The Republican journal., 1906-11-08
MARINE MISCELLANY.
ANOTHER LONG TOWING JOB.

The Standard Oil steamer Maverick
left New York this week for San
Francisco towing barge both vessels
carving oil in bulk. 1t is expected
that the Maverick will consume her en-
tire cargo during the passage, as she
uses oil for fuel. Both vessels will re-
main permanently on the Pacific coast.
This II. O0O-mile tow is no experiment,
as the Standard Oil Company has had
other barges lowed to San Francisco
successfully. largely due to the equip
ment of its vessels with Shaw Il Spiegle
towing machines.
SHIP COMPARISON.
The sight of the six -masted schooner
Eleanor A. Percy leaving this harbor
all her sails set, followed by a two mas
ter, was a unique one, making marine
picture which one does not often have
opportunity to behold. \ six-masted
schooner under full sail is an object
lesson in the changes that have taken
place i'll the type of sailing vessels i'll
the past half century, since the wind
TANNER" began rapidly to give way to
steamers. The comparison OF two
masted with -masted schooner is on
{, par with the big liners that cross the
Atlantic today to those which carried
the commerce across that ocean dec
ade or two ago.
ATLANTIC SEACOAST BLESSINGS.
With tornadoes and hurricanes de-
Wasting our southern ports, and an I'M
seasonably early blizzard harassing the
shipping on the Great Lakes, to say
nothing of the earthquake which de-
stroyed San Francisco, our principal
Pacific ocean port, earlier III the year,
Atlantic seaportS have had much to
congratulate themselves about recently,
while not lacking in sympathy for those
unfortunate sections OF the country.
Nature in the beginning was more than
usually considerate in its distribution
of all the requirements Of the seafarer
on the Atlantic coast, from its climate
to its many naturally protected harbors,
and its prominent river systems, the
natural highways of commerce. II
there was ever people blessed with all
the elements to carry on extensive
commerce, interstate and foreign, it is
as on the Atlantic seacoast to the east
ern boundary of Maine.
MYSTERY OF THE SEA.
While steam and electricity have to
great extent annihilated space on the
sea, and an increasing number OF ships
crowd the highways of commerce,
greater knowledge of the ocean only
serves to emphasize its vastneSs, and
even this age of commerciallsm cannot
rob it entirely of its mystery and TO
nance. What tale, for instance, of
ancient pirates can outclass that of the
disappearance recently of defaulting
agent of big shipping house, who
sailed away from Cuban port, with
his family and a fortune in treasure on
board, and whose whereabouts the sea
guards so safely? That Manuel
Silveira's flight was well planned is
evidenced by the fact that when he gets
ready to land, as long as he keeps away
from the shores of the United States,
Belgium, Mexico, England, and Spain,
he will be comparatively safe, as these
are the only countries that Cuba has
eXtradition treaties with.
The attempt to smuggle Chinese into
this country on the yacht Frolic, which
came to light last week, is another tale
of daring that has all the flavor of
hardihood in it typical of days gone by,
and goes to prove that the sea still har-
bors and is the means of creating as
fearless followers as it did in other
ages. These unusual acts only go to
prove the unconquerableness of old
oceans space, no matter how thickly
strewn is its bed with telegraph cables,
or how quickly flashes of wireless
telegraphy convey. some of the events
that happen on its broad expanse, or
how swiftly ocean greyhounds cover its
vast spaces. The sea will ever be a
place to hold mystery-boundless, end
less, and sublime. Journal,
New York.