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ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP. Office of the Marine REvIEW, 1005 West Street Bldg., New York City. Charles M. Taylor's Sons, Philadel - phia, announce they have arranged for a regular service of three steamers in the Furness line, making a direct sailing every three weeks between Philadelphia and Avonmouth. If successful a fourth steamer may be added, making the ser- vice a fortnightly one. The steamers in the service will be the Almeriana, London City and Gulf of Ancud, the Almeriana sailing from Philadelphia early in February. The schooner wrecked on Diamond shoals during the heavy storm that swept the Atlantic coast last week has been positively identified as the Leonora, from Round Pond, Me. She was bound for Charleston, S. C., with a cargo of fish scrap. The cook was the only member of the crew saved. To bring to the attention of members of congress the need of, and to induce legislation to obtain, better facilities for life saving on the coast in the vicinity of Point Judith, R. I., Frank S. Gardi- ner, secretary of the National Confer- ence, has forwarded to each member a memorial, with resolutions of the con ference. It is estimated that 10,000 pas- sengers go around Point Judith on a summer night, while the value of freight traffic is over $200,000,000 annually. Mr. Gardiner points to the increasing traffic passing the Point, and the inadequate fa- cilities for saving life or caring for the shipwrecked. Revenue cutters Nos. 17 and 18, which are now building at Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., and revenue cutters Nos. 20 and 21, building at the New York Ship Building Co., are being equipped with the Reilly multicoil heaters and evaporators. In the revenue cutter service as well as all other types. of ma- rine work, it is especially important that the weight of machinery be kept down as low as possible and the use of the Reilly units above specified have enabled a considerable saving in this matter. It is expected that the temperature of the feed water leaving the Reilly heaters will be not less than 230 degrees which is the temperature generally procured by these heaters when the supply of auxili- ary exhaust steam is sufficient. The Nor- folk & Washington fast steamer of 3,000 H. P. which is expected to make remark- able speed is also being equipped with the Reilly heater and it is expected that the high feed temperature made possible by using this heater will greatly assist the boilers and enable them to keep up "IRAE Marine. REVIEW a high pressure of steam when _ being forced. After spending six weeks in this coun- try studying the Atlantic passenger trade, F. M. Vermorcken, director of the North German Lloyd, sailed Saturday on the Lusitania. He was accompanied by Her- man Winter, assistant general manager of the company in America. They will attend a preliminary meeting of the con- tinental lines in London on Jan. 18, prior to the conference of the British and con- tinental lines on Jan. 21 at the Savoy hotel in London, which is to be held to consider the situation and better the con- dition of the passenger trade between the United States and Europe. The steamer Lexington, of the Mer- chants' & Miners' line, which was driven ashore off James Point, Md., during the night of the 8th, was refloated on the 10th and proceeded on her trip to Sa- vannah. The cargo which had been tak- en out of the Lexington to lighten her was towed to the mouth of the Patuxent river, where the steamer stopped and re- loaded. : Consul General Edward L. Adams, of Stockholm, reports the beginning of a movement for establishing a direct line of steamships between Swedish and American ports, as instituted by the Swe- dish-American Society of Stockholm. The report of Steamboat Inspectors W. L. Withey and John Stewart in con- nection with the disaster. to the Joy line steamer Larchmont, which collided with the schooner Harry Knowlton off Block island, Feb. 11 of last year, places the responsibility for the disaster upon the pilot, and absolves from blame Captain McVey and the rest of the crew. At the Kelvin memorial meeting held in the Engineers' building, New York, this week, the topics and speakers were: "Tord Kelvin as an Electrical Engineer," Prof. Elihu Thomson; "Lord Kelvin as a Scientist,' Prof. E. L. Nichols; "Lord Kelvin in Naval Engineering," Rear-Ad- miral Melville; "Lord Kelvin's Work in Submarine Telegraphy," G. G. Ward; "Lord Kelvin and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers," T..C. Martin. After a lengthy investigation, which has just been concluded, it has been found that Ulysses A. Hubbard, master of the steamer John Lenox, and William I. Em- mons, pilot of the ferryboat Queens, which were in collision off the Battery on Nov. 12, 1907, were both at fault, and suspended for 15 days. In commenting on the circumstances of this case, Super- vising Inspector Ira Harris pointed out 19 that vessels passing the Battery from the westward have a tendency to hug the shore and pass dangerously near the Bat- tery slips, and, owing to the growth of shipping, warns masters and pilots that they must adhere to the letter of the law on this matter. The tug Catherine Moran, which left New York for Panama on Oct 25) has arrived at her destination. The run was made in 76 days without a mishap. The British steamship Glenaen left ~Philadelphia this week for the Mediter- ranean with 179,035 bu. of wheat, load- ed at the Girard Point grain elevators. The vessel was loaded in 5% hours. Noah was rushing preparations. "Trying to get off before Roosevelt puts a surgeon in command,' he ex- plained. Herewith he hastily shoved away from shore--N. Y. Sun. Ice is being reported much earlier than usual, several large and medium-sized bergs having been seen by the incoming steamers. The British steamship Montrose, of the Canadian Pacific railroad service, stopped at Queenstown on her way from Ant- werp to St. John, N. B., to take aboard the passengers of the steamer Mount Royal. The British steamship Housatonic, a bulk oil carrier, was wrecked on Maiden Rock, County Antrim, Ireland, early on Sunday morning, two of the crew being drowned in getting away the boats. The Housatonic 'has been for several. years in the Philadelphia and Europe petroleum trade, and when wrecked was in ballast from Barrow for New York. She was owned by the Anglo- American Oil Company. The government tug Apache on Sunday returned to the Brooklyn navy yard after having destroyed the wreck of the Estelle Phinney off Barnegat, N. J. On Tuesday word was received at New York that a steamer bearing a strong resemblance to the long over- due Mount Royal had been reported 250 miles west of Fastnet Light, southwest of Ireland. The Mount Royal on Tuesday was 30 days out from Antwerp, and is supposed to have put back owing to the breaking down of her engines.