The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-20
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Steamship ChattahoOchee Ashore
Near Fort JacIsOn-Wind Blowing
Forty Miles an Hour at Tybee.
Philadelphia Maritime Exchange
Meet to Adopt Rules 10 Govern the
DischarGiuE of Southern Pine
Lumber-The Atlantic Load Line
Considered by British Board of
Trade-The City of Augustus Quick
Trip From New York.
The schooner Chauncey E. Burk, Capt.
Townsend. from Philadelphia. arrived yes
terday with a cargo of coal consigned to
the agent of the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway.
The steamship City of Augusta arrived
here yesterday from New York at 5:45 p.
M, being only forty-eight hours and for
ty-fve minutes from dock to dock. This
is the quickest trip recorded by the Au-
gusta between New York and Savannah.
The steamship Chattahoochee, for Bos-
ton, got ashore before daylight yesterday
morning. opposite Fort Jackson, during a
landed in a position from which she could
not free herself and lighters We're sent to
take off part of her cargo in order to allow
her to float. She was gotten off about $50
p m. and proceeded.
Reports from Tybee, received yesterday
stated that the wind was blowing at the
rate of forty miles an hour. There were
a number of vessels off shore that were I'M
able to get in on account of the dense fog
which hung over the coast. Two vessels
succeeded in getting in early. They were
the British steamship Atlantic from Fer
nandina, with a part cargo of phosphate
rock, to finish loading here, and the
schooner Chauncey E. Burk from Phila-
delphia.
The British steamship Atlantic, which
arrived yesterday from Fernandina, came
under difficulties. The day before sailing
it was discovered that her steam pumps
were out of order. The repairing could
not be done a Fernandina, except at the
shops of the Florida, Central and PENN
sular Railroad, which were too busy to do
the work. The engineer of the Atlantic
took the work to Jacksonville and had it
done, but at appears to be unsatisfactory,
and William Kehoe & Son of this city have
been engaged to make complete repairs.
According to the Glasgow Herald an
important step toward reform in connec-
ton with the North Atlantic load line has
just been taken by the Board of Trade of
Great Britain. After considering the sta
tistics on the subject recently collected
by Lloyds Register, Mr.. Richie has given
notice to the various certifying securities
of his intention to call them together for
a reconsideration of the whole subject.
These securities are Lloyds, the Bureau
Veritas and the British corporation, which
has its headquarters at Glasgow. No date
has yet been fixed for the meeting, but no
doubt it will be held at an early date.
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Philadelphia Maritime Exchange
held Monday, the question of the adoption
of rules governing the discharge of South
ern pine lumber at Philadelphia port was
referred to the committee on commerce
and transportation. The board authorized
the president of the Exchange to prepare
memorials favoring the creation of ma
tional department of commerce, and the
passage of the Torrey bankruptcy bill
John L. Nicolson, one of the directors and
Secretary Sherwood, were appointed a
special committee to investigate and re-
port to the board plans and cost of operat-
ing reporting system at Cape May.