The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-02
cAmE Up TO SEE THE SIGHTS.
A school Of Porpoises DIsBort Along
the River Front.


For the first time within the recollection
OF the Oldest whau rat. a school OF por-
posses came up the river yesterday and
held "A social session around the Baltimore
steamship wharf After several hours OF
apparent pleasure. the excursion proceed
ed TO sea
on account OF the st. Augustine draw
bridge being c-Osed for repairs to-day the
steamer Alpha win not take passengers
at the city IOr " arsaW this morning. but
viii leave ThunderbOlt at II O'Clock with
the regular eXcursicnists for the island.
She viii also leave Thunderbo1t at 4 =.
m, for Warsaw.
The tug William T. Turner came on Of
WUlink's marine railway yesterday, and
the tug Nioletta was hauled out for re-
pairs.
The steamer Gov. SANFORD viii make her
usual Sunday trips to Daufuslze beach
to-day.
The schooner Island City, Capt. Harvey.
from Philadelphia, arrived yesterday with
a cargo OF coal, consigned to the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western railroad.
The Italian bark Washington cleared
yesterday for Genoa with S,22O barrels OF
rosin and 80 casks OF spirits turpentine.
The cargo was shipped BY the S. p. Shot
ter Company.
The schooner Eliza A. scribner cleared
and sailed yesterday for Philadelphia with
265 $50 feet of pitch pine lumber. The cargo
was shipped by L. B. Hunting & Co.
The British steamship Madeleine was
cleared yesterday by Strachan & Co. for
Hamburg and Harburg. The Hamburg
cargo consisted OF $500 tons of phosphate
Of haQ In
bulk. The Harburg cargo consisted or
1900 barrels Of rosin.
The Savannah schooner Jennie Thomas.
Capt. Young. is at Baltimore. hauled out
on marine railway to be overhauled and
painted.
A new chart has just been issued by the
photographic Office, which s. of especial
value and interest to mariners. 10 includes
the representation OF all waters from New
ork to the Canadian provinces, and in
addition TO giving soundings and the lOca-
tons of lights A. locates the various tele-
graphic cables, and will, on this latter ac-
count be of especial value to fishermen.
Lloyds register shipbuiiding returns for
the quarter ending June 30, gives the fol-
lowing information: There were. eXclud-
ing warships, 39l vessels of 7l4,Ol2 tons
gross under construction at the close OF
the quarter, OF these 3l3 were steel steam
ers and % steel sailing vessels. The pres
ent figures exceed the same quarters last
year by 81 600 tons. The vessels are build
ing for twenty different nationalities. Dur
ing the same period there were building in
American shipyards for Americans only
nineteen vessels.
Possibly the longest tow ever In the
Chesapeake says the Baltimore American
of Friday. rs now hound down the bay
from Chesapeake City to Norfolk. 1t is
over mile in length. The three sea tugs,
John /. Brady Volunteer and Virginia
| Ehrman, arc hauling three dredging ma
| chimes, two pile drivers and three barges
of machinery, making a string of eleven
vessels. including the tugs. There are SIX
/ hundred feet of haWser b-tween each craft.
The tow, which started from Philadelphia,
! left Chesapeake City yesterday morning.
/ The apparatus Is to be used in dredging
the Dismal Swamp Canal.
"Seaboard." a maritime reporter and
Nautical Gazette, and the representative
journal of the shipping interests Of Amer
lea published in New York city has the
following interesting facts regarding ship
building in the past, compared With the
present: "Ninety-five years ago, in 1901, II
per cent more tonnage of vessels was
built in the United States than was built
one year ago. Eighty-one years ago 50 per
cent. more tonnage was built IN the United
States than was built one year ago For
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