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January, 1917 in service. The projects are the direct results of railroad rate adjustments which work against New Orleans, Mo- bile, Houston and gulf coast points. These lines will enable merchants of these cities to sell goods in territories which they cannot reach in any other way. owing to recent rail freight rate increases. k Ok Ox The San Ramon Steamship Line, to operate between New Orleans and Colon, Panama, has been organized by the J. G. Rainwater Lumber Co. Ser- vice will be inaugurated with the sail- ing of the steamer San Ramon from the Crescent City to Orange, Texas, where she will load lumber for the Panama canal. The company has pur- chased San Ramon, and chartered five other steamers, which will be used, at first, in making deliveries of 8,500,000 feet of lumber for the Panama canal. * * ** Shipments of corn, other food sup- plies and general merchandise from New Orleans to Tampico, Vera Cruz, Progreso and other Mexican ports have continued throughout the recent = dis- turbances: Heavy orders were placed by Carranza government officials and Mexican importers with the exporters of New Orleans, and ships bringing sisal from Yucatan were sent back filled with food for the Mexicans. VIKING, of the Caribbean Steamship Co., on one trip carried a full load of corn. For more than a month there was a heavy demand for large schooners, small steamers, or any other craft which could be used as food carriers between New Orleans and Mexico, but few could. be secured. * ok xk Evidently the days of the old river packet are not ended, for the Carter Packet Co. is just completing a large new steamer of this type, for use be- tween Monroe, La., and New Orleans. She will be called Cirpprr, and is being built at the Slidell, La., ship yards. She is 150 feet long, 29 feet beam, 5 feet draft and has a carrying capacity of 1,000 bales of cotton. Her hull and all her woodwork are of Louisiana timber. XK * * The Mexican Fruit & Steamship Co., formed in New Orleans with a capital of $75,000, has purchased Mary G. DantzzeEr, a 1,000-ton, four-master, and Oscar G., a similar type. Auxiliary en- gines are being installed in both. * * 2 Fruit steamers from Central America report that they are held up by British and French cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico, and their nationality ascertained before they are allowed to proceed. ee The Norwegian steamer SANGSTAD, which went ashore in the storm off Jupiter inlet, has been floated and has proceeded on her voyage from Balti- more to Honduran ports. * * * The American Fruit & Steamship Co., of New Orleans, M. Theodore Snyder, president, has bought the big auxiliary schooner, JUNE, in Portland, Ore., and as soon as she arrives from the west, the company will put her in service be- tween gulf ports of the United States and Colon, Panama. June is 170 feet long, 36: feet beam, and has depth of hold of 12.6 feet. She is equipped with a 100-horsepower engine and was built by the St. Helens Ship Building Co., Portland. Her capacity is 650,000 feet of lumber. She is now under charter to W. R. Grace & Co., to carry lumber Philadelphia THE MARINE REVIEW 35 from Portland to the Panama canal, whence she will bring mahogany logs to New Orleans, and thereafter make the Crescent City her home port. - WY Y By Joseph Fenerty HE Chester’ Ship Building Co., Chester, Pa., has awarded a con- ~ tract aggregating more than $1,- 000,000 to the Westinghouse Machine Co., Pittsburgh, for steamships now under: construction or contracted for, at its ship yard. The first turbine was to be installed in the Norwegian. steamer. MALMANGeR, the first vessel launched at the revived ship yard. ie 2 One of two lightships, constructed by the Pusey & Jones Co., Wilming- ton, Del., for the federal bureau of light houses, has been ‘delivered to the government at Edgemoor. The new vessel, which is known as No. 101, is 110 feet long, 36 feet beam and is built entirely of steel. The light will be visible for 30 miles’ when the vessel is placed on her station off Cape Charles, Va. Fuel oil will be used for power. The vessel is equipped with the latest fog and submarine signals. Pte se The William H. Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Phila- delphia, has let contracts for the erection of four large shops. It has been known in financial circles for some time that the company’s business exceeds. that of last year and the awarding of the contracts is viewed as a preparation for large orders after the end of the war. The Belmont Iron Works received the contract for steel for the proposed structures. pee eR Davin Barrp, schooner, built at Bath, Me., in 1882, and hailing from Philadelphia, has been purchased by a Lisbon, Portugal, firm, for $32,000. Batrp has been engaged in the coast and West India trade and will load a cargo for Portugal when the change im registry is completed. j ee ae Sugar shipments from the Ha- waiian islands to Philadelphia, via the Panama canal, have been discon- tinued. Vessels heretofore engaged in carrying sugar from Honolulu and Kahalui have found more profitable employment in the Atlantic trade. In the future, sugar will be brought east from the Pacific coast by rail. ae re Plans for extensive improvements to be made along the Delaware river front of Philadelphia have been completed. Bids have been received by the municipal department of wharves, docks and ferries. * ok Ok Prinz Erret Frieprich and Kronz- PRINZ WILLIAM, German commerce raiders, formerly interned at the Nor- folk navy yard, have been moved to the government yard at Philadel- phia. Removal was made in order to permit needed improvements to be turbines for 15. made at the Norfolk yard. TALLAHASSEE, monitor, and submarines Nos. 23, 32, 36 and 37, have arrived at the Phila- delphia yard for overhauling. They will be placed in commission when the work is completed. * * * A leaking valve in a ballast tank of the British steamer Ocrano, loading at Girard Point, Philadelphia, for Mediter- ranean ports, recently caused a loss of more than 10,000 bushels of grain be- fore the valve could be repaired. Boston Bay Doings | By Geo. S. Hudson At the 163rd annual meeting of the Boston Marine Society, Capt. Peter H. Crowell was elected president. The so- ciety has 398 members. Last year $15,435 was paid to dependents. ee ee The Boston Molasses Co. is having a 60,000-gallon capacity barge for Porto Rico built by the Merrill-Stevens Co., Jacksonville, Fla. oe, ee ._ A four-mast barkentine, building by Richard T. Green Co., Chelsea, Mass., has been sold to Norwegian interests. ee ee Two schooners, building at Fall River, Mass., for Rogers & Webb, Boston, four and three-mast, are named LutHer Lit- TLE and FRANK Morey, respectively. ee The four-mast schooner Jacop M. HASKELL, Capt. Mercer, bound for the West Coast of Africa with a cargo in- cluding rum, flour and lumber, will re-. ceive $110,000 outward freight and $45 per 1,000 feet on mahogany for Boston. The proceeds of the voyage will aggre- gate about $200,000, or twice as much as schooner cost 15 years ago. * * * The Russian sailing ship MaRrEcHEN, Capt. Mansen, recently arrived at Bos- ton from Caleta Buena with cargo of 3,600 tons of nitrate of soda. * * 7": The two steam trawlers, ComBEr and Wuite Cap, have been delivered by the Manitowoc Ship Building Co., Mani- towoc, Wis., to the Bay State Fisheries Co., Boston. . ean een The bay tug LeBarron H. Jenkins has been sold to Capt. Joseph Ross, of Boston, ‘and will be operated with the Ross fleet. Ke The tug Neprune, Capt. Cunningham, towed Vincent Astor’s hydro-aeroplane from New York to Marblehead, the flyer making the 300-mile trip in a spe- cially designed covered lighter. The tow was so light that NEPTUNE was able to steam at almost top speed, making the passage in quick time. RICE OE TSE ST OS See