Lake Erie and the story of Commodore Perry . great pier, longenough to hold whole trains of freight cars. The ].Pierpont Morgan was just beginning to unload, and thechildren watched open-eyed. Great scoops ran out onlong arms, dropped with their huge jaws spread wideinto the open hold, and caught up at each bite fifteentons of ore, which they carried back to the dock, anddropped with a great clatter into the waiting cars. My goodness! said Carrie, what a lot of ore!And what a monstrous big boat! How long is it? The Morgan, answered their guide, is six hun-dred feet long, fifty-eight feet wide,
Lake Erie and the story of Commodore Perry . great pier, longenough to hold whole trains of freight cars. The ].Pierpont Morgan was just beginning to unload, and thechildren watched open-eyed. Great scoops ran out onlong arms, dropped with their huge jaws spread wideinto the open hold, and caught up at each bite fifteentons of ore, which they carried back to the dock, anddropped with a great clatter into the waiting cars. My goodness! said Carrie, what a lot of ore!And what a monstrous big boat! How long is it? The Morgan, answered their guide, is six hun-dred feet long, fifty-eight feet wide, and holds overeleven thousand tons of ore. 60 LAKE ERIE AND THE Vm afraid, said the Major, that mere figuresdont mean much. Lets see if we cant get at it bycorhparison. Its about as long as a city block, widerthan two city lots, and nearly as deep as a three-storyflat building. You could almost lay out a quarter-milerunning track on the deck. You said the Morgan carries over eleven thousandtons of ore, didnt you? continued the Major. Well,. Gee Boat Unloading at Ashtabula that much ore would fill over a hundred freight cars, andthey would make a train nearly a mile long. Fifteen tons at a bite, said Mrs. Woods. Ihavent any idea how much that is. Well, if a man had a shovel that held sixty poundsof ore, he would have to throw a shovelful every minutefor more than eight hours, in order to move what oneof those scoops handles in four or five minutes. STORY OF COMMODORE PERRY 61 They stood for some time watching the great scoops;then, thanking their guide, they bade him good-bye andwent back to the station. At Painesville they left thetrain again, and Major Woods found an automobile totake them to Fairport on the lake, three miles north. I wanted you to see this place, said the Major,after they had reached the shore, and were comfortably
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