The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-14
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

at This POri-britlSh SAtuAiSAAb
Hirchtor Arrives for "a Full Cargo
of Phosphate Rock-SchOOncr Ida
Lawrence Makes Another Quick
Trip From baltimore to Savannah
and Return.
The government water boat Massasoit,
formerly the tug A. w. Booth. with Licu,.
Reynolds in command, arrived IN port yes
terday from Port Royal on her way 20
Key West
The Massasoit Is trim and strongly
built craft, with a capacity of 1850 gal
Ions Of water. Her mission here could not
be learned, but she is under instructions
to stop at Brunswick, Fernandina and
Jacksonville on her way to Key West
The vessel carries a good sized crew,
with Ensign CottereH as second in com
mand. She is armed with rapid-hre guns.
The British steamship Birchtor Capt.
Belleine, twenty days from Rotterdam, ar
rived yesterday for $500 tons Of phosphate
rock. to be shipped to Hamburg. She is
consigned 10 Strachan & Co.
The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse passed the Needles at sos p. m.
Monday, having made the run from San
dy Hook hghtship in five days, nineteen
hours and thirty-lve minutes. a an aver
age speed of % SC knots over a distance
Of Bias knobs. This time is two hours and
twenty-seven minutes less than her best
previous record to Southampton, but on
her recent voyage the steamer covered
eishty-one more miles than she did on her
woodworking voyage.
The first vessel to sail from Baltimore
for Hawaii since that republic was annex
ed 10 the United States was the Norwe-
gian ship Prince Edward, Capt. Pande,
which sailed for Honolulu Monday The
ship is laden with 5000 tons of coal, valued
at Sl0.OB. Passing vessels saluted the
Prince Edward as she passed out of the
harDOr on her long voyage.
The schooner Ida Lawrence has made
another quick round trip. She arrived at
Baltimore Monday, being only twenty
three days from that port with a cargo Of
coal, which was discharged at Savannah,
where she loaded a full cargo of coal on
return.
The Baltimore Retailers Association win
act, in conjunction with the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, in pro-
moiing the project to secure favorable ac-
ton by Congress on Senator Germans bill
establishing a naval dry dock at Round
bay If this location should not be DEEM
ed favorable by the government authori-
ties, some other site on one of the Chesa-
peake's tributaries will be urged.
The American bark Carrie Winslow.
from Rosario and Turks Island, arrived at
Philadelphia Monday. Capt Montgomery
vRyb bs, 1.,f+ 10.
pedo gunboat Temerario had left the Ar
gentine Republic and gone $500 miles fur
tner up the river, and was in the vicinity
Of Ascension, Paraguay. During her stay
at Buenos Ayres she caused considerable
trouble to American vessels outward bound
down the river De la Plata. Several Slip
ped by the war craft at night and others
came TO anchor within the jurisdiction of
the Argentine Republic, rather than stand
a chance of capture.
The schooner Harriet c. Kerlin has been
chartered for a cargo of coal from Phla-
de!phia to Charleston, S. c., at IS cents.
and back to Norfolk or Baltimore with
phosphate.
The New York Commercial says: News
papers all over the country have editorialv
taken up the question Of an American
merchant marine, and all speak glowingly
ol the prospects OF INlS country reSumi0Q
her former prominence among the mari
time powers. The immediate revival of
this great industry is predicted. and the
hope that the United States will become a
worlds shipbuilding market favorablv dis
cussed 1t is the unanimous opinion that
the next quarter of a century will see us
distance the whole of Europe in ship
building"
Advices from Philadelphia say that coal
frcights are still on the downward path.
and there IS much CONSERVATION In the
coastwise market. Countless vessels owned
there are unable to procure freights at any
price.
BY the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands the American merchant navy is in
creased by The addition of fifty-three ves-
sells, which fly the flag of the islands.
The list consists of twenty-four steam
ships, which were engaged principally in
the inter-islano trade; four ships. ten
barks ana seventeen schooners of all
classes.
William p. Clyde of the Clyde line an
nounced yesterday that the Austrian
steamship kimon, recently purchased nv
the company at an auction sale In viii
mington, n. c.. and which has been under
going repairs at Erie Basin. has been reg
istered under the American flag. and win
hereafter be known as the Carb She will
begin loading cargo to-day for Dominion
ports.
says Fair Play: Certain individuals, be-
sides the Yankees, are beginning 10 have a
taste Of the horrors of war. / refer n a
certain number of militant underwriters
the companies ana at Lloyd's who. prroQ
TO the war, greedily pouched all the zGax
risks they saw, regardless Of rate OF
MUM. Many of thes braves are finding
Iheir Havana smokes expensive Injuries
particularly those of the Pedro and Guido
brands. These, 1 hear, they are about to
settle, finding further delay impossible.
and l expect they Will before long, have 10
pay for the Miguel Jover, Catalina. PAN
anna and other varieties. The gentlemen
IN question are now having time to rurni-
nate at leisure on their early excuses"
Savannah Almanac.
Sun rises at sos and sets at 700.