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28. members from each of the latter on the board of construction. , Another change of interest has been the assignment of Capt. A. E. Culver, former aide to Mr. Newberry when he was assistant secretary, to duty as a member of the general board. This board, which now numbers seven mem- bers, will soon be increased to 15. It is understood that the officers to be se- lected for this duty will complete the representation of every bureau in the navy, including details from the bureau of medicine and surgery and from sup- plies and accounts, thus making the gen- eral board what Mr. Newberry some weeks ago promised it should be--a gen- eral staff for the navy. By asking the president not to name a new chief of the bureau of steam engineering to suc- ceed Rear Admiral Barton, who has just been retired, Mr. Newberry has taken a significant step toward merging that bureau with some other--either equipment or construction and_ repair. The latter has seemed the more likely _for some time and when legislation is asked of congress to authorize the change probably the two named will be consolidated as embracing lines of work more or less germane. NEW STEAMER FOR PUGET 2 SOUND. The Puget Sound Navigation Co., Seattle, Wash., is asking bids for the construction of a triple-screw steel pas- senger steamer for daylight service on Puget Sound. The new vessel is to cost between $200,000 and $300,000 and must attain a speed of 20 knots, and is to be ready for delivery in: July. She is to have a capacity for 1,500 passen- gers. The exact dimensions of the craft have not as yet been decided but it is unlikely that she will be more than 250 ft. in length. A unique feature of the new vessel will be the installation of turbine en- gines, as there are at present but two vessels on the Pacific so equipped, they being the Tenyo Maru and the Chiyo Maru, of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, oper- ating between San Francisco and _ the Orient. The Moran Co., of Seattle, and the Craig Ship Building Co, of Long Beach, Cal., are probable bidders for the work of constructing this steamer. , A movement has been started to or- ganize a lodge of tthe Ship Masters' Association at Ogdensburg. Capt. James A. Walsh will submit the mat- ter to the grand lodge at its meeting in Washington during the present month. TAE MaRINE nReEVIEwW ATLANTIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine REVIEW, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York City. The new steel barge Buffalo, built by the New York Ship Building Co. 'for the Lehigh Valley railroad, left Philadelphia on Sunday for New York, in tow of the tug John Hughes. She is one of six which the New York Ship Building Co. is building for the railnoad company and will be used in the Long Island Sound 'trade. The French line steamer Bretagne arrived at New York on Sunday and reported passing, on Jan. 7, the wreck of a schooner named the Isabelle Alice. the schooner, which is believed to be a French fishing boat. ~The schooner Warner Moore, which was towed into Norfolk recently in an abandoned and waterlogged condition, has been pumped out by tugs. She will be inspected by the underwriters and owners, who will determine what is to be done with the vessel and cargo. Another struggle is ibelieved to be near at hand between the larger lines in the North Atlantic service. The dispute between the North Atlantic conference tand the Italian companies over the Mediterranean trade is still unsettled, and the temporary agree- ment ends on Jan. 21. Captain Thomas Spink, of the Brit- ish steamship Conway, which arrived at Norfolk recently, reports that while coming up the coast on Dec. 31 the vessel passed throwgh a wide area of boiling water. Captain Dunn, of the British steamship. Lord Dufferin, re- cently reported a similar occurrence ion a different date. The Norwegian steamship Bjorgvin, from Philadelphia for Hull, put into St. Michaels, Azores, last week, to re- plenish her bunkers. Five members of the crew of the British schooner Annie, of Liverpool, N. S., which was swamped by a waterspout about 15 miles from Oak Ridge, Honduras, on Noy. 16, arrived at New York last week ion the British bark Annie Smith, from Belize. The schooner was a itotal loss. Peter F. Fraser, master of the steam- ship Bermudian, of the Quebec Steam- ship Co. was recently presented on behalf of the United States govern- ment with a gold watch for distin- There was no sign of life on | guished life-saving service at sea, Henry Heyliger, Joseph Drayton, Jo- seph Wallace, James Hendrickson and William H. Dewent, seamen of the Bermudian, were presented with gold medals. John Fiske Walsh, formerly second officer of the Bermudian, will also be presented with a gold watch. The Bermudian, on Feb. 2, 1908, when 260 miles northwest of Bermuda, came up with the Mary L. Newhall, a four- masted schooner of Bath, Me. in a dismasted and sinking condition. Cap- tain Frasen stood by the wrecked ves- sel for 16 hours and in the face of extremely heavy weather succeeded in rescuing the crew. The Clyde Steamship Co. this week begins a service of four sailings a week from Philadelphia to Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News. The White Star line steamship -- Oceanic, which arrived at New York ion Jan. 7 from Southampton, came in 24 hours late. She lost one of her propeller blades on Sunday evening. The British steamship Avonmore, which was driven ashore nean Lynn Haven Inlet, in lower Chesapeake Bay, during the storm of Dec. 22, was floated 'by the wrecking tug Coley last Thursday. The condition of the ves- sel is not known. The British steamship Anglo-Afri- can, which went ashore on Smith's Island, off Cape Charles, in a dense fog on Jan. 5, has been abandoned and now lies heavily listed. She is be- lieved to be badly damaged, but the wreckers believe there is a chance of saving the vesel. The Royal Mail steamship Magda- lena, which arrived at Colon on Mon- day, reported that the steamship Trent, of the same company, was aground on 'the reef outside of Carta- gena, Colombia, and that part of her cargo had 'been 'thrown' overboard. The United States tug Scully was im- mediately sent to ther assistance. The Trent left New Yioork on Dec. 26 for Southampton, via Jamaica and Cen- tral American ports. Second Officer John Sorensen, of the British steamship Aral, which ar- rived at Philadelphia recently, had a narrow and singular escape from drowning on Dec. 21. The Aral was pound from Shields to* Philadelphia in ballast, and left the former port on Dec. 16. She encountered extremely