The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-09
Our Harbor Improvement.

It isn't often that the Maritime Register
notices any improvement that is being
made in a river or harbor OF the country, or
calls attention to the benefits that will flow
from such improvement. The editorial
article in It's last issue, therefore, on Deeper
YATES for Savannah" shows that it regards
the appropriation of an amount sufficient
to give Savannah twenty-slx feet of water
in her harbor as a matter Of the highest
Importance. The following is an ex-
tract from its article: 1.-THE advantages of
this appropriation to Savannah cannot be
overestimated. 1t will give to that port in
a comparatively short time deep water,
thereby enabling it to offer inducements to
trade that otherwise could not be made in
years. 1t is not only in the ability to do
this that there is so much of advantage.
1t is also In the prevention of loss. In the
long wait thar comes of delayed improve
ments other ports increase their facilities,
offer greater inducements and often COM
pete directly and vigorously in the egiti-
mate territory Of the older place and bust
ness is thus taken away which is not only
difficult of recovery, but is, in some cases,
| lost entirely
| Savannah Is to be congratulated upon
the new plan for securing q deep harbor.
That port expects within five or six years
to have a depth of twenty-six feet of water
from her wharves 10 the sea. This would
make her deep water port indeed. The
effect will be felt even sooner than the i'm
provements are made. 1t will be seen that
Savannah is to have facilities which will
give her superior points as an outlet that
| these are not to come in the distant future
but in time to be Of use almost at once.
The extensive and productive back country
which should look to Savannah as an
outport, but which found better means
offering in other but more distant direc-
tions, will gladly turn to its natural gate
way. The facilities Of larger and deeper
port will. OF course, attract shipping, and
the advantages of having such a terminal
point will draw trade from distant places
and the port will thus become center for
a growing business IL is to be remem-
bered that deep water in itself will not do
all this for Savannah. 1t is that, together
with the fact that geographically it Is
we'll situated as an outlet that will
help. And these, together with the
additional fact that the south is rapidly
developing manufacturing aud other indus
tries, point TO the steady increase of an
extensive commerce at Savannah. But it
is also to be remembered that the possession
alone OF natural advantages will not give
Savannah lead among ports very
great deal depends upon the energy and
enterprise of her merchants and upon the
management of the port In its relation to
shipping. The less friction, charges and
restrictions there are the better for all con-
cerned. Savannah has a grand future, if
her citizens 30 choose"
As the Register says, Savannah's future
depends largely upon her citizens With
deeper water and a great tributary terri
tory which is well supplied with railroads
that have their terminals within her limits,
she will have all the advantages necessary
to make her a great city; but her people
must have the enterprise and energy to
make the most of these advantages. They
must act together, and put their money in
home enterprises. If they show confidence
in Savannah's future, outsiders will also do
SO, and her commerce aud manufactures
will have a surprising growth.
Within the last few years Savannah
people have been investing their money in
Savannah factories, real estate, street
car lines and business ventures, and, as a
rule, their investments have been profitable
ones. Let them continue this policy, and
they will soon see Savannah going ahead in
a way that will be surprising. The atten-
ton of a very large section Of country is
now directed to Savannah, and capital will
seek her in the future in far greater volume
than ever before. Even farmers are begin
ming TO realize that there are fortunes in the
lands which Immediately surround her, and,
In proportion, as the plans for draining this
county are carried toward completion, the
number of truck farms within the county's
limits will increase. By the time the
deeper water project is completed Savannah
will be a very different city from what she
is now. aud the appearance Of Chatham
county will have undergone an entire
change.
The story from Boise. Idaho, published in
the MORNING NEWS dispatches yesterday
of Plnksrton man joining miners union
under an assumed name and working him
self into the position OF secretary Of the
order, merely for the purpose of betrayihg
his trust, will not serve Co make the public
feel any more kindly toward the Pinker-
tons. Another sensational Pinkerton story
is current, to the effect that Pinkerton men
in disguise had besn working in the Home
stead mills for months before the strike
there, aud that number Of them were
among the strikers on the day of the riot
AT Homestead, as In Idaho, the detectives
fratsrnized with the workingmen and
: joined their labor unions for the purpose of
learning their secrets in order to divulge
} them to their employers. That kind Of
work may be within the line of duty of a
Pinkerton detective, but it is hard to imag-
inc anything more despicable than the
winning Of the confidence of men 10 order
to betrsy them for price.
The paragraph YOU see in the humorou,