The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-22
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The British schooner Albert D. Mills
entered from Havana yesterday con-
signed to master and will load a lum-
Der cargo.
The steamer Tarpon is due in port
this morning from her weekly run
down the coast.
Several Of the river boats departed
yesterday on their last weekly trips
out.
The steamer Consul Horn, which
brought a large cargo of mahogany
logs here from Belize, cleared light
yesterday for Puerto Padre. She took
on bunker coal before departing.
Yesterdays receipts Of Spanish
mackerel were fairly good, and as fish
ermen are making good catches down
at East Pass, according to reports, the
receipts today and Monday should be
heavy.
The Ward liner Saratoga arrived
in New York on Tuesday of this week
after making a record trip from Ha-
vana in two days, twelve hours and
twenty-one minutes, in which time she
steamed 1888 miles.
Considerable interest is conferred in
the races which will take place off
Huntington, Long Island, next August
for the British International Cup for
motor boats, and Commodore H. H.
Melville of the Motor Boat Club of
America recently received a cable
gram from London that yachtsmen
were ready to back the British entry
for this cup for any part of 100000,
and asked if Americans had any offers
to make.
Good Lumber Winter in Maine.
Not for many years has the hauling
in the Maine lumber woods been as
good as this winter. In the majority
of sections the hauling is completed
and the logs are at the landings, wait
ing for a hole in the ice to start the
driving.
The Eastern Manufacturing Asso-
citation has 100000 feet on Trout
Brook with 100000 left over from
last year; on Webster Brook 1000, 900
feet have been hauled to the land
ings; from the two operations on
chamberlain
log haulers have been at work con-
stantly 100000 feet are now at the
landings, making a total of 100000
or 100000 feet in all.
Operators have not complained Of
lack of snow since Christmas. In
some places there has been four feet to
a week ago and within two days from
Is to IS inches have fallen all over
the northern part of the state. All
the lakes have been exceptionally low,
but the outlook now is for lots of wa
ter in a short time.-Exchange
An Unusual Incident.
Marine Journal: NJ. Bayard Brown,
a citizen of the United States, but who
has made his home for the past TWEEN
ty years in his yacht Valfreyia, an
chored two hundred yards off Bright
Hngsea, is threatened with an income
tax on an assessment of $4,000 a year,
the tax assessors contending that he
virtually resides in England. Mr..
Brown, whose generosity has made
him very popular locally, contends
that he has never paid harbor dues,
rates, or taxes, that he is citizen of
the United States, and all his in
assessors contentious be sustained, it
will doubtless result in the Valfreyia
seeking another anchorage, which
would be considered a calamity at
Brightlingsea. a full crew Of eigh-
teen keep regular watches and are al
ways on board the yacht. Banked
fires are kept night and day, but the
order to put to sea has never been
given.
The Morris Canal to Be Abandoned.
The Morris canal, built between 1928
and 1886, at a cost of five million dol
lars, which extends from the Della
ware river at Phillipsburg to the Hud-
son river at Jersey City, a distance of
102 miles. is to be abandoned by the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, if