The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-04
FROM WATER FRONT
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ear, FREIGHTs QUIET AND FEW
CHARTERS REPORTED.
NEW LINE AFFECTS DEMAND.
,ocAL EXPoRTERs SUPPLIED
WITH FREIGHT ROOM AHEAD.

NIL, Large Exports of Lumber From
savannah Makes the Competition
If steam Vessels n Serious Matter
tor SchoOners-Matters of Interest
IN shippers and Mariners.
For the past week or more the de-
uond for sail tonnage has been light,
nth no apparent desire from any
source to charter. AS a result OF the
establishment of the new steamship
line between Savannah and New York
,vporters are expected to hold 'aloof
,ror, the freight market pending de-
,slonments, and also because they all
nave large reservations in the steam
,rs 10 be Sut on the line about Nov. 90
The fact that Savapnah's exports Of
humber are large may cause the in
creased facilities to affect sail freight
rates materially.
sneaking of the new condition yes
tArdav, a we'll known lumber exporter
said he believed the sail freight market
would feel the effects of the new con-
sitions because the demand for room
will be greatly diminished. All the inn
nortant exporters are interested in the
new line to the extent of having reser-
vations for twelve months. For this
reason the. opinion is entertained that
The newcomers will not cater to much
outside business at the start unless 1t
comes in sufficient volume to warrant
the addition of a vessel to the size OF
he feet contemplated at present The
inc will probably have all it can do to
take care. OF, the lumber movement,
Judging from appearances.
southern and Western steamboat
ieckhands, commonly known as roust-
abouts, have very nearly brought
steamboating out of New Orleans to
A dead stop in consequence of their eX-
brilliant wage demand of from 800 to
S100 per month. 1t IS claimed by steam
boat owners that no river boat can
make any money. and few can meet ex-
Denses paying roustabouts the pre-
yailing high wages demanded, and url-
.ess the negroes can be made to under
stand that they must work for less, it
is probable that not few of the boats
will have to lie Dip until white men can
be secured to take their places. The
holding up" of the steamboats, by the
roustabouts is bound to result in a
great deal of the trade of the port be-
ng diverted to other points, If allowed
70 run any -longer.-Marine Journal.
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In connection with the proposal to
establish "a steel shipbuilding plant in
Nova Scotia, the government has an
nouReed that~it is prepared to appropri-
ate 100000, payable to the first COM
2any establishing a yard capable of
0uilding.1lye steamers of capacity of
5000 tons each the terms upon which
the bonus will be paid to be settled by
an agreement with any company fur
nishing evidence of its financial ability
20 carry out the plan contemplated. At
he last session of the. Legislature. an
act was passed providing that all ships
)r-shares in ships of iron or steel built
and registered in Nova Scotia shah be
exempt from all taxation for twenty
years, such exemption to come in force
upon proclamation by derin-Council
on the petition of the municipality de-
string to grant the exemption. It is
also provides that on five-eighths ma
iority OF votes. polled- any Incorporated
own or city may grant a bonus of $780,
200 IN aid of the establishment within
It's limits Of a shipbuilding yard.
The scarcity of lumber suitable for
,ar work and shfpbuilding in the East
mas caused a demand for lumber from
he Canadian forests of the for North
vest. The big ship Mary A, Troop was
announced yesterday as having been
chartered to load over million feet of
lumber at Vancouver, British Columbia,
or Philadelphia. The Troop is now on
ler way to Vancouver from Mollendo.
She will have to sail over $1,000 miles
before she reaches the Delaware Bay
after rounding Cape Horn some time
next spring.-Philadelp Record.