The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-28
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
CHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

The German steamer PalIas enter
ed yesterday from Progresso bringing
a cargo of 400 bales of sisal grass
the first full cargo to be brought here
in many years. The cargo will be dis
charged at the wharves Of the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad and shipped
through TO points Of final destina-
ton.
The steamer Tarpon arrived yester-
day from points down the coast, bring
ing full cargo of naval stores. A
large number of persons were pas
sengers aboard the steamer. The ves-
sci leaves tonight for her regular week
ly run to Mobile, returning Tuesday
morning.
Several of the river steamers, which
loaded cargo Friday, left yesterday
morning on their runs to points up
Choctawhatchee and Blackwater bays
Steamship Stephano.
The steamship Stephano was
launched on the End of this month at
Scotstoum, Scotland, by the Charles
Conneu Company, Ltd, for the Red
Cross Line and is expected to arrive
in New York early in June, when she
will be placed on the New York, Hall
| fax and Newfoundland route in con-
| junction with the FlorizeL.
The new vessel has a length of 325
feet, beam SO feet and a speed of 10
knots an hour. Her construction was
carried on with a view to giving her
passengers every comfort, convenience
and safety and she is built also to
combat successfully the floating ice
which appears around Newfoundland
| at certain times Of the year. She will
| be commanded by Captain JOS Clark,
wen-known to passengers of the Red
Cross Line and who formerly com
manded the F1orizel, which will be in
command of Capital Clifton Smith this
| season
To Err May Be Human.
Marine Journal: The New York
| Herald in it's Sunday edition Of May
IA devoted a page Of interviews and
criticisms suggested through an ar
ticle from the Marine Journal Of April
Is, in which we endeavored to Son
| vince our readers that the captain Of
| the steamship Princess Irene, who was
at fault in strading that vessel on the
south side Of Long Island recently,
would be a safer man in command Of
| a ship than he was before he met
with said disaster, and in consequence
of his excellent previous record should
be retained in command of this ship,
which it will be remembered was float
| ed in less than four days from the
| time she was stranded.
The HeraldAs article is exceedingly
| interesting, as well as showing the
versatility of its writer, who after in
| terviewing port captains and managers
of transatlantic steamship lines, Sandy
Hook pilots, masters in active ser
vice, those retired and others of intel
| ligence, in connection with the opera
| ton and navigation of big passenger
steamships, begins his story with the
appropriate title The Eleventh Com
mandment of the Vastly Deep" which
he creates and applies to the ship
master in these words: Thou Shalt
Not Fail" Following is the introduce
tory paragraph of the story referred
| to:
| when the Princess Irene In the
gray of a foggy morning recently be-
came a leviathan stranded she pointed
peculiar problem and raised a Gu
rious question. The problem was on
the subject Of that one great immuta-
bic law of the seattle law that has
such few exceptions-that the captain
that grounds or loses his ship may
never command another. He may have
| been guiltless, he may have done
everything that bravery or magma
| ton could suggest, he may have been
| in the grip Of circumstances incalcu-
| liable in their reach-but if his ship
goes there is no other for him. He is
a branded man, a professional Cain
among maritime employers man
whom command thenceforth will
| shun."
For the benefit Of those Of our read
ers who may not see the article refer