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October, 1909 first and second cabin apartments of the ships, thus making it possible to very conveniently accommodate, without un- duly steep inclines, the passageways from the ships to the upper floor of the pier where the accommodations for the passengers are. There is a separate commodious room 108 by 220 ft. for the special use of first and second cabin passengers and their baggage. This room _ contains convenient and up-to-date toilet accom- modations, rooms for the United States appraisers and other offices.' From this room there are several exits provided, in addition to two elevators, either of which can be used for passengers or baggage. These elevators will land on the main floor where patrons can take their car- riages directly at the elevators, and, at the same time, be in close touch with their baggage as it comes from the room above. This being on the main floor of the building it will be entirely under cover. Concerning the handling of baggage: special outstanding stages, operated by special machinery, are provided so that baggage may be rapidly received directly from its place at the hatches of the ship onto trucks stationed on the outstanding stages and be distributed through the baggage rooms; the first and second ca- bin coming out first and, later, the steerage baggage which, of course, occu- pies large areas for the purpose of con- venient examination. New Grain Conveyor. - The new 1,000,000 bushel grain eleva- tor will be located on the southerly line of Marginal street. It will be 269 ft. 8 in. long by 73 ft. wide, and have a total height of 185 ft. 8 in. from the base of rails of track in the yard to ridge of the cupola roof. The main structure will contain the steel storage bins 72 ft. in depth, elevated to admit of the pas- sage under them of grain cars over two tracks.' In the basement below the track level there will be the machin- ery for car pullers, the boots for ele- vators, the boots, in turn, being con- tained in watertight tanks. Above the tanks there is the dis- tributing story, this distributing story being surmounted by a cupola 44 ft. wide by 8&6 ft. high, extending the en- tire length of the building and divided into four stories, the floors being called the "conveyor floor", "scale floor", "gar- ner floor" and "top floor". The elevator will be a fireproof steel structure, the main building enclosed with brick walls and the cupola with terra-cotta. The foundations will be of concrete, resting on piles. Floors will be of reinforced concrete and the roofs book tile laid on T-irons and made TAE Marine Review water tight with felt and gravel roofing. The business of the elevator will be to unload and load cars and to load ships, including the necessary transfer, drying and cleaning of grain involved in these processes. The elevator will contain nineteen ele- vators of which six will be receiving elevators designed for unloading cars and will be provided with power shovel apparatus; six shipping elevators unloading purposes; five transfer ele- vators for cleaning and transfer purposes and two for serving the grain dryer. It is expected that the elevator will be capable of unloading 300,000 bushels in 20 hours and shipping 40,000 bushels per hour into the holds of vessels. All the machinery of the elevator, as well as the belts of the entire con- veyor system on the piers will be oper- ated entirely by electricity generated at the power plant at the terminal. Grain Conveyor System. From the southerly side of the ele- vator, that is, the side towards the docks, there will extend, from two points, conveyor galleries, extending to towers at or near the head .of the docks, from which place lines, either double or single, will start to reach the sides of the various docks, all galleries beimg supported on steel trestle bents and composed themselves of steel trus- ses with fireproof floors, sides and roofs. The fireproof material being reinforced concrete for the floors, book tile for the roofs, and some form of asbestos material for the sides. The galleries, when over pier build. ings, will be of steel construction, the steel bents being supported on the steel trusses of the structure. : The grain will be conveyed to the various galleries from the bins in the elevator by means of rubber belts, varying in width from 24 in. to 36 in. running on a multitude of: steel rollers, the belts in the galleries being all 36 in. wide. The power for running the belts is provided by electric motor units sta- tioned at different points throughout the system in the various towers, the elec- tric power being conducted to them by wire from the main power house through the galleries by an extensive and carefully guarded system of wires. The speed of the belts is about 1,200: ft. per minute, so that 10,000 bushels of grain per hour can be conveyed to any point along the side of the vessels and di- rected by means of proper trippers and dock spouts, to and through the hatches of the vessel, the dock spouts, being so stationed that any hatch of any vessel can be reached by some one of the numerous spouts. for, 395 There will be a total of about 6,000 ft. of grain conveyor galleries, making a total of 7,300 linear ft. of belt con- veyors, counting those in both double and single galleries. New Switching Tracks. The extensive changes at this ter- minal have called for an entire re- modelling of the track system. The general features of the track system, as now planned and being executed, are as follow: Lying parallel to Marginal street and between the street and the piers is an extensive yard of the terminal type, having its entrance and exit at the westerly end. It is divided into five general groups of tracks, each group separately. connected to the main switching leads. On each pier are two tracks also connected to the same switching leads, also two tracks in the grain elevator. : The central group is composed of a number of straight tracks which will be used for the reception, making up and departure of long trains of cars. The other four groups will be used for the sorting and storage of cars, for delivery to the elevator and the various pipes, one group being assigned to the elevator and one each to Cunard, Ley- land and. general pier, with additional tracks for the Clyde street and coal piers, ' The arrangement is such that switch- ing operations may be. carried. on in each group without interfering with any other group, in fact, if required, six or even seven locomotives might be at work in the yard at one time without interference. Some idea of the extent of this yard may be gained when it is con- sidered that there are over five (5) miles of track; that it will require 325 tons of steel rail, and that 80 frogs and switches are required to accom- modate the various train movements. The work of loading or unloading may be carried on on 110 cars at one time, all within the lines of the pier sheds, and 430 other cars may be stored on the adjacent tracks awaiting their turn to enter the sheds, making a grand total of 540 cars within the limits of the yard at one time and still there will be plenty of room for all necessary switching. The Clara Brooks, a fine new barge arrived at Charles Rohde & Sons' ship yard at Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 28, from Madison, Md., where she was built by Joseph W. Brooks. The Clara Brooks is 197 ft. long and 23 ft, beam and 13 ft. molded depth and will carry 1,000 tons dead weight.