The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-18
HARBOR AND
|. MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The BAY FHONIs
The customs authorities have been
notified of the wreck OF the schooner
Edna Greenhut, which occurred re-
Gently IN Joe's bayou. The Greenhut
had been trading out Of Pensacola with
bayou and Choctawhatchee bay points
for the past dozen or more years, and
had about outlived her usefulness as
craft.
+ The steamer Manteo is in the dock
4 in Mobile undergoing repairs as the
result of a collision recently in New
Orleans.
The schooner Brilliant. engaged in
the fish trade at Panama City, has
changed owners.
New YorRs Waterfront Property.
New York Marine Journal: The
entire waterfront OF this port aggre-
gates about 444 miles. OF this 80
miles are available for ocean COM
pnerce and IS miles are In actual COM
mercial use. Piers owned by the city
comprise $40, 900 1ineal feet, while the
privately owned piers comprise l.
$4,000 lineal feet. During 1910 the
city realized a revenue of Sails, 206.92
from piers and bulkheads, and from
wharf property leased for ferry pur-
poses exclusive of the municipal fer
ries the revenue was $247 .912.7. The
cost of repairs and maintenance, In
GLIDING labor payrolls, was $729, S37.8S.
The jurisdiction Of the city extends to
the pierhead line established by the
United States government
Pacific Fast Sailing Passages
The British schooner David Evans
recently made the voyage from Kobe,
Japan,rto the Columbia river, upward
Of 1000 miles, in twsnty-sfx days,
which is considered fast sailing.
Other fast passages made by sailing
craft between far eastern ports and
Pacific coast ports Of the United
States in recent years are q 19-day
passage by the British bark Howard
d. Troop from Yokohama to the Co
lumbia river and 27-day passage by
the American ship William H. Star
buck from Shanghai to the same point
Progress in Raising the Maine.
The steel cofferdam around the
wreck OF the battleship Maine has
been oocompleted, and the work Of
pumping 1t out Is expected to begin
about the 25th Of this month. When
this is accomplished the first work will
be to remove any remains Of the crew
that may stfll be found in her, for
which purpose the navy department
will send a vessel to Havana harbor,
which VIII also take on board any ma
terial Of historic value from the wreck.
Wireless Compulsory July I, 1911.
BY July I every ocean going steam
ship leaving an American port that
carries fifty persons. including pas
sengers and crew, by law must be
equipped with wireless telegraph !
outfit capable of sending messages 100 !
Nothing more important has been |
done in many years to increase the |
safety of travel at sea than the general |
installation Of wireless. Under the |
new system not only will every steam
ship be provided with better means Of
se)f-protection, but It VIII be a means
of protection for other ships. The
quickness with which relief arrived
from different quarters at the time of
the collision that resulted In the sink
ing of the Republic demonstrated once
for all how hereafter the ocean Is to
be dotted with live saving stations.
Other uses Of the wireless at sea are
to. be regarded as q convenience for
passengers and owners that could be
dispensed with without great loss.
The compulsory adoption Of It by all
passenger carrying steamships has
now become almost as much Of a safe
guard against disaster as a proper
equipment Of life boats.-Exchanse.
J.
Canal Too Costly.
The special commission appointed
TO report on the value Of a waterway
between Narragansett and Massachu-
sets bays has decided that 1t would
not justify the great expense enteiled
to. build 1t. The commission found
that a ship canal trom Taunton to
bingham, the heads of the tide waters
of Narragansett and Massachusetts
bays, would involve an expense of $751;
100000, while a canal connecting the
two bays and running from Taunton
to Plymouth would cost about SAL
The, Floating Docks Of Amsterdam.
The new floating drydock being built
at Amsterdam. which viii be known as
the Princess Juliana, win be 456 feet
long, ITO feet wide, and have g lifting
dock there are three other floating
drydocks at that port. consisting each
ora hollow, oblong bottom and two
hollow walls at the longest sides Of the
dock. When a ship is to be taken
out. the walls and bottoms are filed
with water, 30 that the dock sinks
and the vessel floats In it. The latter il
and the vessel floats In 1t. The latter is
Ter Is pumped out, allowing repairs to
be made.
SeaTnsn Not Always Sailors.
While sailor may be spoken of as
seaman. it does not follow that every
seaman Is sailor. In fact, under
present conditions we have many sea-
men VINO are not sailors at all in the
strict sense Of the term, as they have
never learned to reef, hand, or steer,
que to the scarcity Of ships now pro-
PEELED by sail power. OF seamen we
nave some half q million passing in
and out OF this port annually, and they
perform the same duties in relation to
steam vessels that saiolrs performed
on sailing vessels. This number is
Inpcn larger than the total of sailors
that formerly visited this port, hence
the growing Importance of the Sea-
mems institutes to care for and pro-
tect this class, most Of whom are
aliens. These sailors homes have been
large factors in improving the con-
ditlons along our water front in pre-
Venlns seamen from being imposed up
on, and should have the moral and
pecuniary support OF ell woh are in
terested in the welfare Of this port
New York Marine Journal
Seamen,s Friend SooiSty'a Rir+hdav.
The eighty third anniyersarv ~ fha