The San Francisco call., 1899-10-15
THE CHINESE ON
STEAMER TARTAR
MAKING TROUBLE
Object to Painting a
Transport White.

The British ships under contract to the
Government as transports are not spend
ing any more money here than they can
help. All the repair " ork, as far as pos
sibe is being done by the ships crew,
while the Chinese sailors are doing the
painting. There was a small sized riot
board the Tartar when the coolies We're
ordered over the side to paint the vessel
white. They do not like the color and
made a vigorous protest, but that was
all the good it did them. All of yesterday
a swarm of bare-footed and bare-armed
Mongolians hung over the side OF the
steamer and welded the paint brush dln-
gently. The Quartermaster, who kept
watch on the proceedings, compelled the
Mongols to do their duty.
On the Olympia the Chinese also did the
painting. but on the Newport the regular
staff OF white men did the work. The
latter vessel has to be painted both inside
and out The officers say that the dis
charged soldiers who came up from Ma
MIA On her were the flthiest set Of men
who ever set foot aboard a vessel So
foul was the Newport that she had to be
fumigated when three days from port, so
as to make her MT for inspection by the
Health Officer.
A great deal of unmerited blame has
been placed on the officers of the Newport
in connection with the last voyage. On
all chartered transports the officers of
the ship have nothing whatever to do
gers sent home by the army officials.
Uncle Sam provides his own cooks and
food and on the Newport the discharged
men got all the army regulations called
for, and more. They were given free
transportation" but demanded first
class accommodation, and because it
was refused them fouled the ship from
end to end. Therefore, while one Set of
painters was putting white coat on the
outside of the Newport yesterday, an
other gang was removing the traces left
A1FIf fffar1 n
terror.
The ships Sintram and Two Brothers
and the tender Kadiak, the last OF lie
salmon fleet, made port yesterday. They
left here with about forty other vessels
last spring and have now reached port
with the cleanup of the canneries. Each
vessel left few hundred cases at the
. different stations, and these the Two
Brothers and Sintram have picked up and
/ brought down with them.
OF the feet that went North in the
/ Alaska Packers Association, four to the
Pacific Steam Whaling Company, three
/ 70 Hume Brothers & Hume, two 10 the
North American Commercial Company
/ and two to G. b. Whitney. The other yes
/ sells were scattered among various own
! ers. The entire fleet brought down about
| a million cases and 1000 barrels of sal
mon, which is an average catch. The
largest cargo. 722 cases. was carried by
the W. H. Macy, while the America
brought 54,S73. the Oriental 54,219 and the
George Skolfeld $4,000 cases.
The Sintram and Two Brothers, which
arrived yesterday, brought, respectively,
/ 90 $50 and 500S3 cases. Ali Of these yes
sells belonged to the Alaska Packers fleet.
The Toyo Kisen Kaisha's steamer
/ America Maru sailed for the Orient yes
! terday. She was crowded with freight,
and there was not enough berths for all
| the cabin passengers. In consequence,
! the officers rooms brought fancy prices,
and many Of the passengers were glad
! to secure sleeping room on sofas. Among
those who went away on the steamer
were Mrs, George F. Cooper and Miss
| Lowell. the wife and sister-in-law of
! Lieutenant Cooper Of the Baltimore; Mrs.
! Edward Mole and Mrs. Walling. the
wives of Leutenants Mole and Walling
! Of the Monterey. The ladies are going to
/ Manila to join their husbands Other
/ passengers were: Colonel A G.. Hawes,
| John Ena and wife of Honolulu, Dr. T.
! L. Talcott Rev. ]. c. Owen and Rev. r.
| n. Sidebotham and wife.
! Lieutenant A. F. Fecteler who was In
yalided home on the Solace from Ma
! Mia. has been appointed aid to the com
mandant at Mare Island.
The steamer Coos Bay arrived in port
Yesterday The story of her narrow es-
| cape in collision with a schooner off Re
| dondo Beach has already been told in The
| Calls telegraphic columns. AS soon as
| She docked yesterday a gang of carpen-
! fers was set to work and the vessel will
| be ready to go out on her schedule time