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LOT ree ee Be June, 1921 canal, near its junction with the Missis- sippi river. These towers also span railroad tracks and their extension booms reach both barges in the canal and storage piles on_ shore. The Illinois Central Railroad Co. has coaling facilities at its Harahan yard, some distance out of the city, consist- ing of one electrically-operated tipple with a normal capacity of 200 tons, and a maximum of 300 per hour. The Monongahela River Coal & Coke Co. operates floating coaling plants similar in general plan and equipment to those of the New Orleans Coal Co. In addition to these coaling facilities, there are five companies handling fuel oil for bunkering purposes on New Orleans harbor front. The Gulf Re- fining Co. -of Louisiana operates a plant with a storage capacity of 4,200,- 000 gallons at Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, from which oil can be delivered to the ship's bunkers at 800 barrels (42. gallons) an hour, One floating steel. wharf in the river accommodates vessels filling with oil. The Texas Oil Co. operates a plant with storage capacity of* 150,000 bar- rels, capable of delivering 1500 barrels an hour into ship's bunkers, at Ames- ville, across the river from New Or- leans. The Standard .Oil- Co: -of Louisiana has a plant at Chalmette landing, on the New Orleans side of the river and somewhat down stream from the cen- ter'of the harbor, with a reserve stor- age capacity of 110,336 barrels of oil. This company operates a fleet of seven wooden barges of 5000 barrels each, and two large steel barges of 18,000 barrels each. This plant has a capaci- ty of 1000 barrels an hour delivery into bunkers. The Mexican Pettoleum Corp. operates an oil bunkering plant at Destrahan, 25 miles upstream from This plant handles ships New Orleans. MARINE REVIEW of 250,000 barrels, and a delivery ca- pacity of 2500 barrels an hour, This company maintains a fleet of seven tank steamers between Tampico and New Orleans, supplying this station. All these companies have plants equipped with first-class landing places, with pipe lines and stand-pipes service direct into the bunkers, for Travels 3,000,000 Miles as Ohio River Pilot Capt. Edward S. Williamson, Cincin- nati, who celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday anniversary on April 12, this year, believes he holds the record 'for service on the river. .For 62 years, 55 of which he was a licensed pilot, he guided boats. on the Ohio river, having begun his work on the river at the age of 14. He is now captain of the Joun S. Hupparp, which operates between Cincinnati and Louisville. Captain Williamson has never had an accident and has never been in one, in the more than three score years of his service on the river. He has traveled more than 3,900,000 miles up and down the Ohio river in that period. He was a pilot on the White Collar line for 35 years, making two trips a week between Pomeroy and Cincinnati and averaging 1000 miles a week in this service. For five years he made two trips to Louts- ville each week. -During the Civil war Captain Williamson, protected in a boiler-iron pilot house, guided the gun- boat ALicE up the Ohio river when Morgan's raiders were approaching the north. W. C. Dawson, Seattle shipping man, has been elected president of the North- west Waterfront Employers' union. The annual meeting was held at Astoria, Oreg. nie The river tug NatcueEz built for use by the govern- ment operated lines on the Mississippi and Warrior rivers. These tugs will tow large . fleets of barges at the wharf and by barge in mid- Stream as desired, and can deliver 1500 barrels an hour into the ship's tanks. _ The Sinclair Refining Co., of Louis- lana, has the largest plant of all these Companies, with a storage capacity 253 To Help Cotton Exports Representatives of the War Finance corporation, the Federal International Banking Co., New Orleans, and the New Orleans branch of the federal reserve bank at Atlanta, Ga., plan to form a corporation to finance the exportation of cotton from New Orleans under the Webb-Pomerene act. This is regarded as the most significant step taken in formulating an actual prac- tical plan to enable shippers to place the great cotton. crop: of the United States in the hands of mills of middle Europe ard in providing funds for chartering ships to handle this cotton. R. S. Hecht, president of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co., New Orleans, and a director of the Federal International Banking Co., following a meeting at Washington, said: | "Never has the government manifested such profound interest in business as now. We were cordially received by Secretary oi State Hughes, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, all of whom showed particular interest in the acute situation confronting southern cotton planters. Un- der the provisions of the Webb-Pomerene act, corporations are authorized to com- bine for the purpose of exporting raw materials, which combinations would have been prohibited under the Sherman antitrust law. Although the Edge act was meant to authorize a similar proced- ure, the Webb-Pomerene act goes still farther and still in no way conflicts with the purpose of the Edge act.' THEODORE Puortt1ApEs, 82 Wall street, New York, has been appointed general agent for the Levant of the Ottoman- American line, operating a 14-day pas- senger service between New York and Constantinople, Constanza and Varna, Export Transportation Co., 42 Broadway, managing agent. The Export Trans- portation Co. operates the Oriole lines from Baltimore and other Atlantic ports. Even the river packets have to tie up at tandem and unload onto barges. This shows the Poydras street docks at New Orleans docks view *