The San Francisco call., 1898-06-26
Will Work On the Island
 Guano Deposits.
HARB0R HOSPITAL WRECKED
A sCoW RAN ITS BoWsPRTr INTO
 THE BUILDING.
Ferry Postal Officials Angry Because the Change of Quarters Has Been Set for Sunday
 and the Fourth.

Another attempt is to be made at working the guano deposits on Clin- perIon Island. This time Japanese are 10 De employed, and as they will work AoI haI the sum paid to white men a success sue IS expected from the venture. 1he steamer Alice Blanchard is to he uSeu instead of a sailing vessel. so the lIouoIe which always followed in the wake or schooner having to stand off ana on While the cargo was being nut aboard in lighters will be done away with. ""'
 me Chpperton Island guano deposits were worked originally by an American syndicate, but when it tried to sell its interests to an English concern the Mexican Government laid claim to the Island and sent out a gunboat. whose captain holsted the Mexican flag over the "speck on the ocean," At the tune there were a number of men on the Island working the guano deposits TOT the Oceanic Phosphate Company of this city, and all the men save one went to Mexico on the gunboat The soltary individual would not desert his post and sooner than be carried away ne Jumped overheard and swan back to his island home. Now the Pacific Islands Company, Limited, with Ma condry & Go. as agents, has been formed, and it is going to work the rich piles of fertilizers on the island Tor all they are worth.
 In order to put the venture on as economical a basis as possible the Pa ciflc Islands Company sent to Homo lulu for forty Toro paea Io t1or1-r- arrived on the steamer Peru last Fri day and are now in quarantine on An gel Island. No attempt will be made to land them, but they will be trans shipped to the steamer Alice Blanch- ard and sent direct to Clipperton.
 The Alice Blanchard has been in all kinds of business on the coast She has carried lumber from northern ports and was in the passenger business be- tween here and Port Los Angeles. She was in the Puget Sound trade and when the Klondike rush was on last year she carried gold hunters to the far North. Lately her owners incor- porated under the name of the Alice Blanchard Company with H. Aohr as president and his f1st stroke of busi- ness was to charter the vessel to the Pacific Islands Company.
 The scow schooner John Nagel ran amuck yesterday and demolished one side of the Harbo+ Receiving Hospi- tai The tug Amelia was docking the schooner at the NiIssion street bulk head, and as there was not room for them both to get in the captain of the tug gave the schooner considerable way and then dropped her. The cap- tain of the scow figured on his anchor holding, but 1t gave way and the schooner's bowsprit crashed through the side of the building, completely T for the doctors. The bedstead was knocked over and smashed into pieces, while a chair was turned into kind ling wood.
 The employees of Uncle Sam, whose duties call them to labor in the branch postoff1ce at the foot of Market street, are anything but pleased with the amusement laid out for them on the glorious Fourth. The new quarters for the department in the Union ferry depot are ready and Postmaster Mon tague has designated Sunday and Mon day, July and 4 as moving days. On the 5th the Southern Pacific will do business in the new building also. and then all the old sheds that now dis figure East street will be torn down and the new ferry depot will be re- vealed in all it's beauty.
 The steamer Coptic went to the Mail dock yesterday morning. but owing to the state of the tide it was late in the afternoon before she was able to get to the wharf Her cabin passengers were landed, but those in the steerage had to go in quarantine to be fumi- gated. On the 21st inst, at 1:3O D. rn. in latitude 2S.09 north longitude 14634 west (about 600 miles from Honolulu the transports China. Colon, Zealandia and Senator were sighted
 The fruit handlers employed by the T-ay o their river boats are still on strike. Several of the concerns boats went out yesterday under police surveillance. but were short handed They received a full complement of men at Antioch As the rush of fruit is grow ing greater daily the chances are that the com pany will have to give the men the ad- vanced wages demanded