The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-28
INCREASING THE DEPTH.
A WatGTlOggGd Schooner Brought Up
the River Drawing % Feet.

New Evidences of theProgress Be.
ing Made on the Work Of Deepening
the Harbor-Seventeen Vessels in
the Lower Harbor of the River.
Vessels Which Have Come and
Gone Since June Drawing Over
Twenty Feet of Water-A German
Steamer Game up on One Tide Draw
ing over Twenty-Five Feet.
New evidences of the progress which is
being made on the Savannah harbor are
appearing every day or two, and there is
no question but that rapid progress is
being made on the W ork of securing deep
water
The latest and best evidence that the
harbor is rapidly deepening is that the
waterlogged schooner Martie A. Holmes
was towed up the river by the tug Paul
sen drawing % feet OF water. The Holmes
was lowed up on one tide, when in cases
of such extraordinary draft, it usually re-
quires two tides, and she came the entire
distance up to the city without running on
bottom.
She came up of course at the hight Of
the tide, but this is the largest draft
craft of any kind that has been known to
come into the river.
MAKING RAPID PROGRESS.
The schooner of course did not ordinarily
draw near 50 much water, but she has in
her hold heavy cargo Of lumber, and
during the gale she was filed up to her
deck with water, which caused her to
draw an extraordinary depth.
This is evidence of the
rapid progress which is being
made on the harbor work. Most
of the dredges which were wrecked by
the storm have been put back to work
and the dredge forces have been concen-
trated on those spots in the channel which
needed deepening to bring them to the
average depth. An enormous amount of
work was done during the summer, and
the harbor is being rapidly put in con
dition to accommodate any commerce of
the seas.
The reports recently about several YES
sells having run aground near the quar-
antine station are easily explained
The channel has been so blocked of
late by the numerous vessels which
have been anchored there that it
has been difficult matter
for any vessel or steamship to get around
them without scraping the bottom, and it
IS wonder that more of them have not
done so.
The lower harbor of Savannah has
probably as many vessels in it as all the
southern ports excepting New Orleans
combined. In Tybee inner roads there
are twelve squarerigged vessels and at
the quarantine there are five.
VESSELS DRAWING OVER TWENTY FEET.
AS an evidence of the ability of the har-
Dor to accommodate vessels of a good
Ia lot Of al l,
into port recently drawing over 20 feet of
water will not come amiss These YES
sells and their depths are all on record at
the harbor masters Office, and there is no
question about the figures.
The vessels leaving this port in June
drawing over 20 feet of water are bark
Veniera, 20 feet inches; ship City of
Montreal, 81 feet inch; bark Catherine,
20 feet 10 inches; ship Agra 20 feet
In July the bark Avihore, drawing 20 feet
inches, was the only one recorded.
In August the steamship Gallina sailed
drawing 81 feet inches, the ship Aud
bake, 20 feet inches, and the bark p. M.
Peterson, 2l feet. In September the bark
Ashalon left, drawing 20 feet, and the
steamship Karoon, 20 feet II inches.
The record for October so far eclipses
them all. The German steamship DOMAIN
came up the river on one tide drawing %
feet l 4 inches, just 81 inches more depth
than was carried by the ship Caravan,
which sailed last May. The depth of the
schooner Martie A. Holmes was not re-
corded, but was measured by those
on the tug which brought her
up ana found to be % feet.
The other vessels for October are the
steamship Highheld, which sailed draw
ing 90 feet inches; the steamship
Telefon, 20 feet z inches; the bark
Scampa Amelia, 20 feet inches, and the
bark Berkeley Castle, 20 feet Z inches.