Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Porter to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
Paris, July 19, 1900.

No. 695.]

Sir: Referring to your No. 793 of June 14, directing me, at the instance of the mayor of San Francisco, to express his thanks for the kind act of Captain Germinet, who ordered his crew to go ashore and help in extinguishing a fire which broke out in the harbor of the above-mentioned city, I have to report that this instruction was complied with on the 2d instant, and that on the 17th the minister for foreign affairs informed me that he had transmitted the thanks of the mayor of San Francisco to the minister of marine, who will see that they reach Captain Germinet.

I have, etc.,

Horace Porter.