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334 East coast, in order to hasten the development of the company’s business. The East Asiatic Co. will enter the trans-Pacific service between ‘San Fran- cisco and Japan, China and Vladi- vostok. The steamer InprEN, which has been running between Copenhagen and San Francisco, will be loaded for the Orient in a few weeks. Agents of the Pacific Steam Naviga- tion Co. and of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. have announced that a fort- nightly service between New York and the west coast of South America will be begun by way of the Panama canal, as soon as the steamers intended for that service are released by the British government from transport work. The fleet will consist of several 15,000-ton steamers, each with accommodations for 1,000 passengers. The steamship Tampico was the pioneer vessel of the Oregon-California Shipping Co., recently organized to op- erate a line of steamers regularly be- tween New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Portland, Ore. Tampico sailed from Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 17, and from Philadelphia, Aug. 21. She will. be followed this month by the steamship EUREKA. The American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. announced recently that the first of three steamers under construction for the line will be completed by Dec. 1, 1915. The vessels are being built by the Maryland Steel Co., at Sparrows Point, Md. The first is FLorIpAN, a freighter of 4,000 net tons, 414 feet long, 53-foot beam, and 31-foot depth of hold. The next, Artisan, will be ready on March 1, 1916, and ARBorEAN on May 1, 1916. These steamers will be added to the fleet of the American- Hawaiian line operating from the At- lantic to the Pacific coast via the Pan- ama canal. Augment South American Trade W. R. Grace & Co. have added steam- ers to their rapidly increasing South “American schedule until they now have eight vessels in the southern trade, ply- ing as far south as Talcahuano, below Watpataiso, Chile, These . are. Cuzco, CotumBIA, Wm. CHATHAM, GEO. W. Fenwick, Aztec, St. HELENS, TRICOLOR and Epcar H. VANCE. The West Coast Navigation Co. will place three vessels in its new service between Philadelphia and Seattle, Wash., and will make the latter city’ the terminus of a new line of steamers, instead of Portland, Ore., as first an- nounced. The vessels will call at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The steamers Epison Licur and WititrAM D. Noyes are on their way to the Pacific coast. The new steamer to be added is GrorcE HAwLey. THE MARINE REVIEW The new line will have a sailing every 30 days. A semi-monthly steamship line A new semi-monthly steamship line has been established by the Independent Steamship Co., between Puget sound and southeastern and southwestern ports of Alaska. It has pier A in Seattle as headquarters, and handles both freight and passengers. Plan Franco-Russian Line Through the efforts of the Russo- French chamber of commerce, the project of establishing a regular steamship line between France and Russia via the Baltic sea is taking a definite shape and it may be ex- pected that such a line will be estab- lished soon after the end of the war. The chamber has arranged for the regular transportation of cargoes be- tween France and Russia through Scandinavian countries. In a short time the steamers of a French com- pany, the Alliance Maritime, will be- gin regular trips between French ports and Narvik, Norway. As soon as circumstances permit, the company will extend the trips to Archangel. Organizes New Company The New England & Pacific Steam- ship Co., Bridgeport, Conn., a $2,000,- 000 corporation, was recently organ- ized to operate a freight line between the two American coasts via the Pan- ama canal. Alexander McNab, Bridge- port, is at the head of the new com- pany, which plans to begin business with four freighters of 4,000 to 5,000 tons, and expects to have six or seven in operation by the end of one year. It intends later to engage in the pas- senger business between Connecticut and Pacific ports. Bridgeport will be the home of the corporation and a port of call for its steamships, but New Haven is to be its principal port. Mr. McNab is a former officer in the British navy and is an inventor and manufacturer of marine special- ties. He has been for some time in consultation with the state commis- sion which is constructing the deep sea terminal at New London, pro- vided for by an appropriation | of $1,000,000. Arrangements, it is said, have been completed for the com- pany to use this facility as soon as it is completed. The Marine Transport Service Cor- poration, 17 Battery place, New York, will shortly begin the operation of three separate lines of freight steamers out of that city. One line is to run through the Panama canal to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. The second is to operate to South American ports. The third line will run to miscellaneous foreign ports wherever September, 1915 business offers. It is understood that two steamers have been secured, and that negotiations are now being con- ducted for four additional steamers. Takes Over Controlling Interest Controlling interest in the Seeberg Steamship Co., Inc., New York, has been acquired by a Chicago firm. The name of the company has been changed to the Caribbean & Southern Steamship Co., Inc. This company is operating regularly from the Gulf of Mexico to West Indian and Central American ports, with chartered steamers. A di- rect service has also been inaugurated between New York and Archangel, Rus- sia, which will be taken by chartered steamers sailing from New York. Sev- eral vessels have been secured for the service. The first sailing on this sched- ule was that of the steamer SKARD, from New York for Archangel, July 12. The second sailing was on July 25, and the third on Aug. 10. This service will continue as long as war freight business to Russia justifies it. A. E. Clegg is manager of the new line’s New York office. The company has also established a New York-Gote- borg direct service, the first steamer sailing Aug. 15. She will be followed by others at intervals of one month. All vessels operated by this company are chartered. The building of new steamers in. American ship yards, to be operated under the Norwegian flag, is now being considered by the company. Uncertain Conditions on Pacific Coast The steamship business in the Pacific | northwest is at present passing through a state of uncertainty, say well-informed marine men. Al- though blessed by high rates and a plenty of tonnage to fill the ships available, it is harassed by an uncer- tainty of longshore conditions, the caprices of shippers, the lack of dead- weight cargo, the trouble with the Gaillard cut at the Panama canal, and the rapid shifting of the lines of trade caused by the canal. Trade routes, owing to the European war, have not been developed as_ they should have been. - A captain, one of the business-like type one meets on the new coasters developed by the opening of the canal, gave an interesting outline of the steamship business prospect as it looks to him and to other Americans interested in the development of the country’s merchant marine, before a number of Portland, Ore., shippers and steamship men recently. Said this captain, in the course of his talk: “To the average man the conditions today appear ideal. Freights are high-