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32 grees Wly.; correct magnetic bearing NW 3% N; true bearing NW. The above is Ae full explanation of Fig. 4. The foregoing examples and methods are only a few of the things that can be performed on the corrector. In writ- ing this explanation the author has dis- covered a number of other uses for the device. The beauty of the device is its | extreme simplicity of operation; the most perplexing problems of the com; pass become ridiculously simple when worked out mechanically. Getting the correct amount and direction of the de- viation is an important duty of every navigator; but there are many who neg- lect this part of their work, on account, _of the perplexing rules to be memorized. It is safe to say that anybody who has experienced this difficulty would obviate this trouble were they to use the cor, rector, either in place or in conjunction therewith. It is simply wonderful the number of difficult things that are made easy .on.- the . corrector. The author has wused one of these devices and finds it simply invalu- able in his work. There is probably no one that is any more familiar with the rules for correcting courses than the writer, yet he would never think of dis- pensing with the service rendered by the corrector. The corrector not only facili- tates one's work, but it is absolutely ac- curate, and above all is a positive proof in all its work. There is being published in connection with the corrector a book dealing with variation and deviation in all its phases. The book not only explains all about variation and deviation, their causes and effects, but their application in the con- version of courses and bearings. The book -will be the very best of its kind in print, and it will contain more simple and practical instruction and explanation on these subjects than any other book on the market. It is a book for the ex- perienced and inexperienced alike; also for the practical and theoretical man. The book was written more especially as an explanation of the corrector. This explanation and working methods of the corrector is only a sample of what the book contains. The book and corrector will sell together for $2, or the book alone for $1, postage prepaid. Capt. Wm. Mills died at. Bay City Dec. 17. He had been identified with lake trade since the 60's... In 1866 he in company with Capt., Ben Boutelle entered the log towing business and soon acquired a large fleet of lake tugs. In later years he owned the steamer A. B. Folsom and schoonen Mary B. Mitchell. He retired from active busi- ness about five years 'ago. TAE MARINE REVIEW ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP Office of the Marine ReEvIEw, : 1005 West Street Bldg., New York City. The wreck of the Thomas W. Law- son, the largest schooner and only seven-master ever built, in Broad Sound, Scilly Isles, terminates the career of a vessel which has been more or less in the public eye during her five years of existence. Although looked upon by many as the first of a type of vessel which would prove to be a new departure in American ship building, others again regarded her as The filing of documents in the cus- tom house at Bridgeport, Conn., last Saturday, made public the fact that the Joy Steamship Co. had formally passed to the control of the United States Transportation Co. The trans- action involved about $1,000,000, and the papers indicate that the boats will have Bridgeport as their home port. Thomas Shields, a New York pilot, was drowned about 5 o'clock Satur- day evening through the capsizing of THE SEVEN-MASTED SCHOONER THOMAS W. LAWSON LOST OFF SCILY ISLES. a doubtful venture, doomed to stand alone in her class, and pointed to the fact that no other seven-masters have since been built. There can be no doubt, however, that the Thomas W. Lawson was a paying venture, her car- rying capacity making her yearly earn- ings phenomenal. When lost she was under a charter which brought her owners a return of $78,000 a year, was valued at $300,000 and was not in- sured. The. Thomas W. Lawson was wrecked on Friday the 13th. Owing to the heavy weather encoun- tered making the trans-Atlantic pas- sage, the liners due to arrive at New York last Saturday, were from one to three days behind time. The Astoria, of the Anchor. Line, owing to tem- porary disablement and -- adverse weather, was six days overdue when she made port on Sunday. the yawl while he was crossing from tme Steamer lalisman to the steam pilot cutter New York. Two apprentices who were rowing the pilot managed to keep afloat until the .cutter drifted down to them, but Shields: sank almost immediately. He was about 50 years old, and _ lived w-th his wife and family in Sackett Place, Brooklyn. When the schooner Harlan W. Hus- tom was tun down and sunk off League island navy yard by - the steamship Pawnee, $500 in_ cash, owned by Capt. Gaskill, of the Hus- ton, went down with the schooner and was mourned as of doubtful value. The money, however, has since been recovered by a diver, it being found in a desk in the cabin. The Red D Line steamer Caracas,