The San Francisco call., 1899-08-12
A HAR!BQB FOR -.
ALV|SO NOW AN
ASSURED FACT
Work of Dredging to
Begin at Once.
CAPTAIN FRASER'S BIG LOSS
RAT ATE HIS WAXED MUsTACHE
WHILE HE SLEPT.
Captain Taylor of the American Ship
Kenilworth Will Educate His
Children While at Sea.
Notes.
FRASER'S BIG LOSS
RAT ATE HIS WAXED MUSTACHE
WHILE HE SLEPT.

Alviso harbor is to be deepened until
vessels drawing seven feet can enter it
at low water. The Government has the
matter in hand and in a few weeks the
contract for the dredging will be let The
bids for this work were very far apart,
the lowest being Edward V. Mccain,
ST., ,402, and the highest the Dundon Bridge
and Construction Company, $39,S93 The
next lowest to the Mccain bid was that
of Marshall Harris, who offered to do the
work for little over $4,000.
The secret of the great discrepancies in
the bids is fonnd in the fact that Mccain
intends using the Jordan rotary dredger
and eXcavator. With this he claims he
can move fifteen cubic yards of earth a
minute, while the dredgers at present
in use can only remove one cubic yard of
earth minute.
The Government, when calling for the
bids, specified that any kind of dredger
might be used, and McCanns opinion
which is backed by the American Surety
Company, is that with the Jordan patent
he do the work at cents a cubic
yard and make profit, while the other
bidders figured that in order to make 1t
pay they would require from Is to 10 cents
a cubic yard.
With seven feet of water in Alviso har-
Dor large sternwheeI steamers could come
and go at all hours of the day. This would
give a water competition to San Jose,
which would mean a great deal for San
ia Clara County. 1t would mean a re-
ductiOn of train rates for both pasSen-
gers and freight and that would be
saving of thousands of dollars monthly
to the community. All the bids for the
deepening of the harbOr are now in the
hands of Major Heuer and he will for
ward them to Washington at once.
The sChoOners Muriel and II. d. Ben
diXen finished very close and exciting
race yesterday. They left here in COM
pany on July 20 and both were in Puget
Sound yesterday morning. They must
have raced in company all the way up the
coast and passed in through the Straits
/ fuCd
of each other. Captains Carlson and OIL
sen had a bet of 500 on the race, but they
which has won. The kilograms to the
Merchants Exchange states that the Mu-
riel was at Port Blakeley while the H. d.
BendiXen was close by in Salmon Bay.
The many friends of Captain Fraser of
the British ship Queen Margaret are won
dering, why he wears his mustache
clipped close these days. The captain
says IN explanation that it was a case of
necessity: He went to a reception at
Charles Turner's home the other evening
and before doing so had his mustache
carefully waxed at downtown barber's.
After the reception it was too late to re-
turn to his ship so the captain put up for
the night at a hotel. During the early
| hours of the morning Captain Fraser
awoke. Something alive was sitting on
his face and seemed to be paying partic-
uar attention to his mustache. sud
den move on the part of the skipper
hole Captain Fraser followed. The rat got
away and Fraser proceeded to view him
self in the looking glass One end of The
well waXed mustache was gone and in
start had been made. on the other. If
bere redictiOnS would kill that rat ought to
have died within the next five minutes
he American ship Kenilworth came
down from Port Costa yesterday loaded
with wheat for Europe During her stay
up the river Captain Taylor hove her
down and had her scraped and painted to
within few feet of the keel. He ex
poets to make a quick passage to Eng
Iand.' Captain Taylor is taking his wife
and two sons and a governess with him
this trip.
Captain Doris went out in command of
the transport Morgan City last Thurs
day night. Captain Lombard was taken
sick at the last moment and remained be-
hind The transport Hancock will reQu re
& master when she goes into commission
again and the chances are that if ne is
well enough Lombard will go out as mas
ter of her.
The transport Warren, with the Cobra
do regiment aboard, left Yokohama o.
August l. 1t will probably be next Tues
Cay or Wednesday before she gets mere.
Arrangements are being made to give the
boys a hearty welcome and they Will
know that they are home again when the
San Francisco people are through @itn
them