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August, 1922 line. He said only a court order was now necessary to make the transaction complete. (The vessels are to be re- named after the states of Washington, California, Oregon, Arizona,Texas, Louis- jana and Alabama to be followed an each instance by the word Lady. * * * About 200,000 marine workers in the port of New York have voted for the ship subsidy bill. Mo ne eee | The fleet of the Standard Oil Co. of New York, has been transferred to the Standard Transportation Co., a subsid- iary of the former. x oe x The shipping board steamship West CarutH, formerly operated by the Bull line, which grounded off Cherbourg three months ago, has been sold by the board to F. C. Strick Co., London, for $70,- 000. Necessary repairs, it is said, will cost approximately $100,000. The ves- sel will be placed in the Persian gulf trade. k ok Ok Resumption of the Boston-Bath service of the Kennebec Navigation Co. has been made with the steamer City oF ROCKLAND. pe aa Three electric motor-driven refriger- ator ships have been ordered by the United Fruit Co., Boston, from Liver- Along the CHANNEL 30 feet deep with a width of 125 feet will be dredged from Sabine river, below Orange, Tex., to the Calcasieu river, 10 miles south of Lake Charles, La., and the Calcasieu will be deepened with the pro- ceeds of a bond issue authorized by the vote for a special tax in Calcasieu parish June 20. The work will begin next winter and will be completed in about two years. * x * Reports from New York indicate that the J. H. W. Steele Co. is negotiating with Robert C. Adams, receiver for the Green Star Steamship Corp., for the operation of seven ships now tied up at Baltimore and New York on the basis of 5 per cent of the gross freights and a share of the profits. The ships are the CHINCHA, EuRANA, SANTA CECILIA, CEN- TAURUS, CLAUSSEUS, Corvus and Crr- ciInus. They are mortgaged for $4,- 500,000 to the Equitable Trust Co., New York. If obtained by the Steele com- pany, they will be used between the Gulf and Pacific coast ports. Neither confir- mation nor denial of the report is ob- tainable at New Orleans. ee ae Organization of a Transportation and Traffic club, to which none other than steamship and railroadmen and exporters and importers will be eligible, has been started in New Orleans. Hie The Mexican Petroleum Corp.’s_ tug Sr. Hexier, 149 feet long and with 17 feet draft, the largest in southern waters was fitted with fire fighting equipment MARINE REVIEW pool shipbuilders. The ships will have diesel engines and each vessel will be about 4000 gross tons, making them the largest in the American fruit trade. Set tee Owing to light freight offerings, the Portland & New York Steamship Co., has. discontinued its service between Portland, Me., and New York. *k ok Ok The Northern Transportation Co. fleet of 21 ccal barges and tugs is once more in operation in the coal -trade from Hampton Roads to New York and New England _ ports. * * The steamer Astoria, owned by Rich- ard T. Green, Chelsea, Mass., has re- cently completed her final dock trials, and tests have been passed by the Amer- ican Bureau and the British Corp. * Ox A new direct service between Boston and Liverpool will be inaugurated short- ly by Furness, Withy & Co., with the sailing of the steamer EGyprTiANa. * Announcement is made through the Maritime association of Boston that a new service from Boston to the gulf ports of Galveston, Houston and New Orleans will soon be put into effect. It is proposed to put two 5000-ton freight steamers into this service, which will operate in conjunction with the Missis- sippi-Warrior river barge service. Gulf Coast at the Jahncke docks in New Orleans in June. The St. Hetier is used at Tampico and nearby ports for wrecking and deep sea towing. eo We Payment of fees in addition to the present commissions of 5 and 2% per 355 cent on freight revenues will increase the incomes of the four operators of ship- ping board vessels from New Orleans and Galveston approximately $20,000 a month. Lykes Bros., Inc., operates 22 shipping board vessels; Trosdal, Plant & Lafonta 18; the Tampa Inter-Ocean Steamship Co., 12, and the Mississippi Shipping Co., 11. x ok Ok Carl Giessow, general manager of the New Orleans Joint Traffic bureau repre- sented the gulf ports at ‘a hearing be- fore agents of the interstate commerce commission in Chicago July 11 on the petition of the Chicago board of trade and commercial organizations in the east for a reduction of the rates on grain to the gulf ports. The present rates to gulf ports are 6 to 8 cents below those to the North Atlantic but lower ocean rates there make the cost of transportation to destin- ation approximately the same. x £*& * The Louisiana legislature has sub- mitted to the voters an amendment to the constitution authorizing the port com- mission of New Orleans to lease lands ad- jacent to the Industrial’ canal, which will connect the Mississippi river and Lake Pontchartrain, for 99 years. Henry Ford, refusing to consider the lease contract now authorized, which provides for a revaluation every 20 years, bought four squares of land on the river front be- low New Orleans and by Oct. 1. will have an assembling plant and exporting terminal employing 750 to 800 men. Mr. Ford was in a hurry and the amend- ment can not be voted on before No- vember. ee ee The Johnson Iron Works, New Orleans, with a bid of $264,447 and 220 days, got a contract from the New Orleans port commission to build a steel screw fire tug in competition with six other builders. The next best bid was that of the Pensacola Shipbuilding Co., $269,- 913 and 275 days. * * * John L. Dickey of Lester F. Alexander & Co. succeeded in raising the Beaumont DISCHARGING COTTON BAGGING AT GALVESTON The American steamer STEELMAKER arrived at Galveston recently from Calcutta with approximately 2800 tons of cotton bagging and gunniesacks for Galveston and a like cargo for New Orleans. the second vessel from Calcutta during the month of May bringing cargo of this kind. This is Daniel Ripley & Co. are agents for the vessel,