The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-10
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
,ocAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.

a..,boat Companies Getting Their
meats Ready for Summer Business.
,,,,ba on RaiIway-D. HUTCHINSON
Being Observation-Disclosures of In%
.erest 20 shippers and Mariners.
,,renaratorv for the summer excur-
.,o, business the river steamboats, are
nsing improved and repaired. The
,i,ba. is now on the marine railway
r. an overhauling. A part of her
.s+sr cabin has been removed, giving
,aroe deck room in that part of the
host Her engines have been improved,
md she is ready for the seasons bust
ness.
,r,o steamboat D. Murchison is also
having a portion of her cabin removed
rho object of this is to tighten the
,.+ and in that way enable her to
-, more freight. AS the company
,n.ning her make no pretense of car
ing passengers, at least on the
,,,,rcbison, the cabin room over what
is actually needed for the boats crew
= useless. BY remodeling the boat 1t
+ boped to make her generally more
seryiceable.
Tho tug Abram Minis sailed from
~ YORK Friday towing the schooner
Harold c. Beecher for Norfolk.
,. renort of the arrival of the
.lar,ehin City of savannah yesterday
aS misplaced line of memoranda
S ai5 not mix we'll 1t opened the way
e Say he impression that Capt. Fishers
I ~ was towed in, whereas she en-
tored the harbor herself on schedule
time.
Tho following table gives the name
and gross tonnage of the tWenty-nlne
largest schooners in the world;
800. Tons.
ziesnor NJ. Percy, six masts.. ..S, 4Ol
Haorga NJ. Wells, six masts .....2,9t0
prescott Palmer, five masts .....2 ,Sll
aalxer Palmer, five masts 2,t9z
ITiiIiam c. Carnegie, five masts 2,66S
pahacca Palmer five masts .... ..2,556
Lohn r. Prescott, five masts.. .... z, 494
Tathaniel T. Palmer, five masts ,44O
oakley c. Curtis, FIVE masts ...2'3I4
Helen w. Martin, five masts ....z'zoo
Fannie Palmer, five masts ''''''a'6 o4
1ouise B. Crary, five masts ......2,2Sl
1rtbur Seitz. five masts .........2,2OI
Martha B. Small, five masts ....2,llS
Mary w. Bowen. five masts ....2,l5S
Van Aliens Boughton, five masts .2,l2O
Nj D. Cressey, Ave masts ......2,ll4
frank A. Palmer, four masts ...2,6l4
Jennie French Potter, five n1asts |, 993
Marie Palmer, four nasts .....l WA
Mary NJ. Barrett, five masts ....l, S55
lanes w. Paul, Jr., five masts.' ,Si9
Henry 0. Barrett. five masts. Il, SOI
ms
Governor Ames, five masts ......l,l78
Jacob NJ. Haskell four masts.. ..1,77S
6 P. Blackburn, four masts.. loo
Maude Palmer, four masts ......1,T56
Maude Palmer, four masts ...... l,I45
Malcolm Baxter, Jr., four masts. .l,f5z
The level of the sea of Ural has been
steadily and rapidly rising. German
geographers some time ago computed
that 1t would sink at the rate OF three
inches per year, but instead of that,
the sea has been rising at a rate of
four inches per year for the last ten
years The sea is now four feet above
what It was in 1874. 1t was recently
found necessary to change the course
of a railroad in order to avoid being
overlooked.
With a crew exhausted from hunger
and exposure IN Ine eleHeilts' lcohinS
almost like a sieve, with her lifeboat
gone and otherwise damaged, the lun-
ber-laden schooner Jesse Hart Jr., ar
rived at the Delaware Breakwater
Thursday. The news of the condition
of the men on board soon reached
Lewes, Del, and fresh provisions were
sent off in a naphtha launch to the
suffering men.
The Hart sailed from Norfolk on
Feb 26 and passed out of Cape Henry
the following day. She was buffeted
by succession of adverse gales, which
drove her far out of her course. The
provisions became exhausted and the
men for several days, in their weak
ened condition from exposure, subsist-
ed on reduced rations.