The San Francisco call., 1899-02-11
NEW STEAMER
!. FOR THE TRADE
-:
!. OF THE ORIENT
America Maru Arrives
From Japan.
MAIL STEAMERS ARE TIED UP
THE STRIKE AT PANAMA HAs
!: -. STOPPED BUSINESS.
Chitose to Have Her Final Test-Cap-
~, tain Thomas of the General
:..-~>. Banning on the Sick
- List.
MAIL STEAMERS ARE TIED UP
THE STRIKE AT PANAMA has
: -. STOPPED BUSINESS.

The America Maru is a very superior
Steamer to the Nippon Maru that was
here. last month. She was built by the
Swan & Hunter Company of England
while. the Nippon was built by James
Lang & Co. The latter did not make heI
contract speed on the voyage here, and
the blame was laid on the Japanese fire.
men. The America Maru came in a day
ahead OF schedule time and would have
beaten her time eight hours had it not
been for the fog.
y. V. c. Comfort. who was so univer-
sally liked while in the employ of the
Pacific Mail and Occidental and Oriental
= Company, is purser of the America Maru
He is'yery proud Of the steamer and says
she is the best of her class afloat Mr.
Comfort was formerly purser of the Doric
and before that was for years on the City
OF Sydney.
The Mail Company's steamer San Jose
arrived from Panama and way ports yes
terday She will probably be the last YES
Sci to arrive from points south for some
uTne 70 come. The laborers on the Pan
ANA Railroad are on a strike and there
is no business being done on the iSthmus.
thousands OF tons of freight for San
franclSco and tens of thousands for Cen
traI american ports are piled up at Pan
ANA and the men will not handle it,
IN consequence the mail steamers Aca-
E"%LNOs oo1A bldS, san Juan, StaTDuCk anu
Colon are all tied up and no one knows
WEen they will get away. The strikers
want an advance of pay. They demand
s. 90 "a day, Colombian money-equal to
apout "a cents gold at the present rate
OF exchange, and the company will only
adNance to 81. The feeling is very bitter
.ameHg the men and the troops have to be
3 kept constantly on the move TO suppress
: pfots% The San Jose had a small cargo,
nearly all from Central American ports,
" and only few passengers.
4 VII
for. warming up" spin on the bay yes
= Leruay. To-day she goes to sea to finish
.Ae( SIX hours continuous run, after which
she Will be turned over TO the Japanese
government and will start for Yoko-
hanna.
:; The battle ship Iowa will be open to Wis
g. @t9Ts' tomorrow, and quite a number Of
boats. will run excursions to her during
ipe day. Henry Peterson will have the
% a my ana William d in commission, and
Will run from the Folsom street float ev-
cry % minutes throughout the afternoon.
.I.re tug Milton will run from Mission
street wharf, and other vessels from va
EQuS. points. The members of the Press
Glup VIII also visit 90 battle ship during
the day, the Harbor Commissioners hav-
ing kindly placed the Governor Markham
at:the clubs disposal.
:: The schooner General Bannino has been
ready TO sail for Mexico for nearly week,
LLL has been held at anchor in Mission
l@al: owing to the ihnesS Of Captain Thorn
as. The vessel was all ready for sea when
Inc, captain was taken sick with what
looked like smallpox. a doctor was called
IN. VINO relieved the captains mind by
telling him it was only a mild attack of
the measles.
q. At. Davey, an inmate of 49, Yount-
.Ytlle. Veterans nome. was knocked down
. by car at the corner of Kearny and
Sacramento streets and had his hip frac-
=" tlfTed. He was treated at the Harbor
Hospital by Drs. Won der Leith and True
.: boltz.
The steamer Conemaugh arrived from
. the. Sound yesterday. She docked at Fol-
q. SON street wharf, and began loading sup
plies for Manila at once.
- The schooner Aloha, for Honolulu
shipped a crew yesterday at s. under
schedule. rates, anu there is likely to be
lively tight in consequence. The Sailors
- MON has taken up the matter, and all
. peaCeable means will be used to maintain
the current rate.
The Toyo Kisen Kaisha's new steamer
America Maru arrived from the Orient
Yesterday. She came to an anchor of
Meiggs wharf, where Surveyor of the
Port Spear and w. Clayton Pickersgill
British Consul General, boarded the yes.
sci from the Custom-house cutter and
.Welcomed Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford 10 San Francisco. Lord Beresfor6
Will spend two days in the city and ther
" proceed East.
. The America Maru brought up Sc cabir
#paSsengers, 2 in the second cabin and 4.
Chinese and 10 Japanese in the steerage
Among those in the cabin was Com
:: Inander c. c. Rees, navigating officer OF
.'Ihe Olympia, who was on the bridge with
. Admiral Dewey throughout the battle OF
Manila, Captain o. W. Frenholt of the
United States gunboat Monocacy was
also: a passenger from Shanghai. NJ
Rivera and General Riega de Dios, two
Representatives of the Filipinos, came ur
OF proceeding to Washington. but as soor
as they heard of the fighting at Manila
they changed their plans and proceeded
to: Montreal to join their comrades IL