The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-12
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

Bids for Discharging and Removing
Warsaw Beach to Savannah Re-
ceived and CabIed to Insurance
PeOpIc-SchOOner Fred III. Gibson
Surveyed-SchOOners Scotia and
the MerOm Clear for New York.
Three bids were filed yesterday with the
agents of the Norwegian bark Argentina,
which is stranded inside the north break
ers of Warsaw Island for discharging and
removing the cargo to Savannah. The
agents promptly cabled the bids to the
insurance people in London, and expect
to receive advices what to do early to-
day. Until the reply is received it can
not of course, be told what course will
be pursued in saving the wreck.
The British schooner Fred H. Gibson,
Capt. Publicover leaking at the foot of
Montgomery street, was surveyed yester-
day morning. 1t was stated the board
recommended new sails, and directed that
the cargo or at least the deck load of lum-
Der, be discharged at once. This will be
begun this morning. Capt Publicover
thinks that after this Is done the leaks
can be caullxed and all repairs possibly ef-
fected without discharging any of the
cargo of rosin in the hold.
The clearing of the schooners Scotia
and the Merom yesterday for New York
will doubtless allow the settlement of
friendly dispute for the laurels in sailing
down in record-breaking time from New
York. 1t will be remembered that these
vessels arrived about the same time. When
@ Scotia arrived Cant tod 10,
Mr.. Harvey Granger, manager for E. B.
Hunting & Co, and to whom the vessel
came, that the trip down was made in
siXty-three hours, and that in approach
ing Savannah the Scotia glided along at
the rate of fourteen knots an hour The
account appeared in the Morning News.
and was later confirmed by Mr.. Granger
as the statement made TO him. 1t turned
out that the Merom made the quick time
from New York however having been out
only seventy-two hours. The Scotia was
from New York but put in the Delaware
breakwater for harbor during a storm
Now that both vessels are getting an even
Start the question of speed may be set
tled by them.
| The steamer Santee is leaking opposite
| the foot of West Broad street and her
owners are making an effort 10 get her
| in better condition. Ii is stated consider
able had been spent in repairs, but after
a recent blow she went down, and was
raised with some difficulty. The steamer
Ethel supplied steam for the wrecking
| pumps on the Santee when she was Leak
ing recently, and laid by The disc 5led
steamer some time Ii is understood to
| be the intention of the owners to haul our
the Santee on the marine railway soon.
Capt. William Campbell of the schooner
| Ida Lawrence, which is now discharsiug
! coal a PORT RnNal OH
| terday. The Lawrence is chartered TO
| load lumber at Savannah. and will prc-
| coed here in tow after her cargo of coal
is discharged.
The last side-wheei ocean steamer in
Baltimore was the Merchants and Miners
steamer Mcclellan, the pioneer of that
| great line. in which service she was placed
! Dec, IS, 1854, as the Joseph Whitney. She
! left Baltimore on her first trip for Bos-
ton Jan. ], 1855. and on the first day of
! January 1855. thirty years later. she left
| there Tor Charleston, 5. C., that city then
being among the ports visited by the Mer-
chants and Miners heet During the civil
war the Joseph Whitney was taken bv
the government for transport and her
name changed to Mcclellan. The general
abandonment Of the side-wheel steamer
| for ocean service and the great advance
made n speed and machinery OF the pro
! peller steamer caused the Mcclellan 10 he
sold after thirty years of service.
steamship Shelley CBD. Tansye. from
Savannah via Louisburg. &. b. for Memel
has put into Neville with connecting rod
broken or out of order.
Per steamship Itasca from Baltimore
| Mrs. ). G.. Hogan ana child. Mrs Racha
| r. +. Lebeer. Mrs V. Heuster J. Leech
] Or. Paschc, Rev E. d. McDougall Mrs