The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-18
Czarina Had a Hard
Time of 1t.
STRIKE ON THE NIPPON MARU
WHITE ENGINEERS HAVE ROW
WITH THE JAPS.
Harbor Commissioners Object to
Spring Valley Charges-Trouble
Over the Burying of a
Sailor.

Ahe steam golfers Czarina and yelling
ton reached Fort yesterday after most
tehpestuous passage from Puget Sound.
During nineteen hours of such weather as
captain Collins says he has never seen
the equal of on this coast, the Czarina
maze eighteen miles. Saturday night it
pew a hurricane and everything NOV
able on the decks was washed away.
Inc chocks under the boats were washed
out ana nothing was left to hold them
out the lashings. The waves that came
over the steamer broke in the coverings
OF the boats and they were still filled with
water as the Czarina steamed up the
bay
Inc side lights were washed away and
Saturday night when the waves were
breaking clean over the bridge the head
light could not be hoisted and a man had
TO be stationed on the bridge ready to fire
off torches in case of an emergency. Be-
tween Coos Bay and Yaquina Bay large
quantity of new lumber was passed
through. Some of it was deck and some
rough timbers and Captain Collins is of
the opinion that it was some deckload
that was washed away during the storm.
The Wellington had a similar experience
TO the Czarina and the other golfers as
to tell.
There is trouble in the engine room of
the Japanese steamer Nippon Maru. The
white engineers say the Japanese en-
glneers are an ignorant set, not knowing
the first rudiments of marine engineering
and until efficient assistants are given
them they win refuse duty. On the Nip
pom Maru there are four white engineers.
Chief Whitburn, Second Gledden, Third
tombstone and Fourth Howsagoe. The
Japanese are headed by Chief Engineer
Ougi. He knows little about his bust
ness, according to the white engineers,
but the others are useless.
They cannot even act as oilers said
Ihlr6 Assistant TnhnGfnna low
"All the work is thrown on our should
ers and we simply refused to do it. Yes
sick in St. Mary's Hospital and none OF
US Will go back unless we are given
proper assistants. We stood it during the
trip out from England because we were to
get extra help on our arrival in Japan,
but the help never came and now we have
struck. That's all there is to the matter"
If the Nippon Maru people seek to sup
ply the place of the striking engineers
from the ranks of the local engineers they
will be confronted with the same diff
Guilty, as an American engineer will most
certainly refuse to work under conditions
which have caused an Englishman to
kick over the traces.
The Harbor Commissioners met yester-
day, and discussed the payment of the
Spring Valley Water Company's bill for
water supplied the State on the front
President Colnon thought the charge was
excessive, and said fat rate should be
established, more particularly as the
wharves for the carrying of mains. The
water company's representative said the
commission could make no plea on ac-
count of the mains being on the wharves,
because they had right to lay them on a
public highway Not on the State
wharves," broke in Ex-Governor Budd,
who was present for the first time in the
capacity of the boards attorney. You
cannot lay those mains on State property
without a permit" 1t was finally decided
to allow the matter to go over, and in the
=
water company's legal advisers will hold
a conference.
Bids for the erection of a shed for
Wells, Fargo & Co.. between piers and
A. were ordered called for. At the next
meeting of the board the chances are that
the name of A. Page Brown as architect
of the new ferry depot will be ordered
added to the foundation-stone.
The steamer City of Picking, which left
here on December % last, only reached
Kobe, Japan, yesterday. She was in col
lision with some unknown vessel and was
slightly damaged.
The steamer Doric sailed for the Orient
yesterday. She carried large quantity
of medical supplies for the soldiers at
Manila.
Oficers P. Mahoney and James Mackey
of the Harbor police had to assist at the
recovery of a body from the Portuguese
boarding house yesterday. sailor named
Richard died there, and as he had snug
bank account, John Gomez, the boarding
master, proceeded to bury him and adj
ministrator heard of the death and took
a hand in the matter, with the result that
the police had to be called in before Co
rneZ would give I'D the body.