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1g It is calculated that the only supplies, in addition to coal, which the fleet will take on board on the way will be such fresh vegetables as may be procured at the different points where the ships will stop. As it is summer in the South At- lantic in December, January and Febru- ary, pleasant weather is anticipated. The city of Tacoma, Wash., is to have a fireboat shortly. The president of the city council is authority for the statement that one will be pro- vided for in the budget for the com- ing year. Tacoma is at present with- out protection of this sort and the heart of the business section is en- dangered. The name of the ill-fated steamer General Slocum has recently been changed to Maryland. The wreck was "purchased in November, 1904, by Frederick Craemer, of Philadelphia, for $1,800 and converted into a coal barge. In the burning of the Slocum more than 1,000 persons, mostly women and children, lost their lives. The battleship Vermont was pre- sented with a beautiful silver service - at Boston Oct. 6. Each of the pieces of the service is emblematic of the Green Mountain state. The battle- ship was also the recipient of a flag of its mame state as a gift of the Vermont chapter of the D. A Rv and the jackies were remembered by com- fort bags from the Vermont W. C. tu. / . The new German second-class cruis- er Stettin, when undergoing her trials last week attained a speed of 25.8 knots an hour, which is considerably above the contract requirements. The Stettin is of 3,350 tons displacement, and is 354% ft. long and 54% ft. beam. She was built at the Vulcan Works at Stettin. Her engines are eo (00 7. -H. P., and . she mounts ten- 4.1-in. guns and_ eight 2.2-in. guns. She is also equipped 'with two torpedo tubes. Corporation Counsel Pendleton has sent to the mayor of New York, an opinion respecting the action of the, board of water supply in awarding the Ashokan dam contract to the Mac- Arthur Bros. & Winston Co. when a bid some $2,000,000 lower had been submitted by the John Pierce Co. The opinion states that the board was entirely within its rights in awarding the contract as it did and that the only recourse available to the city would be for the board to readvertise the contract. The board of estimate and appor- tionment of the city of New York at a recent meeting passed a resolution authorizing the issue of corporate stock in the sum of $10,000,000 to -of her fuel. THE Marine REVIEW pay for the acquirement and develop- ment of property along the South Brooklyn water front. It is estimated that $6,000,000 of this amount will be required to pay for the purchase of the property at $1.10 per square foot. The remainder is to be used in build- ing the massive chain of docks which has been planned for the entire front. The. submarine boat U, the only one in the navy of Germany, has re- cently undergone a series of maneu- vers which resulted most satisfac- torily. The -under water. trials were very successful and the vessel is said to have surpassed all records for sim- ilar vessels in other. navies for dis- tance of voyage, having traveled 600 nautical miles in the North Sea, dur- ing bad weather, without the renewal She is fitted with two petroleum motors, 225 H. P. The greatest distance here- tofore traveled by a submarine under similar conditions was 300 miles, ac- complished by a French boat. The fact that the navy lacks sufficient colliers to supply coal for the trip empha- sizes the necessity of additional ships of 'this class and it is probable that Congfess will be asked to make an appropriation for building them, At present only two colliers are in progress of building, one at the New York yard, which is 30 per cent completed, and one at Mare Island, which is only 1 per cent finished. The Panther, fully equipped as a re- pair ship, will accompany the fleet, as will the water ship Arethusa and the supply ships Glacier and Culgoa. The Glacier will be provisioned with sufficient fresh meat to last the fleet all the way from Hampton Roads to San Francisco. The committee appointed by the Navigation Conference at its meeting in New York last April, and which was to report upon the various sug- gestions made for increasing the safety of vessels in navigable waters, held a meeting recently in New York at which a number of resolutions were adopted to be laid before the conference shortly. Of chief interest was the resolution limiting the length © of (tows. in harbors and rivers. to 1,500 feet, from _the bow of the tug boat to the stem of the last barge or scow in tow, and that the distance between any two adjacent vessels towed shall not exceed twenty-five fathoms, and the distance from the tug to the first tow shall not exceed fifty fathoms. The steamer Australia towing the barge Polynesia, bound down with ore, collided with the steamer F. B. Squire, upbound, in the St. Clair river near Algonac on Sunday morning. The Australia and Polynesia were pretty each developing 'NF... Various badly damaged, the former having sev- eral damaged plates and bent frames. Both vessels will be unloaded at Cleveland and will then be taken to the ship yard for repairs. The Squire was apparently not injured, for she proceeded on her trip. The Australia and Polynesia are owned by Capt: James Corrigan of Cleveland and this is the second accident that they have met with during the present season in the St. Clair river. A few months ago the Australia was sunk by the Bethiehem.... Col. Robert M. Thompson, retired naval officer, yachtsman and financier, of New. York, has chartered the steamship Mineola, of the Hogan line, for the purpose of taking a number of his friends on a trip around the world. The Mineola, which is of 8,300 gross registered tons, has been plying between England and Galves- ton, Tex. She will be fitted out at the yard of Tietjen & Lang, Hoboken, conveniences being added that will fit her for a pleasure yessel. The work of making the necessary changes is in the hands of Tams, Lemoine & Crane, naval archi- tects, of New York. The . charter price, exclusive of any improvements, is said to be $500,000, and the guests are to include Lord Charles Beresford and Lord Brassey and his wife, be- sides about a dozen other friends of the unique host. Major Graham D. Fitch, govern- ment engineer at Duluth, has advised the United States lake survey that a deep channel, 135 ft. wide, has been dredged through the shoals in Supe- rior harbor basin just off the mouth. of the Namedji river and the banks are marked with small red and black spar buoys, black on the south side and red on the north side of the channel. The south edge of the dredged cut passes 85 ft. off the point of shore on the east side of the mouth of the Namedji river. The dredges are still working on the north side of the channel to further widen it and the buoys will be set back as the width increases. Vessels drawing 21 ft. can now run from the Superior entry up. into the Superior front channel, where deep water is 400 ft. wide, by keeping south of the dredges and between the buoys above _ referred to. The tug Excelsior of the Great Lakes Towing Co.'s fleet was struck by the steamer Presque Isle in the Detroit river. last Saturday, and sunk. The crew had a narrow escape from drowning, but succeeded in reaching shore safely. The tug will be raised.