The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-10
COMMUNICATIONS WITH TYnEE.
The Importance of a Telegraph or
Telephone Station There.

The Importance of a Telegraph or
Telephone Station There.
SAVANNAH, Oct 9.-Editor Mornin q
Netos: With your permission venture
upon claiming brief space in connection
with the incident which appeared in your
issues OF both yesterday and to-day, viz.
the rumored Tybee confagration.
To many of my compatrots at present
here it at first locked odd that upon the bare
statement of what you facetiously call a
color blind pilot you could have been in
duced to give credence to such q serious
rumor; but in your issue OF to-day you have
justified yourself by explaining that there
is no Geographic communication with Tybee
and this city.
Ihls appears to me most startling ad-
mission to make, and certainly points to
cplpable neglect on the port of some one.
No one outside of the United States would
have credited for one moment that one of
the most important ports on the Atlantic
seaboard Of and the entrance to next to
the largest cotton port in this country
should premit the same state of affairs
as exists on the river Congo on the coast
of Africa.
1t cannot possibly be the want of public
enterprise on the part Of progressive mer-
chants and brokers, because one would
naturally expect that to be in telegraphic
communication with the extreme entrance
point Of this river would tend to the benefit
and advancement OF their best interests.
But apart from the commercial aspect of
this matter, there is also a humanitarian
one, and as q mariner | desire, with all due
Difference, to approach your government
through your columns upon this subject
1t was decided at the maritime confer
ence, held at Washington last year. and its
inception came from the American dele.
gates, that all important points of any
coast. and above all the entrance points, OF
any great river, should be Immediately put
in Geographic connection with the nearest
city.
Now what is the position Of the city of
Savannah She is next to the largest cot
ton port on the American confident. She
also does considerable amount of business
in lumber. and is the largest naval stores
port in the world. Size has besides large
coasting steam and sailing trade; and Ty-
bee is selected by Europeans as a port of call
for their vessels where hundreds call yearly
for orders As a natural consequence
a great number of vessels pass Tvbee In
the course OF year. Further 1t will be
admitted that each of those vessels is liable
to some of the innumerable accidents that,
at any moment, may overtake seafarers.
1t would not take strong stretch of imag-
ination to illustrate case: Say, a tramp
steamer with defective machinery and a
wornout crew were entering port whilst
one of your coastIng steamers, laden wish
passengers, was leaving. Through the in
ability of the former vessel to
conform to the rule Of the road,
collision might take place and result in
the sinking of the two vessels. Through u
want Of adequate resources in the way of
being able TO send intelligence for aid when
it readily could be found, many valuable
lives were lost. The public would with just
indignation ask why such state of things
was permitted TO exist. Now, it is just as
much in the interest of the travelling public
as that Of the seafsrer that l and others
wish to see a telegraphic station perme-
nently established at 1ybee. BEN HUR.
Take Simmons Liver Regulator for dys-
L.