The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-04
HARbOR AND
Marine. NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The river steamer Geneva, Capt.
Brooks, arrived yesterday from Cary
vile and way landings, bringing a
heavy cargo of naval stores, which
was dicharged at Central wharf. The
street wharf.
The steamer Capt. Fritz got away
early yesterday morning for her regu-
lar run to points UP the Choctaw-
hatchee.
Quite a number of the small
schooners arrived in port yesterday
with cargoes, and also with a num-
Der Of passengers, who came to the
city to see the circus.
The tug Simpson returned from
Millville yesterday afternoon, and on
the way took the Spanish brig Rosa
Antoine in tow, bringing the vessel
into the harbor late in the after
noon.
The British steamer Auchendale ar.
rived in port yesterday to take on
bunker coal. She is from Gulfport,
where she was delayed for about a
month owing to being damaged In en-
tering the harbor there, necessitating
being locked at Mobile.
The scarcity of red snappers con.
tinues, and unless some of the feet
enters today the famine will become
more pronounced than in many years.
For the past seven days not snap.
per has been received by any of the
fish companies, and for the ten days
prior to that the catches were very
small 1 and most Of the fish condemn
Encountered the Recent Hurricane.
New Orleans Picayune: The
American schooner George A. Laury,
102 tons net, Captain T. Banks, from
1ruxillo, via Bonacca, s.. H., consign.
ed to J. and M. Schwabacher, with
107, 900 cocoanuts, arriving in distress
at Post 30, Third district, will dis.
charge and be locked for repairs and
receive a new outfit of sails, etc. Cap.
tain Banks reports sailing from Bon
acca Oct. II for Mobile, had ordinary
and threatening weather to the 18th
when 1875 miles southeast Of Cape San
Antonio hurricane was encountered
with terrific winds and fearful high
seas, which deluged the vessels deck
smashing their only boat into splint
ers, cutting cabin, washing out every
thing In cooks galley on deck and
destroying provisions, also lost and
split sails and crew were compelled
to live on cOcanuts for three days
and during the storm two of the crew
were washed overheard and back or
deck by q returning sea without in
Jury. Captain Banks says he hat
about given up all hopes of evel
reaching port, but the little vesse
proved to be staunch one ant
weathered the storm.
A New Harrison Liner.
New Orleans Picayune: The new
British Harrison Line steamship Elk
plorer, Captain George Goldman, from
GLASGOW. in water ballast, consigned
to Alfred LIE Blance, arriving at Chal
mette, as before reported, will lOat
for Liverpool. Captain Goldman re
ports sailing from Glasgow Oct. IL
experienced strong northerly wind.
and rough sea to the Azores, thence
unsettled weather to the gulf, where
she experienced strong norther
with head seas, lasting 70 port. TIL.
Explorer, now making her first yoy
age. was built at Glasgow for T. &
}. Harrison. Of Liverpool, and com
pleted on Oct. II, sailed same day
10 rNew Orleans. Her dimension!
are: Tonnage, net 4,S71, gross 1907
length. 469 feet: beam, 81 feet ant
depth of hold SO 1-2 feet: cargo ca
pacity. dead weight. 1920 tons. ant
will store about $4,000 bales of cot
ton hand-stored. She has uuadr,rpl,
expansion engines with all moder,
improvements, and steam pressure
on boilers 215 pounds, and will prov
fine addition to the line.i
Passed Burning Wreck.
The Norwegian steamship Dictate,
Capt. A. Haraldsen, from Bluefields
Nicaragua consigned to the Blu
fields. Steamship Company, with 20
600 punches of bananas a d genera
cargo, has arrived at New Orleans
Reports sailing from Bluefields Oc-
26, experienced a strong .orther, wit
heavy seas In the Yucatan Channe
thence moderate weather to port. A
so reports on Oct. 2S. about $40 ,
NJ, in latitude 1S:47 north, longitud
94:41 west. Greenwich, passed
wooden sailing vessel on fire an
nearly burned to the waters edg,
Passed close by wreck, but could nc
give any further particulars, as mast
and nearly everything on deck a
burned. At 8 p. m. Oct 80, in tn
gulf passed a piece of lifeboat main