The San Francisco call., 1905-02-20
SIBERIA REACHES PORT
SOONER THAN EXPECTED
Liner Brings Many Passengers
and Very Valuable Cargo.
TRANSPORT DIX IS IN FROM MANILA

The Pacific Mail Company's liner
Siberia, Captain ]. Tremaine Smith.
arrived yesterday from the Orient two
days ahead Of her schedule and sew
eral hours before she was expected.
She left Honolulu at 4 p. m. February
1S and was not looked for here until
late yesterday afternoon. Bright and
early in the morning. however. she
loomed Up through the smother OF the
southerly gale which was romping
along the coast and soon after sunrise
was in quarantine, waiting for the Fed
erel doctors.
The big liner had great difficulty get
ting alongside the Pacific Mail wharf.
The tide was ebbing and the strong
soUtherly wind did all it could to blow
her away from her berth Persever-
ance, the tug Arabs and some stout
hawsers, with the assistance Of the
Siberia's own twin screws. finally over
came the resistance OF wind and tide
ana down steep gangway the liners
passengers were soon clambering.
The Siberia was in fine weather all
the way across the Pacific and came
snto port looking as clean and trim as
when she went away. She brought
GAS tons OF freight, which included 725
bales OF raw silk. She brought 416 pas
sengers, OF whom about 800 were
Asiatics.
Among the passengers was Louis
Eppinger, one Of the best known hotel
men in the Orient DR.. Gates. sur
geon; George Z. Chaplin, purser: Alex
ander Morphy. freight clerk. and w. G.
Thompson, chief steward of the liner
Gaelic, returned on the Siberia They
left the Gaelic at Hongkong. where she
Is waiting for somebody to buy her or
Tor orders to return to England DR..
Gates, who is the senior surgeon Of
the line, viii to-day join the liner Cop
tic. Following Is q list OF the Siberia's
Passengers:
From China and Jspan-P. Anderson, J.
Barber. w. c. Barnclnan. Mrz. BatcheIler
= Boro- Lieutenant V Boutkevitch A. ].
Chalfant, h Colleaux A. Delcoigne Miss c.
Drei6il6,s Miss c; Elliott Mrs ". F1lchner.
1r- =. H Gates. J. T Hamilton. Miss Irvine
= ksmiya, Lieutenant K Krottkof. W. r.
Mcclellan, Alex Morphy, Lieutenant P Os-
T. Takezawa. Lieutenant S. Triton, Leuten-
ant p. Wesselldn. Mrs. John W. World Il.
lett. Miss n. BatcheIier. Gus Baughman. Dr.
r l. Benton, D. II. Burnham. J. A. Camp
bell George z. Chaplin, Mrs A Delcoigne
Louis Eppinger. ". F1lchner, Mrs. F. L
Guthrie and child J. Hutchinson. W. o. John
Laren, Miss I. Meilejohn, o. A. Nessier,
Lieutenant ovander. Lieutenant B. Roumine
AapIain L SchensnoVitch- Miss J. Somerville
W G Thompson. Captain Essen, Benjamin
Wolf, John W. World, A NJ Sherman.
From Honolulu-Mrs. S. Smith Mrs. A s.
Melvin. W. A. Mackay, Mrs. Fred Koch Al
fred Kay. F. D. carneai, Mrs Oscar STEPHENS
Mrs R Marshall, Miss L b Knapp, Mrs E.
Westveer, y. Kananus. n! J. Coulter. Miss
A F. Morrow. Miss NJ J. Clapp. Mrs G. F.
Lehners Mrs d. H Burnhana. Mrs. G King
c King. Mrs a. W. Mackay, Mrs. B. J. Tur-
Adams Miss E. Bluhm, s. F. Martin, Oscar
Stephens. Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Kelly, J. ].
Belser Otnsr Bauer. Mrs. II. ]. Coulter. s.
LEVY, Dr. T. I. Colburn. Miss c. L. PEBBLES,
a Gartley. F. NJ Bechtel. W. f Dillingham;,
Miss II. Durham Mr. and Mrs z. Westveer,
y. Kamanus, F. o. Miles.