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156 leans and other Gulf ports. The_order of seizure of the vessels by the Italian authorities affected the Creole and the ~ Pearce Cottoneira lines, and the change is believed to have been caused by ap- peals of the New Orleans cotton ex- change and New Orleans shippers to the Italian government. ee ee Gulfport, Miss., shippers offer as high as $24 a thousand feet freight on lum- ber to River plate points, with practic- ally no takers. os os The Gulfport, Miss., ship channel has been deepened by government dredge, to 21 feet, and big steamers can now go through to Ship Island harbor. hak The British schooner EvapNg, out of Mobile, January 3, has been wrecked near Little Key, Fla. and, with her cargo of yellow pine, is a total loss. The captain and crew were saved. — Around Boston Bay By George S. Hudson NDER orders from the _ depart- -ment of agriculture, all cotton received at Boston from foreign ports must be fumigated, the work en- tailing considerable delay incident to rehandling. A large amount of the cotton comes from Egypt, being trans- shipped from Liverpool. The order is designed to prevent introduction of the boll weevil. x * x The first direct passenger sailing for years between South Africa and Boston was that of the British steamship City or Sparta, Capt. McKellar, which ar- rived recently from Capetown with 28 passengers. The ship regularly runs between Australia and India, but was diverted as she is to enter war service as a transport. ek On account of a strike at a Plymouth, Mass., cordage plant, several ships with cargoes of sisal fibre from Progreso have been unloaded at Boston during the past month. ei oe An explosion of gasoline vapor on board the fishing schooner Mary C. Santos at the fish pier, Boston, re- sulted in the vessel going to the bottom with the loss of two men. SANTOs, which was subsequently raised, is owned by Capt. Manuel Santos of Provincetown. Sah ae The Boston fishing’ schooner Mar- GARET DiLLon has been sold by M. J. Dillon to Capt. Francisco Carballo of Havana, and transferred to Cuban reg- istry. The fishing schooner WASHAKIE has been sold to Pensacola interests. * o* * The Boston & Virginia Steamship Co. has moved New York. Three of the company’s steamers, GEORGE FE. Warren, L. - SroppArRD and Gerorce HAwLEy, are to be coriverted into oil tankers. ee eee Offerings of grain for export find a shortage in the tonnage market and bookings have been made by vessels leaving Boston for England as late as next June. The rate on wheat to Liv- erpool and Glasgow stands at 48 cents its offices from Boston to. THE MARINE REVIEW per bushel, the highest figure in recent rs. bbe pe ae ae During a recent gale the two-masted British schooner Cora May, Capt. Lewis, from St. John, N. B., for Bos- ton, with a cargo of 139,000 feet of spruce lumber, parted her cable in Boston lower harbor and _ went ashore on False Spit. The vessel was floated by the tug Mercury, Capt. Wall, and towed to East Boston for repairs. eo One thousand tons of cocoanut oil was brought from Japan_to Boston in a ballast tank of the British steamship St. Breve, Capt. Fortay, thus leaving hold space for general cargo. ek A record shipment of Egyptian cot- eon, 6,000 bales, was brought to Boston from Liverpool the other day in_ the Leyland line steamship Eronran, Capt. Wood. The’ value of the consignment was $1,345,000. Sok oe The steamship SEACONNET, owned by the Shawmut Steamship Co., is frozen in at Archangel, Russia. ee eee Capt: C. “R. Tuckett: of the ‘customs APTAIN. RICHARD CHILCOTT, Cy reteran master mariner, is receiving the support of many Pacific coast shipping men in behalf of a bill he has compiled, having as its purpose the en- couragement of private enterprise and capital in upbuilding the American mer- chant marine. The measure was first introduced by’ Senator Harry Lane, of Oregon, in the senate, and was placed before the house by Congressman C. N. McArthur, also of Oregon. It is called the board of maritime control bill. The measure grants authority for three or more native born or naturalized Amer- ican citizens to incorporate and_ build, buy or operate vessels between ports in the United States and those of other nations, except Canada and the West Indies, with power to issue ten-year bonds in denominations of $100 each, drawing 6 per cent, up to an amount equal to 80 per cent of the capital stock of the corporation concerned. However, at the time the bonds are issued there must have been paid into the treasury of the corporation on stock subscriptions 25 per cent of the value _of the securities. The govern- ment is to guarantee the interest. The proceeds of the bonds are to be de- voted exclusively to the construction, purchase and operation of vessels in the merchant marine trade. The meas- ure provides that the government shall guarantee the interest on the bonds at a rate not exceeding 6 per cent per year for ten years, when the bonds shall mature, the government guaranteeing the payment of the principal and in- terest of the bonds at that time. oe J. H. Burton, commercial agent the Pacific Alaska Navigation Co, aa one of the most widely known steam- ship men on the coast, has been ap- pointed city passenger and _ ticket agent guards, has charge of a neutrality trol in Boston harbor, the treasur partment tug DREAMER being use the work. k * x Capt. Alfred E. Ellis, for 253 connected with the Plant line, recently at his home in Halifax, Capt. Ellis had commanded the ers A. W. Perry, HALirax and Ey GELINE on the Boston-Halifax run pee eo. The schooner May V. Nevmiie been chartered to load at Boston cargo of rum, tobacco and flour for west coast of Africa. nm Hise See The steamer Mr. Hope has been oy hauled at the Atlantic Works, E Boston, at an expense of $15,000 has returned to Providence, R. I, *k * * Alterations calculated to firepr steamer CAMDEN of the Eastern § ship Corporation, have been complete and the vessel will soon go on the ru between Boston and Bangor, Me. ee ee German steamships laid up at Bos wharves have been shifted to prepa berths on the east side of the harbo Haskell for that company, with headquarters Seattle. district, with headquarters at Portlan Ore., was launched recently at the A derson Steamboat Co.’s yards, Seattle. Rosr, when completed, will cost ap- proximately $110,000. * 2k * Seattle is to meet the competition of Prince Rupert as a gateway to Alaska. Cheaper fares via a more direct route, as a result of the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co transcontinental line, for a time threat- ened to divert an important amount 0 travel to the North Pacific’s newest port, but action taken during the past month by the North Coast Passenger Ass0-— ciation removes this danger and places Seattle on an equal footing with her — northern neighbor. Railway and steam- ship lines have agreed on the estab-— lishment of the same one-way through — fares between Alaska ports and Eastern territory via Seattle as now apply via — Prince Rupert. *K ok * The Blue Funnel line withdrew its — service from Puget sound on March 4, when the seaman’s law, affecting for- eign vessels trading into United States Ports, went into effect. The first ves- sel to come under the law was TALTHY- BIUS. The line is making new terminal — arrangements at Vancouver, B. C. The Japanese lines’ plying into Puget sound will not be affected. as their officers and sailors are all Japanese. The ac-_ tion will leave only Japanese vessels — plying in the foreign trade from Puge sound.