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December, 1916 Hoquiam, Wash., at the age of 70. For 40 years he had been captain of deep sea and coastwise vessels. *k 2k * For the purpose of making a strong protest against a new order from the government supervising inspector of steam vessels which calls for certain iron work in the fire rooms of wood ves- sels, Puget sound steamboat men have recently forwarded their complaints to Washington. Under the new ruling, it is declared, all wood vessels will have their fire rooms encased in iron sheeting of such nature and arrangement as to protect the wood from danger of fire. Boat operators declare that if this order is carried out they will have to put their boats out of commission as in a number of instances it is impossible to make the change without practically re- building the boats. * * * Plans for an original motorship to be built for the Oregon Navigation Co. have been brought out by Geo. E. Hardy of the Heath Ship Building Co., Port- land, Ore. The vessel will be 288 feet long overall, with a length between per- pendiculars of 276 feet, beam of 48 feet and molded depth of hold, of 27.4 feet. The vessel will cost $325,000. * * * With two 250-foot auxiliary-powered wooden hull schooners nearing comple- tion in its Harbor island plant and the keels laid for two others the past week, the Washington Ship Building Co., Se- attle, has decided to begin construction of a fifth vessel in November and a sixth in December. Still others are con- templated. The company plans to launch a vessel every 30 days for an indefinite period. * * * Capt. Charles H. Fuller, Portland, Ore., has recently had his new boat davit tested. The invention has several novel features. The main one is that the launching of a lifeboat can be performed by one man. After the passengers climb into the boat and are seated, every oper- ation, from the raising of the boat from its chocks to its final delivery into the water can be done by one man. The davits consist of a pair of arms which swing inboard or outboard in an arc of 90 degrees either way. The lifting cable leads from the boat over sheaves to the drum, and the swing of the arms and the raising of the cable are controled by a crank at either davit. A shaft con- nects the two davits so that the opera- tion of raising or lowering goes on simultaneously at both ends. A man at either end can control both davits. Boston Harbor By Geo. S. Hudson An offer of $4,000,000 for steamships Witu1am A. McKenney and FELIx Taussig by the English govern- ment to the Crowell & Thurlow Steamship Co., Boston, has been refused. The contract price for the two 8,000-ton ships was $1,040,000. The first-named boat was launched at Newport News, Va., last month; Taussic will follow the first of the year. a Oe An unusual charter is that of the ship Epwarp Sewatt to load coal at New York for Galveston, the vessel having recently arrived from Buenos THE MARINE REVIEW Aires. Placing of square-rigged craft in coastwise trade demonstrates scarcity of tonnage. * * * Schooner JAcop M. HasKeEtt, Captain Mercer, is bound from Boston for Sekondi, African west coast, with a cargo, including 220,000 gallons of New England rum, on which $110,000 was paid in freight. A return cargo of mahogany is expected at $45 per ton. *k * * Harbor tug B. G. Purpy has been launched by Green, Chelsea, Mass., for the Purdy Tow & Waterboat Co., Bos- ton. The boat is 64 feet long, with an engine of 150 horsepower and carries a crew of three. * *k *K Boston schooner Epwarp H. Cote has been chartered to carry coal from Balti- more to Santander at $14 per ton and coke at $21 per ton. is Tug JosepH O’RiorpAN, formerly city of Boston tug Cormorant, has been sold to the Boston Towboat Co. by the J. P. O’Riordan Contracting Co. REE 7 Boston barkentine Joun S. Emery has been chartered to load lumber at Jays on 44] Charleston, Mass., $25 per 1,000 feet. * ** * _ Captain Eugene O’Donnell, supervising inspector of the Boston district, has rendered a decision relative to length of towing hawsers on tows traversing Nan- tucket and Wineyard sounds, as follows: “With regard to length of hawsers when condition of wind and sea do not permit of towing on hawsers of 75 fathoms or less, because of the danger. of parting and loss of life or damage to property, you are advised under such circum- stances a tow with hawsers in excess of 75 fathoms does not constitute a willful violation of the regulations and in such cases no action will be taken eae licensed officers in charge of such ow. for Buenos Aires at K * * Schooner SENATOR SAULSBURY has been sold by Boston owners to Captain James Foster, who will use the vessel as a trader to the West Indies. a Ee Boston steamship Bytayt has been chartered by the United States & Brazil Steamship Co. for $40,000 per month to run between | New York and Brazilian ports on a six months basis. sreat By A. A Biber IGURES compiled by R.A. & W.M. F Williams, Duluth, show that receipts of hard and soft coal at that port up to Nov. 1, of the present season, totaled 8,236,699 tons, against 6,999,792 tons to Nov. 1, last year, a gain of 1,236,907 tons. Soft coal showed a gain of 1,462,417 tons and hard coal a loss of 225,510 toms. The 600-foot freighter D. M. CLemson, building for the Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Cleveland, was launched at the Lorain yard of the American Ship Building Co., on Oct. 28. CLEMSON was named for D. M. Clemson, president of the Carnegie Natural Gas Co., Pitts- burgh, and will go into commission next spring. xk Oe Joseph Colson, mate of the barge S.’D. WarrINnEr, who had sailed all his life on vessels of the Hanna fleet, died at Ashtabula on Oct. 25. *K *k 2k Dredging in the river west of West Water street bridge at Milwaukee was started recently. The river is to be widened at that point. *K ok k The steamers F. G. Hartweti and H. A. Berwinp, of the Mutual Steam- ship Co., G. A. Tomlinson, Duluth, man- ager, were sold recently to the Head- waters Steamship Co., Harvey H. Brown, Cleveland, president. Both vessels were built in 1908 and are in the 10,000-ton class. This deal makes a total of four vessels of the Tomlinson fleet sold since last fall, the steamers Witt1am LivINc- STONE and Harvey D. GouLper having been disposed of earlier. * * x CLEVELAND, the first ocean-going ves- sel to be constructed at the head of the lakes, was launched from the yard of the Superior Ship Building Co., Su- perior, Wis., on Nov. 4. CLEVELAND will be operated by a Norwegian company. Two_ additional vessels will be built at the Superior yard. eee Stocks of grain at Chicago on Oct. 31 were reported as 27,145,000 bushels. These figures show a considerable gain over the Oct. 31, 1915, figures, which were 7,393,000 bushels. *k *K * Both boilers in the wooden steamer Mecosra, owned by the General Transit Co., Cleveland, will be replaced during the coming winter, with a view to in- creasing the steam pressure. K *k k The steamer Huripurt W. SmitH loaded 330,000 bushels of grain at the new Northwestern elevator at Milwaukee on Nov. 1. This cargo was the first loaded at the new elevator and_ inci- dentally, also, the largest that ever left the port of Milwaukee. Containers for 600,000 bushels are being added to the capacity of the elevator, bringing its total capacity to 1,600,000: bushels. Pe SU The wreck of the old car ferry SHENANGO, which burned and sank in the outer harbor at Conneaut several years ago, was recently removed by the dredge MaAuMEr, of the United States engineer department. Work on the re- moval of this wreck had been in progress for about six months, and the spar which marked the wreckage for a num- ber of years has now been removed. * ok ok The steamers FrAnK H. Peavey and GrorcE W. PeraAvey, belonging to the fleet of the Reiss Steamship Co., She- boygan, Wis., will be reconstructed dur- ing the winter at the yard of the Manitowoc Ship Building Co., Mani- towoc, Wis.