The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-28
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LoCh AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

lations of Entry of Commercial
vessels at SuntiagO-A Raft Con-
tanning $500, 600 Feet of Lumber.
From the returns compiled by Loyl's
Register of Shipping it appears that, ex-
Guiding warships there were 80 vessels
OF l'SZ20aS tons gross under construction
IN the United Kingdom at the close Of the
quarter ending June 30 last, as compared
with ABB vessels with a gross tonnage of
Sn'65l which We're building at the end of
June last year. From the end of the year
1880 the returns have shown steady in
crease in the amount of tonnage under
construction in the kingdom, and BY De
cem0er, 1897, the work in hand reached
total of 1.013,000 tons These figures. al
though almost certainly without precedent
in the history Of shipbunding, are now ex-
ceeded by no less than 100000 tons OF the
$50 ships now building the ownership of
414 is British. 16 are for Russians, IL for
Danes, 10 for Holland, etc. Glasgow is
building 1&; Greenock, 90; Newcastle, so,
ana Sunderland, So The figures demon
slrate clearly the leading position occupied
by the Clyde shipbuders
IN ADDITION to the $50 merchant vessels,
from the big first-class battleshiD through
the various grades down TO the deadly little
torpedo boat, with total displacement of
$500 tons, now in course of construction
IN the United Kingdom. For the British
navy are building sixteen vessels with a
displacement tonnage of III SO, and pri-
Vate yards are busy with fOrty-fOur ships
OF 1865 tonnage; while for foreign SOW
ernments there are now being built in
British yards thirty ships, with a dis
placement of 109,9l5 tons.
The regulations for the entry of COM
mercial vessels and merchandise at San
uago have not yet been completed and
approved by the war department, but wiz
be issued carly in the week. The treasury
officials have already begun the study of
the tariff and navigation laws prevailing
at Porto Rico, in order TO be able to adopt
a definite policy there, If San Juan or
other important ports are occupied by the
American forces The tariff charges upon
imports into Porto Rico We're formerly the
same as in Cuba but the Cuban rates have
been increased several times during the
instruction, so that a separate statement
OF them became necessary in August, 1891
A Washington correspondent says that a
good deal Of interest is taken in the bids
which viii soon be opened in the navy de-
partment for batteships. 1t is certain that
the Cramps, Newport News Company and
the Union Iron Works WEI present pro-
posals, although the two Eastern firms
are already well supplied with work
The shipbuilding firms are getting con-
siderable foreign work and receiving many
private orders. and for this reason the de-
partment does not expect a material drop
in the prices of the batneshps. Ii is said
that Dialogue & Son of Camden, n. j.,
builders of the Princeton, and the Bath
Iron Works builders of several gunboats
and the ram Katahdin, viii also present
bids.
There is said to be a disincunation on
the part of firms in this country to bid
for the torpedo boats and destroyers.
Firms which have built these craft in pre-
vious times are said not to have found it
very profitable work.
There is no apparent disposition on the
part of Secretary Long to require the new
battleships to have a speed of at least IS
knots an hour, Notwithstanding the criti-
cism from all parts of the United States
of the department decision to require only
16 knots speed.
A cast of the lead from the Atlantic
Transport liner Montana, made in latitude
38 degrees, % minutes, longitude 73 degrees,
OS minutes, brought up bottom character
istics that didn't agree with the United
States photographic chart No. 9i2, says
the Baltimore Sun. The cast was taken
in 43 fathOms of water and brought up
coarse, yellow sand and black specks,
where the chart for the same position gives
fine sand and black specks. Again, in
latitude 50 degrees, 50 minutes, longitude
70 degrees 1872 minutes, a cast taken in 80
fathoms the bottom obtained was yellow
sand and gravel. The chart gives gray
sand and mud. These positions were veri-
fed by an excellent set Of sights
A giant raft, 374 feet long, extending 20
feet below the water line, and containing
100000 feet of lumber, recently left Port
land, Or, for San Francisco. Four tugs
were employed in plotting the raft down
the Willamette and Columbia rivers 10
the ocean, where the powerful tugs Re-
lief and Monarch, undertook to complete
the tow to the destination.
The three new Morgan line ships to he
built by the Newport News Steamship and
Dry Dock Company, will be about 5000
tons gross, 400 feet long, so feet beam
and 80 feet deep. Engines. triple expan-
sion: cylinders 32x52xS4 inches. They win
develop 1900 horse power, thereby enabling
these ships to jog along at speed of II
knots when necessary
Mrs Mary Doullut. wife of Capt NJ P.
Doullut a boatbuilder of New Orleans is
opening up new field for labor for the
fair sex She has learned the trade of a
pilot, and recently passed a brilliant ex-
animation in this profession.
All the steamboats, in the various pack
ct lines on the Ohio river and tributaries.
have, in accordance with the recent law.
provided a comfortable sleeping apartment
for their roustabouts. The law does not
require steamboats, TO erect hunks and
supply them with spring mattresses, feath-
er pillows, blankets, etc. These things
may come later. An apartment enclosed
by bulkheads or awning to protect the
roustabouts from the wind and rain and
facilities for keeping the apartment COM
Portable i'm winter is all that is necessary
If the deck crew desire TO provide them
selves with bed clothing they can do So
but up to this date steamboats, are not
required to grant them the Injuries that
steamboat men anticipated when the law
was passed
The schooner Hilda, Capt. Rines from