New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-21
WORK AT THE NAVY YARD.
PROGRESS OF THE NEW CRUISER MAINE


Tim poeroN To COME OUT OF THE DRY DOCK
WHAT is TO BE DONE WITH TIE
GALENA-MovEMENTs OF
OFFICERS.
A visitor TO that part of the Navy YARD where
the new armOred cruiser Maine Is building. "oud
easily recognize the fact that the sections of
steel there rivcted together were the beginning
NJ q shin In fact the work on the Maine is
making good progress Nearly all OF the frames
are in rlace. and a number of the longitudinals,
which divide the hull into compartments, nave
been rivcted to them. Under the roof of the big
shipbouse a number of men are engaged In rlvet-
inc the outside plating 10 the frames. Another
nor, Of the force is engaged in heating the rivets
70 red heat in small furnaces. In the machine
sbons near nv the work of trimming and rolling
the plates and punching or drilling the rivet
boles is carried on. Other men are engaged In
nrenaripp the stem and stern posts for use. When
tbes. are mt in place work can be done which
NOW has TO watt and larger force OF men can he
emnloved That there may be no delay beyond
the limit of time of the contract for building the
on oines and boiler and the other machinery Tor
the Maine. and 10 insure the best and most com
plete workmanship. the Quintard Iron Works
IN. F. Palmer Il Coz have sublet large part
of the work TO other firms.
The large corrugated furnaces for
tic eight cylindrical return tubular boilers, of
which there are to be three in EACH have been subet
TO the Continental Iron Works, of Brooklyn. The
Linden Steel Company, of Pittsburg, is getting out
the steel boiler plates, and, in addition the steel
blooms for miscellaneous forgings. The Tyler
Steel Tube Company, of Boston, has the work of
making the steel boiler tubes. The shaftng and
other heavy steel forgings are TO be made by the
Bethlehem Steel Works, and the steel castings for
the machinery, including the great bed Plates are
TO be furnished 10y the Standard Steel Company.
The engines of the cruiser will be the largest ever
made. and the Southworth Foundry and Machine
Company viii furnish the cylinders, and the South
Brooklyn Steam Engine Works Will make the con-
denscrs.
TO LEAVE THE DRY DOCK.
The Boston will probably come out OF the
drv-dock where she has been for about n week,
on Tuesday She has been delayed longer than
was expected. An examination of the submerged
part of the hull showed that 1t had not been ser-
ously pitted by corrosion from contact with salt
water Upon examination of her main condenser,
howe,e r, it was found that from thirty To forty
of the long tubes had corroded and were leaking.
This was probably the result OF gdlvanc action
and thc condensed steam which had fallen upon
them from the bleeding valve" Several of the
tubes had also drawn from expansion and con-
traction by hot steam and cold water, and tins
leaking would allow the salt water TO mix with
tbo fresh wafer made from the condensed steam
for feeding the boilers, and would cause the latter
IA become foul with scale, thus reducing the
effective heating surface. When the Boston comes
ont of the drv-dock she will be coalcd up. 1t was
intended TO follow the English custom of using
tho hest quality of coal for the speed trial,
and a renuisition was made for 200 tons OF
Nevy River" coal but Commodore Schl"y sent
a message 10 Commodore Ramsay authorizing the
nurchase of ONLY fifty tons of New River coal
for thc Boston and the remainder TO be made up
from the ordinary coal. The New River coal
is free burning and is more free from deletcrlons
substances than other Goals. After coallnG the
Boston will make dock trial at the dock alongside
which the Chicago now lies This trial VIII be
made by running the engines for few hours,
10 see how the machinery works, and whether
any alterations or corrections in it Will have 10
be made before the vessel goes 10 Newport To
make her speed and turning, or tactical Trials
She will probably go to Newport shortly after
her dock trial, and it is expected that the lauler
will he made a week from tomorrow The speed
trials AT Newport Will be under the direction
and suDerV sion of the board OF which OOmnllhutr
John q. Walker is PRESIDENT; Lieutenant =. ".
Bowman has been detached from me boston
and ordered on duty at the Naval Academy.
Lieutenant Hamilton lIutchinS, who has been
DIT the Torpedo School, will take Lieutenant bow
mans place. -, ,,,
succeed the Boston IN the dry-dock. Passed
Assistant Engineer O.. w. Roche has been detached
from her. and is to be succeeded by Passed
Assistant Engineer Julien s Ogden. who has been
an instructor at the Naval Academy since sep
Lieutenant Raymond p Rodgers, who has been
in charge of the Bureau OF Intelligence at Wash
ineton since April l, 1885, and who has been
relieved by Commodore Charles II. Davis, has
been ordered TO report for duty on the Chicago
TIE GALENA TO BE REPAIRED.
The Galcna will probably 60 into
the drydock shortly to have the copper plating on
her bottom, some of which has become looSened,
fixed. The work on this vessel is going ahead
steadily, and it will probably take about month
more TO make her ready for sea.
The Atlanta is ready for sea, and it is possible
that she may go To Newport this week To make
her speed trials. She made one dock tfiih last
week i'm which she tested four Of her boilers, and
She will probably test the other four this week
She has been practically ready for sea for several
weeks and will probably go on sea duly ShOrty
Orders have arrived at the Navy Yard for the
Yorktown to 20 TO sea for a two days trip. ms
i m accordance with the law that four months
after "A vessel has been put into commission sea
trial shall be made. Commander William H.
Brido1 has been ordered 10 her, and under his
supervision the sea trip and speed trials Will be
made She will probably not 90 to Newport for
her speed and tactical evolutiOns until after the
sea trip Ii will be necessary TO make the trials
without the full secondary battery on board. In
addition to the main battery there are now on
board the Yorktown two Calling guns and two
3-pounders of the secondary battery. II Is eN-
pected that the two G-inch guns, which were
taken off in order that the gun circles might be
made true win be replaced before Thursday. The
work Of coaing the Yorktown was begun on Fri
dav Four hundred tons of coal are to be- put on
hoard and the work will not be completed be
fore the middle of the week. Although no orders
have been received 10 this effect il Is possible
that the Yorktown will have dock trial before
she goes TO sea.