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pleasant, her behavior was entirely satisfactory to all concerned. There was a stiff northwesterly _wnd blowing all day approaching a gale in strength, and 'this afforded an excellent opportunity for testing the yacht's behavior at sea. The result was that she proved herself an excel- lent seaboat, easy and comfortable in motion, and the impression formed from an inspection of the vessel be- fore she was launched was confirmed, namely, that she will also be a dry boat. . - On the measured mile at Gullane, where there was a considerable sea, she had a few progressive runs, and a mean speed of 15% knots was eas- ily obtained. The boilers gave am- ple steam, $ » there was no difficulty in maintaining this speed, which. is considerably. over the contract guar- antee. A five hours' continuous run was then undertaken at a cruising speed of 12 knots per hour, and dur- ing this run the auxiliary machinery was put through exhaustive tests w:th successful results. day the machinery gave excellent re- sults without any hitch, notwithstand- ing the fact that this was the first' run the machinery had. One remark- able feature of the day's trials was an almost total absence of vibration even at the highest speed, which is particularly gratifying to all con- cerned. The Liberty has been specially de- signed for ocean cruising, and she promises to be particularly well adapted for that purpose. She has very large bunkers, so that she can carry sufficient coal to allow ther to eross the Atlantic and back again without coaling. For the same rea- son, she has very large storage tanks for fresh water, besides having evap- orating and distilling apparatus. In: several features it is evident that the designers have had to study utility as the chief object, certain pe- euliarities striking one as unusual. The Liberty is certainly a remark- able vessel, and should amply fulfill the purpose for which Mr. Pulitzer has had her built. Jerry Meyer, J. McCarthy and James J. McCarthy have organized the firm of Jerry McCarthy & Son, ship chandlers, No. 157 Ohio street, Buffalo. They were formerly members of the firm of Connolly Bros., Michigan and Ohio streets, Buf- falo. The McCarthys have had a long experience in the ship chandlery business 'and are well known to the vessel trade. Connolly Bros, will also continue in business. During the whole | Tae Marine REVIEW "IN THE MERCHANT SERVICE" When a man airs h's views at some length on the matter of nerve and cool-headedness' generally one naturally expects him, if occasion should arise, to show himself the pos- 'sessor of at least the amount 'of nerve and the other ingredient in the make- up of the average individual. If the occasion does not arise, however, the expert on nerve, etc, goes through ZA eA LP w Perey Yo WY Sy a VA SS SSN SSA = 3 eee 4 x Se ea Sie Sa it SSS ty 4 SS 4nis " Sy Viet = CP ct AX SS SS S -- SSS WAS IS SS Ss SEs Sy a i a YE Sh SSS SS \S SS SS NE IQ SS SS Ss SS SS SS WS SSN ai Net | ili ay NY ening of the little event some of the engineers had foregathered in the Third's room, discussing again the failure of the Third to land his first class "ticket" during his recent at- tempt in Liverpool. The Third, who had an enviable reputation as an en- gineer, had simply attributed his fail- ure in getting "rattled" when under- eoing the verbal examination on_ his igh i RL i l i | | { ih | My Bhs Hl HE BOUNDED LIGHTLY ONTO THE HOSE. e the. world with a gradually-widening circle of nerve adm'rers, of wh'ch he, with his self-made reputation, is the center, = And the. world "is tull: of them. Peters, of the Alroma, through ap- plication on his part, his various chief engineers' part, or other circum- stances, had been shifted around the ships of the Blue Moon line more than any three engineers: put to- gether. He was tolerated by the su- per-ntending engineer, looked upon as of doubtful value by his various chiefs and other seniors, 'and by his brother engineers as one gigantic bluff, which is a sad reputation 'to have aboardship. He had been about a trip and a half aboard the Alroma when the little incident I am about to relate 'happened, but in that short space of time had managed to get himself -disliked. Still, the other en- gineers considered life too short and the world aboardship too small for them to go out of their way to ac- quaint him with the fact. Hence he lived and had his being among them. But it came to pass that on the ev- fourth and last day before the board. He could have taken the examination again a week later, as is allowed in such cases, but had to rejoin his ship, which was in port on the even- ing in question. Peters, as usual, was holding forth, h's remarks being lis- tened 'to with patient resignation. "lt= stands. to -reason,"--he -- said, "that when a man gets rattled during the examination he is hardly the per- son to be entrusted with a position calling for cool-headedness, presence of mind, and nerve combined. With- out any offense to Smith, of course, I would say that a man who keeps hs head before the exam"ners stands a better chance of pulling through than the man who seems to be well versed on the subject but in a chronic state of nervousness, even if the first man doesn't know too much." "You must have been a_ regular icicle, so far as keeping cool was concerned, when you -- scrambled through for that Second's ticket of yours," commented one of the others. "I was," said Peters, too full of ego to notice anything amiss with