The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-05

the work that has been completed within a few months
a, our machine shops; also me work now on hand The
business at present is Considered rather dull but it IL
expected by the proprcors of the principal works
brisk business will be carried during the ensuing
son. As il is it will be observed that besides pretty
large amount Of heavy work domestic account there
is also foreign account, principally for Cuba Al
the Novelty Works they building steam fire engine
for exhibition in London and st. Petersburg.
FULTON IRON wORKs-JAMEs MURPHY co.
At these works they have made the machinery for the
United States gunboat roquois in OF compile
ton at tbs Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Eoqaos has two
propeller engines Of "a inch cylinder and % inch stroke
of piston, with two Of Martins patent vertical tubular
boilers This vessel has brass propeller weighing 9,o0O
pounds, calculated to make eighty revolutions per min
ute, and work up TO one thousand horse power The
weight of engines and boilers is l7s tons bunkers and
bukheads IS tons water in tanks Al TONS carrying It's
tons of COAL sufficient for five days consumption making
total weight of machinery and fuel of about AIS
tons She will be completed about the 18th of October.
They also making iron dcsccacr coo feet long, for
q sugar mill in the island of Cuba They are also build
Ing engine for small troop transport for the Spanish
government intended to convey troops to various places
on the coast Of Cuba. The hall is baildng at Lawrence
Folks yard, at Greenpoint
Also four low pressure boilers for the Spanish steamer
Ocean Bird, now plying between Havana and cadiz
One engine and boiler for the Ninth Avenue Railroad
Company.
Machinery for steam saw mill for Canclo Reventos,
Brazil.
They also repairing have quite completed repairs
to the steam crryboats Sylph Hunchback, Josephine,
Staten Island, Canada Geo. Law, Geo. Washington One
ota, Onalaska and Minnesota
They are also building several sugar mills with engines
and boilers for different parties These works employ $50
men.
THE ALLAIRE WORKS.
T.acn H. ala
among their achievements in engine building may be ho-
honorably mentioned those board the steamships
Baltic Vanderbilt, Pacific Panama. now on the Pacific
Ocean; Illinois, North Star, Northern Light Pacific,
Star of the West, Union, Jas. Adger. and the
steamboats, Isaac Newton, Plymouth Rock, Empire State,
Bay State, John Brooks, Vanderbilt Western World of
Buffalo, st. Lawrence, Lake Champain and many others.
At present they building engine for the pro-
pelIer steamship built by Sneeden, Of Greenpont, for
Cromwelrs Savannah line. It will be seventy inch
diameter Of cylinder and four feet stroke Of piston The
vessel will have two smoke stacks She will be completed
in about two months.
They are also building small steepc engine of twenty
eight inch diameter of cylinder for the small seventy ton
steamer launched few days ago by Henry Steers for the
Liberia Colonization Society," and intended for river pur
poses the coast of Africa.
They have completed within a few months some very
heavy castings and machinery for the Detroit Water
Works.
They are also making an engine Of ifty inch cylinder
and ten feet stroke Of piston for Captain Fish, of California
The hull is now building at the latter place.
The works are now undergoing thorough repairing
preparatory to commencing work contract yet
made public The force Of employees at present is small
NEPTUNE IRON WORKS.
They have just finished and shipped TO California a
beam engine of sixty inches diameter of cylinder and
twelve feet stroke with boilers put up in boat
now building in San Francisco for the California Steam
Navigation Company.
They have also nearly completed engine thirty six
inches diameter of cylinder and nine feet stroke for the
Union Ferry Company, of Brooklyn
Also engine and boiler. forty inch cylinder and ten
feet stroke, for the same company.
They have an engine and boiler under construction,
fifty inch cylinder and ten feet stroke with boiler
new boat now building by Mr.. Thomas Coyer for the
Glen Cove route.
They have just concluded contract for an engine and
two boilers, ffty-six inches diameter of cylinder aud
twelve feet stroke, wrought iron Wheels for new boat
for the Albany day route, building by Mr.. Thomas
Collyer to be called the Daniel Drew.
They also putting the engine and boilers OF the steam
ship Quaker City in complete repair
MORGAN IRON WORKS.
These works the largest in the United States In
good business times they employ one thousand men
they have now but seven hundred, it being very
dull season of the year. At present The workmen are en-
gagged in making the propeller engines for the United
States sloop Seminole at Pensacola They are 10
be fifty inches in diameter Of cylinder thirty inch stroke
of piston and will be of $50 horse power They will be
finished in about five months.
They arc also building engine for Captain Days 700
ton iron boat built by Snecden, of Grcenpoin designcA
to between New Orleans and Mobile The engine will
be fifty inch diameter ofcylnder stroke OF piston
she will also have boiler and iron paddle wheels the
latter thirty feet in diameter The boat is designed
for passenger business.
Two large boilers for the Havrc steamship Fulton: they
are fourteen inch shell and twentysx feet long They
will be ready in December.
They building boilers for the Norwich propelIars
Shetucket and Charles Osgood
They have just finished boilers for the steamships
Charles Morgan and Mexico in repair
ing the boilers Of the steamship Tennessee The machinery
and boilers in the elegant steamer De Soto of Livingston
l. Crocheron's New Orleans line were built A, these
works; also the machinery and boilers in the steamship
Yorktown, OF the Richmond line.
They are making pair of boilers for the New Haven
steamboat Elm City, which will be placed hoard that
vessel sometime during the month They twenty one
feet long.
They are also building an engine Of forty-sour inch
cylinder and eleven feet stroke of piston for Captain VIM
Skiddy, which will be placed boat designed for the
Southern trade
They are building a PRISONS condenser for one Of
Barsow Pope's rotary engines all of which will be
placed in the steamer Daylight, building Green
point.
NOVELTY WORKS.
The engines in the Russian frigate General Admiral
built here suffice to say they are the ne plus
ultra perfection. Besides this, the sNovcy has fur.
nishcd some Of the best engines in and river
steamers They have just completed the engines in the
steam ferryboats Perry, Warren, Allen and Marion be
longing to the Long Island Ferry Company These engines
are thirty eight inch cylinder and nine feet stroke
They have contract, which has been partially filed
to furnish thirty portable forest engines for Southern
market to be used in driving machinery Cor Telling trees
and saving them up Twenty Of these engines have been
Shipped and ten more in process Of completion
These engines present rather peculiar
the size of an ordinary fire engnc-and puzzle the un-
initiated at first sight.
This company have pretty strongly into the build
ing OF Lee 1arneds steam fire engines, and at the pre-
sent time have thirteen in progress Of completion
Two Of them to weigh 5000 pounds arc for PHILADELPHIA
They will cost 3d. 900 each. They also building two
of the same size of the Manhattan engine of this
ctyone for San Francisco and the other for New Orleans
They will weigh 5000 pounds each, and will 81 500