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Moen. by. the N. Y,-N. BB. &. o. Railroad Transfer No. 1, while on her way to tie up for the night. Through the presence of mind of .the captain and the driving capacity of the en- gineer the unfortunate vessel was im- mediately headed for. the nearest wharf, where sank immediately after the crew had scrambled ashore. she The steamer Joseph Vaccaro, of the Vaccaro line, arrived at New Or- leans on Nov. 23° and 'reported that the steamer Cartago,- which. went ashore on the Umatilla Island reefs off the Honduran coast on Nov. 18, will probably be saved without much loss to' ship or cargo. The Cartago was bound from New Orleans to Colon with 40 passengers and a big cargo of general merchandise. The steamer Chattahoochee of the Ocean Steamship Co., arrived at Nor- folk, Va., on: Nov. 19, with her for- ward hold afire. The fire was dis- covered. off the North Carolina coast, and 'being difficult to suppress caused the course of the vessel being direct- ed for Norfolk. The captain refused all assistance from the wrecking tugs which met the steamer, and. beached the vessel on Lambert's Point flats, below the city. The fire was extin- guished by flooding the forward com- partment with water. A cargo of 4000 bales of cotton was in the Chat- tahoochee, which plies between Savan- . nah and Boston. . Wreckers are-blowing up the steam- ship Gulf Stream off Hereford, N. J. The steamer was built in 1861 and ran ashore in a fog on Jan. 2, 1903, since when she has been a serious menace to the Anglesea fishing fleet in the narrow inlet near where the wreck lies. During the civil war the Gulf Stream was a blockade runner. © Charles W. Hanscom, president of the Eastern Ship Building Co., has announced that the plant at Croton Shore, New London, where the steam- ships Minnesota and Dakota were built, will be sold at auction and: the yard dismantled. Henry P. Havens, of New York, has brought suit in the United States court at New York against the Hud- son Transportation Co.,. to recover $15,000 damages for negligent and unskillful towage. The tug Asher Hudson left. Norfolk on Nov. 11 with the barge Nicholas and the schooner Florence Shay, and in heavy weather cut the Florence Shay adrift. The TAE MARINE. REVIEW vessel, owned by Henry P. Havens, was wrecked and two of the crew lost their lives. -- Phillip D. Sloan, ship tbuilder, Se- attle,. launched two large scows Dec. 1 and 2. The scows are 82 ft. long, 26 ft. beam and 7 ft. deep each, with a capacity of 250 tons apiece. They were built for the Drummond Light- erage Co., of Seattle. <A third scow is building and will be launched short- ly. The new steamer Vashonian will be launched. by Mr. Sloan Dec. 12. The same builder will rebuild the old stern-wheeler Vashon, putting 18 ft. in her hull and fitting her out with new machinery and boilers which is expected to increase her speed. iC. "W.. Wiley, Pacifte coast man ager for the Boston Steamship Co., states that the report recently re- ceived from Washington, D. C., to the effect that the negotiations between the United States' government. and the Boston Steamship Co. for the sale of the company's two 10,000-ton liners. Shawmut and Tremont are about to be consummated, is incorrect. The negotiations are no further advanced than they have been for three months and it is not known how soon the government is to take over these big steamers. It is expected that the old steamer Victorian, owned by the Great North- ern. railway. and used by, it as a car ferry between Victoria and New West- minster is to be sold shortly to Ed- ward Clark, of Seattle, and converted into an excursion steamer. It is prob- able that the price paid for her wil! be $40,000. She is to be thoroughly overhauled and a small dance hall is to be built on the lowér deck. The Victorian cost originally $250,000, and was capable of a speed of 18 knots. Completing the roughest trip of the season, the C. P. R. liner Empress of Japan arrived in Vancouver, Bo. Nov. 27, 12 days from Yokohama. She carried a cargo worth $2,000,000, the bulk of which was 659 tons of silk worth $1,500,000. Recent reports made by sailing ves- sels lately arrived at various Pacific coast ports give information that an unusual amount of ice has been seen in the vicinity of the Falkland Islands Horn. it 45 considered and Cape ve 'ely that the great amoun | latitudes this in the high southern year may account for the mysterious 21 disappearance of so many ships in this region. This year the ships Falk-: landbank, Carnedd Llewellyn and Tox- teth, all on voyages around Cape Horn, have disappeared. It is possible that they may have met their doom in the ice packs. e With a full cargo of coal the steam- ship Admiral Sampson, recently bought on the Atlantic coast by the Alaska Pacific Steamship Co. for, the Seattle- San Francisco route, has left New York. She is expected to arrive in San Francisco about Jan. 25 at which time the contracts for converting her into an oil burner and making other necessary changes will 'have been awarded. The repairs will probably take several weeks as it is not ex- pected that "the Sampson will be placed on her, regular run until some time in May. A $15,000 bell, tower and beacon buoy at Swiftsure bank is reported missing. It is feared that some ves- sel has collided -with it and it has foundered. . Last December the for- mer buoy at this bank disappeared and thas never been récovered. The steam schooner Northland, which struck on Enterprise reef at the entrance to 'Active Pass, B. C, recently, has been docked "at the Moran Co.s yard and found to be but little damaged. Ten plates were merely bent but will have to be re- moved and faired. The Northland will be in the dock about 10 days. Joseph Supple, ship builder, Port- land, has laid the keel of the new steamer Hyak which he is to build for the Kitsap County Transportation Co. of Seattle. It is evident from the annual re- port of General Marshall, chief of army engineers, in which he discussed river and harbor improvements in the northwest, that in his opinion the Celilo canal and the Columbia river jetty must be completed before any other important improvements to the Columbia river are undertaken on a large scale. The Celilo canal is a canal and lock around Celilo falls which make it possible to reach the upper Columbia river by boat from Portland. A portage railway is Op- erated at this point at present. The jetty at the mouth of the river is now extended a distance of 29,416 ft. and it is designed to assist in keeping a 25-ft, channel over the bar.