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Mr. MeCleary is prominent in fraternal circles, as a member of the following organizations and orders: Grafton Lodge No. . 15. A. F. & A. M., Grafton, West Virginia : Baltimore Council No. 18. Q. D. : St. John's Royal Arch. Chapter No. 19; Beausant Commandery No. S. K. T. : Boumi Temple. A. A. O. N. M. S., Baltimore : Fredonia Council No. 76. Junior O. C. A. M. : Patapsco Lodge No. 127. K. of P. ; Patapsco Council No. 1. U. R. K. P. : Hagerstown Lodge No. 378. B. P. O. Elks: Good Intent Lodge No. 447, B. of R. R. T. ; member of the Sixth Ward Republican Club and of the Advertising Club of Baltimore.
Mr. MeCleary and Miss Minnie Baldauf, of Baltimore, were married on February 28, 1895. His residence is in 2711 Jeffer- son Street, and Mr. MeCleary's offices are in the City Hall Annex No. 2, Baltimore, Maryland.
Mr. MeLeary died December 14, 1920, after an Illness of several months,
REVERENT PHILIP J. WALSH.
The recent death of Father Philip J. Walsh, pastor of St. Ambrose's Catholic Church, Baltimore, was lamented by hun- dreds of citizens of Baltimore. Catholics and Protestants alike.
Father Walsh was the first and only pastor of St. Ambrose's Church, having there been assigned when the parish was created about thirteen years ago. He had been responsible for the growth of the church from a small congregation to one of the largest suburban congregations of Baltimore, to which he had devoted so many years of his life.
On Sunday, May 30. (192001, Father Walsh announced from the pulpit that the church had purchased the old Suburban Hotel for use as a parochial school. Workmen had already started to remodel the building, and Father Walsh looked for- ward to presiding w the opening of the school in the fall of the year
Father Walsh was a native of Baltimore, born on February 9. 1870, a son of J. J. and Emma (Gardner) Walsh. He attended peroelnal schools. St. Charles College, and St. Mary's Seminary. Iming ordained on March 9. 1895. lle was assistant at St. Gregory'< for twelve years prior to assuming the St. Ambrose's Church charge.
JOHN P. LEONARD.
John F. Leonard. late Warden of the Maryland State Peniten- tiary, was born in Baltimore in 1857, son of John and Susan (Lynch) Leonard.
Hle began life as a carpenter and house-builder ; was a member of the City Council from the Ninth Ward, 18\\-IN97: superin. tendent of the Baltimore County Court House for two years. Ile became guard of the Penitentiary in 1904, and Warden in 1912, which position he held until his death.
As Warden he was instrumental in the abolishment of striped uniforms and of "cropping" prisoner's hair ; established the Arst prison schools in the State of Maryland mon vocationali regriring illiterate prisoners to study the "Three R's" for a given number of hours daily.
Upon his death, on Thursday, August 5. 1920, the prisoners at this great institution united in sincere expressions of regret In their loss of a kind and just friend and benefactor.
Mr. Leonard married Miss Catherine Murray, of Baltimore, on November 27. ISSB. twhose death occurred September 23, 19EN). Two children survive, Mildred A. and Catherine P. Leonard.
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JAMES E. HOOPER Continued from page 294.
four , doors of the building, and its electrically driven ma- chInery has been operated night and day for a number of yenrs, the products turned out by hundreds of skilled opera- tIves being marketed in every part of the world. Being under the guidance of members of the Hooper family who have since early youth been studying the needs of cotton manufacturing. und who combine their ability as exeentives with a spirit of just dealing with their employees, it Is not difficult to uu- derstand the basic reasons for this success, against all com- petition, in the international distribution of their goods,
WILLIAM SWINDELL-Continued from page 296.
was held by the people of Baltimore generally. Appreciating his sterling worth, a great Baltimore daily newspaper devoted a wonderful editorial to his memory at the time of his death. which is given in part as follows :
"The death of William Swindell takes away one of the best- known citizens and successful business men of Baltimore. . . By enterprise, integrity and wise management he built up one of the largest glass mattufactoring plants in the South. . . . Ilis loss will be sincerely mourned."
JOHN E. HERST-Continued from page 208.
sented to him a handsome silver punch bowl as an evidence of their personal love for a kind and just employer.
Mr. Horst married Mary R. S., daughter of Dr. Ephraim Bell, of Baltimore county, Maryland. In the sketch of- Wil- liam B. Hurst, his son, are mentioned the names of members of his family who survived his death on January 6, 1904, and who mourned his loss in accord with countless friends and ac- quaintances throughout the city, state and country.
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A brief review of some of the great Industrial and Educational Institutions of Baltimore and Mary- land.
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THE LALLTIMONE DRY DOCKW GOOD BUILDING CO. THREE PLANTS, UPPER. PLANT. LOWER PLANT AND SOUTH PLANT.
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Maryland Plant of Bethlehem Steel Company Sparrows Point, Maryland
The plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co., at Sparrows Point, Md., is the largest size tidewater steel plant in this coun- try. It is so situated that it can receive at its own piers and docks all the iron ore needed for its operation from its own mines in Cuba and Chile. A certain percentage of ore from Sweden and Spain is also received when transportation con- ditions are favorable, which is the case at present, due to lack of other return cargoes from Europe.
Coal and other raw materials are delivered directly by any one of the three railroads, and coal can also be deliv- ered by barges from Newport News when required.
Both the ore and the coal are unloaded from the ships and barges by electrically operated unloading bridges, the ore unloaders having a capacity sufficient to unload one of the 12,000 ton ore boats in ten hours. This ore is at pres- ent being delivered from Cuba in the Company's fleet of five 11,000 ton steel ore steamers, this fleet to be increased W. F. ROBERTS, GENERAL MANAGER next year by the addition of two 20,000 ton ore steamers, which are now under construction at the Sparrows Point Shipyard. These two steamers will be the largest of this type of ocean boats afloat. It is intended to increase this to a fleet of ten 20,000 ton vessels within the next few years. The Company has a pri- vate thirty-five foot channel a mile long leading from the main Baltimore channel. The ore storage yards have a capacity for storing 1,000,000 tons of ore, and each unloader has a capacity for picking up seventeen tons of ore in one of its grab buckets.
At the coal unloading and handling plant, there is a storage capacity of 300,000 tons of coal. The coal is received either by rail or by water, from the company's mines in Pennsylvania and West Vir- ginia, and also on long-term contracts with other large coal producing companies.
This coal is charged into coke ovens by means of belt conveyors. The coke oven plant consists of 360 ovens with a daily consumption of 6,000 tons of coal. The daily by-products from these coke ovens consists, when operated at full capacity, of 25,000.000 cubic feet of excess gas, which is pumped to the city of Baltimore and is practically sufficient to take care of the city's needs; also 44,000 gallons of tar; 12,000 gallons of motor benzol fuel; and 150,000 pounds of ammonia sulphate. used principally for the manufacture of fertilizer.
The blast furnace department consists of six blast furnaces with a total daily capacity of 2,600 tons of pig iron. Two more 500 ton furnaces will be built next year. This complete plant will then produce 3,600 tons of iron, and will consume 6,500 tons of iron ore, 2.000 tons of limestone and 4.000 tons of coke. The compressed air for blowing these furnaces is furnished by gas-driven blowing engines, using the by-product gas from the blast furnaces themselves for power. These engines are of 2,000 horse power each. This blast furnace gas is also used for operating gas engine driven generators of 4,500 horse power each, furnishing electric power throughout the plant. Five of these units are now in opera- tion. Additional power is also being supplied by the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Com- pany from their hydro-electric station. On the total electrical system, there are 2,169 motors repre- senting 117,850 horse power. . .The moulten iron from the blast furnaces is either sent to the casting machine for casting into pigs, or direct in the molten condition to the Bessemer and Open Hearth plants. In these steel making plants
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are four converters of 25 tons capacity each and four of 15 tons capacity each; also five 60 ton tilting furnaces and four 200-ton tilting open hearth furnaces. These steel making plants have a total capacity of 1,250,000 tons of ingots annually. The furnaces are equipped to use producer gas, oil or tar, as condi- tions may require.
The hot steel ingots from the steel making plants are transferred either to the 36" Blooming Mill (which serves the Rail Mill), or to the new 40" Blooming Mill. The Rail Mili has a capacity of 35.000 tons of rails per month, rolling rail sections up to 150 pounds per yard, and is equipped to harden rails by the so-called Sorbitic process. The new 40" Blooming Mill has a capacity of 60,000 tons per month and furnishes slabs to the Plate Mills, or blooms to the Continuous Mills which roll billets and sheet bar. All of these mills are electrically operated, the 40" Mill being driven by a 5,000 H. P. motor. The sheet bar and billets are either sold to outside customers, or transferred to other finishing mills of the Com- pany.
There are two Plate Mills in operation. the 110" Plate Mill and the 60" Universal Plate Mill, the lat- ter which is the largest two-high plate mill in the country, is driven by a 17,500 HI. P. motor. The weight of this mill alone, without its auxiliaries. is 966 tons. These Plate Mills are electrically driven throughout" and have a combined capacity of 35,000 tons of plates per month.
The sheet bar from the Continuous Mill is sent to the Sheet and Tin Plate Department of the Company. There are in operation 24 Tin Plate Mills, producing 9.200 tons of tin plate per month, and employing over 2,000 people. Immediately adjacent to this Tin Plate Mill is the new Sheet Mill ex- tension, consisting of eight sheet mills and two jobbing mills, - producing about 8,000 tons of sheets per month.
These mills, like all the other additions made to the plant during the last few years, are entirely electrically driven. In general all new building construction consists of steel, brick and concrete, in- cluding steel sashes and concrete roofs, no wood whatever being used in any of these new departments. Each of these new departments are the very latest and most economical type.
William Frank Roberts, General Manager of this plant, was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, on January 25. 1879. He was educated at Lehigh University, there receiving the degree of Mechan- ical Engineer.
Mr. Roberts started with the Bethlehem Steel Company in June, 1902. He became Master Me- chanic in two years, and was successively Assistant General Superintendent, General Superintendent and Vice-President, until assuming the position of General Manager of the Maryland Plant, Bethlehem Steel Company.
He is a member of the Maryland. Baltimore Country and the American Flying Clubs of Baltimore. also the Bethlehem Club. and the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
Mr. Roberts married, in September. 1904. He has three daughters. His residence is at 21 Somer- . set road. Roland Park. Baltimore.
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd. Sparrow's Point Plant, Sparrow's Point, Md:
BETHLEHEM SHIPBUILDING CORP., LTD. SPARROW'S POINT PLANT, SPARROW'S POINT, MD.
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Situated on the Chesapeake Bay, about eight miles from Baltimore, Md., the Sparrow's Point Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., occupies an unsurpassed water front and includes an area of 109 acres and has 8,000 employees. A full 35 ft. chan- nel permits the building of the largest merchant ves- sels and floating docks.
The plant was established in 1890 as the Marine Department of the Maryland Steel Company, at that time a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Steel Com- pany. In July, 1916, the plant was acquired by the Bethlehem Steel Company and operated under the name of the Maryland Plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company until the time of the incorporation of the Bethlehem Ship- building Corporation. Ltd., in November. 1917, when the plant became the Sparrow's Point Plant of the big shipbuilding cor- poration. An uninterrupt- ed production of high- grade steel merchant ships has been carried on at this shipyard and over 200 sea-going vessels have been delivered.
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The plant has nine large building slips, which are modern in every respect. Vessels of over 20,000 tons deadweight may be con- Structed and the equip- ment is such that vessels may be built complete with all appurtenances.
The machine shop, which was built in 1915. is one of the best equipped and up-to-date industrial build- ings in the country, in which can be manufactured marine reciprocating engines. This shop is also particularly equipped for handling repair work.
The boiler shop is of large capacity and is devoted entirely to the construction of Scotch Boilers.
A large blacksmith shop, equipped with modern
machinery, including a 500 ton press, enables this yard to do much work usually contracted for outside of the shipyards. Drop forgings of ship fittings are a specialty of this shop.
The fabricating shop is also unusually well equipped, which accounts for the large tonnage turned out by the yard.
During the year 1919 a large floating dry dock. 600 ft. in length and 100 ft. wide, with 20,000 tons lift- ing capacity, was placed in operation. This is one of the largest floating docks on the Atlantic Coast and enables the Spar. row's Point Plant to do extensive repairs. In the fall of 1920 a second float- ing dry dock of 6,000 tons capacity will also be in operation, which will further enhance
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A 125 ton shear legs and a 25 ton hammerhead crane also greatly facili- tate fitting out, as well as engine and boiler repair work.
It was at this yard that the floating dry dock "Dewey" was built and the memorable trip of the dock to the Philippine Islands demonstrated most conclusively the thorough- ness of the builders' work. Although large merchant work has been the prin- ciple undertaking of this plant. Government contracts have also been successfully completed and a num- ber of torpedo boat destroyers and giant colliers have been built and delivered to the Government at various periods.
At present there are under construction two large combination ore and oil vessels, this type of vessel being a new undertaking in the shipbuilding trade.
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THE BLUE BELL IN MARYLAND.
City, or State. or entire country-the progress, expansion and commercial and industrial activity of a people depends largely on the perfection of those enterprises which have come to be known as public utilities. Their weakness vitiates -- their strength provides a driving energy that means growth and success. Of the first magnitude in the list of public utilities is the telephone.
From the standpoint of both service and facilities, Maryland enjoys excellent telephone advan- tages. The lines of the Chesapeake and Potomac Company, an associate of the Bell System. form a network over the entire state, a territory of 9,941 square miles. Approximately 130,000 telephones in Maryland supply the requirements of a population of 1,385,000, an average of one telephone for every 10 persons.
This average is well maintained throughout all parts of the State. In Baltimore, there are 82,455 telephones serving a population of 734,000 or one telephone for every 9 people.
This Company's property in Maryland represents an investment of more than $17,000,000. One hundred and thirty-two central offices, more than 249. miles of underground conduit cable lines, and wires and cables that would reach 280,356 miles are some of the plant items that make up the telephone system.
This plant carries a volume of 600,000 telephone calls every day. Thirty-one hundred men and women, employees of this Company, keep the lines of. communication open and handle the traffic. Day and night, every hour in the twenty-four, the central offices are open.
In the city of Baltimore alone, 400.000 telephone calls are placed every day. Fourteen central offices handle the city's traffic and a force of 1300 operators is required.
St. Paul exchange. the busiest central office in Maryland. is located in the downtown section of Baltimore. Three hundred operators handle the 105,000 calls which pass through this exchange daily. During the rush business hours, which are from 9 A. M. till noon, as many as 14,000 calls are handled in an hour at the St. Paul office.
Rates for telephone service compare very favorably with those in effect in any other district comparable in Maryland.
In some sections. extraordinary difficulties have handicapped the Company in its work of sup- plying and extending telephone service.
Reserve plant equipment and facilities, which are ordinarily maintained far in advance of existing needs were completely exhausted during the war. Two causes were responsible. Govern- ment needs made it impossible to secure new materials and an abnormal demand for telephone service used up the plant reserves.
The end of the war found the Telephone Company facing a veritable avalanche of service demands with forces sadly depleted, with stock and plant reserves exhausted. with wages and mate- rial prices out of all proportion, and with it impossible to secure necessary new equipment from manufacturers even at the high prices. Strikes, labor troubles, railroad embargoes and manufactur- ing difficulties made it. and are still making it impossible to secure the equipment we need today.
In the face of these obstacles the lines were kept open. There were times when it required superhuman efforts to keep the telephone service from collapsing under the pressure of adverse circumstances. Such did not happen, and the same energies are now being devoted to the task of improving the service. In spite of all difficulties, the telephone service has been maintained at a high degree of efficiency.
We of the Telephone Company take pride in the work we perform and in the importance and value of the service we render. We feel that it is a little different from many other human activities. So many people and so many enterprises are affected and are dependent upon the service of the telephone.
And we feel that we can take pride in the high standard of service we have been able to maintain.
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TELEPHONE EXCHANGES IN MARYLAND
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THIRTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN GROWING PEACHES. PEACH ORCHARD SERVES DOUBLE PURPOSE.
The best large commercial peach orchards to be found in the East are at Berlin, Md. Peaches grown from the seed and delivered to the consumer.
In 1884, thirty-five years ago, the Harrisons bought an old rundown, undrained. sandy loam, red.clay sub-soil farm at Berlin. Md., containing 167 acres pay. ing $1,000 down and giving a mortgage for $2,000, 01 this farin was 100 old peach trees in a pasture twenty years old of the Smock variety.
The Senior Harrison, Joseph G. Harrison, with his two sons, Orlando and George A. Harrison, being Que among the first strawberry growers in Sussex county. Delaware, and lovers of fruits, had badded and grafted trees fer years- being destrons of continuing the fruit husiness, harvested the peaches from the neglected treps netting $2622.00, enough to pay the fertilizer bill for the wheat erop.
Among the trees were two large late yellow prache -. name unknown to the neighbors. In order to retam the valuable peaches, it was decided to plant a few peach seeds and bud them. This was done and the two sons. Orlando and George A. Harrison, did the tying of the bnds, the budding being done by a local expert budder. This beginning was the planting of 2,500 peach trees These trees were planted in a commercial orchard, and at once a demand for peach trees from neighbors was developed. The planting was increased from year to year until a maximum of four million peach trees Were grown annually. Then came the inquiry from large planters, where do you get your buds, from the nursery row, or from the fruiting orchard !
It was in 1898 when they planted additional varieties of peach trees for commercial orchards to cut buds from the trees and still being enitivated and fruiting. In 1905 a test orchard of peach trees was planted for testing varieties of 100 varieties, six trees of each variety, and ten thousand peach trees in commercial orchard consisting of Carman. Hay. Belle of Ga .. Elberta, Crawford Late. This orchard has furnished eight successful erops of fruit. In 1913, 2,000 peach -Elberta and Bracket-were planted. In 1914, they planted 48,000 peach trees at Berlin consisting of Greensboro. Carntan, Slappey. Hiley, Ray, Belle of Ga., Elberta. AH have produced two full crops. In 1915. they planted 1,000 Hale-(J. H. Hale peach). In 1916, they planted 8,000 peach consisting of Slappey, Belle of Georgia. Elberta. 11 1919, they planted 8,000 peach-Hiley, Ray. Belle of Ga.) Elberta and Brackett-this commercial orchard being planted from year to year has furnished buds direct from the fruiting orchard to the nursery commencing with the early va- rieties. They ent buds from trees with fruit on the tree though the season with perfect safety of being true to name. The orchards have produced fruit that has sold at the highest market prices. At times they averaged $1.00 per bushel carrier above market quotations on Boston and New York markets. The present season, the peaches were distributed to all of the principal markets of the East, many of them going to Baltimore, Washington, Wilmington, Philadelphia. New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and many small places.
Shipments were as follows: 1910, 10 cars; 1911, crop failure from "brown rot"': 1912. 30 cars: 1913, 62 cars: 1914, 50 cars; 1915, 52 ears: 1916, 60 cars: 1917, 101 cars; 1918, 50 cars: 1919, 146 cars, and several thousand bush- els to canning houses. All cars were handled by refrigerator cars, averaging 300 bushels for express cars and 400 bush- els for freight.
Crop failure in 1911 was due to "'brown rot" and not knowing how to control same. Since 1912. they have con- trolled "brown rot"' with self-boiled lime sulphur. 8 lbs. lime, 8 lbs, sulphur and 2 lbs. Arsenate of Lead with four to five summer sprayings.
They experimented with dust this season, 1919, and find the liquid is preferable, yet the dust has many advantage> on wet land where heavy power sprayers cannot be pulled over during a wet period.
All orchards are sprayed during the winter with ronerntrated limessulphur to prevent "leaf-curl." They do not tind any trace of scale, nor any trace of yellows. They consider the peach borer the greatest nuisance, but can be success. fully controlled. The orchards are gone over twire rach season for "borers" and dirt banked at the trunk. about six inches during the fall and left during the winter months, taking it away early spring with the extension cultivator as shown in illustration.
Clean cultivation is practiced from March till the last of July when row pens, or soy beans, are sown for a cover erop. When the orchards are young. the hay is mowed. When trees are older. the vines are left for cover and feed for trees. They nse raw bone meal, or dissolved bone when planting. 1 lb. per tree well-mixed with the soil, and from 3 to 5 lbs. per tree when they are 5 years old or more. Nitrate of soda is a good stimulant for weak-growing trees, One pound per tree for five years old and 3 to 5 lbs. per tree seven years old or over.
Over 100 mules are used on the farms for cultivation and feed is grown for them. Several tractors used for pulling large disks, several makes of trucks used on the improved concrete and macadam roads for hauling peaches from orchards to packing sheds, a distance of from one to five miles to a center packing house on the railroad at Berlin.
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