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- between 'vessels 'Avoca and Jelunga, each boat having 'gers, the president of the Corporation's mining company to take this latest step was characteristically expressed an his. remark, "That ore must be down there and we are going to give you the right kind of equipment to get it." 0. 5. ---- ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York City. General Manager Edward O. Thomas, of the New York & Continental Line, has announced the completed plans for the company's new _ passenger service New York, - Hamburg... Roe terdam and Halifax, to begin from 'New York on April 11 with the sailing There will be three service, the Vulturno, of the Vulturno. in the accommodation for 1,400 steerage, 80 irst class and 150 second class passen- C. B. Richard & Co. fave. been appointed general agents of the line. The New York & Continental Line began a freight service to the ports mentioned in February, 1907, it being announced then that passenger vessels would be put on later. The North German Lloyd liner Kron- prinz Wilhelm sailed as scheduled on Tuesday, repairs having been completed where the vessel was damaged in col- lision with the freight steamer Crown of Castile sin the fog-bound harbor of New York, Wednesday of last week. A review of the casualties of the coast of New England and_ British North America during the fall and winter seasons just ended shows that about 350 lives were lost. Of this num- ber 251 persons per'shed in the wrecks of 10 vessels of the French fishing fleet of St. Pierre, Miquelon, last fall. Four- teen men were lost through the Phoenix liner St. Cuthbert disaster, and many individual lives during the gales that have swept the coasts. A Sailor's Home is about to be con- structed in New York City. -Aceord-. ing to specifications it will be a 12- Story building, and will be equipped with all that pertains to the comfort of the sailor and officer during the Stay in port. There will be sleeping accommodation for 400 of the former and 100 of the latter. The building will have a quaint lantern-like tower, which will be used to display vari-col- Ored lights as a code of signals for the institute. The signals will be seen far out in the harbor. liquors and a general cargo. " the "TAE Marine REVIEW The old cruiser Newark, bu'lt by the Wm. Cramp -& Sons Co. of Phila- delphia, in 1890, is to be fitted out for a station and store ship at Guan- tanamo, to take the place of the Monon- gahela, recently burned. She is one of the oldest vessels of the new navy and is practically obsolete as a warship, be- ing an unarmored steel cruiser of the second class. The Monongahela was built as a sloop of war at League Island navy 'yard and took a prominent part in the operations on the Mississippi during the civil war, at various times being com- manded by Lieutenant. George Dewey and Lieutenant Winfield Scott Schley. Following the war she was used as a training ship for midshipmen and ap- prentices, for the past few years being used as store ship at Guantanamo. . ~ A dining room for the use of immi- grants is .now in. operation on Ellis island, New York, which is believed to be one of the largest in the world. There is a seating capacity of 1,500, this being three times as great as the seating capacity in the past. During the year 1907 there was an average of 1,473 immigrants on the island -- daily. The sloop Guillermito picked up off Fajardo, Porto, Rico, a derelict vessel named the Sea Hawk, laden with cigars, A dead dog was on the vessel. The Guiller- mito towed the derelict to Arroyo. The Sea Hawk is not an American vessel. The United States cruiser Chicago, bound from the Pacific coast to Hamp- ton Roads, entered the outer harbor of Pernambuco on Friday, having in tow the disabled Austrian steamship Ro- bina, from Hull for Buenos Ayres. After anchoring the Robina she saluted the fort and again put to sea. The 'steamer Beacon Light, formerly in the trans-Atlantic oil trade, left Ha- vana on March 18 for Philadelphia with a cargo of Cuban molasses in bulk. The steamship Iroquois, the only twin- screw tank ship in the world, arrived at New York last Friday towing the mammoth barge Navahoe. Each vessel is the largest of its class afloat, and together can carry 20,000 tons of oil. The barge is constructed along lines similar to the steamship, and will be towed by the latter on every trip across 'Atlantic. Their outward cargoes will be over 5,000,000 gallons of oil. peanale 21 . At. 31 CHICAGO HARBOR. The harbor commission appointed by Mayor Busse to consider the devel- opnient of Chicago harbor met last week and listened to a paper pre- pared by Henry' W. Lee, who ad- vocated a land-locked Chicago by the development of Lake hatbor for Calumet in conjunction with the Calu- met this Mr. "The Calumet river runs five miles from Lake southwesterly in' an unusually straight course to the forks at the Lake Calumet cut-off at 128th street. river. Concerning project Lee said: Michigan For nearly all of this distance it is 200 ft. wide. The fed- eral government has appropriated money and is now engaged in "the work of making uniform this width, 200. ft., and depth 21. ft. throughout. "In 1889 the tonnage ofthe port of the Calumet river was 753,599, In | 1907 it was 6,337,774, over eight-fold increase. During the same 18-year pe- riod, the commerce of the Chicago . river has been virtually at a-standstil, showing that the downt*wn river has attained its fell capacity. "In a recent address to this commis- sion Col. Bixby demonstrated the dif- ° ficulties of navigation in the Chicago -- river because of its narrow' stream and sinuous course. He showed that the widening of. the Chicago . river would entail such a. tremendous cost that it is hardly to be considered. "Tt is estimated that dredging a deep from the Calumet river to the lake north of 110th street would cost $215,111. Dredging Lake Calumet for a harbor would cost $3,097,600 per square mile, or approxi- mately $9,292,800 for dredging the entire: lake toa depth..of 2k ft. The entire project, canal and harbor, will cost $9,507,911 in the aggregate. "The shipping facilities of the Calu- umet district are by no means. con- fined to the lake and river. All the eastern through lines run _ through South Chicago and all the other roads have connection by means of the Belt railroads. "Col. Bixby has told you that the best route. from the Great .Lakes to the gulf will be via Calumet river and the Sag channel to the main drainage canal. I mention it at this time because without it no discussion of the navigation of the Calumet re- gion would be complete and the much- discussed lakes-to-the-gulf waterway would be impossible. It will complete _a navigable belt around Chicago."