The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 20, 1896, Page 9

CAPTAIN 5 J.T. SMITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1896. i I \*,, ~\41%:'”’ il Al i ¥ diy; CHIEF ENGINEER W™ MECLURE- G.G. TRASK The Pacific Mail Company’s Steamer City of Peking, as She Appeared After Coming Off the Drydock. The Peking Came Here Over Twenty Years Ago, and Is Still One of the Best That Comes to This Port. The Officers Are Proud of Their Ship, and Some of Them Have Been in Her a Lifetime. [Officers’ Pictures From Photographs by Taber.] A HANDSOME A0 STATELY VESSEL The City of Peking, the Largest Steamer on This Coast. BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL. After Twenty-Five Years o! Service She Is Still as Good as Ever. SINKING OF A SMALL STEAMER. The Ethel and Marion Went Down Owing to Carelessness of the Engineer. The handsomest and largest steamer in port is the Pacitic Mail Company’s City of Peking. She came here from Chester, Pa.. nearly twenty-five years ago, and has been continuously in the Oriental trade eversince. Not a steamer that trades in and out of San Francisco has met with fewer mishaps than the Peking during her long and busy career. Bhe is 5079.62 tons gross burden, 408 ieet long, 47 feet broad and 19 feet 5 inches deep. Her passenger accommodation is of the finest, and her carrying capacity is greater than that of any passenger steamer tkat has visited the coast. Among tie officers of the Peking, Chief Engineer William McClure is the oldest in point of service. He has been sixteen years on the steamer continuously, and is one of the most trusted employes of the Pacific Mail. When the Peking broke down some years ago on her way here from Chiaa, McClure and bis men did yeomen’s work in the repairing of the broken shaft. Their efforts were all in but machinists assert still that it one of the cleverest attempts at re- rs in the circamstances ever made on Pacific. Captain J. Tremain Smith is a new com- mander on the Peking. Chief Officer G. G. Trask took the vessel over to Hongkong last December, and there Captain Smith assumed command. Since then he has made himself a favorite with the iraveling public and the officers of his crew. Chief Officer Trask is an old master mar- iner and is well known on the coast. He is one of the best disciplinanans in Cali- ;wrmfl, and he always has his crew well in hand. 3 Purser E. T. Osborn bas grown up in the service of the Mail Company, and from freight clerk on the wharf has grad- ually worked himself up to the important position he now holds. All in all, the Peking is one of the best officered and best found ships in port. p Phe tug Ethel and Marion met with an- other mishap yesterday. Engineer Daye Linden Lumes on the water from the main on the wharf into the tanks and then took a stroil along the front. When he returned, according to his story, he turned the water off, but nevertheless it continued to run into the tanks, over- flowed them and ran into the engine-room, then the hold filled up «nd finally the staunch little vessel went down. hen Engineer Linden returned after a second stroll along the front the Ethel and Marion was out of sight. She bad sunk bepeath t e waters of the bay. The po- lice were informed that the 'ui had been stolen, but daylight revealed her smoke- stack just above water and the dingey and part of the deckhouse floating in the dock. Captain Tomminson arrived on the scene early in the morning only to find himself out of s job, Latein the afternoon Lin- den secured the services of Whitelaw’s wrecker and the Ethel and Marion was raised. Mrs. Thorold, owner of the tug, hasbeen {Brucularly unfortunate. Some time ago er husband aied from an accident. He was playing with his little girl and re crochet-needle into_his hand. Mortifica- tion set in ana be died. The day of his death the insurance company in which he was insured failed, and the widow ncver received a cent. Then the tug went down in the great norther that wrecked Fisher- men’s wharf, and ever since she has been in more or less trouble. Mrs. Thorold manages the boat herself, and has barely | head and several of the sails, and in con- succeeded in making a living for her| children, The American bark Charles B. Kenney gotin from the canneriesyesterday. Chin Lip Tong succeeded in making things lively during the trip down. He attacked his boss, Chin Lung, and nearly succeeded | in cutting his head off. Then he ran| amuck an? chased several sailors into the | rigging. He was finally overpowered and lashed into his bunk. When the Kenney arrived Tong was turned over to the authorities, and O Charles Callaban took bim to the Receiving Hospital, from | which he will probably be taken to the | insane asylum. It was very rough on the bay and at sea yesterday and several vessels dragged | their anchors in consequence. The Laura May drifted into the freightboat Transit's slip at Second street and had to be towed out by the tug Joseph H. Redmond. The Emma Utter carried away her mainmast. sequence had to return to port. The B. Danielson from Usal had her deckload of | bark washed overboard, but was other- wise only slightly injured, and several other of the small ‘bay crait met with minor injurnes, Toe Hurbor Commissioners held another secret session yesterday and discussed Tennessee marbie and incidentally Presi- dent Coluon’s visit to Sacramento this | week. The Board of Examiners want to know all about the contracts for the new ferry depot, and the president of the com- mission is to do the explaining. The steamer Monticello will not make her usual run to Vallejo to-night. Some repairs are necessary and she will not get | away again until to-morrow at 10:30 A. M. | GOVERNMENT TIMBER. | Special Agent Prior Makes Important Discoverles in the Stocktoh District. Ina few days the Federal authorities will institute civil proceedings against certain parties in Tuolumne County for the recovery of $30,000, allezed to be due for timber taken from Government lands. It isnot improbable that criminal suits will also follow. Among the companies alleged to have taken Government timber are the Empire Mill Company, South Fork Mill Company, Rushing Bros. and the Bradfords of So- nora County. Special Agent Prior has been busily en- gaged 1n this matter, and whatever is dis- covered is due to him. It is estimated that in Tuolumne County alone over 6,000,000 feet of lumber has been stolen within the past twenty years. The inves- tigation so far instituted shows about 3,000,000 feet, but not haif of the period already named has been covered. There seems to be no teiling just where the present investizations will end. CHARLES D. WHEAT DEAD Sudden Demise From Heart Disease of a Leading No- tary Public. Deceased Was a Confederate Veteran and Prominent in Fraternal Societies. Charles D. Wheat, the notary publicand commissioner of deeds, died at his home, 2118 Steiner street, Friday night rather suddenly. Hisdemise resulted from heart disease, he having been afflicted with this malady for several years. Mr. Wkeat was at his office Friday and transacted a good deal of busiaess, as usual. As he was about to leave his office in the evening he complained of severe pains in his chest and a nervous palpitation, or *“choking” sensation about the heart. At right his suffering increased. A few hours later he gusaed away. Mr. Wheat was one of the best known noteries of the City. He was born in Virginia, and was aged 53 years. Though a youth when the Civil War broke out, his sympathies led him to enlist in the Southern cause, and with the Forty-ninth Virginia he fougbt through the greater part of that strugsle. Beveral times he was wounded. He came to San Francisco soon after the war ended, and has lived here ever since. He had occupied an office at 501 California street for ov-r twenty years. In fraternal and church societies he was quite a prominent figure. At one time he was past chief ranger in the American Order of Foresters, aud at the time of nis decease was an officer in the Legion of Honor. He was also a vestryman of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and a few years ago ‘was captain of the local post of Confed- erate Veterans. The ‘4unerzl will be conducted by the jodges of which be was a member, sod will take place from his residence at 2118 Steiner street. | ROMPULPT, VESTRY AND PEW | Rev. G. C. Adams Will Preach at the First _Church To-day. NEW METHODIST BISHOP Rev. Dr. Newman Was an Inti- mate Friend of the Late U. S. Grant. HE CCMES HERE IN NOCVEMBER Golden Gate Congregational Church Has Changcd a Saloon Into a Sunday-School. The Rev. George C. Adams, D.D., ar- rived here yesterday and will preach at the First Congregational Church to-day. One of Lis first visits was to the church | whose pulpit he is to occupy for three | Sundays at least. He exbressed great sat- | isfaction with the auditorium and was de- | lighted with the organ. “It is remarkable how well it has kept | | Francisco,” in tune, for they tell me it has not been used for months. A few notes are a shade off, but scarcely enough 1o be noticeable,” be said. fond of music Dr. Adams replied that it was one of the subjects in which he took deep interest. *I am fond of music for its own sake, and I believe also that 1t can be of great help in the church service.” The St. Louis pastor is a genial, unaf- fected man of 45 or 50, who strikes one as being both practical and enthusiastic. He thinks that nothing can be gained by dwelling on the troubles that have torn the First Church. Indeed, he says that, for his own part, he knows very little avout them. “It is nine years since I was in San he said. **At that time I preached for several Sundays for Dr. Me- ean at the First Church in*Oakland. *The things that strike me most oun re- turning here are the increased size of the city and the cleanliness of its streets. They are infinitely betier than the streets of St. Louis or New York.’* Talking of streets led to the subject of municipal reform, and the doctor was asked whether he believed in pastors tak- ing an active part in civic affairs. “That is a delicate question,” he said. | *“For myself, I find my pulpitand pastoral duties have left me very little time for participating personally in such move- ments. I think, perhaps, & pastor can ex- ercise a wider influence by inducing the men of bis flock to interest themse!ves in such affairs, There is Dr. Dale of Birming- ham, . He has taken little partin public affairs himself, but the men of his | congregation afe the leaders of public movements and recently Parliament bad to consider his views on a social subject because of the number of votes that were wielded by his congregation.” Dr. Adams was born March 7, 1850, in Castine, Maine. After graduating from the High School of his native town he enterea Yale Theological Seminary, whence he graduated with high honors in 1875, being ordained a few days later, On the 224 of May of the same year he mar- ried Miss Mercie Perkins Shepardson of West Brooksville, Maine. He has a family of niae. During a period of twenty-one years i BISHOP NEWMAN, the New Methodist Episcopal Bishop, Who Baptized U. S. Grant on His Deathbed. Wiien asked whether he was | and more Dr. Adams has had only three | pastorates, his first in Hulsboro, IlL, which he entered in July, 1875; his second in Alton, Iil., whither he went in March, | 1877, and his last in Pilgrim Mission, St. Louis, where he commenced his labors in 1881, and built up the present Compton Hill Congregational Church and parish. ‘The church building is large and hand- some with a seating capacity of 1600, and a numerous membersbip. In St. Louis Dr. Adams owns his mag- nificent $10,600 residence and is exceed- | ingly popular, though he commenced his career there ‘“‘without a member and with- out a dollar,”” to quote the language of one of his admiring friends. He received the | doctorate in 1888 from Illinois College, of which institution he has long been a trus- tee. He is also a trustee of Drury College, | director of the St. Louis Congregational City Missionary Society, and chairman of the State Home Missionary Society of St. | Louis, besides being actively coanected with other charitable and religious enter- prises. At present Dr. Adams only contem- plates occupying the pulpit of the First Churchlfor three weeks, but he says he does not know what the future may bring forth, Resolutions have been vpassed by the board < f deacons of the First Congrega- tional Church strongly condemning the report that the deacons and church were not unanimous in caliing Dr. Adams, Itis expected that Rev. John P. New- man, D.D., L.L.D., the new Methodist Episcopal Bishop, will arrive in this City with his family about the 15th of Novem- ber. Bishop Newman,who comes here from Omaha, is one of the most noted divines in_the Methodist church. Not only is he an eloquent preacher and writer, but his association with Ulysses S. Grant has made him almost a historical character. It was his church in Washing- ton, D. C., that Grant attended, and a warm personal iriendship grew up be- tween him and the President. When Grant made his famous tour of the world Rev. Dr. Newman accompanied him in | the capacity of chaplain and friend, and | during the ex-President’s last illness Dr. Newman gaye him spiritual ministrations and baptized him on his deathbed. Bishop Newman was born in New York .City in 1826, and was elected a Bisho; eight years ago. He was a personal frien of the late Senator Stanford, and when Leland Stanford Jr. died he accompanied the remains across the continent and preached the funeral sermon in Grace Episcopal Church, Bishap Kip and Rev. Dr. Foute also assisting 1n the service. Dr. Newman was at that tire a noted Meth- odist divine, but he was not a Bishop. Some of his books are used as text-books in the cburch. *‘From Danto Beersheba” is an account of his travels, which has been widely read. A number of local Methodist churches will to-day have new pastors. Rev. Dr. Urmv will” be at the First Church, Rev. Dr. F. Jewell at Trinity, Rev. Dr. Chiison at the Potrero Church, Rev. G. R. Stanley succeeds Rev. E. M. Hill atthe Fifteenth- avenue Church, and Rev. Dr. Phelps of San Luis Obispo goes to the California- street Church. The Golden Gate Congregational Sunday- school was organized last Sunday, the i3th inst., under very encouraging auspices at the northeast corner of Point Lobos ave- nue and Twenty-fourth avenue, Rich- mond, in what was until recently a build- ing occupied as a saloon. The room has been supplied with an organ and will be furnished with everything necessary for the work begun. The sessions will be held every Sunday morning, commencing at 10:30 o’clock, under tie leadership of Mr. Sidney A. McGaw, superintendent, who will be assisted by Mrs. May H. McGaw, Miss Alice Guthrie, Mrs. Browne and others. A four weeks’ mission was inaugurated at St. Joseph’s Church, Tenth street, near Howard, in this City, on the 13th. The mission will be conducted by the Redemp- torist Fathers O’Shea and Mullane. Ten ears have elapsed since a mission has Zeen given in St. Joseph’s parish. Inter- est in this one is therefore very keen and everything points to a most successful mission. The ladies of the Church of the Holy Ghost, Centerville, wiil hold a bazaar in aid of the church daring the month of October. The sermon by the Rev. Horatio Steb- bins this morning at the First Unitarian Church will be on the **The Conditions of the Country.” The Death of A. Waldteufel. A Coroner’s jury has been impaneled to con- sider and inquire into the cause of the death of Achilie Waldteufel, whose body was found inarcom in his residence, on Van Ness ave- nue. The jury consists of H. J. Lyous, 606 Jackson street; M. Epstein, 418 Pacific sireet; D. F. Shaw, 815 Sansome; ¥. McDonough, cor- ner of Battery and s-nu;‘ma; Ggoru N :;;l;ul, avenue; F. A. Braun, at- Sery o Benroeder, 413 Batiery; W, Lepper, «;7 ‘Bettery, and T. R. Piaff, 415 Clay. The my visited the residence and viewed the y. Testimony will be taken this week. ——————————— _ Unity Club Lectures. The second of the Unity Club lectures will be delivered by Professor Edward Howard 3 Church on the E'n' 2’2‘.“!1\- mlnb)nel being ‘‘Self - Culture Through the Vocaton.” Sl ‘ 7ola. ] / i 4 3 R (OREGON CITY WOOLEN-MILLS, LOCATED AT OREGON CITY, OR.) From the Sheep’s Back Direct to Yours These are the mills—our own mills—you’ve heard us talk so much about, where we take the wool from the sheep’s back and make it into cloth. This cloth we make into clothing in our own factory, This clothing we wholesale to the dealers of the entire Pacific Coast. This clothing we retail di- rect to you at the identical LOOK OUT FOR IMITATORS. hands of but prices we charge the dealers —wholesale prices. 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