The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-14

making her one Of the most interesting
POINTS of indtst rIa! development in the
New South-al this may be- sad to date in
It's early beginnings from the time "hen,
worn and higgard and exhausted, she got
up from her -.Ckbed in 1875 and resolved
that she would never have yellow fever
| again If II lay III the power Of money and
Science to avoid II.
The growth in the ensuing years ncCoS-
~arily was slow. The city was badly Grip
pied by the ordeal- through which she had
passed. and, even at that, the ordea.- were
not over. On the eth of August 1851, IA
hurricane. the most violent ia the history
Of the city. hit Savannah with full force
killing over two hundred people and play
ing havoc with public and private property
All along the banks Df the river at both
ends of the city great damage was done and
the measures for the improvement of the
health conditions received a setback from
which they did not fully recover for at least
two years Much hat had been done at
great expense Of time and money had 10 he
done all over again.
On a minor scale it was "a repetition Of
Savannah's old experience Of crawling
out from under the wreck and beginning
things anew.
There has ever been in Savannah an
admirable manifestation of public spirit
on the part If citizens Of all conditions
IL is that fact which has enabled Savannah
to overcome 50 Superblv the obstacles
that have thrust themselves Professionally
in her path II il that coupled with energy
aud keen intelligence, which has kept the
city constantly woving onward until to-day
she ls going ahead with momentum all
her own, dependent upon no transitory
slant of wind IN her favor but the logical
result Of indu-r rial forces which she either
has put IN motion herself or has attached
herself to with bonds IA firm as any which
can unite a community to fundamental
causes of prosperity
DEEP WATERWAY
First. and above all, in the making of
savannah into "A great seaport 1t vas neCes-
.ary that the eighteen miles of waterw ay
down the river To the sea be- deep. sure
channel for vessels and that was done
by the National Government ia a series
of appropriations, part OF which passed
through IN" hands Of the Gaynors and capt
Carter. But the Gaynors and Carter were
OF ~ episodes.
Inc work of clearing the channel and
making the jettirs went on through a series
of years. until how Savannah is one of the
finest frcsh-water harbors in the world
The fact of it being fresh water harbor
means vast deal IN this latitude The
teredo cannot live in fresh water, but he
will honeycOmb and put out Of business the
strongest piing that can be put under a
dock in salt water hercabuuts and it will
take him only TIN 80 or -four years to do il.
Deep sea vessels drawing twenty-five
feet Of water now come mp right into the
city so that their yards peer in at the win
dows of the warehouses that line the City's
waterfront. One day week or 30 ago,
twenty-five foreign vessels were counted
at Savannah loading cotton from the ao Is
Of bales that lay strcwn about the landings
COTTON SHIPMENTS
Az TO the cotton shipments Of Savannah,
the last report, dated Nov. t. 1902, of j =.
MeIriheu, superintendent of the Cotton
Exchange, contains some interesting statis-
! tics. The rec, 3 OF cotton AT Savannah
for the year enulug Aug. 80 last were 49,
1913 bales which l. larger in the gross ly
1854 bales, or - icr cent, than those
Il the previous year Here it may he eS-
planned that by gross - elpts' II meant
the receipts of cotton sent not only direct
| 10 savannah for shipment. but those also
wnlch are sent here from other ports, a.
Charleston tor instance. The net to-
Ceipts" are those alone whioh are sent di-
rC to Savannah from the interior
The net receipts for the year ending
Aug. 80 last were i5s, las bales and were
5s,il3 bales larger than those of the pre-
vious year. constituting 1852 per cent. Of
ihe total cotton crop AZ compared with
10 So per cent for the year l9OO-Ol The
total cotton crop Of l9Ol-0? was 0,7Ol ,,i3
bales, Ia compared With l0,I25,lil bales for
the year 10000, showing an increase Of
276,Si2 bales or 26t per cent
In connection with the movement of his
cotton crop Of the year 1901 .O2, AZ compared
| with that Of the previous year, there are
| some figures which are of interest as re-