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Marine News in a Personal Way Intimate Gossip About What Leaders in the APT. G. W. KOEBSTER, Us. vice president of the Co., New United States Mail Steamship York, has been notified by Secretary of the Navy Daniels that he has been awarded the navy cross for his services during the war. The ci- tation reads: "For exceptionally meri- torious service in a duty of great re- sponsibility as assistant to the chief of the bureau of steam engineering, having under his immediate direction much of the tremendously expanded business of the bureau, and specifically the supervision of repairs to the ma- chinery of German ships. In addition to the above he had charge of extensive works of. construction and expansion of supply plants -to adapt them for naval use, and was in charge of the bureau organization for taking over ail merchant ships, patrol vessels, etc., and for the equipment thereof." Cap- tain Koester is the navy engineer, who reorganized the Mare Island navy yard at San Francisco and supervised the equipping of the United States naval collier Jurr1er with electric drive. The Jupiter was the first electrically driven vessel in the world. Captain Koester now has charge of the reconditioning of the steamships GrorcE WASHINGTON, Mount VERNON, AMERICA, AGAMEMNON, PRESIDENT GRANT and eight other liners which next spring will be in the trans- atlantic 'services of the U. S. Mail Steamship Co. * * & : R. S. CAMPBELL, who has been super- intendent of machinery at the Harlan plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Ltd., Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 1 assumed the same duties at the Spar- rows Point yard of the corporation at Sparrows Point, Md. Mr. Campbell has been directing head of the ma- chinery department at the Harlan plant since Jan. 1, 1917. His trans- fer to Sparrows Point marks a pro- motion as the Maryland yard has a building capacity just double that of the Delaware yard. * * %* C. W. Weaver, who has been super- intendent of hull construction at the Harlan plant of 'the Bethlehem Ship- building Corp., Ltd., Wilmington, Del.. for the past four years, became gen- eral superintendent on Dec. 1. This promotion was occasioned through the + 'transfer of R. S. Campbell, Maritime World Are Doing superin- tendent of machinery, to the same post at the Sparrows Pomt, Md: yard of the Bethlehem' company. Mr. Weaver is equipped for his duties by a thor- ough training in shipbuilding work. x: OR Cart. A. J. Storrs has been* promot- ed from the position of port captain to that of marine superintendent of the Pacific Steamship Co., with headquarters at Seattle. He will have inrisdiction over all floating property of the com- W. KOESTER, U. S. N. R. CAPT. G., pany at home and abroad. Capt. M. F. Tarpey has been named to succeed Cap- tain Storre as port captain in charge of coastwise operations. > # J. N. Tea, Portland, Oree., appointment as a member of the ship- ping board meets with the general ap- proval of Puget sound shipping men, is recognized as one of the most competent trafic experts on the Pacific coast. At a recent conference in Seattle, he was told by shipping men that the shipping board should be represented on the west coast by a traffic manager with authority to change rates as conditions warrant, whose * * * Joun Gatt has been appointed agent $1 at Vancouver, Dixon. B. C,, for Struthers & Since the decision of the ship- ping board to permit vessels under allo- cation to call at British Columbia ports for cargo, this firm has sent two car- riers to Vancouver and the appointment of a representative in that city was found necessary. x ee A, MEtvitte Dotiar was elected presi- dent at the annual meeting of the Dol- lar Steamship Co. at Vancouver, B. C. Other officers are J. Harold Dollar, vice president; K. C. Burns, secretary; Roh- ert Dollar, Stanley Dollar, Harold Dol- lar, Melville Dollar and K. C. Burns, di- rectors. Moe ak GrorceE A. Hryspurn, who has been assistant general agent of the Pacific Steamship Co. in Shanghai, has been promoted to the assistant managership of the company's entire Oriental depart- ment. E. E. Jounson, who has been agent for the company in Kobe, Japan. has been made district agent in Japan. Don TincLinc has been named agent at Yokohama and J. B. ArMstTRONG agent at Manila. ci ee He E. Maynarv returned Dec. 1, to. his former office as assistant freight traffic manager of the Clyde Steamship Co., and the Mallory Senay Co, with office at New York. : eee Epwarp M. Hyzer, Chicago, was named general counsel for the shipping board by new commissioners at their first annual meeting, recently. In this office he succeeds Guy D. Goff, Mil- waukee, who has been made a mem- ber of the board. * * * R. H. Barmey and R. A, DrEan, spe- cial assistants to the chairman of the shipping board and acting as trustees of the Emergency Fieet corporation have resigned and their resignations have been accepted by the new board. * * * Roger? MacGrecor, vice president of the Green Star Steamship Corp., New York, has resigned and will sever his connection with the company on Deéc, 31: