The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-10
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1856.

sineer, planned and directed them. However, muci
more was doing On the last pay day. many a twu
thousand one hundred were employed in the en- y
neers department. and their aggregate pay ntsd
vS97e0. Under the laborers' department there wers
two hundred and forty men employed in general yard
work, and on some Of the old ships Taking the wages
OF eack of these at six dollars week. It would make
sam of sze Thousand four hundred and forty dollars
Tho circulation Of such amongst outside trades
provision merchants clothiers and landlords mus
do much good, besides rendering many family happy
In the master coopers department which IL preside
over By Mr. Hardenbrooh there is making new descrip
tion OF buoy, oil whrh the government inteads /,
place at points running along coast from Maine to
Texas This is called non buoy" and which he.
been lately finished BY Mr. HArdensreok oad put down
ut Mobile is the hrst Of the sort made In the world
The United States government had previously offered
the contract for making lot OF them to any privat
cooper, but could be found to take It, Mr.. Har
denb,ook then commenced, and is now making batch o,
them The largest size eighteen feet long and
feet at its greatest diameter and gradually tapers away
to either end to diameter not exceeding twenty-five
inches The beautifully made staye. start At the end at
. breadth Of and threefourth inches, and expand
towards the thikest part Of the buoy and then fall off
again to . end. One Of the largest non.
The small ones fourteen feet long, and mum
Der OF each size are nearly ready good many scan
buoys' also on hand and large number OF water
barrels have been given the LsvAnt and Other vss
sells. Mr. Hardenbrook employs his nen well.
Mr.. O'Neil-the master house carpenter-Who IL q
very scientific man. employs his about the new tim
ber shed, in masing Improvements in the engineer de-
partment clearing off piles for the quay wall and
other works. He is also finishing . new magazine ON
Hs's Island, which is nearly completed and ne house
for gunner, forty four feet by thrty-two, and two
story high. It viii be double house. Mr. O'Neil il
also perfectDg Improvement in wheel for stesmers
calculated to add to its force, eff the back
water, and afford buoyancy to the vessel This Is to
be done by placing invention, called "foat"
each bar OF the wheel which changes frsm the centre
TO the circumference. As each revolution is
made these floats will fall down on the bar and thus
add to tho velocity Of the wheel whilst will cause
the backwater to be off The wheel is worthy Of
inspection, and its progress shows that Mr. ONeil
knows how to combine the pursuits OF science with those
OF duty.
Twenty three sailmakers have used two hundred and
fifty bolts OF canvass in three months in making sails
for various vesses, and are preparing an ample
deck awning for the North Carolina
In the shops of the plumber moulder, painter ord
nance MASTER, ship carpenter, bockmsker, moulder,
and boat building, the activity is observa-
BILE. The mast house is also In highly cre3itabe state
and contains the lines OF large line of battle ship
with tbs masts and spars of seventy four and other
work.
Commodore Boorman commands in the yard Mr. Della
Naval Constructor performs daily the most arduouS
duties In most efficient manner does Mr.. Brady,
Master OF the Yard. Colonel Dcavan, Sorekeeper and
his able Deputy, Mr. Purdy, will have little relax
alton fro m official toll whilst he duty Of General Bur
nett VIII stall increase until the Brooklyn New Yard is
model for the world.