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ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York City. The dense fog banks which blanket- 'ed New York harbor and the adjoin- ing seaboard during the early part of the week were the cause of several disasters among seagoing and harbor craft. The Clyde line steamer Semi- nole went aground on the sands off Point Pleasant, near Long Branch, N. J. on Monday, while bound to. New York from San Domingo and West Indian ports, two wrecking tugs stand- ing by shortly after the grounding to assist in refloating her. The steamer Thomas S. Brennan, of the départ- ment of charities, while returning to the city from Staten Island, with a patty of about 150 guests of 'the launching of the department's new boat, the Lowell, was run into by the Trinidad Trading Co.'s steamer Mara- val on Monday evening. The Bren- nan was cut open from her superstruc- - ture to within 'two or three feet of the water line. The Maraval also suffered some slight damage. Several trans-Atlantic liners were late in docking, due, principally, to being held up by the fog outside the Hook. No less than three new Ocean rec- ords were made by the Cunard liner Lusitania on her last west-bound pas- sage: The records. for average speed, longest day's run, and the shortest (fime over the long course from Datnts Rock to the Sandy Hook lightship. The passage-was made in eye, 20 hrs. and 22 min, the rec- ord day's run was 632 knots, and an average speed of 2483 knots maintained throughout. the passage. Her days" runs for the voyage were: From Daunt's Rock to' noon Monday, 622 knots; Monday to Tuesday, 625° Tuesday to Wednesday, 632; Wed- nesday to Thursday, 628, and to Sandy Hook, 363 knots. On the day of her record run she averaged 25.42 knots. The captain and crew of the steam- er George Weems, of the Baltimore and Carolina Steamship Co., which was burned last Wednesday off Fry- ing Pan Shoals, arrived at Baltimore on Saturday aboard the Merchants & Miners line steamer Chatham. George Weems left Charleston Tues- _ day previous to her burning, the fire, when discovered, having gained: great Teadway. " ~The omnibus bill amending the lavigation laws was, under suspen- n of the rules, passed by the house was merce. North high wind some time ago. posts will be of the type snow: in use. on the North German Lloyd piers at 'Hoboken, being about 4 ft. in height 'and having two prongs. The - (AE MARINE. REVIEW on' Monday. The bill, among. other features, provides for additional lights and flags to prevent collisions, re- quires scows' in New York harbor to be equipped with life lines, anchors and life preservers, and grants to lo- cal inspectors authority to regulate the length of tows of sea-going barges. aianay The department of charities boat Lowell was launched on Monday from the yards of the F. A. Verdon Co., Staten Island, about 1,000 persons wit- nessing the event. The Lowell is es- pecially arranged for carrying the sick, and will make daily trips between the different boroughs transporting pa- tientS. She 16 130 ff, in léneth, 30 i: beam, and 10 tt draught. Her ton tract <speede ts 12 denots, and cost $75,000. --_--- Through colliding with a schooner off Bridgeport the John H. Starin had most of her starboard side forward 'of the paddle box torn away last Fri- day: The <Starin was: eropine = her way out of New Haven harbor in a dense, fog, and crashed full into the schooner Calvin P. Harris, which was riding «at anchor The bows of the schooner, a three-masted vessel of about 500 tons, were stove in. The Starin's passengers were returned to. New Haven on the steamer Sea King and proceeded to New York by rail. Aécording to Consul D.. Ro Birch the inauguration recently of a freight and passenger steamship service be- tween Italy and Philadelphia brings the latter city in direct touch with Genoa and Naples for the first time in the history of Italian-American com- Three sister ships will be put new 'company, into service by the which up till now has confined its. business to the trade between Italy and South American ports, the vessels to be of 8,500 tons and an average speed of from 14 to 15 knots. --#* Mooring posts of cast steel instead of iron will be part of the equipment Of the: new Ghelsea picts, "on the river, this change resulting from the breaking away of the Mau- retania from her moorings during a The new ny | =| Rtg ie \ The steamer H. M. Whitney, of the Metropolitan line, stranded in 'a fog on the north edge of Flood Rock, in Hell Gate, while en route to Boston on Saturday night. 33 Several thousand spectators lined the Battery sea wall and the roofs of the surrounding buildings last week, when the fleet of fireboats of the New York fire department was reviewed by Mayor McClellan. The boats, nine in number, maneuvered in the harbor off the Battery, for the first time in fleet formation. The two new boats, the Duane and Willard, attracted consid- erable attention, being' equipped with fire towers and about 6 ft. longer than the New Yorker. During the exhibi- tion of water throwing some ultra-en- thusiastic photographers, much to the delight of the more fortunate spec- tators, managed to get in the line of fire. ; A cow which ran amuck in the Lackawanna railroad terminal in Ho- boken on Monday afternoon caused no little consternation on its entry into the waiting room. In the excite- "ment two men fell off the ferry slip. They were rescued. The department of docks and ferries, Philadelphia, has granted permission to John Hagan &-Co: to erect a new pier on the Delaware river at Comly and Home- stead streets. The receipts of the French line for the year 1907, according to the reports of the stockholders' meeting held at Paris, are given as $15,000,000, expenses $12,500,000 leaving.a surplus of $2,500,000. A dividend of 8 per cent on the capital stock was declared, which compares with a 6 per cent disbursement out of the 1906 earnings. -- Passenger rates have been advanced on all the water routes between New York and Boston for. the. summer season, the rates being much the same as prevailed last summer. ~The managers and: employes of the Hamburg-American line, on Monday, tendered their congratulations to Christian - Diehl, the New York cashier of the line, -on the 50th anniversary of his service of the company. Mr. Diehl entered the service of the Hamburg-American Line's agents as an office boy on May 17, 1858. In an opinion by Justice White, the supreme court of the United States, on Monday, decided the case of George Des- 'lions' and' others vs. La Compagnie Gen- eralé' Trans-Atlantique,' which involved thany complicated poitits, including a con- struction of the French law. The com- pany owned the steamship La Bourgoyne, which was sunk off Sable island in 1898 in collision with the British steamer Cromartyshire.