Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-02-03
The Ohio Editors at Baltimore.
Baltimore Sun, January %.

and bleak surroundings the hearty welcome
rendered to the members will doubtless i'm
press them favorably with the hospitality Of
Baltimore. Without using the word in an in
vidious sense, it may be said tha. they are all
''stal warts"-men whose energy and enter
prise have helped to build up waste placesand
whose OutspOken utterances and far seeing
suggestions have not only nodded public opin-
ion in their various communities, but induced
new modes of action and given vigor to social
and commercial life. Nearly all of them are
practical printers, and the task of building up
newspapers in sparsely settled sections Of
country has been an arduous one. But they
have succeeded, and to look upon them yester-
day it was hard to realize that they were men
who had fought hard battle and were at last
reaping the fruits of victory. That their
visit will have practical and beneficial result
need not be doubted, and the representative
gathering of business men who welcomed
them yesterday to the city is an evidence that
Baltimore cherishes true worth and perseyer-
ance, and is ready to stretch out her hands in
friendship to all parts OF the country. Party
and politics were for the time being forgotten,
and the only desire on the part of BaltimOreans
seemed 10 be to do honor to men who reiOiced
IN one common brotherhood and nationality.
The first place visited yesterday morning
was the oyster and fruit-packing establish
ment of Messrs, d. d. Mallory s. Co, in
compliance with an invitation from the firm.
The visitors found omnibuses in waiting for
them at the CarIOlltOn about eleven O'Clock to
convey them to Mallorys The members of
the association were accompanied by the ladies
of their party, and as all of them were anx-
ious to see real live oyster" tl.eir acquaint-
ance with the luscious bivalves being only in a
C lnned state, their visit was very much enjoy
ed. On arriving they wtre received by Mr..
ID. ID. Mallory, who extended to them a
hearty welcome. They were then shown
through the various departments by Mr. NAL
lory and the various processes through which
the oyster passes from the time it reaches the
packing house in its native shell until il reach
es the nicely labelled can were fully explain
ed. The shucking process especially was a
novelty TO the visitors, and they watched with
much interest the shuckers, many of whom,
are women and girls, as they rapidly turned
out the oysters from their ''little beds" Al
together the firm employ about 500 hands,
$50 of whom are shuckers, half Of them girls.
Sometimes as high as Z 800 bushels are shuck-
ed in single day. A girl who is a rapid
shucker, can make as much as from $40 to
$25 week. Before leaving, the party were
invited into large apartment, where they
were treated to an elegant oyster lunch.-
Cavities were hewed out of huge blocks of
ice and filled with large, luscious raw oysters,
and bushels of hot steamed oysters were
served by expert shuckers. The visitors were
RECALLED with an abundance of hot, smoking
coffee, and seemed to enjoy the ''live" oysters
with much relish. After the lunch the visitors
were driven to the tobacco works of Messrs.
Gail & AK. The party visited the different
rooms of the extensive building, and were
shown the whole process of the manufacture
of smoking tobacco, fne-cut showing tobacco
and Scotch snuff, from the time the tobacco
is taken out of the hogsheads, sweated, cut
by machinery, dried, and, after other process
ses, put up for use in papers, bags or boxes.
The firm has now about $50 operatives at
work, most of them women and girls. A
very picturesque sight was afforded in many
of the rooms were the female operatives were
engaged, wearing piquant little caps and neat
aprons, while the sleeves of their dresses,
tucked up TO the elbows, showed bare rou6-
ded arms as the deft fingers manipulated the
fragrant weed. In the room where the Scotch
snuff was handled there was a chorus of
sneeZes from unacclimated nose6, and jests
were banded around until it seemed that the
famous ''Little Joker brand of the firm must
have originated in that part of the building.
A lunch of terrapin stew ard oysters, with
champagne accompaniment, was after
wards served.
The firm now manufactures 2,5OO,OOO
lbs. of tobacco yearly, on which they
pay internal revenue tax of 1871, 900 and
have paid more. The series of the firm
aggregate about S1,00e,000 annually and
the capital invested is about 100000.
Appropriate addresses on the part of
the visitors were made by Messrs. Geo.
McClelland, l. f. Mack, President of the
Ohio Association; w. c. McClintock,
Secretary; Jas. T. Irvine and Adolph
Schneider
The visitors reached Camden Station
of the B. & o. Railroad at 2 P. NJ, and
were taken to the Locust Point termi-
nus in special train. There they were
received by Mr.. l.. F. Beeler, agent, and
Mr.. Fred. A. Wheeler, superintendent
of the B. & o. Railroad elevators Pass
ing into the elevator, the operation of
unloading cars and of elevating the
grain by machinery was shown. Mr..
Wheeler explained that car could be
unloaded in four minutes, or 100000
bushels could be unloaded into the ele-
vOr in an hour. The total capacity of
elevator B was 100000 bushels. and Of
elevator A 100000 bushels. Several vts-
sells could be loaded from the two eleva-
tors at one time. Passing out of the e.
eyatOr the operation of loading a vess
was going on. The site was sh lwn of Il
new elevator, to be completed by the
next summer, of capacity of
1 100000 bushels.
The party were then taken t. see tn.
Baltimore dry dock, constructed on the
Fort McHenry property. The large
schooner Wetheral was in
the dock, having her bottom caulked and
repaired. Much admiration was express
ed by the visitors at the novel sight, and
they seemed highly interested in the
working of the dry dock, which was eN-
planned by the lessees. At the yard of
the firm lay the celebrated steam yacht
being constructed for NJ. Say, the new
ferry-boat for the Broadway and Locust
Point Steam Ferry Company, and other
objects of interest. The party then went
on board the iceboat Maryland and were
taken to pier No. of the B. & o. r. Il.
Co., where they inspected the arrange
ments for shipment of freight and pas
sengers. The transfer steam barge
Convoy, with train of through paSsen-
ger cars on board for New York, went
out of her slip for the Canton pier of the
Philadelphia. Wilmington & Baltimore
Railroad. Numerous inquiries were
made as to the landing Of immigrants,
and the excellent arrangements bywhich
the pass Immediately from the steamers
into the cars were highly commended.
Great piles Of freight loading and un-
loading upon the pier attested at glance
the immense amount of merchandise
handled at that point. The steamships
Scotia, of the Allan line to Liverpool,
and Leipzig. Of the Baltimore and BTe-
men line, lying at the pier. were visited
by the whole party, including ladies. and
they were eourteously shown over both
the vessels. Above pier No. were the
numerous coal piers of the company.