The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-10
FROM WATER FRONT
LARGE INCREASE IN IMPORTS THIS
SEASON.
WARTBURG PAID $4,000.
THIS AMOUNT IN DUTIES COLLECT
ED AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.

Her Cargo Consisted Largely of Fine
AIes-FavorabIe Outlook for In
creased Imports Judging From
Good start Made-No More steam
ers Can Bunker ut NOrfOll<-Mat-
tiers of Interest to shippers and
Mariners.
The German steamship Wartburg ar
rived from Liverpool yesterday with a
valuable cargo on which the govern
ment collected duties amounting to
over Sl2, 600 This is the largest amount
collected on one cargo in years at the
Custom House. and with such imports
during the present trade year the re-
ceipts for duties promises to cap all
previous records.
Good drinks come high, and explains
largely the value and heavy duties on
the Wartburg's cargo. which consisted
principally of fine ales. She brought
eighty-nve barrels of stout, rs barrels
Bass ale, thirtyfive barrels and five
cases ginger ale, two barrels and five
cases club soda, one barrel sarsaparil-
pound, and 1850 casks of tallow.
The cargo comes to various con-
signees here and elsewhere.
The Wartburg is the second of the
Hansa Line boats to visit Savannah
since the new line was established, and
comes direct from Liverpool. The
other steamer came by way of New
York. If steamers are to be sent here
direct it is very probable Savannah's
imports will show a big increase, for
the facilities afforded by such a line
would very probably be taken advan-
tage of by exporters on the other side
to ship to this country. Shippers see
in the Hansa Line the possibility of
building up an import trade with a
South Atlantic port instead of receiv-
ing all imported goods through North
ern ports, and the progress it makes
in this direction will be watched with
interest.
As showing what is probably in store
for Savannah this year in increased
imports the Custom House collections
for the first month of the new year
already exceed those for about the first
eleven months of last year. The i'm
ports of kainit, pyrites and other fer
tilizer materials have been large com
pared with other years. The demand
for these things appears to be good,
and with the facilities for shipping
them here the prospects are decidedly
favorable for a steady increase.
A telegram to the Morning News
last night from Castner. Curran &
Bullitt. coal operators OF Norfolk. ex-
presses their regrets that owing to
strike conditions existing there they
cannot bunker steamers until further
n7tice. Until this notice steamers were
going there for coal and taking
CHARGES on getting away within rea-
sonable time with the supplies of coal
the operators were able to land there
Even this accomn odation is shut oft
row.
Practically all the steamers visiting
savannah at present arrive with full
bunkers. IT is pretty well understood
over the shipping world now that it is
risk TO bring tramp steamers to this
country without sufficient supply of
coal to return with. While some of
those in port are loading coal they are
only replenishing their supply. and
would not probably be detained were
they not supplied with this extra
amount,
The schooner VIM. L. Downes is load
ing lumber at the Georgia Lumber
Companys docks for the Norden-Sax
Lumber Co. She will take on a small
part of her cargo there, and will then
shift TO the Seaboard's terminals to
finish.