The San Francisco call., 1908-11-30
Shipping News and Gossip
of the Water Front
Wireless Message Indicates That the Tenyo
Maru Will Be in Port by Daybreak

The japanese liner Tenyo Maru should
be IL quarantine ready for inspection at
sunrise this morning. A wireless mes
sage received yesterday reported the
turbine liner 227 miles from the Golden
gate AT 10 o'clock and the steamship
ohlclals expressed the belief that the
night
Although the Tenvo Maru is equipped
with wireless, IL was not from the jap
anese liner that the message came Ibe
Ienyo's plant is said 10 have range
OF only about 100 miles The aerogram
came from the tanker Rosecrans, bound
from Honolulu fer Monterey. The Rose
Grams at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
was 200 miles away.
The Jenyo Aaru is bringing only
about so cabin passengers and 1S
Asiaucs in the steerage. The Chinese
boycott OF everything Japanese has hit
Inc Japanese merchant marine heaNily.
The Tcnyo Maru IS not only the largest
and sWiftest Of Pacific liners as Well
as the newest, but its accommodations
for Asiatic passengers are the most
complete. In spite Of the additional
comfort offered by the Tenyo Maru the
Chinese, who under ordinary circum-
stances would crowd the Asiatic steer
age. remember the Tatsu Maru incident
and travel by ships that do not ny the
japanese flag.
The Tenvo Maru's cargo includes a
large shipment of raw silk, but the
shipments Of general merchandise are
not heavy.
Tardy Report of Transports Arrival
The failure Of the army authorities
at Manila TO report the arrival Of the
army transport Dix again calls atten-
lion TO tie lax methods in vogue in the
ouartermaSrer' department. The DIX
arrived at Manila November "A, day
ahead Of time Somebody at Manila
failed TO cable A report of the arrival
until the war department requested the
navy department to send a cruiser from
Manila IN search OF the missing snip
The naVy~s order brought back the in
formation that the Dix was safely IN
port and had been there since Tuesday
The army transports carry more pas
sengers than any other steamers cross
ing the Pacific. Interest in their safe
arrival is widespread. and yet they are
the only vessels that reach Manila whose
arrival Is not known all over the world
within an hour or SO The report OF
transports arrival at Manila is usually
cableo 10 Washington at once. There
the information is pigeOnhOled until the
gets ready. Occasionally he does this
the day il arrives Usually, however,
he nurses the secret for a week or so,
and not infrequently the first indica-
Manila Is a cable reporting its arrival
at Nagasahi, homeward bound.
Is Back From His Vacation
Captain Michael Joseph Conboy, who
commands the water front division Of
the city police, has returned TO duty
after three weeks vacation. Captain
Conboy spent most Of his holiday on
the duck marshes and the friends
whose tables he has kept supplied with
canvasbacks are sorry that his Yaca-
fiOn was not longer. The captain him
self, however, is little weary OF the
sport. He is a crack shot and was for
tunate in selecting blinds where the
duck family held its reunions. BY way
OF diversion and making the game
more like real sport the captian aban
dOned his shotgun for rife. With the
l. sI-r~
before breakfast. and even the rife, he
says. only extended his daily hunt until
noon. But the slaughter and the leisure
palled on him, and he is along the
water front again making the ship
ping world behave.
Takes Double Tow TO Sound
The steamer Olson and Nahony,
which sailed yesterday for Puget
sound, went TO sea with the barkentine
Amazon and the schooner Andy Ma
hony in tow. If the towlines hold out
the steamer viii take the wind jam
mers TO the sound, leaving the Andy
MahOny at Eagle Harbor and the ANA
zon at Port Townsend. If anything
should happen 10 the toWlines, the
sailing vessels viii spread their wings
Bnd look out for themselves. Steam
all viii load with lumber on the sound.
IIghtship Takes Cruise TO Sea
Relief lightship No. &c went to sea
yesterday and put in several hours of
duty as a lighthouse tender. num-
her Of buoys that hal. shifted positions
during the recent heavy weather were
restored to their places as set down on
the chart. This work is usually done
by the Madrono. but that steamer is
busy just now adjusting other displaced
aids to navigation.
Water Front Notes
The steamer Tallac which arrived
yesterday from Bellingham, broug
1880 tons Of grain and 100000 feet OF
lumber.
Receipts Of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted to 660 600 feet.
The Pacific Coast steamship COM
pany's Queen sailed yesterday for Sc
attic with nearly 800 passengers and a
large cargo.
The steamer HOrnelen, which ar
rived the other day from the sound. is
in the stream finishing loading for An
1ofagasta, for which port the freighter
VIII sail today. The Hornelen's cargo
includes a deckload of creosoted piles