The San Francisco call., 1898-03-31

would the captain could not prevent his vessel from drifting close in to the Cliff House. Seeing that she was in danger of going ashore he ordered the anchor let go, and the vessel swung to it for three or four hours until the fog lifted. A light land breeze came up, the anchor was hove up and an attempt was made to get to sea The wind was not strong enough to carry the vessel out. however, and soon she was close in again, this time off the Ocean Beach Iife-saving Station. The crew of the lifesTcars, thinking the vessel in danger, telephoned to the Spreckels Towboat Company for tug, and then launching their own boat went to the assistance of the crew of the Pio- neer The captain of the schooner told them that his vessel was in no danger, but the lifeboat remained by her never. theless until the tug Reliance hove in sight.
 On his way to the supposed wreck Cap tain Brokaw stopped at the Fort Point Life-saving Station and explained the sit uation. The Hfeboat was launched and its crew got on board the tug. It was lowed around to the ocean beach, when Captain Brokaw found that his assistance was not required During the afternoon strong offshore breeze came up and the Pioneer finally made a good ofting.
 There was lots of fun on the water front yesterday, and it looked like the old days when union men and ''scabs' had pas sage at arms every hour in the twenty tour. The sailors unlon IS trying to keep wages on vessels going to the cannerleS up to $40 a month, put the Packers ASSo- citation is not willing to pay more man S4O month. Twelve men had been shipped on the Columbia lylng at Unlon-SUreet wharf, but detachment from the union descended on the vessel and drove them all ashore. The sailors were driven all over the city, and not one of the shipping masters could md them again. Sergeant Mahoney and squad of police were sent from the Harbor police station, but in or der to avoid any trouble the vessel was moved into the stream and new crew will be put on board of her there.
 Captain Polite of the ship Spartan had the same trouble with his men. He, how ever, secured a full crew at the lower rate of wages and got away yesterday afternoon.
 The snip St. Nicholas had also to go into the stream to ship l4er crew. Dur Ing the afternoon the union men descend ed upon her and got every man to go ashore. Seeing that there was no chance whatever of obtaining men while the vessel was at the wharf the captain had her lowed out into the stream and an- chored off Folsom-street wharf Before gettlng away from the wharf there was free fight among the Chinese who are going up to work in the canneries. No one seemed to know what was the cause Of the trouble, but rice and slippers were very much in evidence. It was just about medltime, and the Chinese threw their pans containing rice at each other, and then each Mongol took off a slipper and began belaboring his neighbor over the mead with the heel of it. In the meantime every one of them was coughing and screaming at the same time, and never was such pandemonium seen on the decks Of the St. Nicholas before It took nearly an hour to quiet down the Chinese and then 1t was found that the whole trouble arose over the fact that one coolie had taken more than his fair al- lowance of rice
 The schooner Free Trade finally got away on her voyage in search of "an isl- l ana or gold" yesterday afternoon. She
 was 10 nave got away with her aristo- l cratic passengers last Tuesday morning, put the law, which is no reSpecter of | persons, stepped in and delayed the de- 1 parture Peter Petersen, the watchman
 and James Garrett got into a squabble over the ships stores and Garrett struck Petersen over the head with a marlin | spike: few minutes before the vessel l le1t Ma1n-street wharf Petersen arrived l on the scene with a policeman and Gar
 rett was arrested on charge of battery. The matter was finally settled before 1 could get away, John Gilbert, the mate and Peter Petersen, the watchman, libeled her for wages which they alleged to be due them. This neceSsitated the vessel
 remaining in port over night. During the night the boys around Meiggs wharf paid
 the schooner a visit and got away with
 two SucRlng pigs ana a crate or cnlckens
 that were intended for the table of the ariStocratic gold-hunterS during the voy-
 age. When Captain Moore came ashore l yesterday he determined that nobody 1 should get on board to serve any more
 warrants during his absence, so he armed
 his wife with Winchester and left heI I on guard Nobody more alarming thar
 a boatman came anywhere near the ves-
 sel. When Captain Moore returned he al
 once put up sail and started for Alaska. l The steamer Valencia, which will Sai 1,-. C-rxz zlnxr ffay- 7la1
 River. will take away three Government