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290 ing while workers are moving from -one port to another. i Establishing a new north Pacific rec- ord, the new ocean-going steel tug SEA Monarcnu towed the ship SANTA CLARA EXICO bought 76 per cent M more goods through New Or iseas in 1920 than it did in 1919, and the Louisiana port's com- merce with its southern neighbor in- creased $11,573,988 for 1920 over 1919. The trade in 1919 was worth $51,756,- 386 as compared with $63,330,374, in 1920. At the end of 1919, the trade balance was $15,171,454, in favor of Mexico, but in 1920 this balance had been reduced to $907,932, in favor. of Mexico. These figures are compiled by the research bureau of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. Wheat flour led the list of exports for 1920, with 95,172 barrels, worth $1,157,834. Sugar led the imports, 15,- 963,244 pounds being brought in. oe * The Munson Steamship line opened a branch office in New Orleans May 1, with J. H. Cadzow in charge, and F. E. Beeson as his chief clerk. Mo- bile remains the headquarters for the gulf and southern business of the com- pany. | oo. Despite the low ebb in shipping, the port of New Orleans made a good showing in the first quarter of 1921, according to Hayden W. Wren, su- perintendent of the port. During the three months, 662 vessels entered the port, 91 with general cargo, 124 with fruit, 39° with sugar, 19 with coffee, 44 with oil, 14 with molasses, and 29 with sisal. But, again demonstrating that American vessels come home empty from many voyages, 208 were in ballast. Three whole shiploads of chicle, the basis of chewing gum, are on the list. Grain was the principal export carried by the 631 ships which cleared from the port in the first quar- ter of 1921, 20 complete cargoes of wheat and four of corn being listed. Sixteen loaded tankers left for foreign ports and 401 vessels carried general cargo. : Ke Towing of steamers from place to place in New Orleans harbor has about doubled in point of charges in the past four years, according to the report of the expense committee of the New Orleans Steamship association, which has been investigating the rea- som for the excessively high port charges at New Orleans. Several own- ers of towboats have indicated that towing charges would be reduced radi- cally in New Orleans by June 1 at the latest. The committee announced that it had secured a_ reduction of 10 cents a ton in stevedoring charges on sugar at the American Refining Co.'s wharf, and of 5 cents a ton at the city's publicly owned wharves. The MARINE REVIEW Blaine, Wash., from San Francisco to , is about in 82 hours. The distance 850 miles. : = It is not likely codfishing will be prosecuted in north Pacific waters this Activities Along the Gulf Coast rates are still high, however, as com- pared with those of other ports along the gulf, and with those of other ports of the same size in other parts of the United States. ok oo Lykes Bros., steamship operators of New Orleans and Galveston, have ar- ranged to operate a through steamship service from Beaumont, Tex., to West Indian ports. The first steamer left the municipal docks at Beaumont, May 5, and the second is scheduled to leave May 20. The two ships assigned to this service are the LAKE FairLEand LAKE FLournoy. Both are 4000 tons, lake type steamers, and are owned by the United States shipping board. A for- warding company has been formed with capital of $25,000 in Beaumont, with Frank Keith as president, to handle partial cargo business of rice, lumber, and other products from: the Texas port. ek ook April allocations of shipping board ves- sels to gulf operators include the fol- lowing: Marne, 9600 deadweight tons, recommissioned, to Lykes Bros., to Gal- veston for service from there to Ger- man ports; Nosies, 7825 tons, to Lykes Bros. for operation between New Or- leans and Rotterdam; JACKSONVILLE, 3100 tons, to Tampa-Interocean Co. for serv- ice between New Orleans and Spanish Atlantic ports; CormMoRANt, 7840 tons, to Mississippi Shipping Co. for New Or- leans-French Atlantic ports; CoLTHARPs, 7825 tons, to Page & Jones, for Mobile- Trench Atlantic service. Hee OK: ok The federal government of Mexico has appropriated 6,780,000 pesos ($3,390,000) to construct a municipal wharf at Vera Cruz. This wharf is to be 1125 feet long and 330 feet wide, according to reports reaching the Mexican consulate- general at New Orleans. The wharf will be operated privately for 20 years, and then pass to the municipality. Seven ships can be berthed simultaneously. at the new wharf, which will be com- pleted in two years, and which will be backed by warehouses for storage of cargoes. sok > & _The shipping board steamer Wesvt- FORD, 8557 tons, which has been laid up at Mobile, has been assigned : ; i ened to J. H. Winchester & Co., New York, and sent by that company to New Orleans, where she will load grain for Grecian ports. ok . Bemis Bros. Bag Co. has ordered all its imports of burlap, amounting to about 800 carloads a month, brought in through New Orleans, and handled June, 1921 season as operators and fisherm failed to agree as to wages. The a panies propose a reduction of 45 per cent which the men have refused to accept. Consequently the vessels of the fleet are idle in port. to the factories in the Mississippi val- ley on the government-operated barge. line, according to Herman J. Rohling general manager of the company, This company previously imported through Pacific and Atiantic coast ports. The steamer Howick HALL, first flying the American flag to come from Calcutta through the Suez canal to New Or- leans, dischaged 400 carloads of burlap from India, through New Orleans to the barge line, in April. The steamer Srrez TRADER, also arrived in New Orleans from India, late in April, with 470 car- loads of burlap. This burlap is shipped to factories in Memphis, St. Louis Indianapolis, Kansas City, Omaha, and Minneapolis. Lower all-water freight rates caused the change. kok = For the first time since the United States entered the war against Ger- many, there are German vessels moored in New Orleans harbor, taking on car- go. They are the Amassia and _ the AcuTNEY, loading for German _ yorts oe the agency of Richard Meyer & O. ok The Petroleum Import & Export Co. has awarded a contract for a wharf 500 feet long and 30 feet wide, in front of its plant at St. Rose, La, to N. G. Scott, New Orleans. This company is a subsidiary of the Carson Petroleum Co, ek ot The Norwegian steamer IMPprERATOR, formerly operated by the United Fruit Co., but which has heen laid up for about a month, has been chartered by D. Giorgio & Co., Mobile, and placed in this firm's Cuba-New York fruit eo ke - service. The Norwegian steamer Baro, which cleared from New Orleans late in April, carried 120,000 bushels of wheat in bulk, almost a record cargo, consigned to British agents in Liverpool. This large cargo was ioaded in three days. The BaLto came to New Orleans in water ballast, from Norfolk, and was con- signed to Richard Meyer & Co. ook Capt. Abraham Perkins Boardman, for 52 years a captain on the Mississipp1 river, and for 22 years master of the railroad ferries of the Texas & Pacific railroad, died at his home in New Or- leans April 20. He obtained a pilot's li- cense when only 17 years old, and had been closely connected with river traffic ever since, ek ok The seagoing tug W. H. WILLIAMS, belonging to the Doullut & Williams Shipbuilding Co., Inc., New Orleans,