The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-12
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

VIM. L. DOwnes, From savannah,
Which Was Wrecked and Abnn-
dOned, Had 5c1,2OO Feet of yell
low Pine Lumber-Mntters of In
terest TO shippers and Mariners.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Owners of
vessels in the coastng trade are jubiiant
over the phenomenal jump in coal freights
during the past month. In a recent list
of charters of schooners to carry coal 10
Eastern ports is embodied remarkable
revelation. Freight rates have more than
doubled in many instances.
This increase in rates is occasioned by
the dearth Of available freight carriers,
both ashore and af1oat. The latter condi-
ton was never more in evidence than this
season. Recent storms have made in
roads into the ranks Of such craft scarcely
to be appreciated by those unfamiliar with
the situation.
A circular letter was sent recently TO
ship owners and captains asking their
views as to the number of schooners over
100 tons gross register that few the Amer
lean flag. The lowest estimate was 5000.
and one enthusiast put the figures a $1,000.
The truth of the mater is that there are
less than 100. This includes every echoon-
er over 100 tons gross register. fishing
schooners, whaling schooners, wrecking
schooners and the schooners that have
been laid up as too old to ever again go
to sea.
The jump in coal freights is a boom but
this time it will hardly be a temporary
one. Samuel B. Macdonnen, the Stats
tician of the port said that the vessel own
er or captain who charters to carry coal
for next year for less than 81 a ton for
the season should have a guardian APP
pointed over him. Not long ago the ship
pers had the laugh and patted themselves
on the back when they paid as low as 30
and 60 cents for coal to Boston, Captains
and owners of schooners often carried it at
a loss then. An instance is recorded where
a skipper transported 800 tons to Hyannis
and after the expenses of the trip had been
deducted found himself in debt $14 on the
voyage. Now the boot is on the other
foot There is more than a scarcity of
available craft.
The schooner William E. Downes. Capt.
Marshall, which cleared at Savannah for
New Haven, Conn, Oct. 26, by E. B. Hunt
ing q Co, with a cargo Of sol, POO feet of
yellow pine lumber, and which has been
previously reported wrecked, was aban-
doned Nov. 8, latitude 81 06, longitude 70 AZ,
in the Gulf stream. Crew arrived at Bos-
ton Nov 9, from Gloucester. Vessel was
valued a $4,000. Her gross tonnage was
753, and net 63S. She was built at Bath.
Me, in 1885; was 1874 feet ,ong, S7.3 feet
breadth, and IS feet depth. Her home
port was New Haven. Her official num-
Der was 81 0S6, and signal letters K D F L.
Kansas City reports that on Nov. 9, at
O'Clock p. m, thirty-ive miles north Of
Bodies Island, passed schooner Van Name
and King, bound south, wanted to be re-
ported. Nov. 10, Roman bearing about
NV by N, thirteen or fourteen miles dis
tant, in ten and one-half fathoms of wa
ter, passed a vessels mast, nearly upright
eight or ten feet out of water; also at y
noon, Rattlesnake ,ightship bearing about
W by MN, ten or eleven miles distant in
nine and one-half fathoms passed a yes
sci bottom up; very dangerous to coast
wise navigation.
Consul Kenneday Of Para, in a report
to the state department, dated Oct 49,
SAYS:
Beginning in November, 1S99 the two
lines of steamships plying between this
port and the United States-the Booth
Steamship Company, limited, and the Red
Cross Line of steamships-have changed
their schedule so as to leave Para for
New York on the 9Th, 18th and 26th. in
stead of the 4th, 18th and 24th of each
month. Commencing next month a ten
days service viii be established by said
companies between Manaos and New York.
ION Nov. l. 1899. ten days service will
also be established between here and Gal
weston, Tex, by the same fleets that are
now operating between Para and New
York. The Spanish Steamship Company.
established between Havana, Cuba and
Europe, has sent an agent here to com
plete arrangements for the extension of
said line, touching at Para on the return
| voyages to Europe"
Schooner Charles L. Davenport, from
New Orleans, encountered a hurricane Oct.
| 80, off Savannah, in which she lost nearly
an entire suit of sails. Heavy seas car
ried away water casks and everything
movable from decks. Swedish sailor
was lost. The cargo is thought to be I'M
| damaged.
Schooner John S. Davis from Philadel-
| phla for Boston. ran ashore on Teddy
rocks, off Hull, Thursday She was pulled
| afioat later by tug Peter w. French The
vessel is leaking badly. and on reaching
| Boston had three feet of water in the hold.
CNCdAicA w iilAiNut 1Ebi0 AIdANeStOn, Is
| discharging cargo at Boston from No. 2
| hold When the hatch was removed the
fire was found to be still blazing among
the cotton, and fireboat directed a stream
! into the compartment. The damaged bales
| are being placed on lighters. and will be
| landed on the dump at Mystic wharf,
| where they will be disposed Of at auction.
! The Winlfred win sail for New York.
|
! Schooner ]. Manchester Haynes. Mat
thews, Charleston, Oct. %, for Weymouth.
| put into New York crippled after late hur-
ricane. Will have to repair before re-
suming voyage. Had carried away one
| boat, mainboom and gaff with everything
attached, mainsail and foretopsail blown
from gaskets, and two shrouds to fore rig
glng parted.
Schooner Stephen G. Loud, from Bruins
wick, Oct. 2S for Boston, ran into the hur-
| ricane Oct 60 Two boats were "a rriad