The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
1oCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

The schooner 5. p. Hitchcock Pro-
ceeds in Tow TO Wilmington to Go
INTO Dry DOck-New Steamship Au-
..usta to BE Placed on the BaIti-
of Interest to Shippers and
WARMERS.
The schooner S. p. Hitchcock, which ar
rived in savannah in distress several days
seo. proceeded for Wilmington yesterday
I'm LOW of the tug Cynthia, where she will
go mo dry dock for repairs AS reported
Al The time, the schooner is leaking badly,
which necessitates her being hauled out
for repairs. The Hitchcock was bound for
Brunswick for a cargo OF humber.
The Chesapeake Steamship Company has
arnounced the completion of its new
steauship Augusta, which, with the mag
r.t.ont steamship Atlanta, of the same
lne will be placed on the Baltimore and
Norfolk route. No expense has been
shared in making the passenger accom-
noaations most complete. The dining
room, which is handsomely finished in
hand wood, and has seating capacity for
seventy persons, has been located on the
main saloon deck, forward, thus insuring
ample light and ventilation, aud enabling
passengers to command a view OF the
beauties of the Chesapeake Bay.
The heavy shipments of Texas mules
from New Orleans to South Africa for the
British army have elected comments as to
and mule, do not, as a usual thing, get
along very we'll together, and there IS
generally kicking above and below decks
when a crew shipped on a vessel upon
whose manifest these stubborn beasts are
enumerated in a bold, round hand.
SAT- water doesn't agree with a mule
any more than fresh water agrees with
sailor" declared a coast seaman of eX-
perience. las you are aware, the mule
objects to going on board of a ship from
the very start, and usually requires der
rick and half a dozen men TO coerce him.
But there is one thing very strange in
connection with mule. I've never known
of a vessel being boarded by a high sea
so long as a deck load of mules was on
her"
"HoW does a mule act at sea?"
We'll, that is a hard question to an
swer. Every mule has different manner
of conducting himself during an ocean
know the difference between a sou west
gale and the trade winds. He is just as
liable to raise a disturbance when the
ship is in a dead calm as he is to remlin
as docile as a chunk of pork in a cask
when all hands are thinking about TAX
ing to the lifeboats.
IF you feed a mule too much at sea
he is apt TO get gay. And then it is that
the or'castle hands begin to growl. Clat-
tering hoofs and the braying of a dozen
asses do not improve the sailors temper,
and usually the mules have to be placed
on short rations.
when a ship rides heavily and plunges
it is funny 10 see the jacks trying to
stand with their heads toward the bow
and their tails toward the stern. In this
way they can play candlestick with the
vessel for a seesaW.
''One time 1 shipped in a vessel that
had a load of mules on board. We met
with misfortune on our southbound trip.
There was a young sailor on board named
Morris, who wasn't much of a seaman.
one dark night when Morris was taking
trick at the wheel a mule got away
from the deck corral in some unaccount-
able manner and started off on a tour
of Investigation
Morris was watching the bullying can
vas overhead and dreaming of home. His
thoughts were far away from the bowling
of the wind and the swishing of waters
alongside. suddenly TWO long ears ap-
preached, pointing toward his face, and
two blinking bright eyes looked into his
own. Then from an invisible source came
a sound that would have walked the dead.
Morris dropped the wheel and went over
the rail like a sinker. We never saw
him again.
THE ship preached to and fell into the
trough of the sea. The officer on watch
rushed to the wheel and when he got
there discovered the mule that had got
loose looking knowingly into the bin
nacle."
Merchants and Miners Transportation
Company had three steamships in port
yesterday The company is doing a large
Southern business.
Passengers per steamship Essex for
Baltimore.-Miss Dick, I. Bernstein, j. c.
Ulrich w r. Creighton, J. Thomas Gele-
ricks, G. L. Gamble, Phillip Lynch.