The San Francisco call., 1910-12-15

/ from Nagasaki to
/ | Easss sEasss Honolulu, but was
/ | E%2sssS avored wit h
/ ssass Sss{S smooth seas and
! KS clear skies on the
/ run from the island
! HsE port
Among the pas
sengers from Honolulu was Chief Jus
tlce A. :. Hartwell of the Hawaiian
! supreme court. who, with his daughter.
has come to the mainland to spend the
Christmas holidays. AS mark of
courtesy to the judge, the Hawaiian
! hour or so before the troopship left the
wharf at Honolulu
The ranking military officer on board
was Lieutenant Colonel Edward H.
! Plummer. The passengers included 743
| enlisted men of the army, s enlist
ed men of the navy and marine corps,
"a sick, SO military prisoners and 10
| discharged soldiers.
The new regulation of the customs
service, requiring returning residents
customs declara tions every article pur-
chased while abroad. kept the cabin
| passengers busy with their fountain
pens for the last few days of the voy-
age. Most of them have been away
/ more than two years. one passenger
had been away IL years, and they all
/ The declarations turned in by the
Sherman's passengers represented much
mental effort and vast expenditure of
/ INK, most of which might have been
/ saved If they had known in time that
those absent more than two years
could have declared themselves non
residents, and such would have been
called upon to declare and pay duty
only on unused articles not intended
! for personal use.
Yale and Harvard Near End of Voyage
The fast turbine steamers Harvard
and Yale with which the Pacific navi-
/ gat1on company will inaugurate an eX-
press passenger service between here
ana Los Angeles, We're 154 miles north
/ night, according to a wireless messa ge
That was received here yesterday via
New York. The steamers will be ready
| for active service when they arrive
and the first sailing of the new line
! from this port will be next Wednes-
! day. Thereafter there will be steamer
/ every Monday. Wednesday, Thursday
! and Saturday. The company has opened
! a ticket office a t $50 Market street and
a large number, of passengers have al
ready been booked for the first trip
+ The Yale and Harvard, the fastest
ana most luxurlously appointed pas
senger steamers in the world. will in
/ troduce type of ocean travel that is
/ new on this coast. A fiat rate will be
! charged for the passage. There are
accomm odations for 500 passengers and
staterooms to suit the purse and taste
! OF travellers of all degrees. All meals
! VIII be la carte. and the catering
VIII be on scale which will give the
found only in the best of shore hotels
! Ihe steamers are very fast and will
make the run to and from Los An.
geles IN railroad time. On account of
/ the largeness of the state rooms and
! the fact that there is no dust on the
! ocean highway, it is expected that the
/ Yale and the Harvard will cut deeply
flnto the first class business now car
| ried on by trains. For the convenience
/ of passengers desirous of going north
| or or passengers in the north who
] wish to make the southern run on the
Yale or the Harvard, the Pacific navi-
! cation company has arranged for an
lntercnanSe of through business with
I the Alaska Pacific steamship company.
Oranges and Lemons by Water Route
Since the California Atlantic steam
/ snip company knocked down the fence
/ with which the Pacific Mail company
had surrounded the field of water
! transportatio ton to the Atlantic side via
! Panama, the richness of those fallow
pastures has been revealing itself in
a way that has surprised even the
! transportation world. When r. p
| Schwerin told congress of the money
! the Pacific Mail company was losing
| on the Panama run, many accepted his
! hgures as evidence that a line of steam
| erS on that run could not paw When
! Bates & Chesebrough put on an in
/ dependent line of steamers, SchWerin
! spoiled something of his self-asserted
claim to patriotic philanthropy by in
! augurating a direct service of his own
which is still in operation and reaping
the benefit of the business stirred into
/ existence by the enterprise of Bates &
! Chesebrough.
/ the Bates & Chesebrough line will leave
! here today for the isthmus via San
| Pedro The steamer will leave the lat
| ter port loaded to it's full capacity It's
1 cargo from San Pedro will include a
carload OF oranges and a carload of
! lemons, commodities hitherto dependent
for their transportation east on a rail
road combination that exacted all the
traffic would bear in the way of freight
/ charges. This big shipment of fruit
will leave San Pedro December 16 and
will be in New York by January Q or or
/ In % days after shipment If this
Shipment is delivered in good shape
there Is no reason to doubt 1.-THE
bulk OF the orange and lemon crop will
/ hereafter be sent to New York and the
middle west by the all water route
Investigation of Ferry Captains
! Local Inspectors or Hulls and Boil
ers O. F. Bolles and j. *. Bulger CON
charges of giving cross signals. pre-
ferred against Captain John Lewis of
the ferry boat Claremont by Herman
! Haywood. a passenger on the ferry boat
! .Tamalpais on November 19. as well as
the charge of failing to report the
circumstances. brought against Captain
1 Charles Bagge of the Tamalpais by SUI
/ perVising Inspector John Bermingham
At the hearing Tuesday the two cap
talns gave contradictory testimony
! Captain Bagge testifying that he gave
! two whistles. which were answered
with one by the Claremont. which then
crossed the Tamalpais' bow. and Cap
/ tain Lewis asserting that only one
whistle was heard from the Tamalpais
Gus Oberg. second officer of the
Claremont, yesterday corroborated the
/ testimony of Captain Bagge, testifying
| that the Claremont gave only one whis
tie. Charles Rosengrand night watch
man on the Tamalpais, and Leroy Sc
! llnsky deckhand on the Tamalpafs.
corroborated the testimony of Captain
| Bagge. Herman Haywood the com
| plainant, reiterated his statement that
! the Claremont crossed the bows of the
! Tamalpais from starboard to port after
the latter had blown one whistle.
ment.
The inspectors can take no action in
the matter of the alleged oyercroyd-
ing of the Key Route ferry boats dur
ing the rush hours. While the num-
Der of passengers that may be carried
by other steamers may be limited by
by ferry boats is limited only by the
requirements of safe navigation.''
so long as a ferry boat is safely
navigated from shore to shore said
Inspector Bulger yesterday, "the fed
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