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r,r' Cojal Carrier Opens Brockville Navigation |gpBM Master Of Coalfax < — (Telegram photos. Copyright, 1938.) Capt. R. A. "Bob" Wright, of Toronto, officially opened the port of Toronto early to-day by bringing his ship Coalfax here from Oswego with a load of coal. As a reward he received the harbormaster's hat. Capt. F. J. Marigold, harbormaster, is seen placing the "topper" on Capt. Wright's head. This is the second year in succession that Capt. Wright has received , the hat here. Above is shown the Coalfax, in the past few years the newsprint :: industry has done much to stimulate shipping on the Great Lakes, and bring a small share of prosperity to Canadian ship owners. It is now considered one of the large freight move-¦i ments that will keep a number of $ ships going after the grain storage at I lie lake head has been exhausted. With the opening of the 1938 season of navigation, Fort William, a rival of the United States' Duluth at the the head of the lakes, becomes the centre of extensive marine operations of the Lakehead Transportation Co., organized last year under the presidency of Edward E. Johnson, of Wisconsin, who made good in Canadian fur farming, lumber and shipping. The company has over 40 boats, from steel barges and lake-going lugs to utility scows and sturdy little Diesel and gasoline boats. It will launch the season with a fleet personnel of more than 250, including auxiliary loading crews. Operations will centre on a leased j harbor site on the south side o£ the | Mission River. On inland lakes, navigable rivers and Lake Superior, the fleet will 1 operate in synchronized movement i of the raw wood from hinterland vir-j gin spruce and balsam forests, north, least and west of Fort William, to ; domestic and United States mills for manufacture into finished products. The fleet has four steel barges, three steam tugs, four Diesel tugs, four utility scows, 25 gasoline boats, over 5,000 booms and rafting and loading equipment. FOR U.S. DAILIES The capacity of rough pulpwood is between 2,100 and 2,200 cords for each barge. The five hatches of each essel have been enlarged to 28 feet by 32 feet for maximum handling in minimum time. Pride of the fleet is the steam tug Marguerite W., an all-steel, all weather ship, 120 feet long. Partially rebuilt during the winter, she has triple expansion engine and auto matic stokers, and is one of the mos powerful on the Great Lakes. She can tow a raft of 8,000 cords of pulp wood. When the season opens these barges and tugs will operate between Lake Superior north shore ports and several United States ports, Tona wanda, N.Y., Cleveland, Detroit Green Bay, Wis., and Neenah, Wis. This winter the company increased to more than 5,000 the number of booms needed for storage and raft ing purposes. Placed end to end these booms would stretch more than 22 miles. The cargoes and giant rafts of log-are floated down the streams and rivers of Canada to the great news print and electric power plants foi grinding and manufacturing intc heavy rolls of paper which are moved on to the daily newspapers of the United States in ships and by rail.