South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-19

not afford 10 use another terminal. At
the outset their plan is aided by the
Public Belt railroad. a municipality
controlled river-frOnt line which
switches cars from the railroad yards
and terminals in the center OF the
city 10 any point on the 12-mile
dock front at "A rate Of 50 a car. The
ARRANGEMENT of the nine buildings OH
the newly-made lend Will do the rest.
Warehouse for Each Kind of Cotton.
Next 10 the wharves are TO be two
warehouses for through cotton
cotton which is billed directly to the
buyer. and which. in general. is laid
over only TO await the arrival OF the
vessel destined 10 carry il. Sixty per
cent OF the New Orleans exports are
in through cotton" In the rear of
these are TO be two warehouses for
consigned and f. o. b. cOtton-cotton
consigned TO New Orleans factors for
storage until sold for the account Of
the owners and cotton 10 be sold in
New orleans by sample. subject TO
examination at the New Orleans rail
road depot. The warehouses IN the
extreme rear are TO be for consigned
cotton alone, and between, along the
main lines Of the delivering railroad
are 10 be the two sorting sheds and
an Up-tO-date compress plant. After
going through the sorting shed rOu-
tine. the cotton, if compression is not
necessary, will be sent 10 the ware
house appropriate % its commercial
classification.
Although this plan was designed
largely to promote efficiency and pre-
vent confusion in handling. one of its
most important functions is TO make
New Orleans deposit market. Inter
Tor buyers will find facilities for stOr-
ing their cotton in the warehouses,
subject to the order If outside buyers,
while planters will be allowed to store
their baled product there until it
seems advisable to sell it. In order
still further TO facilitate financial
transactions between buyers, factors
and sellers. a constitutional amend
ment recently has been passed in Lou
isiana. permitting the establishment of
branches by banks outside the state.
Wharf Last Word i'm Efficiency.
The need for quick deliveries has
been kept in mind in the construction
OF the wharf One hundred and
twenty feet wide on the lower floor
and 100 feet wide on the second story,
the wharf is reached from the rear by
a line of depressed railway tracks per-
hitting the unloading of cars with
minimum Of labor Second-fiOOr run
ways, of a total trackage of A 1-2
miles communicate with the ware
houses. so that the goods can be
brought on motor cars and trailers di-
rectJy from the storage. and placed
aboard upper decks of ships. or swung
down on cranes into the hold with
little manual labor. In addition.
there is a track along the apron wharf.
extending out 40 feet from the wharf
sheds, permitting the loading of cot
ton direct from the cars to the ships
or vice versa.
The plan Of the New Orleans term
inal system represents the last word
in port engineering. All the import
ant commercial harbors of America
and Europe were investigated before
the first shovel Of earth was turned.
1t is estimated that the shortcut eff
ficiency methods i'm handling will re-
duce the cost of port transference
fully 40 per cent.
New Inventions Utilized
Many new appliances for loading
and unloading and for the transfer OF
cotton bales from building to building
will be used there for the first time.
Among the most important is a con-
triVance of automatic gTapples fixed
on cranes. which will take a specified
bale Of cotton from a pile 10 or 20
bales high without disturbing the rest.