The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
WHEAT IS KING
ON THE IRON
Steamers and Sailing Yes
sells Being Pressed Into
Service.
Freight Rates Are on the Jump
With Captains Holding
Back.
Dr.. Shields Has Bought Out DR.. Nc
Donald's Interests on the
Water Front.

Wheat is king on the water front just
now. Charters have gone up with leaps
and bounds, and now agents and masters
will not look at any figure less than 30s
direct Yesterdays business shows the
following transactions:
Cloncaid. British bark, 1900 tons, wheat or
barley TO United Kingdom, Havre, Antwerp or
Dunkirk. 26s Sd net Chartered by GlrVin &
Eyre.
Kensington, British ship, 1915 tons, wheat
or barley 10 United Kingdom Havre, Antwerp
or Dunkirk, 25s; direct port, 23s Cd. Char
tered by G. W. McNear
Lamorna, British ship. 2169 tons wheat or
barley TO United Kingdom, Havre Antwerp or
Dunkirk. 25s: direct porG, 23s 8. Chartered
by Bafour, Guthrie & Co.
Lord Cairns, British ship, 1911 tons, wheat
or barley to United Kingdom, Havre, Antwerp
or Dunkirk, 25s net. Chartered by Bsllour,
Guthrie 4 Co.
Pinmore, British ship, 2186 tons, wheat or
barley TO United Kingdom, Havre, Antwerp
or Dunkirk. 25s; direcG port, 23s 81. Char
tered by q. w. McNear.
Talus, British ship, 1854 tons, wheat or
barley 10 United Kingdom, Hayre, Antwerp or
Dunklrk, 25s; direct port, 23s Cd. Chartered
by Eppinger & Co.
Cumbri4n, british bark, 1853 tons. wheat or
flour from the Columbia River TO United
Kingdom, Havre, Antwerp or Dunkrk,
32s Cd; direct port. 31s 81. Chartered by
the Portland Flour Mills.
Corunna, British ship, 226S tons, now at
Tacoma, wheat thence 10 United Kingdom,
Havre. Antwerp or Dunklrk, 23s 81. Char
tered prior TO arrival.
In order to relieve the glut at southern
ports the Umati.la, which arrived from
the north Yesterday, will have to make
trip to Port Hartford. At that point
graincars are pied up for half mile,
and passengers have TO walk that distance
in order 10 reach the steamer. AT Hue
meme the blockade is just as bad, and the
- H..
been pressed into service in order to keep
out the coastlng steamers. The Chal-
lenger used to carry lumber between
Seattle and San Pedro, but on this occa-
sion she will bring nearly 1000 tons Of
wheat to San Francisco.
The Umatilla will not get away until
about 10 A. NJ. All her Puget Sound freight
and nearly 500 tons of coal have to be dis
charged before she can get away on her
extra trip. Longshoremen and other as
sistants will go down with the vessel, and
if the eXpectat ions of Captain Bennett
ere real zed she will be back here in tim e
to sail on her regular date, next Tuesday.
During her south bound trip the Una
tiila passed the tug Fearless, with a
dredger in tow, and the steamer Progreso,
with a big raft in tow. Both steamers
were making fair weather of it and the
chances are that they will make pore to-
day.
The Hawaiian bark Rhoderick Dhu,
which sailed yesterday, took away the
largest individual cargo that has ever left
this port for Honolulu. She took away
over 1000 tons of general merchandise,
and even then had to leave several con-
signments on the wharf.
A new factor has entered into the fight
among the quarantine officers on the
water front DIR. George Franklin Shields
is the latest candidate in the field, and he
asserts that he is the successor of DR.. Nc
Donald. AS the matter stands DR.. Chal-
mers is the legal representative of the
State of California, DR.. Rosenau repre-
sents the United States and DR.. Mcdonald
! had contract with certain British ship
owners to look after the welfare of their
sailors while their vessels were in this
port.
A circular letter issued yesterday sets
forth that DR.. Shields "for valuable con-
sideration" now owns all the book &C
counts and contracts with English ship
owners now standing in the name OF DR..
Mcdonald. Il am now owner and holder
thereof and successor 10 DR.. McDonald's $
claims Hereunder for services to be per-
formed in future" is the concluding sem
tence to DR.. Shields notice.
With three reputable physicians in the
field the sailors on the deep-sea ships
should be vel! attended to-
Mate Ross of the British ship Alcides,
now ready for sea, Will go out as master.
Captain Dart will remain ashore to take
care of his wife, who is very sick.
The machinery on the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company's Alex Duncan broke
down YESTERDAY. and she had to be towed
from off the Presidio 10 her dock by one
OF the red stack company's tugs.
The brig w. G. Irwin sailed for Hawai-!
yesterday, and the brig John D. Spreckes
Will follow her to-day. Captain Christen-
sen says he will catch the Irwin before
she has gone 9. thousand miles and will
beat her into port twenty-four hours.
The captains have bet of a suit of clothes
on the outcome OF the run.