The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-22
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

SHIPS AND SHIPPING.
Two Of the largest cargoes OF lumber
ever foated in coastwise vessels are now
loading with lumber for Philadelphia The
schooner Gov. Ames is nearly ready at
this port and will carry nearly or. all of
100000 feet, while the schooner Saga
more is at Brunswick loading with about
100000 feet. This makes nearly three
million feet on board the two vessels,
which a few years ago would have been
sufficient cargo for at least ten schooners.
Untn this shipment the record-breaking
cargo of lumber was 12l6,16S feet, which
was taken to philadelphia January 50, 1897,
on the barge Forest Belle, from this port.
This was new undertaking chen, the i'm
portation of lumber by the outside route
from the South in barges and was never
afterward repeated, as financially it was
a failure. The Ames' cargo is made up
of ties and yellow pine lumber, and is con-
signed to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway Company. The Sagamore's cargo
consists entirely of yellow pine for the
former company. Until the Forest Bellies
cargo in January of last year the schoon-
er j. Holmes BirdsaN was credited with
having taken 10 Philadelphia the largest
cargo of lumber, cons sting of i,0l4000 feet,
The Haroidine, another large four-master,
once landed a cargo of lumber at Phha-
delphia consisting of 951, 600 feet, from Sa-
vannah. When the late Governor Hal, of
Delaware, practically controlled the
Southern lumber transportation trade, not
more than sixteen years age, he built for
the business vessels whose capacities
ranged from 100000 to $4,000 feet. From
this 1t will be seen how rapidly these YES
sells have increased in size. Neither the
Sycamore nor the Governor AmeS are new
vessels, but ii is their first entrance into
the lumber trade. IL is stated that the
new hve-master now building at Camden,
Me-, for the owners of the Sycamore, wpl
carry nearly 100000 feet of lumber.
survey was held on the British bark
Braemar yesterday to ascertain the dam
age done by small fire in her lazarette
Monday morning. The board of surveyors
md that the ships stores were damaged
and viii have to be sold. The fire injured
the cabin to some extent, and it is es-
timated that the damage was about 81, CO.,
The fire was put out by the tug Forest
City, before the fire department arrived.
The bark is lying al the Central of Geor-
gia Railway wharves loading naval stores
for Europe.
The Norwegian steamship Horda. Capt
SVendSen, cleared yesterday morning for
Hamburg and Bremen with a cargo of cot
ton and phosphate rock. She is the first
steamship to clear this season with a car
go of cotton. She was consigned to Rich
ardson & Bernard.
The British steamship Lucina was posted
yesterday at the Cotton Exchange offering
berth room for cotton to be shipped to
Liverpool. She is due 10 arrive Oct. Is
he E'Nn I'M
port Company.
The Merchants and Miners steamer
Allegheny, winch has been in transport
service under charter with the war de-
partment, was floated Monday afternoon
from the Columbian Iron Works at Balti-
more, where she had been scraped and
painted. She will resume her place To-
morrow on the route to Providence.
The schooner. c. C. Wehrum has been
| chartered for a cargo of lumber from Sa-
vannah to New York at $4621a.
The steamer Eulaia, which has been
doing summer excursion business between
Savannah and Warsaw Island during the
summer, and sustained some damage by
being blown ashore at Wilmington Is
land during the recent hurricane, has been
| thoroughly repaired She left last night
gagged in running between Palatka and
Jacksonville during the winter.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va, last night
says: Capt. Smith of the British steam
er Dunottar from Mobile to Barrow-Sn-
| Furness, via Norfolk, arrived to-day and
reports passing at about 4 a. M the Brit
ish steamer Hibernia, Capt. Cameron.
| from Galveston bound for Hamburg, two
and a quarter miles southwest of False
Cape, N. c., aground two miles from
shore. She ran aground in thick weather
at a. m. The sea was running high. but
the wind was moderate. A report at 8 D.
m. was that the vessel was lying easy
but the sea and wind increasing The
wind was northwest, blowing twenty-five
miles an hour, and rapidly increasing.
| The Merritt Wrecking Company was no
tilted, but the weather was too rough for
a tug to venture to the rescue.