The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-30
FROM WATER FRONT
.,,,w Glass OF FREIGHT MAY GO
TO SAILING VESSELS.
TO SHIP STONE BY WATER.
rpEsTED PERSONS LOOKING
INTO THE POSSIBILITIES.

In Bidding for Charters the Rates
will Have to Equal or BE More
Tban Those for Lumber-Fine Pair
of Ray Horses Come by Steamship
city of Augusta From New York
fer Southern Express Company.
Cottou Receipts by River Boats
Increasing.
frequent talk is heard about the
nassins of the American schooner with
the steady improvement In steam craft
eoa the advantages in time this sys-
te1 transportation offers over sail
ing ssels The schooner is apt to
stay. however, because 1t is getting
new classes of freight, or according to
REPORTS, soon will be getting them. The
latest is that large interests are in
vestigating the possibility of carrying
stone as an outward cargo.
About the only freight schooners
have been chartered for from South At
lantic to Northern ports in late years
is yellow pine lumber, because the
movement is enough to keep a very
large fleet busy, and the rates more
satisfactory than for other classes of
freight 1t is probable, therefore, that
unless shippers of stone are prepared
to bid against exporters of lumber for
vessels that the present investigation
may not amount to much. An increas-
ed demand for Southern stone at the
North is what gave rise to the talk
about chartering schooners to carry it,
as the rail rates are said to be more
than stone shippers can afford to pay
hair Inf leyh q r
isfactory profit.
Shipping men do not see any reason
why the business of the port should not
be increased by coastwise exports of
curbing and building stone. 1t is said
the quarries are being exhausted in sec
tons of the North by the steady drain
upon them by builders. For this rea-
son it is thought that this product may
be developed into one of the South's
most valuable resources. North Geor-
gia is rich in large deposits of both
marble and stone.
In speaking of the possibility of the
development of this feature of sail
freight business one man said brick
are being brought down by schooners,
and he believes stone may also be car
ried as well. OF course the freight this
way is largely as ballast, hence comes
at much lower rate. The outward
careoes furnish the earnings.
Two fine horses were taken off the
steamship City of Augusta yesterday
afternoon. They are a pair of beauti-
ful bays consigned to the Southern Ex-
press Company. Aside from the beauty
of the animals another of their good
points is their perfect gentleness as
shown aboard ship. They came down |
In small box stalls. When the doors |
were opened yesterday for the first !
time since the Augusta left New York.
the horses backed out, and walked |
about deck and down a smooth sur
faced gangway without the least trou-
BILE.
Large cargoes of cotton from up |
river points were brought in yesterday |
by the steamship D. Murchson of the |
Planters Line. and the Louise of the
Southern Transportation Company. The
Murchison brought 221 bales, and the
Louise was also loaded heavily. 1t is
probable that the movement of cotton
by the river lines will improve during
the present week The crop is late,
and now that the movement has begun
the receiots will probably be very
large. In the upper section the boats
take the cotton to Augusta for mills.
The British consular report for 1900
on Nagasaki contains interesting evil
dence of the industrial progress which
is being made by the enterprising Jap
anese. building is the only crea-
tive business which is carried on at
the port, says the London Tel
egraph, but in that great advances are
being made. No expense. says Mr..
Foster, the acting consul, is spared by
the enlightened proprietors of the
Mitsu-Bishi Dockyard and Engine
Works to bring their establishment up
to the highest standard of efficiency.
and the work turned out compares
favorably even with that of the Clyde"
During the past year new shops
blacksmiths' joiners' and machine
have been erected, the aforementioned |
filled with eight steam hammers, rang
Ing from seven tons to half hundred
weight.
With view of educating young
hands for the machine shop a techni-
cal training school has been built with
accommodation for $50 boys. A reef in
front of the yard has been reclaimed,
and with the additional space obtain
ed by blasting the hill at the back the
premises will permit of the building at |
the same time of two vessels of 600 feet
in length and two of 300 feet During |
1900 four ocean going steamships of
tonnage ranging from 2,243 to 643 were
completed, and the list of vessels I'M
der construction at the end of the year
included two large passenger ships of
o,5U0 tons for the American line of the |
Japan Mail Company: two steamers of
2,741 tons as ore carriers for the gov
eminent iron foundry near Moji; a
passenger steamer of 1889 tons for the
langtse service of the Osaka Shoshen
haisha; and several smaller craft.
Savannah Almanac, 18th Meridian
Time.
Sun rises at 6:17 a. m. and sets at
S.l0 D. m.
High water at Savannah to-day at
9.o9 a. m. and 1923 p. m. High water
at Iybee one hour earlier.
Phases of the Moon for September.
-, d. H. NJ.
last quarter ......... Z 40 morning
rev moon ...........12 3 40 evening
riLSt quarter ........20 Z So evening
run moon ,...........27 II 81 evening
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Vessels Went to Sea.
schooner Margaret A. May, Jarvis,
Baltimore