New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-27
OUR Big SISTER CITY.
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
Rod Forper-Actors Attacked Mob-No War Preparations
If the observation-disclosures Chapn's Closing Administra-
+ion- Various Items of General Interest.

10 I inch. In order that the reader may be able "a
form idea OF what Is being done for the Navy IN
this Item alone. the following are the ships and
the amount OF plating CURED for each: Ar.
mored cruiser Maine, 1143 "a tons; double-turretd
monitor Terror, 57731 TONS double-turrcted monitor
Amphtrite 654 1-2 tons; armorcd cruiser Texas
1o12 IL tons; coastdefcnce vessel Monterey, e7f
TONS barbette turreted monitor Puritan. 1092 ia
tons: harbor No. 1, 773 Is sons armorh
cruiser New York, COZ tons bateships Massachusetts,
Indiana and oregon, each 1904 12 tons cruiser No
g. 213 IL tons; cruisers Cincinnati and
Raleigh each 60 IA tons; the Montgomery, Detroit
and No. IL, 2,OOOton cruisers. each 81 12 TONS The
two commerce destroyers. cruisers Nos. ~ and 10.
each 110 "a tons: gunbOats Nos. 3 and 8. each 10
tons making q total OF 15,946 tons.
The Department has also given attention b
securing bronze metal for special purposes about the
machinery. One Of these copper zinc tin alloys a
called the "Tobin bronze" because 1t Is the invention
of Passed Assistant Engineer John A. ToOin Of tie
Navy. In many respects II Is form Of sterrometl,
or delta metal, with the addition Of a small amoaHt
Of lead which tends 10 increase Its soitness and
to the square inch an elastic limit Of 42S7 pSanSs
square inch, and from II 10 II per cent Of eOnga-
were recently made at the Navy Yard By the Board
OF Experimental Engineers, and were accepted By
tond 70 be Of 8e 6emogsneOns gsas ssS
perfectly sound. Experiments with the metal have
also been mede with the Edison commutators which
another wear For some time Assistant Engineer +. H.
Coaant has been engage IL the Navy 6eTd II making
strongest and best In the course Of his work he has
20 asw Gs fr s e electric experts
working out system OF regulations governing In
stalations of electric lights in ships they have studied
the dangers attending the of electric Light and tho
means 10 avert them.
In the estimates made By the various bureaus for sp.
propnations for the improvement Of Navy Yard plants
Secretary Tracy struck out all those which could safely
be postponed for the present: When mechanical ap-
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Gus purposes customary naval vessels the
necessity Of weiequipped repair shops becomes i'm.
peratlye. In the steam engineering department OF the
New.York, Navy Yard many Of the shop tools have
been overhauled and put In good order, and much
other OF the machinery has been kept up as well as
could be With the meagre amount 20 expend upon such
repairs. Contracts have been made for 45ton over
overhead travelling electric cranes with runaway,
dynamo and engine for foundry 150-horsep power
stationary engine for electric welding plant and boiler
shop and three other machines which. when 10 place,
will put the shops in much more efficient condition
than at present particularly in facilities for handling
Eginecr-ln Chief Melville has urged upon Congress
size and is only one-half the length originally de-
signed. AS consequence much OF the boiler work for
g tie o1s nne and sa Eae & had S be as a an ID
or an awning stretched on poles and much Of the
to the weather. He urges that the shop be q
once completed to the size designed for IL; 1t Is
eee n5s Shop 1Saa aSG a"a 6p
testing machine, Of at least 900 tons capadt
and In which entire parts OF marine engine might ~
tested is needed. With such machine results mig
be obtained that would be Of almost incacuable
value not only to the Naval service but TO the county
at large. Two of the shop boilers now in use
about out, and 1t is not belved that others ar
1T to carry the steam pressure required for the new
machinery.
Chiaf Naval Constructor Wilson recommends an ap-
preparation OF $4,000 for the purchase and erection
of new tools in the Construction Department These
tools required for handling material and for gen
era machine work. and, in addition number OF heavy
tools are needed for machining protective deck
plates. stem and stern posts, rudder frames, etc,
may occasionally require be expeditiously per.
formed At present any machine work 10 he per
formed upon the plates at the yard must be
done by hand, there are no tools suitable for the
purpose available. In the case Of the Mantonamoh,
where alterations In the shape OF the port holes IN
turret armor plates made to comply with new
requirements OF the Ordnance Bureau the necessity
of doing the work by hand, owing to the want OF
proper tools entalled both great delay and expense
To place these tools properly win require building
about seventy-fve feet wide by 200 feet long.