The San Francisco call., 1898-07-14
At Noon the Building
 Was Ready.
PASSENGERS WERE PLEASED
MISS CoRINNE COOK IS SEVERE
 LY INJURED.
Engaged in Cutting Up Sandwiches for the Soldier Boys From New York She Cut the Top of
 Her Thumb Off.

The new union ferry depot was formally opened to the travelling public yesterday. The first steamer to enter the slips was the Bay City from Oakland and Alameda on the narrow gauge route. Her passen- gers were landed in the new structure, but the passengers on the Piedmont, which arrived three minutes after the Bay City, were the first to use the grand nave of the structure. As soon as the Piedmont was made fast, Chief Engineer Howard Holmes of the Harbor Commission low cred the apron himself and in few sec onds the people on the ferry-boat were thronging into the grand nave. Every body was delighted with the arrange ments and nothing but words in praise Of the fine structure were heard on all sides.
 Among those present at the opening were Harbor Commissioners Colnon, liar ney and Herold. General Manager Fill more of the Southern Pacific and Howard Holmes, who supervised the construction of the depot
 Early in the morning the railroad peo- pie began moving. It took until noon to get all its papers and effects into the new offices and the work of selling tickets in the new depot began at once. A number Of old fences were torn down during the afternoon and their removal added great ly to the appearance of the new buildinh- In thirty days it is hoped that the entire structure will have been made ready for Its prospective tenants and the old post office and depot structures removed. Then the new depot will shine forth in all its glory.
 Miss Corinne Cook of 1919 Laguna street met with a painful accident in the new ferry depot yesterday afternoon She Is a member of the Red Cross Society and was helping to cut up sandwiches for the sol diers who arrived from the East. While so engaged the knife slipped and cut about an inch off the end of her left thumb. Her lady friends removed her to the Harbor Receiving Hospital, where Dr. Deas attended to the wound. Miss Cook suffered great deal from the shock and also while the wound was being dressed. but she bore 1t all wonderfully well and laughed and joked with her friends while waiting for carriage to take her home.
 The British ship Liniithgowshire had a very hard time on her way from Oregon to Europe with a cargo of grain. She was caught in a storm which carried away two of her boats, broke in the cabin skylights and damaged the steer ing gear: The Linlithgowshire arrived in Falmouth on the 18th ult.
 John Oppenheim, a well-known clothier, is back on the water. front. Every Oppenheim and when those industries died away his business went with them. He accordingly sold out and went to Corning, where he opened a general mer- chandise store. During the big fire in that town on the Sth inst. he was burnt out and nearly lost his life. John Is an old sailor and that fact stood him in good stead. The hotel in which he was living was one of the first buildings to go. When Oppenheim awoke all the reg ular means of escape were cut off, so he had to take to the water pipe, which ran from the roof to the ground and by that means saved his life. He then stood and watched his store catch fire and go up in smoke after which he borrowed a suit of clothes from a friend and came back to San Francisco.
 As far as the accommodations for the soldiers are concerned the steamer City of Puebla can give all the other trans ports cards and spades and then beat them easily. Goodall, Perkins &s Co, have spared nothing In order to make her equipments perfect and in consequence she is a model troopship. She is fitted throughout with the Turner patent hunks and all the quarters are light and airy Sixteen additional shower baths, making forty in all, have been put in. and the upper deck is being covered with an avn ing, so that the soldiers can sleep up there in the tropics If they want to. Cap tain Bennett of the Pacific Coast Steam ship Company, who superintended the fitting out of the Puebla, deserves great credit for the manner in which the work has been done.
 The Pacific Mall Steamship Company has also adopted the Turner patent bunk The Peru has been fitted out with them and they are to be put in the Rio de Janeiro. Mir. Turner, who invented the bunk. Is port steward of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and a California boy.