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464 coming winter, including many of the vessels of the Pittsburgh Steamship “Co;'s fleet. x * An award was recently made by -C. E. Kramer, Chicago, arbitrator in the collision case between the steamers D. Z. Norton and W. C. AcNnew, which occurred Oct. 11, 1914, in Lake St. Clair, holding AcNew wholly at fault and exonerating Norton. The damage to both vessels, amounting to $11,000, ‘will be paid by Acnew. Both vessels ‘were down-bound with ore and AGNEW was trying to pass Norron when the collision occurred. AGNEW is owned by the Buffalo Steamship Co., John Mitchell, manager, Cleveland, and Nor- -ToN is owned by the Norton Transit Co., W. C. Richardson & Co., man- agers, Cleveland, O. ee The Crosby Transportation Co., Mil- -waukee, Wis., has announced that it will probably raise the passenger ‘rates of the line on April 1, 1916, ow- ing to the stringent provisions of the seamen’s law. It is said that the law -will. not seriously embarrass the boat lines operating out of Milwaukee, but ‘that its enforcement will probably re- ‘sult in a general advance in passenger tates on the Great Lakes. ek x Captain Philo B. Ludington, retired ‘vessel master, died at Detroit recently at the age of 84 years. In his early life Captain Ludington engaged in wrecking operations and diving on the lakes, later becoming associated with the Gilchrist interests at Alpena. xs Record dispatch has marked the ‘construction of the cement work of the dry dock building for the Amer- ican Ship Building Co., at South Chi- cago, Ill., the cement walls for the en- tire dock having been completed in ‘less than four weeks. The contractors worked night and day on this con- struction work and the dock will be ‘ready for use in November. In New York Harbor By George Nicholson ; HE American steamship OCEANA, 4320 net tons, was sold re- . county by the Morse... Dry Dock Co. to the Compania Transat- lantica. She has been placed under the Spanish flag and her name changed to AtFronso XIII. She will carry pas- sengers between Cadiz and Havana. She was built in 1891 by W. Denny & Bro. at Dumbarton, Eng., and is a twin screw steel steamer . with a promenade deck. She is 531 feet over all, 54 feet 8 inches beam, and 17 feet 9 inches draft. Her equipment consists of two triple expansion en- gines, 321%4 x 571% x 92 inches, and 60 inches stroke, developing 1,440 horse- power. ok 8 Newark, N. J., will make a strong bid for some of the steamship trade, of which New York has practically a monopoly. A year ago, Newark awarded a $500,000 contract to the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co. to build a ship canal three miles long through the Newark Meadows into the heart of the city. The canal will be 25 feet deep. As the government is deepen- ing Newark bay, all but the largest her own power. * /SEPPr THE MARINE REVIEW ocean-going ships will be able to use’ the canal. pleted. It is now about half com- * OF *K The new motor light vessel No. 54 was given her trial trip in New York harbor recently. The vessel is powered with a 100-brake horsepower, three- cylinder, direct reversible heavy duty oil engine for propulsion. Two Mietz & Weiss vertical oil engine compressor units furnish the air for pumps, anchor hoists and siren. After. the trials, which were satisfactory in every way, the vessel proceeded from Staten Island to her station off Boston under * * The new British motorship Mrssis- recently arrived at New York from London, having made the voyage in 13 days. While coming across the Atlantic she was twice chased by sub- Along Pug a smuggler, sealer and _ fishing vessel, the once palatial yacht Hatcyon, former pleasure craft of John D. Spreckels, the San Francisco millionaire sugar operator, will probably end her days as a trader on the Mexi- can coast. She has been purchased by Thomas Tjerandsen and Edward Peter- son of Seattle, from the Victoria Sealing Co. and will be sold at Mazatlan. kok & Representing an investment of ap- proximately $325,000, the Alaska Steam- ship Co. has purchased the freight and passenger liner Kansas City, formerly of the Pacific Mail fleet, and announces that the vessel will be placed in the southeastern Alaska trade plying out of Seattle. Kansas City was formerly operated between San Francisco and Portland by the Portland & San Fran- cisco Steamship Co. and by the Pa- cific Mail Steamship Co. between San Francisco and Panama. * 2 rae an adventurous career as kK The daring work of Capt. Reed of the fue. WALLULA. saved the Peruvian schooner JupITH from going on the beach just south of the mouth of the Columbia river recently. With all sails set, the sailing vessel was headed di-- rect for the coast. The weather was hazy and the master of the wind- jammer had evidently lost his bearings. Capt, Reed rushed to her rescue and ran WALLULA into the breakers. He succeeded in getting a line aboard JupiItH and turned her around. The hawser parted but the barkentine, how- ever, put on more sail and succeeded in getting back to sea. 1k * Fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, destroyed Pier 14 at the foot of Broad. street, Seattle, on Oct. 29. The pier was occupied by Dodwell & Co., Ltd., agents for the Blue Funnel Line of British steamers. The loss will prob- ably exceed $500,000. The Blue Fun- nel steamers have been carrying barbed wire, machinery and implements of war for the Russian army. * Oe Ox Swayne & Hoyt, who have been operating the Arrow line of steamers December, 1915 marines, but escaped, owing to her speed of 11% knots. She is 370 feet long and powered with Burmeister & Wain diesel engines of a total of 3,600 initial horsepower. | The sidewheel passenger steamers Majestic and Newark, of, the Mer- chants’ Steamboat Co.,. Newark, N. J., are reported to have been sold to in- terests on the Potomac river. * * * ok An interesting installation of a new type of boiler is being made in the Pennsylvania railroad tugboat Syosset. A 1,000-horsepower Talbot oil-burning flash boiler is being installed. The in- stallation is being closely watched by local steamboat interests. The government is dredging the Passaic river to Newark to a depth of 40 feet. yet Sound Shores By F. K. Haskell between Portland and San _ Francisco, carrying general merchandise, wheat and lumber, have announced that they will maintain a regular five-day sched- ule between the two ports with three steamers, Daisy PutNAM, Daisy GADSBY and WittiAmM H. MurpHy. * ok Ox The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget , Sound railroad has installed on its tide- flat frontage in Tacoma a modern ter- minal, including a grain elevator. This company has cut a private waterway for the use of its oriental steamers. This waterway is 2,000 feet long, 215 feet wide, and has a depth of 35 feet at low water. * Ox It is the purpose of the port authori- ties of Astoria, Ore., to operate boats from that city to Lewiston, Ida. and work will shortly be started on the con- struction of vessels able to navigate both the Columbia and Snake rivers. Service will be inaugurated early next year. The work .is in the hands of Captai Arthur Riggs. * ok Ox After lying at Honolulu for more than a year, the cargo of lumber laden at Tacoma on the Kosmos liner SrEtos for Melbourne, is finally to be sold. Srtos loaded at Tacoma just prior to the out- break of the European war, and at sea was warned by wireless and instructed to putin at Honolulu for orders. The cargo is valued at $75,000. The Japanese steamer KuroHIME Maru has been chartered by Frank Water- house & Co. inc: Seattle for one voyage in the Seattle-Vladivostok trade. She is the eleventh vessel in the fleet chartered by the Waterhouse company for its Vladivostok service. KurRoHIME is a modern freighter, built in Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1905, with a cargo capacity of 6,200 tons. She is 340 feet long, 48 feet beam and 18 feet draft. + * & The great increase in the coastwise business of the Standard Oil Co. has resulted in the bringing to the Pacific coast of the new tanker Dr Soro, re- cently built in the east. She has a carrying capacity of 70,000 barrels.