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Star liner, Majestic, and went into dry dock to have another shaft fitted. The Pacific Coast Steamship Co., San Francisco, Cal., is having. plans prepared for a new 22-knot express and passenger turbine steamer for the Port Los Angeles route, which is to be onthe same lines as the turbine steamers Yale and Harv- ard, recently running from New York to Boston. The plans are being prepared under the supervision of George W. Dickie, superintendent of construction for the company, and it is hoped that the re- sult will be a steamship far in advance of any ever seen on that coast. Within the next two months the navy department is expected to ask for bids for supplying additional coal for delivery on the Pacific coast, to be used by the, battleship fleet while in those waters and on the return journey, as well as to main- tain the normal coal supply at the vari- ous stations there. It is sincerely to be hoped that the American ship will be al- lowed an opportunity to benefit by the carriage of this commodity in accord- ance with the laws of the country for the consumption of whose navy it is designed. The West Coast Steamship Co. has been organized at Los Angeles, Cal. to enter into competition with the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. on the routes be- tween Puget Sound and San Fran- cisco, and from! -Sam irancisco: mato San Diego. C. G. Krueger, of San Fran- cisco, formerly of the Rock Island rail- road, is manager of the new company. From three to six steamers, weekly, will operate each way, these to be fine new, vessels designed for the combined freight and passenger service. Although 40 miles from navigable water, the University of Michigan boasts a club of sufficiently nautical title and in- .tent. It consists of students in the de- partment of marine engineering and is known as the Quarter Deck Club. The following officers were elected, Nov. 12: Commodore, Leon H. Johnson, James- town, N. Y.; vice commodore, August W. Kretzschmar, Detroit, Mich.; secretary, Charles S. Wiley, Oswego, N. Y.; treas- urer, Harry A. Musham, Chicago, IIl.; librarian, Floyd A. Rowe, Battle Creek, Mich. Rear Admiral Evans, commander-in- chief of the Atlantic fleet, in issuing the! formal orders giving the itinerary of the _ fleet on its voyage to the Pacific, includes the directions for forwarding mail to the officers and members of the crews. From Dec. 16 to Feb. 5, the mail for the fleets; is to be sent in care of the postmaster at New York, and after that date in care of the postmaster at San Francisco. From the time the vessels leave Rio Janeiro un- til they reach Callao on the west coast of South America it will be impossible to TAE Marine REVIEW get mail to them from the United States. The Southern Pacific Co.'s new tur- bine steamship Creole thas recently completed a successful voyage after her overhauling, which was made necessary from the fact that the failed to attain her contract speed in service. For this reason the steamer was returned ito the yard of the Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass., where she was built and she comes from there with a guarantee of 16 knots. 'The Creole is 440 ft. long, 53 ft. wida and accommo- dates 196 cabin and 500 steerage pas- sengers, steamer The Hamburg-American Steamship Co. has purchased the rights for the Schlick gyroscopic apparatus, and it is their intention to equip their small North Sea and English channel boats with it. It is expected that they will be kept steady in 'the roughest weath- ef. oUhe first vessel to be so titted will be the Silvania and the order for building one of the new machines has already been given to the Vulcan Iron Works at. Stettin, Germany. The gyro- scope will be put in the stern and it is expected that it will entirely coun- teract the rolling or side motion of the vessel, Protests are being. made by the captains of vessels entering the port of New York against the restricted usage of the new Ambrose channel, through which only the very largest vessels are permitted to pass. Already there have been several instances of a steamship having entered which was not of the class designated, and as a consequence there are cases against their owners in the United States district court. This offense is a misdemeanor and is punishable by ia fine not exceeding $500 and the imprisonment of tthe guilty skipper or pilot for not more than six months. The 25-ft. water line cruising yawl Kittiwake, owned by Reginald H. John- son, of Boston, has been sold through the agency of Hollis Burgess to Royal iB. Curtis, of New xochelle Nev. ihe cruising yawl Aspinet, owned by Henry S. King and Stanley M. Bolster, of Dor- chester, Mass., has been sold through the same agency to Ernest G. Adams, of Worcester, Mass., also the 21-ft. knock- about Jester, owned by Dr. Ernest B. Young, of Boston, to W. J. Aylward, of 'Boston, the 18-ft. knockabout Mustang, owned by H. B. Buck, of Boston, to Benjamin Franklin Jr., of Providence, and the fast sonderklasse sloop Windrim Kid, owned by Frank G. Macomber Jr., of Boston, to Dr. Joseph T. Cox, of Rennie Vans Nays BOOK REVIEWS. Lumber Carrying Steam Schocners, Owned in San Francisco, is the title of an interesting list which has been compiled by the Ship Owners' Asso- ciation of the Pacific coast, Fenry Fost Office building, San Francisco, Cal., and which is being distributed to the marine trade for the sum of 50 cents. The list gives the name, gross tonnage, net tonnage, capacity, M. ft., length, beam, depth, size of engines, kind of} boilers, fuel, indicated horsepower, when built, number of engineers, firemen, oilers and stewards, together with the name of the owner, of all lumber-carrying steam schooners owned in that city. In addition to this there is a summary, embracing the principal features of the report and also an alphabetical list of owners, and the vessels which they own. A Sailor's Garland a collection of poems selected and edited by John Masefield. New York. The MacMil- lan Co. 328 pages. Supplied by the Marine Review for $1.50. This should prove a very interesting book to those who love the sea and its people, as between its covers have been collected the gems of poetry which sing the songs of the deep, including excerpts from William Shakespeare, Chaucer, S. T. Coleridge, William Cowper, Lord Ma- cauley, Charles Kingsley, Robert Brown- ing, Lord Byron, Lord Tennyson, Fred- erick Marryat, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, Henry W. Longfellow, A. T. Quiller-Couch, and many others. In addition to these there is a chapter devoted to chanties--the songs which the sailors sing while engaged in their la- bors, or at least which they used to sing quite regularly before the advent of steam--and of which many are of very ancient origin. Sea Terms and Phrases, English- Spanish, Spanish-English, by Graham Hewlett, fleet paymaster, royal- navy. London. Charles Griffin & Co. Phil- adelphia. J.B. Lippincott ode 414 inches. 368 pages. Supplied by the Marine Review for $1.25. This should prove a most interesting and useful little volume to those who, either in naval or merchant ser- vice, find it necessary to communi- cate with the Spaniard or with those ubiquitous peoples who, having long since ceased to owe allegiance to the mother, country, have yet continued to speak her language. Many valuable features besides the sea terms themselves appear, in- cluding a glossary of geographical names, tables of animals, birds, fishes, plants, fruits, etc., papers of a Span- ish merchant ship, tonnage certificate and bill of health, as well as tables of the relative ranks of the officers of the Spanish and British navies.