New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-05
OUR BIG SISTER CITY.
AFFAIRS In BROOKLYN.
Crowds at the Navy Yard to See the Fleet of Warshps
Pastors and Their Congregations. Notes About
the Baseball Team. What Club Men are Doing.
The Week at the PIayhouses. May-Day
Excursion. Items of General Interest.

States Navy has ever possessed. and would have
been squadron duty long ago could the Ord
nance Board have got her battery equipment on
have heavy guns mounted IN half-turrets her four
s-inch guns being carried on the spar deck in
halfturrets built out from the ships side, twenty
four and q half feet above the water line. One
feature about her is her ram bow. She Is bark
rugged, but her sail power is auxiliary to her ma
chinery, which runs two large screws She is
intended rs a flagship, and will probably he sent
to the European Squadron. The trial of her guns.
which was held off the Sandy Hook Lightship i'm
mediately after the Centennial celebration on
Wednesday, was entirely satisfactory. Each OF
the broadside guns fired once, and one Of the
s-inch guns was fired four times. Lieutenant A.
NJ. knight had general charge OF the test.
The Yorktown, the first OF the new vessels built
under the last Administration, is steel gunboat.
She was sent here from Philadelphia week ago
to take part in the naval parade: 1t was her first
cruise at sea, and Neptune baptized her with one
of the heaviest storms that has occurred on the
Atlantic coast this year. She was forty-elght
hours in making the trip. Although she was built
under Secretary Whitneys administration, he was
not completed in time to he accepted by the Cow
eminent until after General Tracy took the reins
of the Navy Department in hand. And then her
guns not ready for her; hence she had 10 come
TO New-iork without item. as they DID not reach
Philadelphia until the day she was 10
sail for this city. The main battery has.
however, been sent to the Navy Yard, and the
as possible. Some OF her gun-carragrs and shields
for her guns are also here Orders have been
received in the Yard to place her guns on board
as snon as practicable. This vessel is Of about
200 tons displacement $50 feet long, 36 feet
beam, II feet druught, and OF $500 horsepower.
Her rig is that Of thrcc-mastcd schooner, and she
has speed Of l6 knots under steam Her
main battery, which is now in the Yard con,
sists Of six 6Dch breech-loadinC rifles, mounted
in sponsors on central pivot carriages her
secondary battery consists Of eight Hitchcock
revolving guns, and Calling rapid-hrng guns,
mounted on the rail and on tripods. She VIII
also have eight torpedo guns from which anti
mobile torpedocS will be fired. The contract
price for building her WAS S455,000
INTEREST IN THE MAINE.
Another feature OF interest is the partially con-
structed frame of the arnored cruiser Maine, 70
be after the designs of the Brazilian cruiser
Riachnelo launched in England in sa3 The
building Of this vessel is most interesting piece
Of work She will not, however, be completed
within two years,
About thirty wor1men were discharged from
the Navy Yard last night. These men were
chiefly from the plating-shops, and were III lSe
who took their places during the last Admins
tration. Notwithstanding the fact that they were
incompetent and utterly unqualified for the posi-
tions which they filled, they continue TO WORK.
sometimes injrring or even spelling GGvcrnm"nt
propcrty and for this reason they were dlschar2rh
A small force of fifteen men wiSSc taken on 70
morrow to fill the places Of those who were ais
charged.