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Business News for the Marine Trade Capitalized at $150,000 the Frontrera Fruit & Steamship Co. recently was incorporated at Wilmington, Del., by C. T. Cohee, C. B. Outten and S. L. Mackey. The capital stock of the Townsend Repair Works, Richmond, N. Y., recently was in- creased from $50,000 to $200,000. The Corporation Trust Co. of America, Wilmington, Del., was named as the incor- porator of the Munrio Steamship Corp., which was recently chartered in Delaware with a capital stock of $275,000. The -U. S. Corp., Wilmington, Del., has been named as the incorporator of the Har- _ rington Marine. Corp., which recently filed ar- ticles of incorporation with the Delaware secretary of state. The company is cap- italized at $2,000,000. The Floating Marine Stores, Brooklyn, N. Y., recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, by R. Simon, W. A. Van- ness and O. M. Schmulz, 220 Broadway. The American Marine Paint Co., New York, recently increased its capital stock from $100,- 000 to $250,000. : The Braddock Navigation Co., Ltd.,_ re- 'cently was incorporated in Delaware with a capital stock of $24,000, by Samuel Larosa, 'Jacob Hayman, Ross Tunick, Port Chester, N. Y., and. others. Capitalized at $75,000, the H. W. Sweet Shipyard & Machine Works, Greenport, N. Y., recently was incorporated by H. W. Sweet, G; WV. Thom. ©. B,. Corey and H. 8. Ford- ham, 111 Broadway. The H. D. Donald Shipping Co., Wilming- ton, Del., recently filed articles of incorpora- tion in Delaware. The company is capitalized at $200,000. as one of the incorporators. The National Radio Electric Corp., Wilming- ton, Del., has been incorporated in Delaware with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The Cor- poration Service Co. was named as the in- corporator. & The Tarentum Boiler Works, Inc., Wilming- ton, Del., recently was incorporated in Dela- ware with a capital stock of $75,000, by Fred Scharf, L. A. Scharf and F. V. Cooper, Tarentum, Pa. The International Marine Life Saving Equip- ment Corp., Wilmington, Del., recently was incorporated in Delaware with a capital stock of $520,000, by John E. Ellys, Far Rockaway, N. Y., and Michael Johnell. The Iroquois Navigation Co., Wilmington, Del., recently was incorporated in Delaware with a capital stock of $500,000, by H. C. Hand, Samuel B. Howard and Robert K. Thistle. The Steam Boiler Materials Co., 708 West Sixty-third street, Chicago, with $15,000 auth- orized capital, has been incorporated by Charles Allen Miller, Arthur T. Leahy and Charles Claricoates. The 'plant of the Super-Heating Boiler & Furnace Co., 306 South McKenzie street, Mt. Vernon, O., recently was damaged by fire. The damage was estimated at $10,000. Plans are being prepared by the Thacher Propeller Co., Albany, N: Y., for the erection of a new plant building. A coal breaker, costing about $1,000,000 including equipment, will be erected by the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., Langsford, Pa., to replace the structure which was_ recently damaged by fire. ©. Francis. Masters, Anderson, §. C., is -re- ported planning to establish a welding shop. The Fletcher Ship Repairing Co., Ltd., Levis, Que., recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $500,000, by William J. Bishop, Wil- liam T. Fletcher and a number of others. The Interlake Engineering Co., Cuyahoga river and Jefferson avenue bridge, Cleveland, has bought land with 295 feet frontage on the Franklin L. Mettler is named - Business Changes HE Universal Crane Co., Elyria, O., has appointed the Allied Machinery Co. .of America, New York, as foreign representative in all countries except Canada. The Universal company maintains gen- eral offices in the Swetland build- ing, Cleveland. Its product is a 3 to 4-ton portable gasoline or elec- tric locomotive crane for general industrial service. ' oe Oe Ok Chas. Cory & Son; Inc., 183-187 Varick street, New. York, has been made exclusive marine dis- tributor and installation engineer for the Foamite Firefoam Co. The two companies together have developed a number of fire pro- tection systems for boiler rooms in oil burning vessels and. for tank protection of fuel oil carry- ing ships. +s & The: .Oxweld "Acetylene. Co., Newark, N. J., manufacturer of welding and cutting equipment, has removed the offices of its for- eign sales. department froin. New- ark to 30 Hast. Forty-second street, New York. Ce Cee General offices of the United Frait"Co. at .New , Orleans, have been remcved to the recently com- plated building of that company at St Cherles and Wnion streets. The building is 10 stories high. * Ok Ok Norton, Lilly & Co.,. steamship agents and brokers, have opened offices in the Continental building, Baltimore and Calvert streets, Bal- timore. river for use in connection with its ship plant. The new drydock of the Sun' Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pa., recently was placed in operation. The dock has a lifting capacity of 10,000 tons and will take a vessel 500 feet in length. The Seven Seas: Steamship Co., Inc.,; Wil- mington, Del., recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $390,000. Capitalized at $25,000, the Long Branch Steamboat Co., New York, recently was incor- 432 porated by P. R. Schlessinger, W. Offenberg and W. Foster, 38 Park Row. The Importers Steamship Corp. has been incorporated at Wilmington, Del., with a cap- ital stock of $1,000,000. The Interwaterways Line, Inc., Wilmington, ° Del., recently was incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The Atlantic Coast Ports Corp., Wilming- ton, Del., recently was incorporated with $100,- Uvu0 capital stock to engage in the wharfage and berthing of ships, etc. . New Trade Publications ELECTRIC TRAMRAILS-- The Cleveland Crane & Engineering Co., Wickliffe, O., is dis- tributing an unusually complete and attractive catalog covering its line of. electric tramrails. 'heir design followed the effort of the com- pany to build up a system flexible enough to 'reach any point available to a hand or power truck and yet operated on the ceiling. The catalog covers installations in foundries, ware- houses, coal handling and painting departments. It discusses both hand and electric carriers, cranes and transfer bridges, attachments and fittings. It also contains pertinent suggestions for using the system as well as directions for installing. This tramrail system handles mate- rial up to 2 tons in weight and is designed to reach every corner of a plant, passing from room to room or building to building and up inclines. STEEL BARGES--The Riter-Conley Co., Oliver building, Pittsburgh, is distributing a pamphlet describing its steel river barges de- signed and built by this company for any class of service, including coal, sand, gravel, oil, etc. The company operates a large fabricating plant, which has proved of value in designing, erecting and launching steel river barges. FEED WATER HEATERS--A new bulletin of the Griscom-Russell Co., 90 West street, New York, describes its line of marine feed water heaters. Complete illustrations are pre- sented to illustrate the different types of heaters as well as the details of construction. Concise 'information is given on the subject of feed water heating and the computation of savings through the use of such heaters. Instructions for connecting the different types of feed water heaters also are given. "MALL TOOLS--The Greenfield Tap & Die Corp., Greenfield, Mass., is distributing a com- prehensive catalog describing the small tools and pipe tools which comprise the greater part of its product. Among other features, the catalog has 70 or more pages of tables and useful informa- tion and contains a great deal of interest to the user and designer of tools and machinery. Some of the tables are new. The tools described in- clude screw plates, taps, dies, drills, reamers, - milling cutters, bits, arbors, countersinks, hobs, , tap and drill kits, mandrels, sleeves, sockets, stocks, tap wrenches, pipe vises and wrenches. _PACKING--A catalog presenting its full line of packings, gaskets and pump valves, is a recent publication of 'the United States Rubber Co. It is fully illustrated, departing from the usual form of such catalogs, and is filled with very definite information regarding each item listed and the specific uses for which it is best fitted. A classified index of the various styles of packings sets forth the various packings recommended for the various conditions of service. details of packing. The drawings show the construction, depicting styles of iia ai i