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mature 80 will tow the barge Grorce HartNeELL, also recently acquired, during 1917. * * * Directors of the Interlake Steamship Co. recently declared the usual quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, payable Jan. 1, to stock of record Dec. 22, and also authorized the calling of the $1,200,000 Mitchell fleet purchase money notes on Feb. 15 at the call figure of 102 and interest. There are $1,400,000 of these notes now outstanding of an original issue of $1,600,000, but $200,000 of them Feb. 15 and will be paid at par, the maturities of later date being called for payment at the figure stated. The only remaining debt of the Interlake will be the $2,250,000 still outstanding of the original first mortgage of $3,000,- 000, which is being paid at the rate of $250,000 annually. News From Boston Bay By George S. Hudson Fishing steamer C. B. Sanrorp has - been bought by F. L. Turner, Boston, for about $15,000. Two-masted schooner Jura Francis sold to Manuel De Sousa for packet service between New Bed- ford, Mass., and Azores. 3K * * Tug CoNFIDENCE, owned by Boston Tow Boat Co., has been rebuilt at cost of $20,000 by the owners. The new ~ work includes boilers and engine. * * * Three-mast auxiliary schooner GEORGE B. Cuiuetr, owned by Dr. Grenfell, has been sold to G. A. Jenkins for about $35,000. Ciurtr has been used in off- shore work and also in connection with the Grenfell missions in Labrador. * * * Boston three-mast schooner JENNIE S. Hat, Captain Spaulding, has been given up for lost. Vessel was bound from Gulfport, Miss., for Port de France, Martinique. ee Crowell & Thurlow Steamship Co., Boston, has bought the steamer Tam- Pico for about $300,000 for off-shore work. Company’s steamer Peter H. CrowELL has been chartered at $8.50 per ton to carry coal from Newport News, Va., to Barbadoes, B. W. I. eee Bone Barkentine JoHN S. Emery, Boston, .received $30 per 1,000 feet on a cargo of 481,000 feet of lumber from Boston to Buenos Aires, with prospect of re- turn charter. : x * S. P. Luchie, for 40 years marine ob- server for the Boston board of trade and chamber of commerce, died at Hingham, Mass. Mr. Luchie was 70 years old and had followed the sea since childhood. * *k x : _ Capt. Ernest Kinney, master of Brit- ish steamship Prince Georce, of the Eastern Steamship Corporation, has re- signed and will enter the employ of the Canadian government. Prince GEoRGE is in charge of Capt. Alvin Simms, trans- ferred from steamer Boston. Boston is commanded by Capt. F. L. Crosby, youngest liner master ont of Boston. Four-mast Russian bark MariECHEN left Boston for Norfolk to load 3,500 tons of coal for Santos at $15 per ton. THE . the third time. MARINE SS] D REVIEW February, 1917 By H. H. Dunn EW ORLEANS is to have an- N other dry dock. A permit was granted by the executive com- ‘mittee of the Orleans Paris levee board late in December to Doullut & Williams for the establishment of a dry dock to be located on the Algiers side of the river, just above the Canal street ferry landing. This port now has one float- ing dry dock. gk ae News has been received in New Or- leans of the sinking of the Panama canal tug Retrance, formerly Scutty, of New York, in a heavy sea off the Colon breakwater at the mouth of the canal, Dec. 27, Capt. Peter Evans, San Fran- cisco, was drowned. eke oe Briar Ritz, of France, largest sailing ship which ever entered the port of New Orleans, cleared Christmas day with a full cargo of barley for Europe. ete Added effort to rehabilitate the Mis- sissippi as a great inland waterway is seen in the establishment of a new barge line between St. Paul and New Orleans, to bring flour south so cheaply that it will give New Orleans a 4-cent differ- ential per hundred under New York. Flour-milling interests of St. Paul and Minneapolis are behind the project. Two barge lines already are in operation be- tween New Orleans and St. Louis. * * * ’ The Mexican Petroleum corporation announces it will have 34 large oil tank- ers in its fleet within the next 18 months. They will operate between New Orleans and other gulf ports and the Mexican oil fields. Four of these are to be built by the Alabama-New Orleans Transportation Co., Violet, La., at a cost of $1,400,000. The other 30 ships are being built in different ship yards in the United States and England. They are all of the same type, 261 feet long, 31 feet beam and 20 feet deep, with a capacity of 15,500 barrels of crude pe- troleum. The cost of each will be ap- proximately $350,000. eee pane Forty men, about one-fourth of them from New Orleans, perished when the Spanish steamer Pio IX, Galveston and New Orleans to Barcelona, went down during a storm off the Canary islands in December. Nov. 16. *k Ok Ox Improved facilities for handling freight for inland water lines were fore- cast recently by Herman H. Thomas, New Orleans, at a smoker of the Con- tractors’ and Dealers’ Exchange, when he was made president of that body for Commodity warehouses, landings large enough to accommodate more vessels and larger cargoes and switch-tracks for these warehouses and landings so that freight cars can be handled to and from them from any part of the city over the Public Belt railroad, were described by W. C. Love- joy, chairman of the New Basin canal board, along which waterway the im- provements are to be placed. Indica- She left New Orleans: tions are that the work will be started early in 1917. a ee According to dispatches from Wash- ington, the United States, through the house committee on claims, has an- nounced its willingness to pay for dam- ages to the United Fruit Co. steamer Esparta, rammed by the lighthouse ten- der Macnoria, 11 years ago some miles down the river from New Orleans. Ex- President Roosevelt was on board Mac- NOLIA- at the time. The courts found the lighthouse tender at fault in the col- lision. ee eae Captain Sodorman and.three members of the crew of the barge Bos, of Gulf- port, Miss., reported drowned when the barge was wrecked off Point Isabel, Texas, Dec. 7, reached Matamoros, Mex- ico, Dec. 15, after a week in a small, open boat on the gulf. They suffered greatly from lack of water and food. * * * ; Tug Mamie Coyte, belonging to the fleet of the Bosso Towing Co., sank in the river at New Orleans, but was raised in 24 hours. She is a 100-ton boat. * * The big schooner VoLUNTEER, belong- ing to the Sea Food Canning Co., Diloxi, Miss., has disappeared with Alfred and Henry Bosarge on board. It is feared she may have been blown to sea. It is doubtful if two men can handle her in ‘rough. weather. ok * * Entry of the Chilean government into commercial business with the ports of the United States was signalized by the arrival in New Orleans of the transport ANGAMOS, from Valparaiso. ANGAMOS was laden with antimony, wolfram, ni- trate of soda and copper ore. She took a return cargo of merchandise, much of it shipped from New York and Chicago through New Orleans. Vatpavra, LLAN- IQUIHUE, ALMISANTE and VALPARAISO, all Chilean transports, are to follow An- GAMmos to New Orleans. KR te Charles Harrington, southern manager for the Hamburg-American line, sur- prised shippers in New Orleans in mid- December by offering to book cotton shipments to Europe at $3.25 per hun- dred pounds, sailings to be contingent on the restoration of peace. Mr. Har- rington announced that seven ships of the Hamburg line, now in the West In- dies, would be brought to New Orleans immediately for this service, if peace negotiations weré started. A number of bookings for Hamburg were made at an ocean tariff of about $17.25 a bale. * 3k * For the first time in more than a quarter century, New Orleans is enjoy- ing direct steamship service with the ports of Venezuela via Port au Spain and Trinidad, by means of WELLESLEY, just put on by the Mexican Fruit & Steamship Co. WELLESLEY was bought only recently from the Parr-McCormick Steamship Co., San Francisco, for $150,- 000, according to an announcement made by John Beninato, vice president.