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"THE MARINE. REVIEW ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP Office of the MARINE REVIEW, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York City. The Lapland, a steamer being built for the Red Star Line service. between Antwerp and New York, was. suc- cessfully launched at the yards of Messrs. Harland & Wolff, Belfast, on June 27.. The: Lapland: will: be the largest vessel afloat under the Bel- gian flag when she goes into service, being 620 ft. long, of 18,000 tons reg- 'ister, with accommodations for 760 cab- in and 1,700 steerage passengers. It is expected that she will be ready for service in November. The Advisory Dock Commission of Newark, N. J., taking the first step to- ward making the city a port open to the commerce of the world, has sent to the Board of Works 'the following specific recommendations: To exca- vate a 16-ft. channel from the chan- nel of the bay to the shore line, and to excavate the canal 350 ft. wide, 22 ft. deep and 3,400 or 4,000 ft. long. Under ithe plans more than 1,100 acres of meadow land are to be reclaimed and filled in with .earth excavated from the canal. The maximum esti- mated cost is $10,795,600. Shipments. of Philadelphia up to the present .time aggregate 10,000 tons, against 4,500 tons for the corresponding period of 1907. The decline last year was large- ly due to high freights and the de- mand for tonnage in the coal-carrying trade. On the last voyage of the Lusitania eastbound the passengers at a _ meet- ing aboard tthe ship passed resolutions asserting that at no time on the voy- age was 'the vibrations of the steamer such as to interfere with their com- fort, as has been charged at other times. The resolutions, signed by George H. Kinsolving, Bish- op of Texas, on behalf of the pas- sengers, had also many individual names attached. The steamer Verona, the second new vessel of the recently inaugura- ted line between Philadelphia, Genoa and Naples, arrived. at Philadelphia this week. The Verona, like her sis- tership Ancona, was built at Belfast for the Italian Steam Navigation Co. and designed especially for the Uni- ted States-Mediterranean trade. Three men were smothered to death in the hold of the steamer H. M. Whitney,. of the Metropolitan Line, last 'week, while the vessel was lying at the foot of East 102d street, New York, where she was taken after com- ing off the rocks at Middle Reef. The men had gone down. into the hold to help unload the remainder of the cargo, and were overcome by ice from' Maine to THE LUSITANIA IN THE SLIPS. poisonous gases engendered by. the rotting cargo and putrid waters of the hold. The bodies were removed by divers. The British steamer Huttonwood was driven ashore at Savannah,. Ga., on June 25, by the violence of a sud- den squall which bore down on the vessel while she was approaching Quarantine. She. lay broadside' in the stream for some time, but was eventually floated with the assistance of the tugs Cynthia' and McCauley. which' were BOW VIEW OF LUSITANIA. The Huttonwood was outward bound for Liverpool with a miscellaneous cargo valued at $846,897, and on be- ing floated proceeded to sea. The trans-Atlantic penny postage goes into effect on Oct. 1. Capt. Krause, of the steamer Sibiria, of the Hamburg-American Line, re- 59 ported,.on his arrival at New York ifrom,,West Indian ports, having: pick- ed up a New York boy who was drifting' to sea in a boat off Norton's Point. While picking her way through the fog along the coast of Long Island on the morning of June 24, the steam- er Chippewa, bound north from Charleston, struck a rock about eight miles to the west of Montauk Point Lighthouse. She filled with water immediately, and lies about three hun- dred yards from the shore. The work © of jettisoning the cargo is being pro- ceeded with, but the 'chances of sav- ing the vessel are very slight. The Chippewa is owned by the Clyde Line. Even such . requests for prayers from those who are going to travel by sea are considerably less fre- quent than. twenty - years ago.--Dr, Parkhurst. But just think how the boats have improved in that time, Charles --ZJndianapolis News. Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker, pion- 'veer' in the' West India fruit trade, died at Boston last week. His first fruit was brought to Philadelphia on sailing vessels, one of. which he was master,, In 1870 Captain Baker went to Jamaica and recognizing the pos- sibilities of the fruit trade some time afterward organized the Boston Fruit Company, of which he was the presi- dent until 1899. In that year the com- pany became merged with the Uni- ted Fruit Company, a $20,000,000 cor- - poration, and Captain Baker became a director. He was prominent in the management of the Cuban Fruit Com- pany, president of the Cape Cod Steamship Company and the _Well- fleet Oyster Company. -- __ ~The White Star Line announces to shippers that the temporary with- drawal of their 'cargo service between. New York and Liverpool will in no way interferé with the prompt hand- ling of all classes of cargo by their mail steamers, this service being maintained by the large and well known steamers Baltic, Celtic, Cedric and Arabic, sailing from New York every Thursday. The stranger viewing the biggest. Cunarders from across the street us- ually remarks, as he notes their tre- mendous bulk in comparison. with the temporary shed erected for their es-. pecial benefit on the unfinished Chel- sea pier, on the Hudson River, that things seem to be all out of propor- tion, somehow.