The San Francisco call., 1908-03-08
Shipping News and Gossip
of the Water Front
Storms Spoil Fishing and the Czarina
Returns With Only Half Cargo

...:.:EThe codfshing schooner Czarina ar
= yed Yesterday 13 days from Pirate
.. Cove with 92.9o3 Goldfish. This is only
81 f cargo but Captain Kohler SAYS
stl.at he brought every FISH there was
sat. the station The weather has been
unusually stormy this season and the
i. .hs1ermen have had poor luck The
. ..Czerina which left here December u.
, encountered fine weather on the run
fTome. The schooners Hunter and
.A[asu ~ orleans were Left AT Squaw
syll.sraor sn0 the Maid of Orleans was 10
.haNc sailed for Seattle shortly after
The Czarinas departure.
To Carry Many Passengers
The Oceanic steamship company's
Timer Nariposa. Captain Hayward,
which win sail tomorrow for Tahiti
r-in carry many passengers. most Of
them tourists in search of summer
Among them VIII be Charles Marcade
governor of the Paumotu islands Gov
ernor Marcade has been visiting his
home in France r. u. Taylor and
wife VIII be among the Mariposa's
passengers. TAYLOR is the son OF
Mavor TAYLOR and is taking the voy-
age for his health About twenty OF
the Msriposa's passengers are booked
through TO Australia They viii have
q. wait of about a week al Papeete for
the Australian liner on which they
VIII complete their voyage Among
the Mariposa's passenger win be:
L. Hopnenstedt Mrs r. X Lippitt.
Mrs. c. n Williams. George l. North
snd wife. J. n Mccarthy and wife.
Mrs. l. A. Lorentz and daughter. y.
C. Brander. Miss A. Ward. 6. y. Ward.
Mrs. $ E Herr, Mr.. and Mrs. A. p.
camp. Governor c. Afarcade, Miss A.
uenis0n, Miss June Brown. O. Morillot.
Air- and Mrs. T. II. Yapp. r. Hostein.
p. I-anglume. Mrs Il story Mrs. r.
Asp nall. Miss Martha Craig, Z. d.
Taylor and Wife, Rev. Father Allan,
.. T. Joyce. A. Z. Ridsdok.
VIII ReeOpper Shenandoah
The contract for repairing the ship
Shenandoah has been awarded TO W.
A. Boole & Son. The Shenandoah viii
be towed today 10 BODIES shipyard
and there hauled up on the marine
ways. The work TO be done includes
stripping on the old sheathing, calk-
Ing and recoppering. When coming into
p0rt'the Shenandoah, one of the largest
wooden ships afoat struck on the Po-
tato Patch and has been leaking ever
since. The Shenandoah brought a cargo
Of coal for the United States govern
lnent and 1t was rumored that the navy
department might buy the clipper ship
and convert it into coal hulk.
There We're seven bids for the job on
the Shenandoah. The lowest, $500, was
submitted 10y the Moore & Scott iron
works and the highest slS,2s0.f by Stone
& Van Bergen. W. A Boole & Son,
10 whom the contract was awarded. bid
sI0,63e.
Weather Bound Five Days
The ship Star Of England, which ar
rived yesterday from Nanaimo with a
cargo Of coal for the Alaska packers
association, was weather bound in Neah
bay for five days. During that time a
succession OF terrific gales ragged IN
the straits Of san Juan. accompanied
by hai and snow. Ernest Mclean and
Joseph Flanaghan. boys, slowed away
on the ship al Nanaimo- They are
being held on board and viii be sent
hack TO British Columbia by the i'm
migration authorities.
Water Front Notes
The liner China. which arrived Fri
day from the far east IS the first orien-
tai steamer for many months that has
brought no raw silk
George w. McNear entertained
party of friends at luncheon yesterday
on board the French steamer Matte.
The liner Mongolia left Hongkong
yesterday for this port.
Receipfs of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted 10 S5000o feet.