The San Francisco call., 1905-01-14
DORIC ARRIVES FROM ORIENT
MAKES PORT WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY

The Occidental and Oriental Steam
ship Company's liner Doric, Captain
Harry Smith, arrived yesterday atter-
noon from the Orient, ending her long
voyage in safety but making port with
great difficulty and without pilot
through the smother of hoWl1nS
southeastern Under ordinary circum-
stances the Doric would have been in
port at sunrise and daylight found
quarantine and customs officials all
waiting for the liner.
"Doric. six miles," was reported by
the Merchants Exchange about 1880 a.
M Can see sixteen miles, no Dor1c in
sight" was the report at o'clock. A
squall had shut the liner from view and
when the weather cleared she was out
Of sight. Back she came, however, and
shortly after o'clock came the report:
"Doric three miles" This time she
reached quarantine, was passed in rec
ord time and by o'clock was tied up
at her berth at the Pacific Mail wharf.
That the Doric got>in at all yesterday
Is tribute to the skill Of Captain
Smith For three days the suns face
had been hidden and not sight did
the Doric's navigators get during that
time. All of Thursday night the wind
howled with vicious fury. Navigating
by dead reckoning for port like San
Francisco with the Jagged rocks of the
Farallones as a trap In the mariners
path is ticklish work. Not daring to
take his bearings from the islands Cap
tain Smith headed for where he figured
Point Reyes should be and that head
land was the first land sighted. His
course had been maintained as truly as
if sun and stars had been the guides.
The storm had driven the pilot boats
into the harbor. but the Doric has been
here so often that she knows the way
in. Pilot Jimmy Miller boarded the
liner off Meiggs wharf and made up
for his late arrival by taking the Doric
alongside the wharf in splendid style
and gliding her into her berth as if
she had been a tiny launch.
Although high out of the water the
Doric brought a valuable cargo. which
included 1885 bales of hemp, S19 rolls.
of mating, 1477 bales of raw silk, val
ued at more than $1,000, 900, and 1904
chests of tea
The liner brought ninety-one passen-
gers, Of whom fifty-one were Asiatics.
At Honolulu she landed 241 Koreans
and PSI Japanese.
Among the passengers was Lieuten-
ant Commander j. G. Gilmore OF the
United States Navy. Gilmore is the
officer, who, when attached to the
Yorktown, was captured by Filipinos
ana nelQ prisoner until rescued Dy Ma
jor Hoare. Gilmore and Surgeon L.
l.. Won Wedekind, also a passenger on
the Doric have been attached to the
Cincinnati. Assistant Paymaster T. H.
Sanderson of the navy, who has been
stationed at Guam, also returned on the
liner
7. Hodsumi and his wife arrived on
the Doric Hodsumi is a banker and
comes here to take the management of
the Yokohama Specie Bank. He was
stationed for some years at New York
but his last charge was the company's
branch at Hcngkong. Among the pas
sengers were foreign army officers, mis-
sionaries, business men and globe trot-
teIs.
The passengers were:
otto Aurbach W. F. Barney. Captain f.
Rarnardiston CR- ED. DIR. D. G. Beehe. c. C.
Blckland DR. ID. Eastlake. r. ". Ferrari,
Lieutenant Commander j. c. Gilmore ~. S.
NJ. Miss L. F. Gould c. z. Gray, DR.. NJ
h Gwyn (U s NJ. H. S. T. Hodsumi Mrs
7. Hodsumi Surgeon Major E. Y. Hugo a.
Iunkn. T. ". JOY. Mrs. z. w Joy. A. Knox,
p. r. lawson, j. p Lowrie Mrs. ]. P.
LoRrie H. r. Parkes. A. Putnam. Miss E.
Putnam. Assistant Paymaster T. H Sander
son II. S. NJ, D. sIimmen. Rev. M; b.
StImson Mrs. M l.. Stimson, n. rooker, Miss
G. Tooker Miss NJ Tooker, Miss NJ. r. Took
er surgeon l.. L, Wedekind 20. $. NJ,
A H. White r. c. Woods. j. F. Wright,
Cautain Ritzmann a. G. Al