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August, 1920 ie the Cedar Point jetty and con- ace a crib for a lighthouse and fog horn. es The excursion steamer Rorarran, shown in the accompanying illustration, was formerly the A. WEHRLE JR. She was purchased by the Clow & Nichol- son 'Transportation Co., Duluth, last fall and remodeled and rebuilt in the yard of the Marine Iron & Shipbuild- ing Co. Duluth. Work was completed early in June. The Rorarian is 155 feet overall, 45 feet beam over guards, in B-toot depth of hold. © She is ipped with steam stearing gear, ag capstan, two independent light- ing plants and trim tanks. She can now carry 1200 passengers. Her new accommodations also include a_ large * dancing space on the main deck aft. ite Along the Atlantic and Gulf Co Nicarao, second of a fleet of five being constructed for the Cuyamel Fruit Co., New Orleans, was launched at the Shooters island yard of the Standard Shipbuilding Corp., New York, June 26. Nuicarao is 235 feet long, 34- foot beam and 16-foot draft, with a speed of 11 knots. She will be used in service between New Orleans and Latin- American ports. It will be at least the first of August before any of the. new vessels of the fleet will be received at New Orleans, according to officials of the Cuyamel company. eke The new public coal tipple, being erected on the upper river by the board of commissioners of the port of New Orleans, will be completed and ready for service about Aug. 15, according to announcement by the board under date of July 1. The cost of this tipple, which is for handling cargo coal ex- clusively, is $610,000. It is of the belt conveyor type, handling coal from freight cars to a 30,000-ton storage pile. From storage, 7400 feet of 36-inch belt con- veyor take the coal to the loading towers at the end of the wharf, whence it can be delivered direct, at the rate of 600 tons an hour, to the hold of a vessel. Facilities also are provided for the re- ceipt of coal by barge on the river, and for handling the coal direct from cars or barges into ships, without passing it through the storage pile. Ao he The majority of the railroads serving New Orleans have decided to absorb eS 15 cents a ton tollage put on all een Passing across the wharves by the dock board. Considerable protest Was made at first by the railroads, but a dnally they undertook the absorption o Me charge, realizing that increased Sts made it necessary for the port faciliti : ' sues to receive more pay for their Services, pay Ko ki oe oe channel is being constructed miles oe River, at Goldpoint, a few iis ee ove Shreveport, La., cutting off btot Wes of the length of the river, €cting the levees and railroad prop- As passenger and cargo steamer erty at Shreveport and increasing the navigability of the stream. The im- provement is being done by Caddo parish, at a cost of $60,000. -- + ek | Six all-steel ships, 6000 tons each, now on the ways of the Chickasaw Shipbuild- ing Co., Mobile, Ala., will be named for as many cities of Alabama. They are to be called' Tuscatoosa City, Monrt- GOMERY City, BESSEMER City, FAIRFIELD City, Serma Ciry and ANNiston Crry. 2K * * The 5000-ton steel steamer Houston was launched June 26 by. the Mobile Shipbuilding Co., at Mobile, Ala. Steel steamer City oF ATLANTA was launched by the same company July 3, at the same place. 2 ok The United Fruit Co. announces regu- lar service every three weeks by steamer between New Orleans and Port Limon, Costa Rica, starting about the middle of July. ak, oe L. J. Folse, for many years connected with the exporting firm of A. E. Hege- wisch & Co., New Orleans, has formed the Marine Forwarding & Shipping Co., with offices at 313 Whitney Bank build- ing, New Orleans. HO ke oe The Dollar Steamship Co., Boston, will establish a steamship service between Boston and the Far East. The steamers will go to Japanese and possibly Chinese ports by way of the Panama canal. The North Atlantic & Western Steam- ship Co. will be the Boston representa- tive of the line. me oe The open shop now prevails success- fully in all the shipyards and ship re- pair plants in New Orleans, the metal workers' union having brought about the change by its recent action in calling out 7000 men, at a time when the yards were overburdened with work. New men, all nonunion workers, have been trained and every yard and repair plant in the port is working as efficiently as ever, while the metal workers are now asking, by means of advertising in the newspapers, MARINE REVIEW: 475 asts to be taken back on any terms the em- ployers wish to give. The Jahncke dry- - dock and ship repair plant recently han- dled its largest vessel, the Joun 'ADAMS, 12,000 tons, belonging to the shipping board and operated by Lykes Bros. suc- cessfully and speedily with nonunion men, repairing her and sendnig her on her way to Alexandria, Egypt, laden with 12,000 tons of coal. ee The Brazilian schooner, Tuomas F. PoLiarp, was recently purchased by Capt. O. A. Gilbert, Boston, who secured a special permit from the treasury depart- ment to allow the vessel to make the passage from Bermuda to Boston under the Brazilian flag, pending her transfer to American registry. The vessel will be placed in the coastwise trade. *K * * The Massachusetts commission on foreign and domestic commerce, in ac- cord with the joint commission of the other New England states, has extended to the National Foreign' Trade council, an invitation to hold in Boston the com- ing year the eighth national foreign trade conference. Every state in New England is engaged in overseas trading and will benefit from the conference. ce The destroyer Brooks, the largest in the United States navy, and the first of 20 of a like type to reach the trial stage, successfully completed her standardiza- tion trials at Rockland, Me. The Brooxs developed a maximum of 31,551 horse- power, the contract having called for a requirement of 27,070 horsepower. The average speed was 34.57 knots. The maximum speed reached was 34.85 knots. The fuel test included a 30-knot speed for four hours. +s oe The United Fruit Co. will establish a. new service between Boston and the canal zone. With this service in opera-- tion New England exporters can route: shipments through the Massachusetts. port for Cristobal and other parts of Panama and for all the ports along the: -east coast of Colombia, the west coast 'ports of Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Salva--