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MARINE REVIEW. = boards and heavier articles placed on top of it. Liquids go best near the bottom. Coffee and flour cannot be put near together lest the flour re- spond to the stronger nature of its neighbor and come out with a faint aroma of the coffee berry. Meats, of course, must be put far away from the engines, near the refrigerators of the orlop deck, just over the lower hold. The cattle are likely to travel above the orlop deck--a name which curiously suggests the growth of ocean freight, for it is a survival of a time when two decks were the carrying capacity of a steamer, and the upper of these was called by sailormen the "all up.""? The number of these decks varies with the size of the steamer. They are dark and sub- terranean, or rather subaqueous, and no one but a sailor or '"longshoreman is sufficiently at home in them expeditiously to stow a cargo. The older 'longshoremen were in fact sailormen and those of the younger generation have been brought up between decks. Their places literally cannot be effectively supplied by green hands, and they are to the stowing of a ship's cargo exactly what the sailormen are to sailing her. _ There are not many old men in this disciplined army. The work is not work for any but the able-bodied. Even then, as one of them said to me, "it's the Lord's own wonder how they stand it." Many of them don't stand it, and the survival of the fittest leaves naturally a class of men who are physically reckless and not exactly respecters of persons. -You can manage a 'longshoreman if you know how, or if he is good-natured; but if you don't know how and he isn't good-natured, it is wiser to begin learning the art of command with a Sunday-school class and work up. And unless you are a 'longshoreman yourself you will have a tough time working up. Every gang is under its own boss who was once a subor- dinate. Very few of them ever leave this occupation. Probably also, as with other men who live by fits and starts, they like the gambler's element of uncertainty and the excitement of making up for the time lost by a ship on the inward voyage. There is something of the '"euchred God Almighty's storm and bluffed the eternal sea" about it when the big liner, three days late to port, goes out on schedule time on her next sailing day. A young 'longshoreman pleasantly exhibited this pride in the work by the sincerity of his regret that he couldn't empty a warehouse for my benefit and then show me how rapidly it would fill up when a big ship came in. "It never is empty," he added--but the imagination could at least partly visualize the picture. Imagine a long building, its dimensions suggesting a great railway station with the light struggling in through a regularly ordered network of beams and rafters over- head and the blue water of the harbor visible through open doors on three sides of you. Rows of freight cars stand wait- ing for an incoming cargo and the pigeons flutter noisily from rafter to rafter. Otherwise the place is silent and deserted. Imagine this same place, a big steamer moored at one side for a few hours and the cargo beginning to be piled upon the dock. The plan drawn by the steve- dore in London and brought over by the ship is being worked backward. The man in charge of the dock knows where every article on the bill ~ of lading has been stowed away in the newcomer's comprehensive interior, and every 'longshoreman knows his exact place in the human mechanism now bringing it to the light of day again. Suppose a day to have passed and the warehouse is full of merchandise--not crowded, for there is room for several cargoes, but comfortably full; and full also of the cumbersome drays and steaming horses, of the casks, hogsheads, bales and boxes, of freight handlers loading the cars, and 'longshoremen still unloading the vessel. All this without a pause, without a hitch and without disturbing the well accustomed pigeons on the rafters. This is the work of the 'long- shoreman, and when you see him standing on a corner, looking so much like a sailor until he walks, it will do no harm to realize that nobody else could do it half so expeditiously. FIVE-SPINDLE VERTICAL CAR BORER. An improved machine, especially adapted for heavy boring in ship yards, is shown herewith. It was patented Jan. 30 and Feb. 6, 1900. The capacity of the machine for boring large holes has been greatly increased over. . other ,. similar .mia- kd chines, and every conveni- ence.-for quick and. easy work has been incorporated, The.. spindles. are of im- proved construction. The outside boring spindles have angular adjustments of 45° inside and 60° outside. Ma- terial 14 in. square can be bored. The spindles will travel 18 in. and the--"wertical movement of end spindle frames is 8 in. The outside spindles can be instantly locked -- a ae angle desired. There is no strain, and short bits can be used with acility. The table is a steel traveling carriage of any length desired, is pro- vided with necessary stops, and has a device for firmly clamping the stock. It has rack and pinion feed under instant control of the operator, and has connections for making fine adjustments. When desired a stationary table 9% ft. long, with nine rolls, can be furnished. A supplemental under-boring spindle, especially useful for boring coal car sides, can be furnished, boring independently or at the same time as the upper spindle, and short bits used to advantage. This feature will prove very beneficial to all those who make such cars. The makers, J. A. Fay & Egan Co. of No. 325 to No. 345 West Front street, Cincinnati, can be addressed relative to further details, cuts or prices. CHAS.E.&W.F.PECK | ESTABLISHED 1870 56 William Street, NEW YORK CITY. Royal Insurance Building, CHICAGO, ILL. 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