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Palen has been appointed as- sistant general manager of the Old Dominion Line, with headquarters at Norfolk, Va. L. W. Sullivan, vessel agent at To- ledo, has removed his offices from 318 Chamber of Commerce to room 3 White Star Line 'building. Charles O. Jenkins has been ap- pointed manager of the Jenkins Steam- ship Co., with offices in the Rockefeller building, Cleveland. in C. D. Dyer, of the Shenango Steam- ship Co.; of Pittsburgh, was in Cleve- land in relation to the business of the fleet recently. Capt. A. F. Pillsbury, surveyor for the San Francisco board of under- writers, has resigned to engage in business as-a marine surveyor. David H. Watkins has been ap- pointed general passenger agent of the Peoples and Citizens Line with head- quarters in New York City. Fred B. Dalzell, president of the Dalzell Towing' Line, has been elect- -ed vice president of the Patchogue & Water Island Navigation Co. -- Wallace Tomey, of Cleveland, has been appointed inspector of boilers of the steamboat inspection service at Evansville, Ind. He MIM oe ; \ YYTY_YTYY Yr7r _Yvry-_SY?r-_yrr UTIL ATTN] 7 SUN IA WA HAT 2° ©© -: OO: T XO % 0 Philip D. Sloan, of Seattle, Wash., has just concluded a tour of the lakes interesting capital in the construction of a new floating dry dock at Seattle. : William F. Riley has been appointed superintendent of the Shenango Steamship Co.'s fleet of vessels with offices in the Rockefeller building, Cleveland. Sven Anderson has been appointed chief engineer of the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows. Point, Md. He. was for 'ten years superintendent of its dock department. Albert E. Guy, chief engineer of the DeLaval Steam Turbine Co., Trenton, N. J., has resigned to accept a similar position with the Wilson-Snyder Cen- trifugal. Pump: Co, of Pittsburgh, Pa, Frank W. Hibbs, Pacific coast man- ager of the Electric Boat Co., has been compelled to take a long vacation, ow- ing to ill health. He is at present at Miami, Fla. John F. Wallace, former engineer- in-chief of the Panama canal, says that;: England! and ot. the: United Stat@s will be the chief beneficiary in the completion of the canal. A. L. Hopkins has been elected vice president of the Newport News - Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., New- port' News, "Var tl. 2. Bereusca continues' as general manager. Col. Thomas L. Casey, corps of en- gineers, U.S, A., Has - been placed on the retired list on his own appli- cation, after 32 years: of active -ser-. vice. He is well known both on the lakes and on the coast. Capt. Albert Gleaves, commandant cf the naval station at Newport, R. I.. has been selected by the navy de- partment to succeed Rear Admiral Eugene H. C. Leutze, retired, as com- mandant of the New York navy yard. George H. Collins, managing director of the Canadian Fish & Cold Storage Co., Prince Rupert, B. ©, has gone to England to invite tenders for 16 fishing vessels for use in Pacific wa- ters. F.: A. Ballin, Seattle, Wash., is pre- paring plans for the construction of two steel steamers for the Inland Navigation Co., of Seattle, for ser- vice on Puget Sound, one for passen- ger service and the other freight. Harry R. Rodgers, general freight agent of the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co., has been promoted to trafic manager in charge of freight and passenger traffic with headquar- ters at Cleveland, ye Heffernan, president of the 'Heffernan Dry. Dotk Co. or Seattle, has. just. returned trom. 4. trip to Panama. He predicts that the canal will stimulate immigration from Eu- rope and that the Pacific coast will be greatly benefited. : Col. George W. Goethals, of the Isthmian canal commission, is now in Europe inspecting the Kiel canal and other related engineering works. While in Berlin, on March 10, he was the guest of Emperor William at luncheon. Capt. Obed F. Bolles, one of the oldest: marine cofficials of San. Pran- cisco, retired on' Match 1/7, after a long service in. the United States steamboat inspection service. James -G. Guthrie, formerly assistant inspect- or,' succeeds him. G. A. Tomlinson, vessel. owner of Duluth, visited Cleveland on.a_ busi- mess trip this week, He has decided to operate his fleet without insurance this year. He reports ice conditions as abnormal and says that an early opening of navigation is impossible. Capt. W. E. Reynolds, superintend- ent of construction and repair of the revenue cutter service has been ord- ered from Washington to San Fran- cisco to assume command of the South Pacific division of the United States revenue cutter service. M. Philippe Buana-Varilla, the dis- tinguished French engineer, a recog- nized authority on the Panama canal, scouts the suggestion of the existence of. a voleano: in..that, locality. © if smoke and 'steam have really been seen to issue from the Culebra cut- ting he easily be explained by the the different strata. says the phenomenon can nature of