The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-22

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- many years. A local
firm of accountants
vas engaged to perfect system that
"0uld insure the collection of all tolls
ana at the same time enable the com
missioners TO keep accurate track of
income and expenditures. The new
system VIII be installed July / and be-
c"eeh now and then the expert ac-
sti ,i,s,lts VINO designed IL Will give IN
Z -e-41 Sse-ohs 10 the state employees who
VIII have 10 use il
As the simplest way of imparting the
lnS st uction the state Wharnngers and
couectorS will meet every evening nm
III they know their lesson in the f4-ry
depot, where the accountants viii ex-
pain ali the ms and outs of their plan
CnueT the old method the state lost a
Chstoerapte sum every year owing to
the inadequate method or handling the
accounts OF ships that were moved
from one wharf TO another President
StaAord believes that the saving in
TINS matter of transfers alone VIII re-
imburse the state for the cost of in
stating the new system.
me new system means more work
for the wharfingers and collectors and
calls for the display or more intelli-
gence than hitherto has been necessary
TO Ill one of these jobs along the water
front II was chiefly because this new
system was 10 be installed that the
board offered no opposition to the in
crease of salaries Tor Wharfngers and
collectors provided By the last legisla-
ture- After July L wharfingers and col
lectOrs who deliver the goods" VIII
earn their increased pay. Employees
unable to stand the mental strain OF
active intelligence will be allowed TO
resign.
VIII Move 10 Pier 40
The Pacific Mail company was noti-
/ fed yesterday by the state board or
harbor commissioners that the present
assignments at Spear and Lombard
street wharves for the Pacific Mail
lcompany's Panama ships and ships OF
I the San Francisco and Portland steam
ship company, respectively, would be
Cancelled and that after July 1 both the
Portland and Panama steamers would
operate from pier 40. This is the new
steel and concrete pier now almost fin
ished that marks the beginning OF per
manent wharf construction on this
water front.
/ Pier 40 has no woodwork about it
except the spring fender which sur
rounds the steel and concrete structure
! for the protection of vessels gong
alongside. The shed, walls and roof
are of reinforced concrete and all doors
are of iron. on the wharf is a railroad
track which will connect with the
southern extension of the belt railroad
and through that with the southern
Pacific, Santa Fe and Western PACING
smear street wharf. where the Pan
anna ships now dock, is TO be torn down
to make way for improvements, ana
Lombard street wharf, now used oy the
Portland steamers. viii be wanted Tor
tenants now using other WharVes
doomed to early destruction.
VIII Have Big Picnic July
The Harbor social and beneficial club,
the membership of which is limited TO
employees Of the state board OF harbor
commissioners, will celebrate the social
side Of its organization July with a
picnic at Fairfax park The eluo was
n co he
purpose of promoting social harmony
among the members and TO provide
death benefit TO be paid to the depend
ent relatives of dead members. Since
the forma ton of the club the practice
of soliciting subscriptions. which in
va rfably followed the death Of a state
employee, has been discontinued.
Body Recovered Too Late
Harry Massieo, - years old: was
drowned Yesterday al the foot of Tay-
Tor street He had been playing on
a raft with some other boys News OF
his disappearance was reported at fish
tanner. succeeded in recovering the
body by diving. II had been under the
water for Is minutes.
DIR. A. ID. Drew OF the marine hos
pital service worked over the boy un-
Ill the harbOr hospital ambulance ar
rived. Steward Heffernan and c. A.
LindQuist sailor on the revenue cutter
Hartley, maintained artincial resplra-
ton during the ride 10 the hospital,
where Doctor Hoffman continued the
treatment and maintained it until the
evidence of death was unmistakable.
Young Massieo was the oldest of six
children. They were deserted by their
mother a year ago or 50 ago ana since
then three of them have died. The
mother is said TO be living in this
city One of the children she left was
only three months old.
Newt Jordan I'm England
A letter was received yesterday
from Newt Jordan. formerly bar pilot
In the states service later in the
stevedoring business at Seattle and now
retired from business and settled in
England. He is making his home at
Southport, a watering place about 20
miles from Liverpool, and, according to
Jordan's letter, THE best place in the
world 10 sleep. except a San Francisco
pilot schooner" Southport. say Nevis
friends here, is probably not SO quiet as
it was before be settled there
Water Front Notes
Receipts of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted to 4.26O,000 feet.
The ship Puritan, which grounded the
other day in the Fraser river has
been foated. apparently undamag ed.
The vessel will be reloaded and towed
10 Royal roads for repairs.
Captain Mason of the steamer Rose
City, which arrived yesterday from
the Columbia river, reports having
OF whales The Rose City brought an
unusually heavy vargo and the usual
crowd of passengers.
The Pacific Coast steamship COM
pany's Governor sailed yesterday for
southern ports carrying a large num-
Der OF passengers Among them was
George II. Higbee. manager of the
steamship company. and his family.
There were 243 passengers.
The pilot boat Pathfinder yesterday
reported having spoken the Norwegian
steamer Tordenskjold, bound from Ma
zatian for Puget sound.
According 10 wireless messages re-
ceived from the Alameda the liner will
4 be here this morning from Honolulu
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