New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-20
TEE WORKERS. IN IRON.
uaciiinc-shops and Boiicr-wOrk.-Whnf They
are Doing.

That we might pre- emf TO our readers detailed ac-
count Of the business doing the principal machine
shops and boiler works Of city our reporter within few
day has made io circuit Of the city and gathered far
practicable the particulars Of tue state Of the works now
being prosecuted Although large reduction is observable
from year ago. many the shops pretty busy in
finishing mp the o last year This work consists OF
largo and powerful engacs boilers de'gncd mostly FOR
tie merchant service append list OF tho shops their
locaiion and tho principal work going on In each
NOVELTY IRON WORKS FOOT or TwIFTH-sr., EAST RIVER
About $50 men are noS employed tie various departments
Of i. establishment ard with tho present contracts business
will b, brisk flr months to TseJ hayereeenty com
peed engines aud boilers or tho large steamer Arizona
3 ,uas b,lorging the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
aud within 90 days machinery OF the Montana sister ship
10 the Arizona Will be fully completed They have also in
process Of construction the machinery for two large and mag
niGeeHt steamships designed Tor the Pacific Mail steamship
Company and neaded for service on the route between SAn
Friucsco and China All Of tlosC engines are Of tie vertical
ban description cJade by l. feet stroke OF ps
ton and Of elaborate workmanship
Thes works are pushing tao work the two engines for
the United fghte Wampanoag to rapid com
p,u They will be far flushed to admit OF putting on
ioam BY Of July next and in all probability be turned
over the Government within month subsequent TO tAat
time.
They are doing their usual amount Of repairing and
among tie steamships recently and present being reftted
by them are Eorhra Light which has been thoroughly
oyerhaeed previous 10 being dispatched to Aspn"al thers
10 be retained a. an extra vessel by the Pacific Mail Steam
slip Company; the Mrpo'a Monterey and Mississippi hav
inr had repairs engines aud boilers and the Clara
Car,s formerly tie steam yacht Of H. W. Jerome esq having
been purchased By the Pacific Mail steamship Company has
been fitted as tender end dispatch boat; and also supplied
with pumps that she may be used hreensine
boat when occasion requires She is nearly completed
MORGAN frog WORKS, FOOT OF NIETH-sT EAST RIVER.
Iere there Is considerable activity and they employing
about They have recently finished the vertical
beam engine board tho steamer Star OF tho East in
tended for service between Boston and Gardiner Me-; this
engine 81 inches diameter OF cylinder b. IL feet stroke OF
piston and has an effective power OF 900 horses they have
ao inst completed engine for the iron Nrevo
Cubano built by T Y Rowland Of Greenpont and intended
for service the on side Of the Island OF Cuba between
Baabano and the Of Pues this engine &c inches diane
ter OF cylinder feet stroke Of piston The machinery Tor
the large rgatc being pushed forward with
ygor and will be readiness In good consists Of
two geared engines having O0nch cylinders and four feet
stroke OF piston The large and elaborate pumping engines
designed Tor the Water Works Of Chicago are constructing
here and will be finished before required Beside this they
are constructing other works consisting OF engines boilers
&c. and are doing large Of repairing among the
vesseS at their being ovehaued the Commodore
Brooks Continental bridgeport. City Of Hartford &C
FULTON IRON. WORKS, FOOT OF coRLEARs HOOK, EAST
RIVER
This estsbshment employing some 975 men, aud are
busy upon tho engines for steamship building by Thomas
stack Of Grssnpon and owned BY Arthur Leay Co. ofth
city They also constructing several boilers stationary
engines &C., and doing large amount Of repairing the
propeller Crosssu being one Of the most oos Among
the last completed engine and boiler contracts OF the WORKS.
Alhambrs and Granada sister ships 762 tuns vertical
beam engines lsnch cylinder by II feet stroke; Jas T.
Brady. vertical beam t5inch cylinder by IL feet
strobe City Point, LOO TINS vertical direct engines
| 4iinch cylinder by feet inches stroke
| ALLAIRE IRos woRAs, cHERRY-sT
These works the Oldest In the country and among their
In engine building for the mercantile marine
NAV be bouorsby mentioned those board tho weknown
steamships Baltic, Pacific. Vanderbilt Illinois Empire City
Northern Light Star Of the West Costa Res EewYork
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