The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-08-01
Captain LOmm Will Bring the R.
L. Mabey to Fight Bruins
wick Boats.
GENERAL WAR is PROBABLE,
With the Brunswick, Darien and the Pro-
peller Boats on One Side, and Bristol
and L'Engle on the Other.

War Will be inaugurated on the
Brunswick bar on August 3.
THE TIMES published several days
ago that towboat opposition by the
Jacksonville boats was threatened by
DR.. J. G. L'Engle. The article was
correct, The opposition will begin on
Tuesday.
The tug R. Il. Mahey, of Jackson
vile, Will be the representative of the
opposition. She will arrive on Tues
day and go to work at once. Captain
Leo LOmm, formerly of the tugs
Dauntless and Inca, and, until his re-
cent resignation, captain of the Bruins
wick fleet of towboats, will be in COM
mand of the Mabey. Dan Devereaux,
however, will not be with him. Jack
Fortune, of Jacksonville, formerly
engineer of the Inca, will attend to
the engines of the opposition tug.
The Mabey will have hard fight if
she attempts to maintain the Opposi-
tion alone. She will have against her
the tugs Inca, Angie and Nellie and
U. Dart. 1t will be the Mabey's first
experience on this bar.
She is sldewheel steamer, 43 years
old, and is quite speedy for one of her
class and years. She is S2,37 gross
tonnage, 49.l5 net tonnage, So feet
long, % feet wide and feet deep.
1t is stated that the opposition will
not be carried on by DIR. L'Engle, but
by Captain Lomm personally. 1t is
believed that he has either purchased
or chartered the Mabey for the pur-
pose Of running the opposition. An
other report is that DR.. L'Engle took
umbrage at newspaper publication and
decided to put his intentions into inn
mediate practice. Az any rate, the
opposition is certain, and Will begin
this week.
A long-distance telephone message
to THE TIMES from Savannah last
night indicates that the war will in
vOlve all the tugs along the coast.
The message SAID that the Propeller
Tugb0at company of Savannah would
institute a war along the coast on the
Bristol Tugboat company, also of Sa-
vannah. The Propeller people own
the II. NJ, G. Smith, the Cynthia, the
McCauleY, the Jacob Paulsen and sew
eral others. The Bristol boats are the
Bristol and the KinkOra. The Kim
kora has been carrying on tramp"
opposition for some time. She cruises
along the coast, picking up what tows
she can. The Darien tugboats Dandy
and John G. Mallonnee, Will join the
Propeller boats in fighting the Bris-
tol and Kinkora. This will incur
general fight with the Brunswick, Da-
rien and Propeller fleets on one side
and Bristol, Kinkora and Mabey on
the other.
The Propeller and Darien boats will
not come into Brunswick, but will
fight the opposition along the coast,
cutting them out of all the business
they can.
A tugboat war is always damaging
to the port which is its center. The
captains of vessels arriving learn that
a war is In progress, and refuse to be
towed until they get the very lowest
figure. Frequently, vessels are towed
for nothing, in order to score victory
over an opposing tug. THE TIMES has
it from good authority that the Bruns-
wick boats Will meet all cuts in rates,
and will take care of themselves, as
we'll as give the opposition taste of
real hard fighting.