The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-08
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.


The British steamer August Bel
mont. Capt. Clarke, arrived in port
yesterday, coming from Port st. Joe,
where she took aboard a large guam
tity Of lumber and timber by the Key
ser Muldon Co. She will complete her
cargo here. Captain Clarke's many
friends are giving him a royal welcome
to the city
The steamer Monginevro is due in
port today to load a general cargo for
Genoa and Spezzia by the Gulf Tran
sit Co.
The Austrian steamer Georgia is due
here next Monday and VIII load for
Venice and Trieste.
Two steamers cleared yesterday, the
Broomheld in water ballast for Pro-
gresso and the Twilight for West Har-
tlepool with sawn timber, the latter
shipped by H, Bars & Co.
The steamer Simsonside has sailed
from Havre for Pensacola to take
cargo.
The steamer King Edgar hence, has
arrived at Lisbon.
The bell which hangs In the under
writer's room Of Lloyd's in London, and
which tolls the announcement when a
vessel is posted as lost or missing, was
taken from the British frigate Lutine,
which was wrecked on the sand bars
off Terschilling, Holland, in 1893, car
rying down with her $4,000 in GOLD
bars which was the heaviest loss ever
sustained by Lloyd's through a single
vessel.
/ The Washington correspondent of
the Brooklyn Eagle leads one to be-
lteve that Naval Constructor William
j. Baxter, who built the Connecticut
and Florida in the Brooklyn navy yard,
Is dissatisfied at not being allowed to
remain in that yard to construct the
big battleship New York, and as a con-
sequence has asked for leave of alb
sence wit hpermission to go abroad,
although he had been ordered from
Brooklyn to the Boston navy yard.
Constructor Baxter should have no
feeling against this proper action OF
the secretary Of the navy giving an
other naval constructor an opportunity
to see what he can do in the line OF
battleship construction In fact, II
should be gratifying to Mr.. Baxter to
haxe-some lone of his brother officers
attempt to do the stunt which he has
accomplished so successfully, and If he
measures up to the latter's standard,
az "AlA W a 5OOo OC
The naval collier Leonidas was de-
tailed last week to go to Havana har-
Dor for the mainmast of the sunken
battleship Maine and the remains Of
any of the men who lost their lives in
that disaster thirteen years ago. The
Names military mast is to be erected
IN Arlington cemetery as a monument
to the men already buried there who
We're killed by the explosion. The
WorlS'~of repairing the cofferdam built
around the wreck has been completed
and the work of pumping 1t out has
begun. II nothing unforeseen happens,
the vessel will be exposed on the har-
Dor bottom some. time. this month.
The Steamboat CalTiope.
One mournful note was heard in the
circus parade yesterday. 1t was the
voice OF the calliope. It wasn't its
motif which disturbed. 1t was the
neminiscences 1t recalled when reach
ing high G IN response to an encore It
wheezed in the upper register and
sobbed a sob for aud lang syne.
For the calIiope is a survival of good
old days when great steamboats, ply
ing all the way from New Orleans up
to st. Louis on the Mississippi and to
Cincinnati on the Ohio announced their
arrival OF every important port be-
tween the terminal points by lifting
the lid from the calliope and letting
nature take it's course. loft in the
Silly night the first notes of the cal
Hope could be heard anywhere in St
Louis as any of the great boats of the
Anchor Line, most of which were
equipped with the calliope, began
rounding the south curve Of the great
bend which begins near point OPP
posite Jefferson barracks. Once start
ed, the. noise always continued until
the boat was at the wharf and then
died in a gasp to assure the furthest
listener that anchor had been cast.
Distance lends enchantment to the
calliope's voice. Heard at night float
ing across quiet city from steam
boat coming up stream there used to
be in it a suggestion Of beauty which
we cannot by any 1orce of imagination
detect in it in a circus parade. And
why should the calliope be with us still
and the steamboat gone? Or why
should the calliope have been taken
over by the circus as its peculiar prop
erty after the steamboats, were no
more2
The circus and the steamboat were
contemporaneous and flourished to-
gether in days and nights when the
calliope was travelling with the steam
boat and not with the circus. The
steamboat is gone and the circus re-
mains and. strange fate. the calliope,
refusing to give up the ghost, has
taken the circus as a protector and
friend.-St Louis Globe Democrat.
United Harbor No. I.
From New. York Press, May n, 1911
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