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May, 1916 sioner James P. Baumann, at New Or- leans. Mary OLson is operated in the New Orleans-Nicaragua trade by the Olson Mahogany Steamship Co., San Francisco. The crew’s charges include inadequate food, lack of ice, failure to buy fresh rations at. Bluefields, Nica- THE MARINE REVIEW ragua, and refusal to send up distress signals when drifting on the gulf, through the captain’s alleged; failure to carry oil enough to operate the en- gines. Captain Rudden denied all the charges, and Commissioner Baumann took the case under advisement. By George S. Hudson NUMBER of steam trawlers have been ordered by the Bay State Fishing Co. in addition to the nine steamers now operated by this Boston com- pany. The contract for the steamers may be placed on the lakes where promise of delivery at a reasonable date is assured. The Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Glouces- ter, Mass., also contemplates . building several trawling steamers, the contract to be awarded near Boston, if possible, Of late the demand for tonnage has re- sulted in sale of a number of fishing schooners to Newfoundland interests, these vessels to engage in trade with England and the West Indies. ee ee Early this month the excursion steamer Mary Cuuitton, built for the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co., by the McKie Shipbuilding Co., East Boston, was launched in presence of a large party. The vessel will be placed on the Boston harbor run about July 1 with Capt. E. E. McFarland in command. CHILTON is of wood construction, 215 ' feet long and has accommodation for Z,900 persons. Miss Betty L. Barnes, daughter of C. B. Barnes, a director in the steamboat company, was sponsor. ek ee A full cargo of burlap was shipped from Boston to Galveston about April 10 in the steamer Et Monte which was placed at disposal of shippers by the Southern Pacific line on account of urgent needs of cotton balers. It is the first time that a cargo of that nature has been taken from Boston by steamer. *k x x The four-masted schooner JEROME Jones was launched from the Gardner G. Deering yard at Bath, Me, March 31, and will load a cargo of coal for Buenos Aires at a Chesapeake Bay port, the rate being $20 per ton. The schooner is commanded by Captain E. L. Nash. * * x Steamers of the Leyland line, between Liverpool and Boston, have discon- tinued carrying horses to English ports. Since outbreak of the war about 40,000 horses have been shipped to England and France. * * x Capt. C. W. Pickthorn, of the British steamship CLEARWAY, from Calcutta, dropped dead on the freighter’s bridge while entering Boston harbor. The ship was brought to a berth by Chief Officer Emlyn Jones. Captain Pickthorn was buried at Boston. He leaves a family in Liverpool. The ship cleared in charge of the chief officer. eee a The three-masted schooner~ ANNE Lorp, recently abandoned while bound from Halifax, N. S., for New York with a cargo of lumber, has been re- paired at the Richard T. Green yard, Chelsea, Mass. The lumber was dis- posed of at Boston. es ae Ae The four-masted schooner May V. NEVILLE has had her name changed to Frep W. THuRLow and is bound from Boston to Sekondi, W. C. A., with a argo of rum “and” four. Capt Ff. 7H, Allen, formerly in the schooner Ropert GRAHAM DuN, commands THuRLOow, which is owned by Crowell & Thurlow of Boston. Kok Ok The new tanker Texas, built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co4 Quincy, Around CI : esapeake 191 Mass., has been delivered to the Texas Oil Co. at New York. The ship has tank capacity for 8000 tons of oil. Two other vessels for the same com- pany are under constrcution at the Quincy yard. Ho eee The coast guard cutter GresHAM, Capt. Camden, found and towed to Bos- ton the three-masted schooner ANNE Lorp, which Capt. Merriam and _his. crew abandoned not long ago in Cape Cod waters. The vessel is undergoing repairs and will resume her passage from St. John, N. B., for Bridgeport, Conn. x OK Ok Capt. B. E. Scott and crew of the three-masted schooner Horatio were rescued and brought to Boston by the fishing schooner LoutsE R. Sytva, Capt. Muise, when it became necessary re- cently, to abandon the waterlogged craft off Cape Ann. Horatio was bound from Shelburne, N. S., for Bridgeport, Conn., with a cargo of lumber, being subsequently picked up and towed to Boston by the coast guard cutter Ossr- PEE, Lieut. Ridgley. By Hollis F. Bennett DELEGATION of prominent busi- A ness men of Baltimore, represent- ing the Manufacturers Association, has been in Washington before the inter- state commerce commission protesting against the discontinuance of the bay steamer lines of the Baltimore, Chesa- peake & Atlantic and the Maryland, Dela- ware & Virginia Railway companies on the eastern shore of the bay. According to a ruling of the commission under the Panama canal act, which forbids rail- roads from owning and operating com- peting water lines, the railroads had until April 1, to dispose of the Chop- tank, Nanticoke, Wicomic, Tred Avon, and Pocomoke, Crisfield and Onancock lines. Up until the present the lines have not been sold, the railroads planning to abide by the commission’s ruling and discontinue the service on April 1, to- gether with three lines on the western | shore of the bay which reach the Poto- mac, Patuxent, Piankatank, Rappahan- nock and Great Wicomic rivers. The two companies which are controled by the Pennsylvania railroad operate a fleet, of about 30 steamers on these routes which serve about 88 wharves on the different rivers. x ok, * The steamship KANAWHA which was lost recently in a gale off Cape Hat- teras, had been overhauled at the plant of the Baltimore Dry Dock & Ship- building Co. and had: been fitted with new masts and deck winches. The owners had also asked tenders on re- boilering the ship. oe The big sidewheel excursion steamer DREAMLAND is at the yard of the Bal- timore Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. getting a new port shaft. DREAMLAND was built by the Harlan & Hollings- worth Co. at Wilmington, Del., and is one of the largest sidewheel excursion steamers in the country. She ran for many years between Philadelphia and Cape May, making a round trip per day. She has a beam engine 66 inches diame- ter and 12 feet stroke and made 20 miles per hour on her trial trip. te alee The Spedden ship building plant is at Baltimore recently reports she picked up the Danish steamship Ripe of Copenhagen, on March 12, short of fuel and took her in tow. Due to adverse weather conditions and shortage of fuel PONTWEN was forced to drop his tow and proceed on his voyage. Rupe has. a crew of 35 men aboard. * K K The Maryland Steef Co. launched the steamer Marcaret for the A. H. Buil Co. on March 20. MarGareT was christened by Miss Margaret I. Cook, the granddaughter of the secretary of the steamship company. MArGARET is a single deck freight steamship built un- der the Isherwood system. She is 340 feet long over all, 328% feet between perpendiculars, 46 feet beam, 25% feet depth and has a cargo capacity of 5,000 tons. After the launching an informal luncheon was served to the launching party at the Sparrows Point Club. * ** * The Spedden ship building plant is. rushed with work at its yards at Can- ton, Baltimore. It is building a new tug for the Northern Transportation Co. 160 feet long and 1,100 horsepower and has another tug 125 feet long for the same company. The hull of: the B. C. & A. railroad company’s steamer MaAryYLAND which burned off Mountain Bar Point last fall is being converted into a barge, also for the Northern Transportation Co. New boilers are being built for the Maryland Dredging Co.’s tug SaraH, the Atlantic Coast Line’s tug Neptune, the Atlantic Trans- portation Co.’s tug Mary P. RieHt, the steamer Favorite of St. Petersburg,