Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-23

ture.
The visitors fingered in this depart
ment for some minutes, and were partic
ularly interested in the various processe
through which the crude iron passed be
fore being used in the manufacture o
cars. The next department visited wa
the well-arranged foundery, in which
some very heavy castings were fount
and inspected. The large pattern shoI
next attracted attention, and so hume
rous were the patterns there stored thai
a number of the Tennessee association
remarked that it might be termed
branch of the patent office. Passing
through the large bridge shop, the spa
cious machine shop was next reached
in which the most improved machinery
in the country is used, and so complete
did II seem in all its arrangements. that
the machinery appeared to do. almost
everything but talk. The paint shop was
next in order visited, in which number
of cars were receiving the finishing col
ors. among which was a magnificent
Pullman palace sleeping car. The COM
many have n contract with Mr. Pullman
TO manufacture the cars used upon the
Baltimore and Ohio road, though the
sleeping cars are now under the imme-
date supervision of the patentee.
The passenger-car finishing shop was
next visited, in which six regular passen-
ger-cars and two palace-cars were under
going the finishing process. The cars
are all built of uniform width and length,
and those manufactured now are all
painted one color, thus giving to the
train beautiful and uniform appear
ance. The upholstering department
was next visited, in which there was
valuable stock of goods stored. The
f" round" or engine house was visited
next which ended the inspection at
Mount Clare. The visitors expressed
themselves as having had no conception
of the magnitude of the works, and
seemed unacauainted with the fact that
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany was such huge institution. The
immense business and work OF the COM
pany may be judged when it is known
that they employ in the aggregate about
$4,000 men. At the works at Mount
Clare there are about 1900 hands
employed, embracing about 1000 per-
sons in their families. The inspec-
ton at Mount Clare being concluded,
the visitors again embarked on the cars
and proceeded to Locust Point, another
point of considerable interest. Upon
arriving at Locust Point the immense
piers three in number, belonging to the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, were first
inspected, the busy scenes there pre-
scented giving evidence of the large busi-
ness transacted at this point by the
company. After viewing the piers the
party went to the large grain elevator
being erected by the company near by.
The immense granite foundation is
placed upon piles driven down closely
together, the granite having partly been
in Maryland and in Virginia:
The building is eighty by one hundred
and fifty feet, and is about one hundred
and fifty feet high, having one hundred
and twenty bins, with capacity of hold
ing GOO, 900 bushels of grain. 1t has five
receiving and three shipping elevators.
The grain is first to be emptied into the
shipping tanks, constructed near the
water. and it will then be taken up by
elevators into the bins, and from there
loaded into vessels.
Leaving Baltimore for home, the i'm
mense freight business done on this line
was subject for study and amazement.
Miles of freight cars were continually
met along the road; heavy trains dragged
by monster locomotives were passing
every few minutes. The double track
on the Washington branch, the substan-
tial depots along the line, the fine
bridges, and numerous freight and pas
senger trains passing and repassing,
told the tale of success in business won
BY this mammoth corporation. AT Gin
,innati l again took passage on the Short
Line railroad for Louisville, and from
hence to Memphis via the Louisville
.ailway, coming down on the latter in
charge of Conductor Waldron, who
Knows how to run train and render
Every attention to all passengers.
To Capt. E. o. Cobb, the popular and
efficient freight agent Of the Baltimore
md Ohio railroad at this point, | was in
lebted for many favors, letters of intro
iuction, etc., which added materially to
the pleasuce Of my visit to Baltimore.
The entire trip to New York and re-
turn was made without the slightest acct
dent taking place on any of these roads.
1t was a pleasant trip of several thou
sand miles, yet it is a greater pleasure
to be home again in the Bluff City.