The San Francisco call., 1897-04-30
PEOPLE WHO CAME
ON THE OOR|C
A Quick Run From Hong
kong and Yoko-
hama.
Smallpox and a Quarantine on
the Empress of
China.
Serious Accident to Sailor on Board
the Crown of Den.
mark.

The principal arrival yesterday was the
Occidental and Oriental Steamship Com.
pany's Doric two DAYS ahead of time.
She made the run from Hongkoug in %
days, from Yokohama in 10 days II hours,
and from Honolulu in 6 days hours.
She anchored off Meiges wharf late
Wednesday night. but none OF the passen-
gers were allowed to land until yesterday
morning. The passengers on the Doric
played in great coed luck, as all the peo-
pie who left on the Empress of China, on
the same day for British Colum bia, are
now in quarantine at Vancouver, B. G.
Two cases of smallpox broke out during
the trip, and the Sound steamer Islander
had TO be hired in order to accommodate
The lady passengers. Those who came in
the Doric's CABIN are now safely housed in
San Francisco hostelries.
Among those who came back from the
Orient were the following missionaries:
Mrs. 7. T. Alexander and the four Misses
Alexander, Miss Blunt. Rev. A. Bunker,
Miss Britain, Rev. and Mrs. L. P. Pee t,
Miss n. Stewart, Rev. and Mrs. S. w.
Taft, MIR. and Mrs. I. D. Vroom, H.
Whitney and Miss NJ. Whitney.
Among the distinguished passengers
was the Hon. James F. Connolly, United
States Consul ct Kobe, Japan.
E. Stanley Gibbons. another passenger,
is the well-known English philateist.
His house in London is the recognized
center of fstamp-colectors the world over,
and his advent will be hailed with Joy by
some of San Franciscos millionaire
cranks. Incidentally E. Stanley Gibbon
expects to pick up few rare specimens in
this "out.of-the-way corner of the GLOBE"
G. H. Kragh is connected with the Great
Northern Telegraph Company, whose
headquarters are at Nagasaki. He will
hold a conference here with the Western
Union people, and the result may be
direct service between here and Nagasaki.
H. Hennessey, the genial and popular
purser of the Gaelic, came back as purser
of the Doric. Mr.. Brown, who was sent
out from England, took his place at
Hongkong and Mr.. Hennessey went to the
new ship.
The steamer Del Norte will sail for
Alaska In few days for a five months
cruise. Captain Allen. late of the Cres-
cent City, will take her out. The captain
is just recovering from a severe attack of
illness.
The Street Committee of the Board of
Supervisors has at last discovered that the
approaches to the Oregon dock require
repairing. Men were at WORK yesterday
q
menace to teamsters' navigation, aud in
future wagons will not have to go three
blocks out of their way to steer clear of
pitfalls.
The gasoline schooner Jessie Matson
played in hard luck last night. She was
bringing IN the divers and workmen from
A. E. Pryor's silver mine when her pro-
pelior dropped out and the anchor had to
be let go. Yesterday morning she sailed
in and The crew got ashore.
j. }. Livernash was appointed a col
lector on the water front by the Harbor
Commissioners yesterday. The contract
for the erection of the new receiving hos
pitai was let to Thomas H. Day for $1195
on Green street wharf was granted to p D.
Chandler. The cost will be about So, ,OOO
and Chief Engineer Holmes was in
structed to prepare plans for the con-
struction of the same.
William Ramsey, a sailor on the Crown
of Denmark, now lying in Oakland Greek,
fell down the hold ana was seriously in
iured last Wednesday. He was brought
across the bay in towboat yesterday and
sent to the Marine Hospital.
The Hakasun-Maru, Japanese steamer,
is on her way here with an overflow cargo
of general merchandise. Rumor has it
that she is the first of a new line of
steamer which will be consigEe 1 to Chap
man e. Co., but Captain J. f. Chapman
knows nothing about the new line. Just
the same the advance steamer Of the So
called new line is overflowins with cargo.