The San Francisco call., 1898-03-12
State Engineer Holmes Thinks the Wharves
 Got Off Lightly.
The Steamer Karluk to Take Supplies to the Inpris-
 Oned Whalers.
Nearly All of the Front of the New Depot Damaged by the Acid
 Used to Wash It.

All the vessels injured Tn Thursday mornings storm were having their damages repaired yesterday, save the schooner Ellen Gunderson, which still lies in the mud where she sank on the north side of FiShermen's wharf. The work of raising the steamer Eureka was begun with daylight and two divers soon had the holes in the ves- sePs bottom patched up with canvas She was then pumped out and raised to the surface again. The timbers that had been removed to examine the yes sels hull were then replaced and in a short time the Eureka was alongside the wharf looking as though she had never been sunk by a mortimer.
 The work of repairing the bark Martha Davis and the brig Lurline was rushed all day. Both vessels were con- siderably maged-the Davis in col hsion with the coast survey steamer Patterson and the Lurline with the Vallejo street wharf-and it will take some time to get them ready for sea.
 In regard to the damage done to the wharves Chief Engineer Holmes made the following report to the Harbor Commissioners yesterday:
 Vallejo street wharf-six fender piles broken. .
 Green street wharf-One cluster pile broken.
  four fender piles broken, three fender piles badly chafed, three mooring bits pulled out of place and the band around FisherInen's wharf.-the spring piles and nearly all the fender piles on the north side of the north wing have been loosened from their faStenings and the compound StringerS were found to be m a bad condition. The outer 150 feet Of this wharf is swinging badly, haVlng, sepaIr7 ptIo ated from the main portion forming the Lombard street wharf.-the planking near the northeasterly corner has opened slightly. but the general condition Of the wharf is about the same as before Section A of the seawalI-Ten fender piles and ten standard piles were pulled out by the schooner Edward Parks, and for eighty feet the joint in the planking has been opened up from one to ten inches.
 Powell street wharf-Twenty-five piles were Ioosened up and fioated away during Section B of the seawall-seven fender and five standard piles were pulled out and broken off by the schooner Dora and twelve fender piles and eight stand ard piles by the schooner Gotama for five bentS.
 Considering the violence of this storm and the fact that vessels were lying alongside of wharves at the most ex- posed position of the water front, l con- slider the slight damage done an argu- ment in favor of the good condition of the structure along the front.
 The whaling steamer Karluk sails for Point Barrow next Tuesday. Captain .11ctir1gSlr is taking along extra sup plies, as he thinks he will reach the imprisoned whalers before the Bear. If ' the men are alive now they will have no trouble in subsisting from this on. From the middle of March to the end of April the country in the vicinity of Point Barrow swarms with wild ducks They are all plump and fat and can be knocked down with stick, so any / fear of starvation from now on has vanished.
 The Karluk is also taking up sup plies for the steamers Orca, Jessie H Freeman, Belvedere, Jennie and New port, schooner Rosario and bark Wan derer Captain McGregOr expects tC find all the men of he fleet we'll and the vessels that were at Herschel 1s- land safe, but he has very little hope for the steamers that were caught il the ice off Point Barrow.
 Lightship No G-riVed from Port land yesterday in command of Captain Tatton, one of the Columbia River pilots. He says the new boat is very steady and averaged nine knots ar hour during the run down the coast When the lightship has been fitted out she will go out to the bar in company with the lghtShip tendo~ Madrone anC will there be anchored in position Captain A. I. Lowell will command ano he will nave to aSSlSL HliIl CIlleI Oll1CSl Huebner Chief Engineer dume anC First Assistant Engin~ r Pepper.
 4 second class in navigation has beer started on board the sloop-of-war Mar ion by J. l. McMillan of the Brancf Photographic office. The first class was started for the officers and this one is for the petty officers and men.
 Captain Ashlund has gone to San Pe' dro to assume command of the barl Coryphene. Captain Ayers, whose place he will take, tried to commit sui eide few days ago. He has beer mentally unbalanced at different tune: of late and during the last trip insisted that there was not enough ballast 1T the hold to counter balance the toI hamper. He began accordingly throw. ing everything movable on deck dowr into the hold. The matches followed the spare spars. but when he bega1 throwing the knives and forks ant snoons. also the crockery, down into the bottom of the vessel as ballast the men thought it time to call halt Shortly after that Captain Ayers tried to end his life with a bullet.
 The contractors for the stone work on the new ferry depot have nice jot ahead of them In order to have everything looking nice and clean they washed the face of the building dowr with brooms in which were steel briS- ties and water in which there was 6 plentiful supply of acid. In fact, there was so much acid that in many places the stone facings have been burnt g dark brown This will necessitate the stonemasons going over the entire face of the building and chipping off the burnt surface.
 The naval recruiting office received a novel communication from c. Bev- erly Hughes of National City yester- day. He wants to join the navy and asks that when the call to arms comes he shall have the honor of being known as the first recruit from San Francisco He concludes his letter as follows: "The department will need plenty of men about April 8, the date when actual hos tilities will commence"
 Prisoners Tn for Sentence.