The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-04
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

FUMES of an arsenic GARCIA
steel Floating Dock to BE Located
mt Pensacola for the Government.
New Merchant and Miners steamer
TO BE Named Calvert.
Mr. F. A. Won Eberstein has bought the
ex-soyernment steamer Discoverer, form
eriy known as the "Hunky Dory," and will
use her for towing his lighters and RATS
IN MS pile driving business and other work
on the river. The steamer Is AZ feet long
and il feet beam; draught Is about feet;
she has a Scotch boiler and capable en-
CINE and a 414-foot propeller. Her hun is
OF galvanized iron, three -eighths inch thick
new pilot house and cabin have been
put on, and her hull and engine thorough
~ overhauied, and she viii go into COM
mission within the next ten days.
In the fo'castle of the German bark Zion
the crew is telling a wondrous yarn Of the
voyage from Fowey, England. When the
men were shipped al that port they were
as lank and lean a crowd as ever furled
saii' but now they are in the port of Phila-
deiphia with girths that would do honor to
80 RANFSAD ldi alderman.
AS the story goes, the vessel had 800
casks OF arsenic among her cargo This
was stored close to the mems hunks. and
exposed to the suns rays which caused a
Napor 10 generate. In this atmosphere the
men worked and slept After a while the
crew found that their clothes fitted more
snugly than when the voyage was begun.
ana eventually reefs had to be let out in
thelr oelts. The men thought their cloth
ing was shrinking. but the captain one
DAY discovered that every mothers son of
MS crew was growing lazy and fat The
mess room was searched for lucious stores.
Inc result offered no solution, for all that
could be discovered there was the regula-
ton salt horse" and hard tack, and the
captain was too old sea dog to believe
that even hardened tars could grow stout
on that fare.
FINALLY the captain thought of the ar
sehlc. lie had carried that drug as cargo
many time and knew that it helped the
formation of adipose tissue. For weeks
The men had been inhaling its fumes. and
II mad accomplished the work. Hereafter.
says the skipper, that article will be safe
Iy stored from the fo'castle and now he
has his men in training unloading cargo
so that their toys will fl them when they
sail homeward.
government for locating a The Pensacola
navy yard the first floating steel dock the
navy has purchased since the memorable
dock, constructed by John Roach years
ago, at cost of over 100000. This dock
was built more than fifteen years ago and
towed to Key West in four sections. When
they arrived ii was found they did not
fit property, and therefore the dock was
useless. Lately the dock was sold for old
md T.,+ e,
The new dock is now at New York being
overhauled and prepared for use in the
South. The location Of the dock at Pen
sacoia is the beginning of a plan that viii
eventually lead to its conversion into a
frst-class naval station, with docking ia
oilities for all ships bus those of the largest
type, and repair shops capable of giving
attention 70 any part of a ships equip
ment.
At Alglers La, there will be an immense
floating dock. capable of receiving the
heaviest and most powerful vessels of the
navy, thus providing ample docking facii-
tiles for vessels of all classes Bids for
the construction of this dock are 10 be /.
opened on Nov So
When the steamer Chatham. now the
government repair tool ship Vulcan. was
disposed of by the Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company, it left the serv-
ice of the line without steamer named 1
with the initial letter c, Two new vessels
are being constructed al Wilmington Del,
the first of which will be named the Cal
vert and viii be ready for service between
Boston and Baltimore next April. The
other will follow IN June.
TIE British steamship George Pyman,
from West Eartiepool arrived last night
She is consigned to Strachan & Co., and
will take a cargo of cotton for Bremen.