New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14
THE NEW DEPARTNENT SYSTEM Nv NAVY
YARDS.
From Our Special Correspondent
RoaTov. March 8, 1863.

From Our speca Correspondent 49,. ,,noh ,ecs
About nine months ago the Hon. Gideon
weles Secretary of the Navy, issued an order abospg
Tho ce Of Naval and recognizing the depart
ments in the NayyYards of the country making each
department separate In ITSELF with separate head who
reports TO Washington direct through the commandnV'
separate corps OF officers separate equipments oi ma
chinery and calling for distinct ana separate eApeh-
lures of the same general character The order was he
rally carried out in the Navy at Boston, IN when
there are eight departments designated thus Construct
ors Engineers Yards and Docks EqupMeht anu IT,
crutng Ordnance Medicine and Surgery, anu froVls-
nayyyard by itself In the Naval Construction Depart
nS Jni .nef9 sparmaRers boatbudcs bOckmakers
coopers, eaukers, plumbers, uh-%orkers Vpp
makers, stOrekeeper, and maehinisl,
and separate shops will be REQUIRED o LOT
thousand dollars worth Of machinery has been required
for this department alone. In the Engineer DepaLLu
there are employed "a chief-engneer, stOrekeeper,
painters masons backsmiths, boilernakers, founders
eoppeIsmiths anu re a masops car
penters, joners, painters, plumbers turner's, SUptha
Ordnance Department has storekeeper, blacksmith
rgger carpenters, joners, guncarrage makers ptes'
coopers nasOns, engineers machuiss leather
and slmakers Tor making bags, with separate engineer
The Equipment Department has i captain III charge
az superintendent, saimakers rggers s9iekeep ahv
ropeinakers There storekeepcr in the Department OF
Navigation. who keeps his own stores Eacn bureau n
clerk call the rolls OF aborers as II IL was pafae
department OF the Government Zach department must
distinct head ana It's separate
hinery been furnished only partially yet, at
the present tme board plank TO DO paned for one
department is carried directly past planning machine Oh
the ground floor into the upper stories OF the
building, because the work TO be done Is for DIFF
ferent bureau, and under the orders of o different
officer. It is stated that the completion OF estimates
for machinery already made will cost something Ike
100000 Under the old system there but master
blacksmith for the yard master joiner, one master
cauker &C. instead Of all these separate departments
Each workman responsible for the work done
in each class and shop suiced for the same purpose
There be question but that this new department
system, which was not authorized by the laws OF the
country complete failure, and Is conducted at great
expense TO the country Your correspondent Is informed
that substantially, the result has been reached In
the other navyyards Of the country and the following
figures indicate that such the fact showing the differ
in the cost OF the old and new systems IN navy
yards according to the Secretary report Estimates for
1915 during the civil list OF all yards sl32s0 esti
do for s3s6055 75 difference, s253S5 49, The
actual expenses Of the civil list Of the navyyard at Bos
ton in November 1864 with $40 employed, whose
operations the civil officers directed and CONTROLLED
1920 H. In November 1867 under the system with
1900 men, the expenses were s,is o. There had been
great decrease In the number Of w0rmen in each navy
yard and the increased cost OF conducting these navy
yards under the and unauthorized regime should Ike
investigated by Congress before the Naval Appropriation
bill Is passed IN any form.