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Business News for the Marine Trade Clyde Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Ltd., 1561 Granville street, Vancouver, B. C., re- cently was incorporated with $10,000 capital stock. Latin-American Fruit & Steamship Corp., has been chartered with $10,000,000 capital, to carry on transportation and steamship business, etc., by Frank I, Finkler, Walter H. Morgan and Fred E. T. Pearne, New York. Herbert Stevedoring Corp., New York, has been incorporated for $5000 by H. J. Herbert, J. and A. Sorrentino, with P. A. Lauria, 1465 Broadway, as attorney. Sorrentino Scaling Corp., New York has been formed with $5000 capital stock, to engage in business of ship cleaning, with P, A. Lauria, 1465 Broadway, as attorney, and J. and A. Sorrentino and H. J. Herbert as in- corporators. California & Eastern Steamship 'Co. has been formed with a Delaware charter, to own and operate boats, with $3,000,000 capitalization, by E, E. Craig, Dover, Del. : The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Ltd., will construct a 500-foot pile and concrete pier at a cost of over $2,000,000 adjoining its Simp- son drydock plant at East Boston. It will act as mooring for the 480-foot floating drydock now at the Fore River shipyard of the Bethle- hem Co. The New England Maritime Co., Kittery, Me., has been incorporated with $300,000 capi- tal to build, repair, charter and operate ves- sels. Elmer J. Burnham is president of the new company. The Marine Ways Machine Co., Bayboro, Fla., contemplates improving its plant and en- larging its capacity. J. W. Appleby is_ presi- dent. Nicholson-Universal Steamship Co., has been incorporated at Wilmington, Del., with $100,000 capital, by William Nicholson, 2654 Atwater street east, Detroit. American Production Co. has been _ incor- porated at Wilmington, Del., to manufacture and deal in ships, machinery and tools, with $5,000,000 capital stock, by J. P. Laffrey, Wil- mington. New York, Albany & Western Steamship Co. has been incorporated with offices in New York to act as ship broker, with $1,000,000 capital stock. Captain C. S. Thomson’s Motor Boat Tours, Alexandria Bay, N. Y., have been incorporat- ed for $15,000 to own and operate boats, by C. S. and E. and S. G. Thomson, of that city. Steamer Sea Gate Co., New Hamburg, N. Y., has been incorporated for $5000 to car- ry on a shipping business by F. V. Drake, J. A. and W. J. Tregarthen, with Alexander & Ash, 79 Wall street, as attorneys, Hamilton Marine Contracting Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., has been incorporated for $100,000 to do a general marine business, by M. F. Val- lone, T. S. Rinaldi and J. B. Anderson, with M. J. Esposito, 291 Broadway, as attorney. Virginia Stevedoring Corp., New York, has been incorporated with 100 shares no par val- ue common stock, to do a general marine con- tracting business, by A. J. Shea, M. H. Ravel and A. L. Marrilley, 20 Nassau street, that city, attorney. Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me., has been awarded contract for constructing a steamer for the New Bedford, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Co. A drydock is to be constructed at Porto Rico, by F. D. Retach to accommodate vessels of Business Changes Otis Cutting, manager of the Lake Union Dry Dock Co., has purchased the Seattle Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Seattle. The latter plant is being dismantled for use at the Lake Union loca- tion. * ok K A. L. Becker, has taken over ’ the manufacturer’s agency of Ford & Gerrine, in San Francisco, for marine equipment. C. V. Lane and H. E. May, formerly of Ford & Gerrine, will be associated with Mr. Becker in the new organiza- tion. * ES Enterprise Engine Co., San Francisco, and Western Machinery Co., Los Angeles, have merged. Both are builders of internal com- bustion engines and are engineers and manufacturers of complete power requirements. xh # American Pioneer Line has been organized to take over the con- solidated shipping board service formerly operated by Barber and Tampa inter-Ocean companies to the Far East. The operating com- pany is the newly organized At- lantic, Gulf & Far East Steamship Co. Oakley Wood is president of the American line, Philip Shore, vice president, George secretary and Charles treasurer, Murphy, Barthold, * OK ba Wallace & Co., Portland, Oreg., ship brokers, have opened offices in the L. C. Smith building, Seattle, in charge of A. R. Johnson. ae eee The Province Line, operating the steamer Yankton in the passenger and freight service between Bos- ton, Halifax and St. Johns, has moved its offices from Commercial wharf, to 26 and 27 T wharf, Bos- ton. * * Bs The Ware Shipping Co., 113 State street, Boston, has been made passenger agent for the Munson Steamship Line, to Nassau and South America, ck oe Steamship Theodore F, Reynolds Corp., New York, operator of ves- sels, etc., has been dissolved. 416 20,000 tons. .The construction is to cost ap- proximately $5,000,000. Dorman, Long & Co., haye retained Sydney Harbor Bridge as contractor for constructing three vessels of 400 tons deadweight each at the State dockyards, Walsh island, Newcastle, New South Wales. The United States engineers’ office is asking bids for deepening and widening Weymouth channel, Fore river, Mass., which will be started in the near future. Construction is proceeding on a terminal to be built for the Admiral Line and the Dollar in- terests in Seattle. The steel now is being erected in the first unit of the pier, which is to cost approximately $2,000,000. The Green Star Steamship Corp., New York, has gone into receivership. Herreshoff Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., will be auctioned off at voluntary liquidation sale due to lack of orders. The company is famous for building steam and sail craft, every defender of the America’s cup having been constructed there since 1893. Holland-American Trading Corp., New York, has been incorporated with $50,000 capital to carry on business of importing and exporting, by W. B. Walsh, F. W. Demuth and L. H. Buckler. The shipping board has sold the Wrst KatTan to undisclosed interests, probably the Weyer- haeuser Timber Co., San: Francisco. A pier costing approximately $50,000 will be constructed on the site of the old Ainsworth dock on the Williamette river, Portland, Oreg., by Union Pacific system and the McCormick Steamship Co. Earles Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., Hull, England, has been awarded an order for four steamers of about 2500 tons deadweight each, by the Eastern Steamship Co., Ltd., Port Colborne, Ont. Construction is expected to begin about Jan. 1 on a new liner to be built by the American- Hawaiian Line for the San Francisco-Honolulu service of the Matson Navigation Co., Gibbs Bros., New York, naval architects, have been retained by the companies to complete the de- sign and supervise construction which will be at the shipyards in Philadelphia of the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co. Frank Rysdyk’s Industrial Concerns, the larg- est shipbreaker in the Netherlands, recently sold its yard at Waspik, but the company will not liquidate its business as rumored there. Columbia Pacific Shipping Co. has purchased the steel cargo steamer Hannawa from. the United States shipping board. The HanNnawa is 8500 tons gross, 440 feet long, 56 feet beam and 24.7 feet in depth. General Petroleum Corp. will convert the steel tanker Lio into a motorship, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. having been awarded the contract. A. W. DeYoung will construct 10 rum chas- ers for the United States coast guard service at his Alameda, Cal., shipyard. Keels have been laid for five ships. Standard Oil Co. has awarded the Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France, con- tract for a cylindrical tanker motorship, 384 feet long, of 6500 tons deadweight. The Longview Stevedoring Co., has been in- corporated to handle the loading of vessels at the mills of the Long Bell Lumber Co., Long- view, Wash, Capt. C. H. Johnson, for many years well known on the Columbia river, will be manager of the new company,