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November, 1923 being converted to a full powered die- sel driven ship. Bids were received on Oct. 15 by the Admiral Line, Se- attle, the present owner. The engines used will be transferred from a wooden ship owned by the same company. Three MARINE REVIEW sister ships will be converted later by transfer. of engines from wooden ves- sels. x ok Ox The old schooner Carrier, formerly used by the Chicago yacht club as a 431 club house in Lincoln park, Chicago, sank on Oct. 1 while being towed to Waukegan, Ill. ~The hull is 123 feet long, 26 feet wide, and 8 feet deep. She is grounded in 13 feet of water, about 1500 feet from shore. Up and Down the Pacific Coast ORTY-NINE thousand tons of Jap- anese shipping was chartered at San Francisco on Sept. 28 for the wheat trade out of Canada to the United King- dom and continental European ports. The tonnage represents seven Japanese car- riers of Suzuki & Co. and the fix- tures set a post-war record for the ‘number of vessels chartered in a single day from one company. The fixtures were made for Decem- ber and January loading out of north Pacific ports. Kerr, Gifford & Coa. Strauss & Co. and Richardson & Co., the latter a British Columbia concern, were the main charterers of the seven ves- sels. The rate ranged from 36 shil- lings 3 pence to 37 shillings 6 pence. This marks the first activity in this trade in three months and is ascribed to a more healthy tone in the gen- eral business conditions in Europe. The United Kingdom and continen‘al grain market has been extremely dull during the last three months. Hes ok Coupled with the above activity it is expected that within a few days much life in the’ charter market out of the Pacific coast to Japan, due to the de- mand for huilding materials and food supplies, will be seen. It is estimated that five billion feet of lumber will he required for rebuilding the devastated area of Japan, the majority of which will be drawn from the Pacific North- west. eae oe The Pacific coastwise freight business is picking up to the extent that some companies have been forced recently to hold back freight consigned on steam- ers departing from San Francisco port to the northern ports. Coastwise op- erators report that northbound move- ment is heavy and that the southbound general freicht business is above nor- mal. <A revival is noted in the lumber trade from northern ports to San Fran- cisco and San Pedro and indications point to the continuation of this heavy traffic for some time to come. ee aa The report of the California state harbor board for the month of August showed a total inbound tonnage throuch the port of San Francisco, of 6453 439 tons. and an outbound total of 334.291, makine the to’al freight movement for the month 997.730 tons, the largest in the histo~y of the port: Segregation of the renort shows 114,118 tons of cnast- wise. freight received inhound. 283.154 tons inland and 265.167 tons of -toreign freight arriving. The outhound tonnage fierres represent a coastwise shipment of 52.911 tons over local piers, 153,034 tons of inland freight and 128346 tons of freight shipped for foreign ports. el ee Comparing the total tonnage for Au-- gust this year with that of July, shows an increase of 65,800 tons during Au- gust. For July, 1922, the total tonnage passing through the port was . 776762 tons and for August last year, 867,932. These figures show an increase of 129,- 798 tons for August of this year over the same month of the preceding year ‘ce oe The tonnage of vessels moving through the port of San Francisco for the month of September increased by 658,- 495 tons-.over that for August. Dur- ing the month 609 vessels arrived and 615 departed. For the first nine months of this year, 4971 vessels have arrived and 5077 have departed; an increase of 1780 vessels, departing and arriving, over the same period of 1922. The tonnage figures for the month of September show . 1.347,475 for arrivals and 1.,- 362.151 for sailings, the total for the month hoth incoming and outgoing be- ing 2,709,626 tons. * * * On Sept. 6, a ballot was cast by the intercoastal wes'bound conference as a sort of test to gage the sentiment in reference to removing the rate-making body from New York to San Francisco. An official election to decide the issue is expected in the near future.. * * * Virtually all shippers on the Pacific coast desire to have the westbound rates fixed there. They state that practically all merchandise shipped to the Pacific coast is purchased f.o.b. eastern mills and that they, as the buyers, should have the right to have a say in the matter of ra‘es and shipping conditions as ‘against other parties thousands of miles away who know little or nothing of mar- ket and shipping conditions on the Pa- cific coast. * * x Plans just adopted by the port of Ta- coma provide for the extension of track- ace and a lumber storage capacity of 30000.000 feet, doubling the present ca- picitv. If future business warrants, a further extension of storage fac'lities can be made’to provide ‘for 54,009090. feet. The port has just pyrchased a $27.- 000 lumber crane from the Colby Steel & Engineering Co. Fabrication work on this crane is to he done hv the Todd Drydock & Construction Corp. ae ee Transnacific steamshin operators ex- press satisfaction with the results of the ‘attached recent conference at Chicago where representatives of both Atlantic and Pacific lines to the Orient arrived ata common understanding as to rates and practices, The new schedule will be of primary interest to shippers in the Middle West. ge Cie eee After operating in north Pacific waters for ten seasons, the steel s'eam whalers Star I, Star II and Star Ill have left Puget sound for the sceneo; future whaling hunts in the Antarctic. The three vessels Were built in 1911 by the old Seattle Construction & Drydock Co. Some time ago they were so!d to the Ross Sea Whaling Co., Sandefjord, Norway. and with sturdy Norwegian crews they are now steaming to the frigid rerions of the South Pacific. The Pacific will be crossed by way of Hon- olulu and Australia. . Hereafter thev will operate out of New Zealand ports as headquarters. * * * Hoisted from a dock by a cargo hook : to the boom of. a steamer loading cargo. a Seat'le loneshoreman was removed from the jurisdiction of the state industrial insurance commiss‘on into admiralty court. according to the deci- sion of an assistant state attorney gen- eral. The hook caught in the worker's helt which held fast while he was bodily lifted from the dock hut when he was high in the air the belt gave way and the man fell to the steamer’: deck, he- in& seriously injured, According to the decision, he can not recover from the state, under whose insurance Jonoshore- men are protected. but must file suit in admiralty in order to recover dam- ages. In other words, because his helt carried him heyord the edge of the nier the sta‘e industrial department. discloims responsility and contends that the claim 1s one to be settled in admiralty, RS oe _ Attackine the constitutionality of the income and excess profit war tax act. suit has heen filed by the. Ninnon Vise Kaisha against a former collector of in- ternal revenue asking refund of $1,124.- 3*5 p'us interest and costs. The sum sourht represents income and = exress Profit taxes paid under written protest hy the Janonese steamship comnany_ on Sent. 27, 1918. It is chareed that the collector comnelled paymert of the amount in cuestion upon business trans- acted throanvh Puget sound ports hetween Oct. 1. 1916 and Sept.'30. 1917. The commny mode a return of income as taxable of $1.137670 but claims the col- lector forced payment of taxes on a further income of $3 725.207 derived on the operation of foreign steamships