The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

SHIPS AND SHIPPING.
Norwegian Bark Mizpa, From Apa-
IachicOIa For Sharpness Arrived
Mere Leakins-SchOOner HiIda
Makes Quick Trip From BaItI-
more-One Man Dies and Two 9th
ers Sick on the Steamship Buck
in=ham-Other Items of Interest.
The Norwegian bark Mizpa, Capt Tor
gersen. from Apalachicola bound for
Sharpness with a cargo of timber, put into
this port yesterday leaking badly The
vessel will probably have to be discharged
and repaired here.
capt. Torgersen is unable to attend to
his duties around the vessel, as he is suf-
ferinG with berrl-berrl, which ne contract
ed at Bahia.
The Mizpa was here on Sept. %, 1896,
and encountered the terrific storm which
passed over the city that day. She
broke from her moorings at Gordon wharf
and was blown across the river Her
main topmast was blown away and con-
siderable other damage done.
The British steamship Buckingham,
from New York, which arrived below yes
terday, was detained a quarantine on ac-
count of a seaman having died on board
and two others being sick with malarial
fever DIR. LeHardy, the health officer,
went to the station yesterday, released the
steamship and allowed her to come to the
city, The sick men We're sent TO the hos
pital The buckingham made a recent
"Trip to Tampico, where, it is thought, the
seamen contracted the disease.
The schooner Hilda, Capt. Rhines, from
Baltimore, arrived yesterday morning
with a cargo of coal consigned to ID. r.
Thomas & Son. The Hilda made re-
markedly quick trip, being only siXty-tWo
hours from Cape Henry to Tybee bar.
Incoming vessels reported heavy
northeast gale blowing off Tybee Satur-
day night and yesterday morning.
The German bark Jacobin was success
fully hauled out on Willinks marine rail
way yesterday. The copper will be strip
ed in order to find the location of the leak,
and her bottom will be recalked
The Spanish steamship Martin Saenz has
contracted here for 800 tons of bunker
coal. The coal will be furnished by the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Com
pany, reaching Savannah via the Central
of Georgia railway.
The schooner Robert S. Graham, Capt
Vannaman, finished loading Saturday
night with cargo of lumber. She would
have sailed yesterday. but was prevented
by the prevailing northeast gale.
Capt. ozamez Of the Spanish steamship hip
Martin Saenz entertained number OF his
friends at dinner yesterday.
The United States torpedo boats will put
on cast iron propellers when they reach
New Orleans and will go up the Missis-
sippi river. The composition metal wheels
being expensive, it is feared that they will
be injured by the floating logs in the river
The bark Henry A. Litchfeld. which
ashore at Cape Henry some time ago,
Fill
Friday to be converted into a barge. She
was recently purchased by Hudson &
Bros of Norfolk.
The crew of the Commercial Gable Com
pany's steamship Mackay- Bennett, under
the direction of the officers, performed
the notable feat of practically completing
the cable between Coney Island and Sandy
Hook Friday in a rain storm and heavy
sea. The linking of those two points Tor
the dissemination of marine news is the
most important part of the system which
the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company VIII
establish for the port of Greater New
York.
The three-masted schooner Blanche
Hopkins of Philadelphia, Capt. j. F.
CAN'T. arrived at Norfolk Friday. Thir
teen days ago the Blanche Hopkins start
Island, West Indies. She soon ran upon a
rock, and remained twenty-four hours, till
enough of her cargo was jettisoned to al
Then she had three days of fair winds,
in which she made excellent progress.
Then came fierce storms for four days,
during which the deck was almost con-
stantly swept by the waves, and no prog
ress was made. Fortunately, however,
none of the crew were lost and the vessel
was not seriously damaged The main gait
is broken and the sails are split.
Feathering wheels have been placed on
but few of the Hudson river boats, and
their permanent adoption has been slow.
Steamboat owners have been content with
the worlds records for speed which their
beautiful craft have made with the old ra
dial Wheel and it has only been during
recent years that any of the river boats
have been equipped with them. The New
York was the first boat to adopt them,
and afterward the Albany's radial wheels
were taken off and smaller sized wheels.
of the feathering pattern, were substitute
ed, and to advantage. The Adirondack,
new last year, has them, and the Sanger
ties, which began running on the river
about ten years ago, is equipped with pad
dleWheels of the feathering type. The
Saugerties had been the Shenandoah, built
in 1882 to run on the North Carolina
sounds and had them from the start.
Their Introduction into this country dates
back to the famous old Richard Stockton,
built in 1852 by Harlan 81 Hollingsworth.
After that there were none Except those
that came along with the captured Eng
lish-built blockade runners durlng the
civil war; until the steamboat City of
Cleveland, constructed in 1880 by the De-
troit Dry Dock Company, for Lake Erie
service, was built with them, and imme-
diatelY esta blished a record that surprised
everybody connected with her. The little
steamboat Indian River, built in 1888 for
Jacob Lorillard had feathering wheels.
Now all the better class of new steam
boats have them. They give better salts
faction all around, making less jar and al
lowing the engine to turn up better,
Port Eads, Nov. 2S.--Capt. Higgins of
the steamer FL Sud, which arrived to-day
from New York, reports that on Nov. q
q 10:45 a. M, 10 miles from Port Eads, he
passed and signaled the British steamer
Monarch. from New Orleans, Nov. rs, for
liverpool, returning in distress. She re-
Iuired no assistance. She was proceeding
ar about four knots per hour.
Savannah Almanac.
sun rises to-day at 7:0l and sets at 459
High water at Tybee to-day II ;39 a. m
and l2:39 D. m. High water at Savannah
one hour later.