The San Francisco call., 1898-07-24
DOCKED AMID
 DIFFICULTIES Transport Arizona Given
 a Berth.
CENTENNIAL ALSO LAID UP
ANOTHER INSPECTION OF THE
 LATTER BOAT.
How Two Young Ladies Saw the Out going Transport-The Rush Goes to Mare
 Island.


 Wharfnger Root succeeded in getting berth for the big transport Arizona at Folsom-street wharf. Owing to her great length she required 475 feet of dock space and also thirty feet of water in which to maneuver.
 The tugs Sea King and Reliance moved her in from the stream yesterday, but as the barkentine s. G. Wilder was on the same side of the wharf the Arizona will not be properly docked until to-day.
 The Wilder will be moved out into the stream and the Arizona will be moved about twenty feet further up the dock. AS it is now her stern overhangs the wharf about twenty feet.
 The steamer Centennial also docked at Fosom-street wharf yesterday. She came down from Hunters Point drydock, where she had again been examined by the United States authorities. On the sugges- ton of the Inspector of Hulls and Boilers new plates are to be put in the Cen tenniafs boilers, and it Is then thought that the Government will accept her as transport
 The docking of the Arizona and the Centennial at FolSom-street wharf will put the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company to a little trouble. Spear street wharf, where this company's ves- sells usually dock, is undergoing repairs, there to discharge their inward freight and passengers and then going to Folsom-street wharf to load. All the coal and a considerable quantity of freight for the Columbia due to-day from Portland is lying on Folsom-sureet wharf and at first it was thought that the o. R. and N. Company would have to cart 1t around to Spear street. Assistant Chief Whartinger scott, however, found a way out of the difficulty When the Columbia is ready to go to Folsom street the Centennial will be allow the Columbia to get alongside the wharf The Centennial will then tie up alongside the Columbia until the latter has received her freight and passengers, after which she will go to sea.
 With the advent of the State of Cali fornia the Q. R. and N steamers will dis charge and receive freight at Spear street wharf.
 There, was considerable enthusiasm along the water front over the departure of the Rio Janeiro for Manila Among the crowds at the end of Howard-street wharf was an old Frenchman, who got very excited when he saw the transport get under way. He waved his handker- chief and hurrahed frantically for a few minutes and then he subsided and re- turned the handkerchief to his pocket 1H Now the Frenchman had two handker- chlets. one of them was for general ust and in the other he had $2 50 done up for Satekeeping Unfortunately for him when he pulled out the handkerchief which contained the money and the $2 50 scat tered among the crowd. There was a wild scramble and S1 50 was returned to the old man, but young fellow named Thomas Sheehan. who had picted I1n e dollar, ran away with it. I officer oas@ GedRrge 9R once gave chase and caught Sheehan at Eolsom-street wharf. When caught the thiet h11t returned i the dollar, to the old man, taken to the Harbor Police Station and charged with petty larceny
 Mrs; Andrews, the matron at the liar DOT hecelVing Hospital, was very much exercised over the manner in which two young ladies whom she saw on the wharf during the morning, got aboard the State tug GoVernor Markham. The tug went out with AdJutant General Barrett and a number of army officers to the Rio de Janeiro and ten minutes after she had ulSappeared under a full head of steam the young ladies put in an appearance on the wharf. The tug did not come back to the landing again until the Rio de Jan eiro had put to sea. Nevertheless when she came back to land her passengers the first to step off her were the two young ladies, who, according to Mrs. An crews, had missed their boat. Mrs An drews Is still wondering how they got on board, but the matter Is easy of ex- planation. The young ladies are friends of Assistant Chief Wharfinger Scott and the sight of their disappointed faces was too much for him, so he hired a white hall and rowed them out into the stream There he was lucky enough to intercept the Markham and put them aboard It was awful hard work rowing, as MT. Scotts hands will testify. There are three DlB pIlSltiS OIl edCn palm ana Harry will carry this memento of his gallantry for several days to come
 The United States steamer Rush went to Mare Island yesterday afternoon Or ders came to her captain during the morning and as soon as steam was got up the vessel got under way and steamed up through Raccoon Straits. It is be- lieved that she has gone to the navy yard to have a battery of modern rapid fire guns put aboard.
 About three thousand women crossed the bay on the Il o'clock trip of the Tiburon yesterday. They are the moth League of the Cross Cadets now en- camped at Santa Rosa. They will spend the day with their relatives at Camp Montgomery and will return with them on a special train this afternoon.
 truce was declared yesterday bv Quarantine Officer Craw of the State Board of Horticulture and the commits sion merchants; In consequence none of the wormy fruit that came on the Sac ramento River steamers yesterday morning was thrown overheard The | commission merchants ask for delay until tomorrow morning in order to no- | tify their clients on the river. and they were given the time asked for. MT Craw was very willing to grant their request | of shipping wormy and inferior fruit to San Francisco had been going on for | years and that it was only fair that the farmers should be notified that the nrac | tice should stop. Some of the commits | sion merchants took very high handed | stand with the State quarantine man and at one time threatened to throw him off the wharf MT Craw, however. pointed out to them that there was fine of l S5000 or imprisonment for five years at- | tached to interfering with State of l fcer in the execution of his duty. So the commission merchants came to the con 1 clusion that Quarantine Officer Craw was a good man to leave alone.
 W. Williams, note teller of the Hiber- nia Bank, denies the story of his rescue by F. Alexander, manager of Parrott & Co, Sausalito, last Thursday. Mir Will Hams Is sure that there is some mistake In the matter and expresses fears that his reported rescue will make him the laughing stock of the community.
 
 Stmr Grace Dollar will sail for St Michael. Guara nteed connections Yukon River points. low rates Particulars 46 Mkt. or 632 Mkt r. B.