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September, 1916 000 concern, is to succeed the Mexican Navigation Co. The remaining seven steamers of the fleet, Mexico, Sonora, CoAHUILA, _ TEHUANTEPEC, MERIDA, Oaxaca and Tampico, will change registry to the new company within a week or two. General Manager Abunza admitted that his company wished to put his ships under the Stars and Stripes, “but,” he said, “regulations of the new seamen’s law, as our attorneys interpret them, provided that Americans be employed as officers on all ships un- der American registry. Our officers are Mexicans, and we do not feel that we should discharge men who have served us faithfully for years, just to win the right to American registry.” Jose O’Kelley, formerly general manager for the Ward Line in Mexico City, is presi- dent of the Mexican Navigation Co. Carlos Parraga heads the Cuban Navi- gation Co., which is about to absorb the Mexican concern. The old com- pany was under concession from the Mexican government to carry mails and perform certain other services, and was the largest steamship corporation under the Mexican flag. Ships of this line ply between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, Progreso, Tampico and Havana. The change in registry was made to avoid complications between the Amer- ican and the Mexican government. Se ee The Inland Navigation Co., whose in- stallation of motor freight barge service between St. Louis and New Orleans was described in a recent issue of The - Marine Review, has decided to operate each of its big self-propelled barges with a string of towboats as soon as the boats can be built or purchased. The motor barges themselves, handling an average of 1,500 tons of cargo each, can carry only high priced freight profit- ably. There has been, however, a large demand for water transportation for heavier and cheaper freight. With this in view the company, has decided to operate strings of barges like freight trains, dropping off a laden barge at the port to which it is consigned, just as a car of freight is dropped on a siding by a train. Three such barges have been purchased, at a cost reported to be $20,000, from the Alabama*& New Orieans Transportation Co., and will be put into service at once. Several other small barges are under construction. J. O. Gill, formerly traveling freight agent of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chi- cago lines, has been made manager of the Inland Navigation Co.’s interests in Memphis. On the Chesapeake By Hollis F. Bennett HE Curtis Bay Towing Co. has purchased the steel tug Danpy from interests in Ferndina, Fla., and will add her to their growing fleet. Danpy was built by the John Dialogue Co. in Camden, N. J., in 1888, for the Alexander Jones Co., which was at that time the largest tug boat owner in the south. The Curtis Bay Co. operates the. tugs Curtis Bay and Port Cov- INGTON which were formerly the New York tugs Geratp Ketiar and JAcK DyYKEMAN respectively. ek The Northern Transportation Co., Baltimore, of which John T. Donoline is president, has ordered a new tug from the Spedden Ship Building Co. THE MARINE REVIEW Her keel was laid on July 11. The new vessel will be named NorTHERN. She will be the second largest tug on the coast, being exceeded.in size only by the wooden tug PAuL JoNnEs, owned by the Thames Towboat Co., New London, Conn. NortTHern will be 160 feet in length over all, 26-foot beam and 16- foot hold. She will be driven by a triple-expansion engine with 21, 32, and 54-inch cylinders and 26-inch stroke, furnished with steam by two single-end Scotch boilers, each 12 feet in diameter and 11 feet long, working at 180 pounds steam pressure. NortH- ERN will have a bunker capacity of 330 tons. The Spedden company has a second tug about ready for the same owner. This tug wil be named JoHN T. Dononve. Donouve is 125 feet length over all, 25-foot beam and 14 feet depth of hold. She will be driven by fore and aft compound engines, with 16% and 35-inch cylinders, and 26-inch stroke. One Scotch, single-end boiler 14 feet in diameter and 12 feet long, operating under 150 pounds steam pres- sure has been installed. The Spedden company has finished re- building the burned sidewheel-steamer MaryLanp for the same owner. Mary- LAND’s hull was raised 6 feet and she was converted into a coasting tow- barge schooner rigged with two-pole masts. Wet ae A company has been formed in New 333 York to recover treasure and _ other valuables sunk in various ships. The first operations will be on the wreck of the Ward Line steamer Meripa, 55 miles northwest of Cape Charles lightship. MERIDA was rammed by the United Fruit Co.’s steamer ADMIRAL FARRAGUT and silver bars and other valuables to the value of more than $1,000,000 were lost. ' The company will operate the steamers FraRLESS and ‘TITANIA, the wrecking steamer F. H. BrckwitH, a tug and a yacht. The operations will be directed by George D. Stillson, who raised the submarine F-4 in Honolulu harbor. The company is known as the Interocean Submarine Engineering Co. Admiral Colby M. Cluster, U. S. N., retired, is president. * * * The Consolidation Coal Co. has pur- chased the lake built Steamship INLAND and is having the steamer overhauled in Buffalo prior to placing her on the Baltimore-New England coal _ routes. INLAND will replace CHas. F. MaAyer, recently sold to New York interests. * * * The Baltimore Dry Dock & Ship Building Co. has recently launched the first of four motor tank ships. The vessel was christened BrRAMMEL POINT by Miss Elenor Evans, daughter of president H. A. Evans, of the Baltimore company, and is owned by the Vacuum Oil Co., New York. ‘ively By George S. Hudson TATISTICS prepared by F. W. Quinn, statistician of the Boston Immigration station, show that 13,- 714 aliens: arrived at that port during the last fiscal year as compared with 21,513 arrivals for 1915. Most of the immigrants were Portuguese and _ Ital- ians, women predominating and men over the military age. Deportations last year exceeded any recorded in history of the Boston station. * * * The steamship ATLANTIC, built several years ago at Quincy, Mass. for the Emery Steamship Co., has been sold to the Berwind-White Co. and is now load- ing a cargo of coal for a French port. Oe ee The four-masted schooner STANLEY M. SEAMAN, recently returned from Turk’s Island with a cargo of salt, has been chartered to load case oil for Lis- bon at 80c per case. The return cargo will be corkwood, loaded at a Portu- guese port, $5,000 lump sum. i ee Capt. T. R. Parker has been appointed assistant inspector of hulls at Boston to succeed W. Haines who has _ been transferred to New York. Capt. Parker had been employed previously by the Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. * * * Twenty million bushels of wheat were shipped to Europe from Boston during the first six months of the present year, breaking all’ export records. At least 16,000,000 bushels were consigned to the French, British and Italian govern- ments. Nes: The steamship EvANGELINE, chartered for one voyage from Boston to Man- chester, Eng., has returned and will re- sume her run on the route to Halifax, * * * The auxiliary schooner ATHENA is bound to Boston from Seattle via the Panama canal after having been en- gaged in the Pacific halibut fishing in- dustry several years. Another Boston fisherman, Victor & ETHAN, has re- turned from the West coast to engage in the ground fishery off the New Eng- land coast with market at Boston and Gloucester. x * Ox A contract has been awarded by the Shawmut Steamship Co., Boston, to a Chester, Pa., ship yard for a steamship to be delivered next June. The ship is designed for oversea trade, being the fourth owned ‘by this company. * * * After having been wrecked in the Cape Cod canal by an accident to her steering gear the steamer WILLIAM CuHIsHoLM has had her cargo of coal pumped out prior to patching up the hull which was considerably damaged. CHISHOLM was bound from Newport News for Boston. Ce eee Complaint has reached the maritime committee of the Boston chamber of commerce that coastwise -shipping is using the wrong side of the main ship channel indiscriminately. So troublesome has the infraction become that licenses of offending skippers may be suspended or revoked.