The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-04-14
For The 4EyiS d Mtelligemccr
Locust Point and its Improvements.
A GREAT CORPORATION AND IT'S WORKSHOP

A GREAT CORPORATION AND IT'S WORKSHOPS
Mr.. EDITOR Being persuaded that with
the increasing demand for your valuable
paper, The 4KgtS, its circulation is pro-
portionately extensive, conclude that it
is perused by many persons who whilst
trequenting Baltimore city devote their
leisure hours to pleasure and recreation by
visiting the parks, theatres, museums or
other popular places Of resort and amuse-
ment; or finding the "busy centre" more
attractive are entertained by curious
and observant survey of the various modes
and means by which are conducted the
numerous municipal business enterprises.
The attention of these curious tourists |
desire to direct to objects of interest at
Locust Point" a southeastern section of
the city, which although untrequentcd by
visitors generally, in consequence of its
apparent isolation from the body of the
city, is easy OF access by commodious
steam ferry boats which ply between this
point and the foot of Broadway at inter-
walls of ten minutes.
TIE BALTIMORE AND OHIO CoMPANYs
EASTERN TERMINUS.
Although there are many divisions of
Locust Point worthy of a minute descrip-
ton, shall at present only endeavor to
dcineate, with its Improvements and bust
ness importance, that which is possessed
by the Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad Com
pany, and is the site of the extreme East
ern terminus of their railroad, and their
most extensive freight depot. This plot
of ground has an area of about forty acres,
borders on the south side Of tue North
West branch of the Patapsco river, which
affords at this point harbor tor vessels of
1000 tons burthen, drawing 25 feet of wa
ter. Vessels of these ponderous dimensions
representing nations in almost every habi
table part of the globe, are continually
plying between this and foreign ports, en-
gagged in commercial trade, and innumer-
able minor crafts touch this point whilst
engaged in the local coastwise traffic.
THE FREIGHT DEPoTs.
The buildings erected at this point by
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
to accommodate the extensive interchange
Of freight between these vessels and points
West are the most capacious of any in the
United States. Designed for the same
purpose, and in connection with them, are
employed about 1900 clerks and laboreis,
independently of the 200 or 800 steve
dOrcs.
THE COAL PIERS.
On the west side of the company's terri
tory, and built out over the stream, are Is
coal piers, long and high, over which
trains of loaded coal are propelled and
their contents discharged through tunnels
or shoots into vessels below In this man
ner the largest vessels are freighted in
three or four hours time, and there is a
daily transfer of about 1900 tons of coal,
giving employment to about two hundred
laborers
THE FREIGHT PIERS
South east of these piers, nearly parallel
with them, and extending over the stream,
are two double piers, the largest and most
substantial in the United States, being re.
spectively $50 feet long by rs feet wide,
and rooted over with heavy sheet iron.-
| There arc four railroad tracks extending
over their entire length, 50 that four trains
of cars may be loaded or unloadcd on
them at the same time, without ipcommod-
ing the frcighting or discharging of the
ten or twelve large merchantmen that may
lay at the piers With the exception of II
small part of one of these piers, which is
apporlioncd to "ioreign passengers and
their luggage" they are used exclusively
for the interchange OF general merchan-
disc between the vessels and cars, and over
them there passes daily about $500 tons
of freight, under the management Of 300
employees, who to facilitate the work have
in use steam engines, cranes, pulleys, hand
trucks, &c, and they handle n solid weigh
ing Is or 90 tons rs though it were Il sack
of chaff.