The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-19
FROM WATER FRONT
STEAM PUT ON NEW BOAT LOUISE
TO TEST ENGINES.
SHE is NEARING COMPLETION.
TRIAL TRIP TO BE MADE EARLY
NEXT WEEK.

More About pensacOla's New steam
ship Line From New York-Polnts
fn GeorGia, Florida and Alabama
That VIII BE Renched-TaIk OF
Rate Cutting-Matters of Interest
to Shippers and Mariners.
There was considerable activity at the
Southern Transportation Company's
wharves yesterday when steam was put
on the new steamboat Louise. The en-
gines were tried and found all right. The
boats whistle. which is the regular COM
bination steamboat type. was sounded
several times. The entire machinery, in
Guiding the propelling and electric light
features, will be in working order by to-
night. 1t is expected the first of the
coming week to have the boat ready
for her trial trip, which will be to some
point below the city. possibly the ocean
bar. Capt. Gibson hopes to have a num-
Der of invited friends aboard to make the
trip with him.
Owing to a clerical error in giving an
order for bed springs for the state
rooms much time was lost in finishing
came they were found to be an inch and
a half too long, with no possible remedy
except to take them to pieces, reduce the
length, and then put them together
again. This was done. The cost of the
alteration was almost equal to the orig
inal cost Of the springs
Pensncola's New Steamship Line.
Further details have been obtained of
the new direct steamship line to be es-
tablished between New York and Pensa-
cola by the Atlantic and Gulf Steam
ship Company, says the Journal of Com
merce. AS stated exclusively a few
days ago, the new line will be operated in
conjunction with the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. The service will be
fortnightly, and at the outset two steam
ers will be put on the line; a third will
be paced in commission later If business
warrants. The general agents are A.
II. Bull & Co. of this city BY this route
freight may be shipped via Pensacola
for points as far North as Nashville,
and also for all points on the Atlantic
and West Point Railroad, including At
lanta. According to present plans the
new service will be inaugurated In the
early part of next month, the first steam
er being scheduled to sail from this
port, Pier 46, North River, gu Aug g.
The two vessels that will start the
service are the steamers Mae and Evelyn.
The former was built at Toledo, her di-
mansions being 245 feet long, ~ feet wide
and % feet deep She is of 1,497 net tons
and 2,201 gross The Evelyn was built in
1888 at Southampton. She is 1853 feet
long, IS feet in width, "a feet deep, of
1,1S5 net and 1853 gross tons. A third
steamship that may eventually be put in
this service is the Winifred. She was the
first American tramp steamer ever built,
having been constructed at Bath, Me- in
1898 She is 2S1 feet by AZ feet, by 2i9,
of LASS net and 1856 gross tons The
steamship Mae will probably be the first
boat out on the new line.
M. A. H. Bull said to a representative
of this journal that the company which
will operate this new line has been or
ganized and it is the intention to ncor-
porate at an early date, probably under
New Jersey laws.
1t Is likely that the new line will Of
fer rates to Southern points lower than
those now prevailing.
The lines application in the matter of
lower rates has been considered, and It is
understood acted upon favorably by the
Southeastern Freight Associa ton, al
though no official notification of this fact
had ben received.
Among the principal common points
reached by the new line and its rail con-
nections are Alabama City, Admission, At
lanta, Andalusia, Birmingham. Bessemer,
Blocton, Columbiana, Calera, Florence,
Dukes. Decatur Ersley. Gadsden. Gate
City, Gurnee. Ironaton, Jenifer, Mont
geometry, Mobile, North Birmingham, New
Decatur, Oxmoor, Opelika, Selma, Shelf
Held, Shelby, Taladega, Sylacauga, Tus-
cumbia, Wetumpka, in Alabama; At
lanta, LAGRANGE, Newman, Macon, in
Georgia; and River Junction. Florida