The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1890-01-19
ALONG THE WHARvEs.
Items Gathered Among the Shippers and
on Shipboard.


An unusually large number of YES
sells are due this week under charter.
The Brunswick and Western docks
are almost covered with cotton and
crossties.
1t is said that another four masted
schooner will be among Brunswick's ar
rivals for this month.
One of Brunswick's best known
lumber firms yesterday chartered nine
vessels to load lumber for foreign ports.
The British bark George Davis
arrived from MOntevideo yesterday. She
will load lumber from Stilwell, Millen 4
Co.
a charter has been closed with
the schooner Linah G. Kaminski to load
lumber here for New York. The rate
named is 81. 10
On her last trip to New York the
Mallory steamer City of San Antonio,
carried l,46I bales cotton, 991 barrels
rosin and I,05O bundles of shingles.
"A large amount of steel rails is
looked for daily by the East Tennessee
authorities here. These rails are for tue
Brierfeld, Blockton and Birmingham
road
Among the vessels bound for
Brunswick is the Swedish bark Hertig
Oskar Frederick, Capt. Soderholm in
command. She sailed from Belfast
January IS.
Yesterday Messrs. E. II. Mason &
Co., ship brokers, Chartered the Nor
wegian bark Nordenskjold to take full
cargo of naval stores for Garstcn dock.
on private terms.
The government coast-survey
party is now operating in Cumberland
river. Lieut.. Drake, who is in charge
of the survey, is at the Oglethorpe for
medical treatment He is victim to
something like la grippe.
.-The schooner w. W. Converse al
rived yesterday with something more
than a thousand tons of fertilizers con-
signed to the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia road This is the first ship
ment from the Patapsco Guano Com
pany, of Baltimore.
Quite number of curious people
visited the Brunswick and Western
docks yesterday, to get look at the
large four masted schooner Howard
Smith '2his vessel is something over
100 feet in length and she is what the
seamen term regular beauty.
MIR. G. d. Ogg, agent of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
,oad, expects the schooner William
Jones to arrive from ManshalI, Mass, in
about five days with full ergo of fer
tilizers from the Bradley Fertilizer Com
pany. This company will make large
shipments to Brunswick during this
season.
Capt. Thompson, of the British
steamship Lancaster, reports having
passed the abandoned, dismasted vessel
Alice May, of Milford, IN latitude 20
degrees II minutes north, longitude 80
degrees 43 minutes west. The forem ast
of the Nay was gone close by the deck,
the mainmast was gone about twenty
feet from the deck, while the rlizzenmast
was still standing She appeared to have
been lately abandoned. Several sails
were lying about the deck; the main
topsail was close by the stump of the
maiumast; the mizzen topsail was snugly
furled. 1t appeared as though the crew
had been taken off by some passing yes
sci, as the Mays boats We're securely
lashed on deck and covered over with
mats. They showed no signs OF having
been moved. The hull seemed to be in
good condition, and the paiut outside
looked very clean. The vessel was drift
ing before the wind, which was, at the
time of Capt. Thompson's passing, about
west-southwest, with a fresh bret re.
The vessel was not very deep in the
water, and she is very dangerous to YES
sells coming in her track ut night.
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