The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-18
RIVER
AND MARINE
NEWS
Shipping Transactions and
Notes of Interest Along
The Bay Front.

IN LAY - AS
The steamer Manteo, Capt Nc
LaughIin, returned from Mob4le yes
terday morning. and after taking on
a heavy miscellaneous cargo, sailed
last night on schedule time for points |
along the coast.
The Francis H. and Cavalier of the |
Saunders fleet, entered yesterday
with catches of about 1000 pounds OF
snappers each.
The steamer Eugene entered yes
terday from FTeepOTt and way land
ings with a heavy cargo OF naval
stores, and a number of passengers
The tug Simpson returned from
Melville yesterday towing the barge
Bobby-HO, laden with lumber from
the German-American mills
The smacks Amy Vixen, Mary L.
| Hardy. Caldwell H. Colt and Arlola,
of the Warren feet, entered port
yesterday. With the exception OF the
| Ariola the catches of the vessels were
| light.
|
| ne steamer N-0iSNEth. NhA1h -
Gently arrived here from South Atrl-
ca. will finish discharging her cargo
| of mahogany logs this morning
According to the consular tariff at
| present in force in the Republic OF
Panama, the consular charges tor
| shipments to that country are as FOL
| lows Consular invoices flour Coples),
9 per cent (nine-tenths of 1 per cent?
of the value of the shipment Mani
tests flour copies Cspecltylng me
| cargo of the vessel. s pesos q peso
/ so cents United States currency for
the first 100 pieces of freight and
I20 pesos for each additional lOO
| pieces or fraction thereof. ManifestS
| for Cargoes( four copies) consisting
of articles of iron, copper. zinc, wood
clay, etc. regardless of vessel sail
/ ing with ballast, 3 pesos for four
copies. Health certificates $50 pesos.
Il A new coal harbor is T. be made
on the sea canal at St Petersburg
|, in which forty-eight ocean steamers
and eighty-four coal lighters may
And place at the same time. The
depth of water in different parts Of
the harhor will range from 10 IL to
% feet
Extensive improvements to the mar
Dor of La Rochelle France, the tirsi
ccomnIeted The near future. W5ef
nish abundant Wharfage. 9d ocEFsii l 1fBg
| two 1000-fOOt dry docks Ships draw
ing 80 TO 80 feet may enter the har
Dor in peTfec- tsafety. There is to be
a tide-water wharf, with water rang
ing from So to s45 feet. where ships
may take coal direct from the cars
The tonnage of the port in 1880 was
! 500,727; in 1900 it had risen to l.
1855 tons, and in 1907 to 1852, 235
tons The increase for the first four
months of 1908, as compared with the
| corresponding period of last year. is
| 65,42S tons. With the completion
of the contemplated Improvement the
| largest ships afiOat may be accom-
| modated.
A new ice-breaker which is being
built by Messrs. Vickers Sons & Max
i'm, in the Barrow yards. for the Cana
dian government, is 10 ply between
the mainland and Prince Edward Is
| land. She will be of 6O0O-horse pow
eT and is TO have a speed capacity
! of Il knots The cost viii be S5I5,-
| GOO, and the vessel Will be ready by
! next year
The United States vice consul at
| Santiago notes that much of the ad-
/ veTtislng matter printed in the Span
/ Ish language arriving at that con
| suiate in Cuba, not only from Anne
| rican export houses, but from some
| schools and colleges in the United
| states seeking Latin-American stu
| dents. contains so many errors. both
| grammatical and typographical, that
| 1t must not only fail to serve its
| purpose, but operate directly against
| II 1t seems proper therefore. to
| impress upon American exporters
| and others interested the necessity
OF exercising more care in this par
I ticular.
Arrived.
Brit IS. Venus. Goodwin, 1858 Be
lie TO Gulf Transit co.
ltal- BIZ Rosa VI. Massa, 1870, Val
paraiSO to master.
LIST OF VESSELS IN PORT.
Steamships
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