The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-10-05
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4ars. The fortunes or the city
IL the railroad are inseparably
|M by bonds of mutual interest.
Hi Baltimore and Ohio's combined
|E in Baltimore is probably one
ls largest operated by a trans
#ion company in any city Of the
Nal States, for here 1t not only
ILL., official headquarters and gen.
Notices but also its most eX-
|%e terminal facilities and dis
ling yards as well as it's larg-
%aops for the construction and
%al Of equipment and other fea-
|F facilities In Baltimore repre-
|FH an investment approximating
|t 900, requiring the employment
Ih neighborhood of 10000 persons;
Ming for about $4,000 people, &C
Iiag to the customary basis for
Editing livelihoods.
Ne the freight cars of the Com
yethat can be put into it's freight
tnals in Baltimore city strung
Ito one line they would extend
liz 100 miles. The Company's
Ike warehouse at Camden Sta
las a floor area of 100000 square
|#t has also a large tobacco ware
M at Henderson, wharf and ex-
he export and import ware
R at Locust Point.
Immense Repair Shops.
4stinE in keeping its 1850 passen-
hrs, $1,000 freight cars and 1886
Motives i'm repair, there are some
Employees at the Mount Clare
the largest on the system,
cover about 100 acres. Here
4 IWinans, designer of the heavier
lt locomotive, from which the
/ ut type of the big moguls have
. 1developed, carried out his ex-
. itents. Here. too, at the corner of
and Poppleton streets. is stu
The first railroad station in the
from which Prof. Samuel F. B.
/. inventor of the magnetic tele-
sent the first message-"What
God Wrought" the Capitol
4shington.
Rath Howard street runs the
belt-line tunnel, through which
& .the passenger trains and the
volume of freight traffic, both
n 5und and west bound. The Com
n lput i'm the belt line and cleCtri-
IN operation. which began August
. being the first identification
%team railroad in the country.
IGrcat Marine Terminals.
Locust Point marine terminals
railroad are among the largest
lie Atlantic sea board. In this
hal are nine piers, three Of them
and six covered; two coal piers
wo grain elevators.
lst Point was established as an
import terminal by the rail
Jas early as 1858, in the days
the Baltimore clipper" ships
3the monarchs of the sea. The
4 trans- atlantic steamers to be
Led between this country and
lean ports were installed by the
hd plying to and from Locust
4l the increase of export traffic
LilrOad sought to interest a for
Ene Of steamers in making sail
Hrom Baltimore and as a result
Mt transatlantic line of steam
Established service between Lo-
Point and European ports in
vessels Of 10 ocean steam
tie up during normal times
# Locust Point piers.
lie the outbreak of the European
| In addition to the foreign Gov
4 int transports loading continual
/ Fine Locust Point terminals, two
| transatlantic lines have been
llshed. namely, the Furness-
3fon- Manchester Line from Lo-
iPoint to Manchester, England,
4 he Garland Steamship Corpora
Eom Locust Point to Liverpool,
lad.
Line To South America.
hrecently, through the railroad 9
along commercial development
there was successfully started
Eof steamers, known an the Bal
and South American Naviga-
AIompany, operating between Lo-
Point and Buenos Aires, the
steamship line between the
Yeas from Baltimore. Another
#ny has recently been organized,
" as the American Metal Trans
company, operating between Lo
Point and West coast ports of
America, thus affording Balti-
enterprises every opportunity
npete in the South American
lie has recently been completed
er 5, Locust Point, the con-
lon of an ore-handling device
II rapid discharge Of cargoes of
ore which will add greatly to
brt facilities and attract con-
bic business to Baltimore by
OF the fact that vessels will
le to discharge their cargoes
more rapidly than under the
ethod.
e IL about completed new
Locust Point, measuring 1000
length and $50 feet i'm width,
O. double-deck pier, equipped
III modern conveniences for the
Handling Of import and export
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
onstrating it's efforts to extend
INJECTIONS and the construction
piers to keep it's facilities in
with the rapid increase in for
fade that the commerce of Bal
which brought it into being,
hes to be given it's hearty con-
ion and support.
Rrgest Coal Pier I'm World.
these extensive facilities for
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