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24 TAeE MARINE REVIEW | pany with vessels which came in with h-- on her first trip. The funniest part of this is the fact that the boats went to Milan for their grain. - There is-no freight boat afloat today which could repeat the performance. Dart's elevator had one leg when it was first operated and its capacity was 55,000 bus. Three years later the ca- pacity was doubled and another leg - was added. At that time, it had a slip under it for small boats. The schoon- er Philadelphia,, commanded by Capt. Charles Rogers, was the first boat un- loaded at the elevator, her cargo con- sisting of 4.°H bus. of wheat. It was consigned to H. M. Kinne and George Davis. The first corn cargo unloaded was from the South America, Capt. A. Bradley, consisting of 3,145 bus. This was June 22, 1843. During first year, a CLEANING UP THE LEG, IN THE HOLD OF THE STEAMER AURANIA, the elevator elevated 229,260 bus. of tions that the forwarders would not pay the high charges demanded for a steam elevator. Dart's elevator, how- ever, saved so much time, he saw the folly of his prediction and he capitu- lated. Today, the elevator business is on. : such a large scale, a big steamer carry- ing over 370,000 bus. has been unloaded in twenty-two hours working time. In 1828, it required five days to unload 6,000 bus., and in 1842 it required con- siderably less than a day to take out 4,000 bus. by means of the steam ele- vator.- According to old records, the i ~. schooner John B. Skinner came in from 'Milan, O., early one afternoon with 4,000. bus. and unloaded. and took on salt ballast late that same night. She 'got back to Milan, loaded another car- go and on her return from Buffalo for a third cargo, she went out in com- GREAT EASTERN ELEVATOR. grain. The hourly elevating capacity was 1,000 bus. at the start with two- quart buckets set twenty-eight inches apart. This capacity was doubled by setting the buckets sixteen inches apart. Lake freighters are now unloaded directly into the elevators, but the old- time boats and some which are still plying the lakés were unloaded by means of floating elevators, which, like the transfer towers, are no longer in use, and, one might say, no longer in existence. The floaters elevated the grain from a boat and loaded it into canal boats at the samé time. Condi- tions were different then. With the present arch type boats, there would not be any chance to use floaters, nor could transfer towers be used. Since the first Dart elevator, there RICHMOND ELEVATOR, ONLY OPERATED DURING CANAL BOAT SEASON, have been a great many structures: