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L. R. Fedler has been appointed district manager for the Keller Pneumatic Tool Co., in the Mil- waukee district, with offices at 915 Majestic building, Milwaukee. For the past 12 years, Mr. Fedler has been associated jwith the sales organization of the Chicago Pneu- matic Tool Co., in the Milwaukee territory. +. * The Metal & Thermit Corp., New York, has opened a branch office at 141 Milk street, Boston. The New England district man- ager is Robert L. Browne. ee Julius P. Meyer, representative of the Hamburg-American line, an- nounces the removal of his office from 44 Beaver street to 39' Broad- way, New York. *o Oe * * were incorporated to establish a vessel service between Seattle and Portland on the west coast and New Zealand and Australia. The announcement is made by the H. R. James Co., Seattle, which gives January as the sailing date of two of the company's boats. ~~ kik ok © onnor, sblatrison. & Co.) 59 Pearl street, New York, have dis- continued their New York office and its business there will be han- Geritsen, Curtis & Co. recently THE MARINE REVIEW Recent Business Changes in the Marine Trade : dled through the Ansorge Export Co. The company's main branch at San Francisco will be main- tained. Max Kurka, formerly Phil- ippine department manager, has rejoined the company at San Fran- cisco. ek ek Announcement is made that the firm of A. F. Mitchell & Son. Chicago, has been succeeded by, the Mitchell Co. Its main plant is at the foot of Orleans avenue, Chi- cago. Robert Kinkaid, formerly in charge of the welding department of the Lincoln Electric Co., Cleve- land, has joined the engineering force of the new company. < -* £ The Chicago offices of the Ta- cony Steel Co., Philadelphia, have been removed from the Marquette building to a new location at 427 Reaper block. A. H. Ackerman has been appointed district sales manager in charge of the Chicago branch. kok The Great Lakes Forging Co., now is operating 'the forging busi- ness of the Cochren Corp., in new quarters at 119th st. and Racine avenue, Chicago. It is operated as a separate branch of the Larco Wrench & Mfg. Corp.: by which it was purchased. Communica- tions regarding the company's wrench business should be ad- ie dressed to the Larco company, its officials advise. ook * * Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chi- cago, have purchased the entire business, consisting of stocks on hand, good will and liabilities of the Luster Machine Shop & Rail- way Equipment Co, 917 Arch street, Philadelphia.. The Fair- banks, Morse company has opened a branch -at tthe above address with W. D. Dunn in charge. The entire personnel of the Luster comipany has been re- tained by the new management. * * * The Air Reduction Sales Co., 120 Broadway, New York, has just completed construction of a 4-story addition to its apparatus plant in jersey City, N. J., >to provide for increased production of air welding and _ cutting torches. The new building, which is of reinforced concrete construction, ts designed to ob- tain exceptional natural lighting facilities. * +. * The Bath Iron Works, - Ltd., Bath, Me., shipbuilder and _ en- gineer, announces the opening of a New York office at 17 Battery place, in charge of Walter A. Murtaugh. Sedgewick avenue, New York, recently was damaged by fire. The loss was estimated at $500,000. The United States shipping board has disposed of the former shipyard at Mobile, Ala., operated by Fred T. Ley & Co, 19 West Forty-fourth street, New York, to H. A. Stone & Co., Phila- delphia, on that company's recent bid of $181,- 000. : ~The. Cunard Steamship Co., 21 State street, New York, is having plans prepared for its warehouses and freight terminal at Weehawken, N. J. The installation will include electric traveling cranes, freight conveying and handling machinery, hoisting and loading apparatus, as well as an electric power plant for general operation. The project is estimated to cost about $30,000,000 complete. The new wooden shipyard of the Anchor Ship- building Co. at Washburn, Wis., was placed in operation Dec. 1, on a contract for a vessel with 200-foot keel and 50-foot beam, designed for usc aS a ferry on the Hudson river at New York. The present plant consists of one way, but three addi- tional slips are being dredged and will be completed during the winter. The Anchor company has con- tracts on its books and in prospect to keep four ways busy during the 1921 season. It will build wooden ships only for the present. The organiza- tion. was projected originally in the fall of 1918 but did not begin plant construction until early in 1920. It is a $500,000 corporation organized under the laws of Wisconsin. Robert Curr is general manager. With the completion of a government contract for 13 steel vessels, delivery of which thas. been made, the Fabricated Ship Corp., Milwaukee, is going out of existence. Work of dismantling the plant on the Menomonee canal is now under way. 'The company was organized in June 1918 by members of the Coddington and Newton Engineering companies, Mil- proposed new _ piers, waukee, which jointly were awarded contracts for building 13 mine layers for the coast artillery. The International Shipbuilding (Co., Pascagoula, Miss., js reported planning to enlarge its plant. The Colonna Marine Railway Co., Berkley, Va., rlans to erect a machine shop, 2-stories, 60 x 175 feet, to be built at an estimated cost of $50,000. Capitalized at $500,000, the Forged Steel Spe- cialties Co., Montreal, Que., recently was incorporated to manufacture marine, foundry and mining supplies, by Arnold Wainwright, F. W. Hackett and Joseph J. Harold. Oscar Daniels, Tampa, Fla., plans to rebuild his 'shipyard which was recently damaged by fire. Tae Commercial Forge Co., Warren, Pa., which was recently incorporated, plans to engage in active business about. Jan. 1. It is erecting a plant which is about 50 per cent complete and besides doing a regular commercial work, plans are being made for developing trade in the marine hardware, oil well supply and railroad fields. New Trade Publications CRANES---An attractive catalog has been issued by the Milwaukee Wlectrie Crane & Mfe. Co., Milwaukee, which describes and illustrates the various built by the company, such as: steel mill cranes, wall cranes, bucket trolleys, monorail hoists, ete. The safety of desig and durability of construction are emphasized. The booklet contains views of installations at various plants and gives a partial list of purchasers of the cranes. POWER TRANSMISSION MACHINERY--A catalog has been issued by the A. & F. Brown Co., New York, illustrating and describing its complete Jine of power transmission equipment which includes steel shaftings: compression, flange, keyless compression, and flexible pin couplings; all' manner of pulleys: hangers; adjustable metallic wick oil hangers and cranes floor stands; pillow blocks; wall frames and brackets; belt tighténers; ete. OXYACETYLENE TORCH--An attractively illustrated booklet has been issued by the Air Reduction Sales Co., New York, entitled "Cutting Cast Iron with the Oxyacetylene Torch." The booklet is a reprint of a paper on the. subject prepared by A. 8. Kinsey, professor of shop. practice, Stevens Institute of Technology, for the recent meeting of the American Foundrymen's association. It thoroughly covers the subject of cutting cast iron by the oxyacetylene flame, tells how the cut is made and gives the necessary pressures of oxygen and acetylene for varying thicknesses of metal. METALS--The Metal & Thermit Corp., New York, has issued an interesting, illustrated booklet on the production of thermit carbon free metals and alloys. Its chapters are devoted to the explanation of the metallurgical efficiency of the thermit reaction on yarious important metals. THERMIT WELDING--The Metal & Thermit. Corp., New York, has issued the third edition to its pamphlet on thermit mill and foundry practice, which explains and illustrates the application of the thermit process to several classes of repairs to be found in steel plants, rolling mills, and foundries, such as the repair of broken rolls and pinion necks, crank- shafts, shears, spindles, connecting rods and cross- heads for blowing engines, locomotive frames, and the welding of teeth in large pinions to replace teeth broken out. It is pointed out that while the thermit process is a fusion process the metal is added in bulk. TACKLE BLOCKS----Blocks both of steel and wood are interestingly treated in a booklet just issued by the Marine Decking & Supply Co., Philadelphia. The book is more than a mere catalog; it treats inter- estingly of all kinds of tackle blocks and their uses. It contains, also, much practical informs- tion for users of such tackle. January, 1921, =