The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-08
OPENING WITH A RUSH.
Great Activity on the Wherves and
the railroad Yards.

Great Activity on the Wherves and In
the Railroad Yards.
Savannah's business season has opened
with rush. Bay street looks alive once
more and throngs with cotton men, factors,
buyers, shippers and clerks hurrying to and
fro, while the rattle Of the drays IS heard
from morn till dswy eve and Savannahis
nervous councilmen are more DESTROYS than
ever OF asphalting Bay street from Drayton
to Whitaker. The streets leading to the
wharves are one continuous procession of
drays loaded with bales of the heecy sta
pie, WRAPPED in jute, aud such antitrust
substitutes as cotton pine straw and bur
laps.
The railroads are rushing In the cotton aud
other heavy products, while two score saips
are in port loading with cotton, naval stores
and other southern products. Along the
wharves and around the railroad yards the
activity of business in these great factors
OF Savannahs trade is noticeable At the
freight yard of the Central railroad the
yardmen are kept as busy as bees.
A MORNING NEWS reporter on SATURDAY.
afternoon found ten switching engines
drilling the long lines Of heavily loaded cars
backward and forward. Freight Agent
Hardee said the freights were unusually
heavy, and Yardmaster Shouse said he had
no leisure time now and very little 30 talk.
Extra sections are now being run to all the
regular freights, made necessary by the
rush of the cotton crop to tho market and
the quantity of lumber and other heavy
freight now coming into Savannah. Extra
freights are run almost every day from
Macon and other points on the lins to ac-
commodate time" cotton, delivery of
which has been guaranteed for certain ships
All freight trains are now being made up
at the new drill yard at the Central railroad
wharf. The cotton offices are also located
at the wharf now, to facilitate the handling
OF cotton, but it is causing many com
plant from the factors clerks, and the rail-
road cotton clerks as we'll, who have the
long walk to make in the hot sun.
The yard men Of the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway had busy time of it
Saturday. The repairs upon the Altamaha
bridge were completed Friday night, and
the freights which had been blocked up in
the yards and along the line were being
pushed through as rapidly as possible. An
accumulated since the accident Wednesday
morning, greatly interfering with the
traffic of the road, but the regular sched-
ules have been resumed. The cotton crop
of Southern Georgia is about two weeks be-
hind that Of the upper portion Of the state,
but the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway is bringing large amount of cot
ton INTO savannah daily.
Besides cotton the railroads are carrying
| large quantities OF grain and hay from the
west, and other heavy freight
Very large shipments of lumber and naval
stores are being received, and altogether the
railroads have very nearly as much as they
| dared to handle.
The wharves were a busy sight, indeed.
and hundreds Of hands were moving to and
fro unloading the cotton from the cars,
trucking 1t TO and from the congresses and
| transferring it to the neighborhood of the
| ships, and the Central congresses were
pressing The heavy bales TO one-third their
original si1s, as fast as the bales could be
fed into the heavy iron jaws of the ma
| chinery.
The longsho remsn were busy loading the
various vesse that have come to this port
for cotton. Lighters filled with cotton were
being towed from the warehouses along
side the big steamships, and the bales were
rapidly being lifted on shipboard.
Besides cotton, great piles of lumber,
thousands of barrels of turpentine and
rosi large amounts of pig iron, brought
| here from North Georgia and Alabama,
| quantities of other southern products await
| ing shipment to the rest of the world, were
piled high upon the wharves.
Gordon & Co.'s rosin sheds and the rosin
sheds farther down the river are filled for
hundreds of yards with barrels upon barrels
of rosin. The river front, from Vale Roy al
mills on the west to the lumber wharves
of the Savannah, Florida and Western on
the east a distance of five miles, have
vessels of every nationality, and of every
| description, from ocean steamers 60 full
rugged ships, to the barks and coastwise
schooners. The activity along the river
| front goes to show that Savannah's fall
trade has opened up heavier, and with
brighter prospects than ever before.