The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-20
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

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IGIondike-steamer EuIalia to Go
to FIOrida-Other Local Items.
There is much activity in the ship yards
| along the Delaware. Many steamers are
being finished up. Il is stated that in and
near Philadelphia So per cent. of the new
American ships are being prepared for
| the commercial service. w. Cramp & Sons
report that they are building at present
for American account seven vessels. These
steamers aggregate So 16S tons displace-
ment. showing that the size of each is
| above the average. In addition TO this
work there are under construction by this
firm three vessels for foreign account of
% coo tons displacement, and four war yes
sells. They nave also prospective orders
which VIII keep the big Philadelphia plant
humming for many months to come.
The other Philadelphia yards have been
doing an unusually good spring and sum
mer business. Al HiI,man's seven tug
boats have been completed and three are
now under way. Neafie & Levy report a
good outlook in all departments of their
work.
At the Delaware river yards, in close
proximity TO Philadelphia. are now we'll
under way thirteen steamers, all for Amer
Jean account The Delaware River Iron
Shipbuldiue and Engine Works are busy
with six steel steamships. They have an
aggregate tonnage of 10000. The Harlan
& HOlngsworth Company of Wilmington,
Del, are running at full speed. They are
building seven vessels. Three are steel
steamships, one steamboat two tugs and
one government vessels. The total ton
mage under way is 9.20S.
Reports from the Pacific show that many
of the vessels which abandoned their reg
uiar trade when the blondike boom start
I'll are returning 10 their former or other
trades, now that the gold bubble has
bursted. says the New York Commercial.
Nearly all of the ocean tramps that
came over from the orient have returned
TO their former field. One of them, the
Pakshan, loaded at Portland for Siberia
and China, and another. the Nngchow, at
Port Blakeiey and Tacoma, and now
comes report from Vancouver, 3. c., 10
the effect that the big steamships Athen-
ian and Tartar, the largest that ran north
will be chartered for oriental business. and
one or both of them may go to Portland
TO load for Siberia
The new Siberian steamship line operat-
ing from Portland has had more freight
offered than they could handle ever since
they sent out the first steamship, and it
IL steam
ships al the Athenian and Tartar to make
anything like cleanup at the present
time There are several other steamers
that were in the Klondike trade that are
now lying idle in British Columbia and
sound ports, and they may be pressed into
the Siberian or oriental trade now that
there is nothing Offering on the coast
The steamer Euialia, which has been on
Jones marine railway for several days,
repairing the damage done at Wilmington
Island during tho recent storm, was
launched yesterday. She has been thor
oughly OverhauIed and repaired, and ex-
poets 10 leave tomorrow night for Jack
sonville and will be put on The route be-
tween that port and Palatka during the
winter.
The steamer Ethel left yesterday after
noon on trip up the Savannah river.
She viii go as far as Burtons Bluff.
where she will meet the steamer D.
Murchison and exchange cargoes, both
steamers returning from whence they de-
parted.
The steamer Clifton arrived yesterday
with an excursion of colored people from
LaCIcs' Island and way landings. She re-
turned last night.
The city quarantine tug Theckla was
yesterday hauled on Jones' marine rail
way to have her bottom scraped and
painted
The British steamship Wastwater, which
sailed from London Sept. 10, is due here
Sept &C. to load cotton for Bremen. She
has been chartered by ]. F. Minis & Co.
New York, Sept. 19.-The American
schooner Anna Capt. Woodruff which
sailed yesterday for Charleston. lost her
fore and main-top masts last night off
the highlands, and returned to port for
repairs. Capt. Woodruff could not explain
the accident, as there was but liltle wind
and no sea to make the schooner roll
Everything seemed 20 be swept clean off
and the topmasts fell down about our ears
before we could realize what had happen
ed. Both topmasts We're carried away at
the cross-trees, and we spent the night in
clearing away the wreckage."