The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-25
.HARb0R AND
MARINE NEWS
CHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The herbor presents a much buster
scene now than 1t did two weeks ago.
for during the past week q number OF
steam and sailing vessels have en-
tered and are at anchor taking on
cargo. Quite o large number Of men
are employed. but there are others
who will find employment within the
course Of a week, for quite a number
Of vessels are yet to arrive for lumber
and timber cargoes.
The schooner Viola arrived yester-
day with q cargo Of naval stores,
which was discharged at Central
wharf.
Quite a number Of the river steam.
ers and sailing craft sailed yester-
day, all carrying out good cargoes.
The British steamer Option, which
entered from Hamburg yesterday
with a cargo Of nitrate Of soda. con-
signed to ]. A. Merritt & Co., has COM
menced discharging her cargo.
Obstruction off the American Coast.
Nov. 2O.--About fourteen miles
south by east from Ambrose Chan
mel lightship, saw a mast projecting
about ten feet out Of the water, ap-
parertly attached to sunken wreck
age--German steamship Hamburg.
Nov. 12.-Latitude 80 degrees so
minutes, longitude II degrees Is min
utes. saw several pieces of timber
Austrian steamship Carolina, Ragusin.
Nov. 17.-Latitude 80 degrees 7
In
utes, passed a broken spar standing
upright and projecting about twelve
feet out OF the water; also a small
piece Of wreckage.-British steamship
Ghazee. Cave.
Distractions Along Oversee Routes.
Disabled Steamer-Nov. 11.-Lati.
tude 81 degrees 46 minutes, longitude
so degrees 16 minutes, spoke the Ger
man steamer Cheruskia, which lost
her propeller Oct. 20, bound from the
Persian Gulf to New York. The
Cheruskia was under sail and averag-
J ing fourteen miles daily south by west
itrue).-U. s. steamship Wheeling,
commanding officer Telegram to navy
Department..
Note: The British steamer Gaia,
lima, Capt. Tebbs, on Nov. 2, in lati.
tude "a degrees % minutes, longitude
10 degrees IS minutes, spoke and Of
fered to tow the Cheruskia, which was
then under trysails and jib, making
thirty miles daily northward (true).
A Special Customs Ruling.
A novel problem in tie United
States custom regulations, Ind one OF
unusual concern to the slipping in
terest OF the country, has been dis
posed of by a special ruing OF the
treasury department auth:rizing the
restoration to the French liner Louis
lane Of her cargo which was lightered
and deposited at Key Yves. when the
vessel stranded recently on the Flor
ida coast. Shortly after the Louisiana
went aground, the French line Of
fcials were denied the right to reload
the cargo on the LouisiSne or on
lhther steamers Of the same line. The
treasury department held that the
cargo, after having been landed at
Key West, was made coastwise and
could not be transshipped to another
American port except in vessel fly.
ing the American cOlors. Because OF
the new American merchant vessels
plying between New Orleans and At
lantic coast points, the French line
officials found it practically impos-
sible to get the cargo moved. After
much delay, the entreaties of the
French line officials resulted in the
special ruling.--Maritime Register.
| Manchester Canadian Trade.
So satisfactory has been the regular
weekly service Of freight steamers
from Manchester to Quebec and Mon
treal during the ST. Lawrence naviga-
ton season in 1909 and 1910 that the
Manchester Liners, Limited, have de-
cided TO continue the service during
the winter. The last boat for Mon.
treal closes at Manchester on Nov. 3,
and the first boat of the winter SER
vice will close on the following Thurs.
day, Nov. 10, to be followed by a
steamer closing every Thursday.
There will thus be no break In the SER
vice, and importers of all kinds Of
goods will be enabled to continue to
use the direct Misunderstanding
route.-Maritime Register.
New searehlieht Regulations for Sucz.
A new regulation requires that
every vessel of any description what
ever which desires to pass through
the Suez canal must be equipped with
q special pattern of searchligbt capa-
BILE Of giving the light required under
two different conditions. namely, a
broad, fat beam illuminating both
hanks and the canal uninterruptedly
to be used when no ether ship is ap-
proaching, also a beam having the
same angle OF divergence and conse-
tquently the same width as the first.
but divided into two portions, with a
dark interval between. thus giving
light At both sides, but not directly
in front, and so not interfering with
the navigation of the approaching YES
sci. New York Marine Journal.
Improvements at Oakland.
Railway companies are building at
Oakland, on San Francisco Bay, great
piers and warehouses. with electric
cranes to transfer cargoes from ships
Ito car and from car to ship that viii,