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Ware, president of the North At- lantic & Western Steamship Co. aboard the steamer Articas, the first boat to enter the trade. Since the war there had been no regular coast- wise service between Philadelphia and the Pacific coast. ~ THE MaryLaANp STEAMSHIP Co., re- cently incorporated in Baltimore with a capital of $500,000, will do a general shipping business between Philadelphia and European ports. Megee, Steer & Co., Philadelphia, will be managers and operators of the new steamship com- pany. The fleet will consist of ten 7500-ton freighters, similar to those built at Hog Island. * * * Wuat Is Saip to be the largest boiler ever built in the port of New York was recently completed in the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co.'s boiler shop. It is a 115-ton, double ended 8-fire, Scotch boiler, 15 feet 3 inches in diam- eter, 22 feet long, and has a heating surtace of 5245 square feet. It' was constructed for the Er Sot. * * * ~ ANNOUNCEMENT HAS been made that the United States Mail Steamship Co. has chartered 15 of the best of the former German steamers. The company will inaugurate a passenger and freight service between Boston and Bremen and has arranged with the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. for the use of its terminals at Bremen. The France & Canada Steamship Co., which has operated a line from Boston to France, is back of the new company. * K * WoovEN SHIPS belonging to the ship- ping board, with defects entailing too great an expense in operation, have been ordered tied up along the Atlantic coast. At New York, 36 are to be tied up under managing caretakers, 16 at Norfolk, nine at Philadelphia, two at Boston, three at New Orleans, and three at Baltimore. 4 #2 * SHORTAGE OF men is said to be the reason why the navy department has ordered the retirernent of eight ships. Six are battleships, the LOovumIsIANA, VERMONT, VircinrA, New Jersey, NE- BKASKA and GEorGIA; two are armored cruisers, the Puresto and the HunrTING- TON: * * * Tue Sun SHIPBUILDING Co., Chester, Pa., has received a contract from the Norwegian American line for a 10,600- ton tanker. The vessel will be 430 feet long with 59 feet beam and 33 feet 3 inches depth. She will be equipped with triple expansion engines and Scotch boilers and will be built on the Isherwood system. She will have a speed of 10% knots with a con- sumption of 30 tons of fuel oil daily. i ks Se THE Rapio Corp. of America, New York, whose stations were released from government service on March 1, has put a high power wireless circuit for commercial use to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland into operation. The stations are of the duplex type, sending and receiving messages simul- taneously. The corporation has already established two transoceanic circuits irom San Francisco to Hawaii and Japan, and from New York to Great Britain. ks Tue Fore River plant of the Bethle- hem Shipbuilding Corp., has completed its destroyer contract, amounting to over $100,000,000. The destroyer OSBORNE, the last of the 71 destroyers built at the Squantum works, was delivered to the United States navy yard at Charlestown on May 17. From the beginning of its destroyer program, started in June, 1917, the yard set a series of records. The 416 Erol INADAOAIIUAOCIUCIOUOOOUAUCECOU OOO days, where, heretofore, it had taken 26 months to build one such vessel. The MaHAN was delivered to the navy in 174 days from the time the keel was laid. Fourteen boats built at the Quincy works saw service abroad. At the call for in- creased production, the Squantum works were started in October, 1917, to build 35 destroyers. Here the Reip was com- pletely built and delivered in 4514 work- ing days and set the world's record in naval construction. Trial trips were also carried out rapidly, the Moony, success- fully finishing every test, including the 4-hour run, between 7:06 a. m. and 1329 p.m, cee THE Spirit oF adventure is luring the little schooner CHUKoTSk, belonging to the. Hibbard-Swenson Co., Seattle, to the Kolyma river, Arctic Siberia, where no trader has been for three years and where it is said that the people have run out of everything, even matches. The CHUKOTSK set: sail on May 3 and took the inside passage to Cape Spencer, thence across the Gulf of: Alaska to Unimak pass and then to East Cape in the Arctic. From there she will re- turn to Nome to prepare for the dar- ing voyage to the Kolyma. By the northward route the journey will ex- ceed 4000 miles. The company on board numbers 10 picked men, with Captain Weeding in command and R. N. Critch- low as chief engineer. The CHUKOTSK, formerly the halibut schooner TyYEE, is equipped with 140-horsepower gas en- gine that gives a speed of 8 knots, and is recognized as a fine sailer. She is the first vessel, outside of Russian gov- ernment ships, that has attempted to reach the Kolyma river and to return to Seattle the same _ season. > * * a 90-foot auxiliary, sailed recently for Lima, Peru, in charge of Capt. Alfred Gannell and a crew of 10 men supplied by the Knights of Columbus employment serv- ice of New York. The craft is to be turned over to its new owner, Senor Carlos Valencia. The voyage will take Stoop Maraya, about three months, with stop overs at the West Indies and the Panama canal. The men are all former navy veterans and receive $200 per month.