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_ Tuscarora, that vessel and assigned to the posi- Milwaukee for repairs. 58 however, for with the present form of engines the weight of the driving mechanism is too' great to be prac- 'ticable for steamships. According to a prominent Belfast surgeon, the cause of seasickness lies in the internal ear. Within the ear are three canals containing a fluid called endolymph. These canals per- . form the ,function of a spirit level. The motion of the ship causes a vio- lent and unaccustomed movement in the endolymph, which irritates the delicate nerves terminating in the ca- nals and communicating with the stomach. This irr:tation first leads to dizziness, then nausea and other symptoms. This knowledge will not rélieve the misery of the sea-sick passenger to any appreciable extent, however. Attention has again been called to the fact that practically all of the newer vessels of the Turkish navy have never left their moorings in the Golden Horn since they were accepted from their builders. Two fine cruis- ers, one built by Cramps' of Phila- delphia and the other by Armstrong of England, are virtually rotting at 4heir anchorage, which they have never left since their arrival. It is pointed out by the London Globe that the new large-sized sub- marines of the French navy need cause no misgivings among the naval officers of other countries. Nominally, of course, these vessels with their 450 tons. displacement, their 12 knots above water and nine underneath and their capacity to keep the sea _ for eight days, are formidable, but there are large discounts to be made. For the Opale to keep the sea there must be scarcely a ripple on the surface, there is barely standing room for the men above water, and, in general, these boats are only for service near the ecast. . Pirst Lieut: WV. A. Levis, executive officer of the United States steamer vhas. been detached from tion of president of an examining boatd for the appointments of cadets in.,the .tevenue cutter service at Washington, and is then to command the . United States steamer Wissa- hickon at Philadelphia. . The steamer Alaska, of the Anchor line, which ran ashore north of Fox- Point, Lake Michigan, on Wednesday of last week, was released and taken to The steamer is said to be-in bad shape. by the employes of the line. THE MARINE REVIEW, ATLANTIC COAST. GOSSIP Office of Marine REVIEW, 1005 West St. Bldg. New York City. As a token of their high esteem and regret at his departure, Theodore G. Eger, the retiring general manager of the Clyde line, was presented with a magnificent loving cup on Saturday General Freight Agent E. Sindall, who has been associated with Mr. Eger for the past seventeen years, made the presentation. Mr. Eger was deeply touched, the intention of the employes having been kept secret from him, and, in thank- ing them for the expression of their regard, spoke of his regret at being compelled to sever connection with the company. et The cup is of solid silver, having on one side a reproduction of the Clyde line steamer Apache, and on the other side is the inscription, which reads as follows: t "Presented. to: Theodore G. Eger,: Sept. 28, 1907, asa Token of Sincere Affection from the Employes of the Clyde Steamship Company. - Mr. Eger will be succeeded by H. H. Raymond, general manager of the Mallory line. Close upon the heels of the news that the Lusitania had covered the total: distance of 2,807 knots .at an average speed of 22.58 knots per hour, comes the news that she _ sprinted from Queenstown to Liverpool, a stretch of 228 knots, at a speed of 25 knots per hour, covering the distance in a little over nine hours. _ Persons who have been dubiously scanning the columns of the press for the wireless reports of the behavior of the big ship; are now saying: "I told: you so." or.-not, as the news strikes them. It is also reported that the engineers complain of the coal and inefficient firemen, but, as a ship's boilers are not in the best of condi- tion toward the end of the voyage, taking everything into consideration, that 25 knots: per hour good work. was The raising of the American flag over the now practically completed Custom House at Bowling' Green, New York, was celebrated on Sept. 26, in the presence of several hundred veterans of the Grand Army and a fair. gathering of spectators. Ad- dresses appropriate to the occasion "were made by Gen. Geo. B. Loud, Col. Joseph A. Goulden, and R. A. Greenfield, the government superin- tendent of construction. The flag raising was in no sense an opening of the Custom House, which will not take place before Oct. 15. - There arrived at New York last week the new steamer President Grant, the latest addition to the Ham- burg-American line. The President Grant sailed from Hamburg on Sept. 14, with 1,711 passengers, from Bou- logne the 15th, and on the 16th from Plymouth. The new steamer is sis- ter ship of the .President Lincoln, is 616 ft. long, with a breadth of 68 ft. 6 in, and a gross tonnage of about 18,500. She has twin screws. . Bids opened at the Navy Depart- ment for the purchase of the old schoolship Saratoga, lying at League Island Navy Yard, showed' only two proposals, one from John H. Greg- ory, of Perth .Amboy, Ne" fo ae $2,000, and the other from Daniel C.~ O'Goanotr, of Boston, 'of $1,251. 7 asmuch as the official appraised value of the ship is $4,300, neither of the bids can be accepted, and the vessel must be reappraised and again offered for sale. North Dakota will be the name of battleship No. 23, one of the new 20,- 000-ton vessels. The other vessel will be called the Delaware. President Roosevelt has decided that -as' so many naval vessels bear the names of cities in the state of -New York' it would be unfair to carry out the orig- inal plan of naming No. 23 the New York, and changing the cruiser of that name to the Saratoga. The tars on the New York who dreaded the name-changing hoodo will now breathe freely. | The Allan line steamship Bavarian, which was wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia and floated by the wreckers last autumn, after having been given up for lost, is now lying alongside the wharf at Indian Cove, N, §$. .Temporary repairs. will be made to enable her to go into dry dock. After considerable trouble, the Bu- reau of Navigation has granted per- mission to change the name of the hull of the. ill-fated steamboat. Gen- eral Slocum to the Maryland. The hull has been rebuilt: and converted into a barge.