The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-01

signs large lot of its stock for its
trade in this and other sections not
close to Atlanta to its warehouse here,
and when orders come in, either send
by mail or wire an order to the agent
of the Merchants and Miners, at Sa-
vannah, to ship out such and such
stock to such and such party. This
has been found to result in great saw
ing in freight to dealers, and the ware
house system has become extremely
popular.
There were already a number of
warehouses at the terminals and two
new ones are now being put up, one
the American Steel and Wire Company
500 by $50 feet, and another for
the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company,
220 feet long and sixty feet wide.
These two will be ready for occupancy
soon. The building to be vacated by
the American Steel & Wire Company
will be occupied by the Seven States
Cotton Betting Company. Others hav-
ing warehouses at the terminals are
the Conklin Tin Plate Company, At
lanta; Beck & GREGG Hardware Com
pany, Atlanta; King Hardware Com
pany, Atlanta; Millner & Keptig, Blr-
mingham, and Moore & Co., grain deal
ers, Savannah.
The company has started the re-
modelling of it's steamers, and the
lengthing of some with a view to in
creasing their freight capacity. The
Hudson and Lexington have been re-
modelled, and will be out of the Yards
soon. The Decatur H. Miller will be
heightened several feet, which will give
largely increased freight room.
Chief Clerk George Loyal, who has
co-opeIated with Mr.. Smith, in pushing
the company's business, gave during
the latter's absence from the city some
interesting facts about the company s
operations, which shows it's progress.
They have five to six hundred men
working on their docks at a time. and
for about one month during the year
all told, night force is employed. The
company has modern arrangements
70 the loading and discharging of car
goes, one of them being the use of dom
key engines run by steam supplied df-
rect from steamers in port, and in that
way minimizing the danger of fire
The donkey engine system has been
found a success with the company.
Ocean Steamship Company.
The Ocean Steamship Company. with
it's very large port facilities and fast
fleet of steamers, has also made a.
good record during the year. It's cot
ton, lumber, naval stores, pig iron,
cotton seed oil and other freights have
been large. The company built dur
ing the year the new steamships City
of Memphis and the City of Macon.
which are the largest freight carriers
in the coastwise fleet. So satisfactory
have these steamers proved that IL is
said the company has fixed it's policy
of making its entire fleet along similar
lines. During the year there were ru-
mors that some of their smaller ships
were for sale. with a view Of sup
planting them with larger steamers.
The Ocean Steamship Company and
Central OF Georgia Railway have add
ed large storage capacity for cotton
about their terminals so that IL will
be better protected during the new
season An immense lot Of cotton Is
handled by the Central Of Georgia
Railway as will be seen by our sta
tistcal table elsewhere and most OF II
goes by the ocean Steamship Com
pany 10 the East
The ocean Steamship Company have
also adopted the warehouse plan. and
have several large hrns dOmiciled on
their property Including the y. J.
Coolidge co. Of Atlanta, and others
They have ample room for the cree
ton 0f warehouses, ana viii probably