Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-02-04
will be very lively for the next few
TRIBUTE FROM HIS GREW.


One of the most beautiful and appro-
pirate funeral tokens of the season was
the large floral anchor sent TO the
funeral OF the late Captain Frederick
II. Startling, of the lighthouse tender
Maple, buoy depart who died Fri
day at Washington. The funeral will
be held to-day at Washington. This
piece was made in Norfolk and sent
as 4 tribute from his devoted crew.
VESSEL OWNERSHIP.
The schooner Sunlight arrived Friday
from New York for the first trip since
her transfer TO her Norfolk owners,
who are numbered with the most pro-
sressive men of the shipping district.
She will probably now hail from Nor
folk.
This Is not sure, however, as the
taxes on shipping at this port are Bit
terly complained of by shipping men
here. and unless they are soon changed
Will result In driving shipping to other
ports, numbers of Norfolk ship owners
preferring that the managing owner
ship of their vessels should be held In
Baltimore or some other Northern port
where the taxes are less oppressive.
Two barges are understood to be
building for Norfolk owners at present,
one at Bethel, Del. and one at Ell1ton,
Md. while tug for like ownership is
said to be building in North Carolina.
PORT NOTES.
y The tug John TnXis goes on Taylor
& Lang's railway tomorrow morning
to have her propeller repaired The
said wheel was injured recently by
catching an anchor chain in the blades
The tug. VIM. II. Phillips came off
THOMAS railway yesterday with a new
lead sleeve. which was put In last week
The Greenleaf Johnson Lumber Com
pany will export $4,000 feet OF lumber
this wock.
Tho tug Joseph NJ. Clark, in bringing
the schooner w. H. Davidson to anchor
Friday night, fouled the schooner's jib-
boom with her smokestack, wrenching
the latter badly and nearly losing it.
She was repaired yesterday
CAPTAIN GIVES DINNER.
The British steamship Domingo de
I.arrnaga. Captain Percy Gibson, ar
rived here Friday night from Cienfue-
Gos. Cuba. bunker coaled IN haste and
sails this morning for New York to
load supplies for the British in South
Africa. She may also carry a regi-
ment of Canadian troops. Captain
Gibson is commander in the English
Royal Naval Reserves. He entertained
the following at dinner at the Month
cello Friday night: NIessrs. l.. j. Rud-
yard WiGg, N. Maine Baltson, Walter
{. Alden and y. p. Wilmer, Commander
Stevens. u. S. N; Lieutenant Comman-
der Porter, u. S. N; Paymaster Gait.
U. s. N; Messrs. Reginald Poindexter
andSHenry Mclaughlin.
Thanks are returned to tile Norfolk
Branch photographic Office for the
North Atlantic Pilot Churt for Feb
ruary, from which the following. of in
tcrest to masters and pilots. Is taken:
FORECAST FOR FEBRUARY.
Stormy weather along the trans
atlantic routes and off the American
coast north of Hattcras. Fresh gales,
chiefly from the western quadrants. at
times reaching as far south as the 25th
parallel. Occasional northers I'm the
Gulf OF Mexico. Trades to the east OF
the Bahamas. inclining to the north
cast. Occasional fog, as shown. north
OF the transatlantic routes, longitude
~ deg, &c min. w. IceberEs and field
ice to the east of Newfoundland and
along the eastern edge OF the Grand
Banks.