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March, 1919 at Buenos Aires from New York but under the Norwegian flag and as the Dusiz. Another schooner, the 6-masted Rutu E, -Merritz, is transporting coal from the States to Argentina. * OK Ox Capt. R. C. Rawding, formerly in the schooner STANLEY SEAMANS, will com- mand the new Boston 4-mast schooner IpA S.. Dow, recently launched at Thomaston, Me. The vessel has been chartered to load barrel oil at New York for France. * *K Schooner Frep B. BALano, recently wrecked near Jonesport, Me., while bound from Boston for Windsor, Nova Scotia, brought $25 for hull and $800 for sails and gear. The BaALANo was one of the smallest 3-masters afloat, registering 215 net tons. * *K * Steam trawler AtpBatross, built at Portland, Me., for the East Coast Fish- eries Co., has been placed in commis- sion. Equipment is modern and includes a wireless outfit for use in keeping in touch with the market. 3k K 2K A cargo of telephone wire and steel left. Boston for Melbourne, Australia, ‘recently in the 3-mast schooner SPpEEpD- way, Captain Fitzgerald. On account of high. wages demanded by cooks, the vessel was delayed a week till a man was signed on at $120 per month with transportation home paid and $4 per day while returning. x oe x Boston’s $20,000,000 war embarkation plant was ready for business New Year’s Day, the first vessel to go along- side being the Norwegian bark SKANSEN I, loaded with wool and ore from New Zealand. aoe aie All restrictions applying to navigation of Boston harbor were removed shortly after Christmas when the submarine net across the Broad Sound channel mine fields at the Narrows entrance were withdrawn. Boston light flashes again after having been dark since Sept. 30, 1918. A compressed air fog signal has been installed at Boston light. * 2k * Point Isabel, Tex., is trying hard to regain the prominent position it once held among the ports of the Gulf coast. The Brownsville & Tampico Marine Transfer Co. has opened freight service between Point Isabel and Tampico, Mexico, while the people of the Rio Grande valley are raising funds by private subscription to deepen the Brazos de Santiago channel, and open the way for traffic in behind Padre island as well. Engineers estimate that this improvement will cost approximately $125,000. * x Government sale of five schooners, Jan. 4, at Pensacola, Fla., wound up the affairs of the Lutz Shipping Co., officers of which were caught in an alleged: attempt to smuggle arms into Mexico from Pensacola. All were in- terned. The schooners, JoHN FRANCIS, Sequin, Crescent, Maup H., Dub tey and Dita, are all under 400 tons, and all have been in the gulf trade. OE MeO Supplies for the Belgians will be taken from Boston in the British steamship VR CQAe Tete ee ee ee ARS ee ee Pe THE MARINE REVIEW Amicus and Danish steamship JELLinc. Relief for other countries is to be sent from Boston in a number of ships early this year. hog The state harbor board of Alabama has adopted resolutions urging the state to take control of Mobile harbor and make necessary improvements there for the handling of foreign commerce. To do this, the state constitution will have to be amended. Te Stee Demand for sailing vessels and | r | U = 7 TUIUTUEUUTCUUUTACAU uy all ONOLULU has become a_ booster for the wood ship. The attitude of the islanders is based upon the fact that wood steamers have stimulated shipyard work at the plant of the Honolulu Drydock Co. and other shipbuilding and repairing con- cerns. During the past three months nearly $1,000,000 has been ordered spent in repairing leaks, boilers. and rudders and correcting other difficul- ties encountered in the: operation of the wooden steamers. As. many as six vessels have been laid up at Hono- lulu simultaneously and the force of workmen in the island plants largely augmented. * x Officials of the Standard Oil Co. have abandoned hope of finding the missing tanker GrorGeE. W. Loomis, which left San Francisco for Coos bay on Dec. 19 and has not been heard from. since. Several New York marine insurance companies are interested in the vessel. Shipping men. believe that the tanker was either wrecked off the northern California coast, or, suffering engine trouble, that she was blown far out of her course into a desolate part of the Pacific ocean. Families of the members of the crew have been paid the insurance due them from the company. The Loomis, first tanker to be built by the Standard Oil Co., was constructed by -the Union Iron Works ‘in San Francisco in 1896. pica renee Deck officers on shipping board vessels out of Pacific ports are seeking a raise in pay to equal the amounts paid to officers in the same class sailing on the government steamers’ out of Atlantic ports. From $25. to $50 a month more is paid on the Atlantic coast. An anomalous condition prevails in regard to seamen. The men on the Atlantic receive $60 a month while $75 a month is paid in the Pacific division. Per eS Importers of Oriental rice in San Francisco are perplexed and_ incon- venienced by the ruling of the war trade board prohibiting further importation of the grain. lifted all restrictions on the importa- tion of Oriental rice into the United States and wired rice interests on the Pacific coast that licenses would be granted freely. On Jan. 22, however, all licenses which had been granted were revoked and the embargo was made effective. again Interdepartmental rela- AAA acitic Coast NAVAL On Jan. 17 the trade board - 163 auxiliaries on the gulf is reflected in the’ chartering by the Bahamas Timber Co. of four large schooners in Mobile, Ala., in December for lumber service between Mobile and Cuban ports. * * * William J. Galbraith, superintendent in New Orleans for the Foundation Co., died at his home in Westmont, Montreal, Canada, recently. He directed construc- tion of the Foundation Co.’s yard on the Industrial canal at New Orleans, and had gone home for a-brief rest. is il HMUUIUIA AA tions with the food administration is said to be responsible for this more re- cent action of the war trade board. It is admitted that a large percentage of imported rice is immediately exported to the West Indies and to Central and South America. The government is said’ to take the attitude that such shipments should be made direct in ocean carriers without burdening the rail lines of the United States. x x Influenza is reported to have had a demoralizing effect on the copra crop of | the South Pacific this season. Unless conditions change few, if any shipments are expected on the Pacific coast. So many of the natives are ill that the nuts lie scattered about the ground and are not touched. As a result of this condition, a number of vessels are ex- pected to return from the South Seas in ballast on account of the lack of cargoes: Operators of small sailing ~ vessels are seriously affected. * * * A watchman’s delay in turning in a general alarm while he attempted vainly to extinguish a blaze originating among loose matches at the cigar stand, is said to be responsible for the loss of the. $750,000 Southern Pacific ferry steamer SANTA CLARA in a spectacular fire on Jan. 25. One man was burned to death, another nearly drowned and a fireman seriously injured during the course of the fire. ORs The new service of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha between New Orleans and the Orient, via the Golden Gate, was estab- lished recently with the arrival of the PanaMA: Maru at San Francisco for bunkers. The vessel was 21 days mak-— ing the voyage from New Orleans to> San Francisco. There is said to be plenty of freight for the Orient offering at New Orleans and it is thought likely. that the-service originally contemplated will be considerably augmented. The new service is in addition to that main- tained by the company between Japan- ese ports and San Francisco, and Japan- ese and South American ports. ee sie a Because the bottom has fallen out of the price of cotton-seed oilcake on the Pacific coast, the schooner Puy us, “which arrived at San Francisco recently with 1180 tons of this product from Tamba de Mora, Peru, proceeded to the Atlantic coast, via the Panama canal to dispose of her cargo.