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28 PACIFIC COAST NOTES. Office of the Marine Review, . 302 Pioneer Building, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 25. The Heffernan Dry Dock Co., Se- attle, has been awarded the contract for repairing the German steamship Anubis, the contract price being $68,- 870. This figure includes dockage and the expense of towing the Anubis north from San Francisco. The con- tract calls for the completion of the work in 56 days. This is one of the biggest repair jobs ever let on this coast. The specifications call for fair- ing and replacing 109 plates; 100 frames and 40 brackets will have to be renewed; bulkheads will be re- paired, ceiling tank tops and_ bilges will be renewed or repaired; all bunker ceilings and hatches must be renewed and the decks will be calked. In addition to this work on the hull, the machinery and boilers are to be generally overhauled; the fire boxes are to be rebuilt; the boilers are to be fitted with magnesia covering and the electrical equipment is to be thor- oughly repaired. ft. long, 48 ft. beam, 26 ft. deep, with a registered tonnage of 4,763 gross. Following is a schedule of the bids: Heffernan Dry Dock Co., $68,870, 56 days; Moore & Scott Iron Wiorks, $68,750, 56 days; Union Iron Works, $68,900, 60 days; Risdon Iron Works, $73,750, 64 days; United En- gineering Co., $79,000, 60 days; Brit- ish Columbia Marine Railway Co., $80,000, 65 days. The steam schooner, Shna-Yak has arrived at Eagle Harbor where she will be repaired by Hall Brothers Marine Railway & Ship Building Co. The repairs will cost about $4,000. The Shna-Yak struck a rock at Point Arena, during a thick fog on her last voyage from Puget Sound to San Pedro and narrowly escaped being totally wrecked. The stern wheel steamer Craigflower is being overhauled at Victoria, B. C. Her frames are being strengthened and new engines are 'being installed. As soon as the work is completed she will operate on the Sheena river from Port Essington, carrying freight for the railway construction camps of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway. R. J. Macdonell will operate ther. The Washington state railroad com- mission has decided that piers A, B, C and D, owned by the Columbia & Puget Sound railway at Seattle should be taxed as commercial property and not as railroad property as has been The Anubis is 382° Seattle, ' comparatively THE Marine REVIEW done heretofore. This decision affects a number of other piers owned by railroad interests in Seattle and Ta- coma. The United States cruiser Colorado, which has been undergoing repairs at the navy yard, Puget Sound, has left the dry dock. Upon leaving the dock it was found that the Colorado had a list of several degrees to port. It was. later found that the list was due merely to the improper loading of ammunition and stores and not to leaky plates as was first reported. The cruiser will leave the yard on time. The latest move in the merciless rate war being waged between the Canadian Pacific railway and the Pu- get Sound Navigation Co. for the pas- senger traffic between Seattle and Vic- toria and Vancouver, B. C., has been the reduction of the round trip rate between. Seattle and Vancouver to $1.25 by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. The distance between the two cities is about 135 miles and the new rate is the lowest in the history of Puget Sound steamboating. The fare to Victoria, 60 miles, is 25 cents each way. It is expected that the war will be continued throughout the winter as neither side is showing any signs of relenting. Capt. John Bermingham, supervis- ing inspector United States steamboat inspection service, will return to his home office at San Francisco this week. Upon Capt. Bermingham's de- parture the Seattle office will be in charge of Inspectors A. N. Walton and Thos. J. Henry, from St. Michael, Alaska, which office is closed during the winter. The regular local inspect- ors, Whitney and Turner, will return from their vacations Oct. 1 and take charge of the office again at that time. Latest advices, from Alaska indi- cate that the wreck of the American bark Star of Bengal pound from Wrangle to San Francisco with a cargo of canned salmon is one of the worst disasters that has occurred on - tae Pacific coast in years. The Star of Bengal struck on Helm Point, Cor- onation Island, in a heavy' sea last Sunday morning (Sépt. 20) and went to pieces 45 minutes after -- she grounded. At 4 A. M. Sunday the bark anchored in seven fathoms with no wind. The wind, rose rapidly; at 8:45 the ceased to hold: efforts to beat off from the shore were unavail- however, anchors ing and at 9:45 A. M. the bark struck, By this time the wind was blowing a gale. Two tugs, Hattie Gage and Kayak, stood near the fated craft, but offered no assistance. Capt. Wagner of the Star of Bengal openly accuses the captains of the tugs of criminal cowardice and asserts that for four hours before the storm reached its height every man aboard could have been taken off in safety. As it was, 95 Chinese and 15 white men lost their lives. OBITUARY. Capt. Wm. Gegoux, who died re- cently, was one of the most compe- tent among the younger generation of masters on the lakes, and his death was most untimely. He was born in Clayton, N. Y., in 1872; and was of French-Canadian descent. He re moved to Cleveland when 16 years of age and shortly thereafter became CAPT. WILLIAM GEGOUX. sailed by promoted cabin 'boy on a_ schooner Capt. Robinson. He was continuously through the various po- sitions of watchman, wheelsman, mate. When 'the Pittsburg Steamship Co. was formed he became one of its cap- tains and was master of the steamer Zenith City when he died. He was married in 1900 to Miss Edith L. Nelty, with one son, survives him, who, Four seamen were suffocated and a fifth partly overcome by the fumes of burning pitch and oakum in the fore- peak of the British bark Puritan as she lay at anchor in President Roads, Bos- ton, last week. The vessel was but slightly damaged by the fire.