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THE MARINE REVIEW THE BATTLESHIP DELAWARE IN THE RECENT GALE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC This is a very striking sea picture and appears to show .the battle ship awash to her turrets. moves, the Celilo canal project was taken up in earnest some four years ago. Nearly enough was appropriat- ed by congress last spring to com- plete the work. It is expected that it will be done by January, 1915, at a total cost of about $5,000,000. The great immediate need of the upper Columbia valley is that this work be pressed without flagging to a con- clusion. The Federal government, to- gether with Oregon and Washington, are looking favorably upon the pro- ject of a dam at Celilo and a water power derived from it. Sufficient ap- propriation has been made for a sur- vey. Preliminary estimates indicate that a horse power of 350,000 might be generated and that the' power might be sold at a paying rate of from $8 to $10 per horsepower a year. This is about a fifth or sixth of the charge now made by the power com- panies. The industrial and commer- cial results of the opening of the river to navigation and of the creation of such an enormous power would be beyond computation. The upper Columbia basin is al- ready an enormously productive coun- try. The grain crop of the present year is probably 100,000,000 bu. The fruit and vegetable crop is prabably 20,000 cars. Hay and live stock are in proportion. It is probably safe to say that the- reduction in freight rates through the Celilo canal will be sufficient to pay the cost of the canal within two years. hiding the hull, not submerging it The giant wave is, however, simply Photo by C. V. Buck, Underwood & Underwood, New. York. The 200 miles of the Columbia river from Celilo to the sea is now naviga- ble for river craft of any size at all stages of water. The great need on the lower river is a ship channel from Portland to the ocean adequate for the largest ocean vessels. The last year there has been organized "The Commission of the Ports of the Co- lumbia," having members all the way trom Lewiston, in Idaho, Walla Walla, Pasco. and other cities. in Washington, Pendleton, Umatilla, and others in Oregon, to Astoria, whose slogan is "A forty-ft. channel to the sea; Such a. channel, with the com- pletion of both the south and north jetties at the mouth, will attract the largest vessels to Portland, and will perform a work of transcendent im- portance in making the Columbia ba- sin ready for the full results of the Panama canal and the world merce of the Pacific. CcOm=- At a regular meeting of Ogdens- burg Lodge No. 10, Shipmasters' As- sociation, held in their hall on New Years Day, the following officers were installed by Grand Treasurer Capt. Hi. A. Murphy for 1914: President, Capt. W. J. Stitt; first vice president, Capt. Frank P. Russell; second vice president, Capt. S. V. Anderson; Chap- lain, Capt. Jas. Owens; warden, Capt. Bred. Loveless; marshal, Capt. Fred. Travis; sentinel, Capt. W. G. Bryan: secretary-treasurer, Capt. M. A. Leon- ard; delegate to grand lodge, M. A. Leonard; alternate, Capt. Chas. Nelson. After the installation ceremonies were over a social session was held and an enjoyable time spent. The annual report of the _Panama Railroad Steamship Line just submit- ted by Col. George W. Goethals shows that the line enjoyed a profitable year. A deficit of $201,761 in the preceding year's statement was replaced last year by a net profit of $221,489, thereby producing a combined increase in net revenue for the line of $423,251. Two accidents to the steamer Advance at sea, one involving an expense for re- pairs of $16,000, and the other $4,000, "were the only ones that occurred to the fleet during the year. The steamers Owego, Richardson and McCullough, of the Erie Railroad Lake Line's fleet, will be equipped with Byerlyte flooring during the. win- ter months. This composition is meet- ing with much favor on the lakes for - flooring cabin quarters and deck spaces. The United States court at Philadel- phia has appointed receivers for the Breakwater Co., of Philadelphia, which has several important contracts under way in various parts of the country. Lack of working capital is given as the cause.