The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

was sunk off the Battery by the steam
Derrick of wrecking company. Instead
VI running away and letting the courts
test the responsibility, this wrecking boat
calmly plucked the irate skipper from the
water, gave him a warm chair in the gal
iery' and told him what a suicidal thing
II was TO attempt to cross the bows of
craft that was in hurry The skip
per looked blandly at the steward who
prepared a cup of steaming coffee for
him, smoked one of the South street cio.
ars that the Captain gave him. and Won
uered now in the name of common sansa
ne happened to be in the way of the busy
Wrecker' anyhow. Then they gave him
some fatherly advice, and when he had
a full cargo of this cheap commoditv
ones. '
Nreckers have the Objectionable habit of
taxing shop upon the least provocation
ana IN this instance they struck the iron
while 1t was hot Before the Captain of
the lost barge had given second thought
70 ms Iaml!y, he had made an agreement
with Wreekers to raise the sunken barge
at the expense of the owners The Battery
smiled quietly when it learned that the
Wreckers were to be paid for floating a
BOAT that they had sunk and one of the sea
lawyers down there said something about
an undertakers wagon running over a pc
destrlan and then contracting for the vic
TINS funeral The barge has since been
lifted by the wreckers.
Hard Job for yVrecI<ers.
member of the Maritime Exchange
who grows eloquent in profanity whenever
the name of a wrecker is mentioned
thought himself quite fortunate wear ago
when he received a 25-cent cigar as his
equity from a bark which the wreckers
had hauled off of the outside Long Island
beach. At least that is what he saws
a Il inc ct,
his profanity, is as follows
Il was interested not long since in the
steamer Sunol thar was sunk in San Fran
cisco bay by coliding with the bark OIym-
pia. The managing owners of the steamer
were the Piper Alden GoodalI COMPANY.
and they employed a wrecker to search for
the safe and bullion at the stipulated price
of $3.50 per day. This wrecker had dread
full time If one is to believe the yarn that
he spun. Day after day went by and hour
after hour the divers came to the surface
and shook their heads sadly. One of them
is reported to have had tears In his ewes
when they removed his helmet. That thew
were unable to recover the gold as soon as
they expected made them all sad But thew
We're sure to get it in a very short time if
il was down there at all, which was as GER
tain in the minds of the owners as that
they had to pay a quarter of a thousand
dollars every day the wrecker turned TO.
re-
Rod and the wrecker's divers found moth
ing, or If they did they knew that silence
was golden. AT last the Piper-Aden- Good
all Company rang down the curtain on
the wrecker and announced it's intention to
search for the missing safe and money on
its own hook. The company put TO work
two little tugs and a number of yawl boa Is
from a fleet Of schOoners that il owned
and they began TO draw with dragnets In
just two hours and ten minutes after start-
ing the treasure was located and Diver
+. II. Dolph went down, signalling a few
hours after to hoist away the SupoPs safe
with its $4,000 worth of bullion. In a few
days after this all the lead bullion valued
at $4,000 was brought to the surface.
Rested at Sea Bottom
Now, what I want to know is-what7
Blessed If l know. But it's odd that the
wrecker could not locate the precious
stuff, isn't it? l remember a wrecking lob
down near Key West. The Captain of a
large coasting schooner hired a diver 10
search for an anchor which he lost off
San Cay light. The Captain went with
the diver and saw him go down all right
and as the water was very clear-it gen
orally is down there-he soon saw him To-
cate the anchor, l suppose you think that
the diver broke all records getting TO
the surface to report his find. Well, what
The Captain saw was that the diver sal
down quietly on the fluke of the anchor
and-read a newspaper? Hardly He lust
took It easy like. for divers bills have
been known to roll up fast when they are
working by the hour, as this one was 1
never appreciated the joke of the diver
lighting his pipe on the sea bottom until
this experience was brought to my no
tee"
"WreclSers have been fooled. though"
continued this news room authority as
he laughed quietly over the recollection
of an instance zone of our greatest ship
ping houses twenty-five years ago was
the Grinnells, of Black Ball fame. Their
vessels went to every cubbyhole of the
world They were all sailing ships. fine.
big fellows, and fast. The Grinnells hated
tugboatmen and wreckers with all the
hatred that burned fingers can arouse.
one of their ships. the Cornelius Grin
nell, was bound to this port A large
wrecking tug that had been making bar
rels Of money about the Delaware Break
water was coming to the Hook to make
some repairs and when about two hours
south of Scotland lightship she saw the
Grinnel about four miles away and well
I'm toward the jersey coast.
The captain of the wrecker, seeing no
tugboat IN the vicinity, thought he might
lust as well turn an honest penny in tow
ing as TO go up the beach light and ran