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ATLANTIC COAST NOTES. -- Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., : New York City. Incoming 'trans-Atlantic liners are still reporting extremely heavy wea- ther encountered tthroughout the en- tire passage, and are arriving in New York harbor considerably overdue on that account. All. have suffered to some extent from the heavy seas, but no serious damage is reported. The Hamburg-American line has announced 'that the steamer Hamburg, which sails from New York on Jan. 5, will call at the Azores en route to Gibraltar and Mediterranean ports, this addition to the itinerary of the steamer being influenced by the in- creasing number of passengers 'to the Mediterranean at this season. The steamer Amerika, of the Ham- burg-American line, has arrived at New York with 1,984 third class and steerage passengers. The largest num- ber hitherto brought to the port this year by one vessel was 1,545, brought by the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, of the same line, on Dec. 8. The total passenger list of the Amerika was 2,465. The Amerika was 36 hours overdue on arrival. The schooner Annie, from Honduras to New York, capsized during a heavy gale off Honduras, on Nov. 14, and sank with 70,000 cocoanuts and $4,000 in silver. Captain. C. A. Decker ar- rived last week at New Orleans on the steamer Harry T. Inge, from Be- lize, and reported that the crew, with his wife and child, had a narrow es- cape from drowning. The Annie hailed from Liverpool, N. S. The board of pilot commissioners of Delaware, which met at Wilming- ton to investigate the stranding of the British steamer Cyrus in the Delaware river, on Dec. 16, found from evidence that the accident was due to the neg- lect of W. W. Norman, the pilot in charge of the vessel. Norman's license will be suspended for three months, after which time, amination that his eyesight is satis- factory, the license will be returned. -- The English and American Steam- ship Co., owners of the British steam- ship Murcia, has begun legal pro- ceedings in the United States courts to recover damages from the Norwe- gian steamship Sif, of the Earn line steamship company. It is claimed that. if it is found on ex- "TAE. Marine REVIEW while the vessels were proceeding in the Delaware river, on Nov. 26, the Sif overtook and attempted to.pass the Murcia, and in doing so ran her down, causing damages to the amount of $10,000. -The agents of the Sif had to furnish $15,000 before she could be released: from the marshal's attach- ment. The French cruiser Admiral Aube, now at Miquelon, has been directed to go in search of 'the overdue Fabre line steamship Neustria, which sailed from New York for Marseilles on Oct. 27, since which time she has not been ligard of, The act of congress requiring the. United. States local' inspectors © of steam vessels to look into the seawor- thiness of barges, which goes into ef- fect Jan. 1, will be the means of put- ting a number of old-time barges out of commission. Several have already been tied up, the owners knowing that it is impossible for them to come up to the requirements. Two. dangerous wrecks have been reported, one that of the water-logged Jennie Thomas, abandoned bound from Savannah to Philadelphia, and the other an unknown wreck sub- merged with mast standing. The Jen- nie Thomas is awash and was seen on Dec. 9 in latitude 39, longitude 59. - The unknown wreck was recently sighted in latitude 34.09 north, longi- tude 76.50 west, about 23 miles south, 6414 west, from Cape Lookout shoals lightship. Particulars have reached New York of the wreck of the Falls of Halladale, on. Nov. 9: on 'the Australian coast, The vessel was a four-masted bark, chartered by the United States & Aus- tralasia Steamship Co. of New York, and sailed from New York on Aug. 4. She was 100 days from New York when lost, the accident being due to a land fog concealing the rocky coast. Her cargo was valued at $250,000, con- signed to Melbourne and Sydney. The first of a number of steel coal barges building for service in the "itransportation of coal from the. stor- age yards at Perth Amboy to points | along the eastern. coast, has just been launched by the Lehigh Valley Rail- road Co. + The: barge. ts 2002 At. in length 'over all, breadth, 35 ft. and depth of hold, 17 ft. 6 in. It thas water-tight bulkheads in bow and stern, and is divided by three steel he jects. Towing Co., 25° bulkheads into four bins. There are three masts carrying leg-o'-mutton sails, a lifeboat and dory. The ship Dirigo, in command of Captain Goodwin, from Baltimore, Oct. 26, for Honolulu with a cargo of coal, recently put into. Rio Janeiro in dis- tress. She sprang. a leak at. sea six days off Rio Janeiro. _ : -EUROPE'S WATERWAYS. Berlin, Germany, is now anxious to | become a seaport and a project has. been put under way for the con- struction of a maritime canal from the Baltic sea to that city, as the Kaiser Wilhelm canal, now but a few. old, has been found entirely . years inadequate. It is probable that with Germany's rise as a sea power there will come a considerable development of her waterways. - This project to double the width and increase the depth to 40 feet on the Kaiser Wilhelm canal can be accomplished only at a cost of $1,000,000 per mile. oe Germany's example is felt by her . cand Bruges are engaged on similar pro- Russia has an elaborate. pro-' neighbors. Brussels, Ghent ject in view for enlarging the water- way from the Baltic Sea to the Cas- . pian, a project not unlike our own from the lakes to the gulf. Britain has a royal commission ap- pointed for the purpose of ascertain: ing the feasibility of developing an elaborate system of waterways which © will involve an expenditure larger than the total amount expended on our rivers and harbors up to date. : Throughout an extended tour of the Russian waterways from the Baltic son, the St. Louis engineer pe stu--- . dent of inland waterways, found a continuous stream of. traffic. River Lek and its connecting canal to Amsterdam the traffic amounts to over 60,000 vessels of all kinds per. annum. The Falls Hollow. Staybolt Co., Cuya- hoga Falls, O., has appointed Willis C. Squire, 209 Western Union building, Chicago, as its representative for the railroad trade in the Chicago territory, and. Alex. S.. Mitchell, 45. Broadway, New York, for the railway and boiler trade in the New York territory. The steel. tug Francis D. Hackett, Hackett Wrecking & of Amherstburg, was launched from the Johnston & Bros. ship yard at Ferrysburg, Dec, 22, built for the _ Great. In the: 'Se