The San Francisco call., 1897-11-22
An Attempt to Stay Men
From Shipping Causes
Excitement.
The Bark Imperator Sent to
Angel Island to Be
Quarantined.
Captain Dunlevy's War Upon Water
Front Bunko- -Steerers An
Attempted Suicide.

Inc water lrOnt, usually so Qulet on
Sundays, except for the brazen-lunged
shouts of quach nosuum venders, was dis
turbed by ripple OF excitement yester-
day which fer q time threatened to in
crease In size until it became full-fiedged
wave of war. 1t all arose over the ship
ping of sailors on the Santa Clara. The
prompt action of Officer Castor prevented
any greater trouble than strife of words,
| but large crowd had gathered in expect
alton of seeing scrap" so dear to the
heart of the waterfront lounger.
| Fourteen non-union sailors had been Sc
cured to embarK on the vessel, and they
were Just about to depart for her from
| Peterson's boathouse when a delegation
| from the Sailors Union and some of the
boarding houses arrived on the scene.
These tried to dissuade the men from
shipping because they had signed for less
than union wages. and a futile endeavor
was made to coax the boatmen to refuse
to take the men off to the ship where she
Law in the stream.
The union men offered no violence and
only laid hold OF the men to hold them
while trying the various articles OF per.
suasion, but one OF the sailors became
angered at their persistence and jumped
from boat with the assertion that he
would do something i'll a manner pugil-
istic. Officer Castor came up at that
| juncture. fired" the angry man back
into his boat, made the coaxing cease and
| the affair was over.
| At A. NJ. yesterday the bark Impera-
| tor, which is declared by the quarantine
| officials both State and Federal, to have
Z nf oil far- rI
! towed over TO Angel Island. She will be
kept in quarantine for at least week or
| Ten days, as the authorities do not intend
| to take the least chances of the disease
| spreading here, climate or no climate
Captain Myers, the pilot, who boarded
her, was taken along Also He may be
released in few days, but will get more
| fumigation in that time than he prob
| ably ever had before in all his life.
Some time ago Captain DunIevy of the
| Har Dor Police issued his ukase that the
confidence men of the water front would
! have 10 go. Several Of them went al that
time. The rasher ones STAYED, and from
time to time Detectives Ellis and Shaw
| have gathered IN the ''bunko" men under
the protecting roof of the Harbor Police
| station.
Their latest addition to the fold was
made yesterday in the person of c. Nc
| Cormick, said TO be an old-time offender.
! Violent hands were laid on him near the
| branch receiving hospital on East street,
and he was locked up on charge of va
grancy, where his mind can be brought
around to that state of cool reflection
where he will realize that even "bunko''
shoes do not relieve one from the tormenis
of treading the thorny pathway of sin.
! On McCormick's S person were found a spu-
rious check for SLIGO, an old Confederate
bill for $40, tilled-gold watch and four or
| five pairs OF gold-rim med spectacles. His
presence around the hospital is explain ed
| by the fact that a schooner is there pre-
pairing for an expedition 10 Copper River.
4 marine fireman named Robert John
son, living at 3l5 Folsom street, was
brought inlo the Branch Receiving Hos
pital yesterday in state of drunkenness
bordering on deiirium iremeps. He had
a shallow cut on the back of the lett wrisl,
which be ex xplained had been inflicted by
reason for hi4 action. and when told that
| he could make sure case OF 1t by
cutting himself on the front of the wrist
became infuriated and made an attem pt
to tight his captors, but was speedily sub
d ued treated and sent to the Harbor Po-
| lice Station.
Ben Pinkham, aged 72 years. the oldest
| boatman on the front, started out in his
coat for the bark Bundaeer, which lies in
| the stream, yesterday, and the tide was SO
| strong that 1t carried him almost around
| to Meiggs wharf before he realized it.
| The Old fellow sorrowfully explains that
| things are fferent now from the time he
brought Admiral Farragut "down from
Vallejo in a whitehall IN 1852 in one hour
| and fOrtV-fl We minutes