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296 incorporated with $250,000 capital stock, by M. J. McQuade, J. R. Dorsey, and others. The National Valve Co., Morristown, N. Jy; recently was incorporated with $100,000 capital stock, by G. F, Lowe, James H. Samuel and Edward A. Quayle Jr., to manufacture valves, etc, : The De Laval Steam Turbine Co., Trenton, N. J., has awarded a contract for the erection of a 3-story machine shop building, 60 x 220 feet, to cost about $150,000. : The Union Iron Works, Joplin, Mo., will remodel its plant and erect a boiler house, 20 x 40 feet. New equipment will be installed. The Chandler Welding & Machine Co., Tex- arkana, Ark., will install an additional depart- ment for manufacturing machinery. The General Engines Corp., Reno, Nev., re- cently was incorporated and will conduct a gen- eral foundry business. ; The McNab Boat Corp., Bridgeport, Conn., recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $150,000, by Alexander McNab, R. G. Farrell, . Henry Bishop, W. E. Burnham, V. McNab and W. C. Bryant. The Greater New York Boat Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, by LL. B. Cohen, B. Soffer and I. Weinstock, 288 Grand street. The Piston Valve Corp., New York, recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $75,000, by C. H. and R. H. Matthiesson and W. G. Brown, Woolworth building. The Rotor Engine Corp., New York, recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $75,000,. by C: I. Thompson, E. S. Hayne, E. S. Hamil- ton and L. B. Koch, 25 West . Forty-fourth street. : The Mercer Welding Rods Co., Trenton, N. J., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $125,000, by Thomas Richmond, John J. Lawler and Harry Bernstein. - Kleppe Lines recently was incorporated in Delaware with $10,000 capital stock, by Cor- poration Trust Co. of America. The Southern Disappearing Propeller Boat Corp. recently was incorporated in Delaware with a capital stock of $150,000, by the Dela- ware Registration Trust Co., Wilmington, Del. The American Ship Reparations Corp., New York, recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, by S. Bachrach, A: B. Bren- ner, J. H. Keim, 25 Broad street, and others, The Marine Ways Machine Co., St. Peters- burg, Fla., is reported planning to expend $500,- 000 on improvements to its plant, including the erection of a mill-construction building, 50 x 150 feet, and the installation of considerable additional machinery and equipment. J. W. Appleby, 236 Seventh avenue, St. Petersburg, is proprietor of the company. H, E. Boney, president of the Wilmington, N. C.,-chamber of commerce, is interested in- the purchase of the Carolina Shipyards. Capitalized at $100,000, the Merchants & Migrs. Transit Corp., Rochester, N. Y., recently was incorporated to engage in trade and navi- Gation. by i. Barnard, D. B. Iadu, W.. J. Glucker and J, W. Grady. The Atlantic Coast Ports Service Corp. re- cently was incorporated in Delaware to engage in wharfage, with a capital stock of $100,000, by the Guarantee & Trust Co., Wilmington, Del. The Seven Seas Steam Ship Co. recently was incorporated in Delaware with a capital stock of $500,000, by the Corporation Trust Co. of America, Wilmington, Del. Pontoon No. 6, the last section of a $1,000,000 drydock, is being built by the Chandler Ship- building €o., Mormon Island, for the Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. When completed the company will be able to receive vessels 560 feet in length. The Seattle North Pacific Shipbuilding Co., with a yard at Seattle equipped with five ways for vessels of steel construction has definitely discontinued as a shipbuilding plant. Work is almost completed on the 12 new MARINE REVIEW. - Business Changes - The Trans-Continental Freight Co., with offices in Chicago, New York, . Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Cincin- nati and Cleveland, has been appoint- ed soliciting agent for the Steel Steamship Line, Inc., which operates service. from the Gulf to Europe, Mexico, Pacific coast and the Orient. * * * The International Pulverized Fuel Corp. since April 20 has had its gen- eral offices in the National City building, 17 East Forty-second street, New York. ee The Superheater Co. moved its general offices on May 1 from 30 Church street to 17 East Forty- second street, New York. * * * Funch, Edye & Co., Inc., re- moved their office to the 13th floor of the Cunard building, 25 Broadway, New York, on April 23. ee * The George H. Gibson Co., con- sulting engineer specializing in commercial research and advertis~ ing of technical products, moved on May 1 from the Tribune build- ing, New York, to the 18th floor of the Hide and Leather building, 100 Gold street, New York. * * * The Chicago branch store of the Lunkenheimer Co., Cincinnati, moved from 188 North Dearborn street to 568 West Washington boulevard on May 1. * * * Haptey F. Brown and B. L. Myrrtetus, formerly with the Amer- ican International Shipbuilding Corp. at Hog Island, have formed the firm of Brown & .Myrtetus, naval architects, consulting engin- eers and appraisers, with head- quarters in Philadelphia. * * * The Air Reduction Sales Co. on May 1 moved its executive offices from 120 Broadway and 160 Fifth avenue, New York, to 342 Madison avenue, that city. The New York district office, which also has been at 160 Fifth avenue, now is at 191 Pa- cific avenue, Jersey City, N. J. * * * The Atlantic Deeper Waterways association has moved its headquar- ters to 1133 Real Estate Trust build- ing, Broad and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, acording to announce- ment by Wilfred H. Schoff, secre- tary-treasurer of the association. * * * The corporate name of Rickard & Sloan, 25 Spruce street, New York, has been changed to Rick- ard & Co., Inc.. The company specializes in industrial and tech- nical advertising. 2 June, 1921 piers for the city of New York in course of construction between Tompkinsville and Clifton Staten Island, It is expected they will be a some time in the fall. They will represent sn expenditure of $20,000,000. : : Capitalized at $100,000, the Tri-State River Navigation Co., Columbus, Ga., recently was in corporated. ee The Delata Navigation Co., Stockton, Cal recently was incorporated to operate steamships, with a capital stock of $200,000, by B. Waltee. J. T. Currey, David Miller, W. C. Coldberg and A, J. Maclean. The Houston-Tampico Steamship Co., Hous. : ton, Tex., recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The American Coal Loading Machine Corp. Huntington, W. Va., recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $250,000. The People's Barge Canal Line-State of New York, New York, recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000, by C. Campbell A. J. Boll, A. R. Smith, J. J. Sammon, 350 Broadway, New York, and others, The Greater American Service Corp., New York, has been incorporated to engage in a marine insurance business, with a capital stock of $10,000, by M. E. Sanders, M. A. Doody, A. B. Levis and R. P. Levis, 42 Broadway. The American Transatlantic Line, 59 Pearl street, New York, recently was incorporated with $500,000 capital stock, by Albert Charbon- neau, Victor Passini and Isaac Meister. The Raymond Concrete Pile Co., Munsey building, Baltimore, has a contract for construct- ing a pier at Charleston, S. C., for the govern- ment, to be built at a cost of $195,000. The Detroit & Windsor Ferry Co., 2 Wood- ward avenue, Detroit, will build two docks at Windsor, Ont., at an estimated cost of $500,000. David Rodgers has purchased the floating dry- dock and equipment of the Seattle Dry Dock Co., Seattle, and will use it as a marine repair plant. It is stated the plant will be expanded. The Jahncke Dry Dock & Ship Repair Co., New Orleans, is reported planning to spend $2,000,000 in new equipment and extensions to its plant, including the extension of a new 600-foot steel wharf which will give much needed additional steamer repair berths. The dock board of New Orleans recently granted the company permission to use the additional 600 feet on the river front. The Wisconsin Shipbuilding & Navigation Co., Milwaukee, has about completed all new con- struction and are said to be negotiating new contracts in steel and wood. The Grand Trunk railway steamship terminal at Portland, Me., will be enlarged and improved at an estimated cost of $500,000. The capital stock of the Richmond Screw An- chor Co., New York, recently was increased from $10,000 to $100,000. Capitalized at $350,000, the Jacksonville Coal & Dock Co., recently was incorporated in Dela- ware by T. L. Croteau, M. A. Bruce and S. E. Dill, Wilmington, Del. The Maritime Hardware Co., New York, recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, by R. B. Morse, H. K. Blecker, and J. J. Mead, 323 Seventy-fourth street, Brooklyn, N. yy. The name of the Steward Davit & Equipment Corp. of Delaware has been changed to the Steward Davit & Equipment, New York. Capitalized at $25,000, the Whitaker Marine Construction Co., San Francisco, recently was incorporated by James S. Whitaker, P. H. Whit- aker, H,. C, Mitchell, Ralph W. Gray, H. C. Wilson and Leslie F. Baker. To build automobiles, power boats, etc¢., the Dow-Walen Co., Gloucester, Mass., recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $12,000, by H, L. Walen, R. H. Dow and Edward C. Bonia.