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50 Philadelphia Piers (Continued from Page 28) Co. took over the affairs of the New York Shipbuilding Corp. on the Dela- ware river, and announced that the buildings of ships will be continued on a larger scale. The Philadelphia Elec- tric Co. acquired a_ site on the Delaware river at Erie avenue for the extension of its present facilities, while the William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co. is con- structing the MALOLO, the largest and fastest highpowered passenger steam- ship ever built in the United States, and is also engaged in constructing two coastwise vessels and a 10,000-ton cruiser for the navy. .The Pennsyl- vania Sugar Co. will build a seven- story building at Shackamaxon and Penn streets, on the Delaware river, for the manufacture of by-products. The Ford interests purchased the Mer- chant Shipbuilding Co.’s plant on the Delaware and will convert it into an assembling plant. A large pier will be an improvement placed on this property. Among a number of other projects under way on the Delaware river are several announced by the Reading Railway Co. One is the extension and widening of pier No. 14, Port Richmond, which has been and will continue to be used in the rapid handling of the increasing number of ore shipments. Another is the reconstruction of pier No. 25, North wharves, at Willow street one of the company’s freight stations. A third improvement. by the Reading company is a grain eleva- tor now under construction at Port MARINE REVIEW Richmond with a capacity for 2,500,000 bushels. The Reading company placed a new coal tipple in operation last year. The growth of the fruit and vege- table industry in Philadelphia in recent years has been rapid and it is ex- pected it will largely center on the Delaware river. In 1925 over 42,000 ears of fruit and vegetables were un- loaded at the local yards, and it has been announced that the Pennsyl- vania railroad will construct a new produce terminal in South Philadel- phia that will be one of the largest in the country devoted exclusively to this line. A forty-one acre tract in the southern part of the city ad- jacent to the shipping terminals will be the site used for this project, which will include several shed build- ings measuring 100 by 650 feet. The city’s part in the development of port facilities has been carried out by the department of wharves, docks and ferries, which recently completed another of the Moyamensing group of piers at the foot of Porter street, No. 84, South wharves. This pier cost $3,662,424. It is 900 feet long; 336 feet wide, and has a total storage area for cargo on both decks of 465,000 square feet, or a capacity for 124,215 tons. The new pier was at once placed in active ‘service when finished, the lLuckenbach Steamship line moving its West Coast schedule of freight steamers from pier No. 78, at McKean street, a municipal pier leased by this company. The department has under con- struction a municipal car storage yard appurtenant to the Porter street September, 1926 pier, between Delaware avenue and River street. It will cost $200,000. When completed it will have a storage capacity for 300: freight cars, and the yard will serve the four city piers forming the Moyamensing group, as well as the immense government piers which are adjacent at Oregon avenue and are operated by the Philadelphia Tidewater Terminal Co. Of the Moy- amensing group the piers at McKean street, No. 78 and at Porter street, No. 84 are in active use, while the de- partment has been authorized by city council to proceed with the construc- tion of the piers at Jackson street, No. 80 and at Wolf street, No. 84. The department’s plans in the con-. struction of these great terminals, chieflly in South Philadelphia, always provide for an adequate street ap- proach to the pier entrances. The extension and the widening of Dela- ware avenue by the municipality has given easier and safer access to the piers and increased their value and accessibility with respect to teaming and trucking the vast quantities of shipments to and from the piers. The recent installation of a-passenger bus line along the river front has af- forded much-needed transportation conveniences to the thousands of work- ers. Delaware avenue, one of the best marginal streets of any port, is from 150 to 250 feet in width. The city of Philadelphia is thoroughly aware of the importance of water transpor- tation in its future growth and it is the unalterable purpose of its citizens to provide the most modern terminal facilities for serving shipping ex- peditiously and economically. A Stucco for High Furnace Temperatures coats. obtained. ee new refractory is used for the main- tenance of brick or monolithic furnace walls and of arches. as often as the boiler comes off the line, re- placing that part of the furnace wall that has been eaten away during the last service period. The illustration shows the application of the stucco with a trowel. It is applied to the wall or arch It is applied in thin’ Sometimes several coats are necessary. If a single coating of too great thickness as applied it will not adhere to the furnace wall. It will be noted that the arch as well as the wall has been resurfaced with this material. It is known as Plibrico. stucco, and is manu- factured by the Plibrico Jointless Fire Brick Co., 1180 Clay street, Chicago. used where very high furnace temperatures are It can only be The manufacturers of this new refractory have made a thorough study of its use.