The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-24
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

s.adx Increase in Savannah's Lum-
her shipments to the NOrth-Big
Demand for Crossties-Large Fleet
If schooners Bound for savannah
10 Load Lumber-Produce and
Fruits.
shipments of crossties to the North
,re ON the increase, and have been SO
car several weeks past. There are
,retty large local stocks, with the
-,,ovement this way constantly on the
increase. While this may seem ex-
+reme. it is nevertheless true, that the
lumber trade generally has seldom seen
a more prosperous period than the pres
ont with the demand good and opera
tons among mills in full blast.
An immense stock of ties are at the
vrharves of Charles S. Hirsch & Co.,
foot of Whitaker street. Schooners are
already chartered in which to forward
This stock Other exporters, including
Z r Hunting & Co., Cooney, Eckstein
e. Co. John A. Calhoun, the Georgia
lumber Company and the Southern
pine Company are doing an active
business, with all the demands for sup
niles upon them they can take care of.
The fleet of schooners bound for Sa-
1annah, given by the Morning News
today. gives some idea of the magni-
tude of the lumber business, for every
vessel is chartered to take an outward
cargo of lumber.
The ocean Steamship Company and
the Merchants and Miners are carry
ing considerable lots of Florida pro-
duce and fancy fruits TO Northern
markets. Strawberries are beginning
to move in limited lots, and will be
sbipped freely within week
Can't. r. C. Mcbride, master of the
four-masted schooner Edward j. Ber-
wind of Philadelphia, is 40 years old,
hut as active as any one of his crew.
For the last fifty-fve years Capt. Nc
Bride has spent the greater portion of
his time at sea and has been a master
for the last fifty-one years. During this
time he has circumnavigated the globe
several times, and has visited nearly
every port of any consequence in the
world.
No shores are more efficiently guard
ed by lighthouses and beacons than
those of the Australian commonwealth,
esnecially those of New South Wales,
where some of the finest lighthouses
in existence are to be found Although
the federal government will ultimately
take charge of the whole of the light
houses in the commonwealth, they at
present remain in the hands of the re-
spective states in which they are stu
ated. The total expenditure by the sta,e
in connection with lighthouses up to
the end of 1900 was $1,250000.
The lowest tide in any large sea is in
the Mediterranean. At Toulon there is
about four inches, which is the average
for the whole Mediterranean.
Sailing vessels in the deep-Water
trade, as we'll as steamers, are suffer-
ing from the low rate of freight that
has prevailed altogether too long. The
wear and tear expense. account is very
little more than the depreciation in the
value of a vessel by laying it up. This
is the reason that so many are kept
going when they barely made both ends
meet.-Marine Journal.
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To Stop DesertiOn ut Sailing Hour.
Baltimore American, March Ia: Capt.
Alexander Ross and Willard F. Wade,
masters of coastwise schooners in port,
many seacoast cities that went to
Washington yesterday to urge the pas
sage of a law to prevent the desertion
of seamen at the sailing hour. When
seamen sign papers for a voyage they
can compel a ship to fulfill the con-
tract, but men can desert at the sail
ing hour, delaying the vessels. while
her owners have no redress. The law
the recently formed Atlantic Carriers
4DIlx.
Whenever, at the commencement of
or during any voyage, any seaman or
apprentice neglects or refuses to join,
or deserts from or refuses to proceed
TO sea in any vessel in which he is
duly engaged to serve, or is found
otherwise absenting himself therefrom
without leave, the master or any mate,
or the owner, or consignee, or ship
ping commissioner may, in any place in
the United States, with or without the
assistance of the local public officers
or cOnstables, who are hereby directed
10 give their assistance if required, and
also at any place out of the United
states, if and so far as the laws in
force at such place will permit, appre-
hend him without first procuring
warrant, and may thereupon in any
case, and SHALL in case he so requires
and 1t is practicable, convey him before
any court OF justice or magistrate OF
any state, city, town or county within
the United States authorized to take
cognizance of offenses of like degree
ana kind, to be dealt with according
to the provisions of law governing
such cases; and may for the purpose of
conveying him before such court or
magistrate detain him in custody for
period not exceeding twenty-four hours,
or may, if he does not so require, or if
there is no such court at or near the
place, at once convey him on board. If
such apprehension appears to the court
or magistrate before whom the case is
brought to have been made on inn
proper or on insufficient grounds, the
master, mate, consignee or shipping
commissioner who makes the same, or
causes the same to be made, shall be
liable to a penalty of not more than
500; but such penalty if inflicted, shall
De bar to any action for false impris-
onment.