Show Cruising for Derelicts Tht excellent work In destroying a dangerous derelict last week begun by the Tacoma and completed by tho Columbia gives renewed point to tho suggestion hitherto made In these columns that vessels ot the navies of tho world might with peculiar profit be employed In tracking and destroying destroy-ing tho abandoned hulks which dot tho seas and which present one of tho one of tho most serious dangers to navigation says tho Now York Tribune Trib-une Of the need that derelicts shai be destroyed as speedily as possible there can ho no question Many known accidents and disasters have been duo to them and thero Is reason rea-son for supposing that many perhaps most of the mysterious disappearances disappear-ances of vessels might truly bo explained ex-plained on tho ground that they had come Intq collision with those wandering wan-dering destroyers Carrying no lights making no noise giving no signal of any kind often lying so low in the water as to be scarcely perceptible and heavy and solid almost against which a vessel can scarcely bo guard ell In tho dark and collision with which Is always serious and often disastrous |