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NET ANAT AAKAKA eA AaReRR = E he C | ; ne Coasts, Lakes and : HE ‘Standard Oil chased the two bulk oil Co; has: ur: steam- ers now under construction at the yard of the William H. Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia. The price paid was $2,- 000,000. Sunor, one of the steamers, was launched recently, the other is still on the ways. Both were owned by the Sun Oil Co., Philadelphia. The Sun company was to have paid $800,- 000 each for the vessels. Both steam- ers are of similar design. They will each carry 10,000 tons of oil. ee eae A new freight steamship line, to operate between Philadelphia and South American ports, has just been organized with a capital of $1,000,000. The first sailing will be on Oct. 15. The first ship will be bound for Rio de Janeiro and will touch at Santiago, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. A fleet of six steamers has been obtained. The company will be known as the Philadelphia & South America Steam- ship Co. and will operate the Phila- delphia-South America line. It is being financed almost exclusively by New York capital although originally planned by the Philadelphia chamber of commerce. Monthly sailings have been arranged under the _ present schedule, but later, when the number of vessels is increased, bi-monthly sailings will be inaugurated. No pas- sengers will be carried. The Penn- sylvania railroad co-operated in the organization of the new company and the line will use the railroad’s piers on the Delaware. * * * The work of raising the sunken steamship WASHINGTONIAN, - off Fen- wick island lightship, at the entrance to the Delaware capes, has been abandoned. The vessel was. sunk about two years ago in a collision with ELizABETH PALMER, a_ schooner. A preliminary examination showed that WASHINGTONIAN was lying on her side but failed to disclose the fact that her oil tanks were so seriously dam- aged that they were useless in aiding the wreckers. * ** * The first keel at the yard of the new Pennsylvania Ship Building Co., Gloucester, N. J., has been laid. The completed vessel will be a 7,000-ton oil tanker. Officials of the company and of the city of Philadelphia, govern- ment marine inspectors and visitors from nearby ship building companies were present. Contracts for eight ships have been secured by the new concern. General Manager Henry Lysholm has said that the contracts ‘secured will keep the yard What's Doing and Who's Doing It ———iiiiiiwwimiiiiOoCCCCHjOwWUWWO OS By Joseph Fenerty C in full operation for more than four years. * * * Lack’ of dry dock facilities at Phil- adelphia caused the owners of the British steamer Itrorp to have the vessel towed from the Port Richmond piers to Newport News, for extensive repairs. ILForpD was disabled in the Panama canal where her rudder was jammed. The only dry dock in the city, owned by the Cramp company, is engaged far into the future. * * * Fanny A. Kimpatt, schooner, which sailed from Santo Domingo, July 1, with a cargo of logwood for Chester, Pa., is missing. There is little doubt that the vessel foundered in the July hurricane. Captain Wall commanded the vessel, which was manned by a crew of seven. The schooner was consigned to A. B. Cummins & Co., and the cargo to the American Dye- wood Co. Krmpatt was launched at Millbridge, Me., in 1906. sks tess The ferry steamer, JosepH A..~ PaR- rotT, the second of three built by the William H. Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, for Activity Stirs I eS =a SS < N SS RG GM hssl © the Florida East Coast railway, has been successfully launched. The ves- sel will ply between Key West and Havana. The launching was witnessed by a party which included, in addition to a number of other prominent Cu- bans, Dr. Borlos Manuel de Cespedes, Cuban minister to the United States, and Senora de Cespedes, who was sponsor. Capt, Robert -L.:. Russen, commandant of the Philadelphia navy yard, Mrs. Russell and R. W. Parsons, president of the railroad, were also present. eo The license of Capt.’ Walter S. French, master of the Clyde line steamship DELAWARE, has been sus- pended for 90 days by the federal steamiboat inspectors, port of Phila- deiphia, following the ramming and sinking of the barge Detroit, in the Delaware river, off Philadelphia. At his trial, Captain French was found guilty of failing to maintain a proper lookout and of navigating his vessel at an excessive speed. It was also found that no whistle had been sounded to warn the barge of the course of the steamship. Captain French had never before been involved in a serious acci- dent and this fact saved him from a -more severe penalty. By A. A. Eiben : superintendent of the Buffalo Dry Dock Co., has been elected president of the Buffalo Dry Dock Co. and a director of the American Ship Building Co. eet John F. Brinkman was_ recently elected secretary and treasurer of the Buffalo Elevating Association, to suc- ceed the late John 'M. Bedford, Ko Re Capt. Henry Hinslea, Cleveland, master of the steamer J. B. CoLGaTE, will leave that vessel to bring out the 600-foot steamer Sir Trevor Dawson, pbuilding at the Superior yard of the American Ship Building Co. for the Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal. ees N. SMITH, formerly Pee ee Capt. Robert N. Bailey, a well- known ship master on the Great Lakes, died at his home in Toledo Sept. 28. ek ok Capt. R. D. Peltier, master of the steamer Witu1AmM F. Fitcu, will bring 403 steamer H. F. Btack, out the new k building for .the Donner Steamship Co. at the Lorain yard of the Amer- ican Ship Building Co. This promo- tion will cause several changes in the Hanna fleet. Capt. George _ Levis, master of the steamer R. S. WARNER, will be in command of ‘Fircu, Capt. S. Brines of the barge ALEx. Marr- LAND will sail WaARrNeER, and William Witte will be transferred to MAIrLAND. ok * * The steamer THorJERD, building for Norwegian interests, was recently launched from the yard of the Western Dry Dock & Ship Building Co., Port Arthur, Ont. ‘THoryERD is 261 feet long, 43%4 feet beam and 28 feet 2 inches deep, and is the first ocean- going vessel to be built at the Port Arthur. yard. BaLamya, a sister ship, now on the stocks, will be launched about Oct. 20. ee sae The steamer FRrANcIS WIDLAR, pur- chased by W. H. Becker from the Columbus Steamship Co., has been placed in the fleet of the Valley