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TCC AAA MN 1A LN . 1) \A\Y _ Intimate Gossip About What Leaders in the Maritime World Are Doing | ——=———oOOOOoOoOo©o;ONON=VG_"NCPrrtrt Kc OWARD COONLEY, formerly H president of the Walworth Mfg. Co., Boston, has assumed the duties of vice president of the Emer- gency Fleet corporation, serving jointly with Charles Piez as first assistant to Charles M. Schwab, director general. He will have full charge of the general administration work of the corporation, including contracts; purchasing, finance and accounting. Although only 39 years of age, Mr. Coonley has had a re- markably successful business career. In 1899 he graduated from Harvard university, and a few years later, founded the Coonley Mfg. Co., Chicago. Five years ago he was called to Boston as president of the Walworth Mfg. Co., and since his connection with the com- pany, its business has increased sixfold. At the time of his selection as vice president of the Fleet corporation he was a director of the National Bank of Boston, the Link Belt Co. B. F. Avery & Sons, Inc., the Advance Rumley Co., and several other companies. He also was vice president of the Boston cham- ber of commerce, and the Associated In- dustries of Massachusetts, and a mem- ber of the war emergency commission of Massachusetts. He has severed his connections with these vari- ous enterprises and will devote his entire time to the nation’s shipping program. OKI Ok Wurm R. Witson, until recently sec- retary of the Alberger Pump & Con- denser Co., New York, has been elected vice president, and RicHarp C. WirL- LiAMs has been elected secretary of the company. Cok eS A. E. Howarp, formerly production engineer for Ingersoll-Rand Co., Phil- lipsburg; N. J., has accepted a similar position with Manning, Maxwell & Moore, and will be located at the Ash- croft plant, Bridgeport, Conn., for the next two months. Pa JonatHAN A. Whitson, until recently traveling engineer for the Babcock & Wilcox Co., Bayonne, N. J., has accept- ed the position of purchasing agent for the Todd Shipyards Corp., New York. a Joun J. Eason has accepted the posi- tion of works manager with the United States & Cuban Allied Works Engineer- ing Corp., operating the Havana Iron industrial. Works and the Havana Dry Dock Co., in Cuba. Mr. Eason, was formerly con- nected with the Havana Marine Rail- ways, Inc, “Havana, Cuba, in the ca- pacity of general superintendent. * K *K GrorcE E. Barrett, until recently affii- » ated with the Sprague Electric Works, Bloomfield, N. J., has assumed the HOWARD COONLEY duties of inspector of naval construc- tion, bureau of construction aid repair, Washington. Pee ees M. H. Suruers has resigned as traffic manager of the States Marine Com- mercial Co., Inc., and has joined the staff of L. Van Praagh, 42 Broadway, New York City, freight insurance and ship agent. ee. M. TT. Nosiett has severed connec- tion with Norton, Lilly & Co., to be- come associated with the various enter- prises of R. G. Narelle, Whitehall build- ing, New York City. ee, “Dr. FRANK J. WARNE, who for the past eight years has conducted a pro- fessional statistical department of his own in Washington, D: C., has been selected to fill the position of chief statistician for the Emergency Fleet corporation, serving under Vice Presi- 301 dent Coonley. The newly created statis- tical department, of which Dr. Warne is executive head, will have charge of assembling and disbursing ‘between yards and corporation headquarters all in- formation of a statistical nature. Dr. Warne is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. eo Rosert J. Top has been made general manager of the branch office recently opened in New York, by the Intercon- tinental Navigation Corp., shipbroker, with main offices at Baltimore, Brazilian ports and Argentine. ne, ee, Joun L: Ackerson, who will serve as assistant to Director General Charles M. Schwab of the Emergency Fleet corporation, has had ‘several years of actual experience in naval construction work. He graduated from the Michigan Naval academy in 1901, and after two years at sea as a midshipman, was selected for the construction corps and was sent to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a _ post graduate course in naval architecture. He later served for several years in the design branch of the bureau of construction and repair, and last August, was as- signed to duty as aide to Admiral Capps, when he joined the Fleet corporation as general manager. When Admiral Capps resigned, Mr. Ackerson remained as aide to Mr. Piez. In his new position he is a commissioned officer on active duty. As a naval constructor he holds the rank of commander. eos ey Oe HH, D. -Wrieut -has:, succeeded the Colby Engineering Co. as Pacific coast representative of the Brown Hoisting Machinery Co.,. Cleveland. Mr. Wright formerly was manager of the San Fran- cisco office of the Brown Hoisting company. a, ee Witt1aM. CoxE has been elected a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Co., New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., and Pusey & Jones Co. Mr. Coxe was recently ap- pointed supervisor of the privately owned shipyards along the Delaware river by Charles M. Schwab... Henry G. Barstairs, Baltimore, has been elect- ed treasurer and director of the com- panies named.