Activity on the Wharf

Bushwood Wharf, on the Maryland side of the Potomac River, July 1907
Courtesy of the Mariners' Museum

Place the correct words in the missing spaces.

 carts
  porters

 rails

 trains

 goods

 easy

 steamboat

 Stevedores

 Baltimore

 animals

 freight

 hard

1. Men called _____________________ loaded and unloaded __________and ______________________at each steamboat wharf.

 

2. Handling the _________________ was ______________ work.

 

3. The longer wharfs had ______________ so that _______________could be rolled out to the end of the wharf with _______________ to be

shipped.

 

4. Most people requiring serious operations were taken by _____________to ________________ for treatment.

 

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