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[Js eful [ints on (argo [[andling —— = as a tr a =" a a tS . tee "Se een 0D = —————— =. ae a tence and, when freedom came to him after all that weary time, he was an old and broken-down man. As the automobile bearing him to his destination scaled the heights of the city and a vista of loveliness revealed itself to his gaze, he bade the driver halt a moment so that he might feast his eyes upon the panorama before him. Wonderingly, the driver com- plied and the ex-convict, seeing the question in his companion’s eyes, said k HAD served a twenty-year sen- A Pacific Coast Platform Sling with a show of deep emotion, “For twenty years I have been able to see no further than two hundred feet; now I can see for miles.”* Many men who have not been physi- cally behind bars are nevertheless pris- oners of their own limitations. Lack of perspective is often responsible for their inability to cope with the prob- lems confronting them. To have their eyes opened, they must be released from the confines in which they have surrounded themselves and must be exposed to outside stimuli. A business man who does not con- stantly look about him to see what is going on, not only in his competitor’s business, but also in the whole of his community and in the economic world at large, is in effect, imprisoning him- self within the narrow sphere of his own occupation. Fortunately, it lies within his own power to free himself from a life sentence. *H, A. Hope. Six obstacles to safety are: 1. Blocked aisles. 2. Overloaded trucks. 3. Carelesly piled loads on trucks. 4, Careless piling on dock. STITT MTT TTT f pists page is being devoted to short items on all matters having to do with the more efficient turn- around of ships. These items are in- tended to be of a helpful nature. We will welcome for this page brief descriptions, illustrated if possible, of any better or safer way of perform- ing any function in cargo handling. Also, any questions submitted will be answered by the editor. QUENTNNNGNUOLUAUERDENNGNUQOUOOUOENEEAAUUUEAUUAUURDEUEUOUAAAAUUA UU ENTLY 5. Excess of inexperienced labor. 6. Makeshift gear and equipment. Some things cannot be measured but the things that can be measured have been greately increased by modern management and errors in manage- ment reduced. A coastwise line is modernizing its caster type trailers by fitting them with automatic couplers. The Dollar line pier at San Francisco has a series of movable platforms along the side of the shed at the upper deck to facilitate handling of cargo. These platforms can be raised to prevent their causing interference with operations on the pier apron. A New York steamship company pro- tects the edge of wooden hatch covers with angle iron to reduce maintenance expenses. Another New York steam- ship line has eliminated all double hatch covers because less damage is thought to result due to throwing the heavier double covers around the deck. The lighter covers are placed on deck, rather than thrown onto the deck. One steamship line found that the standardization of hatch covers when- ever possible is a distinct advantage. The covers now fit in any hatch, *’tweendeck or weather deck and time is saved in placing them. A stevedore supervisor reduced in- surance premiums paid from $17 to $6 by thorough understanding of the re- lationship between accidents and in- surance costs and acting on that un- derstanding. Mechanical equipment intelligently utilized, reduced stevedoring costs over $130,000 a year on a New York deep sea terminal. Gasoline tractor cranes have many uses about a terminal. The J arka cor- MARINE REvIEw—November, 1931 poration at Montreal called upon to lend such a crane: to pull an automobile out of the river. The driver of the car had steered a poor course and had put his car over the side of the wharf. was” recently A coastwise line handled skid plat- forms overall without difficulty. If it is necessary to land the skids on other cargo, dunnage is placed on top of the cargo to protect it from damage by the skid legs. Flour is loaded at Albers Mill, Oak- land, Calif., by means of chutes. The McCormick Steamship Co. uses a gasoline tractor to switch cars at its Oakland terminal. Large quantities of flour are handled at this terminal, so an expert flour cooper is employed to take care of broken bags. New Hand Truck Developed NEW four wheel hand type of truck has been developed that carries twice the load of the ordinary hand truck and has a special device that permits dumping the load quickly. The platform is made up of rollers, locked when the truck is in motion but readily released when it is desired to dump the load. The same lever that unlocks the rollers folds back the for- ward wheel of the truck so that the truck may be tipped forward. The load can then be dropped quickly. This new truck has the advantage of eliminating the necessity of the truck- man balancing the load. All his strength can be utilized in moving the load. Example of Good Dock Housekeeping 69