The San Francisco call., 1899-08-01
A RUSH OF WORK
ON TRANSPORTS
AND MAIL DOCK
All WharVes Crowded
With Shipping.
ACCIDENT ON MORGAN CITY
HERBERT GLADSTONE BURNED
WITH GASOLINE.
Barges for the Sacramento Wheat
Trade - Rear Admiral Kautz
Transfers His Flag to the
Philadelphia.
ACCIDENT ON MORGAN CITY
HERBERT GLADSTONE BURNED
WITH GASOLINE.

It was a question as to which were the
buster yesterday, the Mall dock or the
transport wharf. Both were worked to
their full capacity and any person who
had to visit either pier was compelled to
keep q bright lookout in order to avoid
being run over. At the Government wharf
are the transports Hancock, Indiana and
Morgan City; while at the Mail dock
there are the City of Peking, City of Sgd
ney, San Bias and Gaelic. All the bag
gage of the Nebraska volunteers was
taken off the Hancock during the morn
ing and sent out to the Preside. Freight
and supplies were being rushed into the
Indiana and Morgan City, while gangs or
workmen were engaged on all three yes
sells fixing up for another voyage. The
Indiana is to sail to-day with 700 recruits
and the Morgan City Is expected to sail
At the Mail dock double gangs will
work night and day on the City of Peking
until she is discharged. She will then go
on the drydock for an overhauling, and if
all goes well she will be loaded and away
again for the Orient by Saturday after
noon. The Peking is six days behind
saki, but she is expected to make up the
time before she gets back to San Fran
cisco. The work of discharging the Gaelic
will not be rushed until after the Peking
is out of the way. She is scheduled to
sail on the 9th inst, SO there will be
plenty of time TO discharge and load her
before that. The CITY Of sydney will be
unloaded as quickly as possible and will
then be overhauled and turned over to the
Government. Her place on the Panama
run will be taken by the San Bias
Captain E. NJ. Freeman, the well-known
pilot, returned from a visit to the East
Yesterday He was gone a month and
visited his brother in Baltimore and his
two brothers in Boston. The captain was
kept busy all yesterday morning shaking
ternoon went home in order to keep his
faithful right" from being shaken off.
Herbert Gladstone, q young plumber,
met with q peculiar accident on the trans
port Morgan City yesterday. He was en-
gagged in fixing up some piping and had
a cup of gasoline on a table close by him.
He was using candle to see where the
defects in the pipe were when Foreman
Wilson came along and asked him for the
candle to light his cigar When the can
die was passed back Wilson and GLADSTONE
talked for q few moments, and the latter
passed the lighted candle back without
looking where he was putting Il. The
flames came in contact with the gasoline
and there was an explosion that seriously
burned both of GladstOne's hands. He
was taken to the Harbor Receiving Hos
pitaI where Drs. Dorr and Hmmelsbach
attended to his wounds.
The battleship Iowa went to the Union
Iron Works yesterday afternoon to take
her armament aboard again. When she
was getting ready to go on the drydock at
Port Orchard considerable heavy equip
ment was put ashore at the iron works.
1t is now to be replaced. During the aft
his flag aboard the Iowa and raised it
again on the Philadelphia. The change
was duly noted on both vessels and a sa-
lutte of thirteen guns fired.
The steamer Noyo arrived from Fort
Bragg yesterday with the barge Chester
in tow. The latter is a wheat carrier
built for the Sacramento River trade.
She is 1913 feet long and SO feet broad. She
will carry 10000 sacks of wheat or 1900
sacks of barley The Chester A has been
built by Scammell & Ruddell to run in
conjunction with the steamer Pride of the
Yukon. There is an enormous grain crop
! in the Sacramento Valley this year, and
both vessels will be kept busy all through
! the season. A sister barge to the Chester
A is now being built. She will be named
the Admiral Dewey. Scammell & Rud-
| dell expect that there will be plenty of
business on the river for the barges all
! the year round.
Captain Johnson Of the Noyo was very
sick with rheumatism when the vessel
| reached port. He was taken 10 the Ger
man Hospital by the mate as soon as the
vessel docked.
The old bark Colorado has been turned
into a barge and is shortly to be towed
/ from Departure Bay to San Francisco
| laden with coal. The tug Pilot will tow
her down and the trip is expected to be
made quickly and easily.