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July, 1910 TAE MarRINE REVIEW Tue MarINE TERMINALS OF THE FRISCO-SOUTHERN RAILWAY AT CHALMETTE SLIPS. width of 200 feet. Two huge grain elevators, equipped with the most ap- proved drying and handling facilities are situated in proximity with the wharves and the cars can be unloaded directly into the warehouses. The ware- house has storage capacity for 400,000 tons or fifty cargoes of 8,000 tons. These berths are also served by the Public Belt railroad, a municipal switch- ing facility which serves every industry and wharf both public and private in the port. The Stuyvesant docks with their storage yards, whose capacity is more than 5,000 cars, cost more than $4,000,000. At the other end of the port which covers three parishes, Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard, is the magnificent set of marine terminals of the New Orleans Terminal Co. a corporation owned jointly in equal part by the Southern Railway and the Frisco systems. This cost $11,000,000 and contained the only slip in the port. Along either side of the slip, which has an average depth of 45 ft. and is 1,800 ft. long, are the stor- age and unloading warehouses. These are of steel construction and will have when finished two stories, the lower for the outbound cargo and the upper for the inbound. The slips will accommodate berths for more than 12 vessels of 400 ft. keel each, which can lie with equal Safety inside and outside of the slip. The terminals are served by the Public Belt and the New Orleans Terminal belt which has interchange facilities with all lines. New Orleans has steamship lines to all the larger ports of the United King- dom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Austria, Portugal, Russia, Greece, Central Amer- ica, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama, Brazil and the Argentine, many of which have regular liners. The largest tonnage goes to the United Kingdom, France, Central America and Germany, although the Adriatic ports are served by month- ly sailings. The tonnage of vessels last year was 4,748,104, of which 3,935,538 went to the public wharves. The value 263 for the next six days, making a maxi- mum charge of 9 cents a ton for 36 days wharfage. The average charge last year was 7 cents a ton. CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP COS NEW STEAMERS. The Chesapeake Steamship Co. awarded contract to the Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md. tor the construction of their two new steamers, to be called the City of Bal- timore and the City of Norfolk. These two steamers will unquestionably be the most modern and_ up-to-date steamers on the Chesapeake bay. They will be 310 ft. long over all, _beam molded at deck 46 ft., beam molded at water line 42 ft., beam molded over guards 60 ft., and they will contain 147 staterooms, 12 of which will connect with baths, which will have hot and cold fresh and salt water, and ten rooms with hot and cold fresh and salt water shower baths. This is a new feature and one that will no doubt prove attractive to the traveling public. The dining-room, which will be on the hurricane deck forward, will have a 'seating capacity Of GU persons: The kitchen and pantry will be next to the dining-room so that the ser- Tuirty-FIvE THOUSAND Bacs OF COFFEE ON of the imports last year was in excess of $40,000,000 and the exports many times that amount. The port is now the leader in imports of bananas, cocoa- 'nuts and sisal grass and holds third place in exports of cotton. The port charges amount to 2 cents a day per ton for the first three days and 1 cent THE WHARF AT NEw ORLEANS, Part oF THE LARGEST COFFEE CARGO Ever RECEIVED IN NEW ORLEANS. vice will be prompt and first class in every particular. 'The balance of this dock will be devoted to staterooms, ex- cept aft, where there will be a new feature in the shape of a lounging- room for ladies and gentlemen.- Next to this will be the wireless telegraphy room. The main saloon deck will be