The San Francisco call., 1909-06-03

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M vacant berth at Union
street wharf, and, al
though notified that it
had been reserved for the steamer Ella
Of the Jebsen line. overruled the chlet
Wharfnger and port authority ana ran
the >Sais alongside. The matter was
adjusted later by the kosmos oflc1alS,
and a berth was found for the Ella at
Steuart street.
In the course of adjustment ii was
explained TO Captain Dincklage that
the chief wharfnger was kaiser In san
Francisco harbor and that he had been
guilty of lese majestic in ignoring the
harbor masters orders. The skipper
emerged from the Interview with his
feathers badly ruffied but the sails re-
tanned her berth and the chief wharf
niger his dignity.
The Sais brought large cargo. eight
passengers and one worksway Among
the passengers was c. b. Wilcox. assist
ant freight and passenger agent of the
Tehuantepec railroad. with headquar-
ters al Rincon Mexico. Another pas
senger was J.. A. BodwelI Of the Ham
mond milling company, who has, been
10 Mexico on business trip.
The workaway was Auld ID. Glenn
mons OF Mobile, Ala. and never was
American citizen better pleased TO be
back on United States soil. CIemmons
is master mariner and a member, he
says, of the American association of
masters, mates and pilots. He was in
duced 10 leave Mobile last January
by telegraph operator, who promised
him big job at Puerto Mexico if
Clemmons could arrange the trans
portation. The job did not materialiZe.
Neither of them could speak Spanish.
When their money had nearly gone
the operator and clemmons baggage
disappeared.
For the first time in my life said
Clemmons yesterday, II knew what it
meant TO go to bed hungry. with no
breakfast in sight. / became a first
class bum tried to get out of the
country, and was arrested twice for
slowing away on ships. l beat my way
back and forth across the isthmus but
had no better luck at Salina Cruz than
at Puerto Mexico until the American
consul gave me a letter to the captain
of the Sais, who allowed me TO work
my passa ge here.
Clemmons will ask the local harbors
of his association to help him get work
or transportation back to Mobile. where
he hopes TO meet his friend the op-
orator.
The sais brought a large cargo. both
from Europe and Central and South
America.
Ella Arrives From Lower Coast
The German steamer Ella of the
Jebsen & OstrandeE line, which arrived
here yesterday afternoon from La Roca
by way of Central American ports and
San Pedro, is usually unfortunate in
the matter of docking. The first time
on rock hump off the China basin
wharf. Yesterday the Elias berth al
Union street was annexed by the Kos
most liner Sais. and when the Ella
tried TO go in there she was chased
away and ordered to Steuart street
There were no obStructions and tide
and wind We're favorable for speedy
I docking. but when Pilot Christensen
discovered that the steamers after
winch was out of order he declined to
make the attempt and the Ella lay in
the stream at anchor until ) o'clock
when towboat put the steamer along
side.
The Elias cargo was light-so much
so that the propeller was only half
submerged, but the steamer brought Al
passengers. of whom l9 are bound for
Puget sound ports.
Opium Found ON the siberia
When Customs Inspector f. f. En-
low of the feEeral searching force
undertakes to look for anything the
fact that the object of his search is
hidden under few tons of iron is
not regarded by him as anything of a
handicap. In the chain locker of the
liner Siberia he yesterday found and
seized six tins Of unstamped opium.
In his report of the seizure Enlow
modestiy ignores the fact that the ST.
beria's mammoth cable was piled on
top of the hidden dope. They were
merely carefully concealed" under an
iron plate. 1t was the apparent loose
ness of this plate that aroused Enlow's
suspicion and once his suspicion was
aroused the rest was easy.
safety of Steamboat Travel
f. A. Bishop. in the June number of
The Master, Mate and Pilot, has COM
piled tables from the interstate COM
merce reports showing how much safer
it Is TO travel by sea than by land The
statistics cover the period from 1898 TO
1897 and they deal with the adventures
of 3,273.649.63S passengers who trav-
eled by sea. and with 6,679.22s,199 pas
sengers who preferred the railroad
train OF the steamboat travellers onIy
one in 1.046, ,S97 meets death a the re-
suit of accident to the steamboat The
death rate among railroad travellers for
the period covered by the statistics is
one In 1880.
China Leaves Honolulu
The Pacific Mail liner China, Captain
Friele, homeward bound from the
orient, sailed Tuesday evening from
Tuesday. The China, like all Pacific
mail liners for months past is crowded
to its full capacity, having on board 141
cabin passengers and 13s Asiatics in
the steerage. OF the cabin passengers
100 are from China and Japan. The
cargo o& 2,10O tons includes SO tons of
raw silk.
Disabled launch Picked Up
Captain Clark of the Fort Point life
saving station yesterday picked up a
disabled gasoline launch that was be-
tween the heads and drifting to sea on
the ebb tide. In the launch We're four
Gilogo and G. Rasquale. The disabled
launch was towed by the life savers to
Ffshermans cove.
Only the Key Route Objected
Surveyor OF the Port Edward f.
Woodward has completed his secret in
vestigation of the ferry boats on the
bay. II was found that all the boats
were complying with the federal laws
carrying the exact number required of
engineers, correct number of officers
and crew.
The only ferry company declining to
furnish the collector of the port with a
list Of their various crews, with their
addresses, was the Key Route system.
! The inspection of the Key Route boats
was made irrespective of this
Fine Must BE Paid
The collector Of thes port has been
notified by the department. OF commerce
and labor that hereafter the coastwise
of passengers OH foreign vessels be-
tween Honolulu and the United States
will be met in each instance by the
statutory penalty. The decision came
in the case of r. w S. Woods and wife