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June, 1921 ing has been sold by Gritzmacher, Guth- ries & Co., New York, to lake interests. She formerly was a lake boat and will go back into Service att the Great Lakes. Capt. Thomas Stevenson has _ been MARINE REVIEW placed in command of the W. J. Con- NERS, flagship of the Great Lakes Transit Corp. Last season he was mas- ter of the NerrH Lake. Capt. Alec J. McPherson, who sailed the Uwnper- woop last season, now is in command 289 of the NorrH Srar which was. sailed by the late Captain Blair. yee The Perer Reiss was the first steamer to sail for Buffalo with grain from Fort William. . Up and Down the Pacific Coast N AN effort to attract new business and remove handicaps under which the port has suffered, the port of Seattle and two privately owned docks announced that on May 8 all wharfage charges were abolished. The 'old tariff provided for a wharfage charge of 25 cents a ton on imports and 30 cents a ton on Exports, these being assessed against the shipper. The railroads have proposed a new wharfage charge of 15 cents per ton, to be paid by the shipper, the same toll as is imposed at San Francisco. However, the port is firm in its determination -- to. abolish' >the wharfage charge entirely. The han- dling charges on export and import cargo now fall on ships and railroads, each being assessed one half, this amounting to $1.30 per ton covering handling between ship's tackle and rail- road car to point of rest in the ware- house. + *x * Apple growers of Washington and citrus shippers of southern 'California have joined in an agreement to guar- antee 9500 carloads of perishable fruit to a steamship line, the name of which is not announced, which has offered a tentative proposition to handle this cargo to guif and Atlantic markets at a rate substantially lower than the present all-rail rate. Washington ap- ple producers will guarantee 4000 car- loads of the total and will store them in public terminals at Seattle where the rate has been cut from $2 to $1.60 per ton. ae ee The port of Marshfield, Oreg., on Coos bay, is spending $25,000 in water- front improvements which include a large dock warehouse and a 20-ton electric crane. The dock will be 600 feet in length when completed. * * * Making a trip half around the world in ballast to obtain cargo, the Nor- Wegian schooner J. W. Crise is loading lumber in Seattle for Callao. She was 2 days enroute via the Panama canal. From Norway the J. W. Cuise sailed to Barbadoes in ballast, but was unable to obtain cargo there and was ordered to Puget Sound. The run from Panama to Puget Sound was made in 55 days. * * * Because of lack of business, three new vessels of the Canadian Western Steam- ship Co. are riding at anchor at Van- Couver, B. C. They are the MarGa- RET CoucHLIN, Ciry oF VANCOUVER and ITY OF Victorra, all of which have re- turned from British ports. 'x. * Elaborate plans are being made for € annual convention of the port au- thorities of the country, which will be eld in Seattle in October. Represen- tatives of ports from all parts of the world are expected. Following ad- journment, the meeting of port authori- ties of the Pacific coast will convene at Vancouver, B. C. * * & Resumption of lumber shipments from Puget sound to the west coast of Mexico by sailing vessel took place with the dispatch of a cargo of 1,000,- 000 feet of railroad ties consigned to Guaymas. This is the first cargo to go in sail since 1914, prior to which year the Mexican trade purchased heavily of north coast lumber. 4k 2 x The Canadian Government Merchant Marine, Ltd. intends in the near fu- ture to establish a new line between British' Columbia ports, Seattle and San Francisco. A regular 10-day serv- ice is planned with the new steel car- riers, CANADIAN Rover, CANADIAN FARMER and CANADIAN BEAVER, vessels of 3940 tons. Passengers also will be carried. x ok * While there is not a rush to Alaska this spring, the movement to the north has been larger than for several years, it being estimated that 3000 people have left Seattle for Alaskan ports in the last 60 days. General ac- tivity in the coal and oil fields and on the Alaskan railroad is attracting a larger number than usual. ke The motor ship Kamcuatxa, 12 days out from Seattle for the Siberian coast on a trading expedition, took fire and on April 15 was abandoned 200 miles off Pirate Cove, Aleutian islands. The survivors numbering 27 reached shore safely after eight days in open boats. The KAMCHATKA carried a cargo valued at $300,000 for trading purposes along the Siberian coast. She was formerly the steam ae THRESHER of a ncisco and for many years a in whaling in the Arctic. ie vessel! was built at Bath, Me., in 1883. re ee The tug Hero of Seattle has been purchased for $30,000 by Henry C. Peterson, San Francisco, and has ar- rived at the latter port. * * * . Chisholm, a Seattle diver, has coe en is claimed to be a world's record for deep sea diving when he de- scended 440 feet below the surface in Seattle harbor and remained below for 30 minutes. The previous record is said to have been made in Honolulu hen a navy diver went to a depth of 288 feet. Chisholm made his record in diving machine of his own invention. It consists of a steel tube 15 feet long and closed by a manhole door weigh- ing 200 pounds. At one end it has a twin pronged "hand" made of a metal tube with which intricate work can be performed. The machine is low- ered and raised by a donkey engine operated on a scow. + ks The Canadian Government Merchant Marine, Ltd., has booked a cargo of lumber from British Columbia mills for South Africa and will assign one of its new carriers to this business. This will mark the entry of this new line into the South African trade. x +. Fire aboard the Japanese liner Tar- suNo Maru at Seattle: April 16 dam- aged cotton valued at $17,700: For a time the blaze threatened to assume serious proportions but it was confined to one hold. There were 118 bales of cotton damaged while 300 tons of steel were discolored by water. The dam- aged cargo was speedily replaced and the vessel sailed on schedule. -- * kK oe With the departure of the American steamer WENATCHEE and the arrival of the Japanese liner Fusuim1 Maru in April, the new ocean terminal Smith Cove B., a unit of Seattle's port term- inals, was officially inaugurated. At a banquet given the Nippon Yusen Kaisha officials to celebrate the event, M. Watanabe, manager of the Japanese company's Seattle office, bade welcome to the new American service, expressing the conviction that as competition is the life of trade better service will be assured the north Pacific, Because of American competition the N. Y. K. will cut its transpacific schedule from 14 to 13 days. Co ey Withdrawal from the Mexican and Central American route and the estab- lishment of a new service between Portland and Los Angeles is announced by the Pacific Steamship Co. Failure of business on the West Coast run and the encouraging prospects of trade out of Portland induced the company to make the new arrangements. + ££. Construction of an ocean and sal- mon storage terminal at Seattle by the Oregon-Washington Holding Corp. is announced. Work will be begun at once and $300,000 will be spent. Con- crete and tile construction has been adopted and 110,000 square feet of storage space for all kinds of cargo will be provided. 4s Longshoremen of the lower Colum- bia river are on strike because the employers adopted a new rule eliminat- ing traveling time and board and lodg-