The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-21
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENEHAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Complaints of Professional Watch
men That ship Masters Employ
Members of Their Crew TO watch
Their Vessels - statistics of the
sea-gOing American schOOners.
The Five Mastcd Schooner Gov.
Ames at Foot of Bull Street.
An ordinance providing for the sleeping
ashore of crews of vessels is frequently
violated, according to the complaints of
several professional watchmen who have
failed to get jobs from masters of vessels.
They say that their occupation is gone,
as there is one of the crew engaged TO
watch vessel at night which is against
the law as they understand it.
The ordinance is as follows:
Whereas, Experience has demonstrated
that sleeping upon vessels in the Savan-
nah river during August, September and
October causes much sickness among the
crews Of vessels, producing fevers, which
are often of serious character, thus in
Juring the reputation Of the city and port
of Savannah. and doing serious damage,
not only TO the crews, but also to the city
and port
Section 1. For remedy whereof, It is
hereby ordained by The Mayor and Alder
men OF the city of Savannah, in Council
assembled, That 1t shall not be lawful
for the crews of vessels lying in Savannah
river, within the port of Savannah, to
steep on the river during the months of
august, September and October of any
year, and. 1t is hereby made the duty of
the masters of vessels to require their
crews 10 sleep on shore, and south of
River street, during the said months. And
any master failing to comply with this or
dlnance shall, on conviction before the
Police Court of the city of Savannah, he
subject 10 q. fine not to exceed 500, and
Imprisonment not to exceed thirty days,
either or both, in the discretion of the
court.
Much is being written these days about
the decline of the schooner, says the New
York Commercial. Ii is fact that that
once very useful vessel is rapidly on The
decline. Steam and the roomy ocean
barges are driving this craft from the
seas, at least so far as America is con-
cerned. Statistics gathered up TO Sept.
!, 1898, show that only 1871 sea-gong
schooners of over 100 tons gross register
were in the American merchant marine
In all there was decrease of seventy
nine Schooners during the year ending
July, 1898. From July J. 1897 to Sept
OF this year but ten schooners were built
on the Atlantic coast, four denationalized.
three cut down from barks while to offset
TINS liz were lost. Sixteen were built on
the Pacific and ten lost The records show
that on July /, 1897, there were 1870
schooners of upward of 100 tons flying the
Stars and Stripes. Since then there was
added thirtythree, while 112 were lost.
The majority of the schooners now com
prised in the American merchant marine
III fn1F 1acrfaa s1bo
low 200 tons and zoo more between 200
and 500 tons.
The five-masted schooner Gov Ames is
again at convenient part of the city
for visitors to see her. The schooner was
moved yesterday 10 the Georgia Lumber
Companys wharves at the foot of Bull
street, 10 finish loading lumber 1t is
the only five masted schooner Ia the
world, and attracts a great deal of at
tention. Her cargo is being hoisted on
board by steam power, the vessel having
a powerful engine which is used for that
purpose and for raising sales and an
chors.
The tug f. " NcCauley, Capt. Ioder
from Norfolk arrived here yesterday. She
Is engaged TO tow the dismanted schoon-
er Robert Mcfarland to Portland Me. The
schooner carries a cargo of lumber,
will be repaired a her destination.
There is quite a feet of sailing vessels
that have been ready to go to sea for sew
eral days, but they have been detained by
the northeast winds that have prevailed
during the past two weeks.
The Tybee telephone line was inter-
rupted yesterday, and no news of ship
ping was received from that source.
The British steams-4p Plymouth has
been posted at the Cotton Exchange. offer
ing berth room for cotton to be shipped to
Bremen. The Plymouth is due to ar
rive Oct. 20, consigned to the Georgia Ex-
port and Import Company.
Freight rates for lumber from Southern
ports continue stiff. charter of the
schooner Johanna Swan has been made at
$4.75 from Satilla to New York.
The barkentine Albert Shultz, 473 tons
has been chartered for a cargo of coal
from Philadelphia to Savannah at rs
cents, and the schooner Charles S. Davis
504 tons, for coal from Philadelphia to
Savannah on same terms.
Savannah Almanac.
Sun rises at 5:4S and sets at 5:57.
High water at Tybee to-day at 1884 a.
m. and 11:47 p. m. High water at Savan-
nah one hour later.
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