New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-18
CRACKING THE NIGER HEAD
HOW TIE FRAGMENTS ARE GRAPpLED FOR
dynamite USED IN SMALL QUANTITIES On I"i'
p,vr or FLOOD RocK-sTATE OF THE WOEk.

.,,,,r,, ,,evn ~ SMALL QUANTITIES ON THIS
PANT OF FLOOD RocK-sTATR OF THE Work.
The Messengers on the Sound steamers VINO
stoy on deck until Wards Island Is passed ID orier "
view tns neIghborhOoi OF Hell Gate, the aDouo Vi d"
sc,l c,r,houles now sec only slowly disappearing PIE
OF broken stone which Il pointed ont TO theh rs roo
Rock and three or four big drcdges cropping anoh' urr
the water for dotacned fragments. The dredges are
ranged around sadly cracked Niger HeAn' 's'i'eV
whose integrity they couspirtnS From tler oerioA
hangs the pondcrOus iron graphing APPARATUS ooN"5
like the claws OF huge lobsers The Atlantic Dredging
Company has as yet only or the four dredSeS on o
oronnd which II will use discharge tS eontrot lor
removing 10000 tons OF the rock but TIC TWO uo'o'
nent reJss arc aud are at WORK picking up no
loose rocks top Of the leIge MoSI OIL th"' N''ii
comes up Is IN pretty small fragments bus the otner u
they caught tartar Tne engines pulled aud the cn'iL9
of the derrick tghtened until the jaws OF tue SraPhe'
capped wIde a. though tho largest kind OF Done was
stuek i'm its throat Then the whole apparatus so"i!
sank OF sikht and went down, down uhlh IL ioS'
on the bottom When the engine was reVefsed inc
pulleys crenked the scted down INTO inc WAFER
IN way which Indicated that they had camped ON to
narticuarly large mouthu When the rock was oue Oi
tue water 1t proved BIZ weighing ton or NJ
teen tons second derrick hitched Oh to IL 10 make
ASSURANCE dOahy sure. nut lust as that Hehl'c' o'i @
supn.ci Ia be- accom- psnci the hinge rorE Slppeu OUT
q, their grnsp and piarppG down INTO ne water iSdn.
The other WORK which H. bang done Is hIa'ilhg peh
Tnate 'o nnde2 IN. bigger Head Lecans Is
little water IL, 10 might fly OIL s bAs" a. ''bsr
iune before. 10 the inJnr) d t'e g ~ ~,
consequently, tuoIgh the Al racc 81 the looK u az
seemed cracked, accouiinS 10 Satencnn|a 10, w
divers IL cannot b. drcdgcd mp until rs 'foNp ""' ~,
ti.t 1 q iron laws Of drdges san got ln ot H. AZ
accomplish tiis dynamite cartridges containing poIn
or two OF explosives placed h rork am
nearly every lay at hign tl" rhe .'oVerhhsn. ~, ~,
that the first work Of the contracting company 'u' u"
dome on The Niger Head he ansc II = more III Ihc
mel than other portions. President Pa ka1 mas tHei
tore urtrrrd his alea ~ las rs the' cdu Wiz
inc blasting 40 that the upper shell az ~ broken anu
The lrrig,., nave 10 WORK 10 be- er thN'1 AZ
tlag ttffh
present since In this way Srratrr lept" ., If, @ M.
,url and the explosive held down 20 II WORK pn '
rock one tiy lsst week q blast exploded near the
surface and a IInn OF vIie 'tid liN' OF N'' ""
M Ike 4 IN rine rocket nakine a. prcly SpVtioo 80
,.i. -,Iutc reach height cquhl
et of tlc g4 ut fIact's Point, ami thr ShocH
quite sduai u that OF the "AplpSi"n o. ~"
mine last month. ally the lcctacie - less hl
sNc how. Vrr Whc the nOIr ot hlSu u q ~ Pipl'HrH
the native Hcll-Ct"r begin To KEEP ueir "rillrr w.
on his lrctGcs about thc rock Iho b"T' ch
iuJ I.ur-y oues 20 down and sit On the shore Nlth
,,rr, cIa..rs iu hand IN d. can lie seen Iiunlu-
~ md Town IL der thai eids to the f"tton arraye
~ heir aruor iooknt Ike 80 many i''yp W.oT
numerous lo nave abbreviated. lHeF are p"iui.
the cutii it. last ui-ug pl ,ce IN some c"Nce"
rrrvire -. the ledge Ehrn tHe moot lnSr "I tue "I'-
pllrc and tc divers climb np one ait'r me "trr 10
ite MINER WORT They MI hclr hclhot cNfcPl
~ fourth ono makes lnotnrr u1p :" 10" DO ION 10
.pe n all riot and the C1uucrtlt Tor hllhg uili
me current ~ electricity gpon ~ ruund there - shock
AN rrcD oi earth air and water and wrte EeyTPr 81
lrOm tao calm sheet oi water h tne must %
AIR f.c ebony waves have suh>idrd the divers go
dow, to how ,urc,-,ful the pts has been 1nh me
drudge, come up IL cary away hr fragment" u aHJ
p,uv ,,y thi 4 /. ifpo.1r - furcli tho cy1ct con
duon ~ things which viii %" !, uud wien s'h'lrhl
lc Interior nu. they do NOT expect amy in-r"oinaDie
H.iicIii.rS.