The San Francisco call., 1909-03-05
HarbOr Board Plans to Discourage Use
OF Coal BunkerS as Warehouses
Santa Fe Is Granted Permission to Build
Extra Tracks. at China Basin

The harbor commissioners yesterday
refused to permit the Fairville quar-
ries to enlarge their bunkers on Val
lejo street wharf on the ground that
the bunker facilities at this port are
already in excess of the requirements.
They also decided to make the practice
Of using idle bunkers as coal ware
houses an expensive luxury. As a
starter in this direction the chief
wharfinser was directed to find out how
much coal was stored in the Union fuel
companys bunkers at Vallejo street
and how long it had been there and to
furnish these data to the secretary, who
was directed TO prepare a bill charg-
ipg the Union fuel company regular
wharfage charges for the entire time
the coal has been in the bunkers. This
bill is to be ready by next Thursday,
when the board viii take further &C
tion.
Permission was granted to the Santa
Fe TO install two tracks on the Chan
mel street frontage of the China basin.
This win permit the loading of cars
direct from the ships. and vice versa.
The Pacific Coast steamship COM
panys request for the suspension of
rule 50 in so far as 1t applied to
through freight was cenied. Rule 81
limits the period during which freight
may remain on a state wharf and pro-
vides penalty charges IN case OF In
fraction.
Engineer Barker was directed to pre-
pare plans and Specifications for repair
ing the outer end of Harrison street
wharf
VIII Carry Many Passengers
The Oceanic steamship company's
liner Mariposa. Captain Hayward. will
sail March 10 for Tahiti, equipped with
Of passengers. Among the passengers
Will be Arthur /. Rowley, the new
British consul, who is now on his way
here from London. A party to sail
from Paris. Mrs. Lavina Chapman of
Papeete. who has been visiting friends
in Honolulu and Oakland, will return
to her South sea home on the Mari
a party of Sausalito people. In this
party will be a: ] Miller and wife.
and wife and Mrs ]. w. Harrison.
The Mariposa will carry number OF
passengers booked through to New
Zealand and Australia.
Army Captain stays Ashore
Captain William H. Tobin. u. S. A,
has been detached from duty as quar-
termaster captain of the transport Bu-
ford and for the time being his sedfar-
ing days are over His work in the
Quarterma Ster'S department has appar-
for instead of being ordered back to his
company. the One Hundred and
Forty sixth Coast artillery, now at
the Presidio, he has been detailed
for a three years tour Of special duty
and will leave in a few days for Seattle,
where he has been ordered as assistant
depot quartermaster. Captain Tobin is
a native Of San Francisco and got his
first smell of powder as member of
the First California volunteers, with
which regiment he went to the Philip
pines.
Policeman Meets With Accident
The sidewalks on the private prop
erty side Of East street offer little in
ducement to the sprinter even in day
light, and after dark they require most
careful navigation. Policeman James
ODonnell of the harbor division of city
police was not built for sprinting. but
he tried it early yesterday morning and
over an East street sidewalk. He spied
a sailor who was too drunk to be at
large Anxious to gather him in before
his unsteady revolutions caused trouble,
ODonnell ran He slipped and fell,
him that his right ankle had been frac-
tured AS far as O'Donnen knows the
mariner is still evoluting-
Water Front Notes
The japanese liner Tenyo Maru.
which left here for the orient last Fri
day, arrived early yesterday morning at
Honolulu.
The steamer Lurline, bound for this
port from K9hului, was LILO miles
away at o'clock p. m. March s.
The torpedo boat destroyer Whipple
sailed yesterday for Magdalena bay.
The French bark Brenn, which ar
rived yesterday go days from New
castle. Australia, brought 1890 tons of
coal.
The Kosmos liner sebara, from Ham
burg for this port, arrived March l at
Valparaiso.
Receipts of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted to 655 900 feet.