The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-05
Grew of the Hancock
Charged Board.
NO CHINESE ON TRANSPORTS
HAVE A PLEAS
URE TRIP ON THE BAY.
Training Ship Adams Sails for Puget
Sound-Suicides and Acct
dents on the Water
Front

The tramp steamer Thyra, under char
ter to the Santa Fe Railroad, arrived here
from the Orient yesterday. She was ten
days coming from Honolulu and there
fore only brings one days later news
from the islands than the City of Pc
king and the Gaelic, which arrived last
Sunday. Everything was quiet in Hawaii
and there was no later news from the
volcano. The Thayra brings forty-nine
Chinese and eleven japanese passengers
and considerable cargo for this port. At
ter discharging her San Francisco freight
the Thayra will proceed to San Diego to
unload the remainder. She is forty-slx
days from Hongkong, via Moji thirty-nine
days, Kobe thirty-f1ve days, Yokohama
twenty-eght days and Honolulu ten days.
The Thyra locked at the seawall and
corral will be built there for the Chinese
until their right TO land has been decided
upon.
The transports are all being gradually
painted white. The Senator is now at the
the Government wharf she will pc
changed from black to white and her
smokestack from white 10 yellow, with
red, white and blue bands around the
top. The Morgan City and the Siam have
both received their white dresses. The
Morgan City is nearly loaded and VIII
sail in few days, while the siam IS pc
ing fitted out to carry cavalry horses.
The Relief will go on Hunters Point dry
dock and the Hancock will be at least
three weeks at the Union Iron Works I'M
dergOing repairs.
The crew of the Hancock are up in
arms against the Government Yesterday
they were to have been paid off, but when
they came to receive their pay each man
was charged a dollar day for ratlons
while the transport was lying in Mania.
This was tifty-six days, and some OF the
crew had barely that much money com
ing to them. On the chartered vessels no
deduction is made from the mems pay
while the vessel is in port, as the united
States Shipping Commissioner would not
allow any such proceeding, put IN the
case of a United States transport ne mas
no Jurisdiction. The men refused 10 re-
ceiVe the money offered them and are go
ing TO fight the matter in the courts IN
the meantime they have reported the
situation to their various unions, ana IL
Uncle Sam insists on charging Ior IA,
lions while the vessel is in port not
union man will go out on a Government
vessel. ,.,
ali the Chinese on the Government trans
ports They have been employed as deck
hands firemen and coal passers. WIN
the Chinese gone and union men refusing
10 shin Uncle Sam will have some trou-
bic to man his transports.
There was quite notable party on the
haV Yesterday on the tug reliance 1ney
were the guests of Congressman julius
Kahn. who pointed out all the beauties
of the harbor to them. captain ar Raoh ar,T
gave the party a view of the camp from
the sea From there the tug went along
the marine shore, through Raccoon STRAITS
10 the detention camp on Angel lsland
and then to the Union Iron works ana
Hunters Point drydock. The party was
infant General Barry of Nebraska, Lieu
tenant Colonel Eager of the Nebraska
regiment and Mrs. Eager, ms m9une1tt
and his wife Surveyor of the Port j.
S. Spear and the visiting newspaper rep
resentatives from Pennsylvania.
+aH a
sailed for Tacoma yesterday. She has
only 100 apprentices aboard, as thirty
five of the boys were trannsI 6 10 IN, we
. number were left behind on the Pen
sacola, The training ship will finish the
some of the officers to be examined at
Mare island for promotion. From here
she goes to Tacoma, Seattle, Port Orch
ard, Port Townsend, Portland ana pack
superintending Engineer c. c. Lacey of
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company,
stationed at Seattle, is in the city for
few days Mr.. Lacey was formerly chief
engineer of the Umatilla and has host
Of friends in San Francisco, all OF whom
are glad to see him once more.
George Robertson, painter, died from
morphine poisoning in the Harbor Hos
pital yesterday morning: he TOOK room
ing and at a. m. was found in dying
condition The ambulance took him to
the hospital and Drs. Won der Leith and
Hfimmelsbach did all they could. but the
case was hopeless Robertson was about
40 years old and had a cousin who lives
on Jessie street.
Patrick Cushley, a fireman on the
tramp collier Robert Adamson, struck
the engineer in the face. yesterday be-
cause the latter refused him shore leave.
He was arrested and charged with as
sault at the Harbor police station;
Frank Knight had his hand crushed in
Fulda's planning mill yesterday. His
little finger was amputated at the Har-
Dor Hospital.
hand crushed in the Occidental foundry.
Four fingers on his left hand were am,
putated by Drs. Won der Leith and
Rosencrantz at the Harbor Hospital.