The San Francisco call., 1910-02-04

Delays Cost Steamer Its License
The German steamer Ella Captain
/ Bruhn, which arrived Wednesday night
! from Corinto. sailed last evening foI
/ Puget sound, but carried no passengers
! its passengaR license expired yesterday
and can not be renewed until the yes
| sci has been reinspected by government
The Ella has played in hard luck this
voyage. The Ella left Victoria Decem-
( Der and had plenty of time to make
! the round trip to Corinto and back be
fore the license expired. The Jebsen
people. however, did not figure on the
! leisurely customs OF Central American
port officials. A lot of time was lost
on the VOYAGE south. but the Ella still
had plenty of time to get past San
/ Francisco before the license expired
/ and as long as it was in force the
steamer could have carried passengers
At San Jose de Guatemala the ship
I lay at anchor for four days before the
port officials, except the quarantine Of
f1cer, came near. Even then there was
difficulty in getting a lighter on which
! to discharge the few tons of freight for
that port. The Ella. was there for five
days. To make up the lost time the
steamer did not call at San Bias, for al
though there was freight there for the
Ella, there was more money to be made
in carrying passengers from San Fran
The Ella called at San Pedro to land
passengers, but again refused freight,
as the life of the license was now only
I q matter OF nOuTS- L ne ldSI OF
hard luck was the norther, which held
/ the steamer back just long enough to
prevent its arrival here on Wednesday
in time to pass quarantine. The Ella
was released yesterday morning, but
the license had expired at midnight
"Wednesday.
Among the passengers on the Ella
was S. Bravo, who has been appointed
Mexican vice consul at this port Bravo
was accompanied by his wife, daughter
and daughter in law.
Explorer I'm Heavy Storm
The United States coast survey
which arrived yesterday from the
south, bucked the norther the other
night until the supply of coal almost
gave out, when the little steamer ran
fuel. The Explorer is stout but short
and nearly stood on its head every
few minutes in the choppy sea that
rude Boreas stirred up. Every time
the Explorer buried its nose the pro-
peller in the air raced like ventilat-
ing fan Progress was slow and much
Of it submarine and when the engineer
reported the bunkers almost empty
Captain Dibrell gave up the attempt
to reach San Francisco and went into
Santa Cruz.
and sounding near the entrance OF
Port San Luis, looking without sue
cess d for a rock reported a year ago
nothing Of the rock, which was SUP
posed to have four fathoms of water
over 1T, and thinks that the fishermen
made a mistake.
Sees Wreck of BIakeIey
Captain Bruhn of the German steam
er Ella, while on the way north from
Mazatlan. sighted the wreck of the
brigantine Blakeley, which was thrown
by storm high and dry on Natividad
island, off the Mexican coast more
than a month ago. The Ella stood in
close, and, seeing seven or eight men
on shore, Captain Bruhn, believing
them TO be shipwrecked mariners sig
nailed his willingness to help. The
men paid no attention to his signals
and after waiting couple of hours the
Ella proceeded.
The crew of the Blakeley were taken
off the island by an American Hawaii
an freighter and brought to this port.
The men that the captain saw were
probably employees of the company that
has the guano concession on the
island.
Captain Bruhn could distinguish
tents and saw the men moving sacks
on the beach. He thought that they
were collecting whalebone.
Hermonthis Arrives at Dusk
The Kosmos liner Hermonthis ar
rived yesterday afternoon from Ham
burg and South and Central American
ports and anchored off the barge office
Just few minutes before sundown
It was dark before the steamer passed
qua rantlne and proceeded to Filbert
street wharf. where the passengers were