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Show Cruising for Derelicts. Tii excollcnt work In destroying a dangerous dorcllct last week, begun by tho Tacomn and complotcd by thT Columbia, gives renewed point to tho suggestion hitherto made In these columns thnt vessels ot the navies ot tho world might with peculiar profit bo employed In tracking and destroying destroy-ing tho abandoned hulks which dot tho seas and which present ono of tho ono of tho most sorlous dangers to navigation, Bays tho Now York Tribune Trib-une Of tho need that dorcltcta shn,. bo destroyed as speedily as possible thoro can bo no question. Many known nccldonts nnd disasters have been duo to them, nnd thoro Is reason rea-son for supposing that many, perhaps most, ot tho mysterious dlsappcii-ancos dlsappcii-ancos ot vc-lscls might truly bo 1(-plained 1(-plained on tho ground that thoy hil como Into collision with thoso waV dorlng destroyers. Carrying no llghtf, making no nolso, giving no signal of any kind, often lying so low In tho wntor ns to bo scarcely porceptlbjl and heavy and solid almost agalt,fl wVilch a vessel can scarcely be guard! ed In tho dark and collision wltbl which is always serious and oftrj disastrous! ,': 1 |