The Florida star., 1902-11-14
GREAT COALING WHARF
Features of Ore Being Built at
Puget Sound Navy Yard.
FOR USE OF BIGGEST WARsHIPs
Plant and Shed VIII Unload Coal
From Golfers, store 1t and Rede-
liver 1t to BntfICships at the Rate
of Two Hundred Tons Per Hour.
Quarters For the Workmen.

Over at the Puget sound navy yard
piece OF construction work is being car
ried on by a bridging and dredging
company that is full of interest i'll il
In modern engineering methods and
also significant in its magnitude of the
place which the government fOresees
for the BremertOn yard among the ma
val stations OF the country. says the
Seattle Times. The work consists of
the construction of cOaling wharf
and storage shed adapted to unloading
coal brought to the wharf by collierS.
storing II until it is wanted and then
redclivPrinG it To the warShipS at the
rate Of 200 tons per hour. The entire
structure. including the cualing plant
and the wharf beyond. will have a
length of approximately 1900 feet, or
nearly a quarter of a mile. This will
bring the end of the wharf into thirty
feet Of water ut low tide and will make
it possible 10 coal the largest battle
ships in the navy 1T any time.
When this plant is completed. the
Puget sound yard will not only be
highly efficient, but its advantage over
Mare Island in lower cost of mainte-
nance will be even more conspicuous
than 1t is now, for while at Mare is
land the government is under continual
expense in keeping open the ship chan
nels which the shifting bottom Of the
harbOr as continually strives To close
IN Puget sound the conditions are such
that permanent improvements in wild
eniu% and deepening the channels are
so in fact as well aS in name
The new plant VIII he ut the western
end of the navy yard. about 100 yards
east of the boundary. II will consist of
two principal parts. the storage s.
and coaling plant. which will bfSinr a
feet in length from the Shoon more. /
the wharf. which Will cTi and don't 4
feet beyond the outer cEG
The shed or storage plan, ~,
vided into bins of suitalE
handling coal easily and qu% =.
will he connected with the ou'~
by an electric car system
will he % feet wide. 81 fee, niS.
go feet long. with IL total storage
pacity of Do OGO long tons The wha
where the actual cOaling operations,
will he carried oh will he supplied with
two movable steel towers which will
operate along the outer $50 feet OF the
wharf. leaving about 300 feet of trestle
the car tracks from the main
shed to tle outer wharf. The towers
will be eighty feet in height and will
have arms or bOOms of sixty feet i'll
length that can be swung out over the
deck of collier. In cOaling Il warship
the coal will he run through chutes |
from bus at IN" end of the wharf di- |
'ectly intO the bunkerS of the ship.
For $40 feet along the cOaling wharf |
channel will he dredged 100 feet |
vide. 800 feet long and 80 feet deep.
The material secured by the dredging
Till he used to ill in under the storage
he'd. with the results that the shed will
e put practically on solid ground.
AS soon as the contract was signed
,e contractors began the work Of
-eparation for carrying OH the work
? the most improved methods OF con-
-s-. will sa
mort time longe -,
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