The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-09
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.


AT This P0rt-EarninGs OF Coast
ing Vessels Trading at savannah.
steamer sanfee Has an Accident TO
Her MnehInery-Steamship Hin
doEStan Goes to Sea ON One Tide
Drawing 2ais Feet.
The steam pilot boat J. H. Esdll came
up to the city last night TO change pilots.
A survey has been held on schooner Mag
gle NJ. Keogh. from Charleston for New
York. with lumber. before reported at
Beaufort. N. c.. leaking after being
ashore. and it has been recommended that
she put steam pump aboard and tow TO
destination. The captain has contracted
for same at 1900. The leak is supposed
|. to be in cardboard strake. 1t required
twenty shoremen. ships crew and station
house crew on pumps over thirty hours to
keep the vessel up. Life savers from Cape
Lookout rendered valuable assistance. One
pump now keeps the vessel up. No fur
ther trouble IS apprehended. A towboat
via leave with the vessel to-day.
The steamer Sautee. Capt. Robson, de-
parted yesterday for Palatka for a cargo
OF naval stores for Savannah At Thun-
derbolt some part OF her machinery be-
came disabled and she had to land and
wait until repairs can be made.
The steamer Gopher, with Prof. Moore
and his scientific assistants, returned to
the city yesterday after several weeks
spent on the Savannah river in search OF
Indian mounds. The party will leave to-
day on the Gopher for Florida waters.
A negro deck hand was drowned from
the steamer H. G. Day some time ago and
his body was recovered by the steamer
Sunday, near New Landing, and buried on
the bank OF the river 1t is reported that
the negro was sent ashore about nine
miles above New Landing, about three
weeks ago, for some empty bags, and did
not return.t The first information of his
being drowned was when his body was
seen floating in the river Sunday.
The tug Pender, which has been laid up
at Purysburg for some time, has been
brought to the city. In coming down the
river she struck snag which tore away
her shoe. She is being repaired in Paul
sens slip on Hutchinson's Island. 1t is
reported that the Pender is to be sold to
parties at Georgetown. S. c., where she
viii be in towing.
The British steamship Hindoustan
bound for Bremen and Hamburg with a
cargo of cotton, phosphate rock ETC., went
to sea yesterday. on one tide, drawing %
feet 6 inches. AS it was not an unusually
high tide and the fact of going from the
city direct to sea- it was probably the best
record 'o1 the Savannah river. Several
Other steamers have gone TO sea drawing
between 2Sls to "a feet but, usually, they
have had to take two tides to do it.
The British steamship Trunkby, Capt
Mccarthy, from Marseilles, arrived yester-
day consigned to Wilder & Co. She is
chartered for a cargo of cotton to be ship
| pedto Barcelona and Genoa
The Trunkby is a trunk" steamer. the
first Of her class ever built, and is sister
ship to the ConDingsby, which was here
| last September, and attracted much atten-
ton by her peculiar construction. A de-
scription of this class of steamers has been
previously published in the Morning News.
"A practical idea of the small amount
of money coasting vessels clear in a years
work can be gained from the account of
| schooner Lizzie j. Call. During the past
year she earned $23S3.45, while her ex-
penses amounted to $3,347.97, leaving in the
hands of her owners the Snug" balance
OF SSo'4S. Referring to above extract
from the Morning News of 9TH, this writer.
who has been concerned with coasting ves-
sells and their earnings for the last quarter
of a century, can only assume that the
cited case is one of bad manage" or bad
damage, for vessel may in one voyage
sustain damage thai would consume her
years earnings; but without such disaster
1t IS not possible that any vessel managed
with ordinary care and experience, should
show such rneager results.
The Jennie Thomas, sailing between this
port and Baltimore, has paid her owners
5000 in the last tewlye months, over and
above running expenses The Ida
in the same trade, and twenty
years old ESQ as to require large
outlay for repairs), has paid near
5000 clear in the same time Taking these
vessels as fair examples of earning power.
the Lizzie ]. Can should have earned s.. 500
In az mercantile and manufacturing en-
terprises there is a large proportion of
failures caused by lack of skill or expert
ence or handicap of too much debt at
the start, and most likely the meager earn
ings of the Call may be traced to one of
these causes. In no case is it fair to cite
this instance as a practical idea" of the
earning capacity of eoasting vessels.
ee j. A R.
New Orleans La, March s.-The Nor
wegian bark Flid. Capt. Gundersen. from
Belize, British Honduras, with a cargo of
mahogany for Enrope. went ashore Feb
"a, on Mangor Key, thirty-fye miles from
Belize, and became a total loss The crew
arrived here on the steamer Breakwater
The Flid hailed from Grlmstead, Norway
and was insured.ua aa
savannah Almanac.
The time ball on Cotton Exchange drops
II M, 18th meridian time.
sun rises at $50 and sets at Cos
High water at Tybee to-day S1S a. m.