The San Francisco call., 1899-10-07
THE TRANSPORT
WHARF IS NOW
BARE OF SHIPS
A Number of Vessels
Daily Expected.
ASHORE ON A ROCKY COAST
THE ESCAPE OF THE CHARLES
L. WOODBURY..
Some Anxiety Over the Steamer Dis
covery - The Lightship viii
Be on the Bar Tomorrow.
Water Front Notes.
ASHORE ON A ROCKY COAs'
THE ESCAPE OF THE CHARLES
L. WOODBURY..

There was not a transport at the Gov
ernment wharf yesterday The departure
of the Zcaandia, City of Para and Nalen-
Ella cleaned up everything in sight, but
there viii be another fleet ready in a short
time. The Victoria Is now loading at Har-
Tison street. Her ballast tanks are being
pumped out and railroad iron put In. As
soon as the tanks filed she will go to
the Government wharf and take on gen
eral supplies. The Manauense is at Fol-
som No. .. Several deckhouses are being
built on her. and it will be next week be
fore she is ready TO load. The Hancock
is still being fixed up at the Union Iron
Works, and il will be the 20th inst. before
she is completed. The Leelanaw is still
on the drydock. and her repairs will re-
Quire a month for completion.
These are all the transports in port. The
Pennsylvania and Tartar are now. due
from Manila, and the City of Peking will
be turned into a troop ship again as soon
as her Oriental cargo is discharged. She
and the Hancock, carrying two regiments
Of soldiers, will probably get away about
the 25d inst The Newport is now out
thirty days from Manila No report has
come from her since she sailed. but rs
she made her last run here in twenty
nine days she should arrive any time now.
She has the signal corps aboard, while
the Pennsylvania has the Washington and
the Tartar the Kansas boys.
The naval transport SOlaCe should reach
port during the next few days. Colonel
Funston of the Kansas regiment is a pas
senger and great many time-eXpireG
men from the fleet are coming up on the
vessel. The auxiliary cruiser Badger
Went TO the navy yard yesterday. She
will be OVerhauied and will then join the
squadron IN Manila Bay. \ number Of
vessels are now about due from Australia
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transport wharf again as busy as ever.
\ great many stoWaways have succeed
ed III getting away on the dlHerent trans
ports ard every day there is one or more
weeping Ipother down at the wharf look
ing for a missing son. As the Zealandia
was moving away from the wharf Thurs
over the SIDE. He was not more than IS
or 20 years old, but seemed to have plen-
" of friends among the soldiers. At a
given signal he seized d rope and the
next moment the men had hm aboard
/. ". Simmons Of 2705l. Mission street
Was at the transport wharf yesterday
looking for his son Dee. The lad is 10
years old and wants stO be u soldier. The
father thinks he has either gone away on
one Of the transports Or viii make the
attempt. $50 he wants the Government en-
pluyes 10 Keep bright lookout for him.
The schooner Charles Levi Woodbury.
which arrived from Kodiak Yesterday
with ninety-uine barrels OF salmon, had
"a narrow escape from total destruction
on the Alaskan coast. During d storm
sh" was driven ashore and II was only
after some hard work that Captain Fall
man and his crew got her of. Then she
proved 70 he in very bad shape and leak
ins. 1t was only by working night and
day that the crew succeeded in keeping
her alloat until Lhey reached Sand Point
where she was beached. An examination
showed thc hull to be badly injured.
large portion of the keel was gone and
the planlSing WIS eaten into by the rocks,
IN some places as deep as four inches
The tide did not run out far enough to
permit Of repairs being made and Can
tain talman was about to abandon the
schooner when the little steamer kodat
hove in sight an arrangement was en-
tered into and the kodat tOwed the Wood
bury TO Wood Island. whore she was
fixed up IN such shape as to be able to
resume her journey. On the way down
she stll leaked a little and every now
and then the crew had to take a spell at
the pumps IN IN order TO keep the water
down. The Woodbury. will go on the dry
dock as soon as she is discharged.
There IS some anxiety over the little
steamer Discovery, now overdue at Seat
tie. She was caught in the storm of Sep
tember 1O-Il that did so much damage on
the Alaskan coast, and her passengers
and crew never expected she would live
through. DR.. Stone. who arrived here on
the Thctis, was aboard the Discovery
and he says he never experienced such
weather. For twenty-four hours he was
hanging with might and main to a stan
ChiOn, and when Dutch Harbor was
reached he left the vessel with a sigh of
relief. The revenue cutter was WithOut
surgeon, and the officers were as glad
Of DR. Stones company as he was of the
chance to get to San Francisco Tho
doctor expected to hear that the Discoy
cry was on the Sound but her arrival
has not been reported, so he is growing
anxious.
The Postal Telegraph Company blames
the raft for the breaking Of its cable
across the bay. The towing chain Of the
big derelict was dragging along the bot
tom, and 1t Is supposed TO have parted
the cable It will cost about $1,000 to re-
pair the break and the cable company
VIII expect the owners of the raft to paw
that amount.
The repairs TO lightship 70 are COM
pleted, and to-day her connpasses will he
adjusted on the bay. On Sunday she will
go out TO her station on the bar and the
Madrono will come in.
The steamer South Portland Is being
fitted up for the coast service again Sbe
has been in Oakland Creek for a wear
but vessels for the wheat trade are now
in demand, so the South Portland ie
going into commission again. Some work
was done on her al the Fulton IRON
Works, but after the boilermakers' strike
she was moved to the Union Iron Works
She is now on the drydock being cleaned
and painted.
The whaler Andrew Hicks is reported n
have taken five whales in the Okhotsk
Sea.