The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-27
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Local and General News of siphH
and Shipping.

The tug Dauntless will be repaired
here by William Kehoe & Sons, who
were awarded the contract yesterday.
Mr.. w. A. Bisbee, owner Of the Daunt-
less, wanted to bring her to his nome
city for repairs.
The Dauntless has for the past eight
months been towing raw sugar ana mo-
lasses from Cienfuegos and other ports
to Havana to be loaded there ABOARD
the Philadelphia steamers. In this serV-
ice the Dauntless has been very sue
cessfui She will be remembered as
the celebrated filibusterer during the
Spanich- American War.
Western River Steamboat History.
The combination passenger and
freight steamboat business in TINS ter
ritory has some strange and starting
history, says the Louisville (ky.) Post
Louisville never had but one line OF
steamers operating from here to New
Orleans, and this lasted from 1870 until
the war OF 6l broke out, but during
that time d number of boats were Dullt
to perpetuate ii and keep 1t gong Inc
history of this line of boats SHOWS no
absolute failures in their operation, al
though there came an occasional stroke
of bad luck. The majority OF the
fifty large boats that ran in the line
money for their owners as they cost
and in some instances thrice as much
while one, the Fanny Bullitt, paid for
herself fourteen and one-ha1 umes'
and on one occasion cleared the enor-
nous sum of 500, 600 in four months FOR
her owners.
Since 1910 Cincinnati has had numer-
Gus packet lines from that city TO New
Orleans, those operated before the great
,blta side
wheelers, and those operated out OF
that city since 1866 beng of any old
variety. and strange to relate, every
line she has ever had have been tall-
ures in the long run. Even with these
facts on the pages of steamboat MS
tory on the Ohio, there are
hundreds of river men VINO
believe that commercial line OF
steamboats, could not be operated IN
the river to Southern points unless
Cincinnati had control of 1t.
What the enterpriSing people or
Louisville and the lower Ohio want to
do is to build and operate fine large
passenger and freight steamers to run
clear through to New Orleans, and
there will be no trouble in convincing
the most skeptical stockholder OF the
fact that he has invested his money
where it can fourfold itself in very
can never be ripper than it is now, and
if the companys business be controlled
by men with LouisVille's interest at
heart, it will not only prove great
financial success, but Will work Won
ders to the good and welfare of the
city's manufacturing and mercantile
enterprises.
Beaufort, S. c., Aug. 26.-The Norwe-
gian steamship Horsa arrived off Port
Royal from ST. Helena sound on Aug.
Il, and, after loading balance OF cargo
of phosphate rock from the Central
Company sailed Aug. % for Liverpool.
The schooner Fanny Reiche, having
discharged a cargo of coal at the Vir-
ginia-Carolina Chemical Works, sailed
on the oath for Savannah.
The schooner Adele Thackera, after
discharging a cargo of coal for Mr.. A.
A Long here SAILED to-day for Port
Royal to load lumber for New York.
The schooner Future sailed to-day
for New York with lumber from Port
Royal.
The schooner Bertha F. Wallace sail
ed on the 21st from New York for Port
Royal
The pilot boat Sophia. after being
thoroughly overhauled and repaired, has
arrived from Charleston.
Savannah Almanac, 18th Meridian
Savannah City Time.
Sun rise at $3.50 a. m. and sets 6:55
p. m.
High water at Tybee to-day at IL a.
m. and 11:25 p m. High water at Sa-
vannah one hour later.