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'knots. TRE Marine REVIEW ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., : : : New York City. The new Italian liner San Giovanni has arrived at New York, after mak- ing good time from Palermo and Almeria. The San Giovanni was built at Sun- derland by Sir James Laing & Sons, Ltd., and is 425 ft. in length, 52 ft. molded beam, and 27 ft. 10% in. in depth. She has two sets of triple ex- pansion engines, with cylinders 24 in., 39 in., and 64 in. in diameter by 45 in. stroke. The engines were built by Messrs. Geo. Clarke, Ltd., and drive the steamer at an average speed of 16 She has accommodation for over 2,000 passengers. The American liner Friesland will be placed in the Red Star Line ser- vice between New York and Ant- werp, in the place of the damaged Finland, which collided 'with Dover breakwater and is now undergoing repairs. : The Friesland was formerly in this service, and was a favorite with regu- lar trans-Atlantic passengers. Of late years she has been in service between ~ Philadelphia and Liverpool. The steamship Saratoga arrived at New York last week and reported col- liding with an unknown schooner early Tuesday morning. The Saratoga -was not damaged, and it is believed by her officers that the schooner escaped with nothing more serious than some injury to her headgear. Postmaster General Meyer. has re- ceived advices from the postoffice de- partment of Italy that the recent or- der of that government by which mails for the United States were to be sent exclusively from Italian 'ports and in Italian ships, had been' re- scinded on Oct. 18, and that such mails would thereafter be forwarded by way of French ports, as formerly. The American consul-general at Christiania, Norway, has reported to the bureau of manufactures the estab- lishment of a line of steamers be- tween Christiania and ports on the Gulf of Mexico. Grimsby, England, is a port of call, and the destinations are Havana, Vera Cruz, Mexico, and Galveston, Tex. This new line will be direct, whereas all previous steam- ers went by: way of German ports. The new line is subsidized by the Norwegian government, service being maintained monthly. Tf sufficient freight can be obtained the company is prepared to establish a fortnightly service, a) Bar and coin gold to the value of $10,000,000 is being brought to the United States on the Cunard liner Lusitania, which left Liverpool for New York last Saturday. Officials of the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. have announced that the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which lost, her rudder on her last eastbound trip, has been more seriously injured than was at first believed. An entire- ly new rudder and stern .post will have to be fitted, work which cannot be completed before next March. © The government vacated the old custom house of New York, at Wall and William streets, on Saturday, and have now taken possession of the new $5,000,000 edifice at Bowling Green. The old building becomes the prop- erty of the National City Bank. Henry C. Stuart, acting deputy col- lector, was in charge of the transfer, all official documents, and-records cov- ering the history of the port from 1799, when the grst custom house was erected on the site of teh new build- ing, being conveyed to the new prem- ises. The submarine boat Tarantula, which is undergoing her final ac- ceptance trials under the direction of the naval board of inspection and sur- vey, exceeded her contract speed re- quirement in a four hours endurance run in Narragansett- Bay last week. In spite of a stiff wind and choppy sea the boat developed a speed of 9.4 knots, the contract calling for 8.75. The postmaster-general on Nov. 1 executed contracts with the American Mail Steamship Co. for the transpor- tation of mails between Boston and Philadelphia and other ports of the United States, and between American ports and Jamaica for a period of 10 years from July 1 next. Contracts were also made effective on the same date with the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Co. for carrying the mails between New York and Havana. The Cunard liner -Saxonia, which sailed from Boston recently, carried 15,000 barrels of apples for Liverpool, 'the largest shipment of apples ever 53 carried from that» port. The apple export business .has . increased, and other big shipments are to follow. A stowaway nearly lost his life in the bunkers of the steamer, Umvoti, which has arrived at: New York from the Persian Gulf. His presence was dis- covered by a fireman, and 185 tons of coal were shifted before the man, who was an Egyptian, was rescued. The . immigration inspectors say that he will be deported. Booth & Co., agents, announce the inauguration of a direct steamship ser- vice between New York and Iquitos, Peru, by the Iquitos Steamship Co., Ltd. It is expected to maintain a reg- ular service with sailings from New York every 40 to 45 days, two vessels being engaged. This is the first direct service to be established between New York and Iquitos, which is 1,960 miles from | the mouth of the Amazon river and 4,940 miles from New York. Here- tofore the New York shipments for the great rubber districts have been transferred to lighters at Manaos, Brazil, and towed to their destination. Booth & Co. also announce that the freight tariffs have been revised so that American shippers will enjoy ex- actly the same rate as English and European shippers. LEAVING NEW YORK AT NIGHT. - A fairy web hangs glittering in the sky Behind us and a million lights aglow Cast dancing shadows on the ebb and flow Of lapping waters that steal softly by, c : Over the waves the winds unceasing ply, And murky clouds across the moon's face blow, Be Great silvery patches in the heavens grow, And then the winds in utter dark- ness sigh. : But we speed onward swiftly from the shore, And hear the muffled engines under- neath © : ; That throb and pulse in patient slay- ery, Soon shall we be where wilder waters roar, Where round our battered bows the oceans seethe, Soon peer into unfathomable sea. M. J. H. in -N. Y. Times. C. W. Elphicke, of Chicago, has been selected by the owners of the steamer Chili as permanent managing owner of the steamer to' succeed the late Capt. M. M. Drake, of Buffalo.