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elevator system is the substitute. Captains say that it is all right, and the owners of the big feed stores say that it is all right, so everyone ought to be thankful.


The system is a puzzling and yet a simple


one. The elevator is a couple of great box pipes which lower with tackle from a given fl oor of the storehouse, and end in perculiarly shaped mouths which suck up the corn or grain in the hold. The system of raising is a continuous (??) of little cups, made of metal which are driven by a donkey placed outside the elevator tower. A gang of stevedores are stationed in the hold with shovels piling into the yellow mounds for all they are worth, and it is a race at times between the steam that drives the scoops in the box and the shovelers to see which one will outlive and outrun the other. It is a dusty place to work and it is hot under the deck beams, but it is play compared with handling soft coal. Sometimes the scoops get jammed and there is a shut down while the heavy fl aps aew taken from the pipes to allow an internal examination. But generally it is shovel from morning until night with the constant rattling of the chain as it dries out the hold.


Up in the tower of the elevator, at any


fl oor on which the cereal happens to be spurging out from the pipes, men will be ready to heave it along with big shovels until it gets to the bin that is assigned for it. There must


be a perfect working of the differen parts to ensure success, for the chain is running all the time, and if the men down in the hold don’t feed evenly to the little mouths as they come popping by, there is sure to be trouble along the line somewhere.


It is generally the smaller schooners that handle the cereal, and it is very quick work after things get once started in cleaning out and sweeping out and getting to one of the lumber docks. A day, on an average, will clean the hold of a good size two master to the last kernel of corn, and captains appreciate the fact.


The Other End.


After the cereal has gone up through the elevator on the back end of the storehouse, and is taken to the bins that contain it until wanted, it is dumped down into the carts that are going to lug it away in very much the same manner that it comes in. Only on this end gravity does what steam did from the vessel.


If a man is in a rush, or if a test ease were made, it would probably be surprising to see what fast time could be made at getting a big car load from a vessel to the street. No Hydraulic Power.


They aren’t looking for hydraulic elevators just yet, or elevators where the grain is sucked up at lightning speed by means of a vacuum in the pipes. Such things may do for out on the lakes where they reckon things by the million bushels instead of hundred but in Bangor for the present season at least, they


say it isn’t needed. 2 August 1901


Sea Collisions


Meeting of Two Six-Masters Has Set Old Salts Talking.


The EDWARD H. BLAKE and the Steamship OLIVETTE – The Brig NORWOOD’s Narrow Escape. The recent collision off Cape Cod, between the schooners GEORGE W. WELLS and ELEANOR A. PERCY, the only six- masted schooners in the world, is regarded by sailors as a very strange happening – fi rst because the weather was not very thick, and, again, because the PERCY is commanded by Capt. “Linc” Jewett, who is supposed to bear a charmed existence on the sea. Then, it strikes everybody as peculiar that these two big schooners should happen to be in the same spot of all the wide Atlantic at the same instant. As a matter of fact, there is nothing strange about the disaster, attention being called to it especially because of the fact, that, of all the vessels on the sea, these two, the only representatives of their noteworthy class, were the victims. “Linc” Jewett’s famous luck has received a setback before this, as he lost the four- masted schooner CHARLES P. NOTMAN by collision with the steamer COLORADO just before the ELEANOR A. PERCY was built. The loss of the NOTMAN was not Capt. Jewett’s fault.


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crash between the six-masters, the WELLS, which was cut down nearly to the water’s edge, being damaged to the extent of about $25,000, while it will cost $10,000 to make the PERCY as good as before.


This costly meeting of the six-masters has set all the storytellers of the sea to spinning yarns of strange collisions and queer accidents and the list seems to be without end. The case of the EDWARD H. BLAKE of Bangor, Maine, is interesting. When the BLAKE, a three-masted schooner, was brand new, she was run down by the steamship OLIVETTE, under circumstances that have never yet been explained.


The schooner was bound from Bangor


to New York, with a cargo of ice, and was off Monhegan island, in broad daylight with the weather perfectly clear, when along came the OLIVETTE, then the fastest steamer down east, and chopped her stern off as neatly as if it had been done with an axe. The BLAKE’s crew left her and the captain went to Bangor, hired a tug and went looking for his vessel. She was found, drifting around on her beam ends, with part of her cargo of ice washed out at the open stern. She was towed up the river, breached and a bulkhead put in, and then she was hauled out on the railway at Bangor, and had a new stern built. The steamer’s owners paid for all the damage, but no one has ever yet been able to explain how the OLIVETTE came to run over a 500-ton schooner in broad daylight.


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