The San Francisco call., 1899-07-06
NEW CYLINDER
PILE PIER FOR
HOWARD STREET
Marion Must Go Into
the Stream.
TUGS WILL HAVE TO MOVE
CONTRACT FOR PRESERVING
PILES is SPLIT UP.
A Sugar Fleet overdue-Australia's
Valuable Cargo-Captain Wes-
ter of the Star of italy
Married.
CONTRACT FOR PRESERVING
PILES IS SPLIT UP.

The Harbor Commissioners met yester-
day and decided to entirely rebuild How
ard wharf. 1t was the intention TO re-
pair the structure. but as II is in very
bad condition Chief Engineer Holmes rec
commended that the wharf be torn down
and new pier similar to the one at
Folsom ! be built. The new wharf will
be 100 feet wide, and as il will have
cylinder pile foundation will outlast any
thing on the front save Folsom and Pa
cific street wharVes.
The rebuilding of Howard means the
sending Of the naval reserve ship Marion
into the stream. Several times the chlef
Whariinger has attempted to move nef
when there was an urgent demand LOT
berthS. but the officers always managed
10 keep her in her present quarters. Now
she Will have 10 move, and II Is doubtful
if she ever gets back again SpreckeIs
tugs will also have to move and Chlet
Wharfinger Henderson is now cudgeling
his brain to find new location for them.
It will have to be a pSerma4ent locaiuon,
a they will not he allowed to back at
the new pier when il is completed in all
Bids for the preserving of piles to be
used on the water front were opened. The
Pacific Refining and Roofing Company Of
feTed to treat the piles at 36 cents per
foot. The DundOn Bridge and COnstruc-
tiOn Company at from l9 to 10 cents per
foot. according to the number OF pounds
of CreOsote injected and the length OF the
pile. The Paraffine Paint Company made
the difference being in the quality OF the
work done. H. r. Rood & Co, new
factor III water front affairs, offered the
''perfeCtiOn pile covering at = cents a
foot.
1t required some consideration to ar
rive at an understanding of the various
bids and also to select the best and
cheapest method. A recess of fifteen min
utes was taken on the motion of Com
missioner Harney, but it was nearly an
hour before the commission could arrive
at a decision. Finally it was agreed TO
award q contract for 100 piles each to the
Dundon Bridge and CONSTRUCTION Com
pany. the Paraffine Paint Company and
II. r. Rood & Co. DundOn is to get q
cents foot for piles twelve inches in di-
ameter, 30 cents for fouTteen-inch and 30
cents for 16-inch: Paraffine Paint Com
pany 2Sl2 cents. and H. r. Rood & Co.
y cents for all sizes.
In April last the Board Of Health sent
a communication to the HarbOr Commis-
sion in regard to the docking of vessels
from foreign ports. Captains who receive
pratique from the United States quaran-
tine officer at once dock their vessels
without respect to the State quarantine
officer. The Board Of Health wants all
this changed, and asked the Commission
ers TO refuse dOCkage privileges to any
vessel that has not been granted pratQue
by the State quarantine officer. On that
occasion the NommlSSlolerS referred the
communication to the board s attorney,
and did the same thing with a similar
communication that came before them
Yesterday. In this last communication
.
but the HarboT Board will not act until
Ex-Governor Budd defines its powers in
the circumstances.
A big fleet of sugar vessels is now over
due from the Hawaiian Islands Among
them are some of the fastest vessels on
the coast, and the winds must be very
light in order to keep them out so long.
The bark Santiago. that has made the
run from here to Hilo in ten days. is now
out twenty-siX days for this port. and
the brig Lurline, that went down this
last trip in little over ten days, is now
ard and the barkentine Archer are each
recently purchased in the East by Cap
tains Brown and Bachus and is on her
maiden trip to San Francisco. The Ar
cher is a smart vessel and there is some
curiosity to see which Of the two makes
port first.
The ship Aryan, barkentine Irmgard
and schooner William BOWden all left the
Islands on the same date, They are now
out nineteen days and the chances are
that they are participating in a drifting
match. The bark MOhiCan Is now out
twenty-five days and the new schooner
H y. BendiXen, on her maiden trip, is
out twenty-five days. The Bendixen was
heralded as a flyer but no vessel, no mat
ter how fast, can make time with such
weather as recent arrivals from Hawaii
have reported.
The sailing transport Tacoma was to
have dOcked al the Government wharf
early yesterday. but the order was coun-
termlnded just as the tugs were alongside