The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-02
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

tug D1untless Arrives at Quaran-
! tine From Nuevitas-IIer Owner
VIII COnhne Her TO This Port as
Far as POssibIe-Six Masted
schooner Observation-Disclosures Har-
rict {. KerIin VIII Finish Her
Cargo With Phosphate Rock at
Port Royal.
The tug Dauntless. which arrived at
quarantine yesterday from Nuevitas,
| Cuba, where she towed a coal barge, will
| probably hereafter be a regular visitor to
this port. Her owner Mr.. w. A. Bisbee,
promoter Of the Georgia Telephone Com
pany's operations. intends to make sa-
vannah his residence, and the chances are
he VIII arrange as far as possible to have
the Dauntless make her trips from sa-
vannah
The tug Dandy arrived yesterday from
Darien to coal. She viii return to-day.
Members of Capt. Browns family are
along.
The yacht Siren was hauled out on VIII
links marine railway yesterday for re-
pairs
The schooner Harriet c. Kerlin Capt.
| Smith, sailed for Port Royal yesterday,
| where she will finish her cargo with phos-
plate rock.
The steamship La Flandre win probably
! finish taking on her cargo of spirits to-
day. after which she will promptly clear.
| 1t is understood she will not lack much of
loading 70 her capacity.
A Key West dispatch of June 1 says:
The schooner Gov Ames which went
ashore on Lew reef, was fioated yester-
day after she jettisoned ninety tons of
coal. Wreckers Thomas Pent and Os-
good Acosta took passage on the schooner
for Galveston 10 settle salvage. She passed
Key West to-day"
Rev. Arthur D. Sykes, chaplain of the
United States training ship Alliance, said
on his recent return to New York that The
harbor of Havana is very filthy, owing
to the poor sewerage system in use. His
ship was fastened to buoy No 8. and in
$50 yards was buoy No. 4, where the
Maine had been fastened. The wreck of
the Maine is still TO be seen, and on a
moonlight night 1 cannot imagine a more
ominous spectacle than that of the hull
of the vessel looming up in the distance.
No one is allowed to board the wreck for
fear the reIc-seekers would tear her to
pieces
An Italian brig, the Anita s., is now
long overdue on voyage from Montevi-
dec to Baltimore. She has been at sea $50
| days on a voyage which ordinarily takes
about fifty or sixty days. Those inter
| ested in the brig do not know il they
should or should not feel aPpTeheusive
about her, as she was one time at sea
290 days on a voyage from South America
to Baltimore. She then carried a cargo OF
bones. and her captain said she was too
lightly laden, and that she careened in
the winds and split the air out her sails.
The Anita S. is now loaded with second
cargo of bones She is one of the very few
sca-going vessels steered with a tiller.
Since she left Montevideo for Baltimore
ships have sailed from there to San Fran
cisco, and the Brazil barks have made
| double round trips. The master of the
brig claims these fast passages for the
Anita S.: Genoa to Baltimore, forty days;
New York to the Mediterranean and back,
eighty-two days. New York to Egypt,
thirty-one days, and Genoa to Charleston,
thirty days
of nolasses. arrived at Baltimore Tuesday
from Antigua, West Indies. Both vessels
were twenty-five days on the passage.
and both hail from Nova Scotia They
sailed from Antigua a tho same time. The
vessels did not meet during the voyage
They are the Mercedes and the Bearer,
the latter winning by within an hours
time.
one of the side wheelers in the revenue
service, is bound to Baltimore from Will
mington; n. c. She viii become a reeeiv-
ing ship at the newly acquired property
for Che revenue cutter service in Curtis
bay, near Baltimore.
The revenue practice bark Chase Capt
Hamlet, is due in the Chesapeake bay
from Southern port. She has on board
a class of cadets to be graduated, and
will remain about Baltimore until another
class has been selected by competitive ex-
animation.
The building of a six-masted schooner
is now assured. Capt. John G.. Crowley of
Taunton, Mass. managing owner Of the
Crowley fleet will build the vessel at
once The Crowley fleet now comprises
the schooner John 3. Prescott, FIVE
master, the largest schooner in the world;
the great 30O0-ton four-master Henry w.
Cramp and the four-masters Sycamore
and Mount Hope. The new six-master will
be 300 feet on the keel, $40 feet over all, ana
APO feet from end of spanker boom to end
of iibboon. She will carry $500 tons OF
coal, ard with ordinary fortune win pay
large dividends. The cost of this new ma
rine wonder viii be about 100000. The
shares have all been subscribed, having
been taken up with a rush. The six-master
will be built by H. NJ Bean of Camden,
Ne, who launched the John B. Prescott
last January. She will be completed in
June, 1900.
Passengers by steamship Chattahoochee
for New York: John G. Nichols and
family; Mrs. Gunby and two chill
dren; f. C. c. Green, William
Goss, c. S. Andrews, W. NJ.
Powell and wife, John Jenney, NJ G.
Maury, +. w. Holt, Charles j. Miller. C.
r. Wallace, Mrs Sarah A. Green. Mrs
VIM Hnchliffe Mrs. II. F. Merrill and
children. ]. Chase, e. C, Harrell, Miss N