The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-04
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Local and General News of ships
and Shipping.

The hun of the new steamboat to be
init by the Southern Transportation Com
o,nv in Savannah, will be brought up
rom Jacksonville in the next few days,
where the deck work and other prelim-
mary construction is being finished. The
work in Savannah viii be done at the
eompany's wharves at the foot of Aber-
.orn street.
capt w. T. Gibson, general manager
of the Southern, has decided to make the
NV boat a sidewheeler and in many re-
spects she will be like the steamer Santee
With a view to adapting her to the river
trade care has been taken in the details
Of construction, SO that she may be OPP,
rated fast and economically. She will
nave large carrying capacity.
The tug Royal Arch has not yet been
raised, though work has been going on
for some time. She now lies in an easy
nosition opposite the foot of Randolph
street. The contract has been let 10 raise
her and the job will not be relinquished
until she is brought up.
The yacht Jessie, owned by Mai. Will
kins. will be hauled out on the marine
railway for repairs in day or so. Her
owner contemplates a cruise soon, and it
in proper trim for sea that she is to be
hauled out. The repairs to be made are
not 4 tedious nature.
our schooner friends down in Maine ana
elsewhere are more than a little disturbed
over the prospects of steamers taking the
place of the sailing coasting vessels, says
the Marine Journal. The fact that the
steamer Georgetown left Georgetown, S.
c.. recently for Boston with 1,100,0 900 feet
of pine lumber, and this vessel being
but one of a fleet of six similar steamers
that will engage in the coast trade in
connection with the Georgia and Western
Railroad. of North Carolina, has given
rise to this quaim. The present programme
is to carry by these steamers all the lum-
Der which has hitherto been carried by
schooners. There is only a partial rea-
son for this alarm. This steamer devel-
opment in the lumber trade is an expert
ment, the outcome of which is extremely
doubtful. Taking the lumber trade as it
comes, there is no class of vessels so well
adapted for handling it as the saiier. The
steamer may do for certain grades of
lumber, but the great bulk of it must be
freghted by the slower and less expen-
sve schooner. The schooner with the
Dow port will always command the long
timber which cannot be loaded on the
steamer at all. Even If schooners should
be crowded out of the lumber trade, which
we do not admit. there will be plenty of
other business for them. The schooner Is
fixed institution to carry material from
port to port that must be moved at a low
rate freight.
The following marine patents were re-
Gently granted: $685. Dredge.-Louis
\. Desy, Montreal, Can.
$3.50. Boat-Lowering Gear.-David
Roche. London, Eng.
66S, 756. Lantern.-Don r. Peck, Jack
son, Mich.
SIS, 500. Device for Cleaning Ships
John 3. Warning, Newark, N. j., assignor
Of one-third to Hugh l.. Fox, New York
n. Y.
668,S65. scraper for Ships Hulls.-Lily
Williams, Lakeview, N. J.
66S972. Ships Compass. -Hinrich Bruins
Bremen, Ger.
66s,Ol6. Anchor.-John H. Shaw, New
Haven, Conn.
Hamburg is the most serious rival Eng
lands big ports possess abroad. She en-
tiers and clears 1900 ships a year an
average of 81 day, without counting
those in ballast. Hamburg owes her boom
partly to the growth of the German trade,
put chiefly to the fact that she is the
biggest of the German free ports. Two
water are free, That is to say, within
these limits goods of any sort may he
landed and stored without payment of
duty. This escape from the vexations
of customs regulations makes Hamburg
great interna tional clearing house. Up
TO last year Hamburg had spent $4,000 900
in improvements to her harbor, docks and
wharves. Hamburg is now but a million
tons behind Liverpool. She has caught
up 100000 tons in ten years, and is now
the fourth largest port, the order being
London, New York, Liverpool, Hamburg.
aNannah Almanac, 10Th Meridian
Time.
Sun rises at 6:49 a. m. and sets at 6:2l
y. m.
High water at Savannah to-day at Sill
a. m. aud S:39 p. m. High water at Tybee
one hour earlier.