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Oe A a April, 1921 forward and one aft, and one 4-inch gun. She is 240 feet long and has a displacement of 1000 tons. The vessel will be propelled by two diesel engines, each. driving a screw propeller. The engines are rated at 950 brake horse- power each. x ek The James McWilliams Blue line, New Haven, Conn., operating a fleet of tugs and barges in Long Island sound, has purchased the Connecticut Transporta- tion Co, property consisting of one tug and 16 barges. * Ok Ox Some interesting facts concerning the. management of Commonwealth pier, Bos- ton, were developed as a result of a recent hearing at the Massachusetts cap- itol. Figures presented by Chairman Cole show that in 1916, the year previous to the pier being taken over by the navy, its earnings were $148,050.33 and cost of operation $229,938.36, showing a loss of $81,789.03. In 1920, the first full year under the present commission, the earnings were $505,544.86, and cost of operation $155,483.41. * Ke OK What is said to be a record round trip between Boston and west coast ports was completed recently when the shipping board steamer, YaLza, operated by the North Atlantic & Western Steam- ship Co., Boston, arrived after coy- ering the long distance and making five ports on the Pacific and three on the Atlantic coast in 77 days. * * The work of widening and déepening the entrance of New London, Conn., harbor, started last spring, is to be com- pleted shortly, according to the local army engineers. The excavation work is being done by the U. S._ steamer NAVISINK, one of the largest government MARINE REVIEW oe 195 JAPANESE VESSELS AT NEW ORLEANS CELEBES Marv, one of the large ships of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, coaling at the Stuyvesant docks, New Orleans. This line now has regular sailings between the Louisiana port and the: Orient sand suckers afloat, and capable of re- moving 10,000 cubic feet of mud per day. The work provides for an entrance channel of. 600 feet, 33 feet deep and about three and one-half feet in width. a A 10 per cent reduction in wages went into effect at the Sparrow's Point, Md., plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuild- ing Corp. recently, Officials of the company state that 8000 employes are affected. * x x The shipping board ocean tug KeEsH- ENA, under command of Captain Nor- wood, will be put out of commission, according to a recent report. * OF OF The New London Ship & Engine Co., Groton, Conn., has made a 10 per cent reduction in wages for short time men and a 20 per cent reduction for long time men. The plant will also go on a 4 to 5-day shift in all departments. Along the Gulf Coast 'leans, and the HE General Expositions Co., in conjunction with the National " Marine League of. the United States, announces a national marine ex- position, to be held on the Girod dock, at New Orleans, the week of May 2 to 7. This is the fourth national marine exposition, and will consist of displays by shipbuilders, ship operators, marine engineers, ship chandlers, agents, marine organizations and other interests relating to maritime affairs. Rich G. Hollaman is director of the show and president of the General Ex- positions Co. ees The rivers and harbors bill, carrying only $15,000,000 of new appropria- tions, and authority for the expenditure of $47,000 in unexpended balances, was passed by the senate over the protest of southern congressmen, on the night of Feb. 25. This is the bill as framed by the house, and is considered about $30,000,000 below the actual necessities of waterway and harbor improvements during the coming fiscal year. + The annual convention of the Missis- sippi Valley association, with delegates forwarding | promised from 26 states, will be held in New Orleans, the first week in May. * * * ' Locks at the mouths. of . the New Basin canal and the Bayou St... John where they empty into Lake Pontchar- train, at New Orleans, are planned. by the Orleans Levee board, to do away with the costly levees now maintained along the banks of each of these streams. The. Louisiana state board of engineers is to be asked to build the locks. Be ee The United Fruit Co. announces that it will occupy its new 10-story building at St. Charles and Union streets, New Orleans, April 1. The company will use seven floors of the new building and rent three as offices. es The steamer QUEEN City, which made its first trip down the river from Cin- cinnati to New Orleans, early in Febru- ary, thus reviving freight and passenger trafic between these two river ports, left the Ohio city March 21, on regular schedule over the same route. She has been refitted to carry 1200 tons of freight and 125 passengers. An office has been opened at 522 Gravier street, New Orleans, with Capt. L. V. Cooley in charge. Freight rates are about 30 per cent. under rail. rates. from Cine cinnati to New Orleans. hoe tae The shipping board steamer Marne, which was burned and sunk while near- ing the Panama canal in 1919, has ar- rived in New Orleans after being raised - and rebuilt at Baiboa. She is in com- mand: of Capt. W. Milligan, who was in charge when she took fire and sunk, and will load general cargo for France. Horie The Carson Export & Import Co:,-a _branch of the Carson Petroleum Co., has begun work on one of the largest terminals for handling petroleum prod- ucts in the United States. The site is ona large tract 16 miles up the river from New Orleans. 'Two model 'warehouses, a pump house, boiler house, - power house and shops are being erect- ed. Contract. has been let for 20 stor- age tanks to the William Graver Tank Corp., Chicago. The wharfage contract has been let to Nat G. Scott, New Or- Lamson Co., Boston, will build the conveyors. Contracts so far awarded amount to. about $750,000. The plant will pack: oil, gasoline end other petroleum products for foreign shipment. a ee Sk The interstate commerce committee of the house of representatives recommend-. ed in its report of Feb. 23, an appro- priation of $132,750. for a lighthouse" depot for the eighth district, at New Orleans. a Plans for the abolishment of the com- mission system in the sale of ship sup- plies and in the making of repair con- tracts were laid at a meeting of officers of the newly formed American Ship Service Corp. and members of the fed- eral trade commission at Galveston on Feb. 22: KS ok ok Trade with Central and South Ameri- ca and the West Indies has shown such an improvement in the past 60 days that the United Fruit Co. announced the return to service, March 1, of five mem- bers of its fleet which have been "tramp- ing it" during the recent shipping slump. Freight service to Havana, discontinued months ago because of the congestion on the wharves at the Cuban port, has been resumed, according to announce- ment by Crawford H. Ellis, vice presi-