The year’s first publication to arrive at street corners and newspaper vendors was the January 1, 1908, edition of the Canadian Lumberman and Wood-Worker. Within the pages was a major shake-up of Canada’s lumber industry, although the company that did so had a long history in Minneapolis.

The Brooks-Scanlon Company was incorporated under the laws of Canada as an extra-provincial company to carry on business in the Province of British Columbia. The Firm had large holdings in the Harrison River, the Lillooet River, and the Powell Lake area of fir and cedar. The officers of the new company are Mr. D.F. Brooks as President, Mr. M.J. Scanlon as Vice-President, Mr. A.S. Brooks as Treasurer, and P.R. Brooks as Secretary, all of Minneapolis and Mr. H.D. Blackford of Vancouver, British Columbia, who has charge of their British Columbia interests, with new offices at 15 and 16 Williams Building, Vancouver, BC.

And the publications were adding up for the Powell Lake area when the January edition of the Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada reported that Mr. R.N. Calkins of Vancouver, representing English capital, has made arrangements for the establishment of a $350,000 pulp mill at Powell River, BC.

The Father serving at the Church at Sliammon (Tla’amin) was requested by J.D. McLean, in the Secretary’s Department of Indian Affairs in Ottawa, on December 27, 1907, to provide a report. The Father responded regarding the petition received by the Department from Chief Williams and other Indians of the Homalco Band of Bute Inlet, asking for a grant to pay the salary of a teacher on the Reserve where they have erected a schoolhouse.

The Father continues to explain in his report that the Indians have, for several years, been anxious to have a school established on their Reserve, and that they have 30 children of school age, none of whom have yet attended any school. I have on many occasions requested that they send some of their children to the Sechelt Schools and others to the Squamish Mission School, as each institution has accommodations. Still, the Sliammon (Tla’amin) members do not wish to send their children so far from home, and they would not consent to sending them to any of the schools already established in the Agency.

Texada Island had an application for a special license to cut timber from Ms. A.A. Stubbs, a lady of Texada Island. The intent was published on December 9, 1907, for an area of 640 acres, one mile southwest of Section 19. Ms. Stubbs also applied for other parcels: one one mile south of the southwest corner of Section 22, and one South of Section 22, both 640 acres each.

An additional two licenses for 640 acres each in Ms. Stubbs’ name for the southeast corner of Section 235, and one on the southwest side of Section 235, as well, covering another corner of Section 235, looking to cover 1920 acres in total with Mr. F. Stubbs as Ms. A.A. Stubbs’ agent.

A strike by the men at a copper mine at Van Anda ended up in the BC Courts. The men had struck at the mine and walked out; however, the company owners proceeded to charge them under Section 56 of the Act, which forbids strikes. The Tacoma Steel Company, carrying operations at Marble Bay on Texada Island, filed statements from Mr. H.O. Alexander, Mr. C.B. McNeil, and Mr. K. Edward Bird, the latter of whom was counsel for the defendants. Listed as part of the Union of Western Federation of Miners, Texada MU No. 113, Van Anda and dues paid of $5, these employees were in good standing.

The three employees, Jess, Rutherford, and Halliday, were charged but not prosecuted. The DeGeek case was the test case. All the defendants decided to strike when they were laid off; however, as members of Texada Lodge No. 113 of the Western Federation of Miners, they began a strike.

The dispute appeared before a magistrate, and after hearing from both parties and the evidence, the court allowed the parties to settle out of court, as there appeared to be a significant misunderstanding between them. The men took advantage of the opportunity and, with a spirit of mutual understanding, reached a compromise; the strike was immediately called off, and a wage scale was agreed upon that was satisfactory to both parties.

Not long afterward, on January 8, 1908, Mr. Grant, who appeared on Texada Island and was the manager of the Tacoma Steel Company, left for Vancouver on the Queen City.

The Reverend John Antle’s Report of Work for the year ending December 31, 1907, was highlighted in the Daily Colonist on February 5, 1905. The article reports on the Columbia Coast Mission’s annual report, supplied by Superintendent Antle, stating that a new hospital at Van Anda on Texada Island opened on June 4, 1907. It had a very competent staff, which included Mr. John H. MacDermott, MD, CM of McGill. Miss Beattie, head nurse, and Miss E. Franklin, assistant.

Several serious cases have been treated there successfully in the building supplied by the Marble Bay Mine, owned by the Tacoma Steel Company, and its employees still contribute monthly to its support. The Hospital will serve other mines and surrounding logging camps, which, in fact, account for two-thirds of the patients.

In the six months since the Hospital opened at Van Anda, there were 4 medical cases, 12 surgical cases, 2 medically treated infections, and 5 obstetric cases, with a total of 23 inpatients and 442 outpatients. The Hospital was busy, performing 11 operations over a course of 6 months, handling 498 Hospital stays, handing out 141 prescriptions, and dressing 105 wounds.

News on the coast was spread either by word of mouth or by those who read newspapers and told those without access to them during the year.

Rent concessions were regularly due on Indian Reserves, and the Indian Agents for each assigned Reserve were responsible for collecting them. Mr. McDonald sent out a letter on February 7, 1908, to the BC Mills Timber and Trading Company to remind them that their rent of $100 for their concession held by them on the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indian Reserve is now due for the year ending January 8, 1909 and to kindly send a cheque in payment of the same. From the Sessional Papers Volume 42 No. 1 for the years 1907 and 1908, the Balance in the Sliammon (Tla’amin) funds account on March 31, 1907, was $494.19 after receiving rent from the BC Mills Timber and Trading Company as well as the Thulin Bros.

After arriving at another logging camp, Mr. Stetson collapsed, and loggers at the camp took him and loaded him onto the launch, the Dolphin, and he was taken to Lund; from there, he was conveyed to Van Anda, where he arrived with his severed leg in hand. The doctors at Van Anda made every attempt to save his life, but the shock and the loss of blood were too much, and he passed away on Tuesday. His body was brought down to Vancouver on the Cassiar, in charge of Fred Thulin. Mr. Statson was 44 years of age and a native of Ohio.

During the same time, the BC. The Land and Investment Agency office placed an ad in the Daily Colonist to advertise a piece of property on Texada Island, among other properties across the Province. This land on Texada was selling for $5 per acre, including 2,200 acres of timber, mineral, and agricultural lands, with a very large waterfrontage.

From the Indian Office in New Westminster, a letter is written on March 11, 1908, to Messrs. Thulin Bros. in reply to the letter received March 2, 1908. Mr. McDonald writes that a proposal of the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indians to sell the timber on the Toquanna reserve to the Merrill-Ring-Bliss Company at the rate of $2.00 per thousand. He begged to state that he was writing to the company to ask whether they were willing to pay the price asked by the Indians, and would advise the Thulin Bros. of their reply.

That letter, dated March 11, 1908, enclosed a copy of a letter received by Mr. McDonald from Messrs. Thulin Bros. of Lund BC, in which it is stated that the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indians are willing to sell to the Merrill-Ring-Bliss Company timber on the Toquanna Reserve at the rate of $2 per thousand, and kindly let him know if that price is satisfactory. Mr. McDonald kindly added in the letter that he had not seen any of these Indians since Mr. Merrill called on him.

As the area around Malaspina Strait and Georgia Strait became better known for its shore-based lumber, other companies sought lumber farther inland. An announcement on July 13, 1907, in the Daily News informed its readers that a company known as the Merrill & Ring Lumber Company chose Theodosia Arm at the most northerly point of the Malaspina Inlet as their next site of operations. With the property in their possession, consisting of Crown Grants and leases, they propose to begin construction of logging railroads between five and ten miles long.

Mink Island sits just past the mouth of Malaspina Inlet, farther north on the equator lines and a nondescript type of Island. It is described as District Lot 1481 in 1907, and Mr. John M.L. Mackinnon applied for a Crown Grant for the entire Island and received it on July 16, 1907.

Mr. McDonald wrote to Rev. Father Chirouse at Mission City, BC, on July 29, 1907, to find a date that they could all leave for Sliammon (Tla’amin) from Vancouver, as Mr. McDonald needed to discuss the application of a Captain Johnson for a concession on the Reserve with Sliammon (Tla’amin) members.

Across a small mountain range, the same cut-and-carry licenses were being acquired on Powell Lake, which had the easiest access to remove the timber to the Strait. Mr. J.A. Sayward applied on August 1, 1907, for such a license for two separate permits, both of which commenced on a corner of District Lot 1610 on Powell Lake, which was 9 miles from the mouth of the river Teesqhout.

Atlases do not come out yearly; they are printed when cartographers add updated information on places and names, and some Atlas printing companies are the most sought-after. – The Harmsworth atlas and Gazetteer 500 maps and diagrams contain 500 maps and diagrams with an index of over 105,000 names. The enclosed map of British Columbia has many new names and places in the 1908 edition, Powell Lake being one of them.

When atlases go to print, other companies update their information as well, as with the 1908 edition of the North Pacific Coast and Japan Directory. This provided new details about Texada Island, its ore deposits, the smelter at Van Anda, and Sturt Bay, where limestone is shipped from two piers.

Van Anda Cove had a spit extending from its eastern point and a small beacon, so it was easily recognized when approaching the wharf, which was clear of danger at the settlement. From Harwood Island to the settlement of Sliammon (Tla’amin), with a conspicuous chapel and a beach that dries, the printing was very informative for captains.

Reefs at Savary Island and Bare Islands to the west point of Savary and then of Lund, a settlement with a post office on the coast south-eastward of the Ragged Islands; these books were opening the world to settlements and places on the Malaspina Strait.

The April 4, 1908, edition of The Engineering and Mining Journal published a listing of Mr. J. Austen Bancroft’s book, Powell River to Kingcome Inlet and Adjacent Islands, from the BC Mining edition of February 1908. The report, originally published in 1907, provided many details on the ores in the area and brought much information to those looking to mine specific ores in the Malaspina Strait.

On Friday, April 8, 1908, a wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fraser. Their daughter, Margaret, married Mr. Edgar Carter, a resident of Van Anda. The newlyweds will be making their new home on Texada Island.

Mr. A.W. Vowell, the Indian Superintendent of British Columbia, wrote a letter to the Indian Agent, Mr. McDonald, who, in turn, replied on April 14, 1908. The reply referred to abandoned concessions on Indian Reserve No. 5 of the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Band. BC Mills Timber and Trading Company was paid up to January 8, 1908; however, the company ceased operations under this concession over two years ago and no longer wished to hold it.

A cheque was received at the Indian Office in New Westminster from Capt. Wilbur Johnston, on May 18, 1908, for concessions on the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Reserve for $100, signed by Mr. McDonald.

The members of the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Village wrote to Mr. McDonald that they would be waiting for him at their village on May 26, 1908. Mr. McDonald then penned a letter on April 27, 1908, to Messrs. Corbould and Grant, who were Barristers and Solicitors, that he would be leaving for the Sliammon (Tla’amin) village on May 25, 1908, and to kindly inform the barrister’s client, Mr. Gould, of this information.

News announced on April 30, 1908, in the Victoria Daily News reports that the hospital launch Columbia, under the command of Rev. John Antle, arrived after visiting the north. The $15,000 vessel patrols the logging camps and small settlements on the coast of British Columbia, mostly in Rock Bay and Van Anda hospitals. It takes $1000 a month to run both hospitals and the launch, and these institutions are currently $500 in debt, which might be why Miss Franklin, a nurse at the Van Anda Hospital, resigned and went to work in White Horse.

Miss Franlin was a nurse at the Van Anda Hospital for years, and her sister, as well known as her, was a nurse at the Rock Bay Hospital. A new launch is planned; another $15,000 will be spent on a vessel that is 81 feet on the water, 90 feet overall length with a moulded beam of 17 feet and a moulded depth of 9 feet 2 inches, and driven by producer gas.

An appointment by the Dominion Government to Mr. E. Lindeman sent the gentleman to look into iron deposits on Vancouver Island. His mission started on June 1, 1908, when he went around the Sooke area, then towards Texada Island, where he found that very little development had been done. Mr. Lindeman was quite impressed with Texada and found the deposits to be among the best on the coast. While this gentleman was at Texada, another gentleman, Mr. Wm. E. Burns, was listed as a Barrister at Van Anda in the 1908 legal directories and lists of banks and bankers.

A request for a concession on the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indian reserve was the subject of a letter written on June 4, 1908, by Mr. McDonald, sent to Messrs. Corbould and Grant, Barristers. The letter informed Mr. Gould that he could have a concession on their Reserve for fishing purposes at an annual rental of $100, on the condition that he would pay them $0.02 and a half cent for all the fish caught with his nets, and $0.04 each for fish caught with their own nets. Mr. Nakano, who attended the meeting of the Indians as Mr. Gould’s representative, agreed to the above conditions at the time.

However, afterwards, Mr. Nakano phoned Mr. McDonald to inform him that he could not afford to pay so much for the fish and would therefore not operate at Sliammon (Tla’amin) this year. He asked whether the conditions mentioned by the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indians met with Mr. Gould’s satisfaction and if they are not, there would appear to be no use in forwarding the correspondence to the Department for approval or otherwise.

Afterwards, the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indians refused to pay for the building, as they considered it would cost too much to make the necessary improvements, and informed Mr. McDonald that they would put up a new, larger, and more suitable building, but this has not yet been accomplished. Mr. McDonald was under the impression that he had reported all this to the Department and that he had a reference to a letter dated July 4, 1906, which was forwarded to the Thulin Bros.

The Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indians abandoned the idea and never paid for the building; consequently, it reverted to its original owners, which is why no money was paid. When Mr. McDonald was at the Sliammon (Tla’amin) reserve on the 27, they informed Mr. McDonald that they did not have the means to purchase materials for a schoolhouse and made this application to expend the $600 in the purchase of building materials and furnishings to enable them to put up a suitable school building, including living rooms for the teacher.

On July 21, 1908, Mr. McDonald wrote a letter to Chief Tom of the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indian Reserve to inform the Chief that, regarding his application for permission to use money from the trust fund to purchase materials to build a schoolhouse on the Reserve, authority has been received from the Department at Ottawa for the purchase of the said material.

Mr. McDonald requested that the Chief, or someone or two from the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Band, come down to assist him in selecting the lumber they required; he will oblige the Chief. As the building should be put up before the rainy season arrives, he hopes the Chief will come down soon so the work can start at once and be completed early.

On July 30, 1908, Mr. McDonald and Chief Tom of Sliammon (Tla’amin) boarded around 1 pm to travel to Vancouver to head to the Royal Mill and purchase the lumber for the Sliammon (Tla’amin) School House.

Logs transported by sea from Indian villages require the transporter to notify the Department of Indian Affairs. The BC Mills Timber and Trading Company sent such a notice to Mr. McDonald, the Indian Agent for the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Village. Replying on August 20, 1908, he acknowledged receipt of the letter dated August 17, 1908, in triplicate, for scow hire and towage to Sliammon (Tla’amin); however, in connection therewith, Mr. McDonald pointed out that the account for the lumber shipped to Sliammon (Tla’amin) has not yet come to hand.

After surveys and new placenames are given, mapped and charted, they are submitted to the Dominion of Canada for approval. Magazines such as the Lovell’s Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada, in turn, compile both new and old information and distribute it across the Dominion. Lund, in the 1908 edition, lists it as a summer resort with a Government Wharf, where Union Steamship Company’s boats call on their way to and from other ports. The Vicinity contains one church, one general store and one hotel, and is an attractive place for shooting and fishing. The population, which is about 100 people, increases greatly with the visitors in the summer months.

If one wanted to catch a steamer to Texada Island, the Gazetteer recommends Nanaimo as the most convenient point, directly across from Powell Lake, in the northwest section of the New Westminster district, which drains into the Strait of Georgia. Van Anda on Texada sits in the Comox-Atlin voting district in 1908.

A preliminary report on a portion of the main coast of British Columbia and Adjacent islands, published in 1908, provided investors with additional information they had long sought and showed where the resources on the coast were located. Citing explorations of Texada in 1873 and 1874 and a coastal exploration by Dr. Dawson, who examined the shores from Jervis Inlet to Powell River in 1885, tells of all the resources untouched and available.

Correspondence between Chief Tom and Indian Agent Mr. McDonald was plentiful throughout the year of 1908; one letter dated September 5, 1908, addressed to Chief Tom of the Sliammon Reserve, was in response to his September 3, 1908, letter regarding the school.

In this letter, Mr. McDonald acknowledged that Chief Tom was requesting more windows and enquiring about them. Mr. McDonald replied that all windows had been shipped as originally planned and that the plans for the new school should not have been changed without consultation. When Mr. McDonald was at the school last, Chief Tom said he only needed $200 for the lumber, that $527 had already been shipped, and that he was now asking for more windows.

Of the $600 authorized by the Department for the purchase of building materials for the school, only $73 remains, which Mr. McDonald intends to use for desks and related items. However, if Chief Tom let Mr. McDonald know the size of the windows he required, he would ship them upon receipt of that information. He needed to know whether Chief Tom wanted small or large windows and whether they had to be in frames.

Lower on the coast from Lund, BC, was the Raven Mineral Claim, which sat a half-mile southeast of Dinner Rock and three and a half miles from Lund. Mr. Charles Stewart, acting as an agent for Albert Wand with the Free Miner’s Certificate No b21477, intended to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvement with the intent of obtaining a Crown Grant for the Raven Claim lands. With further notice, the agent made under section 37 must commence before the issuance of the Certificate of Improvement dated September 18, 1908.

The rush for any available timber and land on or around Powell Lake was in full swing; Mr. Charles W. Scarff of Burlington, Vermont, who was a lumberman, intended to apply for a special timber license on Powell Lake. The area commenced at a post 9 miles north of Powell River along the lines of District Lot 1591 and to the shore of Powell Lake near Timber Limit 14790, in which he located on December 7, 1907 and staked on December 11, 1907.

Mr. McDonald wrote to the Barristers for Mr. Gould, Messrs Corbould and Grant, that he received word from the Sliammon Band regarding Mr. Gould’s application for a concession. He advised that the Rev. Father Chirouse stated that the Indians interested in the Reserve will be at their village on May 25, and that this is the earliest date that a meeting can be held, unless your client undertakes to get them together at an earlier date.

Right on time, the Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs is distributed to the government officials who need the information it contains. The March 31, 1908, edition, which contained the last 12 months of data and figures for the Parliament to make informed decisions, stated that the population of Sliammon was 105 persons and that the income/expenses were $732.75 for the year. The Band had an opening balance of $489.24 for the year, with transfers of $96.83 in credit from the Toquano Band, $100 from W. Johnston, Merrill Bros., and Thulin Bros., each. The expenses were Management of $13,44, Blankets for the destitute of $22.55, wood pipes for $38.82, with freight at $2.60, leaving a balance of $732.75 in March of 1908.

The Rod and Gun Club in Canada existed long before 1908, with a long history of fishing and hunting expeditions that were published in its monthly magazine. A story published in another magazine in the latter part of 1907 was picked up and published in the May 1908 edition; that article by Aird Flavelle, titled Our First Goat, was receiving worldwide recognition for the hunting expedition on Powell Lake.

As the industrial world was deciding where to invest its money and with up-and-coming companies looking to take over weaker ones, news was printed in the American Lumberman, a magazine for readers. With news of a new paper mill reported to be started on the Powell River, the November 13, 1908, edition reported that Mr. R.N. Calkins of Anacortes, Washington, USA, has organized a company and made arrangements for the purchase of materials and machinery for the establishment of a pulp mill at Powell River. He was in the city and announced that the plant will cost $350,000, that the capital is English, and that a plant for extracting turpentine will also be installed, according to the recently patented invention of Provincial Assayer Carmichael.

Land changed hands infrequently on Texada, as many mines were at a standstill or doing very little mining, but that did not prevent William Henry Lee from applying for permission to purchase 149.5 acres in Section 3 on November 20, 1908.

In the Government Gazette of British Columbia’s November 26, 1908, publication was a print of the Certificate of Incorporation for the Brooks-Scanlon-O’Brien Company Limited under the seal of the office at Victoria, BC, signed by S.Y. Wootton, Registrar of Joint Companies.

The Brooks-Scanlon-O’Brien Company registered for nearly every available business opportunity at the time to raise capital, manage, and sell leases and mortgages. This was a company that was going all in on business as timber merchants, sawmill owners, shingle mill owners, pulp mill owners, loggers, and lumbermen merchants. They were able to import, export, buy, sell, prepare for market and deal in saw logs, timber, piles and poles, lumber and wood of all kinds.

They could also purchase, acquire, maintain, and keep all kinds of sawmills, shingle mills, and other buildings. Their incorporation had an entire two pages of listed availabilities in the edition of the BC Gazette. The Brooks-Scandlon-O’Brien Company, the Canadian one, was here to stay.

Malaspina Strait must have looked busy; from the strait, there must have been many dozens of smoke plumes rising from the shorelines, as well as from inland. It is what brought those to come to buy land in 1908 as more became available. Mr. Judson Freeman Clark, through his agent, Hean Bourgeois, showed interest in such land away from the shore. Commencing on a post planted on the north shore of Third Gordon Pasha Lake and running one-half mile up east of Cypress Creek, he made an application to purchase the 200 acres of land on August 29, 1908.

From New York and Chicago came news of printing on November 19, 1908, in the Paper Trade Journal, titled ‘Capital Going Into Mills In Vancouver’. This article describes the natural wealth that has attracted substantial capital to build a pulp and paper plant in Powell River, near the lake. The mill will likely also include a turpentine plant, according to the recently patented invention by Provincial Assayer Carmichael of Victoria.

Mr. R.N. Calkins, who runs a large plant similar in nature at Anacortes, Washington State, left this afternoon on the Queen City for Powell Lake and will complete the arrangements. According to Mr. Calkins, for $350,000, it will be one of the most modern and best-equipped mills in the world.

Mr. A.W. Vowell, the Indian Superintendent, received a letter dated December 4, 1908, regarding a letter he had previously sent. The letter includes the acknowledgement of receipt and the requisition for supplies for the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Day School. The requested articles will be ordered from the Government Stationery Office, except for the slates and blackboards. It was requested that the slates be purchased locally to prevent the danger of breakage, and the Department would also like to know whether a suitable board could be made for this school and at what price; and if not slatted, a cloth board can be supplied.

In the 1908 Government letter book of Mr. Vowell’s, he made a notation on July 10 that a resolution was passed by the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indians authorizing the expenditure of the sum of $600 to erect a schoolhouse on the Reserve.

On December 8, 1908, the tugboat Tug Hope, on a Saturday, went ashore in Dodd’s Narrow, towed by the steamer William Jolliffe. At the time of the grounding, the tug was going north with supplies for the logging camps at Powell Lake, opposite Texada Island. As it rounded the corner at Dodd’s Narrow, it hit a spit of sand and listed, flooding the vessel. Although there was no particular damage to the hull, the supplies and some coal were unloaded onto the beach. The Jolliffe arrived, pumped the vessel dry, towed the salvaged vessel towards Ladysmith, and drydocked. This was the second incident involving this vessel in a short time; only a few months ago, it was involved in an accident near Telegraph Cove.

The Cornell Mine on Texada was created 12 months before December 12, 1908, by a British Syndicate, which spent a quarter of a million dollars and reported encountering a large body of copper and gold ore. At the time, in December of 1908, there were insufficient developments to make any final statements about the size and character of the vein, but it looked promising. Elsewhere on Texada Island, the Marble Bay Mine reported a strike at 860 feet, and the body is said to be rich in bornite; the body appears extensive, with some ore carrying rich grey copper. With Mr. R.G. McConnell sent to examine the geological features of Texada Island, special references to ore deposits will come later in the year.

In the Canadian Transportation and Distribution Management report for 1908, a notice to mariners sailing the waters of the Strait of Georgia and the Malaspina Strait was issued, stating that near Lund, BC, and the Ragged Islands, the Wigham Light was replaced by a gas-lighted beacon.

At the end of every year, the Dominion of Canada prints up its report titled “Reports of the Exchequer Court of Canada v.11 1905-1908”. On April 14, 1908, there was an admiralty court case titled Roberts v. The Ship “Tarter”. The Captain of the vessel “Tarter”. which was a tugboat, was in a dispute over wages owed, while the Captain deserted his vessel at Van Anda along with the passengers, leaving the owners in a lurch. Mr. Jack, the ship’s Captain at the time, contended he was wrongfully dismissed as the owners objected to his taking a friend on his trips with the tug.

The Court of the Admiralty granted the plaintiff his wages of $116.35 and awarded him $100 in damages equal to one month’s wages, even though all the passengers were left to find their own way off Van Anda in 1908.