New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18
AFFAIRS AT THE NAVY YARD.
ALL HANDS BUSY AT THE NATIONS BIG
SEA STATION

THE ACCIDENT TO THE CINCINNATI-THE MAINE
TO BE LAID Up IN ORDINARY THE
MACHIAs READY FOR SEA
Life at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is succession
OF surprises. and OF the surprises
Friday. when the protected. twn-scrcw cruiser
Cincinnati Captain Henry Glass. returned to the
yard with several rips and tears In the outer
plating Of her hull. and one blade OF her port pro-
peer broken. from contact with what is believed
to have been sunken wreck near Execution Rock
while on her way to New London. An account OF
the damage to the pretty cruiser will be found in
another column.
The big second-class batte-ship Maine Is TO be
laid up in ordinary and crew of men from the
steam engineering department is at work her
clearing her boilers and drying the tubes. white
leading the engines. and looking after all the stop
cocks and valves. and the steam engineering gen
orally Of the big ship This work requires IT.
Tie time as on the carcfulness with which 1t Is
done depends the condition of the steam apparatus
of the vessel when she Is ready 10 BE- ordered into
commission In the time work the after
turrct Of the big ship is going steadily The big
turret plates with the portfolios for the Pinch
guns in place although not yc' fastened to-
geher, while the roof OF the turret Is almost ready
to be put in place The big lZ-inch guns OF In"
Maine or rather three Of the four which she Will
carry, were landed Wednesday Of last week, ana
now Law in peaceful security on the ground next TO
with their muzzles calmly pointing at the san
Francisco. These Pinch guns are known as the
3O-fon guns. They do not weigh thirty tons, how
ever; about tweny-eight tons Will be nearer ngure.
The amount Of damage which they Will DO Is almost
az much as IT would be If that extra two tons were
added TO their weight The Iurtan's Dig guns are
expected to arrive at the yard in a snort ilme'
the.e will be Of li-lnch cabre. and when they are
mounted the two coast-defence vessels Puritan ana
Terror will carry the heaviest guns-afound the
New-York Navy Yard at least.
THE MACHIAS TO START THIS WEEK..
7, q few DAYS IL is expected that goodbys will be
.aid and the trim little Maine-built gunboat Ma
chias Comma nder Edwin S. Houston, VIII start on
her cruise to China going by way Of the Suez Canal
and report 10 Rea~-Admiral c. G. Carpenter FOR
duty on the Atlantic Station She Is already LOT sea
and II is expected that she will sail on Iu'snay'
Her sister ship. the Casne, is likely to LEAD HE
Of inglorious ideness for time yet. and II Is
not expected that she Will be ready TO so 10 'he
South Atlantic Station for at least month, as
there is considerable work yet to be done on her'
The San Francisco is rapidly approaching reao"'eaS
for her trip the European Station where she VIII
relieve the Chicago, winch VIII come nome az an
extensive overhauling and repairing; On the New
York things rapidly getting into shipshape.
niant is in thorough order: the Steam Engineering
Department will be through with her boilers aiii
vii NOT be long before Captain Evans will be able
to show the finest cruiser in the Navy ready ioF
The information from Washington yesterday that
the old frlgate Lancaster was to be used AS tram
ing ship for enlisted men for gunnery practice nad
been already published In The Tribune t3set me,
With a description OF her armament. and the iact
fhat Captain cambridge Hor had been assigned 10
her command.
CHANGES IN THE COMMANDANTS OFFICE
Commodore Montgomery sicard has not yet as
s,roed command Of the Navy Yard. AS Commander
FRANKLIN Hanford. the present Chief Aid to the
Acting ommandant IF the yard. has been ordered
IN take the place now held by Captain Aren't D.
Cfowninshield on the Board OF Inspectors IL more
10, ukely that Lieutenant Commander Charles a
ADAMS his present assistant will take the place
ado vacant by Commander Hanford. Captain
Crowninshield has been ordered TO League Island
sod will take charge OF the Richmond, relieving
cantain George H. Wadiegh
commander p. T. a. Lyons has been e~ara'nea
board of Medical Inspection. and the recon-
D.rd.uon has been made that six months SICK