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heavy weather, and ion Dec. 21, when the storm was at its 'height, a gigan- tic wave washed the second officer overboard. He had been given up for lost when another huge sea threw him back aboard the vessel. new experience, 'Lhis is. 710 but seldom has the victim 'been so long in the water. It is estimated that Mr. Sorensen overboard nearly 10 minutes. was To secure the co-operation of the United States life saving senvice and those companies possessing life sav- ing vesels equipped with wireless tele- graph, is the object of a bill intro- duced recently by Representative Cal- der, of New York. It empowers the life saving service to co-operate with these companies and also to notify them of all wrecks which "may occur on the Atlantic coast, but specifies that the United States government shall not be liable for any recompense which these companies may give in saving hhyman iife or safety of vessels. insuring the The three-masted schooner Warner Moore and the four-masted schooner William J. Lermond were towed into Norfolk harbor last week by the Uni- ted States government derelict de- stroyer Seneca and the revenue cutter Onondaga. The two schooners, rep- resenting, with their cargoes of lum- ber, a total value of $60,000, were abandoned at sea after 'having been se- verely handled by heavy weather, and were. both directly shipping. The Warner Moore was bound from Charleston to Providence, and was completely waterlogged when picked up. The Lermond was bound from Fernandina for Philadelphia when her crew were taken off by the Aus- trian steamship Columbia, bound from Philadelphia for Tampa. The German steamship American ar- rived at New Yiork on Friday and re- ported that during heavy weather en- countered on Christmas day, Captain Markschlager had been thrown along the upper deck and suffered the frac- ture of two ribs. Part of the Ameri- can's rail and some of her fittings were carried away by the violence of the . waves. The ;new freight steamer' Texas, from Christiana, Nor- way, to Hiavana, put into Savannah, Ga., on' Jan..1 with fire, in. her hold. The fire was - discovered the day previous when the Texas was. 100 miles off. Tybee Light, and Captain "Call in the path of "ton. and ,. passenger TAE Marine REVIEW Pederson at once changed his course for Savannah. The loss will be con- siderable. The Texas is of 5,500 tons and is on her maiden voyage. She was built in Bergen, Norway, and. is owned by the Norway & Mexican Gulf Steamship Co. She carried 14 first-class passengers, who were trans- ferred to the United States 'harbor cutter Tybee and taken to Savannah. The cargo is valued at $100,000. The naval collier Abarenda left Hampton -Roads last week for Gi- braltar, where she will méet the re- turning United States battleship fleet. She -has, in addition to her cargo OF COmL a quantity of presents from the relatives of the men of the fleet. The steerage passenger rates have been raised by the Red Star, Holland- America, - Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd steamship lines to New York $7.50. It is jrumiored that 'the express steamers of the Hamburg-American Line will desert Plymouth, England, in favor of Southampton as a port of the change to take place early in Spring, >: vas The coal-laden British steamship "Dahomey, which ran ashore on Elbow Reef, Bahamas, and sprung a leak, has been floated and hurried to Nassau, New Providence Island, where she is beached. port News for Vera Cruz. The three-masted schooner Modoc, bound from Perth 'Amboy for East- port, Me., was abandoned 75 miles off Cape Ann in a sinking condition. Cap- tain Dudley and his crew, who were in an exhausted condition through food supplies giving out, were taken off the Modoc by tthe fishing schooner Rob Roy, which landed them at Bos- The schooner had lost all can- vas and was leaking heavily. The fleet, of lightships and light- house tenders bound from Camden, via Tompkinsville, for the Pacific, left . Callao, Peru, on Dec. 27 for its des- tination. The Herc destroyer on Friday off Assateague, Virginia coast. | Le Captain Charles F. Watts, of Watet-" town, Mass., master of the schooner Frank B. Witherbee, was lost at sea the Catalone just outside the entrance She was bound from New- © ARRIVALS AT PHILADELPHIA. the port of Philadelphia. tablished. The arrivals were divided as follows: ele ee Steamers from foreign ports (regular Times ey ie ee oa ane 254 -Steamers from foreign ports Craps) 191 Steamers from foreign ports (tankers).. 236 Steamers from foreign ports (transients: 561 Steamers from coastwise ports (regular Lin€s) Foci. cc ee kee ee ee ee 707 Steamers "from coastwise ports (regular lines) 'via canal 30.6 fo tee eee eee Steamers from coastwise ports (tankers)... 90 _Ships from foreign ports..,.-.eeseserees | 93 Seneca re-- ports having destroyed a sunken wreck _ Barks Brigs and brigantines~ from foreign portage: Schooners from foreign bores. ee ca oe 9s Schooners from coastwise ports.....-1+ 647 -- Schooners from coastwise ports, via, canal 1s! " Barges from foreign ports....../. 4s... 2 Barges from coastwise ports.....-+-+.+ aes ¢ while bound from Charleston, S. Cs for Boston. The report. of the acci- dent was brought to Philadelphia by the Norwegian steamship Unique, from Santiago de Cuba, which spoke the Witherbee on Sunday, 50 miles south 'of Cape Henry. oy The Philadelphia tug Clara, while tied up for the night at her wharf, sank in the dock and is completely submerged at high water. The acci- dent is attributed to the tug catching on the side of the wharf and the ris- ing tide filling her hold. Two mem- x" bers of her crew narrowly escaped death by the accident. The wrecks of the Finance, which was sunk on Thanksgiving day by the Georgic, and the Daghestan, sunk by to the Gedney channel, on Dec. 18, have been abandoned by the wrecking company. Oe The British steamship Oriflamme, which was towed into Halifax, N. S., with 'her propeller and tail shaft miss- ing, and was afterward towed to New York, has completed repairs and sailed for Rouen. Several of the large trans-Atlantic liners- arrived at New. York at the close of last week from one to two days overdue. Considerable heavy weather had been encountered, Ege " ducing the speed of the big vessels. During 1908, 5,932 vessels arrived at No, correct. list of-arrivals of vessels was ever kept at this port before the board of commissioners of navigation was es- Steamers from' coastwise ports (transient) 785 Steamers from coastwise ports (transient) via canal - Ships from coastwise ports....+-.+u+++++ : Barks and barkentines from foreign ports and barkentines from coastwise POTTS (ede ceve cere cee s este ers tse emaae Brigs and brigantines from coastwise _ports Barges from coastwise ports, via Carel: Total Pepe arr eer a ae ee ee ee Oe Ee Je os