New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-02


street. gang of men follow up, sweeping the dust
into piles then the carts come up anu loaded. In
this way, few hours suffice to make the streets quite
decent. The recent experience Of machine street
sweeping demonstrates that it il cheaper and much
more effective than the voting broomsters.
SIYCER's NEW SFwfSG-MacHINF FACTORY-One
of the largest buildings ever erected in this city for
manufacturing purposes il now being built by Messrs
Isaac VI. Singer & Go. The structure TO be used for
the Manufacture of sewing machines. 1t occupies
fourteen lots of ground fronting on Delaney, Temp
kins, and Mangin streets, in the Thirteenth Ward
Although begun late last April it is already nearly
completed. The dimensions as follows: Two
hundred feet Delaney street, and 80 feet each
Mangin and Tompkins streets, with hight of about %
feet from the sidewalk to the The base
Of the foundation wall is feet thick on the three sides
facing the street. and 81 feet in the rear The walls of
the basement and first and second stories are feet
thick and the third fourth and fifth stories 10 inches
The building is of brick and wood, and divided into
five large apartments, one in each story. The base
ment is 10 feet in hight, the next story 81 and the
other stories 9 feet each in the clear Each floor
forms one large open room, and contains 100 squar
feet. Massive girders, upon which rest the beams
columns inches square on each floor The frs
course of beams is laid inches from center,
braced with double bridging and ascending the dis
lance between the centers measures one inch. For
the purpose of aording light there are 300 large and
wel-propOrtOned windows, with sils and lintels of
chiseled blue stone and two skyghts in the rear each
80 feet in length by 6 feet WIDE The entrance to the
basement is by two ordinary doors and by three large
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ner of the building Delaney street two iron stair
ways communicate with the first story and there will
also be iron staircase extending from the side
walk to the third story Mangn street An
other will be added on Tompkins street, if
needed The roof, which has a pitch of six
and quarter feet only will be covered by pa
tent cement. In the basement are two engines, one
of 50-hose power and the other of 2O-horse power.
Connecting with the large engine four boilers each
30 feet long by feet inches in diameter the small
engine being supplied BY one boiler. The large en-
gne--a beautiful piece of mechansn-will drive the
many wheeled and infinitely conp lcaied machinery
distributed throughout the second, third fourth, and
fifth floors. The remainder of the basement will be
occupied for the storage of pig iron, coal and ma
chimes awaiting transfer to the ware-rOoms of the
Company on Broadway. The first floor will be used
this dngy, murky smithy from IS to 80 men will be
employed modng and casting the coarser parts of the
machines. In the of the floor are two great blasts
prorudng their ron-capped heads through the second
floor, and resting upon solid foundation of brckwork
sixteen feet square built up from the ground within
a foot of the first floor. The pillars supporting the
grders in the vicinity OF the furnace of iron, and
the floor, for the space of eight feet either side, will
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most of the larger parts of the machines will be
featured and here will be found every variety of tools
for cutting, boring, planning smoothing and polishing
Iathes, huge cutting machines and shears noisy trip
hammers, drills, augers, and other machinery, driven
by steam power The third floor will be devoted to
the manufacture of the smaller parts of the machines,
such require more delicate manipulation and higher
finish; also as a shop for repairing tools and ma
chinery. There will probably he arranged this floor
an experiment room, from which strangers and en-
povees will be excluded In this department skul
artisans will be constantly engaged in making and
testing the value of improvements and new designs.
The fourth story will be devoted to the testing and
adjustment of the machines before they are sent into
the market. On the fifth floor the machines will be
painted vanished and gilded and afterward dried.
A portion of this floor will probably be occupied
purposes. Each floor will be amply provided with
everything requisite for the comfort and convenience
of the employees. The building throughout will be
heated by steam, and no fire will be used in any por
ton of the establishment except in the furnaces con-
nected with the blasts and boilers thus preventing any
danger from fire. The building is massive, and du-
bic in its construction but without the slightest at
tempt at architectural beauty. lis cost will be about
500 COO and when fully completed, and all the neces
sary machinery arranged the total cost will not be far
from 5000, 0CO The establishment will easily accom-
MEDIATE from 5000 to 5000 men, and Messrs. Singer
Co. estimate that they will be able to manufacture,
with two thousand or twenty-five hundred men, from
one hundred and thirty thousand TO one hundred and
fifty thousand machines per annum. Hereafter the
large ironproof machineshop in Mott-stree, erected
by the same firm in july 1853, will be used principal
lv ms storehouse for the machines when finished and
ready for sale or shipment
THE NEw-YoRK STATE ARsEsAI.-Yesterday az
ternoon the new State Arsenal, which has just been
completed at the corner of Seventh avenue and Thirty
fifth street. was thrown open for the inspection of the
military men OF the city, by the Commissioners, Adit.
Gen. Townsend, Inspector Gen. Sherman and Com
missary-Gen. WEIGH. Among the company Were
Major General Sandford BRIG. Gems. Hall and Spicer,
Col Bostwck and large proportion OF the Board OF
Officers The present building has been constructed
from the ruins of the one which fell in November last
in consequence of the in the walls not being
sufficiently dry to sustain the ponderous weight of iron
used in the root. The building is of brick lS6 fee,
inches in length Sc feet inches in width. and three
stories in hight. Tie walls are two feet eight inches
thick At the southwest corner is a large tower loo
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are two smaller towers. The hISt or ground floor Of
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