for both shipping and receiving petroleum products; two are used for receiving acid, one of which is also utilized for shipping bulk and packaged petroleum products; one is a tie-up for the company's oil barges; and one is not in use. The 16 remaining piers and wharves along the shores of the Schuylkill include the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's pier serving the 2,225,000-bushel grain elevator and the company's two bulk commodity piers, the terminals operated by the United States Gypsum Co., the du Pont Co., and the Barrett Co., a lumber storage plant, a sand and gravel wharf, and several city-owned facilities and other terminals which are of little importance to water-borne commerce. Delaware River between the mouth of the Schuylkill and Allegheny Avenue.- A total of 115 piers, wharves, and docks front on the 37-foot channel authorized by the Federal Government between the United States Navy Yard and Allegheny Avenue, 3 of which are owned by the Federal Government, 20 are owned by the City of Philadelphia, 49 belong to the three trunk line railroads serving the port, and the remaining 43 are privately owned. The long stretch of the river between Greenwich Point and Port Richmond is paralleled by Delaware Avenue, a wide, paved commercial street carrying the tracks of the various main line railroads and the belt line. Practically all of the piers along this section of the river have direct connections with the railroads by spur tracks from Delaware Avenue and, for this reason, truck and other highway traffic is often delayed by trains at the crossings or switches. Piers 96, 98, and 100, South Kharves, the three facilities owned by the Federal Government, are operated by the Philadelphia Piers, Inc., as public terminals open to all users at tariff rates published by the operating company. The two general cargo piers, Nos. 96 and 98, are each 290 feet wide with lengths of 1,320 feet for Pier 96 and about 1,500 feet for Pier 98. Two 3-story buildings are located on Pier 96, the bottom floors of which are used for handling in-transit cargo, and on the lower side of Pier 98 there is a one-story transit shed. The upper side of Pier 98 is open and is used for handling lumber. Pier 100 is also open and is used for handling bulk commodities, such as iron, steel and scrap, for receiving linseed and molasses, and for shipping linseed products. The 20 terminal facilities provided by the city along this part of the water front include a number of the larger and better general cargo terminals of the port although, in accordance with its usual practice of leasing facilities to the highest bidders for periods not exceeding 10 years, the city has allowed some of the facilities formerly used as general cargo terminals to be used only for storage. Pier No. 84, South Wharves, operated by the Luckenbach Terminals, Inc., is the first municipal pier on the Delaware River above the mouth of the Schuylkill, and is typical of those owned by the city. It is 336 feet wide with a diagonal face of 385 feet, 839 feet long on the lower side and about 867 feet long on the upper side, and provides berthing space for four 10,000-ton vessels. Concrete and steel transit sheds provide almost half a million square feet of space for handling cargo. Five car tracks having a capacity of 84 cars are located on the pier and a service yard back of the pier can accommodate 350 cars. Freight is handled between ship and pier by cargo beams and ship's tackle and on the pier and in the transit sheds modern cargo-handling equipment is available. Other municipal piers used for handling general cargo include Pier 82 operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Pier 78 operated by the Waterman Steamship Co. and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., Pier 38 operated by the Mack Warehousing Corporation, Pier 30 used by Dugan & McNamara, Pier 16 operated by A. H. Bull & Co., all of which are located below Market Street and are thus included in the South Wharves, and Pier No. 9, North Wharves, which is located between Market Street and Allegheny Avenue and is operated by the United Fruit |