The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

44 ATLANTIC COAST GOSSIP. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York City. The Hamburg-American Line pier at South Delaware avenue, Philadel- phia, was destroyed by fire in the evening of July 31, the loss being es- timated at $400,000. The cargo of the German steamship Albano, which was towed from the burning pier out into river, was completely destroyed, as was also considerable merchandise, including 1,000 bales of burlap. For a time it appeared as though the ad- joining wharfs would be destroyed, but, through the efforts of the fire department, the flames were effectual- ly prevented from spreading. The fire is believed to have originated among the electric fittings. The plant of the Neafie & Levy Ship and Engine Building Co. on the THe Marine. REVIEW schooner while on her way to New: port. When recommissioned, it 1s un- derstood, she will go to the West Indies. The Clyde Line steamer Chippewa, which went ashore on Montauk Point June 24, while en route for Boston from Jacksonville and Charleston, has been successfully floated by the Mer- ritt & Chapman wrecking steamer Re- lief and taken to New York. The Chippewa had been abandoned by her owners to the underwriters. New York formerly had the exclu- sive handling of case oil for China, but other ports are now entering the field. The which recently discharged a cargo of sugar from Java, at Philadelphia, has been chartered to load a cargo of case Oi at. that port "for tions Kong. THE MAURETANIA OUTWARD BOUND, Delaware river, at Philadelphia, was sold at auction on July 28, for $50,000, subject to a mortgage and ground rent of $297,000. This sale makes the final adjustment of the Neafie & Levy Co.'s business. The buyer was Frank 1 Somers, an attorney for a Cam- aden, Noy. bape. The Purelight, a new vessel built for the North Atlantic petroleum trade on the Clyde, is now on her way to Philadelphia, The Mayflower, the president's yacht, has gone out of commission at the Brooklyn navy yard. to undergo repairs to her bow. The yacht was damaged in colision with a lumber Hitherto' the case oil export from Philadelphia was mostly for Japan, Australia and the East Indies. The Goldsboro, the old Clyde liner which has been more or less in the public eye during the past seven weeks, is now on her way from Por- to Cortes to New York: . She is in command of Capt. Swartridge, and is manned by the same crew which sailed her out of New York for parts unknown. The steamship: | Horda, outward bound from New York for Norfolk, was held up by the quarantine officials as she was steaming down Delaware Bay and retained to port. "It "had British steamship Avala,. been discovered that a fireman from the Horda, detained in hospital ash had developed yellow fever. Th sel was subjected to a thorough infecting throughout. -- Capt. Ernest -- Henshaw, or" steamer Mae, which arrived at ay pa recently from New York, died on the voyage of dysentery, and was bur ied at sea. : Bids were recently opened at Wash- ington by the navy department for the construction of the new retaining | wall about the basin of the League. Island navy yard. Bids were also re- ceived for the work of instaling a coal handling plant at the New York nayy yard. HES A derelict coal-laden schooner and a derelict coal barge have been de- stroyed with gun cotton. by the United States revenue cutter: Mohawk, -- both to the northeast of Barnegat lighthouse. The derelicts were a set- ious menace to navigation. P. F. Young, representative of the International Mercantile Co. at Phila- delphia, and vice president of the Phil- adelphia Maritime Exchange, sailed for Europe' on the American Line steamer Philadelphia on Saturday. He will remain abroad until the begin- -- ning of autumn. The German steamship Kronprinzes- sin Cecilie of the North German Lloyd Line, last week arrived at New York after making a record passage in the German-American service. The trip between Cherbourg and Sandy Hook: was made at an average speed of 23.21 knots, the best previous record for German ships being made by the -- Deutschland in 1903, when an average' speed of 23.15 was maintained. Due to the unusually heavy weather encountered on the passage, the Ocean Line steamship City of Atlanta, from New York for Savannah, arrived at her destination about 18 hours behind time. Other coasting steamers were also considerably overdue. - The steamer Arapahoe has arrived at Jacksonville with her cargo in a dam- aged condition, due to the heavy weather encountered off the North Carolina coast during the recent hur- ricane. Twenty per cent premium is asked by the underwriters to reinsure risks, on the bark Good News, now over