The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-01-02
DAYS SHIPPING NEWS
IN PORT OF MARIETTA
News Up and Down Our Water
Front Gathered by Our Seawise,
But Fresh Water Reporter

S. S. Estelle, from Hamburg, dock
ed this morning. Among her large
passenger list are Count Grausfeld
and Herr Friedrichshafen, on a Sc
cret mission from Germany to the
United States Government. 1t has
been limited that Count Grausfeld
will, as soon as peace between the
two countries shall have become an
assured fact, become the first Ambas-
sador to the American Government,
late, took his enforced leave. This
out-of Extraordinary direct communi-
cation between two countries still IN
a state of war with each other, be-
came desirable, it is stated, owing to
certain condition, applicable to Ger
many only.
Schr. Raven, Ravana to New York,
put into Marietta yesterday to I'M
load part of cargo of bananas, and
will proceed on her way Friday
morning.
The great liner, Rotterdam, is off
the quarantine station and will tie
UP at her dock tonight, leaving on
her return trip to Bremen on the 31st
inst, with a full passenger list.
The Str. Seville, with 220 passen-
gers and a crew of rs was towed to
Marietta yesterday by the tugboat
Inca, which answered her S. 0. S.
call on the 18th off the Georgia coast,
and is now at anchor in the harbor.
The Seville had broken a propeller
shaft and become unmanageable dur
ing the fierce storm of the 25th. She
is from Barcelona and was due in
Havana on the 26th, but will be de-
layed upwards of a week while the
Marietta Marine Engine Co. installs
a new shaft.
The Scovilla, the Artemus and the
Angel, private yachts respectively of
J. P. Morgan, Barnhardt Baruch and
Commodore Kotching, of the Detroit
Yacht Club, are anchored in the har-
Dor taking on additional supplies
while their owners are enjoying a
few days hunt in the North Georgia
Mountains.
The 3master, Rochelle, Brest to
Miami with a French cargo, will pro-
coed to the latter place tonight and
return loaded with Dade County pine
for reconstruction work in France.
The Maracaibo, a tramp from Rio
de Janero for Baltimore, limped into
port last night under her own power,
having sustained considerable dam
age in the recent storm which caught
her in the Gulf Stream off Palm
Beach. The Cobb Dry Dock Com
pany expects to have her in shape to
proceed within the next few days
The noble work of the Life Saving
crew of the Smyrna Station in res
cuing the passengers and crew of
the coaStwise Str. Antelope under
most dangerous conditions, has al
ready borne partial recompense. The
passengers, officers and crew Of the
wrecked vessel, part of whom are
still in Marietta hotels recovering
from the shock and exposure, made
up a purse of $4,000 and turned it
over to the Marietta Chamber of
Commerce for distribution among
the members of the Smyrna L. S. Sta
ton. The Antelope still lies on her
beam mile off the Smyrna coast,
and the high waves are fast breaking
her up. All efforts Of tugs to re-
/ float her were unsuccessful
The coastwse Str. Marco, phos-
phate, Jacksonville to Philadelphia,
which had put in at Marietta for coal,
sank at her mornings at the foot of
Waterman Street early this morning
and will be raised by the salvage Str.
Recovery. The cause of the sinking
cannot be definitely determined un-
til divers complete their examination.
So far as known only the Waterman
was aboard at the time 1t is sup
posed that he had either been asleep
or away from the vessel, for she
was low in the water and listed
slightly to port when he notified the
Wharfmaster by phone of the ships