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September, 1920 frst electrically operated lifting dump- er for seaboard coal loading to be negotiated. The lifting feature is de- signed to raise the road car high enough before overturning to cause the coal to run down the apron and chute into the ship's hold, as_ illus- trated in Fig. 3. Dumping directly to the ship eliminates breakage and waste due to rehandling. The entire cargo is trimmed without the use of hand labor. The machine consists essentially of a rectangular framework supporting a rotating cradle in which the loaded Expect Record Marine Show at Chicago HICAGO'S first marine show, C which is .to be. held in tie Coliseum the week of Oct. 18, promises to have an even deeper sig- nificance than the exposition preceding it last spring in New York. If the plan of the National Marine league carries, the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates will each be given an opportunity in Chicago that week to address the crowds in attend- ance and explain their stand on the merchant marine problem. The ex- position has already received the en- -dorsement of the United States ship- ping board, which will have an ex- tensive exhibit. The shipping board will display in Chicago the largest feiel map .of the. world ever con- structed and a lecturer will be in at- tendance explaining trade routes, and other matters of interest to shipping men in general. This map. was also exhibited at the New' York show but it has been promised that the shipping board will display in Chicago many features of its operations that have never before been shown the public. Promise Variety of Exhibits Many manufacturers interested in making maritime supplies have al- teady contracted for space, and in ad- dition some of the more important ot the American shipbuilders have signified their intention of exhibiting. Among these are the Consolidated Shipbuilding Co., American Bureau of Shipping, New York Engineering Co., Itving Iron Works, and the Sub- marine Boat Corp. The Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. and the General Electric Co, are also expected to ex- hibit, as well as All America Cables, the Crane Co. and a -number of manufacturers "of hardware and utensils have contracted for space. _The real flavor of the sea will be enhanced largely by the exhibits be- "8 prepared for this show by some of THE MARINE REVIEW railroad car is held while discharging, An entirely automatic counterweight device clamps. the var i the cradle which is inverted by the revolving mechanism, Carrying the car with it. The top of the cradle forms a chute for directing the material as it flows out. This installation will have a nom- inal capacity of 30 to 45 cars per hour of cargo and bunker coal, principally for export, "The ¢oap i delivered to the dumper by the Western Maryland railroad from the West Virginia, Vir- ginia and Pennsylvania fields. One the typical American steamship com- panies. The Munson line and the Luckenbach Steamship Co, have al- ready been assigned space. The Amer- ican Library association, which is in- terested in placing sea libraries upon all American. merchant ships, will have a booth at the Chicago show. This show, like the one held last spring in New York, will be under the auspices of the National Marine league and under the management of the General. Expositions Co «© Phe Marine league is now preparing a program of public functions to be scheduled for the week as a means of drawing the attention of the public to the exhibition. As announced by the league, the object of the Chicago show is threefold: First--To focus the attention of the voting population of the Middle West on the great and constantly increasing importance of America's merchant sea power in relation to the maintenance of inland prosperity. : Second--To impress the public of the entire country with the wealth and magnitude of our lake and inland water shipping, to the end that this part of the nation's transportation problem may receive the serious and intelligent atten- tion of both national and state law- makers. Third--To provide a market place where buyer and seller of ships, service and marine equipment may conveniently meet and do _ business. The more serious problem of the needs of the overseas trade will not be overlooked. In commenting upon this phase of the subject which is to be accented at the Chicago show, P. H. W. Ross, president of the Marine league, said: : oA man who is running a mill or a farm in America and who wishes to have the sale of his product protected to some extent from ruinous foreign competition thinks of the tariff as the 527 million tons will be handled annually with a probable increase to twice that Capacity later, These typical plants indicate the Progress of the basic industries, and the gradual elimination of hand labor, which is then diverted to more useful and productive work. These plans also indicate that beneath the surface froth of labor unrest and business uncertainty of the day, there is a con--- stant current of. accomplishment and confidence. The former are merely the phenomena of a business cycle; the latter is the country's foundation. only form of protection. He is mis- taken. "When his country is in debt to the rest of the world, the tariff works fairly well, but when his country is a creditor and the rest of the world owes America billions of dollars, then the tariff is but poor protection for two reasons: The rate of exchange runs so high against an overwhelm- ingly creditor nation that the ex- change itself will leap over the highest tariff wall a country could ever erect. Secondly, an outside world that is heavily our debtor, is forced to pay its debts to us in manufactured goods of one kind or another or in raw mate- rials, Protecting National Prosperity "These payments 'in kind' fall upon Our shores and in a very few years will deluge our country with cheap for- eign made goods to such an extent as to swamp the manufactories of Iili- nois, Iowa, Indiana and indeed the whole country, unless we have ships of our own. "The one solution to this grave eco- nomic problem is American ships. Through them this threatened deluge of foreign-made goods which could wipe out our steady, profitable em- ployment of capital and labor at home, can be stemmed and diverted to new foreign markets. If we are to retain national and individual prosperity and avoid commercial peonage to any for- eign nation, we must make a concert- ed effort immediately to place our great new merchant marine and the enormous industries connected there- with, in a position where they will not again dwindle to prewar insignificance. "The development of a _ deep-sea merchant marine is no longer of direct concern only to those states lying on the edge of the ocean. that vast interior region of the coun- try is interested in shipping." For today all © aoe iei esis Rc eater asbestos