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October, 1920 which has never been at sea, has beeii bought at marshal’s sale for $100,000 by the Scandinavian-American of Seat- tle, the heaviest creditor. The BLAaTINp has been in financial difficulties ever since she was built and the claims have prevented her going into active serv- ice. Her troubles resulted in the can- cellation of an attractive charter. Capt. EK. Sandberg, who came from Norway a year ago to command the vessel, has just returned home after being maste: of a vessel that icr 12 months has re- mained idle in port. * * * Following the lead of the railroads, the coastwise steamship companies ob- tained permission to increase passenger fares 20 per cent and freight rates 25 per cent effective Sept. 1. Increased wages and operating costs are given as the cause of the higher tariffs. x * * The steamships Rosin Aparr_ and Rosin Hoop, recently sold by the Robin line, a subsidiary of the Skinner & Eddy Corp., Seattle, were purchased by the United States Steel Corp., at a fig- ure said to be $3,000,000. This is said to figure out on a basis of $144.23 per | EW ORLEANS broke her own N record for arrivals and _ clear- ances during the last week. in August, when 126 ships came in and cleared. Sixty-four of these were arrivals and 62 clearances. The larg- est previous total had been 100. The bulk of the exports went out in Ameri- can bottoms. < * The September term of the ship- ping board’s free marine engineer school at New Orleans opened Sept. 3, in Stanley Thomas Hall, Tulane University, with Prof. James M. Rob- erts in charge. The recruiting serv- ice for the shipping board has placed all the graduates of this school in posi- tions and has nearly 100 applications for men from it on file. * * * I. D. Rocap, district director for the division of supplies and sales, United states shipping board, with offices at New Orleans, has resigned to enter private business. Members of his staff gave him a banquet when he re- signed, ie ee American steamer Mopane, Port Ar- thur, Tex., Aug. 2, to Liverpool, via Nor- folk, was disabled at sea off the Irish coast, Aug. 30, and rescued by tugs from Liverpool. Mopane’s engines gave out. ee oe Col. Henry Newcomer has _ been named division engineer of the corps of engineers, gulf division, U. S. A, with headquarters in New Orleans, vice Col. Herbert Deakyne, transferred to the Pacific coast. 2 * Major Dent, of the United States army engineering corps, in charge of came back in ballast. THE MARINE REVIEW deadweight ton, the vessels being of the 10,400-ton type, built at Seattle. It is understood that the present owners will retain the other two ships of this type, Rosin GoopFreLLow and Rosin’ Gray. The former is now enroute from Brit- ish Columbia to Rio de Janeiro with a cargo of coal. ee ee During the recent heavy run of. sal- mon in the Fraser river, B. C., Japa- nese fishermen are said to have earned an average of $100 per day for more than a month. * Ok With approximately 5,000,000 feet of lumber, one of the largest cargoes ever shipped from the Columbia river, the Japanese steamship HakusHikA Maru sailed from Portland, Oreg., for Shang- hai. The big freighter drew 29% feet _ of water and safely negotiated the Co- lumbia river 110 miles to the Pacific. ° * A. M. Gillespie, Inc., Seattle, has been appointed as north Pacific agent for the Holland-American line which is shortly to inaugurate a monthly service between Puget sound and north Europe. This line will offer a considerable amount of Activities Along the Gulf Coast inland waterways in the lower Missis- sippi valley, has begun an investigation of possible and practicable ship chan- nels, other than the Mississippi river, from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico. The last congress authorized this investigation, with the idea of de- termining the feasibility of an auxiliary channel whch would be free from the eccentricities of the great silt-bearing river and its ever-changing delta, “an insurance policy for. Mississippi valley commerce,” as Major Dent called it. The first survey is being made through Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne to the gulf via Mississippi sound, * * * Steamer Murnooka, operated by the Lykes ros. Steamship Co., late in August completed a round trip to Rot- terdam from New Orleans in the re- cord time of 44 days. She took full cargo out from the Louisiana port, but Steamers Copy and WeEstTBROOK, recently launched in Philadelphia, are to be added to the Lykes fleet. x ok Ok Pauline street wharf, at New Orleans, is being repaired at a cost of $24,000, and contract for the work has_ been awarded to Alexander & Juliani. * OK OK Fifteen sailing vessels of large size are tied up in Orange, and an equal number in Beaumont and_ Galveston, Tex., waiting the passing of the hurri- cane season. They will remain in these ports until near the end of September. About 20 others are similarly tied up in Mobile, Ala., Pensacola, Fla, and New Orleans. x Ox Three reels of motion pictures have been made by the board of commission- 569 refrigerator space which has long been desired for the shipment of fish, fruit and other perishables. The same firm will also represent the Pacific-Caribbean- Gulf Steamship line which is to place four steamers of 5000 tons each on the route between New Orleans and_ the north Pacific. This service has long been desired as Puget sound has not heretofore had direct connection with gulf ports. ae Assigned to the sea service bureau, the 8800-ton steel steamer, Hottywoon, built at San Pedro, Cal., is about ready to take the place of the Ferris wooden type steamer BrookpALe. The Ho tty- woop will carry 146 apprentices and 46 crew. She will operate on the triangu- lar route between Seattle, the Hawaiian islands and San Francisco. . * * * The port of Seattle has adopted reso- lutions requesting the department of commerce to compile statistics of ton- nage as well as of value in reports of imports and exports. The point is taken that in the present day of high prices comparisons with before the war periods are unfair when value only is given. ers of the port of New Orleans, cover- ing port activities, and the municipally owned and operated grain elevators and cotton compress and warehouse, for exhibition through the cities of the south and. west, to demonstrate the amount of shipping handled through New Orleans and to advertise the port to exporters and manufacturers. * * Steamer Hisureas, first of five mod- ern freight and passenger vessels or- dered by the Cuyamel Fruit Co, New Orleans, arrived in the Louisiana port, on her maiden voyage from Bluefields, Nicaragua, Aug. 31. She was launched from the Standard Yards, Shooter’s Island, New York, June 5, this year, and completed rapidly. The second ves- sel of the fleet, Nicaracua, left the Standard yards early in September to join HipurEAs in maintaining a week- ly schedule between New Orleans and Nicaraguan ports. The two steamers are 1750-ton boats, and the remaining three are 4000 tons each. The first of the three large boats will be launched late in September, and will be christ- ened OLancHo. The smaller vessels cost $520,000 each and the larger $700,- 000. They will fly the Honduran flag, and the entire fleet will be devoted to trade between New Orleans and_ the ports of Nicaragua and Honduras. Sam - Zemurray is president of the Cuyamel Fruit Co. ee | Increased passenger fares on the rail- roads have resulted in a large increase in water travel locally out of New. Orleans, with the result that five pas- senger and freight steamers and large power boats are now operating from New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain. These are the steamers MANDEVILLE,