Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-02
MHAR IRE ELEVATOR.
The Memphis and Little Rock Rail
road Company Celebrate the ARR.
val OF ffle Wharf-BOat Freight
Elevator at H0pefieid, Ark.

val or ale Wharf.BOat Freight
Elevator mt Hopefieid, ARK.
Yesterday afternoon number OF rail-
road men, merchants and members OF
the press of this city, visited the new
wharfboat elevator Of the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad, moored at the
point Immediately above Hopeheld,
Arkansas. In accordance with the in
vitation extended by Col. A. s. Liver
more, Superintendent Of the road, the
party left the foot Of Union street on
board the ferry-boat Excelsior at $3.50
pm. last evening. In few minutes
the party arrived at the immense wharf
boat elevator, floating near the point
above Hopefeld. Col. Liyermore, Su-
perintendent, Capt. Ike Woods, General
Freight Agent, Capt. Mont Pepper and
other railway officials received the guests
on board the wharfboat, and a general
examination of the machinery took
place.
The boat is about two hundred and
sixty feet in length, and cost the com
pany over $4,000. A square tower
rises from the center of the boat to the
hight Of nearly fifty feet, and in this are
the elevators. Two heavy freight ele-
yators and one barrel elevator are worked
rapidly by a steam engine on board
The tower is of four stories, from each
of which gangways can be extended to
the railroad platform on the bank. The
first story is for storing freight, in the
second are the officers sleeping apart
ments and the business Office of the
wharfboat; above this is another story,
and higher yet the tower rises. The
freight is lifted rapidly to any story or
let down from it by machinery. The
barrel elevator revolves like an endless
chain; che barrels 60 up on one side and
can be sent down on the other. In a
few days this labor-saving machine will
be in full operation. A large number of
worlxmen, under the able direction of
Superintendent Liyermore, are building
a railway platform on the bank to re-
ceive the gangways from the elevator.
After inspecting the wharfboat and
elevators, the visitors were invited to
the office, where a champagne reception
was awaiting them. Among the guests
we noticed Col. Beaumont, Col. A. 2.
Curry, Major Whitmore of this journal,
Col. Page Patterson, Capt Smith,
agent of the American Press Associa-
ton; Capt. Jim Speed, Memphis and
Louisville railway ticket agent; Capt.
AID Storm, Capt. Steve Wilkens, Barney
Hughes of the Railway Record, and a
number Of others. Toasts were drunk,
and Col. Livermore, the Superintendent,
had to make a speech, which he did
"as he would build a railroad" in the
shortest possible space of time.
The guests returned TO the city on
board the Excelsior" firmly convinced
that Memphis was rapidly becoming one
of the suburbs of Hope6eld, and would
be that eventually, unless our city
fathers would take trip to Hope6eld,
inspect the horrible elevators and dis
cover that the city would not be de-
stroyed by permitting the erection OF
elevators on this side of the river. We
can assure the General Council that the
elevators are not dangerous and will not
destroy the trade of our city if permits
sion is granted to the Memphis and st.
Louis Packet Company to introduce the
labor-saving steam animal on our bluffs.