New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-31


claims that has stem ia unlike that Of the complainant
BrnsEss ~ THE MACHSE Snors.--Within two or
three days our reporter has visited the principal ma
dine shore IN this city, and found that employers and
oIchlye mechanics cOucurrCd in tho statement that
there il good deal Of activity in that branch Of bust
n,.a. AZ only one establishment the Fulton Works
did lie hear complaints Of dull times, aud it il stated
that hey doing considerable boiler work. The fol-
lowing lisi Of jobs in progress, in shops within the
limits ofthc Eleventh Ward, will tend toshow whether
c mechanics belonging to that precnctare in mmcdi
ate danger oi suffering from ant Of employment
The Neptune Works are TO put in a beam engine Of
- inches cy Under and 2ec stroke, for steamship of
about 1900 tuns burden which il to be launched in six
weeks from Greonroint. Aso the works for a ship of
800 tuns now building at Colycrs yard, Forty third
street 10 lC launched in couple Of months and des
tired Tor the China trade. For steamer Of 40 tuns,
building at Collyors, to be employed principally in the
Tunr oTtaion OF cattle from Honduras TO Cuba, works
are 10 be pa, in by the same firm. Also two beam en-
ginos Of Sfcct stroke, for q steamship of 600 tuns
10 b. launched within two months from Lawrence n
Foks yard WiIliansburgh and intended for the
Pacific coast Of South America. For II ferry boat,
building By Van Dusen, they to put in engine Of
20 inches cylinder and l2-feet stroke. The Neptune
Works are lc-ides doing about their usual amount Of
repairing.
Tie Morgan Iron Works have never had greater
rumicr employed than at present-some 600 or 700
men. They are putting an engine OF is-nch cylinder
and p-feet stroke into the Han Kow, a steamer of
over 900 unr built at Collyer's for Geo. ~ Sands
1t fitted with SewelI sfcshwaer condenser by which
incru4aton OF the boilers is obvated, and they are
better preserved while considerable fuel II also saved
ms il ia unnecessary to blow them out. For the Mis-
sifsirI, steamship Of 1900 tuns, built by w. II.
Webb for Achil & Sons Savannah line, a single
beam engine, of sO.inch cylinder and l-eet stroke,
will Le put in. She viii lie larger than any other boat
belonging to The Charleston or Savannah lincs will
Dc ready for the Summer trade and il TO be commanded
by Capt Lyons.
The Sound steamer Continental, of 900 tuns, for the
EewIayen Steamship Company, now lies at the Nor
gan Work., and il 10 he fitted with beam engine OF
1Oncrr yliudor aud llfcet stroke. She il building
under the suIcIintenocncc Of Capt Richard Peck, and
will &c ready in about two months. TIE Mary BEN
ton built at East IIadlam Conn, also lies at the Nor
gan Wolls aud il 10 be- fitted with beam engine Of
5Snchos cylinder and l0-ice stroke. She IL for the
Hartford and Long Island Steamboat Company, and
will lie completed in two months. They have Just
completed clip and large pnnpng-engno for tho
RussiGn Government 10 be used on the AMOR River.
Tleyare toput inclined engine of 38-nch cylinder
and C-f,ct stroke into feryboGt building at the yard
Of John Eglish foot Of Tenth street, she 10 destined
for the laror of Havana and will DO ready in about
four months. They putting in couple of boilers
for the CIistoya Colon, to on the south side OF
Cuba. Beside doing repairing the Morgan
Works arc alec building one Of Prof winnings lee
machines which il calculated to make ten tuns of ice
per day, at u cost Of quarter Of cent per pound
At the Novelty Works they putting in the engines
each of So-nch cylinder and Effect stroke, for the
two steamers-the City Of Boston and the City OF New
bodybuilding by Sneeden for tho Norwich Transpor-
atcn Company and BIO ready about the let OF May
They are making the largest engine ever put into sea-
going vessel for steamship of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Co-lO5-inch cylinder by l2eet stroke the boat
is being built at W. ii. Webbs and will be ready for
service next November. They have just dispatched
the North Carolina iron steamer Of COO tuns to run
betveea New-Yo,k sad Wilmington, n. c. stern