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28 ae THE Marine REVIEW chine was carefully and superbly packed in all save one of the flange on the right-hand end of the roller, and the or two details. There should have been placed inside of iron |: | shaped casting was broken at the point indicated the piano-player case two blocks of wood, one at each by the dotted line. This casting carries the shaft, which FIG. 7.--AMERICAN PIECE GOODS METAL BOUND, ONE BALE TIED WITH ROPE, was badly bent, by which the roller-is moved. Be- sides these injuries, the right-hand door was jammed back and caught upon some obstruction which dug into its surface, and the wooden guide to the ham- mers was broken into five or six pieces. This situation can be avoided in the future by re- moving the pedals and placing them in a separately constructed compartment nailed in some suitable place inside of the packing case. To prevent lateral motion of the mechanical parts two blocks of wood could be properly fitted snugly into the spaces be- tween the casing and the upright supports to the cross piece carrying the operating parts of the player. English underwear, haberdashery, and miscellane- ous articles of clothing are packed for shipment in boxes or cases of seven-eighths-inch stuff, having tin linings made to the exact inside measurement of the box. Inside of the tin lining heavy wrapping paper is placed, in which are packed the bundles of different articles. These articles are wrapped in at- tractive paper packages or in pasteboard boxes con- taining one-half dozen each of such articles as hosiery, gloves, etc. Each package is properly marked, giving clearly and plainly the number, size, and name of the contents. Cases containing an assortment of different arti- cles have the different kinds packed in boxes having distinctive color marking, as white, blue, green, black, red, denoting socks, stockings, and under- wear of different qualities, or they may, be distinguished by being decorated with cheap but at- tractive lithographs. This facilitates the examina- tion by the customs officials. An examination of one case of goods packed in this manner is sufficient to end of the main horizontal 'piece, which appears to sustain the mechanism of the player, so as to securely support the up- rights at its ends and prevent any lateral play. These uprights are of light stuff, sufficiently strong to answer the purpose for which they are meant, but entirely inadequate to withstand any unusual side wrench or strain to which every machine is liable in combined rail and ocean transit. This was one of an order for two players. One was consigned to Peking and arrived in good condition.' If this ratio should hold in a larger ship- ment it would prove so great a financial loss as to cause a discontinuance of further orders. The upper portion of the right side of the cover was split off entirely, and the middle section of the cover was broken in two pieces. The upright end support on the right-hand side was _ splintered, the cast-iron arms connecting the bel- lows and pedals were snapped. off,-all- at--... tachments which were held in place by small screws were torn loose, the small brass angles at the sides of the middle J FIG: 8.-- AMERICAN PIECE GOODS AND NATIVE GOODS EN ROUTE TO section which contains the music spin- THE CHINESE OWNER. dle were bent and broken loose, a piece was chipped out pats the entire shipment. When the case is packed by