Working hours (eight-hour day):

8 a. m. to 12; 1 p. m. to 5 p. m.; straight time.

Double time for all overtime including night work, Sundays, and holidays.

.20

..per day.. 2.00

COAL BUNKERING.

While Portland possesses a number of wharves equipped for handling coal, facilities for bunkering directly from piers are available at only three wharves. The Pocahontas Fuel Co. (Inc.) occupies Long Wharf and has the most modern equipment which the port affords for this purpose. On the westerly side of the outer section of the wharf is a trestle having a track on which are two movable frame towers, each of which contains a steam hoisting engine. There is a horizontal arm above the engine house, which carries a 12-ton clamshell bucket. A turntable is provided for swinging the tower so that coal may be carried from vessel to storage pile, or from the storage pile to vessel. For bunkering, special chutes are used. The towers have a capacity of 200 tons per hour each for loading cars or for bunkering. Immediately shoreward from the trestle is an overhead covered storage with chutes for supplying cars and vehicles. The combined storage capacity is about 30,000 tons and large quantities of coal are kept on hand at all times. Vessels bunkering directly from the pier use the westerly slip, the greater part of which has only 14 feet of water, while the maximum is 22 feet at mean low water.

Pocahontas coal for bunker purposes is supplied to all large vessels from the plant of the Pocahontas Fuel Co. by Randall & McAllister, which company operates four lighters equipped for bunkering. This method has the advantage of enabling the vessel to take on her fuel while discharging or loading cargo, and avoids an extra movement within the port. The lighters of the Randall & McAllister Co. are equipped with mast and boom carrying a bucket, and have a combined capacity of 2,000 tons. Three or four lighters can be worked alongside a large freighter at one time. The Randall & McAllister Co. can also bunker coastwise vessels directly from its pier. The pier equipment consists of a coal trestle about 200 feet. long. The lower level is open, while the second affords storage, and there are numerous chutes for delivering to cars and vehicles beneath. Above the storage floor is a track carrying a car for supplying the storage. Coal is unloaded from vessels by a frame tower, in the base of which is mounted a steam hoisting engine. Chutes are available for bunkering, but the plant is not well adapted for ocean vessels, and its use for bunkering purposes is limited chiefly to coastwise steamers. Its capacity for unloading coal is about 200 tons per hour, and its bunkering capacity is about 100 tons per hour. About 15,000 tons of bituminous coal, and 10,000 tons of anthracite coal are kept on hand at all times. This company does about 90 per cent of the bunkering business of the port, chiefly by means of lighters.

2 1-ton clamshell buckets.

15,000 2 movable wooden