The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-17
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

The Steamer Doretta Again on the
BIufTton IIne-ArrlvnI of Vessels
With Full CnrGOes-A Large Ship
ment of Lumber by f. II. Hunting
& Co. in Four schOoners-Arrivni
and Departures.
The steamer loretta left last night for
Bluhfton. She goes away much quicker
than was expected. She was laid up at
Rourkes, awaiting new shaft. A tele-
gram was sent to New York Wednesday
for a new shaft, and it arrived yesterday
and was Immediately placed in her.
The British steamship Aislaby is lying
at the Tybee press wharf. in the eastern
part of the city. That wonderful dog from
the Klondike. which was presented to
Capt. hyperion by DIR. Nansen, is on
board Capt. hyperion will be pleased to
| have visitors call on board of the ship,
and has made special arrangements to
have ladies' get aboard without inconven-
| fence.
The schooner John B. Manning, Capt.
Sprague, from Boston, arrived yesterday
to load with a cargo of crossties for New
York.
The schooner Mary B. Baird, Capt. Cook
from Philadelphia, arrived yesterday with
a cargo of coal cons gned to the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroad.
The schooner John w. Hawthorn arrived
yesterday with a cargo of pyrites, consign-
ed to the Savannah Guano Company.
E. B. Hunting & Co. had a banner day
yesterday in the shipment of lumber for
northern ports. In the clearances of four
schooners there We're 1,745,O26 feet of pitch
pine lumber The separate cargoes are
published under the head of exports in
this column.
The Bessemer Steamship Company, own
er of John D. Rockefellers big line of lake
steamers and tow barges, to-day has clos
ed a contract for the three largest ships
ever constructed for service on fresh wa
ter. AS the big ships built for this line
over year ago were far larger than any,
thing brought out previously, so the new
boats will be an advance in size over even
these enormous fretghters. The contract
is for one steamer and two consorts. The
three must be completed by next May and
altogether will carry over 10000 tons of
iron ore on a single trip on draft of II
feet The barges will be 400 feet long, 50
feet beam and 2S1s feet deep. They will
carry 1900 gross tons each. The boats
Will cost between $500, 900 and 100000.
Steel is to invade the Mississippi river sys-
TEN. A line of steel barges is to be con-
structed at st. Louis TO be employed in
the transportation of grain to New Or
leans. 1t is planned to make the boats of
IN nd viii
its load one Of those barges will draw but
fifteen inches of water, against the five
feet draught of a wooden boat, making
navigation possible all the year round. 1t
is calculated that grain can be carried
from st. Louis to the seaboard al New Or
leans by the steel barge line at the exceed
ingly low rate of three cents per bushel.
Twenty-nine men, composing the crew Of
the wrecked steamship Hespefides, which
stranded on the Diamond shoals Oct. 8,
while bound from Santiago de Cuba to
Baltimore. arrived at Norfolk Thursday
from Hatteras. They managed to save
some of their effects, and called on British
Consul Myers who will see that they are
shipped or sent home. The vessel has brok-
en- up and nothing remains Of her, the
wrecking companies having abandoned the
idea of trying to save either vessel or
cargo.
The schooner Rob Roy, which arrived at
Philadelphia Thursday from Savannah, re-
ports that on Oct, 7. in latitude 1924, longi-
tude 1886, she spoke the schooner Oscar C.
Schmidt, from Charleston. S. c.. for Bos-
ton, which reported having been struck by
a northeast gale to the northward of Cape
Hatteras, which broke her main gait and
blew away sails She was obliged to run
before the gale for 26o miles.