The daily gazette., 1879-10-09
SECOND EDITION
DOaUn at HurLOn's.

WHAT is BEING DONE-TnE b. o.
FERRY BOAT-OTHER STEAMERS
THE MACHINE AND BOILER SHOPS
SCEyE OF ACTIVITY.
A GAZETTE reporter took a walk
down to the Harlan & Hollingsworth
Co.'s works. and what he saw there can
be told In the following:
Calling first in the ship yard, he found
everything pointed to the fact that in
that portion of the works, the company
were very busy. A very large force of
workmen are engaged, and SO great is
the noise of the lam ners aOd machinery
that 1t Is almost Impossible to hear ones
self talk.
1t has already been mentioned that the
COMPANY had received the contract for
building large transfer ferry boat for
the use of the Baltimore & Ohio ,and the
r. w. h Is. Il. RS, coniointly to be
used in the transfer OF cars from one
road to the other at Locust Point, Balti-
more.
The boat will be one off no. the largest
that has ever been built in this city. Its
length over ALI is 324 feet; betweea per-
pendiculars, 81 feet; breadth of beam,
~ feet inches; depth of hold, Is feet, 3
inches. 1t will be constr ucted of the
best mate rial, and In the strongest man.
ner. The engines Will be very pow erful.
The keel was laid on Saturday, October
4th, and the first frame was placed in
position yesterday. The work of COM
pletlng her will be pushed forward as
rapidly as the company can obtain the
iron.
The steamer ST. Johns which arrived
here a short time ago from New York,
vas taken out OF the dry dock yesterday
morning, and during the day cOaled up.
The st. Johns during the summer plies
on the North River, as pleasure boat,
and during the winter she is used as a
freight and passenger boat on the rivers
in Florida. She came here for the pur-
pose of being fitted up for that purpose
after she had been Withdrawn for the
summer season on the North River
Next spring she will return and again
be- fitted up for pleasuse boat. The
vessel will probably leave for Florida in
| a few days.
The New York ferry boat Nassua
which has been undergoing repairs, has
had a new boiler placed in her, and will
be ready to resume her position on the
York.
| The large new iron steamer Decatur
d. Miller, for the Mer chant and NJ iper's
Transporta ion Company, between B0s-
Ton and Baltimore, is rapidly approach
ing completion, and it Is probable that
| she Will leave Tor her destination during
the present month.
Workmen ere engaged in painting the
large car shops. Owing to the press of
| work, and in anticipation OF an increas-
ed number of orders in the near future,
the company have been compelled to en-
large their boiler and machine shops.
The new boiler shop will adjoin the
| present one, extending towards the
creek. 1t will be of frame, 1872 feet 9
inches long; so feet wide, and 80 feet
| high.
The new machine shop will be erected
IN the rear of the new boiler shop, and
the old car shop. 1t will be quite as large
as the new boiler shop.
A number of railroad workmen are
engaged in laying tracks into the add.
tiODal car shop, recently erected by the
company. The tracks will be supplied
| with the patono OoutouuIai owtJCneS
In conversation with member of the
com psny he ated that work was very
plentiful, that they had not been so busy
for number of years. Every depart
ment was running to its utmest capacity
and, he remarked, "the future outlook
is even brigh ;er than the present, and
we expect to be pressed with work"
| The company shipped yesterday after
noon to the Pullman Palace Car COM
pany, two Pullman cars, which were
finished in an elaborate style.