New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1924, Page 13

1 RIVER GARGOES BOOM SHIPBUILDING Inland Brat Gbnstmtion Took . New Lile During Past Year , Plttsburgh, Peb, 8.~£0il has united with steel for greater use of inland waters as a means of transportation, and to this can be traced the interest- ing fact that shipbuilding in the Mis- slgsippi busin last year was more than one-third the total tonnage of the United States, including ocean ports and the Great Lakes. The figures, compiled by industrial authorities in Pittsburgh, show that approximately 400 steel barges with freight capaeity of approximately 1,000 freight cars; 15 steam towhoats, and ten packets were added to the existing fleet of several thousand barges and several hundred boats. Much of this river craft is used in carrying: steel to mills and furnaces in the district, but a considerable pro- portion is allotted to the steel carry- ing trade from Pittsburgh to rail dis- tributing points along the lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Two years ago, during a perlod of railroad congestion, steél manufactur- ing companies sought the Ohio River as a means of getting their products|on the Mississippi at Memphis upen 10 southwestern consuming points, 8o gratifying was the success of the ex- periment that it has grown into an expanding industry. It was not, how- ever, until later that the oil industry, attracted by lower transportation costs and time saving, turned its attention to the inland waters. Tank barges, holding from 5,000 to 10,000 barrels of crude and refined oil and gasoline, are begining to appear in squadrons, taking the place of tank car service on the railroads for long distance hauls, but they are coordinated with motor trycks and railroad tanks at river terminals for back country distribu- tion. The Standard Oil company of Louls- iana, which two years ago set up a barge delivery service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, extended the line to Memphis from which place | final distribution was made inland. Early this year is pushed the service to Louisville, some 1,200 miles from ! New Orleans. Two steamboats have | been assigned to the task, one for oil | of a chorus of steum whisties, two and gasoline barges to Carlo, the | American battleships, the Nebraska mouth of the Ohio and a smaller one #0d the Vermont, arrived here re- to take the barges to Loulsviile, | The Pan American Petroleum & | - |yurd, They were the largest vesscls Transport company, which recently | absorbed the Mexican Petrolewin com- | pany, investigated river transporta-| tion, and placed a contract with a | Pittsburgh shipyurd for a flect of tank | “ barges, Some of the barges have been launched, and the Pan American will shortly begin barging oil and gasoline | from its ocean going tankers in New Orleans to Pitisburgh and intermedi- ate citles for locul service stations. | This all water haul will be more than 5,000 miles. | The Inland Waterways compuany of Louisville has estublished semi-month- Iy barge movement® betwoen Lo ville and Pittsburgh, This gives a ne outlet for oll from the Kentuek fields, while a return haul is provided | the towboats in stecl laden barges from the Pittsburgh and Wheeling miis, The United States Steel Corporation through its subsidiary the Cuarnegie | Steel compuny, sent some 800 freight | car loads of steel down the Ohio by | boat, while the Jones & Loughlin | Steel company, the pi in the | movement, added largely to its total. | The National Tube company @and | American Steel & Wire company, other torporation subsidiaries, also | were represcnted in the shipments, In | similar manner the Tennessee Coal & Iron compa the southern subsi rporation, in using the Wa Wheat in Most Appetizing Form Granules from the heart of the wheat. The nourishing, health- ¥ troop ship. are diseased, and that the municipal- spared. Why not have frank- furters and sauer: kraut to-morrow? Don't forget to have Gulden’s too. rior River division of the federal barge line between its mills and the Gulf of Mexico for carrying heavy steel products, and the corporation mills in Gary, Ind,, as well as other mills in the Chicago district, are ship- ping steel to St. Louis by rail and thence to the southiwest by river, The Jones & Laughlin Steel com- pany, in addition to enlargements of its fleet with a new type “box-barge” and gondola barges, designed espe- cially for heavy river duty, has ac- quired new towboats and: bought land which it will erect a steel warchouse with river'and rail connections for supplying its trade in the south and southwest, It already has shipped some 70,000 tons of steel south by | water, The Wheeling $teel corporation which has been creating a formidable fleet of towboats and steel barges for transporting coal and steel among its plants along the Ohio in Ohio and West Virginia, has installed modern river terminals and expects in the early spring to in::ugurutu a down- river distribution system similar to that operated out of Pittsburgh. | BATTLESHIPS DISMANTLED Nebraska and Vermont Arrvive At Oakland, Cal, Where Careers Will Be Ended in Serap Heap. Oakland, Cal,, I"'eb, §,—To the dirge cently from their last voyage, a sail of 26 miles from the Mare Island nuvy ever to enter the mner harbor herc. They are consigned to the scrap heap, It will require a year and a payroll of about §1,000,000 to dis- ntle them, The serap metal from the men-of-wur will be sent to cast ern steel works, The Nebraska, with a length of 4 feet and & displucement of 14,948 tons, was a tralning ship during the worldiwar, The Vermont, 450 feot long, th & tonnage of 16,000, was in compdny with the Nebraska on the crulse around the world dn 1908, i Vermont was in Vera Cruz harbor when the Americans captured it in 1014, In the world wur she was o MAY Potsrdam, royal oaks of Potsdam, which fringe varfous av Cnues often traveled in the st by | German rulers and their families, ar threatened with destruction, The au- thorities say the trees have outlived | thelr usefulness, that many of them ity would realize quite a suwin if they were turned into fire wood. Members of former royal families who still make their home in the Potsdam palaces have joined with eitiz®ns in protesting aga sert that all the trecs should e building breakfast cereal with ltho delicious flavor., All children ove 1t, * \ eAlso makes dainty desserts. Now is the time to get your early vege- tables started. A smal| hotbed in the back yard will start Economical—quickly prepared the vegetables for a 20’ x 30° garden. Our Hotbed complete 32" x 60" with 24” elevation, delivered to your place for The New Britain Lumber Company Trumbull Street NEW BRITAIN .DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1924. J/NCORPORATED. 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