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Behrman of New Orleans and a party of southern business men visited the latter city last week. Mayor Behrman advocates the establishment of the steamship line by the two municipal- ities in case private concerns should decline to make the venture. An unusual quantity of ice is re- ported in the track of trans-Atlantic liners, incoming vessels having en- countered large ice floes in the vicinity of Cape Race. In several cases the course of vessels had to be altered to avoid coming in contact with ice fields and bergs. The steamer Furnessia, of the Anchor Line, from G.asgow, ar- rived at New York last week with her bows slightly damaged through en- countering ice. The government wireless telegraph station at Cape Henry is to be aband- oned and the wireless apparatus sent to Beaufort, N. C., for the establish- ment of a modern two-pole station at that point. Such a system has been recently established at the Norfolk navy yard, the Norfolk station having been found to operate more success- fully than the single-pole station at Cape Henry, though 20 miles from the sea coast, The schooner Ann J. Trainor, from Norfolk for New York with a cargo of lumber, was towed into the harbor on Saturday with only her foremast standing, she having lost her other masts in a gale encountered on March 4, on which date the captain was also injured. After the vessel was dis- masted the sea calmed somewhat and sail was made on the only remaining mast. Captain Derrickson reported that trouble was experienced With the crew of negroes and Portugese, who were anxious to abandon the Trainor for the safer decks of the passing steamers spoken. He was suffering from a fractured rib, due to being struck by a bocm. The bark Good News is now bound for New York with the first shipment of California asphalt to be sent east in years.. The owner, W. J. Grand- field, sent the vessel to Puget Sound last year with a cargo of dynamite. She was so long mak'nz the run that it was feared she hed met with dis- aster. She arrived eventually, how- ever, having suffered some slight dam- age to her rigging and encpuntered adverse weather. Two sailing vessels from the far east on long runs of 14,000 miles each "THE. Marine. REVIEW passed Cape Henry last week, from Hongkong for Baltimore, They were the British barks Eclipse and Juteo- polis and were bringing cargoes of matting, The time taken averaging about five months. The British steamship Vizcania, from Boston for Phi.adelphia, was in collision with the schooner Francis S. Goodnow on March 12, near Nan- tucket Shoals. The Goodnow, which escaped with slight injury, arrived at Hyannis, Mass., in tow of the revenue cutter Gresham, the Vizcania_ pro- ceeding on her voyage. At the request of Major Porter, of ~ the Lighthouse Bureau of the United States army, Senator Payne duced a bill at Albany last week to permit the acquisition by the federal government of land on Staten island near the Richmond court house, as a site for a lighthouse to overlook Ambrose channel. The three-masted schooner Mystic, of the Gilbert Transportation Co.'s fleet, put into Newport harbor last week minus all her fore rigging and short of water and provisions. The Mystic left Jacksonville, Fla., for New Haven, with a cargo of lumber, on Feb. 19. When off Barnegat she en- countered a heavy storm and was blown 180 miles off her course. The lawyers of M. A. Mosle, who obtained a motion for a hearing why the sum deposited by the purchaser at the first sale of the steamship Flori- da, which was not completed, should not be returned to him, have made ap- plication for that motion to be post- intro- © Ao poned, For the present it is not likely that this issue will be raised, and, pending the order of the court, the deposit of $16,030 is held by commis- sioner Alexander, @ The Mallory Line steamer Brazos, which arrived at New York on Mon- day from Galveston, made the fastest Tun on record between the two ports, She covered the entire course of 2,200 miles in 4 days, 15 hours and 15 minutes, an average speed of 19.52 knots. The four-masted schooner Miles F. Merry, which. stranded off the Long Island coast on Feb. 17, and which had since been stripped and abandoned was burned to a frame in some un- known manner on Monday. The Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. was the lowest bidder for dredg- ing and widening the Cuyahoga river above the Jefferson street bridge, Cleveland. About $50,000 is involved. The bids ranged from 1534 cents to 19 cents a cubic yard, according to the nature of the work. CLARK WIRELESS SYSTEM. -- The Clark Wireless Telegraph Co. has installed a complete wireless tele-_ graph plant in the of the Detroit Journal. The company has also closed contract for equipping all the vessels of the Detroit & Cleve- land. Navigation. .Co.'s.. fleet. Tie equipment is now being put aboard the Eastern States, City of St. Ignace and City of Mackinac. The steamers City of Cleveland, City of Detroit and Western States are already equipped. editorial offices CLARK WIRELESS TELEGRAPH SET.