The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-17
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
SAVANNAH-PHILAD LINE A
GREAT SUCCESS.

Increased Terminal Facilities Have
just Been Secured at the Other
End-OutIook for Big Indirect
Business-Capt. sprOuI of SchoOn-
er Chas. l.. Davenport Files Pro-
test-Mr. w. A. Bisbee Now Sole
Owner of Tug DauntIess-Matter
of Interest to shippers.
The business of the Savannah Phil
adelphia line of the Merchants and
Miners Company has increased largely
since its establishment, and promises
to develop into one of the most inn
portant this company operates. In
creased terminal facilities were need
ed at Philadelphia, owing to the large
freights handled there, both for the in
terror and for forwarding by foreign
steamers, and this has just been secur-
ed. Commenting upon this, and also
the progress of the new line, the Phil
adelphia Record says:
The opposition to the laying Of a
siding to connect the new pier of the
Philadelphia and Savannah Steamship
Line with the River Front Railroad has
completed. The company will now
operate the pier, No. 10 North
Wharves, in connection with it's old
pier No. "a South Wharves. All work
on the new pier has long been finished
with the exception of installing the
electric plant. Dynamos and electric
hoists will be put in and when this is
done it will be one of the best equipped
wharves on the Atlantic coast.
In line with The npliry of tho Nor
chants and Miners Transportation
Company, which operates the Philadei-
phia and Savannah Line, the service
will be made as near perfect as posi-
BILE when the new schedule of two reg
ular sailings a week each way is in
augurated This will be done as soon
as the steamer Berkshire, which is now
on the ways receiving a thorough over
hauling, is put back into service, which
is expected to be within a fortnight.
The new pier, which will contain tho
local offices of company and commo-
dious rooms for passengers. will be
equipped with all modern appliances
for loading and unloading vessels and
will be utilized for all southbound
freight, while the southern pier will
be devoted to the reception of freight
from the South and the handling OF
cargoes for export. This latter part OF
the lines business has developed far
beyond expectations.
The company has recently contract
ed for nearly 10000 barrels of rosin for
export to German and English ports,
all of which will come from Savannah
to Philadelphia to be transferred to
transatlantic steamers. In addition,
contracts have been signed for export
ing thousands of tons of pig iron by
way of this port. There are also many
cargoes of Southern lumber to be
shipped from this city to foreign ports.
This, with the immense domestic bus
mess that the line has been doing since
1t Inauguration, IA months ago. has
made the line one of the most import
ant reaching Philadelphia.
At the outset the steamers Allegheny
and the Berkshire were thought more
than ample for the business. but il
soon became evident that these YES
sells, OF about 5000 tons each, were I'M
able to properly care for the business.
A third steamer was sought, and the
Hudson, having a capacity of 1000
tons, was added to the fleet. With the
business already contracted for the
vessels will be kept busy for many
months to come.
With the success OF the Savannah
Line the company has become con-
WINGED that Philadelphia is destined to
become one of the gerat ports of the
United States, and has taken into Sc
rious consideration the ACCESSIBILITY of
establishing other lines between Phil
adelphia and the West Indies, by way
of Charleston. and to New Orleans.
touching at some of the larger ports
on the Gulf of Mexico. In these en-
terprises the company has been prom
Used the strongest cooperation Of the