. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . of 7,500 tons takes 250 men four days to get outof the earth and place on the hoppers. It takes 150 cars,loaded 50 tons each, to carry the cargo to of this coal is of special quality and goes to Bostonto furnish the gas used by the city and suburbs. Thewhole cargo lasts the city only about four days. This willgive an idea of the amount of coal needed to supply alarge city. The coal is loaded over our Curtis Bay pier as shownin the photograph. The pier is 800 feet long and has 25pockets on each side to carry coal from the cars to thevessel
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . of 7,500 tons takes 250 men four days to get outof the earth and place on the hoppers. It takes 150 cars,loaded 50 tons each, to carry the cargo to of this coal is of special quality and goes to Bostonto furnish the gas used by the city and suburbs. Thewhole cargo lasts the city only about four days. This willgive an idea of the amount of coal needed to supply alarge city. The coal is loaded over our Curtis Bay pier as shownin the photograph. The pier is 800 feet long and has 25pockets on each side to carry coal from the cars to thevessel by gravity. The Federal Coal and Coke Company, to keep theCity of Boston supplied and avoid the danger of runningout of fuel at any time, purchased 400 steel hopper carsto be used in express service between the mine and thepier. They also have five modern all-steel vessels speciallybuilt to handle the coal cheaply and quickly. Thesevessels cost over a half million dollars each and have thevery latest improvements and make the run up the. STEAMER NEWTON AT THE CURTIS BAY PIER 2 BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE
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