The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-10-17
TALLYINc PlNEAPPLEs.

TALLYINc PlNEAPPLES.
The pineapple season lasts from
about. March 1 to about Aug. 1. New
York gets pineapples from the Florida
KEYS, from the West Indies, and from
the Bahamas; some come in steamers,
some in sailing vessels. Pineappies
from Havana by steamer are brought
in barrels and crates; pineapples
brought in sailing vessels are brought
mostly in bulk, not thrown in loosely,
however but snugly slowed, SO that
as many as possible may be got into
vessel.
On the wharves here pineapples
brought in bulk are handled with great
CELEBRITY. Men in the hold Of the vessel
fill bushel baskets with them, and hand
the baskets up on deck, where they are
passed along and set up on the string
piece of the wharf The trucks In
which they are to be carted away are
backed down handy. A box OF suitable
height, and which is as long as the
truck is wide, is placed at the end Of the
truck. A man standing near on ths
wharf lifts the baskets from the string
piece and sets them up on this box.
Two men stand Mt the box, each with
basket of pineappies in front or him,
to count the pines and throw them into
the truck, which has racks at the sides;
lengths of board are placed across the
end as the load rises. Two men stand
in the truck to level the fruit as 1t
comes into them.
The two counters are experts and
they work with great rapidity and
steadiness, keeping pineapples going all
the time. Each man picks up two pine
apples at a time, one with each hand,
and gives them a toss into the truck,
both men counting as they go along.
one after another, "Cne," 'two,"
"three," -four" ''five," and SO on up,
each count meaning two pienapples.
When they strike lone hundred" the
tallyman makes straight chalk mark
on the end of the truck; that stands for
two hundred pineapples. While he is
making the chalk mark the other count
er keeps right on and he may have got
up to two or three" again, for it
takes a second or two to make the
chalk mark, but by that time the tally
man is at it again Ginning in with
-four" and away they go together
again, counting up rapidly toward
another hundred. If man on the
load finds n speckled pine, he drops II
over the side of the truck into basket
that stands there, and says: Zone out y
The taliyman losses In one without
counting, to keep the count good.
| AS fast as the counters empty the
baskets they push them of the box,
and the man at the stringpiece sets up a
full one in its place and the counters
keep the pineapples going without ces.
sation. At the fifth hundred the tally.
man makes a mark diagonally across
the four lie has already made, In the
commonly used method of tallying
freight; but these five marks here
stand for a thousand pineapples. On a
double truck there are usually carried
from $500 to $500 pineapples; on q
single truck, from 1900 to 3,0OO.-Nev
|. York Sun.
The Storage Of Light.
An interesting possibility is opened
ND by a recent communication of NJ
Charles Henry to the Paris Academic
des Sciences, thus summarized in Cos
mos, and translated for the Literar!
Digest: at is well known that hea
hastens the emission of the light storet
up by phosphorescent bodies; this fact
which it is easy to observe on phos
phorescent surface in places where 1t ]
affected by the heat Of the hand, ma!
also be registered on photo plate
NJ. Henry thought that reciprocally In
tense cold should prevent the emission
: Of this light. Experiment confirms TIL
provision. 1t has proved that the EN-
, ployment of intense cold is one Of tn
: most powerful means for preserving
light In latent condition In phosphol
. escent bodies. Unfortunately this Pre-
cess is hardly practicable at present
Q except in regions where cold costs notf
: ing; but in any case it is the first ste
D toward a great industrial triumph, tn
, utilization Of sunlight for inuminatio
g in the night time. Who doubts tina
: frigorific processes, which have bee
e employed with so much success In tn
preservation of food materials, may q
so serve for the preservation Of lightP'
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