The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-08
WILL STOP DOORS
CITY COUNCIL WILL ACT THIS Az
TERNOON ABOUT FISH SCRAPS.
MAYOR LOOKS FOR MEASURE
THAT WILL KEEP OUT WET CAR
GOES OF MENHADEN.

Ii Is Asserted That There Has Been
but One Ship in Port 10 Cause All
the Unpleasant Odors of which
Complaint Has Been Made-This
Was the Berwind, which Came in
Ballast From Charleston to Get "a
Cargo of Lumber-FauIt Is With
CarsOes, According TO Mr.. Wilcox,
When Fish Scraps Are So ObnOx-
iOus-If They Were Dry, Instead of
Wet, They Would Not Have Such
an Evil SmeII-'T Like Its 1t Shows
There Is Something DOING" said
Alderman Jones.
Measures will probably be adopted
by the City Council this afternoon to
that has resulted from the entrance
into Savannah's harbor of the men,
haden fish scrap vessels that spread
their obnoxious odors, at times, were
the entire city. A meeting will be
held at o'cluck. when all who are
interested are invited to attend.
II think it probable" said the May
or yesterday, that some action will
be taken by Council. 1 believe an or
dinance will be drafted that will for
bid any vessel that has been loaded
with fish scrap entering the harbor.
unless it can be shown that it will not
prove a nuisance"
Mayor Myers said that he had re-
ceived a visit from Mr. C. H. Wilcox
of the Savannah Guano Company, who
had talked over the fish scrap odors
with him. The vessels from which the
very disagreeable odors have emanat-
ed, according to Mr.. Wilcox, have been
freighted with cargoes unsatisfactory
to the consignees. The Savannah
Guano Company has received a few
such cargoes, and has not been salts
fed with them. The stencil has been
due to the fact that the cargoes were
wet, and in improper condition. The
company has given notice to the ship
pers that it would receive no further
consignments in such condition.
Not Objectionable When Dry.
The fish scraps, when dry, Mr.. Will
cox informed the Mayor, are not OBJ
jectionable cargoes. At least, they do
not smell so strongly as have those
that have given rise to the loud pro-
tests that have been raised recently
made an investigation of the fish scrap
shipments. He said to a representa-
tive of the Morning News yesterday
that, as rule. no vessel so laden ever
enters the portion of the harbor oppo-
site the city to tie up at a dock. The
vessels usually discharge their cargoes
of fish scraps at the wharves to the
east or the west of the city.
But One Smelling Vessel.
But one vessel, said the harbor mas
ter, has been tied up at the city docks
recently to cause the disagreeable
odors. She was NE Edward !. Ber-
wind. schooner that came here from
Charleston, after there discharging 81
cargo of fish scraps. She came here in
ballast. Tying up on the south side
of the harbor, she9 received part of a
cargo of lumber. Sire was then moved
to the Seaboard Air Line docks, where
her cargo was completed
While the Berwind lay at the docks
on the south and north sides of the
river the odors from the remnant Of
the fish scraps in her hold fioated
over the city when the wind was IA
vorable-or unfavorable, as might be
better said. She has now left port,
and since her departure the odors have
not been encountered.
Not Frequent Nuisance.
ut is seldom such a vessel comes to
the port to take on a cargo at one of
the docks near the city," said the har-
bormaster. when one comes she does
not threaten the health of the city. If
she did she would not be admitted.
The quarantine station Is maintained
at the mouth of the river TO prevent
the entrance of vessels that might be
a menace to the ports health
Mr.. j. j. Kirby, of the Georgia I.llm-
Der Company, which loaded a part of
the Berwind's cargo, said that it is
scarcely once a year that a ship will
come to the port that still bears
traces of cargo of fish scraps He
did not consider that the occasional
and fieeting unpleasantness resulting
could be considered, in view of the
fact that Savannah would be placed at
disadvantage with other ports if an
interdict were placed here upon the
entry Of such vessels. No restrictions
are offered at other ports, and he does
not think that they should be imposed
here.
Il don't mind the odors," said Alder
man Jones. 'I rather like them. They
show there is something doing in the
harbor; that the commerce of the port
is not dead"
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