The Savannah morning news., 1900-09-03
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
,.1-rERs or INTEREST FnoM THE
WATER FRONT.


owing 60 the Threatening weather
a, sen Vessels Ready To sail Did
Not Proceed Out-About Half the
vessel. M Tybee for th City Came
Yo-sehooner Julia A, Trubee Ar
live, From New York With Cargo
of Cement.
win the rough sea rolling or the bar
nd the unfayorable winds yesterday sail-
,.r vessels ready to sal did not proceed
.nt The vessels which put IN at Tybee
~ harbor the day previous decided to
ssep on the safe side, and accordingly re-
aimed. The bark Camilla Is at quaran-
line. bound for Hamburg with a cargo Of
ldgwood.
only about half the arrivals nt Tybee
ar the city came up during the day. The
british steamship Imaum anchored there
while the British steamship Carlton and
ne British bark Lizzie Curry are at quar-
anune.
In the market for sail tonnage business
rsntinued light in all trades. says the
Philadelphia Times. Vessels are In good
request for the loug-voyage trades, but
the tonnage offerings are light although
advance rates have been offered. Lumber
and general cargo tonnage Is wanted for
che South American departments. and
rstes for the same are firm. Shippers ex-
perience considerable difficulty in obtain
ire tonnage suitable for the West India
and coastwlse lumber trades. owing 10 the
dangers attending the trip south az this
se4son Of the year. Rates have higher
tsndency Coastwise coal freights are firm
- Steamers are in steady and moderate
reauest but the available supply of ves-
fels is light Rates are nrm Ia all trades.
The following vessels were recently
,assed and rated By the American Blu
rtau Of Shipping In the Record OF Ameri-
eaa and Foreign Shipping: American
crew steamer Excelsior. American ship
Isaac Reed, American schooner Maud Pal
luer American ship ST. Paul American
.hoouer william G. Carnegie. American
ihree-masted schooner Sauaudreas Amer
can screw steamer Acapulco. American
crew steamer Sue H. Gilmore. American
exhausted schooner George W. Wells and
nv British schooner st. Anne Dc Beau
mont
According 10 the Railway and Engineer
ng Review there has recently been made
"a Brighton. England q phonograph which
can be distinctly heard TO a distance OF
ten miles on land ana further on water.
Il is thus described Inside the trumpet
there Is a small and delicate piece OF me-
ssaa!snl that looks something like a whis
te This IL the tongue OF the machine. In
lead Of the records" being taken on wax
Is made 10 cut the dots representing the
s0und vibrations on a silver cylinder and
10 the usual manner. a sapphire needle
when the needle travels over the metal
second time the vibrations cause the whis-
ole 20 produce a series OF air waves and
the machine thus becomes talking siren
which transforms the human voice into
o deafening roar
The British steamer Chatton. which left
baltimore recently, with steel rails for No.
"a Scotia, recently Travelled 500 miles with
3 half propeller The Citation. vessel
registering 232l tons. and with q length OF
about 80 feet. left the Cape Verde Islands
about March g. IN ballast. for Baltimore.
Sic had been out Of port but a short time
when two blades OF the wheel dropped in
30 iae sea. The vessel was proceeding eau
toasv when a gale struck her. II was
deemed lnadvisabIe to force the vessel
through the storm. and the engines we're
stopped For three days and nights she
wallowed about IN the trough OF the seas.
she was without cargo and rolled like a
barrel After the storm abated the vessel
resumed her course There was spare
propeller aboard the ship, but she could
not he tipped at sea. as there were no
weights aboard sufficient 10 put the ship
down by the head The vessel steamed
500 miles with hall a wheel.
Last year 3.GN vessels OF an aggregate
tonnage OF 13.Si5.s92 tons. passed through
the suez Canal OF which 2.3iO vessels Of
eoh05i tons were British, as against $3.50
vessels and O. go. l29 IONS IN iS9o, when 2.5Z2
vessels OF 74S.6S2 tons were British.
The schooner Julia A. Trubee. Capt. Al
bertson. was towed up lost nigth by the
tug ". r. McCauley. The Trubee has a
cargo OF cement.
pnaaeunarm nv glenmahtpa.