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ATLANTIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., : New York City. The number of arrivals of vessels at the port of New York during the month of October was 841, of which 350 were from foreign ports and 491 domestic, The new steamship Duca di Geno- va, of the Florio Rubbattino com- pany, arrived at the port of New York last week on her maiden voyage. The new vessel is the fourth ship of this type in the line, and was built by Captiere Navale di Maggiorno, Spezia, Italy. She is 450 ft. in length, beam 51 ft, and of about 8,000 gross tons. She is propelled by two sets of quad- ruple-expansion engines, and on her trial maintained a speed of 16 knots. The Clyde liner Mohawk arrived at New York last week from Philadel- phia, and is now in service between New York and Jacksonville... die Mohawk was built at the Cramp ship- yards, Philadelphia, 'is 400 ft. in length, of 48 ft. beam, and of 5,000 tons reg- ister, She 'has accommodations for 275 cabin and 60 steerage passengers, and is luxuriously fitted throughout. She will average a speed of 14 knots. The steamer H. M. Whitney, of the Metropolitan Line, while en route for Boston last week, grounded in Hell Gate, off Steep Rock, and suffered considerable injury to 'her bottom. Immediately after grounding she drifted to the southern entrance of Little Hell Gate, where she remained partly submerged. Her crew of 23 men escaped uninjured. The Austrian steamship Maria ar- rived at New York last week with the captain and crew of the three- masted schooner R. D. Spear, who were picked up about 450 miles south- east of Sandy Hook, having left the 'vessel leaking heavily and in a sink- ide ..condition, The .k. DD. Spear hailed from Eastport, Me., and had a cargo of 500 tons of coal. Last week 8,265 steerage passengers crossed the Atlantic, westbound, the eastbound movement numbering 8,285. The five-masted schooner Governor Ames arrived at Boston on Nov. 4, 35 days out from Newport News. The captain reported having encountered unusually severe weather, during which the vessel sprang a leak and Necessitated the constant working of TAE MarRINE REVIEW two steam pumps. When picked up the master and cook of the vessel were the only members of the crew fit to work, the others being unable to leave their berths. For 10 days they thad been without water and had had nothing to eat but Stale bread. Information thas been received at Boston of the abandonment at sea of the schooner Frank Barnet, of Bos@ ton, which sailed from there on Oct. 27 tor ~~ Brunswick The French steamer Massila, which arrived at New York recently, reported ' having passed a burning schooner derelict, and picking up in the vicinity one of the boats of the Frank Barnet. The crew of the Barnet were rescued and landed at Port Antonio. The steamer Favorite has been sold to Philadelphia capitalists and will be placed in commission to run between Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla, im- mediately. The fleet of United States light- ships and tenders. which were built at Camden, N. J: for use on the Pa- cific, have arrived at Montevideo. They will proceed for Valparaiso, via the Straits of Magellan. The Norwegian steamship Hermes, which arrived at Philadelphia last week from Wabana, N. F., reported passing a monster iceberg when 200 miles east of Cape St Francis Jt would seem that floating ice still ex- ists in the North Atlantic, though out of the track of the liners. . The four-masted schooner Charles G. Endicott arrived in Hampton Roads last. week with the body of her de- ceased master,. Capt. Marvin Bailey, of Manasquan, N. J. The captain was washed overboard from .the Endicott off Cape Hatteras, on Oct. 31, was rescued, but died from exhaustion and shock. His body was sent home. Messrs. Hartfield, Solari © & Co. agents of the new Italian Line be- tween. Philadelphia and the Mediter- ranean, last week announced the suc- cessful launching of the steamship Ameriac. The vessel is of 12.000 tons displacement, 500 ft. in length, and has been specially constructed for the trafic of passengers between Genoa, Naples, Philadelphia and New York. She will accommodate 100 first class, 70 second class, and about 2,000 steer- age passengers. 33 BOOK REVIEWS, Internal Combustion Engines: Their Theory, Construction and Operation. By R. C. Carpenter and H, Dieder- ichs, .597 pages. D. Van Nostrand Co., New York. Price $5.00, net. - The subject of this work is too vast to be covered thoroughly within the limits: of the volume under review, but the authors have made a credit- able effort. Its treatment is highly technical, and as a. consequence the work is one which will scarcely ap- peal to a large circle of readers, not- withstanding the increasing popular- ity of the combustion engine. It is emphatically a work for students and presupposes a more than ordinary familiarity with mathematics. Nat- urally the thermodynamics of the gas engine claim a large share of atten- tion, and this in turn involves con- sideration of the various fuels, gas- oline and other oils; alcohol, illumin- ating, producer, coke-oven, blast-fur- nace' and natural gas, ete, "These chapters occupy a greater portion of the book. No particular practice in design is considered, nor structural -details, although examples of modern construction in various types are freely cited. It is to be regretted that in this respect many of the il- lustrations are decidedly inferior, and others have 'been reduced so that de- tails are indistinguishable. As a work of reference on the gas engine as a means of converting heat into work it is valuable, as is to be expected from the standing of the authors; the designer is assumed to be competent to supply the mechanical means of application. 4 - The repair job on the steamer Daniel B. Meacham, now in dry dock at the Ecorse yard of the Great Lakes Engi- neering Works, will be one of the heav- iest of the season. Nacey & Hind, of Cleveland, will supervise the repairs on behalf of the owners. -- A néw company known as the Thun- - der Bay Elevator Co. has been organ- ized at Winnipeg for the purpose of building an elevator at Port Arthur with a capacity of 1,500,000. The stock- holders are associated with the Empire Elevator Co., which has a plant at Fort William. In the blow on Lake Erie last week the package freighter Owego of: the Union Steamboat Line was quite bad- ly shaken up. She put into Cleveland with her smoke stack and whistle gone and with a shifted cargo. She was re- paired at Cleveland. po a