The San Francisco call., 1899-10-30
TEAMS EMPLOYED
ON WATER FRONT
ARE OvERWORKED
Breaking Under the
Strain.
NO NEWS FROM THE MAULE
SHE LEFT HERE A MONTH AGO
FOR Ell TRIUMFO.
Aloha Was on Her Beam Ends-Ma-
rine Engineers Preparing for
a Grand Thanksgiv-
ing Ball.

Inc teamSterS on the water ITOHl di z
in quandary. They cannot keep up with
their work and the horses are beginning
to show marked signs of the wear and
tear. The drivers and animals are kept
at work from early in the morning until
II or u o'clock at night and all day sun
day. Yesterday there was continuous
procession of heavy trucks along East
street, while the Oceanic and Government
wharves and the Pacific Mail dock were
as busy as on week day.
II don't know what We are going to
do said the manager of one of the dray-
age companies yesterday. THE growth
of trade has been something enormous
We are going morning, noon and night
and cannot catch up. Our horses are
breaking down under the continuous
work and new animals to take their
places are very hard to get. Good driv-
ers are also scarce and in consequence
the horses don't get all the care and at
tention they should considering the work
they have TO do. | have never seen buSi-
ness increase with such rapid bounds in
all my life and it is still growing. Unless
We can all double our plants before
Christmas we shall simply be swamped,
as we cannot handle the business that is
offering at the present time.
Nearly all the vessels bought by the
under charter to carry sugar from Hij Ha-
wall to New York or Philadelphia. The
May Flint goes there from HonSkonS, the
Henry b. Hyde from Norfolk, Va; the
S. D. Carleton from New York, the Pac-
tolus from Nanamo, B. c.: the John Nc
Donald from Hongkong; the R. D. Rice
from Yokohama; the st. Francis comes
here from Philadelphia and then goes TO
Honolulu and the A. j. Fuller goes from
Philadelphia to Japan and thence to Ha-
wall. The St: James sails from Hong long
kong to New York and the ST. David from
Hongkong to Baltimore.
The little San Salvadorean steamer
Maule has not been heard from since she
left here on september 80 last for El
Triumfo, via San Diego. She came up
from Acajutla with cargo OF logs in
fourteen days. and Ell Triumfo is only
about eighty miles further south The
agents OF the vessel say that Captain
Medena changed his mind about calling
at San Diego and went direct to FL 1ri-
umfo He should have arrived at his
destination long ago and may have done
so, the fact rot having been telegraphed
here.
There has been a great scarcity of -four
in Guatemala, and i'll order to get a sup
ply into the country the Government re-
moved the duty during the month of Oc-
tCber. The Maule was sent up here and
was loaded with the article. The Maule
was built in Port Glasgow in 1885 and was
formerly in the South American trade.
About six months ago she was bought by
some people in San Salvador to carry
merchandise to the Mail steamers at an
chor in the roadsteds Her visit in Sep
tember was the first she had made to san
Francisco.
The steamer Queen arrived from Puget
Sound ports yesterday. Among her pas
sengers were about fifty miners, return
ing from Cape Nome All OF them bring
home more or less gold and say they are
going back in the spring. The Queen
brings word that the steamer Aloha had
a terrible time on the way up She was
on her beam ends for about sixteen hours
and everybody aboard made sure the yes
sci would go down. The deck load was
cut away and some of the cargo jetti-
soned, after which the vessel came up on
an even keel She reached Cape Nome
in safety after that and the balance Of
the cargo was landed.
The boat race between two crews from
the battleshlp Iowa did not take place
yesterday Captain Goodrich was to have
been referee, but could not attend to the
duties owing to a previous engagement
so the men postponed the race until to-
day. AS the cutters are not evenly
matched the men are going to row in the
whaleboats. There viii be twelve men
and a cockswain in each boat. The crew
from the second division will be cock
swained by Al Moore, while the crew
from the third division will be looked
after by II. Jenstrum. The race is for
$40 a side and will be from Hunters Point
to the battleship, three-mlIe course.
The marine engineers are making prep
arations for their invitation ball on the
eve of Thanksgiving. Last year the af-
intend making the coming event still
greater The members of the association
held a meeting yesterday and appointed
the following committee on arrangements:
Ed Brady ~~airman). ]. ]. Searey
Thomas Maicoin'son. Frank Bragg, E.
Murphy and II. J. Walters.
The four-masted steel schooner Ameri-
can built in Port Glasgow a year ago. has
been purchased by c. A. Hooper & Co. of
this city. She is now on her way to Mon
tevideo and from there will go to Puget
Sound to load lumber for San Francisco
The American is 90l tons net burden 2O4
feet long Al feet broad and 10 feet deep.