The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-09
On This Occasion Dr.. Chal-
mers Is Oleverly Out
Witted.
City of Para Reports Death
and Is Ordered Into
Quarantine.
Supposedly sucoumbed to Yellow Jack,
The Vigilant's Haul-0amanohe
Again Here.

This is DR.. Rossnau's day to shine.
Yesterday he outwitted the State Quaran-
tine Otflcer, DR.. Chalmers, in very clever
manner, and literally made good his
threat that he would clay for him and get
ahead next time even if be had to get up
before the light of day to do it,
Last Saturday DR.. Chalmers boarded the
British ship Galatea, from Ham burg, and
the American barkentine S. NJ. Castle,
twenty days from Honolulu, and took
both copies of the bill of health, leaving
none for Rosenau, the Federal quarantine
officer Yesterday the longed-for oppor-
tunity to ''get even" came when the City
of Para arrived from Panama and way
ports at A. NJ. While the State officer
was still sleeping soundly in his berth and
dreaming perchance that some vessel from
the Klondike would drift in without a soul
on board and that he would be lucky
enough to board her and secure barrel
OF gold all for his very own-Dr. Rosenau
to be lie it out of the deal-the latter arose
from his bed and went out to the vessel
before the sun had risen.
On boarding the steamer he learned that
a Frenchman of the name OF A. Frerer
had been taken i'll, supposedly with yellow
fever August l. and had been buried at
ingly, the Para was ordered into quaran-
tine and taken to Angel Island, and when
DR.. Chalmers arose In the morning he
would never have known that the steamer
had arrived at all if it mad not been for
The records preserved by the Merchants
Exchange. There were thlrty-nine pas
sengers on the steamer, all told, but this
was the only case OF sickness that was re-
ported as having occurred.
no ha lrantiOe Tam o. ShanfPr and tho
schooners Esther Buhne and Olga ran in
close to Meiggs wharf yesterday morning
and among them shipped eight or ten
"scab' sailors. Union sailors are now
very scarce, and there is not a super
abundance OF the other variety, but it was
thought that by the men getting on board
at this point and at an early hour all
chances of a conflict might be avoided.
III the craft put TO sea Immediately on
shipping the men.
The tug Vigilant departed Sa turday at
midnight for the Cordeil fishing banks,
with party OF pleasure-seekers On board,
under the espionage of William Randall,
brother of the captain, Clement Randall.
The tug returned ana docked at Mission
street wharf 1 about P. NJ. Every man
on board seemed to have made big
catch of rock cod, and all the youthful
loungrrs around that part of the front had
a good thing in being hired 10 carry them
uptown.
A group of Naval Reserves, under
charge of Captain Turner, went to Mare
Island in the steamlaunch Amy yester-
day morning, and late In the aterD Don re-
turned in charge of the old monitor
Camanche, which was anchored off Fol-
som-street wharf. The monitor had been
at Mare Island for some time being re-
fitted. The Naval Battalion handled her
adeptly.
The tug Fearless, which has been out of
commission for the last few months, VIII
be put back into commission imnedi-
ately. rhe Fearless was removed from
the Merchants drydock, where she has
been cleaned, scraped and painted. yes
terday.
Frank Peters. formerly engineer for the
San Francisco Laundry's tug, will soon
sail as chief engineer on the steamer Moro.
He gives as a reason for his change that
he was making a good commission while
in the laundry business and that the COM
pany made cut in what he was making,
not to his taste.
Henry Petersen, the boatman, will conf
mence the construction of another gaso-
line launch, similar to the Amy, at once.
For this purpose he has purchased the
engines OF the Hetty b.
Good smelt fishing IS now had along the
Powell and LON bard street wharves and
in the vicinity of Long Bridge. Crowds
are engaged in the pastime every day,
and especially on Sundays.