The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-02
FRUIT GROWERS
i. i. SAVED FROM A
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!. Il. i. DANGEROUS PEST
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INA elon Maggot From
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CITY OF PEKING DELAYED
CITY OF PEKING DELAYED
WHITEHALL CUT DOWN BY a
-. LIGHTHOUSE TENDER.
Mysterious Schooner w. S. Phelps
- Spoken OF Pigeon Point-steamer
-: City of Columbia Sold at
-: Honolulu fer $500.

The most disgusting pest ever brought
30 the United States came here from Hon
:.oluiu on the steamers which arrived last
Tuesday. It is the melon and cucumber
e l1asgot, and arrived in a consignment OF
: cuoumbers. Alexander CraW, Quarantine
.0fieer for the State Board of Horticul-
ture. discovered the dangerous shipment
before it could be landed and at once con-
signed it TO the furnace.
A more dangerous or more disgusting
pest never came TO our shores" said Mr.
Craw yesterday. 1T breeds very rapidly
ana inside of year would have spread
ali over the United States. The melon in
. -dustry in California is a growing one,
while down in the Southern States the adj
vent Of. this pest would be a national ca
lanity.
The maggot first made its appearance
IN the islands about a year ago and now
every melon, cucumber and squash patch
IN Hawaii loses 70 per cent Of its product
'py the pest When the fruit is three
= feurths grown the fly lays its eggs on the
.top. OF II near the stem. When the mag
COTS are Matched they burrow into the
FRUIT and live there until they are fully
grown Then they work their way out Of
the fruit and burrow into the earth, where
alhey i've until ready 10 come forth again
in the spring as a fly. They closely re-
semDle the ordinary maggots and liter
. ally swarm in the fruit
=; knew the maggot had made it's ap-
:: pearance in Hawaii and have been keep
ing watch for 1t ever since. This is the
: ilrSt shipment that has reached the TTuited
q. states, and hope it will be the last. In
@ future neither melons nor cucumbers from
H9Wah or the islands of the southern seas
. Wal De allowed TO enter San Francisco If
o any more come here they will be bIIrnr
Up as this lot was. -
IA Had It not been for this pest. cucum-
1EI9 ana melons from Hawaii would have
2een very welcome addition to the mar
Het Al TINS time Of the year
-. he steamer City of Picking did NOT got
away on schedule time Yesterday The
-anage received when in collision with
I'd Japanese gunboat was all repaired but
al the last moment a steam pipe burst
ana Inc steamer had TO anchor in Mis-
SION bay until the pipe was replaced
lanes -DoIg, one Of the oilers was badly
. SCaIQeC about the face, arms and hands
2. He was taken TO the Harbor Receivfng
hospital, and after having his wounds
dressed there was taken TO the German
. hospital DOig had been out of employ
LIenL nine months, and went to work on
the Picking last Tuesday.
ne chances are that the steamer Yea
4ahdla VIII not go out again as a tr--s-
port. In month or so the Oceanic s nm
snip Company Will want her so if l-ncle
sam requires the vessel he viii have to
impress her The new machinery for the
Alameda ard Martposa viii be ready for
lheIn IN about month. and they will be
.WlLhoraWn one at time to have the
engines put in The Australia will take
their place while they are laid I'D on the
Australian run, and the ZeaIandia will
90 10 Honolulu, replacing the Australia.
There was big rush of freight for the
brig Galilee yesterday. The vessel is sup
posed 10 get away for Tahiti to-day and
shat gave shippers little time TO get their
SoooS ABOARD Howard street wharf was
crowded with teams all day. and the yes
SCI Will take away every ounce of freight
she can carry.
: The Goat Island lighthouse tender Ma
ufone; Jr. almost cut Dan Shay's white
halF boat in two yesterday. Captain
Lime was bringing his children over to
schQcL and on entering the Clay street
slip, saw the whitehall ahead of him He
attempted TO get out of the way but Just
rs he ported his helm the whitehall
changed her course and the two came to-
gether. Shay had three sailors in the
coat. whom he was taking out to the
7whaler Belvedere. All of them were
thrown. into the water, but Lime soon
picked them and their belongings up.
after landing his children and seeing
them on their way TO school Lime took
TIE sailors out TO the whaler. The white
BALI was lowed ashore, and will be re-
The mysterious schooner W. S. Phelps
has been heard from again. Nearly fifty
days. ago she left San Pedro for Eureka
and just as she was given up for lost
she put into Santa Cruz for provisions.
Ter days ago she sailed again for San
Francisco and was not heard from until
Captain Alexander of the steamer Santa
here 1ast Tuesday week, or the day after
the Phelps left San Pedro for San Fran
cisco. When seven miles south OF Pigeon
Point Captain Alexander saw a schooner,
which he is certain was the Phelps, stand
ing .fnshore with westerly wind. This
was on February 2, and the question is,
where is the Phelps now?
The steamer City of Columbia was sold
at. Sherihs sale in Honolulu for $500.
She came around the Horn with a party
OF Klondikers and was in trouble from
the start At Seattle $4,000 was spent on
her before she went into the island trade.
Leaving Honolulu for the Sound she
ssprang a leak and was run into Hilo,
where she sank. After being raised libel
suit after libel suit was piled on her and
finally she was ordered sold. Il will about
paw the Sheriff's costs.