The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-11-02
HARBOR AND
MARINE NEWS
SHIPPING TRANSACTIONS AND
NOTES OF INTEREST ALONG
THE BAY FRONT.

Three steamers entered yesterday
from foreign ports, a good start for
November business. They were the
Roma to the Keyser-Muldon Co., to
take lumber; the Senona to be loaded
by the Gulf Transit Co., and the jung
showed to Geo. W. Howe & Co.
Several fishing smacks arrived YES
terday with small catches, ewing to
the bad weather which has prevailed
in the guiI for the past week or ten
days.
The Gulf Transit Co. announces the
following vessels under charter for
Pensacola loading:
For Liverpool-Ida, due No. l; Ora
For Venice-A steamer, November
or December.
For Trieste-A steamer, November
or December.
For Havre-Sarrana. due about Nov.
5.
For Bremen-Leeds City, due about
Nov. 8.
For Danish Ports-Glanton, due
about Nov. 4.
Former State Senator Samuel NJ
Knox has been elected president of
the New York Shipbuilding Company,
Camden, n. j.. to succeed De Courcy
May, it's former president. Mr.. Knox
became connected with this company
as private secretary to H. D. Morse
when the latter was at is head some
years ago.
Mrs. Ida Lewis Wilson, for over half
a century keeper of the LIMERICK light
off Newport, r. l., died of apoplexy on
hn E IoS
was best known by her maiden name,
Ida Lewis, as she succeeded her faith
er as keeper of this light when but a
young girl. She was the only woman
to be officially appointed to the charge
of an American lighthouse. while her
fame as a life saver, frequently at
great personal risk, caused her to be
alluded to as the Grace Darling of
America and made her the recipient
of many medals of honor, a life PEN
sion, and the thanks of congress.
Capt Walter Blair. of the White
Collar Line, ON the upper Mississippi,
an experienced and successful steam
boatman, when the occasion presents,
enjoys telling that he has been a con-
slant reader of the New York Marine
Journal and the Waterways Journal
ever since they first eXisted.-From
Waterways Journal.
Marine Journal: At the, biennial
convention of the American Pilots
Association, held in Savannah re-
Gently, the following officers were
elected: President. J. Ed. O'Brien,
Pensacola, Fla; vice president, e. w.
Turnure, New York; secretary and
treasurer, John II. Low, Boston;
executive cOmmitte. John Fl. Low,
Boston; E. W. Turnure New York: J.
F. Hopkins, New Jersey; S. F. Ed
ridge, Pennsylvania; financial COM
mittee, J. F. Hopkins. New Jersey; T.
S. Eldridge, Philadelphia, and w. D.
Sanner, Baltimore.
The Omega of Wooden Sailing Ships.
The first American sailing ship to
arrive at Boston since 1874 is the Aryan.
commanded by Capt. ]. NJ. McLach-
Ian, from Seattle, after a voyage of
141 days at sea. The Aryan brought
cargo of 500 hewn spars, AZ round
poles, 10000 feet of square timbers,
$4,000 feet of rough fur lumber 49,
600 feet of rough cedar lumber and
500, 900 cedar shingles. This vessel was
built seventeen years ago and was the
last wooden deep-water sailing ship
to be constructed in the United States.
She is owned by E. P. Carver of Bos-
ton.
Arrived.
Roma. Br SIS, Storm. 2492, Monte
video to The Keyser-Muldon Co.
Senona, Br SIS, Hunter 2770, George
town to Gulf Transit Co.
Jungshoved. Span SIS, Horne, 2714,
Rio Janeiro to Geo. W. Howe & Co.
Cleared.
GraanshandeI, Bel SIS, .Vandanbgeart,
1896. for Bfest, with 445,000 # sawn
timber, $4,000 # lumber; for Wisbeck
Town. with 1900 S fit sawn timber,
1SS.000 # lumber.