The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-27
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
CHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

Bay work should show an increase
during the coming week. Four steam
ers have arrived during the past two
days for cargoes of lumber and tim
Der and several more are expected in
the next day or two. The steamer
entered yesterday from
consigned to j. A. Merritt &
Co. and the steamer Lakewood en-
tered from Gulfport, consigned to
Huog Forcheimer.
The steamer Ida, which arrived
had commenced taking a
general cargo for Liverpool. Consid-
cradle cotton will form part of the
The schooner Donna Christina has
sailed from Key West for Pensacola
Several of the river steamers, which
loaded cargoes yesterday, will sail to-
day for points UP Choctawhatchee bay.
The steamer Tarpon is due in port
this morning from points down the
coast.
At the first dinner of the new or
ganization of younger men of the Bos-
ton Chamber of Commerce held re-
Gently, Admiral Francis 7. Bowles, U.
s. N, retired president of the Fore
River Shipbuilding Company, made an
address in which he urged the neces-
sity Of improving Boston harbor so
that it might accommodate the largest
liners building and now
in commission. Admiral BowIes point
ed out the importance of the creation
Of a port administration with power
to take charge Of the whole project,
so that a forty-foot channel to the
sea, dry dock. and piers to accom-
modate the big transatlantic ships
might be provided, the estimated cost
of which would be about $40, 900
for the proper development of the
harbor.
Historic Anchors.
Two large wrought iron anchors
which it is stated have been lying at
Cruces on the Canal Zone for two
years are to be removed to
the military academy at West Point
under the supervision Of Lieut.. Walter
d. Smith, graduate of that institu-
tion. A legend in regard to these
anchors has it that they were brought
from the Chagres River, and that
while forty men were carrying one
one Of them stumbled and fell. The
others were unable to stand the
uya;,bA ond fba opoJor faII io;,-,oo
seven of them. The point at which
siete, which is Spanish for Kill
Seven"
Currents Of the South Atlantic.
Physical conditions in the South At
lantic Basin are very different from
those in that Of the North Atlantic
and there is difference in the move
ment of currents. although the same
general principle Of circulation OBJ
tains. Between the Cape of Good
Hope and Cape Horn the basin is very
wide, and it narrows gradually to the
equator. South of the continents the
Southern Ocean encircles the globe
and there is continuous surface
movement of water in an easterly di-
rection around the world which sup
plies the deficiencies due to evapora-
ton in the Atlantic, Pacific, and In
dian oceans. From many parts oil
this ocean slow currents of small vol
ume set northward, which gain In
vlecoity as the temperature increases
and whose direction is Influenced by
the contour and by the position of the
dnanz fy,
is an area of dead water where the
regular, though there is an apparent
circulation in the same general direc.
ton as the main currents.
Three important branches from thu
Southern Ocean current flaw north.
ward into the South Atlantic basin
The current on the eastern side ha!
the greatest volume and supple:
largely the two great currents on tina
side Of the ocean-the Benguela Cur.
rent and the Cape or African Current
West of the Cape of Good Hope thes'
currents are practically one, and the!
are increased at certain seasons from
a current of warm water which, un
der the name of the Agulhas Current
sweeps down the eastern coast of AT
RIGA, through the Mozambique Chan
mel, to the Agulhas Bank, from which
II takes its name. The bank turns
the bulk of the stream from its south
westward direction back to the east
but a narrow stream of the Agulha.
Current rounds the cape and joins tn
Benguela Current in the Atlantic.
Another branch from the Southern
Ocean runs north near the Georgi;
Islands and, passing the Brazil Deep
joins the South Equatorial. Thi
current is not of great strength, blu
it is plainly marked. Another brancl
of cold water runs north close to tn
South American shore, following tn
curves of the land up to Cape ST
Rogue. This counter current is some
times very troublesome, as it 4
quickly affected by the southern.
winds and the water is piled up Il
the nays, making strong eddies ant
currents between the outlying island
and the mainland, being especial.
strong between the Straits of Magel
Ian and the Plata River and between
Santos and Rio Janeiro.-From tn
United States Photographic ONCE.
Navy Installing Gyroscope Compass