...ere also bankers as well as expressmen, and William J. Pardee was the resident partner. As the mail-steamer came in on February 17, 1855, according to her custom, she ran close to the Long Wharf ( Meiggs 's) on North Beach, to throw ashore the express-parcels of news for speedy delivery. Some passenger on deck called to a man of his acquaintance standing on the wharf, that Page & Bacon had faile...