The San Francisco call., 1899-03-20
TRANSPORTS FOR
MANILA ARE TO
SAIL THIS WEEK
Cleveland Is to Get
Away To-Day.
CITY OF PUEBLA is READY
THE CHARLES NELSON WILL
SAIL NEXT SATURDAY.
Bidston Hill VIII Load Next Week.
Commodore Baettke and the
Sloop Ma Belle Back In
Port.
CITY OF PUEBLA is READY
THE CHARLES NELSON WILL
SAIL NEXT SATURDAY.

The transports are being got ready for
their voyage to Manila and three or four
or them may get away this week. The
cleveland will get away at noon to-day.
Up TO Saturday night 1860 tons of cargo
mad been put aboard her and 100 tons
more was to be loaded during this morn
Ing. AS soon as that work is done the
vessel is to sail at once. She will be fol-
lowed by the Charles Nelson, Zealandia
and City of Puebla-
The Charles Nelson will go on the
Union Iron Works drydOck tomorrow
During the run from Seattle here she lost
one of the blades of her propeller and
new wheel has to be put She will
come off the drydock Wednesday after
noon and will begin loading for the
Philippines at Mission-street wharf on
Thursday. She will take away about 900
tons of cargo and 100 soldiers and Red
Cross nurses. 1t is expected that the
Nelson will be loaded and ready to sail by
Saturday afternoon.
The City of 'Puebla is taking on stores
at Broadway wharf and will be ready to
sail as soon as the troops who are to go
down on her arrive. She has been thor
oughly oVerhauled and placed in first
class condition for the voyage. The re-
pairs TO the Zeaiandia are almost COM
pIeted ana 1t VIII not be long before she
IS ready foS another voyage to Manila.
The provisioning of the vessel will not
take long, and as soon as the troops for
her arrive she viii be ready to sail.
All the steamers will be dispatched be-
fore the Government begins loading the
WIND Jammers' The British ship
Bidston Hill is now at section of the
d. seaWau and can be got ready to receive
cargo in a few hours time. She will
carry about $500 tons of general mer-
chandise, and should make the run down
IN less than fifty days at this time of the
year. II was rumOred yesterday that
the British ship Leicester Castle had
also been chartered by the Government.
She was scheduled to go TO TaltaI, South
america, IN ballast TO load nitrate for
England, but it now looks as though all
Ihat had been changed and she was going
70 accompany the Bidston Hill TO
Manila. Should the vessels get anything
like quick dispatch at the other end, they
Will be able TO come back here in ballast
and sun be in time for a grain charter.
Inc Leicester Castle IS now at Lombard
street wharf, and. if the Government
takes her, viii load there.
In spite OF the rain there was quite
crowd Of visitors TO the battle-ship
Iowa yesterday. Shortly after D. m.
the bay got rough, and it was almost i'm
IHe "arShlPa so no more visitors were
taken out. Those who went had a splen-
''Jackies' had plenty of time on their
hands and willingly showed the visitors
w Downs, one of the handsome clerks
in the Merchants Exchange, is bewail-
ing his fate win is an expert on hats
and sets the fashion for the captains
and seafaring men who 20 into the ex-
change to get the latest reading of the
barometer. In spite of the rain Downs
the choicest thing in the shape of head
gear in his wardrobe. During the rush
of business he took his hat off and laid
II on the counter, and a number of sea-
faring men followed suit. The latter. af-
ter reading the barometer and finding it
was steadily falling, departed for their
vessels in order to get out tenders and
extra moOring lines Half an hour later
Downs had to go down California street,
and when he went TO put on his hat to
his horror he found that his beautiful new
tile was gone and a hat that had got two
or three gatherings while rounding the
Horn had been left in its place. OF
course the first man away took the wrong
hat and the next one to leave finding his
gone took the best one left and so on un-
til there was only the old-timer left for
Will. The handsome young clerk IS mop
ing against hope that the hat will turn
up again to-day.
Commodore Baettke got back from
. Santa Cruz in the sloop Ma Belle yester-
day He is nothing the worse for his ex-
perience and says he is going for an
other cruise to the FaraIlones as soon as
he makes up his lost sleep. 1t will ne
remembered that Baettke and a party of
fine went for cruise to the Farallones
iast week. After getting outside the
had a very narrow escape from being
wrecked. They finally got the little
sIoOp before the wind and ran into Santa
Cruz There three of the party left the
sIoop and returned to the city by train.
Baettke and the others stayed by the
Ma Belle and sailed her back to San
Max Kalish, the popular agent of the
Humboldt Steamship COMPANY, came I4
Kalish will only be in the city few
.d9Ws as the companys interests require
his presence on the Sound.
The elephant beetle" is the largest in
sect in the world. full grown one
Weighs about half a pound.