The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-06
HIS FINGERS
were TORN OFF
Harry Hofman's Remark
able Escape on the
Beulah.
Sailing Of the Mail Company's
China Under the Hawaiian
FLAG.
German Emigrants on the Ship Glade
Had Their Food Thrown to
Them Like Hogs.


bay yesterday. The schooner Beulah is
unloading railroad ties into vessel IN
the stream and Harry Hoffman was
handling the guide-rope and an extra
heavy load ran away with him. He was
afraid to let go for fear of doing some
damage TO the vessel, and in consequence
his hand was drawn into the coils on the
ssanchion. The nails on four of the
fingers were torn off and the end OF the
second finger on the right hand went alto
gether
The injured man was rowed ashore in
the schooner's boat and was treated at
the Waterfront Receiving Hospital by
DR.. Hill.
The Pacific Mail Company's China
sailed for the Orient yesterday. She took
heavy freight. For the first time she
went out under the Hawaiian flag.
The E. X. Wood Company is building a
new four-masted schooner for the coasting
trade. She will be named the Defiance
and will be one OF the largest vessels OF
her kind in the lumber business.
The oldtime bark Richard III has seen
her last days as "wind-iammer." Her
masts are gone, the hull has been cut
turned into hulk. She will be taken TO
Departure Bay and there loaded with
coal, after which she will be towed TO San
Francisco. The whole thing is gam BILE.
Should the cost of this mode of transport
alton be as cheap as by tramp steamer it
will be continued. If not, the Richard III
viii remain in the bay OF San Francisco.
The Umatiila arrived from Puget Sound
ports last night. She was delayed twelve
In Mt IF hn in ahI III.
ity of the officers OF the company to Sc
cure men to load the vessel. ALI the long
shoremen were en- route to Klondyke and
the mills at Everett were practically Idle
because there were no men to run the
machinery. ''Klondyke is king" was the
remark made by Senator Perkins when
spoken to about the late arrival of the
steamer. IF We cannot get men to ham
die the cargo we cannot make time.
Everything will be all right, however. on
the return trip of the Puebla and there
will be no more delays"
The Oceanic Steamship Company's Aus
tralia arrived from Honolulu Wednesday,
bringing a days later news than that
brought by the BeIgic. Everything was
quiet and the only warships there were
the American cruisers Philadelphia and
Marion, the japanese cruiser Nanlwa and
the British survey steamer Penguin.
Every body was on the tiptoe of excite
ment in expectation of the Oregon. a
line-of- battle ship has never visited Homo
lulu and the people OF the island repu bic
are more than anxious to have a look at
one of them in their own waters.
While the Australia was in Honolulu
the German ship Glade arrived with over
1900 emigranes. The PROPOSE ion is to
supply the sugar plantations with Ger
mans and people'of other nationalities to
the exclusion of Chinese and Japanese
cheap labor. If the stories told by the
passengers and crew of the Australia are
true very few more Germans will leave
Antwerp for the paradise of the Pacific.
From what they say the usual procedure
at breakfast time was for the cook to
make his way through skylight in the
galley to the roof. Crowding around the
galley were all the men, women and chill
dren comprising the emigrant gang.
Basketful alter basketful of bread was
cut up by the cook and his assistants, and
was thrown to the men, women and
children, just in the same manner as corn
is scattered to chickens. Il was then a
case of every man for himself, and the
devil take the hindmost." At dinner
time the corned beef was cut up and
served in the same manner. The emf
lulu, but were shipped to the various
plantations on the Inter-island steamers.
Captain Ankers, who ran the San uan
On a rock off the the Mexican coast dur
ing a dense fog, has resigned his COM
mand. A new rule in the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company makes it absolutely
necessary for every officer to resign when
any accident happens TO his shi p when he
il comm and