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34 the wind closehauled, and the wind is NE, how will she head on the starboard tack? About how. would she head when she comes in stays to go off closehauled on the port tack? Answer. N x W on the .starboard tack, and E x S on the port tack. 'If the wind is S x E and a vessel heads ESE, is the wind forward or, abaft the beam? Answer. Forward of abeam, or, forward of the beam. -- ' What tack is this fellow on? Ans. Starboard tack. If a vessel heads SSE with the wind NW, is the wind forward or abaft the beam. Ans. Abaft the beam. A square-rigged vessel closehauled will lie about 6 points from the wind, and a sloop-rigged vessel closehauled 'will lie from 3 to 4 points from the wind, 3% points being about the aver- age; all depending upon the sails, whether new or old, trim of the vessel, whether light or loaded, etc. ee be continued.) OBITUARY. The British ship building trade has lost its most famous representative by the death of Sir Charles Mark 'Pamer, Batt, M. P., for: the: Jarrow division of Durham. Sir Charles had attained the great age of 85. It was on his initiative that the ship building trade has been almost revolutionized. At the- Jarrow works, which he founded, the ore is smelted at one end, and appears on the finished ves- sel at the other. At this establish- ment the first steam collier was built, which revolutionized the coal trade of _ the time, and sealed the doom of the sailing brigs. The establishment of their ship building works in 1852 founded the town of Jarrow, and on the initiative of Mr. Palmer blast furnaces and rolling mills were added. The firm were among the first to work the Cleveland ironstone, and they ran a fleet of -steamers for its removal. The~harbor at' Port Mul- grave cost the firm £50,000, and was provided solely for the shipment of ironstone. When the concern became a limited company in 1866 Sir Charles Palmer became its chairman. A _ re- markable number of big war vessels were turned out, in addition to ves- sels for the mercantile marine. Sir Charles, notwithstanding his business activity, found time to take keen in- terest in the social, municipal, and po- litical life of Jarrow, and his death 'has created a Parliamentary vacan- cy, the deceased baronet having been its Liberal representative continuously since 1885. _ Ae MaArRINE REVIEW ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. The lake steamer Ravenscraig, which has been purchased by the Eastern Coal Co., of Providence, R. I., will be extensively altered at New York, the alterations amounting in value to about $40,000. The White Star line has recently published its list of sailings to the Mediterranean for January and Feb- ruary, 1908. The Cedric, Canopic, Re- public and Romanic are scheduled to sail in this service. The executive committee of the board of supervising inspection ser- vice has approved the Randle patent boat disengaging apparatus, presented by the New York Ship Building Co., at Camden, N. J. and the .Semple & Ward disengaging apparatus presented by Capt. Allen Luckhurst, Internation- al Navigation Co., New York. : 'the Jimplacable, of .the British navy, broke the world's coal record at Malta recently, taking on board 1,050 tons of coal in two hours and forty minutes, being an average of 394 tons per hour. No shore labor was engaged, and only baskets were used. The record. was previously held by H. M. Cruiser Black Prince with 316 tons per hour. At a special meeting of the directors of the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., held May 31, to take action on the death of vice president and treasurer John A. Walker, Geo. T. Smith was elected vice president, Geo. E. Long treasurer, and Harry Dailey was elected director and _ secretary. It is announced that Tengo Maru is the name selected for the first. of the three steamers that are now build- ing at the Mitsu Bishi ship yard at Nagasaki for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha. The. Tengo Wari is 575 ft. long, 63 ft. beam and 39 ft. deep. She will be an oil burner and will be equipped with turbines. S The Steamboat Inspection Service at the port of New York recently con- ducted an inquiry regarding' the drowning of the engineer of the New York Central tug No. 4, in the colli- sion with the steamer C. W. Morse. Capt. Ira Harris has issued a bulletin stating that both vessels were properly handled and the officers were blame- less. The Enterprise Transportation Co., operating what it claims to be the only independent steamboat line from New York to New England, has re- cently issued a circular setting out its accomplishments in its two years of existence. The company started with only one steamer and now operates five vessels in two distinct services, with a combined tonnage of 6,050 tons, and passenger accommodations for 2,350 persons: The upward march of trade in New York is nowhere better illustrated than on the North river front. A few years ago Fourteenth street marked the last of the piers at which the big trans-Atlantic liners tied up. Now the Chelsea improvements, near Twen- . ty-third street, mark another step up- town. Times Square is becoming the most important center of the city, and this fact is mot only shown by the moving north of many large business houses, but by the steamboat lines and the railroads, which in the search for new piers ask: "How near is the site to Times Square and what are the facilities for getting there?" _ The recent ery: of "dull times," raised by various manufacturing in- terests of the country, finds no echo in the business of Allis-Chalmers Co., which continues to show a steady gain. During the month of May this company shipped from its works 553 _cars of machinery, which was a gain of twenty cars over the record estab- lished for April. In April the aggre- gate weight of shipments was 21,- 680,847 lbs., while for the month of May the figures had risen to 23,772,- 242 lbs., making a -total weight for the two months of 45,463,089 lbs. Cars bearing this enormous quantity of machinery, if coupled in one train, would have covered a distance of | about eight miles. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI- TED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DIS- TRICT OF MICHIGAN, NORTHERN DIVISION: IN ADMIRALTY. In the Matter of the Petition of Frank S. Upton, owner of the steamer John C. Gault, for Limitation of Liability. , The undersigned, Hezekiah M. Gillett, a trustee appointed by -this court in the above proceedings under the provisions of the Re- vised Statutes of the United States respecting limitation of liability, was authorized and em- powered by the order of this Court made and entered' on June 14, 1907, to cause the said Steamer John C. Gault, her engines, boiler, machinery, boats, tackle, apparel and furni- ture, to be sold as said property now lies, at public auction, Now, therefore, by virtue of said order, no- tice is hereby given, that I shall cause to be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, at the front door of the Post Office Building, so called, on Washington Street in Bay City, Michigan, that being the building in which are held the sessions of the Dis- trict and Circuit Courts of the United States for the Northern Division of the Eastern Dis- trict of Michigan, on Saturday, the 6th day of July, 1907, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the said Steamer John_C. Gault, her engines, boiler, machinery, boats, tackle, apparel and furniture as said property now lies. Dated, Bay City, Michigan, June 17th, 1907. Hezexian M. Gitiett, Trustee, Bay City, . Mich. Shaw, Warren, Cady & Oakes, Detroit, Mich. Proctors for petitioner. Gray & Gray, Detroit, Mich. Proctors for libelants in principal case.