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February, 1916 hours at No. 4 dock. This record is well below that of Wupener in 1912, 10,636 tons being unloaded in two hours and 50 minutes. The best un- loading record made at the Ashtabula & Buffalo Dock Co.’s dock at Ashta- bula Harbor was on June 22, when 11,046 tons of ore were taken out of RicHArD TRIMBLE in three hours and 42 minutes actual working time, an average of 746.35 tons per machine per hour. This is an excellent record for time per machine per hour. On coal loading, the Conneaut dock load- ed Percivat Roserts Jr. with 315 cars of coal in seven hours. Builds Life Boat The C. M. Lane Life Boat Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., is busily engaged in turning out wooden and metallic life boats. More than 40 boat builders are employed. This company builds a collapsible life boat, which has been approved and THE MARINE REVIEW Warm Chuck, Alaska. The steamer is to re-enter the company’s Alaskan trade next spring. It is reported that a big ship building plant capable of turning out steel as well as wooden’ vessels may soon be built at St. Helens, on the lower Colum- bia river. Officers of the St. Helens Shipbuilding Co. have been asked to consider plans for enlargement of its plant that will permit the laying of steel hulls with a maximum length of about 350 feet.. italy Grabs Steamers By Harry H. Dunn At the beginning of the new year, the Italian government commandeered some 20 steamers belonging to two Italian steamer lines which operate between New Orleans and ports on the Mediterranean coasts of Italy. Six ships were taken from the Pearce- 71 Another Ship Yard in East To help build up the American mer- chant marine on the Atlantic sea- board, and to take advantage of the opportunities that will come for the American flag on the seas when the war is over—these, according to Wal- lace Downey, ship builder, are the reasons for the founding of the Stand- ard Shipbuilding Corporation, a $3,- 000,000 company recently organized to do business on Staten Island. The new company has taken over the 30- acre plant of the Townsend & Dow- ney ship yards at Mariner’s Harbor, and work will soon be begun to double its capacity. It is announced that contracts for the next several years have been underwritten and that a definite plan for ship building has been decided upon. “Secretary McAdoo and others who —_-——————————— eee ees Average Daily Freight Ra Cents Cents. 1915 1914 Cron. ore; Escanaba: to ;Ohio. ports, eross.-ton.. oo a eee 25 35 Iron ore, head of Lake Superior to Ohio ports, gross ton.............. 40 50 iron ore; (Marquette: to, Ohiov ports, pross ton! ois inc ee 35 45. Wheat, ‘Chicago to; Buttalos: DUShel siscccene, coco an We eee, Se 1.20 1.13 Wheat. .Dilith to: Buftalo, “bushel... 4 a ee ee ee 2.25 1,14 Softcoal;. Ohio ports; to -Malwaukee, net? ton 0.0 eee ee ee 30 30 Sort. coal, Onto: parts to Duluth, met toni: sca, ssc oa oe ae 30 30 Soft: coal, Ohio’ ports to; Portage; net “tones co yc eee oe. 30 30 Soft coal;<Ohio ports to: Manitowoc; “net: ton 5 poe oe Oe ee, 30 30 Soft ‘coal Ohio: ports"to Sheboygan; net. ton: 6.4: 3n epee ee ek 30 30 Soft: coal, Ohio. ports; to; Green: Bay« net: ton. ice oie 30 30 | Soft coal,“Ohio ports to: Mscanaba, net ton’. oo. sles eee, 30 30 Hard'coal, Buitdlo: for. Milwaukee metstonw ii nicer ee eG 30 30 Hard icoal; Bubalo. to Chicago, mete ton: ioc ts Gor arte ree ts 30 30 Hard coals Pattalé: to Dultth, nettom as oe cewek ae 30 30 tes on Great Lakes Cents. Cents. Cents. Cents. 1913 1912 1911 1910 40 38.72 45 55 55 5372 60 70 50 48.72 55 65 1.43 1.39 1.08 1.44 , 2.01 2.02 een ey, 133 65) 30 ae 35.5 30 30 32 31 30 30 32 31 30 30 31 35.5 30 30 pik SiR 30 30 Buk 36 30 30 31 35 35 30 35 41 35 30 35 41 30 30 30 Bh) classified as a 2C pontoon life boat by the government. The Lane company also is building these boats at Sorel, Canada. The newly organized Java-Pacific line has just announced its complete service to be given by four Dutch steamers, with monthly sailings out of San Fran- cisco. The vessels. will first touch at Hong Kong on their outward trpis, then at Manila, Batavia, Cheribon, Peca- longa, Tagal, Samarang, Soerbaya and Mkassar. The steamer ARAKAN leaves San. Francisco about: Feb. 22;. Ty1son- part, March 23; Karimoen, April 22, and TyJIKEMBANG, May 22. As previously announced, J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co. will be the. general agent of the new line at San Francisco and-Fred Conner, traffic manager. After lying submerged for 14 months in Alaskan waters, subsequently salved, and since tied up for more than 12 months, the steamer Curacao has been purchased by the Pacific Coast» Steam- ship Co., which concern owned the ves- sel at the time she was wrecked at Cottoneira patches received by Ross & Heyn, its agents in the Crescent City, and 14 line, according to dis- from. the Creole. line, W. H.. Hendren, New. Orleans man-' ager for the Texas Transport & Ter- minal Co., agent for the Creole com-. pany. pressed into transport service for the Italian army.’ Both lines have main- tained regular. sailings out of New Orleans and other gulf ports for sev- éral years. «Rates to ports. from New ‘Orleans already are excessively high, and agents of both lines here intimate that they will be lifted still higher by this seizure. Thousands of bales of cotton had been. booked in advance for Italy via these lines, and much difficulty probably will be had in finding bottoms to carry this large and valuable trade. The principal ports. served are Genoa and Naples, Palermo and other ports. Marseilles is also touched and rates to the French port via these lines probably also will be affected. according to. The steamers are to be im- Mediterranean | with a smaller. traffic. with’ are proposing government ownership of ships and a government-operated merchant marine, are trying to im- press the public with the alleged fact that Amercan capital is not going into American maritime industries,” said Mr. Downey. ‘That assumption is absolutely false, as is evidenced by the fact that American capital is en- tering into the ship building industry -as represented by the Standard Ship- building Corporation, and more em- phatically evidenced by the fact that the entire tonnage output of its yard has already . been underwritten en- -tirely by American capital. “Capital is ready and willing to en- ter the American maritime industry, as is shown not only by the form- ation of this company, but also by the fact that all other Atlantic and Pacific coast ship yards are filled with orders that will keep them going to capacity for the next two or three this years. Practically all activity represents American capital invest- ments in American maritime indus- tries.”