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Admiralty recognized to the full, the great public service rendered by a firm which was able to lay down, to build, complete, and supply with all the necessary machinery and material, a ship like the Vanguard, which, per- haps, for all they could tell, at a pos- sible moment of national peril might be the means of securing the safety of our. country. (Loud cheers.) The admiralty bought from Messts. Vic- kers, but felt that when they received armaments from them they were re- ceiving a national service, and were giving of the best that England had to give by way of material for our nation- al fleet. (Cheers.) He was glad to have the opportunity of saying how much the admiralty prized the good feeling that existed between them and the great firms who supplied them. They could not get on unless they had that good feeling; unless could rely upon those firms and knew that in any emergency they would be ready to put everything within their resources at the disposal of the ad- miralty, they could never answer to parliament and the country for the necessary supplies in order to maintain the supremacy of the fleet. (Cheers.) He regarded the existence of a firm like Messrs, Vickers as a national as- set, and. could only 'say that. had Messrs. Vickers not been invented the first duty of the nation would be to discover them. (Laughter and cheers.) Mr. Albert Vickers, responding, ex- pressed the hope that many equally good ships might follow from the berth in which the Vanguard had been built, and they sought to make the works capable of meeting every de- mand the government might make up- on them either in respect of ships, ma- chinery or ordnance. Mr. McKenna would recognize, too, their heavy re- sponsibilities in regard to the large body of men who had been trained to that high class of work, and to the families dependent upon them. He would say that the interest of the na- tion might be served, as well as those of the firm's workmen, by many. ships being built to follow the Vanguard from those works. (Cheers.) The Andresen-Evans Co., 1501 Mon- adnock block, Chicago, announce that David J. Evans has resigned as man- ager of sales of the Rail Joint Co., and will hereafter give his personal attention to the duties as president of the Andresen-Evans Co. H. P. Andresen will continue as vice presi- dent and chief engineer. The com- pany designs iron and coal unloading buckets ad conveying bridges. 'Staten Island. they - ""TAE MarRINE. REVIEW ATLANTIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine Review, Room 1005, No. 90 West St., New York City. John H.. Starin,'.for madny years prominent in steamboat transporta- tion circles, died at his home in New York city on March 22. (Nr Stan was head of the Starin line, with ves- sels plying between New York and New . England ports; and owned a shipyard and dry dock on He was born in 1825 at Sammionsville, N° Yi, served im Congress from 1877 to 1881, and was vice president of the old New. York Gity Rapid Transit Commission. various The time of sailing from New York of the steamers of the Fall River line has this week been changed from 5 p. mh to, 3200 im The. Clyde line 'this week changes the sailings of the Philadelphia, Nor- folk, Portsmouth, Newport News ser- vice from Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fri- days and Saturdays, to" Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Satur- days. The passenger servsce is elim- inated on this line. The treasury department reports that the revenue cutter Seminole has removed a menace to navigation consisting of a part of the wrecked schooner William L. Walker, about 37 miles south, 63 degrees 30 minutes west from Cape Lookout shoals light- ship. The schooner Cleopatra, after drift- ing about the Gulf of Mexico since Jan. 28, a hopeless derelict, has drift- ed ashore near St, George's island, Fla. The bodies of the crew were washed ashore after the vessel was wrecked. The Cleopatra is owned in the vicinity. - The Red Star liner Finland, which is now in the White Star line Medi- terranean service, arrived last week from Naples, taking the place of the Republic. She will run on the Re- public's schedule for the next six months. Extensive alterations were necessary on the Finland in order that the liner could comply with the Italian emigration laws. The United States supervisors, of the steamboat inspection service, who have been making an inquiry, have ex- onerated the crew of the John H. Starin in the matter of the grounding of the steamer at the Bridgewater breakwater on Feb. 19, Philippine Islands. i9 The Holland-America Steamship Co, has acquired and will take over at once the Furness-Withey & Co, steam- ship service between Rotterdam and Baltimore. Six steamers are to be put on the new route by the Holland- American line, The Jacksonville Tropical Steam- ship Co. was organized at Jackson- ville, Fla., last week, to operate be- tween that port, the Isle of Pines, Cuba and Central American ports. The company has purchased the steamship Goldsboro, which about a year ago sailed out of New York with a general cargo for parts. un- known, piloted by the Bailey Brothers, No appropriation has been made for lighting the Delaware river between Bordentown and Trenton, despite the | efforts of the lighthouse officials. Two lights were recently erected, one at Biles' and the other at Duck's island, but as no appropriation has been made for their maintenance they are not looked upon as permanent. The British steamship Irish Mon- arch, now on her way to Philadelphia, has. been chartered to load a cargo of case oil at Point Breeze for the She is to receive 14%4 cents per case freight. An unusual quantity of ice is report- ed in the track of trans-Atlantic liners, incoming craft still reporting passing through large ice floes in the vicinity of Cape Race. Several large bergs have also been reported. The steamship Evangeline, which arrived at Halifax on Saturday, from Liver- pool, was forced to run 40 miles south of her course in order that she might get clear of the bergs. The first shipments of ice this season have arrived at Philadelphia on the Reading barges Marion and Cleona, from Boothbay, Me., in tow of the tug Lykens. Each vessel had on board 2,000 tons, which will be discharged for storage. The schooner Rebecca J. Moulton, in a distressed and wrecked condition arrived in Savannah on Monday. The Moulton was 44 days out from New- port News, and had been driven out of her course to the Bermudas. Pro- visions had been obtained by the crew from a foreign vessel bound for Glas- gow,