The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-10
SANTURCE STIRS
UP LIVELY ROW
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
SAYS SHIP CANNOT GO TO ITS
DOCK FOR NAVAL STORES.

But Hnrbor Master Mcbride Says
the Vessel May Go There if Mr..
Murray VI. Stewart, Who Has
Chartered the Santurce, Wishes
1.-THE HarbOr Muster Has Com
suited the City Attorney and Has
Told MIR. stewart That the Ship
VIII Be Docked There If He De-
sires Ii.
Although the Ocean Steamship Com
pany says the Santurce. a competing
vessel, chartered by Mr.. Murray NJ.
Stewart, cannot be locked at its wharf
to get naval stores. Harbor Master
Mcbride says the ship can go to the
wharf if Mr.. Stewart wishes it to.
The matter is likely to cause an in
teresting three-cornered contest be-
tween the Ocean Steamship Company,
Mr.. Stewart and the city.
The Santurce is chartered by Mr..
Stewart to run between this port and
New York. This is it's second trip
to Savannah, coming for a cargo of
lumber, cotton and naval stores. The
NNoSNA al iiNt4 StSltludy IllOIltllS.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Stewart re-
ceived brief letter from Mr.. w. A.
Winburn, vice president of the Cen
trail Railway, stating that the San
turce could not be locked at the
Ocean Steamship Company's rosin
wharf, where a part of the rosin car
go is located.
copy of this letter was sent by
Mr.. Winburn to Harbor Master Nc
Bride. The lumber that the ship is
to carry has already been taken on
at the Seaboard terminals and it is
now ready to move up to the Ocean
steamship COmpanys rosin wharf and
get its cargo OF naval stores.
HarbOr Masters Position.
IF the Santurce does not go to the
wharf Tor the rosin, it will be be-
cause Mr.. Stewart does not want it to
60, said Harbor Master Mcbride, in
speaking of the matter. Il have given
Mr.. Stewart permission to move his
ship there and get the roSin.
Il told him l would see that it was
placed there if he wanted it, So if the
vessel does not go there after the rosin.
it will be because Mr.. Stewart does
not wish it. The docking of ships and
the moving of them is placed in the
dAUOL nldSlGI ndnuS.
The harbor rules say that no YES
sci shall move from one wharf to an
other without permission from the
harbor master Mr. Stewart has APP
piled for permission and l have given
1t to him. The rules also say that any
vessel will be admitted to d berth, or
allowed to change from one berth to
another on application to the harbor
master.
City Attorney Agrees.
The Central Railroad is a common
carrier and took the rosin there. Mr..
Stewart can certainly send a ship there
to take it away. l was certain about
the matter. but to be absolutely safe,
l consulted with Col. Garrard, the city
attorney, and he agreed with me fully"
The harbor master also stated that
he visited the wharf in the morning,
where Mr.. Stewart wanted to have the
ship locked. and that il was entirely
free, except for one lighter. Mr. Win
burn, however, had not said in his let
ter that the wharf was occupied at
present. He said the company had 9TH
er uses for it. The harbor master says
if there was no room at the wharf he
would not of course, move another YES
bel. but as it is not occupied he pro-
poses to allow Mr.. Stewart to put his
ship there.
Mr.. Stewart says that while the COM
pany ordinarily charges 51z cents a
cask for Tightening rosin, it pro-
poses to charge him II cents. He says
he considers this an unjust discrimina-
ton and, if persisted in, he will prob
ably take the matter before the Rail-
road Commission