The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-01-16
DAYS SHIPPING NEWS
IN PORT OF MARIETTA
News Up And Down Our Water
Front Gathered by Our Seawise,
But Fresh Water Reporter

The liner 4psilanti, from Ham,
burg via the northern route, entered
port last evening enshrouded in
thick coating of sleet, the wireless
tower representing a beautiful sight,
with each steel member of the tall
lacework encased in shimmering ice.
Captain Maitland stated that about
800 miles off-shore they passed thru
one of the fiercest ,sleet storms he had
encountered for years.
The Clyde Line will in the near fu-
ture, as soon as the Government shall
have turned back their steamers, put
on two new 1000 ton steamships to
make Brunswick, Marietta and New
York.
Capt. Kidd. in the old days, pirated
for gold and like treasure. He would,
nevertheless, have understood the ac-
lions of certain unknown persons
yesterday, and have entertained
fellow-feeling for them. About three
in the afternoon, in broad daylight,
too, and right in the Marietta har-
Dor off Fair Oaks, pirates boarded
the Revenue Cutter Moorehouse,
overpowered officers and crew still on
the boat, then loaded onto high
powered launch, the bulk of a ship
ment of whiskey which the Cutter
had just confscated from a small
schooner caught after dark Sunday
within the Smile limit off Dodgen
village.
Many persons witnessed the proce-
dure from distance, but it was ac-
complished so deliberately that little
notice was taken of it, it being sup
posed that the pirates were persons
engaged in legitimate business with
the cutter. Owing to this the alarm
was delayed and for the time the
pirates made good their escape in the
direction of the numerous islands and
lagoons and intricate waterways
along the coast south of Atlanta. 1t
is assumed that within a few days all
of drinking Atlanta will be off duty.
The Schr. LaBelle has been libelled
by local attorneys acting for the New
York Shipbuilding Company for debt,
and is temporarily in the hands of
the local Court, pending proceedings
to be brought Monday next
From reports just compiled for the
calendar year just ended, the gross
tonnage handled by the port of Ma
rietta for 1919 exceeded that for
the previous year by 1,324,569 tons
and this under exceptionally hard
conditions.
We usually have to work hard for
what we get, but occasionally some
thing comes unsought to us that we
didn't know we wanted. Through the
Marietta Chamber Of Commerce we
learn that the Italian Government has
made presentations to the United
States Government concerning the
desirability of the establishment of a
direct passenger and freight line be-
tween Marietta and Italian ports for
the purpose of more efficient handl-
ing Of the heavy and ever-increasing
passenger traffic from the middle and
western portions of the United
States, which is now distributed
through several eastern ports, and to
concentrate the traffic in products of
South Georgia and Florida. The
greater part of the latter have been
handled through this port for several
years, most of the remainder being
handled through Miami.
Government agents have recently
visited Marietta to look itno the mat
ter, going from here to Jacksonville,
which latter port is endeavoring to
divert a share of the business to it.
self. Some years ago Jacksonville
showed every indication of becoming
one of the great Atlantic ports, but
the great earthquake and succeeding
tidal wave, which so greatly affected
our own coast line, Swallowed the St.
Johns River to so great an extent as
to make access to the city up the 16
miles of river impossible for deep sea
craft Of recent years Jacksonville
has spent millions of dollars in an eff
fort to open the channel to the ocean
and Keep it open and hopes soon to
be in fair way to get back part of
the trade thereby lost.
The Kennesaw lighthouse on top of
the mountain is to lose it's present
keeper, John Smeadley, who will be
transferred to the Roswell lighthouse
Feb. 1st, and be superseded by Hor-
ace L. Simpkins, now in charge Of the
Alpharetta light.
The Navasink, coastwise schooner,
plying between Florida points and
Baltimore, and loaded with lumber,
from Miami for Baltic, began to
founder from cause unknown, on the
9Th instant, in the Gluf Stream off
Titusville, Fla, and is now derelict.
All shipping is being warned by the
Government to look out for her in the
gulf Stream approximately off Jack
gonville at the present time, and
Government cutters are searching for
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