The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-19
MARINE INTELLIGENCE
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

The Dredgc Port Royal HnuIed OUT
on Marine Rnilway-Thc steam
ship ChattRhoochee Due This
Morning with Full List of Pass
engVrs From BOstOn-CiViI Service
Examination 40 Bc Held.
1t was quiet yesterday along the river
front, not a vessel arrived except the reg
ular coastwise steamers. Only one yes
sci went to sea, outside of the regular lin
ers. The schooner James G. Beecher left
last night for Brunswick in town of the
tug Cynthia.
The British steamship Elwick has been
posted at the Cotton Exchange for a cargo
of cotton for Genoa She is due to arrive
Jan, 8. consigned to Richardson & Barnard.
The New York Dredging Companys
dredge Port Royal, which received some
damage, by pile striking her bottom
while she was being launched Thursday,
was yesterday hauled on Wilnnk's marine
railway for repairs.
The Boston Post of Thursday says:
when the ocean steamship Chattahoo-
chez, Capt. Lewis, left Lewis wharf yester-
day on her regular trip 20 New York and
Savannah she carried out the largest num-
Der of passengers to leave here this winter
and will not take on any passengers at
New York, as her staterooms are all filled
and cannot accommodate others. Most
of these passengers, who numbered about
eighty-tive, all told, are hotel help bound
down to Florida for employment this win
ter in the many large hotels Of the Plant
and Flagler systems. Among the passen-
gers was the wife Of Capt. Howes of the
steamer Olivette. now running between
Tampa, Key West and Havana. Cuba, for
the winter, who will join her husband at
Tampa" The Chattahoochee is due to
arrive this morning
The civil service examining board will
hold an examination here Feb. 10, for can
didates for positions Of local inspectors of
hulls and boilers of steam vessels. The
examination will be for the purpose of OBJ
tanning eligbles from which to select APP
pontees for the offices whenever vacan-
cies occur. A copy of the civil service
commissioners official notice can be seen
by applicants at the custom house. The
examinations are DeinS neld throughout
the country and are the first since the
steamboat inspection service was placed
under the civil service two years ago
Commander J. e. Craig, United States
navy, in charge of the photographic office
at Washington, has issued the following
notice, which appears on every pilot chart
now issued from the office:
1T has been found necessary to revise
the photographic Office mailing list that
governs the distribution of the monthly
pilot charts of the North Atlantic and the
North Pacific oceans
'"The list has ceased Discriminatory to
represent co-Operators of the photographic
office that furnish material information to
be put to use In the making of these charts
and other publications of the Office.
MANY that formerly contributed to this
end have ceased to do so. and II is pre-
sumed that they do not care to have the
charts.
at can hardly be necessary to give rea-
sons why the pilot charts cannot be fur
nished gratis TO those that make no re-
turns to the photographic office.
Anyone desiring copies of the monthly
pilot charts can obtain them at the
agencies for the sale Of photographic Of
flee publications. in various ports, or from
the photographic office, at the price of 10
cents a copy.
This notice Is intended to obviate cor
respondence, as it will explain to those af-
fected by the revision of the mailing list
why they may not receive the monthly Isl
sues of the pilot charts subsequent to the
edition for September. 1897"