. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . ORLe^ BOOK THE HARBOR OF BALTIMORE Baltimore has a splendid harbor. The channel leading fromBaltimore is 35 feet deep and 600 feet wide, and there is aproject under way to deepen it to 40 feet and to make it1 000 feet wide. Baltimore is on the Patapsco River, a tributary of Chesa-peake Bay, and is about 150 nautical miles from the AtlanticOcean as vessels travel. The harbor may be said to beginwhere the Patapsco and the bay meet, about 14 miles fromthe center of the City. There are 1 8 miles of dockage a
. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . ORLe^ BOOK THE HARBOR OF BALTIMORE Baltimore has a splendid harbor. The channel leading fromBaltimore is 35 feet deep and 600 feet wide, and there is aproject under way to deepen it to 40 feet and to make it1 000 feet wide. Baltimore is on the Patapsco River, a tributary of Chesa-peake Bay, and is about 150 nautical miles from the AtlanticOcean as vessels travel. The harbor may be said to beginwhere the Patapsco and the bay meet, about 14 miles fromthe center of the City. There are 1 8 miles of dockage and waterfront within thecontracted City limits, and many times that area in the im-mediate environs. Baltimore harbor, even within the City limits proper, canaccommodate the largest vessels. Such, for instance, as linersof 20,000 tons displacement or more enter and leave Balti-more harbor. Baltimore has a busy waterfront. It is verypicturesque and is a shelter for all manner of craft, from theponderous Atlantic liner to the Chesapeake Bay oyster pungy. Typical Chesapeake Bay Steamer 71. Qi TH& BALTlMORLgr BOOK GRAIN RAPIDLY HANDLED Baltimore has long been justly famous for handling quanti-ties of export grain and has largely contributed to the nationswealth through these facilities. Railroads had the foresightto build the present terminal elevators, which have a capacityof 5,000,000 bushels, and to properly equip them with dryersto give *out of condition grain deserved attention. They alsoestablished great termmal yards with facilities for rapid andsafe unloading of cars. The elevators can place 2,000,000bushels of grain aboard vessels in a day, and this capacity willsoon be increased. Vessels are loaded while in deep wateralongside the elevators, avoiding the use of lighters and floatingelevators. The railroads have in every other way supportedthe efforts of grain merchants, who, for years, have laboredto make this a favored market for domestic and export grain. Baltimore Cham
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