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.15 FREE SPECIAL KIN First and Flanders streets to the plant of the Northwest Steel Company. The huge tank is to be placed on two barge;, lashed together, with cribbing built up about them. It will be at the foot of Glisan street Friday, and prob ably will be taken to the steel plant SunXIay. Owintr to the unwieldy size of the - ' II I - - tank, some difficulty Is expected on the river, and those In charge of other craft have been asked by the Harbor O.-W. R. & N. Co. to Furnish Patrol to exercise care to prevent ac cident. Cars to Vancouver Workers. -J STEEL SHIP STANDARD HIGHER Western Plains Classed as Best Yet TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1918. FOR SHIPYARD M FARE PAID ON STREETCARS Sapid anl Direct Transportation tot prove their organizations and increase eniciency since me inception or manna Standifer 6 lee I Yards Assures Further Increase In Force. Kmployes of the G. M. Standifer Con Struction Corporation are to be carried to the plants free from Albina and Rus sell streets in a special train of ten coaches, made up by the O.-W. R. & N., the first of which will be operated this morning. The train departs at 7:1a o'clock and will remain at the Van couver steel yard of the corporation during- the day, leaving there after 4:30 o'clock so as to carry the day ehifts back to the city The arrangement was announced yes terday and it means that every person "working at the yards can be trans ported from his home to the plants for a 6-cent fare, the same as men work ing in Portland shipyards. As before, the employes will pay their fare on Portland city lines and transfer so as to reach the vicinity of Albina and 2tus!eU streets to board the special - train. The transporation problem, partic ularly as regards the Vancouver yards, has btren under consideration for some time. Men have been going there via the electric line and. while that proved convenient for thoe engaged in the -wood shipyard, which is only a block from the end of the Interstate bridge. lit men of the steel yard had to walk a considerable distance. A mo, the fact the fare is 1 cents each way made difference. Now the forces are privi leged to use the special train and a much more satisfactory system Is promised. The Standifer steel yard is adding to its army of men daily, and now that rapid and direct transportation is as aured there will be a further increase to the force. There 9500-ton steel ships are being built, the largest steel car riers being turned out in the Oregon district. Jt is attaured there will be tteaity operations carried on, as pro vided for through Guy M. Standifer, who reached home from the Kast, where he had extended conferences with executives of the Emergency Fleet Corporation on future construction. building. In classing the 8800-toa freighter Western Plains as the best ship from a construction and finishing standpoint yet delivered here, he cred its it to changes in certain Retails ana greater ability of the yard force. The Western Plains was delivered to the Navy yesterday. She was launched August 10 and is among the last of the CE-XSORSHIP BAX LIFTED DAY OF RAIDER IS OVER, WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. The voluntary censorship ban upon Information of shipping move ments on the Pacific Coast was withdrawn today with the ap proval of the Navy Department. Except In the case of transports and munition carriers, the Navy withdraws its request that news papers refrain from publishing the movement of merchant ships in and out of Pacific ports. Although there never has been the same reason on the Pacific Coast for the strict secrecy ob served at Atlantic ports, occa sional operations of enemy raid ers were regarded. by the Navy as constituting enough menace to make application of the vol unteer censorship necessary. The day of the raider now is believed to be over. type to have "urblne engines of 2a00 horsepower, others being fitted with 3000 horsepower. The vessel was built by the Columbia Shipbuilding Corpora tion. Marine Notes Both aerials ara In operation over two new ways at tha plant of the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation. On Ways 1 No. 4 a ate! ship Is under construction, and there la to be another started' on Ways No. 5 shortly. Up to the present the corpora tion has floated 10 hulls from three waya. Repairs bavin r been completed aboard the auxiliary schooner Esperanca, aha was I AUXILIARY PLANTS ARE BUSY Wednesday night I nlfied, yesterday from the dock ot tha Al-I Fifteenth-street municipal terminal. Her cargo of oil being- dlicbarsed. Bares No. 03 will leave tomorrow tor Angeles in tow of tha steamer i.1 Segundo. In a brief report made by officers of the I steamer Blandon. now operated again by the I n Frmnrtflco ind Portend Stesmahla Com- I pany. U Is asaertea a change in her ruadervi maae last wee, naa imprpvea oar nananng per cent. Now, It ts said, the ship re sponds when the wheel Is put over UO de- I grees. Phe Is a Hough-type ship, and both I Thirty Kstabllsluiient; Have Payrolls Including glTOO Names. In 30 auxiliary ship plants such as Captain Tibbetta ami Chief Engineer Jack Doiier and machine shop foundries, . galvanising plants and the like, affili ated under the United Metal Trades Association, a. total of 4700 men are employed, and. Including a few small hops not in the association, it is est! seated tne total number of men is 5000. It is said the average wages are be tween i.50 and ii.li a day and a ma jority of the men are in a few of the larger establishments. At the Willam ette Iron A Steel Works there are ftp proximately 27i0 men on the payroll. and two years ago there were prob ably less than 4 00. At the Hesse iiartlrf Iron Works. Smith A Watson Iron Works, Klectric Foundry Com pany. Helper Machine Works and Pa cific Marine Iron Works are other large forces. All are encaged in turning out either ngine. boilers or uu.xiliury machinery and parts. JilU t.AS A.N K MIIITLD tUpprr! Akcil to Proceed Slouly Pa 1 i. I i a n Si ret I . llavinc shifted a big steel gas tank from r'ir.-t and Flanders to the foot of l.lian career, where it will be loaded onto two barges, flay t?. Morse, con tractor, has requested the Harbor Pa trol to caution masters and pilots of ve&sela parsing lucre today and to morrow to proceed under a slow bclL It Is planftrd to cpend two days load-, ing the tank and any violent motion of the barges, due to wash from ves sel, it is said, might capsize it. The Northwest Steel 'Company and 1'olumMa River Shipbuilding Corpora tion are consuming ruch amounts ot in their shops, in fabricating plates for ficel ship construction, that it was decided to piace the tank in proximity lo the yards, so there would be i adequate supply continuously. When cn the barges tho tank will be towed to South Portland and moved ashore. CIFT DF.CMNF.n FOR BABIES TI"lcsPrr5idcnt of Coast Yard 1'orc goc tiain in Joining Army. When men in the service of the Coast hipbuildingg Company learned that Arthur M. Sjherwood. vice-president, had been Instructed to report in the fast to enter a training camp for field artillery officers, a movement was in augurated to purchase a farewell pres ent for him. but It has been decided since to devote the money that was to ave been collected to a special Belgian fcottle day, which is fixed for tomorrow. Jt transpires that Mr. Sherwood learned of the intention of tho men to prestent him with a gift and he Is cred ited with having passed the word that be favored the vKelgian babies being benefited rather than receive anything for himself. In connection with the bottle drive he is to make a farewell talk to the men, some of whom have been associated with him since the plant was begun. 1 LIFEBOAT CONTRACTS CLOSED Pacific ConTpany Has Work Assured for One? Tear in Advance. Changes In regulations governing life boat and liferaft equipment for wood Steamers, so they will no longer carry double the boatage capacity id required in the war son, wtll not affect the business of the Parific Lifeboat Com pany, which la building boats for steel ships. it was said yesterday that contracts fcave been closed for a year in advance and deliveries will at least be one com pleted boat a day. All lifeboats and liferaft contracted for by the Kmer pency Fleet Corporation. uch as or cIts for 'SO boats placed with the Mo torship Construction Company at Van couver, will be carried out, as the craft will be assigned to ships to be con structed later. RIVER MARINERS WARNED Oig C.a Tank to Be Moved to Plant of Northwest Steel Company. To captains, masters and operators of Ttel on the river has been Issued a warning to exercise caution during the , latter part t thi- wtek, e'hen Clay S. j florae, will move the old sas lank from son are pleased with her. On her present voyage the liner Rose City. Captain Macffenn, ia to be Inspected at San I Francisco. She arrived there at 11 o'clock I ednesday night. Anions- work undertaken by Sandstone I nd Kreedman. In a new boatyard started I beiow Irving dork, are small bsrgrs for the I uovernmnu The Commission of Public Docks will soon act on to application from the firm for remission to cover a boiler I wuh a temporary structure, so power may be obtained. One set of ways la finished snd another la to ton put In. The lite was I formerly used by the Northwest Pash and Door company, the plant of which, .was! burned. It Is reported from J,ou AnrHs that C. J. Carlson has relieved C. A. Nelson as mas ter of tha new strainer Baraboa. Lumber-laden for the Went Coast, the French auxiliary schooner Lieutenant Pecoud (ret away from the harbor late yetterdty I anernoon. ha as Built by tha Founda tion Company and launched the last of slay. To work ."i.000 feet of lumber the stamer Krnst H. Meyer left town last night for Prescott. and will proceed to 2t. Helena to I ln.sh. Carrying- a full carso of lumber for I Shansjhal tha British motorshlp Mabel Stew- I art is toj depart from the harbor today. On her way to hanehal with lumber the I new auxiliary schooner Adrian Maden, built by the Peninsula Shipbuilding Comoanv. and which loaded at Inman-Poiilen's, was I reported as amvnd at San Francisco yes terday. The Frem-h steam auxiliary schoon- I er tenerai Karatier reached Victoria from Portland yesterday, according? to a message I the Men-hams Kxchanie. She- la product of th he-Foundation pjant. Following; nn Inspection trip to Coast sta- I tions, that took him away for 10 days. 8u perlntendent V arrack, of the 17th Light house District, was back at his desk yes terday. . First of the Government steamers t hml aenverea y in u. M. standifer Construc tion Corporation, and tha Initial vessel ot I tha wood fleet to be fitted out bv tha Wll- lamette Iron and titeel Works, the steamer Kineo. ia in the harbor and la now operated under orders of the bureau of operation ot I tha Shipping Board. There are aevera) other vessels being fitted out by the Standi- ter interests, art ait now Aflot will be de livered before- lujft ends. Previous to taklns uoerumrni contracts, me corporation com pleted, three motor hips. Pacific Coat Shipping Notes. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 17. fSneclal.) There has been a considerable slowing down In the movement of wooden steamers oper ating on the coast owing- to the fact that so many of the craft have been laid up to be recaulked. The Mopda came in from Puget sound recently with boiler trouble and Is being; repaired. The Abrlgada. from the same port, also en route to nftraie ports, arrived at the same time In distress, leaking badly. The latter will hav to be caulked again before proceeding to Hono lulu with a cargo of general freight. The Wahkiakum, one of the Ferris type. aalied for Honolulu today after receiving a new rudder stock and a recaulking. The Cocunimcf. operated by Mat son for the Pa cific Steamship Company, one of the Houg-h is. sailed lor .Honolulu recently with a cargo of coal and was compelled to re turn to port for repairs. The cargo ts being loaded Into the Hoi brook. The Qulnault la now discharging a cargo of sugar at Crockett and tii then go to dry dock to be caulked. The Charles Nelson steamer Catawaba haa arrived from San Pedro with the pumps In action, owing to a leak which developed shortly atter leaving the southern port. The big A laska Puckers' Association ship Star or Lapland. Captain Thompson, sailed for New Zealand today with oil consigned by the Standard Oil Company. The vessel Is taking out 20 apprentices from the sea serv ice bureau, the expense to be borne by the packing company. The Mattn liner T.urllne will sail for Manila via Honolulu and Guam on Saturday and will take out more passengers than formerly. A lanre fleet ef vessels haa been assigned to the Mat eon line for the run between this port and Hawaii. Today It was announced that all of the fleet of the South American Pacific Una. chartered to the Shipping Foard, may be turned over to the local com pany for operation and this will make the movement of the sugar and pineapple crop an easy matter. The Governor Forbes haa already been ai5!gned and will leave on Saturday with a g-eneral cargo. The other teamers are the Regnlus, Baja California and Stnaloa. The steamer Be Hot a. captain Bbeneth. i sailed for Honolulu today with coal eon- ' siajned to the Inter-Island Steam at Naviga tion Company. Announcement waa made today by the Matson Navigation Company that all per sona discovered stealing from the docks In tha future will be prosecuted. The man agements of other concerns bare agreed with the Matson Company to taKe similar courses. Cntll today the course has been to simply discharge all men caught stealing. The Dutch steamship w una arrived from Singapore today with 13S passengers and larre consignments of tin. rubber and spices. besides general canto. The power scrner nergyn arrives rrora the South Facfec today, with copra and nuts. ASTOJUJ Or., Oct, J7. (Speciai.pCr- Delivered at Portland. In the opinion of Fred B. Pape. as sistant manager of steel ship construc tion in the Northwest, plants in the Portland district have continued to im- J I A ; msusanu is i mis mm wwi'yiM-.ai in in J mm Limny 1 -. imiiwwiw "nnwa i mi ii t f J: . - ' ' . , j J L 1 L Listen, People I If you are not fully satisfied after smoking half tiie box, return the balance to 37 Drumm Street, San Francisco, and receive in exchange a THRIFT STAMP.. Vho takes the risk?-The Quality of Old Egypt ! ! A Corporation , " " ii ii.ii i i m. 1 ' 1 'n. ...ni.,,-..,.,,.,..., , : . .. I J .- . , , j ryinff a oarg-o of lumber from 'Westport, th. team schooner Wtpams sailed at fi:30 this aveninr for .n Francisco. The new steamer Western Scout arrived at 7:30 this evening from Seattle and will finish loading- flour here and in .fortlana. The British steamer Baliata, wnicn ar rived a few days ago with a broken rud der, was surveved yesterday. A new rud der has been ordered from the Seattle yard where the vessl was built and will be shipped here. SEATTLE. Oct. 17. Arrived Bark Guy C. Goes -for Chlcnik; steamer May fair, from San Francisco; steamer President, from Van couver. B. C: steamer L. J. Drake, from Point vells: steamer Admiral Nicholson, from Southeastern ' Alaska. Departed steamers Admiral Goodrich and Despatch, for Southeastern Alaska; steamer North- wewtern. for Seward: steamer Admiral Wain- wrlitht, for Ocean Falls and San Francisco; steamers I.yman Stewart ana j. israae, for San Francises; steamer Alameda.- for Anchorage: ship St. Paul, for Port Blaksley; schooner Jonn A., lor urays naroor. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Oct. 17. (Special.) Britixh auxiliary steamer Jessie Nord- eros left yesterday for Shanghai. China, wltn a cargo of l.ZAn.utHt feet ot lumper. The steamers Grays Harbor and Tamil nt arrived yesterday from San Francisco. The steamer Brompton, the twelfth ship for the Government from the Uotorshtp Corporation yards, was launched at 11:30 this morning. MRSH FIELD, Or, Oct. 17. (Special:) Since toe mvernmrnfc u.n f1,tcu v" shipping news the Smith lumber carrier C A. Smith, went Into service with her pow er equipment and has made fonr round trips between San Francisco and Coos Bay. The C, A. Smith makes these round trips with lumber In four and five days, and Is con sidered a very capable and fast craft, as lumber carriers go. She transports 1.230, 000 feet of lumber In packages. Tha steam schooner Acme came Into port yesterday to relieve a big congestion of poles, ties and ship knees, accumulated in the past two months owing to a famine in transportation facilities." The Acme Is fin ishing her cargo today and will sail south tomorrow morning. The steamer C. A. Smith arrived from San Francisco this morning at 1" o'clock and is shipping a lumber cargo at the Smith electric docks, sailing on tlu return trip tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. Harry Bird, special representative of the local labor council, received word today that the Macy board new scale will be an nounced this week. The Interest on Coos Hay to this announcement Is entirely among shipyard workers. The gasoline schooner Dellx of the 6ea-borg- Cannery Company, of W edderburn, is ra port, having brought salmon in eases for reshipmenL Towed by the fug Sampson, the barge Johanna Smith sailed for San - Francisco at 11 this forenoon, laden with lumber from the Smith milla The Johanna is scheduled for an Indefinite layoff in the near future, when she will he supplied with engines and hollers at a shipyard in San Francisco. Arrivin today at 6:40 A. M., the steamer G. C. Llndauer, from faan rrancisco, orougnt passengers and general freignt ror tne mer chants of North Bend and Marshfleld. Movements1 of Vessels. PORTLAND. Oct. 17. Railed Auxiliary schooner Mabel Stewart, .xor bhanghal. ASluniA, vv j " . " f 1 1- " last night Barge No. 0o, from San Francisco. ASTORIA. Oct. 16. Arrived at 7:50 A. M. and left up at noon--Steamer El 8e- aundo. from San Francisco. Arrived down at 0 A. M. and sailed at 4:80 P. M. Steamer Blandon, for San Francisco. Arrived down at 2 and sailed at 4 V. M. Auxiliary schooner City ot Portland, lor fcnangnal. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 16. Sailed al 1:30 A. M. Steamer Celllo. -for Portland. Arrived at 2 P. M. Auxiliary schooner Ad rian Baden, zrom roniana, aor anangnaj. Arrived at 11 P. M. Steamer Rose City, from Portland, for San Pedro. SEATTLE. Oct. 19. Sailed Steamer Western Scout, for Comox and Portland. VICTORIA, Oct. 16. Arrtved Steamers Nashotah and Gen. Baratier, from Port land. FAN FRANCISCO. Oct 17, Arrived Steamers Arctic, from Fort Bragg; Admiral Dewey, from Seattle; Willamette, from If erett- - TACOMA. Wash.. Oct. 17. Arrived Steamer President, from San Francisco. Sailed Steamer President, for Seattle. River Forecast. The Willamette i River at Portland will remain nearly stationary during the next two or three days except as affected by the tide. High tides Friday will occur about A. M. and 6:15 P. M.. tne stages oeing about 4.3 feet and S.l feet respectively. Tldoi at Astoria Friday. High. Low' 0:16 A. M....R.S feet:l A. M 0.1 feet 0:il P. M 8.1 feet!7:)l P. M . . L 2 foot Columbia River Bar Report. bar at 5 P. M.I Sea,' smooth; wind, southeast, calm, ....... - - MANY HOMES OPEN TO MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS, to Some Additions Will Be Made Available Number of House keeping Rooms. ' Portland's inventory of housing- fa cilities available for taking care of workers in essential industries has been practically completed by precinct canvassers. Eighty-five per cent of tha returns had been brought in last night to Lib erty Temple and today tha work of tabulating: t the returns will be taken up by a large force. A surprisingly large number of citl zens have thrown their homes open to take in men and women workers. Many of these homes are in the best sections of the city, where- it was not believed that any number of people could find raccommodations. '- There are, comparatively speaking, a limited number of housekeeping' rooms to be had.' The facilities of tha city for housing families have been, pretty well utilized. But the canvass will open tor families, some opportunities. where homes will be thrown open and with slight alterations will permit oc cupancy by other fanilies. Chairman C. C. Colt, of the committee directing the canvass fop listing of rooms, was engaged last evening in working out plans for the force of vol unteers to etart tabulating returns to day. low the plan prevailing in England by subscribing 10 per cent of its assets to the fourth liberty loan. An immediate canvass of the local situation by Robert Smith, state direc tor, revealed the fact that Oregon's one insurance company already had sub scribed up to 12H per cent of its assets. This waa the Oregon Life Insurance Company. Other companies subscribe through headquarters, the subscription being allotted to the various branches. ANOTHER QUOTA EXCEEDED Oregon Life Insurance Company Not Found Wanting. Secretary McAdoo asks that every in surance company be requested to fol- FREIGHT ON CORN LOWER Products From Kansas and Nebraska in Iemarrd in Northwest. The Portland district freight traffic committee announces that readjust ments have been made in the west bound transcontinental rates on grain and grain products. The new rates are of importance in establishing lower rates for bringing corn, chopped cracked and whole, and corn products from Kansas and Nebraska to the Pa cific Northwest states. There has been considerable demand for these products for poultry and livestock feeding pur poses. Rates vary from 66 to 81 cents, ac cording to conditions governing ship ments, points of origin and destina tion. In straight carloads rates vary from 61 to 71 cents. Water Project Approved. SALEM, Or., Oct. 17. (Special.) Ap proval has been given by State Engi neer John H. Lewis to an application of James H. Sturgis for the appropria tion of 60 second-feet of water from the Umatilla River to develop 28t horse power for commercial purposes. The proposed project is near Barnhart and the approximate cost Is J20.000. Con struction of a concrete dam seven feet high and 700 feet long and a ditch four miles long are features of the pro posed project. Boom Franchise Granted. SALEM, Or., Oct. 17. (Special.) The Public Service Commission today grant ed a franchise under the boom act to the Gresham Lumber Company, allow ing it to operate on Drift Creek, Alsea River and Alsea Bay in Lincoln County. Phone your want ads to The Orego nlan. Main 7070, A 6095. Steamboat NESPELEM For Sale Location Can be inspected at Taylor Street Dock, Portland, Oregon. This new Stern Wheel River Boat, built in 1917, is offered for sale. Capacity 200 tons; equipped with 600-H. P. engines and boilers. Bids for purchase will be received up to October 31, 1918, at the office of the Secretary, F. W.' Anderson, Hut- ton building, Spokane, Washington. Do You Want Some Boat Spikes. Bolts Rivets WE MANUFACTURE MONTHLY 4,800,000 POUNDS NORTHWEST STEEL CO. Portland, Or. t