. The official guide book to . ity,and 90 angular bins. The storage capacity of the elevatoris a half million of bushels. One conveyer-belt 850 feet long,and three others each 450 feet long, carry the grain from theelevator to the vessels along enclosed galleries. Three ves-sels can be loaded at one time. Access to this elevator byUnion cars, navy-yard branch, within two squares of it, andby Second and Third streets cars, going south, to Washington avenue. Girard Point elevator. Girard Point is on the east bankof the Schuylkill, north of the mouth of that river. It is thepropert
. The official guide book to . ity,and 90 angular bins. The storage capacity of the elevatoris a half million of bushels. One conveyer-belt 850 feet long,and three others each 450 feet long, carry the grain from theelevator to the vessels along enclosed galleries. Three ves-sels can be loaded at one time. Access to this elevator byUnion cars, navy-yard branch, within two squares of it, andby Second and Third streets cars, going south, to Washington avenue. Girard Point elevator. Girard Point is on the east bankof the Schuylkill, north of the mouth of that river. It is theproperty of the International Steam Navigation Company,owners of the Red Star line of steamships, which also have STEAMSHIP WHARVES AND DOCKS. 149 their docks and warehouses there. The elevator is 100 feet wi de,200 feet long and 124 feet high to the peaks of the roof. It isupon the centre of a wharf 500 feet long and 250 feet wide,with a dock of the same dimensions on each side which hascapacity for floating a large number of vessels. There are 36. GIBARD POINT ELEVATOR. circular bins, holding 15,000 bushels each, and 23 of 10,000bushels each. Total capacity, 800,000 bushels. Twelve ele-vators have a working capacity of 54,000 bushels an hour,loading or unloading. There are six conveyers, three oneach side of the building, and six vessels may be loaded atthe same time. DRY-DOCKS AND MARESTE the new ship-building yard of the Philadelphia andReading Coal and Iron Company are eight great buildings, alaunching-dock two hundred and fifty feet wide and fourhundred feet long. At the head of this dock, upon the land,are shipways four hundred and fifty feet long and wideenough to admit of the building of four vessels at one time,and an immense dry-dock that will lift a steamship of the 150 DRY-DOCKS AND MARINE RAILWAYS. largest size. Cramp & Sons have at their iron-ship buildingyard a marine railway and one of the largest basin dry-docksin the United States. The Southwark marine r
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