The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-22
SHABBY NAVAL BUILDINGS.
The New Structures Near Dover that ne.
place Those on Ellis Island.

MIA bBk NAVAL RUlLDlNGA
The New Structures Near Dover that Re.
place Those on Ellis Island.
DOVER. March 21.-Six miles north OF this
New Jersey town the Navy Department has
erected cluster OF buildings to replace those
abandoned on Ellis Island Tho new build.
inCs stand on the powder depot tract pur.
chased some years ago by the Government for
the Ordnance Department. On this tract OF
1.9C0 acres the Government has erected i've
immense magazines and filled several OF them
with powder. while in others quantity OF sui
phur aud nitre for the manufacture Of powder
Is stored to meet future need. The ordnance
magazines are mnrvels OF ingenuity and thor.
ough construction. They are 300 feet long and
80 wide and IRE fitted with cable lightning
conductors. iron outer doors and shutters and
inner doors and shutters Of hard wood. The
roofs are Of iron. the floors OF yellow pine on
iron beams filled in with arches OF hollow
brick and supported by strong columns while
the walls are built o! excellent brick. laid in a
workmanlike manner.
In strong contrast the Navy Department has
run up shabby buildings or tho side hill. The
Ordnance Department set off $50 acres OF the
mountain side forthe purposes Of the navy.and
nearly all OF this land has boon roughly
cleared Of timber by two natives. who received
the wood for their work, and worked the con-
tract for all there was in 1t. getting out rail-
road ties. telegraph poles. fence posts mine
props. nnd hundreds of cords OF frewood for
the cost Of cutting and hauling away. On this
desolatcd spot stand the new buildings and \
steep branch OF the Morris County Railroad
has been built to tho long platform which con-
meets the buildings and makes sort OF q rail-
road station ut the place.
In the i BEAUTIFUL valley below lies the powdef
over the si plain at least halt nile apart e and
with the handsome, office building. the guard
"nd was
buildings was studied with view TO nne effect
while the arrangement OF the navy buildings
seems to have been made simply Tor con:
yenience and with no thought OF safety or OF
The nHw buildings, Of the Navy Departmesnt
orannnse buiIdpes ' but Shabby BY them selvos
built Of irregular machine. made bricks la i'd.
we're more accustomed to digging dtches.
and rqresnmasly laia under the superysGSn
work o. could not detect a crooked line when
he saw it. Bricks projecting quarter OF an
tracted his attention. and it does not seem to
have occurred to the INSPECTORS. II there were
tn Wa
Tiad"xsS are sl0ssd WITH SsSe4,Ry o en-
are inisera6iy laid. the contractor not
having taken the ordinary presau.ion , to
the oors are e ronxh and unsve s and Wien
they shrink they will leave wide cracks. which
structed on tho same cheap scale. and 1t is a
matter Of surprise to the rural visitors. WHO
done in the most Scrupulous manner and with
the best material 70 be obtained They draw
ings on the tract and wonder whether politics
hAI ANYTHING 70 d. With the navy ,, contract
shell house. It Is :su6 feet long and 50 feet
wide. built Of brick and rooted with iron. In
and Similar eonstruction. Then there rel Is osd
ing house. to which the shells will be taken to
receive vet, the charges Of powder En-, After loading
stored until shipped away on reauisition from
tie yard az m run along
BROUGHT right up t. the doors Of ths
the 0rdnanee b ep"rments ne store8euse 81
separated q Jew yards from the brick build:
nme tie sf Sa s n
cheapest possible manner; These are the
gun cotton houses. and are to CONTAIN wet and
Pert authority on ths Road to LAX Denmark
are several small cottages; for the workmen
who are to be Employed at the shell h9qse and
when completed and that there will be no res
ident commissioned! officer ut the grounds.
a change was made last week In the COM
mand Of the powder depot OF the Ordnance
Department, After Major Phipps was sent
ttemE,o,rarily and q short time. ago Col. James
NJ. Whittamore WIS appointed t. tho post, he
took charge on Tuesday OF last week. He Is
the senior Colonel in the Ordnance DEPART.
ment and Is second in rank in that branch OF
the service. There is no garrison at the depOt
and the commanding officer has never lived
nearer than Morrsown. although excellent
quarters exist in the fine office building, and
the location Ia one Of the loveliest that could
be desired for q summer residence for n man
who desired to get away from civilization for q
season. The country around. especially t0the
north. is MS wild MS any in New Jersey. so wild
indeed, that 1t Is not unusual to sec foxes.
wildcats. offers. minks. and copncrhead snakes
on the grounds. There is n lake n mile long
and IL Quarter Of q mile wide on tho tract, and
1t uhonnds with black bass and picscre|. The
centre Of the tract Is five miles out from Dover
and tho roads are all fuirly good. The Morris
County Railroad runs throug Oh the Government
tract. making two trips each way every week
day between Chnrotteburg on tho Susque-
hanna road and Hopatcong Junction on tho
Central. Or, Chester junction OF. the Chester
branch Of the Lnckawanna. Going by rail Ii.
however. q poor way to got TO the powder
dCnot. 1t IL better to go to Dover and then
drive out to Pcatinny as the place l. called:
the name being derived from u rugged and
grand mountain peak Of that name which