The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-08
NO DISCHARGED
SOLDIERS CAME
ON THE ST. PAUL
Transport Brought 10
Passengers Only.
MAILBOAT AUSTRALIA ARRIVES
A CROWD OF HONOLULU PEOPLE
CAME UP ON HER.
Curacao Departs for Mexican Ports.
Plans for the New Wharf at
Howard Street to Be
Adopted To-Day.
MAILBOAT AUSTRALIA ARRIVES
A CROWD OF HONOLULU PEOPLE
CAME UP ON HER.

The transport st. Paul arrived from
Manila yesterday afternoon, after good
passage of tWenty-seven days. she Woulo
have been here Monday night had 1t not
been for a slight break in the machinery
which prevented the engines being run at
full speed Captain Hays reports leaving
Manila on October II and making the run
to Nagasaki in five days. The INDIANA,
with the Tennessee troops aboard, le1t
Nagasah a few hours ahead OF the 81.
Paul, bound for Yokohama The st. Paul
overhauled and passed the Indiana the
same day, and the officers of the trans
port think it will be next Friday before
the Tennessee boys reach here.
The passengers on the st. Paul were:
Mrs c. H Andrews and Myron Andrews,
the wife and son of Lieutenant Andrews
of the medical department of the army;
r. S. Chamberlin, mining expert; James
Gillies, ex-quartermaster sergeant OF
Company c, First California; Joseph M
Ross, ex-sergeant Company G, FIRST CAN
fornta; O. c. Heise, assistant surgeon,
Twelfth Infantry; Joseph A; McGeary'
Fourteenth Infantry; George ID. GrlIl4 NJ
Arnold and F. l.. Lowell of the quarter
masters department. Mr.. McGeary was
formerly in the office of the postofhce IN
spectors, but when the call TO arms came
he resigned his position and enlisted in
the Fourteenth Infantry. He was a very
sick man before leaving Manila, but Is
now wen on the IOdQ W IGCONClS
The ST. Paul came into port in splendid
order. She does not look like troop
ship and everybody aboard has gQod
word to say Tor Captain HAYS al, ana mis- ms
officers. The ship carried the Third cav
airy from Seattle to Manila and captain
Hays brings back very handsome re
minder of the trip. 1t IS decanter OIL cur
glass, beautifully chased with silver an; and
bearing the following INSCRIPTION; 10
Captain G. NJ. Hays, S. S. st. Paul; from
the officers of the Third Cavalry and med
r,I,sa
Purser E. l.. Goold, as usual, had every
thing in readiness for the quarantine Off
Ger, customs inspectors and, last but not
least, the newspaper men, so no one was
delayed. He reports that the Indiana,
besides the Tennessee Regiment, had 100
prisoners aboard when she was at Maya
saki They were all in charge of Lieu
tenant Desmukes and have from three to
ten years sentences to serve. At Maya
saki one eight-year, one five-year and one
three-year prisoner escaped and We're not
recaptured AS soon as the Indiana ar
rived the quartermaster's steamer Nc
DoweI will take the prisoners aboard and
land them on Alcatraz-
Mr. Goold says that the day after the
st. Paul left Manila they passed derelct
barge No. 1873. Early in October the
steamers Esmeralda and Lagaspi left
Hongkong for Manila with launches and
barges in tow for the United States Gov
eminent. They were caught IN the
typhoon of October 1-3 and the Lagaspt
lost her tow. The barge passed by the
St. Paul is supposed to have belonged to
her.
The Oceanic Steamship Company's Aus
tralia arrived from Honolulu yesterday,
after a splendid passage Of six days eight
hours. The run would have been made in
less than six days had it not been for the
heavy fog which caused Captain Houd-
lette to slow his vessel down when he
was approaching, the coast. The Austria
liza brought Up % faPh be ana cabin 80 Tere
S. B. Rose, wife and son; Miss E. E.
Chaffee, o. Eastwood and wife, Miss 2.
g; Q,Co1nelii, Miss l.; e qCo Eilnl, Mrs a
son, D. r. Emery. w. H. Lowden, Miss
F. Lowden, Miss J. A. .shearer, Mrs. l.
P; Mcintyre, Miss Q: Sheridan; Miss G.
Mrs. F. Gwynne, Miss T. Coleman, Miss
N Mcpherson, Miss V. Chandler, ]. H.
Crawford and wife, r.. c. Medcraft, Cap
A Prudential R. H. Pratt and wife, F.
Curtis, Clay Clement. Mrs: c.. Clement ].
E. Crew. D, Mullen, J; Hardy, Ed Felt,
children and maid, F. McQuarrie. o. Nor
fleet, Miss B. Foltz, Miss NJ. Marshall. ].
Williams, E. NJ. Bell, F. L. Hogs, Mrs.
]. H. Wise, E. C. Winston, E. Walton, c.
NJ. Grave, P. Peck, r. B. Hogue and J.
E. Dunn.
ers came back Their season in Honolulu
was not a success, strange to say. Cap
tain Peterson and wife also came up on
the Mail boat Captain Peterson was
master Of the bark Lady Lampson when
she was lost on Palmyra Island He and
Mrs. Peterson and five of the crew were
for twentyeight days in an open boat and
finally reached the coast of Hawaii.
The steamer Curacao sailed for Mexican
ports Yesterday with II cabin and steer
age passengers.
The bark James Nesmith, which arrived
from Newcastle, Australia, last Monday
night. has been chartered to carry lumber
to Delagoa Bay.
The Harbor Commissioners will to-day
decide upon the plans for rebuilding How
ard street wharf No. 3. Owing to the adj
vance in the price of iron the chances are
Engineer Holmes will be adopted