The San Francisco call., 1899-03-12
PERMANENT DOCK
SECURED FOR
TRANSPORTS
F FOlSOm-Street Wharf
Given Them.
EVERYBODY is NOW SATISFIED
CoNEMAUGH AND HER MULES
SAIL FOR MANILA.
School Teachers Visit the Iowa.
Sneak-Thieves Rob the ship
Bohemia-Death of Cap
tain Burns.

Ac A4dShd IdcheTS Association anu
tn Alaska Commercial Company are to
move to Fremont street when it is ready
for them, and the Government is to have
the use of Folsom street wharf for the
loading and unloading of its transports.
This understanding was reached last
Tuesday evening and was published ex-
clusively by The Call on Wednesday
morning Plans and specifications for the
erection of a shed over Fremont street
wharf have been prepared by Chief En-
gineer Howard Holmes of the Harbor
Commission, and by the time the Govern
ment requires Folsom street the other
wharf will be ready for the Alaska Pack
ers' Association and the Alaska CONNER
cial Company.
The Government IS in no immediate need
Of a wharf nor will it be until its own
transports are in full operation. AT pres
ent the Zealandia is at the Oceanic dock,
and while she continues in the Govern
ment service she will be handled from
that wharf. The City of Puebla is at the
Broadway wharf and the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company will continue to han
die her from that. point. The Newport left
Manila for San Francisco via Nagasah
last Friday, and on her arrival she will
go to the Mail dock. The st. Paul sailed
for Cebu on February 2S, and the Indiana
and Pennsylvania are in port at Manila,
so that for nearly two months to come
Uncle Sam is in no great hurry Tor d
wharf.
The Arizona will be the first of the
transports that will make Folsom street
wharf her regular berth. She left Ma
Mia on the 9Th inst. for Hongkong. AT
the latter place she will be overhauled be-
fore coming on to San Francisco. She will
be followed by the Scandia, Grant, Mo-
hawk. Mobile, Scindia and two or three
others that will be used exclusively as
transports between San Francisco and the
Philippines. As soon as these vessels are
in proper working order all the other
under charter
leased.
The freight now awaiting shipment will
probably begin moving this week. Nego-
tiations are now pending FOR the charter
of the steamers Charles Nelson, CleVe
land, Elihu Thomson and Wyefeld. while
the sailing vessel Marion Chilcott has al
ready been secured. The City of Puebla
and Zealandia will be ready in a week or
ten days, but they will carry troops, as
will probably the Charles Nelson; They
will also carry considerable freight, and
in all probabi in conjunction with the
other steamers named, Will take away
the 1000 tons of stores for the soldiers now
on hand. All the vessels named have their
regular berths, at which they will load IL
chartered.
The Conemaugh got away for Manila
with her load of mules yesterday She
took away 300 of the animals and thirty
teamsters went along to look after them.
DR.. Walsh, veterinary surgeon, and three
hospital stewards went along. Captain
Bromehead does not expect to have any
trouble with the mules and says he will
than when they left San FRANCISCO.
All the school teachers in San Francisco
visited the battleShip Iowa yesterday,
several Of the battIeship's launches were
in service, but it took nearly two hours
10 carry all the teachers who were deslr-
Gus of inspecting the man-of-War. In Iact,
it was so late when some of them got
aboard that they. only had just time to
take a hurried glance around and then go
ashore again.
Sneak thieves did a pretty clever piece
of work down at Main, street yesterday;
The ship Bohemia is to be recoppered and
a gang of men was at work last Friday
stripping off the old copper to make room
for the new. Some of the sheets We're left
lying on the wharf While others were
hanging from the hull, half on and half
off. Yesterday morning they were all off.
The thieves had secured them and put
them in place which the Harbor Pollce
are vainly trying to locate:
Chief Steward o. n. Clark of the steam
er Alameda tells good story tbo on sfa two OF
was lying in Sydney. harbor Pat and
Mike that's not their names but they'll
do. fell in love with the same girl said
Clark yesterday, when telling the story.
1.-The night before we sailed for San
Francisco the men determined to find out
heart In order to do so they arranged
for a call upon the young lady uu-,
" But says Mike, thought striking
him, how am I to know you've been there
~ Faith, yes says Pat, and how am I
to know you've been there and gone
%The two men were in a quandary for
a while and finally Mike settled it this
wav: IF I get there first, Pat, when /
come out ri make a ring around the
iamppost with a piece of chalk, and if
YOU get there first you rub the ring out
when you come out.
''The arrangements worked like charm
and now both firemen are engaged to the
maiden fair.
Schooner Vine, died at his home in Ala
media Yesterday morning. He was only all
ing a short time, as he was on Change
last Thursday.
James Clancy and George Sweetman
were locked up by the Harbor. Police on
yard Yesterday Officer Dillon thinks they
know something about the copper stolen
from the ship Bohemia