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May, 1919 Leonard C. Hanna 1850-1919 Leonard Colton Hanna, active head of M. A' Hanna & Co. Cleveland, died March 23, at his home in that city. He was 68 years old. He. was Senator brother of A. Hanna and was born in what now is known as Lisbon, Columbiana county, O., on Nov. 30, 1850. He was the son of Dr. Leonard C. and Samantha Converse Hanna. He was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and attended Holbrook academy. /at..Ossinine- N.Y. { Mis older brother, afterward United States senator from Ohio, became associated with Rhodes & Co., Cleveland, which began business in 1876 and then was composed of R. R.. Rhodes and J.-F. Rhodes, later including M. A. Hanna. This firm did a general merchandising business in Cleveland, developing trade through the northwest which then was the youngest Marcus beginning to expand through the me- - dium of copper and iron ore trade which was starting to move down the Great Lakes. After L. C. Hanna had been offered an opportunity to enter the business with Rhodes & Co., he went instead to St. Paul where he was associated from 1872 to 1874 in the coal business with E. M. Saunders, until recently president of the Northwestern Fuel Co. He returned to Cleveland; and on Jan. 1, 1875, he became connected with the firm of Rhodes & Co., which' in 1885 became the partnership of M.A. Hanha @& Co. Hor 28. years Marcus A. Hanna was the head of this firm. As early as 1845, Daniel P. Rhodes, who afterward became the father-in- law of M. A. Hanna, had been asso- ciated with David Tod in opening up 4 Coal "mine at: Brier All, near Youngstown, O. This was the first coal transported by canal to the lakes from interior Ohio, and from these small shipments developed the vast tonnage of coal that annually moves to the northwest by lake vessels. Naturally, from the shipment of coal and supplies to the upper lake ore regions, it was only another step to becoming connected with the iron ore industry which then was beginning to indicate something of the growth which it afterward attained. Through all this development, Leonard C. Hanna grew with the rise of the firm, and in 1879 was admitted as a partner. For many years L. C. Hanna was the active head of the firm, and due to his broad business vision it added steadily to the breadth of its activities. Tt embraced the original lines of trade THE MARINE REVIEW including coal, iron ore and pig iron. Through its connection as a shipper, it became the lessee and operator of docks along the lakes owned by the Pennsylvania railroad. When the Bessemer Ore association was organized, Mr. Hanna was its first president, and he continued as such until succeeded by W. G. Mather: It was while Mr. Hanna was the active head of the firm that lake transportation developed along the extensive lines of the present. day. He was president of the Claire Fur- nace Co., director in the Republic Iron & Steel Co., the Great Lakes Towing Co., the Kelley Island Lime & Trans- LEONARD C. HANNA port Co. and other limestone prop- erties. At one time he had been a director of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Co., now a part of the United States Steel Corp. He re- signed active connection with these various interests when he retired from active business in 1905, although he directed the affairs of M. A. Hanna & Co. in an advisory capacity. Mr. Hanna married Miss Fannie W. Mann, of Buffalo, 'in 1876, and two. daughters survive, Mrs. H. M. Hanna Jr.,2 and. Mrs, Paul Moore; and, his wife dying, he later married Miss Coralie Walker, of Richmond, Ky., who "with thew. "son, Leonard ©. Hanna Jr., now a partner of M. A. Hanna & Co., survive. Decision Affects Gulf Coast Yards At least 10 of the wooden ship- building yards on the gulf coast will be affected by the decision of the large . - foreign 251 wood ship division of the Emergency Fleet corporation to close all the yards of this class. These yards are located at Pascagoula, Moss Point and Biloxi, Miss.; Orange and Beaumont, Tex., and Madisonville, Morgan City and Lake Charles, La. It is probable that the -Jahncke Shipbuilding Co.'s yard at Madisonville will remain in Operation on private contracts and for the repair and construction of the large fleet of tugs and barges used by the Jahncke Navigation Co., the Jahncke Sand & Gravel Coy, 'atid other Jahncke interests. These com- bined yards employ about 50,000 men. Tonnage is Scarce San Francisco exporters are per- plexed with the problem of securing sufficient tonnage to move California's big barley crop and stored holdings. Foreign demand would readily absorb . the surplus stocks held in the wate- houses of the state if sufficient ships could be secured to move it. This demand has increased the prices of spot barley of shipping grade up to $2.371%4 and $2.42%4 a cental in San Francisco. There is a consider- able quantity moving east via Galves- ton, Tex., and New Orleans but more vessels are needed for direct loading at Port Costa. The 5-mast schooner FALKENTIND, which arrived at San > Francisco with a cargo of 4000 tons of wheat, -has been chartered to carry a full cargo of California barley to Scandinavian ports at a rate of . $40 per ton. Two motorships recently launched on the West coast have been chartered to San Francisco, grain opera- tors for barley cargoes to Norway and Denmark at the same rate. The Amer- ican ship CeLtic MonarcH, now at Islais creek, San Francisco bay, will | leave shortly with a cargo of barley for the United Kingdom. The United States shipping board is quoting a rate of $30 a ton on full cargoes of barley to the United Kingdom for its wooden steamers, but there appears to be no tonnage of this sort available for the trade at the present time. The port of Seattle has begun work of constructing its $2,000,000 pier at Smith cove, Seattle, dredging operations being now well under way. This ter- minal is to be the most modern and 'up to date on the Pacific coast. The port commission has recently inaugu- rated a plan of meeting weekly with representatives of various civic and labor bodies in an effort to smooth out misundertandings and to work for the interests of the port. Actual work on the pier will begin soon.