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32 ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP. Office of the Marine REvIEW, 1005 West. Street Bldg., New York City. It is reported that two direct steam- ship lines will shortly be in operation between Canada and France, develop- ment of trade under the new Canadian- Franco treaty making an early possi- bility of establishing a weekly service. The Allan Steamship Co. is making atrangements for a new service on this route, the steamers to sail every three weeks, and the Canadian Pacific has under consideration the establish- ment of a first-class steamship service to Antwerp, calling at a French port. In view of 'the fact that representa- tives of the Continental steamship: companies, who last week held a meeting at Cologne for the purpose of making arrangements for the pool- ing of the North Atlantic steerage business, have decided to hold a meet- ing in London 'to confer with the rep- resentatives of the principal British steamsh'p companies, the conference which was to have been theld at Lon- don on Saturday has been postponed for several weeks. It is predicted that an attempt will be made 'this week to settle the-trans-Atlantic rate war. The Italian steamship Regina D'Ital- ja, 'which was held under an attach- ment obtained by her builders for $1,067,690, has at last sailed from New York. The attachment was issued against the Lloyd Sabaudo Soc'eta Animima de Navigazione de Turine, the corporate name of tthe steamship company, for money due for vessels built for the firm. The Lloyd Sabaudo would not make the last payment on their steamers because the steamers did not come up to the contracts. All differences, however, have been set- tled, and the Regina D'Italia, after many false starts, at last departed for Naples and Genoa on 'the 18th. The four-masted schooner Bertha L. Downs, the first schooner to be built in the new ship yard of Edward W. Hyde, at Bath, Me, was launched om Jan. 18. She was christened by Miss Bertha L. Downs, daughter of Vice President J. W. Downs, of the Benedict-Manson Marine Co., of New Heven, Conn., for which the craft was built. The Bertha L. Downs will be engaged in 'the general coasting trade. The bark Good News sailed on Sat- urday from the Delaware laden with the most dangerous 'cargo that has ever left the river. She sailed from Wilmington, Del., for Tacoma, via THE Marine. REVIEW Cape Horn, the cargo consisting of nearly 2,000 tons' of dynamite | and other high explosives. 'The high rates charged by the railroads for carrying explosives are practically prohibitive and, although a cargo has to be car- ried 14,000 miles farther by water, it can be done that way much cheaper. The Good News is not due at her destination until next summer. The steamer Monterey, which ar- rived at New York on Sunday, re- ported that on Jan. 11, while in the Gulf of Mexico, a peculiar white pow- der descended on the decks. As there was no grit in the composition of the powder, or dust, it is not believed to be volcanic. Owing to the heavy weather the Lusitania was unable to make Queens- town on Thursday night, proceeding direct to Liverpool. The crew of the British steamer Tolesby, which was wrecked at Fresh- water Pom, near @ape Race, had a narrow eScape from drowning. During a thick snow storm the 'steamer struck on a ledge at the foot of .a thigh cl'ff, and owing to the breaking seas it was found impossible to launch the boats. The crew 'took to the rigging, where, later, they were seen and rescued by means of lines lowered from the top of the cliff to the steamer's masts. The British steamship Inchkeith, from the Tyne for New Orleans, has towed the Danish steamship Polarst- ' jetnen to the Bermuda Islands. The Polarstjernen was from West Hartle- pool, and had lost her propeller. The young man whose premeditated death was so rudely interrupted on the steamer Plymouth probably over- looked, when he left the farewell note ashore, the wide range of usefulness to which the wireless telegraphy sta- tions have been put. The North Atlantic doesn't have 'em all. What is believed to have been a floating derelict was submerged in the tracks of an East river tug on Monday. After colliding with the wanderer 'the tug was headed inshore, all hands scrambling onto one of the wharfs. The jatest bulletin reports the tug also submerged. The United States local inspectors of steam vessels have suspended the licenses of Capt. Archie Jones, of the motor boat Bentley, and Capt. S. E. Matthews, of the motor boat Lillie, for. running their vessels without proper equipment. Both vessels are passenger craft and ply between Chin- coteague and Franklin City, Va. The suspension is for 15 days. HARBOR MASTERS ON THE LAKES. Following are the harbor masters of the principal ports on the lakes: CITY. HARBORMASTER. Buffalo, N. Y. John J. Burns. VO) tamlctttskcea Nig ae John Bourne. Hindesneeas Wm. R. Jordan, Ashtabula, O. Sam Cook. Cleveland, O. Peter Lynch. orain, ©: Herman Carlsen. Toledo, O. Capt. John A. Page. Detroit, Mich. Robert Ellison. Marine City, Mich. Frank Baker. Port Huron, Mich. Chief of Police Henry F. Marx. Bay City, Mich. N.- N. Murphy. Saginaw, Mich. H. Clare Lockwood. Cheboygan, Mich. Fred Nelson. Michigan City, Ind. Harry M. Miles. Chicago, IIl. Walter Scott. Racine, Wis. Wm. H: MclIlrath, Milwaukee, Wis. John McCoy. Manitowoc, Wis. Capt. B. Sniffin. Marquette, Mich. Anton O. Kruger. Duluth, Minn. Thomas Burke. Sheboygan, Wis. William Groh. BIDS FOR DUMP SCOWS. Bids received. by Capt. Earl. J. Brown, corps sof engineers, UW, 9. army, Wilmington, N. C., opened Jan. 10, for constructing two six-pocket bottom dump scows, were as follows: American Car & Foundry Co., Wil- HIMita HOT ee ID Clee Grerenacs Gosia. sees 5. $44,600.00 Sanford & Brooks Co., Baltimore, Md. 30,630.00 Southern Ship Building Co., Totten- EV Seamer tes. vuara sg Shag were Stas acess 37,900.00 Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va..... 30,500.00 Ieee Scam Rei atelier Net Sime alee ee 33,600.00 Wilmington Iron Works, Wilmington, EN pie Gig esite cee eRe Se Nr ages 39,977.77 Smith & Robinson, Philadelphia, Pa. 33,380.00 Louis H. Skinner, Wilmington, N. C. 31,800.00 American Car & Foundry Co., Wil- saab ayerte(oyalegsie) OXel be eens ater oie pr dooce oe ONT ROR 39,600.00 PIG IRON SITUATION. Less activity is prevalent in pig iron following the somewhat livelier mar- ket of a week ago, though there is a desultory buying movement of near- future needs in some sections. South- ern prices of $12.50 and $12 are re- ported. Some of the steel interests are expressing a wish for the re- affirmation of the ore prices of 1907, but other companies not owning mines ane Mot SO ready tO. Cconeubeim this sentiment. Because of the large amount of ore on docks and in fur- nace yards, it seems probable that no definite action in prices will be taken for some time.' Only a light business is moving in finished lines. Prices are fairly well sustained except in cast iron pipe and light rails. The 'old naval dry dock at Port Royal, S. C., is to be sold at auction Jan. 28. The dissolution of the naval dock at that port has been progress- ing for some time and for all practi- cal purposes it has been abandoned. alae