The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-06
wharf WORK MOVES ON.
BY FALL THE o. :. $. co. WILL HAVE
INCREASED FACILITIES.


Any in the south.
The Improvement of the wharf property
of the Ocean Steamship Co. is progress
ing well. and the extensive yards, whar-
YES and sheds will, it is expected, be COM
pleted in time for the fall business. The
big slip, $40 feet long. has been finished
1t was accepted some time ago by the
! company from the dredging firm that made
| the excavations
visit to the property that is being i'm
/ proved would be of interest to any one
| who likes such work. Dirt trains are run
ming all day, and their loads are emptied
where it is desired to fill in the low land
All the section upon which the improve
ments will be placed, an extent of many
acres, has been or is being reclaimed, the
low rice lands giving way, under the touch
OF progress and energy. to the admirably
conceived and well executed plan that Is
expected to do much toward the improve
ment of the trade of the port
The dirt used for filing is brought from
| the hill few miles out on the Central
| Railroad. Temporary tracks are con-
structed in the yards, being moved as oc-
casion demands, and it is from these the
dirt is thrown, the long lines left by the
trains being leveled off and giving a
smooth, even surface for the work to pro-
| ceed Dirt shovels, operated by a donkey
engine that is supplied with steam by the
locomotive, upon the next car TO which it
! is located, are used for unloading A long
cable runs the length of the train of flats,
| ana 1t rs upon this the donkey hauls.
! Great power has to be eXerted to throw
on the dirt but the little engine is equal
| to it, and off ii goes on either side of the
! track as the shovel starts on its course
| drawn by the cable, toward the engine.
An estimate of the amount of dirt that
| VIII have been used for filling In the low
| lands would be startling. In places the
| grade has required a depth of ten feet
of dirt, and the cubic yards of 1t that have
been dumped would be difficult to COM
| pute The dirt taken from the big slip
was used also, this, in itself, being an
enormous quantity
Men are now at work locating logs in
the bottom of the slip. These have sunk
Deep and considerable care is required to
| get them out. The process is for men TO
go carefully over the slip in boat, finding
with poles the location of the distractions
and fixing kegs to them to serve as bouys.
After they have all been located, a wind
lass will be rugged up on the Wharves.
constructed on either side the slip, and
the logs hauled out
The sheds that are to be along the slip
on the west side are now being built.
When they have been completed the work
: will be commenced on the east side. Am
pie shed room will be afforded for the
shelter of all the freight that will be nan
! died from the new slip.
Mr.. r. G. Trezevant, agent for the
| Steamship company and the Central Rail
road, says the Slip will afford accommo-
| dation for four steamers, lying two deep
on one side and four sailing vessels on
| the other. The loading of all these, when
! the freight of the outer steamers is to be
| cotton, can go on at the same time.
| President II. NJ. Conner of the railroad
and steamship company believes the work
will be completed by fall. That now in
| progress, he says, does not constitute the
half of What the company purposes doing
in the way of improvement. He states that
the completion of the entire work as map
ped out will require four or five years. Mr..
Conner believes the cotton receipts of Sa-
vannah for one thing, will be vastly in
creased by the additional and improved
facilities that will be afforded for its
handling at the new wharves. e. His ex-
peotations of increased business are not
confined only to cotton, as he believes the
general business of the port will be Won
derfully augmented as a result of the
extensive Improvements in the wharves
and shipping facilities, which will be un-
surpassed by any in the South.
Mr.. j. H. Polhemus, city passenger
agent at Charleston for the Plant System,
was among the visiting railroad men in
the city yesterday.
The first hotel help train of the season
passed through Savannah northbound yes
terday over the Florida Central and Pen
insular railroad. There were 2O3 passen-
gers aboard the train when it left Jack
sonville it's starting point. About twenty
joined the crowd here. The train arrived
at 1:45 o'clock
The next hotel help train will be run
over the Plant System. The interval be-
tween the two will be but short, as the
second train will pass through Friday at
1870 o'clock. The Plant System and the
Florida Central and Peninsular alternate
in running the trains.
Four hotel help trains are run from
Jacksonville to eastern points during the
closing days of the winter season. After
that to be run Friday another, week
later, will follow by way of the Plant
System, and week after that the Florida
Central and Peninsular will run the last
The trains are made up of comfortable
first-class day coaches.
Advices received in this city yesterday
by railroad officials from the East Florida
Coast Line state that owing to the UNI
settled condition of public affairs the
steamship line between Miami and Mas
sau, ". p, has been discontinued. and
therefore not to receive any freights for
that route.
Col. 3. w. Wrenn, passenger traffic man
ager of the Plant System, has gone to Tai
lahassee to attend meeting of the Flor
ida Railroad Commission.
Mr.. j. c. Halle, general passenger agent
of the central Railroad, is away from the
city on a business trip
The lines interested in Florida business
and expecting to get haul from the gov
eminent in moving troops from Montana
to Key West, have been disappointed
Some of the lines had been figuring on the
transportation of ten officers, 500 men and
ten horses from a point in Montana 70