The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-11
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
IA GHANDE DUCHEssE LEAVES ON
HER FINAL TRIP TODAY.

HER FINAL TRIP TODAY.
will Go on the Plant System Steam
ship Company's BOstOn-HnIifax
Line-Capt. Bertram to Take the
Oracle to BaItimOre-Gove eminent
- VIII Continue to Furnish Anchor
nge BuOys for baltimore HarbOr.
A Boston Tug Boat Captain Makes
"a Big Pickup in the Salvage Line.
The large dredge John Babcock. of the
Babcock Leary Dredging Company, has
been idle since Thursday on account of
the accident in slip No. l of the Georgia
Terminal Company, where about 200 feet
of the wharf front slid into the slip. The
accident is attributed to the fact that the
mud in the slip had been dredged out to
such a depth undermine the piling
al the sides of the slip, the mud Being
used for filing in on the island. AS the
dredge is paid by the cubic yard il earns
nothing while idle, and as there are 80 men
on the pay roll idleness is somewhat ex-
pensive. Supt. George T. Warner, of the
Babcock, has taken the matter up with
Mr.. w. W. Mackall of the Georgia Con-
struction Company.
The British steamship Montana, Capt.
Watkins, winch passed SClly June ), from
Baltimore for London, signaled that on
June ?. in latitude 43, longitude A. she
spoke the British steamship Nerano, Capt.
Blance, with pump gear broken. The Ne
rano sailed from Norfolk for Rotterdam,
May q,
About the sweetest morsel in the towing
line that has happened around Boston har-
Dor in recent months fell to Capt Nugent
of tug A. w. ChesterCon, who towed in
the burned steam yacht Scythian last
week. A tidy sum will be realized as sal
wage money the yacht being worth in the
neighborhood of $4,000. The Chesterton
went down the bay Thursday looking for
the big English sailing ship Liverpool,
1874 net tons, out 127 days from Calcutta
The longest tow of barges ever to leave
Boston departed last Thursday. The tow
boats Teaser and Tormentor, the newest
Of the Red Star fleet, were the towing ma
chimes. The former led the procession,
with lake barges Marion w. Page and
Iron City while the Tormentor was con
uected by hawser to the last barge the
barges Charles Foster, Moonlight and f
A Georges trailing astern. The tow is
bound to Montreal and went out to sea
through Broad sound. The barges are
bound eventually to the Great Lakes and
may be followed by others from the At
lantic coast.
Correspondence has been in progress be
tween Mr.. N. II. Hutton, president of the
Baltimore Harbor Board, and Commodore
A. Ross, lighthouse inspector of the Fifth
district, relative to the maintenance or
anchorage buoys in that harbor. These
ouoys have been planted and kept in the
heroor by the lighthouse board since 1880
and. owing TO the inadequacy of the funds
al the disposal of that branch of the gov
eminent service, were about to be deliver
ed over to the keeping of the city. The
local board had been so notified by Com
mander Ross, and it was stated that the
buoys would be removed on July /, thus
leaving the anchorage unmarked. The rea-
sons given by the Washington board were
that SO many requests had been made dur
ing the last eighteen months from harbor
boards of various Cities along both the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the funds
at the boards disposal were SO meager
that it would be impossible to accede to
the requests. This being So it was deem
ed advisable to rid themselves of the bur
den altogether, and hence the local board
was notified of the intended removal. As
a last resort, the matter was brought to
the attention of Congressman Frank
Wachter He was induced to interest him.
self i'm the matter, and after comforting
with the treasury officials succeeded in
getting their permission for the buoys to
remain This action on the part of the
leges enjoyed by New York city only.
Capt r. II. Bertram, representing the
American Towing and Lighterage Com
pany of Baltimore, the purchaser of the
American bark Oracle, arrived in the city
Yesterday to take charge OF the bark and
prepare for towing her to Baltimore. A
tug will arrive for this purpose Thursday
or Friday. The bark will be dsmantled
and converted into a barge. Capt. Bert
ram is stopping at the Pulaski.
The barkentine Jessie McGregor. with
469, coo feet of lumber, valued at $4,000, by
the Georgia Lumber Company, left yesl
terday for Portland, Me.
The river steamers did a good business
IN the excursion line yesterday. The AL
pha and the Santee carried large crowds
10 Daufuskie, while the Doretta took down
a party to Warsaw.
The steamship La Grande Duchesse,
which has been running on the Savannah
line to New York since last fall will make
her final departure from this port under
her present contract with the Ocean
Steamship Company to-day. 1t is under
stood that after being overhauled the
Duchess will be placed on the Plant steam
ship line between Boston and Halifax
for the summer. The Duchess recently
underwent her annual inspection by the
government inspectors here and passed in
good shape. Capt. HanlOn and his ships
company will be missed by their friends
here, but the Duchess has been on the
Savannah line before and doubtless viii
be again.