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230 addition to building barges at its Pittsburgh plant. Orders Lumber for 100 Ships Lumber for 100 wooden ships has been ordered from members of the Southern Pine association by ‘Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals, general manager of the shipping board’s Emergency Fleet Corp. The price is $35 a thousand feet at the mills. The orders call for approximately 140,000,000 feet. “The contracts for these ships have not yet been let,’ said General Goethals, “but in the regular course of business should be expected to be awarded within the next 60 days. As soon as the contracts are let notifica- tion will be forwarded to mills to begin on the timbers and to. ship to points where the vessels will be built. Orders for the ships will begin in June, and probably will be entirely placed within 60 days.” Lumber manufacturers of Oregon and Washington at a conference have fixed a price of $35 per 1000 feet for all lumber sold to the government for shipbuilding purposes. The offer was communicated to Washington by long distance telephone. This fig- ure is approximately $5 below the current market quotations on_ ship timbers and will not apply on lum- ber -sold to private contractors. First Serious Accident Of the many accidents which marked the opening of the lake season, only one resulted seriously. The steamers PENTECOST MITCHELL and SAxoNna col- lided head-on in the Soo river on Mon- day, May 14, and both vessels sank. The collision occurred at Watson’s reef, near Pipe island, only a short distance from Detour. The boats are about 1500 feet off Pipe island. The bows of the two. steamers are locked together, the pilot houses being only about .20 feet apart in 40 feet of water. A view of the wrecked steamers taken only a short time after the accident, is shown on page 246. All the members of the crews were saved, the sailors taking to the small boats and_ reaching Detour. The MiTcHELL was downbound with ore. The Saxona had a cargo of coal shipped by the Northwestern Fuel Co. for Superior. The SAXoNA was owned by G. H. Tomlinson, Duluth. She was built in 1903 and is 416 feet long, 50 feet beam and 28 feet deep. Her ca- pacity is about 7000 gross tons. The MITCHELL is owned by the Pittsburgh’ Steamship Co. and is practically the THE MARINE REVIEW same size as the SAXONA. The MITCHELL “was formerly the H. B. Hawcoon. After examination of the wrecks the owners of the steamer SAxona = aban- doned her to the underwriters as a con- structive total loss. The task of raising the two vessels is'a large one but will be undertaken soon. The cost of rais- ing the boats has been estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000, each, A cofferdam will be built around the SaxonaA. Both vessels will be out of District Officers The following is a list showing the names and addresses, together with the territory covered by the various district officers of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.: Charles N. Crowell, 1316 Carter building, Houston, Tex.; Texas and the Mississippi river. Warren Johnson, Liverpool, Lon- don & Globe building, New Orleans ; east of the Mississippi river to Georgia. - W. C. McGowan, 505 Heard build- ing, Jacksonville, Fla. ; ; Virginia to Florida (Atlantic and gulf coasts). G. R. McDermott, 736 Munsey building, Waghington ; Chesapeake and Delaware, and Atlantic coast from Philadelphia to Norfolk. Eads Johnson, 115 Broadway, New York; New Jersey (outside the Delaware river), New York and to east Massachusetts. W. H. Hand Jr., Customs house, Boston; East Massachusetts to Maine, inclusive. A. F.. Pillsbury, 310 Sansome, San Francisco, Cal.; Pacific coast. John F. Blain (under Captain Pillsbury), Securities building, Seat- tle; Seattle and vicinity. commission for practically the entire © season. Huge Demand for Lumber Estimates prepared by the lumber committee of the advisory commission of the council of national defense show that 2,000,000,000 feet may be used for purposes directly connected with the war in the next 12 months. -Con- struction of the 16 cantonments which will house the new army will absorb a large amount of the government’s lumber purchases. The cantonments will require about 500,000,000 feet. Second in quantity of lumber required comes the wooden ship building pro- gram now estimated at 400,000,000 feet. “The best estimate that can be made of the total amount of lumber re- quired for purposes of national de- fense within the next 12 months is 2,000,000,000 feet,” says a statement issued by the committee. “This sounds like a colossal figure, and it is a big figure, but should give no general July, 1917 | apprehension that it will disturb the markets or cause a shortage of lum- ber. Actually this will not exceed 5 per cent of one year’s lumber pro- duction of this country. It can read- ily be seen, therefore, that no lumber user need fear that it will be impos- sible for him to get the kinds and sizes of lumber needed for his par- ticular purpose. We have the forest resources, and without doubt the pro- ducing capacity.” Big Plant at Baltimore The Baltimore Dry Docks & Shipbuild- ing Co., Baltimore, has taken an option on the waterfront property of the Mc- Lean Contracting Co., adjoining Fort McHenry, for the establishment of a shipbuilding plant that will eventually cost $3,500,000 and will be equipped to turn out eight ships a year, the board of estimates of Baltimore was told re- cently by Holden A. Evans, president of the company. Long Island Yard Sold The ship yard property of James E. Bayles & Son, situated on the east side of Port Jefferson harbor one of the old- est ship yards on Long Island, was sold a few days ago to William B. Ferguson, New York and Bridgeport, Conn., a brother of the president of the Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. He is also a naval constructor. It is un- derstood that Mr. Ferguson is acting for stockholders of the Newport News com- pany. The yard is being surveyed. It is understood that the new owners will take it over as soon as possible. The purchase price is said to be $50,000. The Bayles ship yard was started in Port Jefferson 81 years ago and has turned out some of the finest pleasure craft in that part of the country. James E. Bayles has been actively connected with the firm for 57 years. Elected President Henry S. Grove has resigned as president of the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, and has been succeeded by H. W. Hand, vice president and manager. Mr. Grove was elected chairman of the board of directors and J. H. Mull, another official of ‘the company, succeeded Mr. Hand. H. B. Pickering has accepted the posi- tion of naval architect and marine su- perintendent with the Foundation Co., New York. This company was one of the first to prepare to build wooden ships on a large scale. Mr. Pickering formerly was with the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co. and the New York navy yard.