The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-11
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Local and General News of Ships ana
shipping.
Capt Gillette. L. s. t.. went to Fort
Pulaski on the govcrum,nt steamer Ang-
Ter, yesterday to see thai everything was
properly secured there on ac ounl Of The
Threatened approaching storm.
The Savannah Lightersse ond Transfer
Company took the precuuGon TO doubly
secure al Of their lighters lying in the
hurbor yesterday On acoo AZ of he threat
ened storm.
Capt. jarvis, Of the schooner Margaret
A. May. IS suffering with an alta X of the
gout. lie went 10 the hospital yesterday
for treatment.
The schooner Charles :. Davis, for PHI
adeiphia, arrived yesterday VITA cargo
Of coal consigned to Bond, Harrison q Co.
The schooner Mary Z. Godfrey from
Philadelphia, arrived yesterday wi a
cargo OF coal, cons,guel l. he Central of
Georgia Railway
The schooner Jennie Thomas from Balti-
more arrived yesterday with a cargo of
coal consigned to d. X. Thomas & Soa.
The schooner Margaret \. May, from
Philadelphia, arrived yesterday with a
cargo OF coal, consigned 10 Tie Savannah,
Flor ia and Western RaiJo-d.
The new freight steamer Ethel recently
rebuilt, made a trial trip up he RIVER yes
terday afternoon. She worked very sue
cessfuEy and viii soon b. put on the Au-
gusta route.
Vessels loading fruit on the north side of
Cuba for Philadelphia and other ports
have been greatly .nconvenienced by the
laborers leaving the plantations for Hol-
gum, where The United States government
is distributing S75 to each of the former
Cuban soldiers. Many vessels have been
detained Two weeks because there ore no
laborers TO load them. The planters who
had contract 70 load ne British steam
ship TaH, which arrived ut Philadelphia
yesterday from Banes, We're considerably
delayed in getting the vessel loaded. and
would have gladly given the men the SIS
out Of Their own pockets rather than to
have lost their services.
Lloyds' Register of Shipping give the
entire fleet of the world ys IS $50 steam
ships and sailing vessels, with a total ton
mage of 2I673, ops, of which 50 per cent
are British. The Americans come next.
with S,Ol0 vessels, with q total tonnage Of
2,i65, 3S7 Norway has ISIS vessels, with a
tonnage of only 1854 20 Germany has
1873 vessels, with a tonnage of 2453, 1874,
in which are included her particularly
large ships. Sweden has t. 4oS vessels, with
COS 99l tonnage Russia has 12l8 vessels,
with tonnage of 643.5Z Ilaly has 1150
vessels, and France LISP. No other nation
atty can boast of thousand ships. Japan
has S4l; Denmark, 7J6, and Spain 7O1. The
British and American together control one
half of the entire merchant ship tonnage
aflolt.
The barge Nora, at Baltimore, has been
sold by w. A. Bisbee to the Burlae Dry
Dock Company, of New York. The Nora
was formerly the Norwegian bark of that
name wrecked near Savannah. She was
ioated and subsequently sold and convert
ed into a barge.
Passengers by steamship Kansas City
for New York, Aug. DO. v. Williams, J..
N. Steele, j. M. Walker. Murphy Gambler,
Dr. Hunter p Cooper, Maj j. e. Han
son, Mrs. J. F. Hanson. Mr.. Fl. Traub NJ.
b. WellbOrn, Arthur WeNboru, Mr. and
Mrs. c. NJ. Kinsen Miss Meta C. Doscher.
Mrs. w. II. Burn, w, A. Campbell, G.
Andrews, Mrs. Ellen Burns, Miss Nora
Brown, Fred Taylor, A. S. Noise F. K.
Darragh Robert Webb, Miss Laura Ben
melt, Mrs, a. p. Taylor, 5. Goldsten,
Lieut.. Lytle Brown, Mrs. ~ Powell. Miss
]. Num- Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Cdveros, ].
r. Einstein, l.. Il. Joseph, j. F. Schweiz-
er, A. c. Duncan, A. C. Duncan. c. Burk-
meyer, e. D. Calder, Julius Isaac b.
Goepfert w. Fl. Patterson. B. F. Ezekiel,
j. NJ. Brown, J. W. Farcuharson, Her
man Cohen, II. J. Bruton, Mr. and Mrs
p. A. Brown, l., J. Maxwell, w. A. Dod-
son. j. G. DodsOn, j. r. Kraslan, NJ. D..
Hirruy, f. w. Campass Freeman Polhil,
ID. J. Morrison, O. l.. Dixon, j. w.
Adams DIR. A. f. Hilsman, NJ. Dreyfus,
Mrs. j, Davis. Miss French c, b. Add
son, n. E. Causey, f. d. Mills H. A.
Renfroe, Henry SIENNA, a. G. Guerard, +.
l.. Stevens, II. Q. Wells, H. s. Jackson,
Mrs. II. S. jackson, Mr.. and Mrs c. C.
Cobb and child j. w. Peregoy, Mr.. Foy,
Miss Brchm, Judge Samuel Lumpkin and
wife, c. L. c. Thomas, w. c. Eakin, John
c. Barry and wife, w. T. Morgan and
wife DR.. Jackson, j. c. Puder, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. BoshwiIz, MAG Lewis, T. NJ VIII
son, Dewitt Kuder. Mrs. l.. Kuder, Mr.
and Mrs. r. A Lyle, Miss Kate Grant
Mrs. a. NJ. Barlow Miss Maude D. Smith,
Miss V. Cheever, Mrs s. Levy, Capt. H.
NJ. G. Smith and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. D. P.
West and SON. Rosa Whit, J. M. Dicken-
son and son, w. d. Harder, Mrs. J. p.
Harder, Miss Pauline Harder Sarah E.
Carr, T.llie Young, Joe Chung and Peter
Lee Orange, II. Gengo, George Henderson,
Edward Hand, Fred Hass, C. Gustavson
Peter Grandsrom Charles BendIn, in
steerage.
Passengers by steamship City of Biz
mingham from New York, Aug. S.-J. D.
Rogers, f. f. Block, Mrs. J. Quinlan,
Mrs. +. Boyd and daughters. w. ~
Simpson, Mrs. T. c. Weinman and daugh-
ter, j. A. Brennan, Mrs. II. Padd.eford,
J. L. Boyd ard wife. NJ. Pun, Mrs. C. W
Green. Mr. standed. J. b, Floyd and
wife, +. a. Soper. Mrs. e. Westcott, c. A
Douglass, j, d. Wright J. L. Warren and
lrnlnar W Z EarlN CanL I I,a,.is