ANOTHER VARIETY OE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS 



These men are twice men behind the guns in the cause of America. They subscribed 

 more than five million dollars to the Liberty Loan, and they are doing their bit to furnish 

 the battle front with the artillery that must ultimately hammer an unstoppable hole through 

 the lines of the enemy. 



comes out of the hold and is dumped into 

 a bin. From this bin it flows by gravity 

 into big coal and ore cars to be hauled to 

 the furnaces, or else is delivered to the 

 buckets of the great cantilever bridge, 

 which carry it across to the big stock 

 pile. Once it took a week, with a regi- 

 ment of men, to unload a small ship, 

 whereas now half a day and a corporal's 

 guard can send the biggest ore carrier 

 afloat on its way empty. 



There are several other types of un- 

 loaders, some of them having huge hori- 



zontal beams reaching out over the 

 hatches of the ship and forming track- 

 ways for the big buckets that run out to 

 the end on carriages, and then drop down 

 on a cable into the hold for a load of ore. 

 Whoever has watched a farmer store hay 

 away in his barn with a modern hay fork 

 will understand the roles the beam and 

 the cable play. 



The mining and navigation season be- 

 ing only eight months long, the ships 

 must bring in enough ore to keep the fur- 

 naces running during the additional four 



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