The San Francisco call., 1910-01-28

The Rickmers. when occasion requires,
Is also a steamer, being equipped with
ing the ship along at an eight knot
gait
The auxiliary power is used in calms
and head winds and when entering and
leaving port. 1t also saves towboat
hire in docking When not in use the
propeller blades can be turned fore
and aft and pulled up close TO the
ships heel, where they do not inter
fere with the vessers progress and
handling.
With all sails set and a fair breeze
the Rickmers can scud along at 16
knots an hour The last time the ship
was in the Pacific the run from here
TO Sydney was made in SO days. The
Rickmers was 1O3 days coming from
England. The best days run was 31s
terrific hurricane was encountered
October % in the north Atlantic. The
ship was hove to for "a hours. Fifty
tons of coal that had been slowed on
deck was washed overboar rd. The
worst gale of the voyage was encoun-
tered off Cape Horn when a No. 10 to 2
hurricane blew many of the sails from
the gaskets. This storm lasted 36
hours and was accompanied by terrific
hail and rain. During this storm the
drum of the mizzen upper topsail yard
was carried away.
The Rickmers carries crew of 81
all told The vessel will dock at Oak
land long wharf.
captain ScnWetmdnn is master or the
Rickmers, but the real boss on the
ship is a beautiful gray deerhound the
property of r. c. Rickmers, the owner
of the ship. This long legged mascot
IS friendly brute of aristocratic birth
and athletic tendencies. His favorite
stunt Is jumping over the head of the
chief officer, broad shouldered Teu-
ton who stands feet inches in
his stockings. The dog is related to
an English hound that was a favorite
companion of the late Queen Victoria.
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deer. but it would be brave jack
rabbit that would board the Rickmers
while Harres has the deck.
Was Well known on Water Front
Word was received yesterday of the
death at Monrovia Wednesday of A. c.
Tuft, who was we'll known along the
water front as the proprietor of the
Bulkhead market in Steuart street. He
was 80 years of age and leaves a wife
and two children. He was son of the
late Captain James Tuft, and his broth
er. W. Z. Tuft, is chief clerk on the
Matson navigation company's dock.
WiIheImina to be DrydOcked
The Matson navigation companys
new steamer Wilhelmina, which arrived
the other day from Newport News, is
being put in shape for sea and will be
ready TO leave February 10 on its voy-
age TO Honolulu. A big cargo is assured
gers were booked before the liner ar
rived here. The Wilhelmina will be
placed on Hunters point drydock Tues
day to be scraped and painted.
OiIer is Burned by Explosion
P. Gneweicb. who lives at 667 Clay
street swas treated at the harbor hos
pital yesterday for burns of the right
hand and arm. He is employed as an
Oiler on the steamer Olson & Mahony.
He was in the fireroom, and after light
ing his pipe he dropped the lighted
match. 1t ignited a small accumulation
Of gas from the fuel oil. No damage
was done to the steamer.
Barbound at WestpOrt
The following vessels are barbound
at Westport: Edward r; West and
Comet for San Diego; c. w. Watson
and sehome, for San Pedro; G. A. Thsy-
er and Olympia, for this port, and Pill
burn, for Australia.
Water Front Notes
The Pacific Mail liner San Juan, Cap
tain Frazier, cleared yesterday and will
sail today for Panama and way ports
The ship Aryan cleared yesterday for
New York with cargo.
Receipts of lumber yesterday by sea
amounted TO 5.4S5,000 feet.
The liner Alameda, which left here
Saturday. was 1000 miles from Homo
lulu at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening.
The Pacific Mail liner City of Para
left Acapulco January % for this port
via Mazatlan.
Chinese Surrenders Opium
After the customs inspectors had al
most given up search for contraband
OPIUM on the Orlental liner emma, In
spector George Richardson was sur
prsed yesterday to see Chinese mem
Der of the crew walk UP to him with
five tins and hand them over.
The ship has been nearly a week in
pCrt. Searchers went aboard fresh
from their success OF 396 tins seized
on the sister ship Siberia. They pried
open decks. bored gimlet holes into
stanchions, split dunnage timber
ripped up life savers and ransacked
bslnks and lockers without finding so
much as a pill. There was one tin
seized also by Richardson. but that
happened not on the ship, but on the
dock when messboy stepped down
the gangplank with the contraband In
his clothes.
A small quantity. of Japanese silks,
including shirtwaists and shawls, was
discovered under scrap iron in the
pumproom locker of the British tramp
steamer Dakotah. The seizure was
made by Inspector S. H. Sackett
Change of Masters
Steamer Juliette. old master Peter Hansen
new master c. H. Weber Jr.
Registered-Steamer Olson Mahony, master
II. T. Payne.
Frank Iinqust; steamer George w. Elder, mas
ter g. NJ. Jessen-