The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-24

The Brooklyn NAVY lard.
yTg Nxw BUILDING PRO REss ~ IMPROVEMENT
TEX VESSELS AT THE YARD, ErC.
SlIce the apportionms nj among th government navy
yards OF he SIS sp ropriAed by the last Con
gre for their use, the In the Brooklyn Navy Yard
has been quite active 70 ~bat IL was for few months
previous There $40 at present employed
in the yard, and the severs large buildings which
In process Of erection nearly completed The grounds
where the work Of bui ding and repairing Is going
on, models OF aud order the cannon are
arranged long parallel tues, the balls are piled up in
pyramids Of $40 'arh, the new iron beds,
which contain 67oO esch there are fourteen OF these
beds, each 81 feet lorg frame In the centre for
load OF shells Eacn bee ~egas 576 pounds and cost
slta 90 There ya-d rs, 343 thirty pound
shot; 5s7s forty two pound mot; sss eight inch she'll
60 ten inch she'll ana about three hundred guns OF
rious sizes
aCnDrSGs
The shed for gun which is one hundred and
my by sixty, entirely of corrugated iron
u about completed Il Quilt by contract by Marshal
Leaerts, and cost SD Coz
The smiley wfth 4 tnree hundred feet by sixty
with two wings each huncred feet by sixty, built
entirely Of brick ~ ~ roof OF Corrugated iron
1t wss completed las, e-tk now in full aud
cessful operation. - TX hundred smoke
nue, any four inches aaTeter, placed under ground,
through which the from all the orges
in the main building aua ~ags &C cnitaney outside aud
midway between then rs smoke Ia forced or sucked
from The forges ot wuen chimueys into the
tues, aud coDductsc IA tue central chimney,
which hpndreu feet nigh, with a circum.
ference of sixties o. ana seven feet at the
top There egh nnret feet OF blast ripe eighteen
inches IN diameter, rpa al"rgsje or The smoke lee,
There forty firere y. smunery aad nine
can be rut up me ioS s.s are driven BY derspes 4
rotary blower gives abundance OF wind Tor he TO-
the engine which driyrs & built by the rAron Iron
Works 1be snrpins pJscr - he engine drives three
hammers one Na.usth 1epmer, OF i've weight;
.nother vsu na,s,., n r.,s M / 400 ponrss wsiyht
The third q 10, ed fro,i The WORK of ths l.rgest
size ,eoareo n he g - don by these hsmmers
The boier snon 10 ~, ., oilers two hanared feel
nv s.tv buil, al br,t ,u - with a slate roof was
commenced last fail ! ,,ar5 completed it will 90 into
oDeral n in 4 u.nth
TIE foundry one hundred feet by sixty is butt, Of
for.v 10 6tty tons
The oskum shop. winch il sixty feet BY thirty side,
ana root OF ron lust com ple,ed INC as
msohrery - nor a. ,o,. ms ds.iy, 70. /, ~.
rot rp by Engneer -. ~ ~ well "A Inc dss,y,s az
The srmory : br,k IS 4, ~ WITH IRON roof two hun
dreo fpe, nv s,y.v ( 80, ,s,ad and alrs.ay ,crnral
by the Ordnance p-asri eot.
The carrepters ,po, /, tt,n IL two hnudred test nv
seventy hn,I, az hrr " Ia. rof i IN snli ,oa,a,,ar
Tne yo,k Tor Inc s,e.,etr- /. ..,ny done In IA sm
The n,pr here en-, s ,,sa Vim tns nol.r ~, On
ns.,v c,rp,c,sa 7, - a. -say 20 ma occun,so y ~
pscmbers 70 taIee : !. ,ao wnen MS finished the od
h..Lsri,h sboT .,n ., "a aown 7na 1870, An
"a, = !, h.ic,nr IN 80 80 VA - n ,ns f,ar
da,isas sTles bays IL y, wen mn, 4 va fas, asn
$50 -. So, sp - ,,s $500. - se ioe' uo7p'
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saved IN the .epQth ~ a.. ,h,p me new boilers sl-o
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