Show SHIPS COALED BY SPEEDY MACHINE PHILADELPHIA Oct IS Foreign Foreign ocean-going ocean vessels are taking advantage of the automatic coal loading machine which has been installed at the Greenwich Greenwich Greenwich Green Green- I Point piers here The system is ls borrowed from plan in use on the i Great tW Lakes k mW where e iron ore e eur ur is handled nd and shipped quickly and cheaply By this method of ot coaling an ordinary seagoing craft can be coaled In less than half halt an I hour where it formerly took several days davs Fifty railroad tracks forming a network network network net net- work and capable of holding 1000 cars care carsI of coal are built a around the machine a I The rhe cars specially e constructed n wait on the siding until a vessel Is read ready to coal II Each car ear passes through a concrete steam heated thawing shed which Is la used i for t thawing I coal In winter Released i mt nhe from m the thawing a shed the ca cars glide down clown a slight and up another where they are clamped to the rails A huge resembling an elevator automatically places itself into a position I of an acute angle The coal is permitted to run from the car onto the platform and into a V shaped V-shaped bowl which connects it with a chute from the hold of the ship The dumper was built at a a. cost of ot approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately and is the only one in this section of the United Stat States s. s ForI Foreign For For- eign vessels alone spend monthly month month- ly Iy for coaling supplies here Last month month-I month I broke all previous records when tons of coal were loaded on ocean-going ocean craft cratt S I |