New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-28
OUR Big SISTER CITY.
AFFAIRS I'M BROOKLYN.
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Athletes Contest for Prizes-What Clubmen are
Doing-Items of General Interest.

Ihrd-Ihe selection Of fOremen upon a competitjv.
examination so conducted 10 bring ont their stna.
and qualifications for Inc positions they seek omen ),
all corners who can show the requisite experience IN.
boards Will consist Of officers Of the Navy engaeed q,
conducting the work Of the yard
Secretary Tracy has completed the detan a onc.,,
that form the new Naval Torpedo Board The Re-
VIII consist Of Commander George A. Conyerse n
act as senior member and Leutenants 2. j. Draks
and l. e. Mclean The two last named are al preseo,
on duty engaged in the manufacturing Inspection n
the Howell aud the Whitehead torpedces.
In consequence Of the accident on the cruise,
Concord, when steampipe exploded comparative
test OF two different kinds OF steampipes has becn
ordered in the Navy Yard. The test will be mada
with two pieces OF copper pipe OF inches internal
diameter each one piece IS to DO banded and one
rveted to their ends, TO which heads my be boiled
The pipes are 10 be tested to destruction and arrange
1900 pounds II necessary The test VIII R'e Is q
behind barricade, TO avoid danger 10 any one When
the pipes burst After pressure Of 500 1 no @iSa
has been reached no one should approach says ~,
Order but the pipes should be examined through soms
peep peep h0lei h, Is probable that photographs Tie
TO the Bureau at Washington. Full and careful Oh
servaons are to be made and reported. The report
OF the test should cOntai" remarks on the condition
Of the pipes bands, keys fanges rivets brazng and
also the position aud description Of the rupture. In
cable extent between the bands, and in short nots
everything that will convey any sort Of information
The detachment OF Naval Cadets II. G. smith. Il.
NJ Watt and J; II. Rowen from the g7lnboat Bennng
ton and ordering them 10 prepare to take threeI
years course In the higher branches Of naval arch
lecture and naval construction at the Royal Naval
College, Greenwich, Eng, Is direct result OF the
demands made upon the technical cOrps-en gineefns
and constructlon-of the Navy. These young officers
had Just been graduated from the Naval Academy
Messrs. Smith and Watt Nos. 3 and 4 OF cadet
midshipmen and Mr. Rowen cadet gneer, and
they were about 20 begin service OF two years al sea
before promotion to ensign. by their transfer 10 tina
construction corps they will probably never 20 10 sea
Tor duty on war vessel. and their salaries Will be
corps
The detail for instruction abroad is considered ons
OF the highest honors that be conferred upon an
officer OF the Navy. and is recognition OF his superior
abilities and fitness for entering the advanced
technical corps. In accepting this new detail the
three officers had TO sign an agreement to remain IN
Of their studies az the Royal Naval College This wu
done because so many OF the engineers and con-
being offered situations In civil life at quadrlpe tA
salaries paid to them in the Navy. There are four
engineers and one naval constructor on the la
whose designations will take effect this year who have
secured more lucrative places In civil life.
There arc now studying naval architecture abroad
one engineer and two cadets at Glasgow two assist
ant-naval constructors at Greenwich, and ensign
and one cadet at Paris. Not only does the British
Government permit two representatives from this coun-
try 10 attend the Royal Naval College but the Navy
Department has, for the last five years, taken adj
Ecole Maritime In Paris, and TO the naval construction
school at Glasgow where training equal 10 that at
building and engine building demands such an ex-
ensive knowledge OF the higher branches OF technical
mechanical and mathematical attanments that mona
except men OF marked ability are able TO enter the
The cruiser Maine was put into the timber dry
dock at the Navy Yard In the week. to have her bot
will be put on at some future time They arc not YET
finished.