The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-06

necessary to establish a native village at
the fair. They will also give a circus per
Torrance, and have brought along three
of the famous water 'buffaloes, several
small ponies, some trained dogs and mon
KEYS snakes lizards and some of the ia
nous fighting chickens of the Philippines.
The snakes. lizards and chickens are for
exhibition purposes only; the water buff
faloes, horses, dogs and monkeys will all
be used in the circus.
OF the band of Filipinos thirtysix are
circus performers. While these are Civ
ing an exhibition the others will remain
at home and take care of the village. OF
the circus performers seven are women
and none of them are handsome. The
men are small and smart-looking. They
We're all dressed in white, while the
women had dOnned all the colors of the
rainbow for the occasion. There are
number of children in the band, and one
more than when the transport left Manila.
When the LeelanaW was about a week out
one of the women gave birth to little
son, and there was great rejoicing among
the Fflipinos in consequence. II means,
they say, that they Will nave good luck
all the time they are away from home
The crew of the Leelanaw are very
chary about going into the hold of the
steamer. one of the snakes, a species Of
boa constructor, made his escape from his
about the lower portion of the transport.
Several searching parties have been or
ganized, but none of them were able to
locate his snakeship, and the latter will
not come forth, as he probably gets all
he wants to eat in the shape OF rats IN the
hold. The water buffaloess and horses
stood the long journey we'll They are
little bit short in flesh, but will doubtless
pick up after they get ashore.
The immigration ofhcer mas the cases OF
and the chances are the party will be
landed on Monday. They will be taken
at once to the Mechanics Pavilion where
nm hdPn fitted for them.
From now until the opening of the fair
they will be engaged in by. building tnelr
houses and getting their village IN order
for the opening night.
The Filipinos came up in charge of w.
B. Silver, who has been in the Philippines
since 1892 He went there from Cleveland,
O., to put in an electric light plant, and
has remained as superintendent until the
scheme to bring a band of Filipinos to San
women and children together and has ac-
companied them. Mr.. Silver has brought
home With him aim, large bgnianty OF reoS
which will be placed on exhibition at the
fair.
night She sailed from Honolulu six
hours after the United States steamer
morning before she gets here She has
on board the German and United states
Gomssioners 70 gon 70 [ne New g Iaa
land to visit sister The Hongkong
Maru brought up 81 cabin, 10 second cabin
and SO japanese passengers. Owing to
the fact that bubonfc plague is still rag
ing in China all applications for passage
by Chinese were refused. The vessel was
rigidIy inspected by the quarantine Off
Ger and was not allowed to land until
yesterday afternoon.
The Mail Company's steamer City of
Picking departed for the Orient yester-
day. On the last trip she was quarantined
at Nagasak and delayed at Honolulu, so
he is now lIearly week behind time.
The Picking was to have locked here, but
owing to ner being so much behind 1t was
Hongkong. She will probably get pack TO
San Francisco on schedule time. The
Picking took away a light passenger list
and a fair cargo. Among those i'll the
a tour of the world. returning to San
Francisco in October. Mrs. J. Sloat Fas-
sett and her sons and daughters will be
passengers on the Picking as far as Homo
lulu where they will meet the Senator
and return to San Francisco with him.
Senator Fassett is now in Hawaii, having
gone there via China and Japan.
The ship Standard will be towed to the
Columbia River to be loaded for AIDE
laide, Australia. From there she will go
Honolulu and from the latter port will
bring a load of sugar to San Francisco
Captain Backus late master of the Ed
ward May, will command the Standard.
Captain Leale got greater speed out of
the steamer Caroline yesterday than at
put in He was on his way from the
steamer Hongkong Maru to the quaran-
tine station with the steerage passengers
of the mail boat when he noticed the
flag on the quarantine hulk was flying
union down. Leale at once came to the
that sonnet hing tarrihla had