The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-14
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Report of the Loss of Schooner Mar
gnret A. MHy-RumOFs of New
TOWbOat Company TO Operate at
Savnnnah-Tug Blanche lows in
the Schooner Florence Randall BE-
fore Reported Ashore on 4sdisto.
The Baltimore sun has published an ar
dele giving as authority Capt. Peters OF
the steamship d. II. Miller that the Phil
adelphia schooner Margaret A. May was
passed, abandoned off Frying Pan shoals.
The Sun says; Her masts were gone
over the side, and from a pole on deck
about the vessel. Her position from Fry
ing Pan Shoal lightship was twenty-five
miles east-northeast. Capt. Peters regards
the derelict as a menace to navigation.
The same wreck was seen on the same
day by Capt James of the steamer Itasea
which arrived here on Monday from Sa-
vannah" While in Savannah last Mon
day Capt. Peters reported to the hydro
graphic office that his steamship struck a
wreck, supposed to be the derelict British
schooner Hattie May, before reported
abandoned off Frying Pan Shoals, The
friends of Capt Jarvis of the Margaret A.
May would be glad to learn that he ard
his vessel is safe and that a mistake has
been made in reporting her lost.
The tug boat Blanche, Capt. Burruss, of
Wilmington, N. c.. arrived here yesterday
towing the schooner Florence Randall. The
schooner was blown ashore on Edisto
beach, South Carolina during the storm
of Aug. 3d. and was fioated last Monday
by s. w. Skinner & Co. of Wilmington
N. c. She Is leaking badly and a steam
pump Is on board TO keep her clear She
will be turned over the underwriters. The
Randall was bound from New York for
Fernandna. The tug coaled up at Tag
CARTS yesterday and will go to Beaufort
to-day. She has been engaged by s. W.
Skinner q Co. 70 assist In floating the
schooner Carrie C. Foss, which is ashore
on Fripp Island
An exchange says: A decision was given
recently in the United States Court of Ala
hama that is of unusal interest to steam
boatmen and steamboat owners. The wife
of the captain of a towboat towing logs
on the Tombigbee river invited woman
friend to make trip on the boat. The
woman while on the trip was injured by
the parting of the line, and brought suit
boat. The owners set up the defense that
the plaintiff was shipped as chambermaid
and produced the crew register to prove
the same. The woman claimed that she
in no way performed services, and on
the contrary stated that she did not even
make her own bed and was waited on by
others. She said that the placing of her
name on the crew register was done with
out her knowledge or consent She secured
a verdict for SO 600 The captain and own
er of the boat was fined by the supervis-
ing inspector of the district for violar-
ing that section of the law regarding tow
boats carrying passengers.
The schooner George Taulane, Jr., Capt.
Magee, from Tiverton, Long Island, ar
rived yesterday with a cargo of fish scrap.
The schooner Frank Vanderherchen has
been chartered for an outward cargo of
coal from Philadelphia TO Savannah at
$l.1O. She win return with a cargo of
lumber at 4.25.
Capt Evans, master of the British
steamship Weybridge. reports having pass
ed a sunken wreck, with spars and rigging
ailoat, in latitude 1921, longitude 1855
Also passed on Oct. s, in latitude 40 90.
longitude 69.S1, the British bark Orari,
from London, bound for New York. All
wen
The steamer Ethel, which arrived night
before last from Augusta, brought 40 bales
of cotton, co barrels of naval stores and
$40 sacks of cotton seed besides a lot
of miscellaneous merchandise.
Rumors have been afioat on Bay street
for the past few days that parties are
preparing to start a new towboat COM
Dany. II has been automatically stated
that several capitalists are contemplate
ing buying a boat to put on the Savan-
nah rlVer and harbor TO do towing. It
was rumored on the street yesterday that
a tug boat captain had left the city to
bring two boats mere, which are said to
be the Three Friends and the Admiral
Dewey of Jacksonville.