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to talk. they all had something to say. are giving us.’ “My ships carry the American flag. business under another flag, like the man who is doing I am buying ships— all that I can get at the right price—and I have given my promise that I will continue to do all that I can business under his. wife’s name! I didn’t understand what they were saying but The president of the republic finally said to me:-,‘I have been trying to form an answer to that last remark of yours, and we have utterly failed, so we have decided to give you our prod- ucts at the price you have named because we cannot af- ford to do without the exchange of commodities that you I feel in doing visit Pompeii. suspended business about 1900 years ago. only day of my life I never tried to do business.” I heard a chuckle as I gently closed the door. to keep them under the American flag.” And Captain Dollar, a grizzled, white-haired he-man, “skipper” of America’s greatest merchant fleet, clicked his heels to the floor, stood up and touched an ivory button on his desk. A neatly dressed young lady appeared. “Give this young man a recent photograph, please Miss.” But as I started for the door he called me back. “Work is success! my life. At Naples a friend of mine told me I should I did that and found that the city had I have missed one day’s work in That’s the ooo SO 50OO—S<S oom Convert to Powdered Coal The shipping board at its regular meeting, Sept. 13, approved the rec- ommendation of the Merchant Fleet Corp. that the bid of the Maryland Dry Dock Co. for installing the pul- verized coal-burning equipment on the S. S. MERcER be accepted. The bids for converting the freighter to burn pulverized coal were as follows: Maryland Drydock Co. $36,498; New York Harbor Drydock Co., $75,000; Robbins Drydock, $85,- 505; Morse Drydock, $66,998; New- port News Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. $79,200; Sun Shipbuilding & s Drydock Co., $81,250; W. &. A. Fletcher Co. $54,273; Bethlehem Ship- building Corp., $87,400; Federal Ship- building & Drydock Co., $56,280; Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., $82,- 500; Philadelphia Navy Yard, $83,- 0138. To Build River Towboat A contract has been awarded the Midland Barge Co. for a large river towboat for service on the lower Ohio Ss. S. CITY OF HAMILTON—CANAL FREIGHTER—BUILT FOR CANADA STEAMSHIP LINES BY MIDLAND LAND, ONT., CANADA—COMPLETED WITH SISTER VESSEL, CITY OF MONTREAL, MAY, 1927—SEE 48 “CITY OF river by E. T. Slider, New Albany, Ind. Delivery is expected in the sum- mer of 1928, The vessel will be constructed of steel to the boiler deck and the cabin will be built of wood. The dimensions are: Length 145 feet; beam, 32 feet; and depth 5 feet 6 inches. The en- gines are to be of the tandem com- pound, noncondensing type, 15 by 26 inches by 7-foot stroke. Recent Sales of Ships T. V. O’Connor, chairman of the United States shipping board on Sept. 19, announced the sale of the following vessel as follows: Crrro GaRDO, steel cargo vessel of lake type of 8610 deadweight tons built by the Mce- Dougal Duluth Shipbuilding Co. in 1919, equipped with reciprocating engines and Scotch boilers, designed to steam at 9144 knots on 26.€ tons of coal a day, sold to E. H. Duff on behalf of the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco for the sum of $31,000 cash. Laid up at Norfolk, Va. since November, 1920. World Markets ARIZONIAN, double deck deadweight tons, 8511 gross tons, £25,000 to Italian buyers. CLAYTON, single deck steamship, 3650 dead- weight tons, 2144 gross tons, for about £18,000 to Scandinavian buyers. steamship, 14,185 for about GoLDENWAY, single deck steamship, 5150 dead- weight tons, 3148 gross tons, for about £31,- 000 to Japanese buyers. Order Three Steam ships The Canadian government has awarded the contract for the con- struction of three steamships for the West Indian service to the British firm of Cammell Laird & Co., at $8,- 849,000. The government was unable to accept the tenders of Canadian firms which were much higher, the lowest being that of Canadian Vickers Ltd., which was $6,820,000. The three boats that are now ordered are to be delivered in 13, 14 and 15 months respectively. Two more boats will be ordered for the service and the contracts will be let soon. Last Trip of Season The Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Co. steamer SEEANDBEE sailed for Buf- falo, Sept. 14, on her last trip of- the year. She returned to Cleveland and was laid up in winter quarters. The City OF ERIE and CITY OF BUF- FALO will continue until Nov. 15. HAMILTON CANADA STEAMSHIP LINE TEMBER MARINE REVIEW, PAGE 87 MARINE REVIEW—October, 1927 SHIPBUILDING CO., MID- DESCRIPTION IN SEP-