The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
, The Countess Festetics
 '. Sailed on the City of Picking.
To Join Her Husband in An other Expedition on the
 Yacht TOlna.
Distressing Experience of Marine Superintendent Tabrett on the
 Mail Dock.

The Pacific Mail Company's steamer City of Picking sailed for the Orient yesterday. Among the passengers was the Countess Festetics, who goes to Yokohama to join her husband, who is ~ there on the yacht Tolna. From Yoko- hama the yacht will go to Hongkong. and from there the Count and Countess will start on another tour of the isl ands of the southern seas.
 C. H. Brickwedel Jr., the purser of the Picking, did not so out with her yesterday. He has been dangerously il for some time, and 1t was reported on the Mail dock yesterday that there ;; was very little hope for his recovery. ~ Mr. Brickwedel has been with the Pacific Mail Company over twenty-five years, and has served as storekeeper freight clerk and purser on every yes sel in the line. He was purser on the steamer City of Tokio when she was wrecked, and from there went on the Central American trade. He was then transferred to the Orient, and for a short time was on the steamer China. ~ From her he went to the City of Pe- king and remained with her until he was taken down with his present sick ness.
 H c, Tabrett, the marine superin . .tendent of the Risdon Iron Works, had an experience with the gatekeeper at the Mail dock last Wednesday night that he will not forget in a hurry. He received telephone message to the effect that the cylinders of the steamer ..Doric needed attending to and that he was to go down to her and see what was required. When he got to the . wharf the gatekeeper refused him ad- mittance. He told who he was and eX plained his buinesS, but the man was obdurate, saying he did not care who he was, and he was not going down on the wharf. MT. Tabrett told him it was % absolutely necessary that he should go to the steamer to see what work was to be done, but he could not move the gatekeeper, so he telephOned to the of flee of the Oriental and Occidental Steamship Company. Orders were at once issued to the man at the gate to allow MT. Tabrett and any one with him to go down to the DOric- Tabrett was passed in, and when he reached the vessel Chief Engineer Allen told him that a mistake had been made and that there was nothing al all the mat ter with the vessels machinery. The two engineers then walked up the wharf together. and when they got to
  Do you know man named Tabrett, MT. Allen?" '1 know a gentleman named MT. Tabrett," answered the chief, "and this is he Take a good look at him and make sure that you know him again the next time he hap pens to have business on the Mail . dock
 : The old paddle steamer Tiger is hay ing her engines and boiler fixed up by : the Risdon Iron Works, and as soon as the work is completed she will go to Puget Sound to tow vessels between : Seattle and Dyea and Skaguay. The old Tiger was once familiar sight in the bay of San Francisco. She was used as a tugboat for years by the North Pacific Coast Railroad Company to tow it's freight barges from Sausa- Tito to San Francisco, but when the large ferry-boat Sausalito was built the company had no further use for her, so she was laid up in Oakland Creek. She has now been sold to some Seattle parties and will in few days join. the Klondike fleet.
 The collier Mineola arrived yesterday from Comox with a cargo of coal She brought down with her Captain Hughes Of the schooner Sequoia, who comes to : this city for medical treatment The steamer spoke the schooner last Tues day, and in answer to a signal the Nfneola was stopped. Captain Hughes signaled that he was sick and asked that he be brought to San Francisco. A boat was lowered and he was taken aboard the collier, while Second Off, cer Kirkwood of the Mineola was put aboard the Sequioa to take her to San Diego.
 The North Pacific Coast Railroad :: :Company's steamer San Rafael will start running excursions on Sunday, the 20th inst. The boat will leave Sausalito early in the morning and will make a short stay at San Francisco. From there she will go to Mare Island Benicia and Vallejo, returning in time to land her passengers before the din .ner hour. These excursions were very much enjoyed last summer, and the company expects them to be equally popular this year.
 The doctors of the Harbor Receiving Hospital are very indignant over the actions of the United States Marine Hospital officials. On the 1st inst. J. D. Sullivan had his leg broken on the steamer Willamette. He was taken to the harbor hospital, where the broken limb was set by pr. Hill. Captain Han son called at the hospital and gave Sullivan a permit to enter the Marine Hospital, but the officials would not send the ambulance for him unless the permit was first sent to the Appraisers 1 building for their inspection Over the telephone pr. Hill told them he had no means of sending up the permit, but as- sured them that it was correct in every detail and Sullivan was entitled to ad- mission to the hospital They would not send the ambulance, and as there