The San Francisco call., 1897-07-20

burden, 125 feet long, 26 feet broad and 6
feet depth of hold. Should any rough
weather be encountered the crew of the
steamer will have bad time of it. Ii all
gves well the Grady should be here about
Wednesday.
Harbor Commissioner Chad bourne and
the contractors for the new ferry had a
merry time of it yesterday. AS soon as
they saw the irate State official coming
the contractors began to hide behind posts
and pillars and then tried to sneak away
when the colonel's back was turned.
Their nianeuvers failed, however, and
after half an hour of hide and seek the
commissioner brought them to bay. The
trouble was over the slow progress being
made on the new depot. Chadbourne
asserted that not half the men necessary
were employed and said that the contract
ors ought to be ashamed of themselves for
the way they were dilly-dallying with the
work. Then excuses were the order of
the day. Each contractor tried to put the
blame on the others shoulder, but Chad
bourne cut them all short by saying:
1T just amounts TO this. Before you
ca get your progress warrants all three
Com missioners must sign them. Now
will not sign another warrant until | see
you are making decent showing. Fur
thermore, if you don't q o any better than
you are doing now, l will insist that the
contracts be taken away from you and
given to the uext lowest bidder, and your
oondsmen will have to pay the difference.
Now you know Just where you stand. If
you don't get move on, you'll get no
more money as long as l am on the
board"
The contractors walked away crestfallen,
but strange 10 say, although 1t was 3 P. NJ,
half q dozen extra men were at work on
the building before P. NJ.
That building has 10 be finished before
the end of the year" said the Commits
sioner in talking about the matter later
on, "and if it is nor, some one will have to
suffer, and that one will not be the State.
The idea of my having tC constantly chase
those men In order 10 make them do their
work"
The steamer Homer and the barkentine
City of Papeete both sail for Tahiti on the
1st of next month. Hitherto the mail has
always gone by the sailing vessels, but on
this occasion the Homer will carry it..
Nearly all the passengers will go by the
Homer but the bulk of the freight will
take enough coal with her for the round
trip, and the only stop during the run Will
be at the Marquesas Group.
The British ship Comliebank is almost
ready TO sail for Rio de Janeiro with the
first cargo of wheat that has left for that
point In years. she VIII be followed by
the Cressington, and shippers may char
ter another vessel for the same port to-
day. The Rathdown will take wheat to
South America, and another vessel is.load-
ing for Calcutta. The demand for CALI
fornia wheat is now booming, and the
chances are that the 10000 tons OF disen-
gagged shipping now IN port will be ma
terially reduced before the month is out.
During the past week the ferry steamer
James M. Donahue has been running as a
freigat boat between Tlburon and Baden.
During that time she carried FIVE steamer
loads of cattle and fifteen carloads of hogs
to the slaughter house.
G. r. Havernan, the popular and eff.
cient freight clerk of the steamer Tibu-
ron. is back at his old post again. "Char-
ley' had "a close calp' and for three
months his life was despaired of. He is
just back from Bartlett Springs, and
while not as fat and jolly as of old, still
he is ION the mend," as he himself
puts it.
The following has been issued from the
Office of the lighthouse inspector:
Notice is hereby given. that on or. before
July 30, 1897, a whistling buoy painted red
and marked with the letters "Pt. H." in
white, Will be established in ninety feet oi
water about two miles south by east from
Point Hueneme lighthouse, California
This notice affects The "List OF Beacons and
Buoys, Pacific Coast, 1896" page 13.