54 REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. 



MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 

 APPROPRIATIONS AND ALLOTMENTS. 



The appropriations for the Bureau of Fisheries for the fiscal year 

 1919 aggregated $1,183,140, as follows: 



Salaries $437, 940 



Miscellaneous expenses: 



Administration 10, 000 



Propagation of food fishes 400, 000 



Maintenance of vessels 95, 000 



Inquiry respecting food fishes 50, 000 



Statistical inquiry 7, 500 



Protecting sponge fisheries 3, 000 



Protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska (including deficiency of 



$44, 700) ". . . . 144, 700 



Improvements at the Berkshire (Mass.) trout hatchery 2, 500 



Establishment of an auxiliary hatchery, Lake Champlain 5, 000 



Vessel for Pribilof Islands (including deficiency of $7,500) 27, 500 



A detailed statement of the expenditures under the regular and 

 deficiency appropriations will be submitted in accordance with law. 



Three allotments from the appropriation for the national security 

 and defense were made by the President during the year, as follows: 

 On July 2, 1918, $125,000 for a fishery-products laboratory in Wash- 

 ington, D. C; on July 2, 1918, $25,000 for increasing the food-fish 

 supply; and on January 11, 1919, $10,000 for the same purpose. 



VESSEL SERVICE. 



The steamer Roosevelt reached Seattle on July 7, 1918, from the 

 Pribilof Islands and at once made ready for another trip, taking on a 

 miscellaneous cargo of general supplies, lumber, macliinery, salt, 

 coal, etc. Departure was made July 26, and the vessel arrived at 

 Unalaska August 21, where she took on additional fuel and a ship- 

 ment of salt which had been sent by commercial freight to that place. 

 Two additional round trips between the island and Unalaska were 

 made to transport the freight stored there. On the return voyage a 

 large shipment of sealskins and a quantity of old bones were carried 

 from St. Paul Island. Bad weather was encountered which pre- 

 vented the bringing out of any products from St. George Island. The 

 vessel reached Seattle at midnight, October 3. On her next voyage 

 the Roosevelt left Seattle October 15, and arrived at the islands No- 

 vember 3. The landing of cargo was delayed by storms, and it was 

 .necessary to go to Akutan for additional fuel before discharging all 

 freight. Final departure from the islands was made on December 12, 

 the vessel reaching Seattle with a cargo of sealskins, bones, etc., on 

 January 3, 1919. 



On January 17 the master of the Roosevelt reported the vessel to be 

 in need of overhauling, refitting, and repairs to put her in seaworthy 

 condition, and this report was confirmed by officers in the Steam- 

 boat-Inspection Service who surveyed the vessel. Arrangements 

 were made to have the required work done at the Bremerton Navy 

 Yard, but an examination of the ship by construction officers of the 

 Navy elicited the report that repairs amounting practically to rebuild- 

 ing would be necessary to put ner in satisfactory condition and that 



