The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-03
Whites and Japanese
at Outs Again.
THE JAPS HOLD THE FORT
SToWAWAYS MAKE TROUBLE
FOR CAPTAIN EVANS.
Captain Meredith, Late of the Overdue
Dominion, Is Dead, and Captain
Phillips Has Been Stricken
With Apoplexy.

The Japanese steamer Nippon Maru ar
rived from the Orient yesterday. When
she was here three months ago there was
q great deal of friction between the En-
glish engineers and the japanese crew,
with the result that nearly all the former
left the ship. On this occasion there IS
bad feeling all round. According TO the
white officers, The Japs do not know
enough to perform the simple duty OF
pounding sand in q rat hole" And the
Japs respond by treating the foreigners
with lofty scorn and countermandlng
their orders whenever they get a chance
In consequence the present voyage was
anything but a pleasant one, as Iar as
the crew is concerned, and nearly an
the white officers viii leave the VesseI
here.
The Nippon Maru has five passengers
who would very much Ike 10 leave the
vessel a this port, but the lInIIllSIallol'
Commissioner bars -he way Ihey are
Japanese stowaways. Soon after leaving
Yokohama they were discovered, and
when the vessel reached Honolulu an at
tempt was made to put them aboard the
Hongkong Naru. bound from San Fran
cisco TO Yokohama. The captain OIL the
latter vessel would not take them, the
Hawaiian authorities would not allow
them 10 land, so Captain Evans had to
aboard until Yokohama is reached again
The Nippon Maru was delayed twenty
frur hours at Honolulu. The Hongkong
Naru was in her berth and she could not
dock until that vessel sailed for Japan.
She brought up 81 cabin, Is second cabin
and 1913 Chinese passengers. Among those
In the cabin We're Captain 5. ). SaXtont
formerly chief of General King stan
I'm Manila and Brlgadler General reeves
rT the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment.
Both have resigned their commands ana
are returning home.
The British bark Invermark, from Liv-
erpUOl was at Honolulu when the Mp
non Maru arrived. Captain Phillips had a
stroke of apoplexy soon after his yes
sells arrival and was seriously IL Wneh
the steamer left port. Captain PhlIllPs
is well known and has host of friends
II was learned on the front yesterday
that CAPTAIN Meredith of the British ship
Annie Thomas is dead. He was tirst
known in this port as captain OF the DO
minion and was here in that vessel lit
tie over a year ago. After leaving her
he took the Annie Thomas and went IN
her to Iquique. A new master went IN
the Dominion and took her TO Honolulu.
From that port she sailed for Puget
Sound nearly three months ago and mas
not been heard from since. over 80 per
cent reinsurance is being paid on her ana
she has practically been given up
for lost It is a strange coincidence that
when captain and ship parted company
one died and the other was lost.
The Chilean bark Elisa, that went ashore
while on her way from Puget SOUND 70
Shanghai with q load of lumber, was
TO be sold at auction after the Nippon
Maru left HOngkong. Her mainmaSt was
gone, and she was badly logged. VI her
cargo 10000 feet was Jettsoned ana 12VVV
feet salved. The remaining 10000 feet
was TO be sold TO the highest bidder.
There is great enthusiasm among
.Vachtsmen and the season is expected to
be the most successful in years The San
Francisco Yacht Club will hold its open
Ing on the 18th inst, and the boys are
going to make it most enjoyable analr.
There is to be a supper for visiting
yachtsmen, to be followed by a dance
In the club house. A special boat Will
leave San Francisco at 7:30 p. m, and re-
turning. will leave the club house with the
guests at 100 p. m. The committee haV-
ing the affair in charge is /. haven
chairman, DR.. A. w. Mckenzie, DR.. +.
/. Plat and Messrs. Holbrook, Herman
md Savory. At the end OF last season
Captain Haven sold his yacht Sappho
and purchased the launch Alberta. He
Is already tired of the change. A wind
hammer has charms that the extra IA
cilities of a launch cannot counterbal-
anCe, so Haven is going back TO his OLD
selling the Alberta and building a yacht
that will beat anything on the bay. >
Last season Captain Ravens friends had
q number of enjoyable excursions on the
Sappho. This year they will take their
pleasure on the launch Alberta, so there
will be no chance of getting becalmed
p The Yacht Rover IS on the ways getting
a new lead shoe fitted. Her sail area is
also to be cut down. The other boats
, are all being overhauled, and the entire
fleet expects to be in commission by the
. DIST inst.
The engineers Of the Naval Battalion
had a busy time of It yesterday. They
got steam on the boilers of the training
q ship Marion, and when everything was
ready turned the engines over. The ma
chinery Of the slOop Of war is in as good
> condition as when the ship went out OF
commission, and if it were necessary the
Marion could start on cruise tomorrow
The flremen and coal passers had the
hardest part of the work, and all Of then
made a rush for a long steam" wher
the fires were drawn.