The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-05-25

beams and old dcck-plating, SlSO. 600.
Roach has bill of extras on the ship. rs
follows Making connections to boilers.
rcarranging coal-bunhcrs, fire room plat.
ing. ash pans aud mounting, SlO.35O:
copper pipes and connections for two
Cameron pumps. furnished by the but
!reau. SSil.09 thirteen and one-half ton
of lump coal, six cords of wood, seven
gallons of oil, six pounds of tallow, for
trial trip, Sl3G.03: total Sl0l .377.12. The
worl, on the steamer Wyandottc is SINH
lar 10 that on the Nahant, for which
SlsO.000 was paid \ board of cngin-
GERS reported that the machinery of these
vessels was defective and that. -,
THEY NEEDED NEW BOILERS
which cos. $4,000 more. The repairing
of the hull oftlle Mantonomah cost $780,
00p. A pair of horizontal back-actng
compound engines with cylinders OF 2S
and i2l inches diameter respectively, and
42-inch stroke OF piston, together with
the boiler. cost $4,000. The contract
to build two iron screw propeller sloops
OF war was let at sjSO,o0O. The steamer
PasSiac's hull repairs cost SlS9,000. 1t
was aIterward decided to put new ma
chinery, compound engines, costing
$4,000 into the Miantonomah. Roach
wanted the old engine thrown in. but
finally agreed to them at the following
rates. viz Ola boiler scrap. S25 per ton !:
old shaiting. $50 do; old brass II cents
per pound, old copper, IL cents per
pound; boiler tubes, $50 per ton. The
steamer Trenton was ordered 10 have
new engines and boilers, the engines TO
develop 5000 indicated horse power,
which they will not do. Many of the
naval officers predict that the Trenton
will be
VERY SLOW >Hir.
IL not IN absolute failure. Roach con-
tractcd TO construct and erect machinery
for the ship for s6?j.O00. Repairs to the
machinery OF the steamer, Jason and
Passaic, small vessels, were made for the
sum OF >i0.sj0 each. Roach saws 81
will make every part of said machinery,
with new boilers and appurtenances SO
complete that when the vessels leave our
works, nothing further need be done To
make their engineering department COM
plctc." In addition 10 this. Ssl 200
was paid for hull repairs of the Jason,
and $4,000 for hull repairs on the Pas
sale. Hull repairs also Oh the double
turrctcd monitor Puritan cost Sl5j, 900.
Thi, contract was afterwards increased
to 500 900. Roach carries OIL $1,000, 900
alone in this specimen job. The Cat,ells
connection Is, a. is shown by these dis
patches, the NEST shameless. For certain
privileges, they undertook to furnish
Robson with II princely income aud cot
tases at Long Branch. There l.,
NO THEORY OF INNOCENCE
% be established with these books in the
way. How can an official who came into
any department poor. from salary OF
va '''O'' o"''N'"S op
erat'ons - the committee endorse: Dur
inS the nrsI year OF hls term Robson de-
po-i.el >c''l'"' = heretofore SHOWN, yet,
WIKI al h.s vaun.. OF innocence, he
ca11o- explain this remarkable shower
% +7Di- Iis payments Of Arge sums 10
B4-clcA -llEo' y s-i9 llile'! O. any tAe-
~ % 's.-.;i-'- business -r1asa ztill=- IL
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-ss- ia las -oeE-ry- Depeadlng On q
partisan hight a.. ----re2.eseu-ation III
,le partisan pr-----. % i asserted the acc