southern Pacific
thinks 1t can make any money by running
in opposition to US, let them try it."
Among the passengers who came up
from San Jose de Guatemala on the
steamer City of Sydney were Captain Mel
son and four men who formed the crew of
the little steamer Santa Lucia when she
left San Francisco last November. She
was built to tow tenders from the shore to
the steamers, and when she left here peo-
pie said she would never reach her desti-
nation. She is only As feet long, Is feet
broad and 6 feet deep, but she turned out
to be splendid seaboat.
The run of $500 miles was made on thir-
teen tons of coal, but it was not until the