The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-09-17
CELIA IS IN PORT
Largest Steam or That Ever
Came Here
BRINGS CARGO OF GuAN0
Vessel is 4OS Feet Long and
Draws When Loaded 26 Feet

anne up the Cape Fear Drawing 20 !
Feet, Having Discharged Part of
Ego at Charleston The Celia
DTS Peruvian Guano for the
>rtimcr Co. and it viii pe
1soIcu Iere, Wilmington Reine /
I DD'iouoih- Point for Slate of Forth !
The British steamship Celia, 4.S1a
tons, Captain R. T. Anderson, ari we'd
In port yesterday morning with a c.
go Of genuine Peruvian Guano for th>
Coe-Mortimer Company of Charleston,
and the vessel has taken a berth at
the wharves of the Wilmington Com
press and Warehouse Company, where
the cargo will be discharged. Will
mington is to be the distributing point
OF the entire state of North Carolina
for Peruvian Guano and it's storage
here is being done under the personal
supervision of Mr.. E. S. Nash, Jr..
manager of the sales department OF
the COe-Mortimer Company for this
state.
The Celia S the largest steamship
that ever came to this port, being
something more than 400 feet long.
When loaded with full cargo the yes
sci draws 26.9 feet of water and yes
terday, having discharged part of her
cargo at Charleston she was drawing
20 feet of water on the trip from the
ocean to the city.
The Celia sailed from Loboos de
TERRA, an island off the coast Of
Peru en- July 7th, and on the trip to
Charleston five stops were made to
take on coal. She arrived in Charles
ton the latter part of August and re-
manned in that port II days. her
full cargo consisted of 1000 tons Of
guanO and a quantity of
copper ores part of this having been
discharged at Charleston and the bal :
@ance to be taken off here except
+ enough for ballast on the trip to New
York. The Celia was locked y~esterday;,
shortly after II o'clock and men were
at once put to work unloading thu =,
cargo. The guanO is in bulk and as i -
is taken off it is weighed and packed =.
IN bags and then placed in the war; =.
house ready for sale and shipme1 ~
The work of unloading will probaF =,
require from 10 to Is days.
' The Celia sailed from CharlestonE
Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock ID =,
she was off the bar shortly afte5
O'Clock yesterday morning, where ne =
was met by the tug Sea King, in On =.
mand of Captain E. D. Williams. On :"
the Sea King with him were Mr.. lsh -
the Coe-Mortimer representative Ind :.
K. F. Devlin, representing the ace ~
which delivers the car, to -
the Coe-Mortimer people; Mr.. B. "
Adams of Four Oaks, N. c., sd a ~
Messenger reporter. The start rom
city on the tug was made a2:25 III IL
Yesterday morning and the Cell was IL
spoken" about five miles off II bar :.
5:25. The big steamer was viting 81
or favorable tide and the party)n the
'ea King o the opportunity t go to
he Blacklist grounds where anhour's Or
lme was S ent, a number Of til finny
r1be having been landed. Tf Celia
hen started in under her owl steam
Nc" 1AAAS oil oivLSSiuS liz 49,
opposite Fort Caswen where ap
he took the lead bringing he big yes in
ell without any mishap III the river liI
its dock. du
The advent of the Celia, he largest te
essel ever in this port, had become +! pa
enerally know and all along the of
'harves there were groups of people SC
atching the steamer as she passed 1t
he city. 1t was stated that if the to
ella was placed On Front street her of
NV against the Atlantic National raj
ank building, that the stern of the he]
esseI would butt INFO Warren's candy r
ore her length beng more than 4 ST.
" DlOck. Inc steamer is a hundred VIC
greater than the Oceanic. the Iarr- an,
I vessel, up to this time, which has ty,
rived here, she having come in last on
ar for cotton. chi
The ship is about tour years old rem
d is owned by the New York aud an,
.clfic Steamship Company. It was woI
lit expressly for carrying guano and is
mas every facility fol loading and cor
'charglng he cargo wth>the great nat
Facility. Off the coast OF Peru Ne,
ere the cargo was taken on. the fir
liza completed the task in q days, bai
lough the guano has to be lightered I
m the islands to the ship. In IN bra
ding W matches are being worked to
the same time, men in the holds tn
Yelling h materials into big buck wo,
which are raised and swung on
nes to the wharves and weighed N,
bagged. Rec,
to Peruvian cargo which to {
CELIA brings, attention is directed clerl
he adUarfiSnnaonf In 1T - ctnn