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ments made on samples of water col- lected between Madeira and England, and also on water from the Arabian eea.. In a paper recently read it is shown that the deep-lying sediments of the ocean are exceptionally rich in radium. The directors of the Cunard com- pany have arranged with Capt. J. B. Watt to continue in cotmmand of the Lusitania for another trip or so be- fore entering finally upon his retire- ment. A Campbeltown fishing boat recent- ly struck a shoal of herrings, and at one haul bagged $1,150 worth of fish. A man who had taken a passage on board a Cunarder to the United States broke the journey at Queenstown last week, owing to the inducements held out by the police who desired to in- terview him. "| wasnt beggin, said a marine fireman charged at Liverpool Central police court last week with that of- fense, "I wuz on'y askin' the loan of a penny." The committee of Lloyds have de- cided to bestow the silver medal of the society upon Chief Officer F. D. McArthur and Second Officer A. T. Cooke, and the bronze medal upon each of the Lascars who accompanied them in a boat from the steamship -~Oolobaria, which effected the rescue of the crew of the sailing ship Fathal Raham, of Ouscat, which was aban- doned on June 21 in the Indian ocean. The rescue took place during cyclonic squalls and blinding rain, with a high cross sea running, and it was only with great difficulty and at consider- able risk that the rescue was effected without loss of life. Commemorating 50 years of trans- Atlantic communication by cable, it seems only fitting that the presidency of the Edison service should have this year been taken by one who has been so prominently connected with the system--Thomas A. Edison. An old sea captain was visiting a certain exhibition, and was greatly in- terested in the mechanical action of steam whistles. one be heard?" he asked, pointing to a huge "buzzer." The young man in attendance was only a deputy, but replied, "Sixteen miles." "Sixteen miles?" said the old salt incredulously. "Well," said the youth, "eight miles this way and eight that way." The water in the Cuyahoga river at Cleveland is very low, and the Steamer Bransford, loaded with ore, could not be towed up to the Central furnaces, \ _ gervice of 10 sailings per "How far can that: 'TAE Marine REVIEW ATLANTIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York City. The new Mallory line steamship Brazos arrived at New York this week from Newport News, Va., to go into commission.on the direct service of the line between New York and Galveston, Tex. .The principal dimen- sions of the Brazos are: Length, 415 it,; beam, 54 i> depth, 3/7 ft. with 2 displacement of 9,800 tons. The pro- pelling machinery consists of two sets of quadruple expansion engines, hav- ing cylinders 23 in., 33% in., 48% in., and 70 in. in diameter, developing 8,000 H. P., the steam being supplied by eight Scotch boilers. She has been built to maintain an average speed of 16 knots, is luxuriously fitted throughout and equipped with wire- less telegraphy apparatus. The Commonwealth, of the Fall River line, while on her regular pas- sage from Newport to New York on Saturday, collided with the Norwegian steamer Volund off Race Rock, at the eastern end of Long Island, the mis- hap being due to the dense fog pre- yailing. The Volund, bound in_bal- last from Newburgh to Windsor, N. S., was sunk, all of the crew being saved. The Metropolitan Steamship Co. has placed the steamer H. F. Di- mock in 'commission, in service be- tween New York and Boston, this ad- dition to the fleet now operating be- ing due to increasing freight business. The company is at present giving a week for freight. The Norwegian steamship Senator, from Port Antonio, arrived at New York last week, reporting the drown- ing of Captain Aaskvorld during a storm near the Bahamas. Captain Aaskvrold attempted to save a sail - which had been put up in an emer- gency, and which the wind threatened to carry away, but was swept bodily over the rail: by a tremendous sea. The vessel's cargo was almost to- tally destroyed by the flooding of the holds. The German bark Brema, which was recently picked up in a disabled condition by the British steamship Lord Tveagh and towed into Hamp- ton Roads, has been libeled in the federal court at Norfolk, Va., by the master of the Lord Iveagh for a claim of $240,000, 60 per cent of the 25 value of the vessel and ther cargo. The Brema is valued at $20,000 and her cargo, which was lumber and to- bacco, at $360,000. The Norwegian bark Fox has been towed into New York, after being abandoned by her crew in mid-ocean apparently, by the British tank steam- er Luciline. When picked up the bark was adrift and had been hastily abandoned after being in collision. The rigging was a mass of wreckage, the 'hull, however, being in good con- dition. The U. S. cruiser Yankee, which went ashore on the Spindle, north of Hen and Chickens lightship last Wed- nesday morning, is being stripped preparatory to the attempt to refloat the vessel. The* work is being car- ried out by the navy department, which is constructing a cofferdam for the injured vessel. : The steamer Erik, which accom- panied the Roosevelt to the far north, is reported on her way to St. John's, N. F., 'with her hull damaged by col- lision with an iceberg. Temporary repairs were made at Turnavik Har- _bor, on the Labrador coast, the dam- age being above the water, line. A customs case of considerable im- portance to the maritime interests of the country was decided last week when the board of United States gen- eral appraisers thanded down a de- cision adverse to Moral & Co. of San Juan, Porto Rico, relative to the dutiability of ships' equipment. The test case was brought because of the action of the government in assessing duty on certain parts of machinery used in repairing the steamship Buenos Ayres, a Spanish vessel lying in the harbor of Mayaguez, Porto Rico. The parts necessary to make the repairs on the Buenos Ayres, which had become disabled at sea, -were brought into the 'harbor by the Pathfinder, a vessel owned and oper- ated by a line other than the com- pany owning the Buenos Ayres. In denying the importer's contention that free entry should have been granted the machinery because it was not actually. imported, General Ap- praiser Hay, who writes the decision for the board, 'says that machinery brought to the United States from a foreign country to repair a_ vessel lying disabled in one of the Amer-_ ican ports must be regarded for the purposes of duty as "imported mer- chandise."