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Ul ees NA 2) What's Doing and Who's Doing It sii HE Kansas City Missouri River Navigation Co., through its New Orleans agent, D. D. Thompson, states that barge service, long main- tained by this company on the Missouri river between Kansas City and St. Louis, has been extended to New Or- leans. The tug ApDvANCE, towing two steel barges with 1,200 tons of. general cargo, was the first to arrive in the Crescent City. A. W. Mackie, general manager of the company, came to New Orleans to arrange for return cargo. This is the first serious attempt to revive river commerce between Kansas City and New Orleans. * * * The steamer ASPEN is now in the service of the Swedish Transatlantic line between New Orleans and Christiana and Gothenburg. Aspen is of 5,000 tons register and took a full cargo of general merchandise. line will maintain direct service from Calcutta to New Orleans, thence to the Swedish ports, returning to Calcutta. * x * Of the 307 vessels that came into New Orleans harbor from Oct. 1 to Oct. 21, only 88 were steamships, and not all these were engaged in trans- atlantic trade. This’ indicates that the dangers of war are sending an increas- ing number of. sailing vessels to New Orleans. Practically every ship which clears from New Orleans leaves a quantity of “shut-out” cargo on the wharves, so great is the demand for bottoms. ie eg Practical illustration of the _ utility of water transportation over inland channels was given here late in October, when the steamer Patricia and barges brought 11,000 bags of rice to New Orleans from Abbeville, La. Shippers found it impossible to secure sufficient freight cars from the Southern Pacific or other lines serving Abeville territory. Their recourse to the barges and steam- er proved very satisfactory. i ake The Alabama Transportation Co. has been organized at Mobile to run freight and passenger: steamers on the Tom- bigbee and Alabama rivers. It also will operate a line of vessels between Mo-' bile, Cuba and Central American ports. The incorporators are J. H. Quil, Martin van Heuvel and C. R. Little. ee, ee H. C. Murnan, Memphis, is building a set of marine ways on the east bank of Mobile river, at Mobile. eee The four sections of the Ollinger- Bruce dry docks at Mobile, which were driven ashore during the July hurricane The Transatlantic . By H. H. Dunn have been floated. The tug GuLrFport, of the Gulf & Ship Island railroad, and a large barge, both of which were in the dry dock when it went ashore, were floated with the docks. Neither tug barge nor dry dock was injured. bs k * Lighterage system is to be established in New Orleans harbor, according to Hayden W. Wren, president of the board of port commissioners. Eight flat-topped barges or lighters are to be installed soon. * Ok Henry R. Mattory, largest ship in the United States coastwise — service, made its. first trip from New York to Galveston under the flag of the At- lantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship line, “Oct. 25.) This: is. the, first of anime new steamers to be added to the A,, G. & W. I. fleet. Two more are being built. k ok The American Sugar Refining Co. has chartered eight vessels: to carry 25,000 tons of sugar from New Orleans to eastern refineries. The first vessel for this contract, the largest of its character in the history of New Orleans, loaded Nov. 7 at the Southern Pacific docks. * * x The full-rigged Norwegian — ship Gunpa, Barbadoes to Gulfport, Miss., which was given up by her agents as lost, reached the Mississippi port Oct. 22, after a stormy trip across the gulf. GunpA sailed from Aarhus, Denmark, July 7. : : ae, Sra | The river packet Sracker Ler, of the Lee line, struck a fixed snag in the Mississippi river about eight miles above Memphis, Oct. 22, and sank in 15 feet of water. ‘There was no loss of life, but the boat, worth about’ $50,000, may be difficult to raise. She carried cotton, cottonseed and cement. ee eae 7 J. W. Somerville, Gulfport, Miss., has let the contract for building a schooner - 176 feet long, 35-foot 1l-inch beam, and a depth of 14 feet 3 inches. The ca- pacity of the new schooner will be 480,000 feet of lumber, practically that of J. E. pu Bicnon, which was lost in the July storm with 440,000 feet of lumber, and which the new schooner will replace. x x The four-masted ‘schooner SALEM, owned by J. R. Hanify & Co., Portland, Ore., has been sold to J. M. Scott & Bros., Mobile, for $88,000. Satem, which is one of the finest wood schooners afloat, has a capacity of 1,000,000 feet of lumber. She is now on her way from Portland to Mobile and is due 439 to arrive in January. She will be put into the South American trade. * * * Two 165-foot seagoing barges have been completed by the Favre ship yards, Gulfport, Miss., for the Gulfport Trans- portation Co. Three others of similar size will be built during the next three months. ee oe _ Embargoes against freight for Amer- ican and Canadian destinations, enforced for several months by the Morgan steamship line at Galveston, were lifted Nov. 4, according to an announcement .by H. M. Wilkinson, general agent of the line at the Texas port. Freight for foreign destinations other than Canadian will not be ‘accepted when moving through on bills of lading. The em- bargoes, it is explained, were made nec- essary because of unprecedented offerings of freight for coastwise movement from Galveston for New York. 2K ok 7k Capt. John Thomas Bowes, steamer pilot for nearly 35 years on the Mississippi, and the man who took the old warship MaIneE out of New Orleans on her fatal voyage to Havana, died Oct. 23, at his home in New Orleans. He was 60 years old and was a native of Plaquemines Parish, La. His son, Capt. William T. Bowes, is a pilot on the river. On the, Chesapeake By Hollis F. Bennett The Baker Whiteley Coal Co. has sold its ocean tug BriraANNia_ to foreign owners. It is reported that she has been purchased by the British admirality for mine sweeping work. BRITANNIA was built by the Maryland Steel Co. in 1899. She is 125 feet, 5 inches long, 25 feet beam, 14 feet depth of hold and 10% feet draught. Her en- gines are triple expansion 1414, 231%4 and 39 inches in diameter and have a 28-inch | stroke. She has one Scotch boiler, 13 feet 9 inches diameter and 11% feet long with 165 pounds working pressure and on her trials made 12 knots. * * * W. F. Spice of the firm of Gustavus & Co., ship brokers, Baltimore, has pur- chased the Great Lakes tug Cuase S. OspornE for $107,000.° CHasE S. Os- BORNE is having condensers installed at Montreal before coming around to the Atlantic to assume her new duties. ee * Norwegian interests have purchased the American - Hawaiian steamship GrorGIAN at Baltimore and renamed