The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-26
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Local and General News of siphs
and Shipping.


The schooner Mabel Jordan win sail
to-day for Baltimore with a cargo of
cross-ties. The shipment was made by
the Howard Supply Company, which
made a splendid record in loading the
cargo of 1890 ties in thirty-three
working hours. The work was begun
! Wednesday at 9 o'clock a. m, and
finished yesterday at u m.
The schooner Thomas A. Ward will
sail for Philadelphia to-day with
cargo of lumber.
The British barkentine Cosmo has
! discharged her ballast and yesterday
! was shifted to the Central of Georgia
| wharves, where she will take a cargo
for South America.
There are but a few vessels in the
! harbor just at present, but a small
! fleet of schooners to load lumber is
| on the way, and, with the favoring
| wind of the past two days should ar
| rive shortly.
The schooner George Taulane, Jr., is
| expected very shortly from Philadel-
| phia with a cargo of coal for G. 1.
| Taggart & Co.
The schooner Thomas A. Pollard was
shifted yesterday from the Atlantic
/ Coast Line wharves to the Seaboard
Air Line terminals, where a cargo of
| lumber will be taken on.
The Austrian steamship Lacroma
will sail to-day for Trieste and Venice
with a cargo consisting chiefly of ros-
! in.
To meet the demand for competent
pilots on the Yukon in Alaska the Mis-
! Slssippi and Missouri have lost many
of their experienced river men. The
| first attempts to navigate the Yukon
| failed because the ocean going yes
sells and their crews were not adapted
! for such service. 1t was not until men
were taken from the Mississippi and
Missouri that the Yukon became
real highway into the gold fields. The
Mississippi river men found nothing
difficult in the problems of the Yukon.
They found deeper water and a stead
! Ter current. Under their directions
boats adapted to the business were
| constructed. The boats required
greater power because the Yukon cur
rent is stronger than that of the Mis-
sissippi
The first pilots found themselves able
AAOlil Tie start TO HanQIe DOaCS by day
without difficulty, and aftea while ex-
perience had familiarized them with
the stream they did just as well at
night During the open season the
nights are longest and on the lower
| stretches of the river it is never real
ly dark during the midsummer months.
Year by year more and more river men
were drawn away to Alaska, till now
there is an immense traffic on the Yu-
kon 1t may be, indeed, that more
steamboats, ply its waters than are
found on the Mississippi above St
Louis, and there are many times the
number on the Missouri which is we'll
nigh abandoned. The best evidence of
the skill of these river men is that
though the ocean pilots could not ham
| die boats on 1t, there has not been a
single serious accident since the Mis-
| sissippi men went
Each steamboat running between st.
Michaels and Dawson City, 1000 miles,
makes four round trips the season.
Steamship George Farwell from
| Tiverton for Charleston or Savannah,
| via New York, returned to the latter
port on July 10, having encountered a
gale off Barnegat on that date, during
which had pumps choked. Some water
also go in her hold. She would prob
ably have to discharge for repairs.
For the week ending July IS, the Bu-
reau of Navigation assigned officials
numbers and signal letters to five sail
ing vessels, gross tons 1864; seventeen
steam vessels gross tons $50; seven I'M
rugged vessels gross tons 1887.
1t Is announced that the British
| government has completed the agree
ment with the Cunard Steamship Com
| pany and that it will be submitted
shortly to Parliament and the share
holders. 1t is understood that the
government will pay considerably over
1 $5,000,000 for the construction of two
additional steamers and that the whole
fleet of vessels will be at the govern
| ment's disposal as cruisers The agree
ment provides for an improved Allan
tic mail service.