The San Francisco call., 1899-03-18
STEAMER CHINA
FROM HONGKONG
IN QUARAN Tine
Smallpox Broke Out
Near Hawaii.
ANOTHER BIG CANNERY FLEET
ABOUT SIXTY VESSELS WILL
GO NORTH THIS YEAR.
The Helen N. Kimball Safe at Pan
ama-st. Patrick's Day on the
Front-Erskine M. Phelps
for Honolulu.

A big fleet of vessels is fitting out for
the salmon canneries this year. There is
hardly q wharf on the front from Market
street to the Mail dock but has one
or more of these vessels fitting out for the
voyage TO the north. All these ships car
ry from 800 to 500 tons of coal for the use
Oh the canneries and the tenders. so those
vessels that go to the coal mines for car
goes are now distributing the black dia-
Mohds among the rest of the fleet
Inc coal will serve for ballast the re-
Iha!hder OF each vessels cargo being made
UP OF food supplies, tin plate and boxes
AS from fifty to sixty sailing vessels and
steamers are going north this year and
all expect to get away within the next
twenty days, it can easily be seen that the
salmon fleet is creating some business on
the front. The shipping of crews and the
engaging of fishermen will begin about
April l, and as over 5000 men will go north
with the Meet the excitement Will be at
its height about that time.
The Alaska Packers Association 10
sending north very large fleet this year.
II viii consist of the ships W. II. Mac,
ST Nicholas, Oriental, Sintram, Bohemia
cibIa ciIILanT, & santa t3 CARA h. J. Morse, Irwin
centennial; :, barks Merom. Charles B.
5Tit.rIl 5hTienney, Electra, Coryphene. Nicholas
In mayer = T5i, ana W W. Case; barkentine VIII
per and steamers President, s. b Mat
fheWs, Susannah, Jennie, Kodiak, Thistle.
Hatue Gage, Gertie Story Afognak. Elsie
Ella Rohlffs, Pacific. Royal, Polar Bear
Novelty, Arctic. Wigwam, Aleut, LiIlian'
FEdrltan Chinook, Olga and Sockeye
taken north on the decks Of the sailing
vessels, but the majority of them will go
10 osAals Al3ska @ under their own steam. Humes
Whaling Company will sail about the
same l1 time as the associations fleet.
c,i:ne Inc PacIfc Mail Company's steamer
with sc cabin, 80 second cabin and 1S2
Chinese in the steerage. Soon after leav-
ing Iiir 19konama two light cases of smallpox
were discovered among the Chinese crew
The men were at once isolated and when
Honolulu was reached they were landed
there. When the steamer reached this
port the quarantine officers went aboard
and at once ordered the China into quar-
antine Those, of the cabin passengers
ton were required to be incculated. and
nine or ten had to undergo the operation
much to their disgust.
There was one exception however Chm,
Yuen Chi, who comes here from China to
take a position in the Chinese consuIate
refused point blank to be vaccinated IN,
tom House officers to pass his baggage at
once and give him every assistance, while
Surveyor Spear was on hand to show him
the courtesies of the port. but when the
diplomat refused to be vaccinated the in
structions from the powers that be could
not save him, and he had to go into quar-
antine with the ship. The vessel will be
released to-day. but the diplomat and the
second cabin passengers and the Chinese
viii have to remain on Angel Island for
fortnight.
Thirteen Roman Catholic missionaries
from Manila came upon the China They
are bound for Central America and will
leave on the next Panama steamer
st. Patrick's day was very quietly cell
ebrated on the water front yesterday
Men and boys wearing shamrocks in the
lapels of their coats were plentiful but
all Of them went about their usual busi-
ness and there was very little holiday
making. Dave Cartwright, well-known
teamster. was one of the happiest men
on the front yesterday. On the 18th of
March last some one painted his office
vivid green during the night, and next
He has been offering a reward of $50 for
the name of the man who did the job,
and though the finger of suspicion point
ed to H. Elliott, a rival teamster the
proof was not forthcoming. Yesterday
morning when Elliott reached his Office
il was painted a vivid green, and Cart
wright was happy because the laugh was
on his hated rival.
The fine steel American ship Erskine NJ
she was being docked at Beale-street
wharf yesterday. Captain Graham had
secured an Irish flag and it fioated proud
" from the foremast of the first vessel
built in America of American steel From
the peak "Old Glory" was thrown TO the
breeze while at the main was displayed
the Sewalls' house flag. After dscharg-
ing her cargo of coal the Phelps will go to
Honolulu to load sugar for New York
She has the best passenger accommoda-
ton of any sailing vessel that has come
- nd fa mn obar IF