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March, 1914 Henry Wineman Jr. Few vessel men keep themselves bet- ter informed on general business con- ditions than Henry Wineman Jr., of Detroit. For a man who is not actual- ly in the business of manufacturing pig iron and steel products, he is re- markably well informed concerning the iron trade and he makes it a point to keep his information fresh daily. He has been identified with lake trade for about 25 years, asso- ciated always with the vessel-owning end, for he has never been a sailor. He bought the steamer S. Neff about 25 years ago and followed up this venture with the purchase of the schooners J. F. Card and Lem Ells- worth. He later purchased the steam- er Rawley and barge Tokio and then the steamers City of Berlin, Tampa and barge Aurora. In 1910 he built the bulk freighter Charles L. Hutch- inson, which has been in successful operation ever since. Mr. Wineman has always exercised the utmost care in the selection of his officers and has left the navigation of the ship absolutely to the master with pos- itive instructions not to venture out if- weather conditions are at all cal- culated to jeopardize the safety of the ship and crew. For that reason he has always found it profitable to operate them without insurance, though, of course, insurance is car- ried on the Hutchinson, as she is a bonded vessel. Prior to his entering the vessel business, Mr. Wineman was a lumber man and has really never ceased to be interested as a capitalist in lumber. He is now interested in large tracts of standing timber in Oregon and is one of the owners of the Pacific Alaska Steamship Co., operating out of Seattle to Alaskan ports and also to San Francisco. This company re- cently purchased the Admiral fleet of steamers from the United Fruit Co. Mr. Wineman expects that the open- ing of the Panama canal will greatly increase the value of standing timber while at the same time lowering the price of lumber to the consumer. It will be possible to bring lumber to the Atlantic seaboard at less than half the cost of the present rail haul. He also predicts extensive develop- ment in the Alaskan coal fields, as soon as the government reaches some settled policy for their exploitation. Mr. Wineman is interested in the Great Lakes Limestone Co., which is developing quarries north of Alpena and is now engaged in the erection of a shipping dock similar to the ore docks at the head of the lakes. Mr. Wineman is very much in favor of allowing the railroads to advance THE MARINE REVIEW Pe port, s HENRY WINEMAN JR. freight rates 5 per cent, believing that they are entitled to the advance, ow- ing to the very sharp increase in oper-. ating expenses during recent years, and moreover believes that the entry of the railways into the market as a buying power will go a long ways to- wards restoring prosperity in this country. He estimates that 10 per cent of the wage earning class in the United States is employed by the rail- -ways or collateral industries, and to have them all actively employed seems a great deal to the general welfare of the country. Mr. Wineman was born in Detroit and has lived there all his life. His father came from Wurtemberg, Ger- many, where he operated a wine and oil press and grist mill. He came to this country as a young man and es- tablished himself in business in Detroit as a caterer. The Oklahoma Case The supervising inspector general of 'the steamboat inspection service has received the report of the local in- spectors who investigated the loss of 113 the steamship Oklahoma, which occurred on : Jan. of 26 lives. is nothing whatever to indicate any viola- tion of the law, neglect of duty or overt act, whereby the loss of life and of the vessel can be attributed to any licensed officer. 4, 1914, and which resulted in the loss The inspectors state that there | Neither was there any evidence to show that the steamboat inspection - service was in any sense dilatory in its duty or supervision of the vessel as required by law or the general rules and regulations, for it appeared that the ves- sel was in good condition and properly equipped and manned. The report reads: Oklahoma, a bulk oil carrying steamer, was of 5,853 gross tons, length 419 ft., breadth Doe tb, N: J; in 21908: Jan. 3, in part ballast, bound for a Texas oil depth 28.8 ft., and was built in Camden, It sailed from New York on and at the time of sailing there was a heavy gale blowing from the northeast, the. velocity of which was from 60 to 80 miles, though it had not been blowing long enough to raise a very heavy sea. Various other steamers which put to sea at or about the same time successfully completed their voyages. On the morning of Jan. 4, the Okla- homa, with head. to the sea and en- gine running slowly, with little or no warning, broke almost instantaneously, at or about amidships, the two parts instantly separating. It appears that the ship, at the time of the break, was in its worst and most hazardous: position, the bow and stern being buoyed up by high seas, leaving the -amidship section suddenly and for a time in the hollow between the seas and deprived of the buoyancy. "It seems that the ship did not take the second sea head on, but a little on the port bow, causing a lateral motion, which would necessarily be fell iost severely amidships, where the vessel had the least hold on the water. The result was the break at this point." -- The Submarine Signal Co., of Bos- ton, has just issued a calendar to the trade containing a reproduction of the Canton packet which was built at Swansea in 1836 for the Chinese trade, of the Ocean Steamship Co.'s splen--- did steamer Savannah. The other il- lustrations are of cargo carriers, sail- ing ships, and scenes at sea, conclud- ing with the Batson flying ship, which was built at Savannah in 1913, for the purpose of attempting a trans-Atlantic flight. Bids were opened Feb. 11 by Col. E. E. Winslow, government engineer, Norfolk, Va., for the construction of two motor dredge tenders, Perry and Skycoak. The lowest bidder was the Mathews Yacht Building Co., Camden, N. J., which offered to build the two vessels for $26,975.