The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-12
THE CITYS QUARANTINE
THE NEW wHARvEs AND STATION
AT COCKSPUR POINT.


Hosting Apparatus to be In Opera
ton Sept. 1.-The Disinfecting Tug to
be Ready by Oct. 15-The Capacity
of the New station-The Quarantine
Officers Quarters.
The tug Constitution took down the barge
Oscar Wilde, loaded with lumber, for the
quarantine officers residence. nearing CON-
pletion at the new quarantine station at
Cockspur point, yesterday, and timber for
the two new tramways at the quarantine
wharves now in use. There are $4,000 to
10000 feet of lumber yet to 60 down
City Engineer W. J. VIM. Health
Officer W. F. Drummer, Henry G. Lang, one
of the South Bound railroad contractors,
and MORNING News representative went
down on the tug.
Acting Quarantine Officer Stephenson
and Contractor Carmichael met the visit
ing party at the wharves, and a
general inspection of the wharves and
officers quarters was made by Col. Winn
and DR.. Brupner. Very strict orders were
given that during the close quarantine sea-
son none of the men employed in the work
going on at the two stations shall have any
contact with the crews of vessels coming into
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THE NEW wHARvEs.
The new wharves are models Of strength,
and when the two derricks are in place
they will be ready for the machinery. The
wharves run parallel with the line of the
river channel, and are 400 feet in length,
thirty feet wide, and are supported on
creosoted piling. Midway Of and upon the
wharves is the engine room, and on either
side Of the engine room is tramway $40
e, Il L.. l.
with tongue and groove lumber. There
are ten matches in each tramway, and the
tramways are 20 feet 8 inches above the
wharves the distance between the tram
ways on the wharves being 225 feet. -Four
two-wheeled handcarts, with a capacity of
1900 pounds each, and four automatic iron
buckets, with a capacity Of 500 pounds. coal
measure, with the cable wire and iron
blocks and tackle, have been received.
CAPACITY OF THE wHARvEs.
At the new station it is calculated that
two vessels with an average ballast tonnage
of $50 tons can be unloaded at once by me-
chanical power in two days Of ten hours
each. when the new engine is in place. AS
1t will be some time before the new engine
will be received, the engine used at the old
original quarantine will be utilized at the
new wharves, as the pr sent quarantine sta
ton Just above the new one VIII be operated,
the engine now in use being retained. The
engine for the new station has been ordered,
and it is expected 30 be ready by Sept. l. 1t
is being built by Williamson Bros in Phil
adelphia, and the works have been SO much
crowded, skilled labor so hard to obtain
and the heat so intense that the work has
been delayed.
The timbers are being framed at the new
wharves for the tramways Of the other
station. They will be modelled after the
plan of the tramways at the new station,
running back the same distance, but only
III feet wide and 16 feet above the
wharves.
THE OLD wHARvEs.
Two vessels can unload at the old wharves,
but as the machinery and equipments are
not as modern as at the new station fair
average for a days work will be to remove
sixty tens of ballast from vessel, or about
four days, a big Improvement over the old
system at the abandoned station across the
sound. There will also be room for one
vessel to discharge ballast by hand. SO that
five vessels can be discharging at one and
the same time. including the service of both
the new and the old station.
The carpenters are laying the floor of the
residence of the quarantine officer. This is
certainly to be well anchored building,
and it will take a much harder blow than
that OF 1881 TO move it off its foundation.
This building, which will be a handsome
north, sets back 450 feet from the outer
edge of the wharves, fronting on the north.
HOUSE ABOVE THE WATER.
The structure is above high water mark.
on 90 piles 12x12 that are new driven SO
feet in the ground. Each post has a one
inch square bolt % inches long bolted through
the sill. The stills are still more securely
fastened to the posts by forty stirrups Of
2x1S IRON. There are thirty-two iron rods
run down through as many rafters, through
the plates and through the sills TO the under
side OF which they are securely bolted. In
addition to this, there is the usual mortise
and tenor, drawbowlng and piDning work,
and, in the exterior and interior frame
work, wherever room for brace could be
found one was put in.
All the windows opening on the piazza
are jib windows and come down to the
floor. The floors are being laid in white
lead, and will be painted to render them
impervious to water. AT the southeast
corner, in the rear, small pumping engine
will be placed to pump water into the reser-
voir which is to be placed in the roof to
supply the bath room, lavatory and
kitchen with artesiau water, and for a
water service in case of fire. An excellent
artesan we'll is in front Of the house, only
short distance off.
THE EMPLOYEES HOUSES.
Carmichael and his force of mechanics and
laborers, which numbers forty-five, will be-
removed the rear Of the residence of the
quarantine officer as permanent quarters
for the regular employees at the quarantine
stations. Mr.. Carmichael says that the i'm
provement to the old quarantine wharves
can be made and the new wharves and
officers quarters completed within six
weeks.
The new disinfecting tug has been con-
tracted for. to be built at Rondout, N. Y,
by McIntel 81 Dillon. 1t is to be completed
by Oct. Is. She was designed by Samuel
Holmes of New York, and the tug modelled
after and will be fac simile of the New
York quarantine tug, which Mr.. Holmes
designed. The vessel will be Go feet over all,
Is feet beam and feet depth of hold. The
hull will be Of wood and copper sheeted. 1t
will have a cabin and high pilot house. The
engine will be single high pressure IA by
IA engine.
THE DIsINFECrING APPARATUS.
The disinfecting apparatus has not vet
been determined upon, as Alderman Harris
chairman of the committee of council hay-
ing the quarantine improvements in charge
and Health Officer Drummer will await the
results of experiments with the new and
improved furnace recently adopted for e
quarantine service at New Orleans. DR..
Drummer says that IL is evidently an i'm
provement over the disinfectinP service of