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West, who will reorganize the concern and con- ' tinue operations. Andia & Ferrary, Brooklyn, N. Y., ship chand- lery, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000, by J. A. Wilson, G. Ferrary and B. Andia, 75 Northern avenue, New York. "Capitalized at $200,000, the McCauley Steam- ship Co., 404 Lewis street, Union, Nie Y.;"> re- cently was incorporated to operate steamships, etc. The Fourth National Steamship Co., Weehawken, N. J., recently was chartéred to operate steamships with a capital stock of $600,000. The American Lloyd Steamship Co. recently was incorporated with $1,500,000 capital, by Joseph E. Casey, L. RR. Strasburger, Washington, and T. Ford, Hyattsville, Md. ~The Red Diamond Steamship Corp. recently was chartered in Delaware with $1,000,000 capital, by Louis Russell, Ernest Angall and Louis C. Bergen, Wilmington, Del. ; D. Costagliola & Co., New York, ship construction and dredging, recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $500,000, by W. J. Eldredge, C. P. Schroetter and J. A. Martin, 64 Wall street, New York. The Atlantic Adriatic Steamship has been incorporated with @ capi 000,000, by Harold V. Williams, and Anna L, Dunn. A contract was- recently Downey Shipbuilding Corp, with the 'Jeum Co., the Argentine trade, and the work is being pushed for an early start on the construction of this Corp., New York, tal stock of $20,- Louis E. Krumholz entered into by the Mexican Petro- vessel. ' The Globe Marine Composition Co., Inc., New York, recently was chartered with a capital stock of $200,000 ,by L. Miller, New York, and others. Capitalized at $20,000, the American Turbine Repair Co., New York, recently was jncorporated by H. R. Smith, W. Kontak and C. 8. Cobb, 226 West 114th street, New York. | _ The capital stock of the Munisla Steamship Corp., New York, recently was increased from $225,000 to $650,000. a "The Steamship & Shipyards Equipment Corp. recently was incorporated in Delaware with 1000 shares of common stock of no par value, by R. L. Lake, 56 Broad street, New York, and others. The Brooklyn Drydock & Repair Corp. recently was chartered in Delaware with a capital stock of $5,000,000, by P. J. Dobson, James A. Martin and others. The Essington shipyard plant, Essington, Pa., re- cently was damaged by fire. The loss was esti- mated at $250,000. The Electric Sun Blue Print Co., which has been doing business for marine architects at 27 'Thames street, New York, has moved into larger quarters at 161 Washington street. Capitalized at $125,000 the Mercantile Welding _ & Salvage Co., New York, recently was incorporated by D. Bush, G. E. Hubbs and E. McMahon, New Brighton, N. Y. The Ames Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Seattle, has sold its drydock and will start at once on the construction of another plant. The capital stock of the International Shipbuild- ing Co., Pascagoula, Miss., recently was increased from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000, and it is reported plans are being prepared for the erection of an ad- dition to the plant. The Boston Scaling & Turbine Co., Boston, recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $5000, by Frank J. O'Connell, George Fine and Jacob Fine. : Capitalized at $100,000, the Collingwood Ship- building Corp., Ltd., Montreal, Que., has -- been incorporated by F. H. Markey, W. W. Skinner, George H. Hyde and _ others. The Port Arthur Shipbuilding Corp., Montreal, Que., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, by F. H. Markey, W. W. Skinner and G. H. Hyde. The Boiler Equipment Service Co., Atlanta, Ga., has been organized with a capital stock of $30,000, by E. A. Brooks, J. N. Fisher and Louis 482 ae THE MARINE REVIEW for building a small tank steamer for | Basineen Changes The Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., New York, has purchased from the Platt Iron Works, Dayton, 0., drawings, patterns, jigs, templates, special tools, good will and name on the following products: Oil mill machinery; hydraulic turbines. and water wheels covering the entire line, horizontal and vertical, high and low head; feed water heaters and_ high pressure air compressors. Norton, Lilly & Co. have established an of- fice at Portland, Oreg., and will maintain a permanent branch there. J. S. Ford, manager of the Seattle office, and W. J. Edwards, Pacific coast manager of the company, are tempocarily in charge of the new office pending the selec- tion of a permanent representative. All America Cables, Inc., 89 Broad street, New York, "has opened a new office at Rio de Janeiro and Santos, Brazil, to handle direct cable communication between that country and the United States. The American Hellenic Shipping Corp. and the Maryanne Shipping Co., steamship » agents and: ship brokers, have removed their offices from 17 State street to 167 East Seventy- second street, New York. O'Keeffe & Lynch, marine underwriters and insurance brokers, New York, have separated the underwriting branch of their business from the brokerage, and have organized the Shippers' Underwriting Agency, Ine. This firm will handle all marine and inland business of the oldér company. with offices on Beaver street, New York. The Ballard Shipbuilding Co., Seattle, has applied to the courts for permission to dissolve. Formed in 1917 to build the steam schooner H. B. Loveyoy, the company has also built several smaller vessels. The firm is owned by interests controlling the Ballard marine railway at Seattle. : Under the name of Smith, McDonough & McNamara, a consolidation of the Pennington Co. and Smith, McDonough & Rose, was ef- fected as of July 1. The new _ organization will maintain offices at 59 Pearl street, New York, and has departments for foreign freight forwarding, trucking and ship brokerage. The members of. the firm are Ernest H. Smith, Joseph A. McDonough and Thomas F. McNa- mara, all men of wide shipping experience. The Fabre Steamship line has expressed its continued interest in the development of the port of Providence, R. I., by appointing Goff & Page, 224 Industrial Trust building, Provi- dence, as local freight agents and M. Vervina, Columbia Exchange Bank building, passenger agent. Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., New York City, have appointed J. G. White & Co., Lid., London, and L. A. Blake, Inc., Buenos Aires, as representatives in England and Argentina respectively, for the sale .and installation of the Rich system for detecting and extinguish- ing marine fires. The two companies will also establish service stations similar to those now maintained by Walter Kidde & Co. in the United States. The Adair-Day Corp. has been organized by Craig Adair, former vice president, and Hall Day, of the Penn Seaboard Steel Corp. The company will specialize in anchors and chains, gray iron, steel and brass castings for marine work; general steel products and me- chanical specialties, with offices at 1025 Widener building, Philadelphia. The Cast Steel Ship Corp. has moved from 16 Court street to 163 Remsen street, Brook- lyn, NY: Columbia Forwarding Co., foreign freight con- tractor and forwarder, freight and marine in- surance broker, 29 Broadway, New York, has established an office in the Continental build- ing, Baltimore. §. B. Francisco is in charge. - August, 1920 Estes, and plans to engage in active business are now being made. The British Empire Shipbuilding Corp., Ltd, Montreal, Que., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, by F. H. Markey ana others. The Brunswick Marine Construction Co., Bruns- wick, Ga., has closed its foundry and is preparing to ship the equipment to another city. Ww, ¢. Irwin is general "manager. Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Sturgeon Bay Dry Dock Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wis., with a capital stock of $300,000. The ineor- porators are H. L. Peterson, P. T. Briezel and I. A. Wetzel. The company will engage in general marine engineering business, using the yard, dock and, equipment of the Universal Shipbuilding Co:; which was established shortly after the outbreak of the war. The O'Rourke Crane & Engineering Co., New York, recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $13,750, by P. KE. O'Rourke, §, J. Miller and E. YT. Vandewater, 311 West Ninety- fifth street, New York. The American Marine Equipment Corp., Eliza- beth, N. J., recently awarded a contract for the erection of an extension to its boiler 'shop. The Erie Basin Ship Sealing Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000, by fT. 'Tollersen, J. J. Melntyre, and G. F. Moran, 9 Second place, Brooklyn. Contracts. have been awarded by the Modern Welding & Machine Co., Pascagoula, Miss., for the erection of a machine shop and foundry. Another story is being added to the reinforced concrete building of the Thomas Laughlin Co., Port- land, Me., giving the firm 10,000 additional square feet of floor space. The improvement will be com- pleted in August. New Tcde Publications HARDENED COPPER.--A leaflet being distributed by Wertheimer & White, 64 Victoria street, London, S. W. 1, England, treats of the line. of hardened copper which is. manufactured in the United States and for which this firm is the agent in the United Kingdom. This copper is a synthetic metal com- posed of copper and various other elements. Its physical properties are said to permit repeated use, drawing to fine wire or rolling to a _ thin sheet. The metal is also said to have machining qualities like annealed tool steel, high resistance to wear and crushing stress and ability to hold a cutting edge. Salt water is said not to affect this metal. The tensile strength is given at 34,000 pounds per square inch while the metal has a Brinell hardness of 146. The metal has been adapted to general machine work, steam and internal combustion engine work, propellers, propeller shaft bearings, ship fit- tings, electrical work, bells and to other uses. FIRE DETECTING AND EXTINGUISHING SYS- TEM--wWalter Kidde & Co., Inc., New York, have just issued a revised pamphlet explaining the opera- tion of the Rich system for detecting and extinguish- ing marine fires. The pamphlet outlines, in non- technical form, the advantages of the system, re- viewing in detail its operation both in detecting and extinguishing fires in ships' holds, and illustrating this explanation with photographs of parts of the equipment. It further lists the companies which have installed the system. PIPE WELDING.--The Metal & Thermit Corp., New York, has just issued the third edition of its thermit pipe welding pamphlet. In this new edition, the subject of thermit pipe welding has been revised and brought up to date. The new pamphlet describes and illustrates in detail how thermit pipe welds are made and contains reports on successful tensile strength and vibration tests of thermit pipe welds conducted by Stevens institute. One of the features of the new pamphlet, not previously in- cluded in former editions, is a chart showing the cost of a thermit welded pipe as compared with the cost of installing compression flanges with bolts and gaskets, and of installing elbows with flanged con- nections.