The Alaska daily empire., 1915-08-31
ALASKA TO BE CONNECTED WITH
 BIG WAITER LINE

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 BIG WAITER LINE
 sEATTLE Aug. 25.-Wllh eight fleets to draw from the nowiy organ- izer porr-McCurmick Steamship com pany wll' establish at an early date a ntoam schooner ireightlng service between Seattle and Southwestern Aloslo the Alaska Peninsula and Ber- lns Sea Points. operating on 9 rccn. lar schedule. Aa soon as business warrants il will also onter the Seat ie-southWeslorn Alaslm passenger service The fleet from which lt will draw contain g large number of ves- sells of splendid construction and equipment adapted in every way to the Northern trafdc
 Details of the plans of Che new com pany which were obtained today took Che shipping world by surprise, as it was generally understood that the company was former for opera ton in the Puget Sound-Columbia Riyer-Caiiforuia route There hod been no hint that it would Invade the Ainslan fiold
 The news means that Seattle is Co have a new freight service to the northern districts named and that lat- CT this will be expended to include passenger service, thereby giving the port of Seattle a still stronger foot ing in the Al0alsa trade.
 Eight Concerns in Merger
 Tho Parr-McCormick Steamship Company represents a merger of pow erlul steam schooner interests on lhe Pacific Coast Among the eight corporations in the merger is the Dodge Steamship Company ono of the factors in the Seattle Boring Sea trade the last six summers.
 F. w. Woodruff who has been se- atte agent for Che Dodge Steamship Company the past six years, with ol- fees in Che Powles Building on Mar ion street has been appointed agent for the new corporation in this port He is one of tho best known men in local shipping circles.
 The Southwestern Alaska service wll include Cook Inlet, Seward and the other leading ports in that dis trict The Bering See service win cover the Alaska Peninsula and Nome st. Michael and Kotzehue Sound points.
 Full details as to the organization of the company and it plans were ob- tained from Agent Woodruff
 F. D. Parr for twelve years gem eral manager of the Dodge Steam ship company, with headquarters in San Francisco, has been chosen Presi. dent and general manager of the conn pany, which begins it's existence in strong financial condition. Besides Parr. the board of directors consists of the following men, all powerful fi- guros ln the steam schooner trade Of the Pacific Coast: A. E Christen- sen. of Sudden & Christensen, Charles R. Mccormick Of the Mccormick Lum ber Company; S. M Hauptman, w. R. Chamberlain, D. S. Livingston, Ira A. Campbell, all of San Francisco.
 Connections With Atlantic
 In the operations. the new com pany win not only invade the Alas ka trade. but win maintain an eiabor- ate freight service along the Pacific Coast and will have working connec- ton with the Atlantic through the Marine Transport Service Corpora- tion Of New York.
 The Marine Transport Service Cor poration has acquired 8 number Of the vessels formerly operated by the Erie Railroad on the Great Lakes, and will place them in She intercoast- al service via the Panama Canal The Parr-McCutcheon Steamship Company win act as the New York corpora tion's Pacific Coast agent
 In the Pacific coastwise trade. the Parr-McCormick Company will oper- ate a line of steam schooners between San Francisco and Eureka, Coos Bay, Astoria, Portland. Wiliapa Harbor, and Grays Harbor, the llne giving a special attention to the service be- tween San Francisco and Portland. The same service has been maintain ed heretofore by the companies form ing the new merger.
 The company will also operate a fleet of steam scbooners in the Pug ct Sound lumber trade in which the same interests have been engaged for several years. The vessels win operate to and from Seattle
 In it's operations. the new corpora ton, according to the details given out today will thus have three ser vices on the Pacific and Boring Sea, connected up by the Atlantic Coast through the Marine Transport Service Corporation. The merger becomes effective September ]. - Seattle Times)