Offers for the purchase of a fleet of Government-o passenger ships now operating between the Pacific Coast and the Orient were understood to be in prospect ax a result of a conference to-day between Commissioner Meyer Lissner, of the Shipping Board, and representatives of three steamship con-
Those who conferred with Mr. Lissrer were Mr. James Ralph, Jr., Mayor of San Francisco; Mr. J, Stanley Dollar, of the Dollar Steam-hip Company: and Mr.
Gleason, general "manager of the Pacific Mai
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