The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-30
CHANGE AFFECTS
THE BIG CARRIERS
Vessels Bringing More Than
$500 Tons May Leave Cargo
on Dock for Four Days

The harbor commissioners yesterday made
temporary change in their regulation i'm
posing q penalty on freight left for more
than IS hours on state wharf. 1t was as
serted BIZ Williams Dimond & Co.. agents for
the American Hawaiian line, that 1t physi-,
cslIy impossible TO within As hours
freight discharged the wharf with the
expedition they must in order to maintain
their schedule. The commissioners recognized
that the discharging ability Of the modern
freighter has been increased more than the
ports facilities for distributing freight have
been Improved on this account and until bet
ter facilities can be devised an exception will
be made IN enforcing the ~ hour rule in the
case Of ships loading dischargng cargoes
more than 900 tons. In tacse cases the
time viii b. extended 10 four days.
Vessels loading cargoes OF more than 100
tons viii be allowed four days in which 10 as
semble the freight instead Of the ~ hours
that is now the limit For vessels with less
than $500 tons OF freight TIE rule Will remain
as before and viii be strictly enforced
BACK ON HIS OLD SHIP
The Pacific Mail liner Newport cleared yester-
day for Panama and way ports and will sail
today for the isthmus, commanded by captain
Manchuria Captain Saunders was relieved Of
the command Of the Manchuria some months
ago after an exchange of blows with the ship 5
surgeon The medieo was placed indefinitely
and without pay on what is known in Pacific
Mail circles waiting orders. Captain Seun-
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doctor over the rail with the plea OF nervous
breakdown. placed on sick leave. BY
way OF cheering him up in his eonTaiescence
he was sppointed csretaker OF the Algea a
few weeks sgo. This effected a complete cure
/ and today Saunders will don his double breasted
fiock coat again and take the Newport TO
sea The Newport was Saunders ship for a
number Of years, both in the Panama run and
was chartered as an army transport and was
used by General otis as flagship.
SANTA ROSA SAILS SOUTH
The Pacific Coast steamship cOmpany's Santa
Rosa sailed yesterday for southern California
ports with large number Of passengers, among
A Murphy L. Van Hagen
G. c. Edwards Miss Fisher
/. II. Hesht Miss l.. Wilson
J. n Johnson Miss l.. Hazard
n. Quinn and wife Miss ID. Clark
W. L. Dinsmore, wife Mrs. f. NJ. Ross and
and child daughter
! CAPTAIN OF THEIRS NOT A DIscovERER
Captain Quatrevaux of the French bark
Theirs. which arrived Sunday from Newcastle,
Australia with the report of having sighted an
uneharted island. called at the photographic
office yesterday and discovered that instead OF
finding sn island he had merely made mistake
In estimating his position. He placed the blame
on the French chart. BY comparing his figures
with the official charts he found that the -iun
chsrted' land Henderson island of the
Tuamotu archipelago, 10 which Pitcairn island
belongs
PROMOTED TO wHARFINGER
". F. Eschbacher was promoted yesterday by
the harbor commissioners from state collector te
state wharfnger. He succeeded Wharfinger Fl
Glaze. whose term had expired and whom the
commissioners declined 10 reappoint The
vacancy in the ranks Of collectors caused by
Eschbachers promotion filed by the ap
pointment of G. F. Kenneally.
WATER FRONT NOTES
Receipts Of lumber yesterday by sea amounted
/ TO 96J. 600 feet.
/ The Kosmos liner Lakksrah. bound from this
port for Hamburg. arrived July pc al Val
paradise.
The steamer Gmatilla. bound from this por-
Y for Victoria. reported By wireless having me
4 the steamer G. ". Fenwick with log raft II
4 tow at $50 p. m. July IS So miles north O
/ Cape Mendocino.
The Oceanic steamship companys liner Mari
poss. Captain Hayward. bound 10 this por
/ from Tahiti and due tomorrow. 200 mile
away ar 5 p m. July Is according 10 wire
/ less message received from the ship.
ENGINEER OF HORNET DIES
! HOAQUIAM Wash. July 29-Robert T
O'NeiI. aged 60 years. Of San Francisco. chiei
engineer Of the steamship Hornet. was found
dead in his stateroom this afternoon. Dealt
was due to heart trouble