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NEW ELECTRIC UNLOADING PLANT AT CLEVELAND. Equipped with scale hoppers, which weigh out the required burden into the awaiting car, four "Brown Hoist" electric unloading machines have just been erect- ed and placed in operation at the Erie tailroad docks, -Cleyeland, foot of West 25th street, constituting one of the most modern unloading plants now. at Ce hl "THE Marine REVIEW they are immediately ready to begin their trip to the furnaces. The new plant takes 'the place of 15 Brown high-level, unloading and conveying bridges, and will greatly aid dispatch in the handling of the ore. It will be able to receive and discharge from 8,000 to 10,000 tons daily, and it is hoped by the management that a freighter of any size can be divested "BY FO es One OOD OO % sna) 8 PET] Fh as . as the manager. W. T. Moore is superin- with Pickands, Mather & Co., Cleveland, + tendent of thé "inloading plant. _ A NEW FUEL "723 As soon as the United States geo- logical plant at Norfolk is completed tests of a superiog fuel which it is -- thought will enable any United States ~ war vessel to overtake or outfoot an -- \ [Ditters «ame NEW "BROWN HOIST" ELECTRIC UNLOADING PLANT OF N. Y., P, & 0, DOCK CO., CLEVELAND. work in the ore industry of that city. The machines are the first of the new type of Brown electric un- loaders to. be erected in Cleveland. They were built by the Brown Hoist- ing Machinery Co., of that city. - The advantages claimed for the scale hopper are numerous. After the ore has been taken up and dumped into the hopper, the load is weighed out into the railroad cars, thus insuring a train of full capacity and removing the need of extensive yards, as practi- cally no switching is necessary before starting the ore train toward its desti- nation. When once the cars are loaded, of its burden in a single day. The machines are operated by a new and thoroughly modern power plant of 1,050 kilowatts capacity.» This sta- tion is equipped with thsee 350-horse- power Stirling water-tube boilers: with chain grate stokers; three 525-horse- power cross-compound condensing en- gines, and three 350-kilowatt Western Electric generators. It will supply the electrical power for the unloaders, the electricity for lighting the dock..and for other purposes of the operations. The improved dock is the property of' the Erie railroad and is leased and ope- rated by the. N.. Y., BP. & ©. Dock Go, "does" enemy, will be begun, the plant being erected for that purpose. Government experts hope to demonstrate that this new fuel is not only more efficient than coal but is also smokeless, which is declared to be as big a factor as its efficiency. Tests carried on by the ' government indicate that a fuel made from slack coal pressed into- briquettes burns almost without smoke and also generates more' steam and produces more power under- the boilers than the same amount of coal. Briquettes are made by mixing waste or slack coal with tar so that the coal will hold together.