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; ; 3 4 ; q ; F : Joseph F. Hayes Dies at Age of 72 IME is slowly but surely taking its toll of the iron men of the Great Lakes. Joseph F. Hayes, born in Detroit 1858, and first fleet engi- neer of the United States Steel Corp.’s great inland fleet of ore carriers, died in Lakewood, O. on April 20. His connection with lake shipping goes back to the eighties and nineties. He early showed his special aptitude as a marine engineer and he had already attained the rank of chief engineer on Great Lakes steamers during that period. Before the Steel corporation was thought of, Hayes had been made superintending engineer of the lake vessels of the American Steel & Wire Co. by A. B. Wolvin, president of that company and perhaps one of the most outstan ding shipping men of his time on the Great Lakes. Hayes was also superintendin ¢g engineer under the same man- agement of the Peavey Steam- ship Co. and the Chicago & St. Lawrence JOSEPH F. HAYES Transportation Co. with a fleet of ten canal size steamers. In the meantime the Carnegie Steel Co. in 1900 bought and built a number of lake vessels and organized the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. The fleet engineer of this company was F. B. Smith. On April 1, 1901 the United States Steel Corp. took over and added to the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. as one of its subsidiaries. A. B. Wolvin became president and, know- ing his man, appointed Hayes as fleet engineer of a greatly enlarged Pitts- burgh Steamship Co. He served in this position for about three years until Jan. 1, 1904, or as long as his chief A. B. Wolvin remained in office. During this period F. B. Smith served with Hayes as assistant fleet engi- neer. There was a fine accord be- tween the two men and a close friend- Ship existed until the end. When Hayes retired with his chief from Steel corporation activities, F. B. Smith was appointed fleet engineer under Harry Coulby as_ president. The main offices of the company dur- Ing the tenure of Hayes was at Duluth, Minn. and he spent perhaps half of his time there. He continued as fleet engineer for the vessel inter- ests managed by Wolvin. And later went into business under the firm name of Thompson Hayes Co. han- dling boiler compounds and engineer- ing supplies. In 1918 the great war shipbuilding program on the lakes was in charge of Henry Penton, assisted by Capt. R. W. England. One of the particu- larly troublesome features that the district manager had to face was the difficulties attending turning over the newly built vessels to the operating division representatives at Montreal. There were inumerable complaints of one kind or another and Henry Penton told Captain England that he needed a strong man, a man who knew his business and one who could neither be hoodwinked nor scared, to go to Montreal to take care of the delivery and entry into service of the vessels being built for ocean use on the Great Lakes. Though, as_ the story goes, there had existed for years a violent personal antipathy be- tween Hayes and Penton, when the former was suggested for this position by Captain England, Penton allowed that he was the very man for the job, which shows, with one objective in mind during the war, how per- sonal differences were forgotten among men of character and intelligence. Hayes served with notable efficiency in charge of sea trials for the new ships turned out. With his long prac- tical experience and personal qualifi- cations of leadership, he carried- on this work with great success. After the war period he supervised the conversion of the poker fleet the ACB, KING, QUEEN and JACK, to refriger- ator and package ships for the Mc- Dougall interests, under Henry Pen- ton. This work was done at the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co. in New York and was the last active work he carried out. His old col- league, F. B. Smith paid him perhaps the best tribute from one engineer to another in saying that Joe Hayes was the best grade of chief engineer. Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn will celebrate the completion of its 75th year on June 17 and 18. Mail Routes Certified In compliance with the require- ments of section 403 of the merchant marine act, the shipping board on May 21 certified to the postmaster general the following essentials for a proposed ocean mail route from San Francisco by Manila to Singapore. Not less than 10 sailings a year with combination cargo and passenger vessels of not less than 10,000 gross tons, capable of maintaining a speed of not less than 13 knots in ordinary weather at sea. MARINE REVIEW—June, 1930 Branch Offices of Salvage A ssociation nek. R. D. GATEWOOD, general manager of the United States Salvage association, is at present in Europe making a tour of the asso- ciation’s agencies in London, Ham- burg, Antwerp and other _ points. A branch office of the association has been open- ed at 1038 Mar- ine Trust build- ing, Buffalo, and William © 7%. Smith has been appointed _resi- dent surveyor. Previous to joining the as- sociation, Mr. Smith was for 14 years as- sistant United States steam- W. G. ATHERHOLT boat inspector at Buffalo, and prior to that time had served for 10 years on _ vari- ous vessels of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. on the Great Lakes, nine years as chief engineer and one year as first assistant engineer. Before joining the Cleveland-Cliffs fleet, Mr. Smith was employed by the Wheeler Marine Engine Works at Bay City, Mich., on general ship construction. W. G. Atherholt, who for the past 10 years has been a surveyor for the salvage association at New York, has been appointed resident surveyor at Cleveland. From 1917 to 1920 Mr. Atherholt acted as resident inspector for the United States shipping board at Toledo on the construc- tion of 30 steel ships and from 1906 to 1916 he served as as- sistant superin- tendent for the me Toledo Ship- building Co. His earlier experi- ence __ included that of inspec- tor of construction for the Standard Oil Co. at the Cramp _ shipyard and at Trigg Island, Richmond, Va. The Cleveland office of the United States Salvage association is located at 804-6 Rockefeller building and is in charge of Guy A. Myers, principal surveyor for the Great Lakes district. * ok * E. A. Doyle, consulting engineer of WM. T. SMITH the Linde Air Products Co. was elected president of the American Welding society April 25. 49