The San Francisco call., 1909-03-29
BRINGS Big CARGO
FROM THE ORIENT
Many Passengers From the Far
East to Arrive on Pacific
Mail Liner

The Pacific Mail steamship Manchuria
IS due to arrive early this morning
from the orient It brings $50 cabin
passengers and a valuable cargo of
1000 tons. including rice. raw silks
and curios.
VIII Sail Thursday
The ship Standard. the first Of the
vessels Of the North Alaska CONNER
ciaI company, viii sail Thursday for
Chinook It viii carry $50 fishermen,
90. Chinese cannery hands and a large
supply OF cannery materials.
The steamship Governor arrived
yesterday from Seattle. making the
run in 50 hours. The steamer did not
touch at Victoria, B. c. This is in ac-
cordanee with the new rulings of the
steamship company-that hereafter the
Governor and the President will NOT
stop at Victoria-thereby avoiding
quarantine examination at this port
Lumber Arrivals
Lumber arrivals from the north by
sea yesterday amounted to 1878. 900
feet
Dollars Pass Each Other.
An unusual occurrence took place of
Point Reyes yesterday afternoon.
Three steamers of the Dollar line were
all at o'clock within speaking dis
tance at that point The three steam
ers were so near that the telegraph
operator at Point Reyes thought that
one Of the vessels might be in trouble.
The vessels were simply exchanging
friendly signals. They were the Bes-
sic Dollar, bound from Moran to San
Pedro; the Harold Dollar. bound from
Grays harbor 10 Port san Luis. and the
Grace Dollar, bound from this port to
Eureka.
Practical Navigation Work
The class Of navigation from the
Humboldt evening high school en-
5oyed a practical instruction in chart
work on board the United States gun
boat Alert yesterday. II had been the
original intention Of Captain Bauer to
take the class out into the open sea,
but the day was too stormy so the
program was changed and the class
was taken around Angel island and
up the bay 10 point opposite Cali
iornia City The Alert arrived back
at its mOOrings at Sausalito at
O'Clock in the afternoon
j. T. Mcmillan. the nautical exner+
who is attached TO the branch hydro
graphic Office Of the United States
navy, is the instructor Of this class.
and Il was at his request that the trip
was made. Mcmillan gave a series of
short talks during the trip explaining
chart working in detail.
Delay Turbine Tests
NEWPORT. r. J.. March 2S.-Thiclx
weather today prevented the start of
the cruisers Chester. Salem and Biz
mingham on their second competitive
test 10 determine the efficiency under
various conditions OF the American and
English turbine and the reciprocating
engines.
The following message was received
here by wireless from Commander
Henry B. Wilson of the Chester who
is the senior officer Of the squadron:
The preliminary calculations of coal
and water used for p hours on the 10
knot run give the following: Bfr-
mingham 3l.2 tons Of coal. 10 tons Of
water; Chester. 39.9 tons Of coal. 50
tons Of water; Salem. 50 tons of coal.
SIOOp Sinks; 20 Drowned
NEW ORLEANS March 2S.-A dis
patch from Bluefields. Nicaragua, gives
the details Of the loss Of the sIoop
kearsarge on the night OF March l3
between Monterey point and Greytown
Nicaragua Twenty people perished
when the boat Went down. The can
tain cook, two sailors and five pas
sengers succeeded in reaching shore
in small boat
OF From the south
The schooner Santiago. Captain Nc
Donald, arrived yesterday, j hours
from Monterey. with 1000 barrels of
oil for the Associated oil company.
Makes auicI Run
The steamer Rose City, Captain Ma
son, made an unusually fast run down
the coast from Portland. 1t arrived
last night at o'clock. being only So
hours IN making the voyage.
Duplicate SaiIingS
The cod nshing schooner Otflfe Fiord
Captain Dahllof. sailed Yesterday for
the cod fishing station in northern
waters. It's last sailing. on the same
course. took place on the same dav one
year ago, and two years ago ii saile5
within sS hours Of the same date.