The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-29
LOADING UP THE LAURADA.
THE VESSEL WILL PROBABLY SAIL
TOMORROW MORNING.

ing DOckcd and Stove IN heE hoN-
The wharf Owners Want Damages.
some Irregularities in Papers
which May Detain the Vessel n
Day or So LOnEer-The Emigrants
VIII Carry Theirs Dogs With
Them-BfshOp Turner Down From
Atlanta 20 See the Party on.
The emigrants' ship, Laurada. is in and
the emigrants are happy. The officers
of the Migration Society were very anxious
10 sail to-day, but it is not at all likely
that the ship will get away before some
time tomorrow, owing TO an unforeseen
accident, and the fact that some irregu-
larities were discovered by the inspectors
as to the licenses Of some Of the officers
OF the ship.
As announced in yesterdays Morning
News. the Laurada. arrived at quarantine
Thursday night. She passed the inspee-
ton yesterday morning and came up the
river without delay. The announcement
that the ship was coming up the river at
tracted a large crowd OF people to the
wharves.
Those who were watching the vessel as
she moved into her dock at the upper hy
draulic cotton press were surprised to see
her head straight in to the wharf just be-
TO be locked. The result was that she
struck the lumber wharf with a resound-
ing crash. The shock of the blow was
felt all along the wharf front Several
heavy piles were knocked down and a por-
ton of the wharf was torn away, and
hole more than foot square was stove
in on the starboard bow of the steamer.
Several plates around the hole were
crushed in. The vessel careened to one
side on striking the wharf. aud it was some
time before she was righted and gotten in
her proper place.
The ships officers, when spoken to about
the accident, said that they could not ex-
plain how il occurred. Pilot c. G. Maxim,
who was in charge, is reported TO have said
that the ships engines failed to obey the
movement indicated at the critical mo-
ment. The damage to the vessel Is not
very heavy, but it win cost the ships own
ers about 500 for the damage to the wharf,
libel for that amount having been pre-
pared by Charlton, Mackall & Anderson,
attorneys for Richardson a. Barnard,
agents for the owners of the wharf prop
erty. This matter will have to be settled
before the Laurada can leave the port.
1t may cost as much more to repair the
damage to the ship. John Rourke & Son
have been given the work and viii COM
Thousands OF people visited the Laurada
where she lay at her dock. The negroes
crowded there in swarms and were dtsap-
pointed because they we're refused admis-
sion at the warehouse gate, strict orders
having been given the Waterman to adj
nit no one but those having business
there. The colored people grumbled about
white people being admitted while they
were shut out. They thought this very
queer in what they regarded as an exclu-
sivey colored affair. Hundreds of them
satisfied their curiosity, however, by perch
ing on the lumber on the dock adjoining,
from which they had good view OF the
ship.
inGnpPfiOn hN the government OTnclalS
here. Collector of Customs Beckwith and
the whole force of customs house inspec-
tors visited the ship and went through her
from stem to stern. They found that she
had accommodations for $50 passengers,
and that the preparations were as good as
could be expected for this class OF pas
sengers. Some few changes were ordered
in the way of hospital accommodation,
and list of the medicines required were
furnished to the physician who will ac-
company the party. These orders, II is
stated have been complied with. The
steamboat inspectors found that a mate
was lacking, and that the vessel was
short a third engineer. The captain was
notified that these deficiencies must be
remedied.
1t developed in the course of the in
Epection that the crew had been hastily
gathered together, some of the officers
having never seen the vessel until the day
of her departure. None of the officers who
were with the Laurada when she attempt
ed her little filibustering move toward
Cuba, in which she was detected and
overhauled, are on board.
aboard A few OF the men were taken to
the wharf to help load the ship, and to
look after the baggage. The others mere,
TO their boarding houses. All the bag
gage, goods and chattels of the emigrants
were unioaded in the warehouse, together
with considerable freight, and the work of
loading was pushed all day and part of
last night. 1t is expected to complete
loading to-day. and the emigrants may go
on board tonight. Those of them who had
money TO do SO, went about the city yes
terday. purchasing such goods as they
home. They invested quite largely in
hardware, and the Palmer Hardware Com
pany, sold them several hundred dollars
The Laurada is a larger and more COM
Portable ship than the Horsa, which car
ried the first party of emigrants a year
ago. Her net tonnage is SS6.75. The ship has
a roomy appearance. The deck is pretty
well taken up with machinery, boats,
anchors, life RATS and other shipping par
aphernalia, but there is considerable
space between the hunks, which are
boarded up between the decks. Bunks
are constructed all around the sides of
the ship between the first and second
decks, being roughly constructed of new
pine timber. Most of the hunks are dou-
BILE, but there are number of single
hunks. They are provided with coarse
straw mattresses, but the emigrants are
to provide their own bedding. AS there
are more hunks than there are emgrants,
there viii be no difficulty about accom-
n1odations. The hunks and quarters were
clean, and there is nothing to complain
of on that score.
Goods and chattels of every description
were scattered around the wharf. Along
with their other possessions, the emf
grants have brought a number of dogs.
About twenty-five dogs, nearly all hounds,
were tied up in the warehouse yeSter-
dav and expressed their protest at leav-
ing their native land with continued
howls. Dogs are said to be highly priced
in Liberia, and being scarce, bring good
prices.
Bishop Turner, the well known divine
of the colored Methodist church, was a
the day. He has been an enthusiastic
advocate of Liberian emigration since the
inception of the scheme, and urges it on
every occasion as the true solution of the
negro problem in the south. To the
crowds which gathered around him on
the wharf the bishop gave glowing de-
scriptions of the fertility and resources
of Liberia, and its posi- bilities when de-
veloped by American negroes.
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