Evening journal., 1898-07-16
RIVER HAPPENINGS.
Latest News From the Chris
tiana Wharves and Shipyards.
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY BUSY


STEAMEIRS-wORIS AT JACKSON
AND sHARP's AND THE HAIR
Ian AND HOLL1NGsWORTH's
NEW CONTRACT.
A barge belonging to the Atlas
Dredging Company is being repaired |
on the Jackson and Sharp marine rail-
way.
The sloop-yacht Nellie is being fitted
out by her owners at the Pusey and
Jones shipyard.
Warmers sand barge, No. 8, is un-
loading sand at the Diamond State Iron
Company's wharf.
The schooner Nettie Champion has
finished unloading ice n the Con-
sumer's Ice Companys wharf on the
Christiana.
The two scows being builded by the
Jackson and Sharp Company are well
advanced, being declzed over and the
caulkers are now at work on them
The steam barge Harry, Of Bridgeton,
N. j., is hauled out on the marine rail-
way at Enoch Moore and Sons Com
pany's shipyard for repairs.
The new stable being built by the
Delaware Construction Company at
Morrison's Point is being rooted The
new dredge that the local company IS
building for their dredging contract on
the Missouri river is being rushed
ahead, and the company has employed
an extra force OF men.
The new machine that the company
is fitting up is also progressing favor
ably. The SOO-pound trip hammer is
almost completed.
The tug Pensauken, with a large load
Of stone in tow, passed out Of the Chris
tiana river last evening.
The Harlan and Hollingsworth Com
pany has received a contract TO build
another large steamer for the Mer-
chants and Miners Transportation
Company, of Baltimore. The new con-
r tract Is for a steamer similar to the
Junlata and Harvard. and she will be
known as No. II until further notice
The vessel win be 274 feet in length
u AZ feet beam and "a feet depth OF hold
E The engines will be OF the direct-act
ing triple-compOund type, with invert
ed cylinders. The low pressure cylin
- der will be % inches in diameter; tn
intermediate, 40 inches, and the higl
pressure, 70 inches, and they will hav
4S-inch stroke. Steam will be gen
Grated in four large boilers OF IN
- Scotch type, each 10 feet inches Ions
:, by IL feet inches in diameter. The
- will have a working pressure OF 16
pounds Of steam.
The propeller will have four blade
Of manganese bronze, and It will b
=, sixteen feet in diameter and will driv
the steamship at the rate OF ninetee
~ miles an hour.
=, A new wharf has been built at III
- - B. & o. railroad slip near Third stre'
al bridge.
I
George Childs Drexe's yacht, Alced
- arrived at the Harlan and GIolling
= worth shipyard with their baggal
-. this morning and went on board OF II
- newly-ftted out yacht. The yachts r
pairs are now complete and she wi
leave the local shipyard for Philade
"a phia to be used by her owner.
~ Oil Company on the same ways TIL
=. the Valley Forge is being constructe
- will be launched next Saturday ju
" after the Valley Forge takes h
plunge, making two launchings q
same day from the same ways.
A W. & n. barge loaded with co
sunk at the Diamond Ice Company
- wharf yesterday. The barge was tow
- to the Enoch Moore and Sons Cor
~ panys shipyard with three feet
- water in her hold and hauled out
- the marine railway for repairs.
The Delaware Construction Con
- pany's machines, Nos. 5 and 9, We
- launched from the Jackson and Sha
- marine railway to-day.
- Machine, No. 6, which has been woI
~ ing at Millville, n. j., returned to
80 company's yard this morning.
- Machine No. 1, which has been
-. work near the Delaware pier, also
.,,, turned to the yard this morning.
'i'' SHIPPED COMPOSITE MOTOR ca
~. The Harlan and Hollingsworth Co
"a pany shipped the composite steam n
' tor car built for the Baldwin LOGON
~ tive Works, of Philadelphia, this mo
=. ing. The car is supplied with CO
. " plete engine and boiler, and is a v
complete and labor-saving arran
- ~, ment. requiring only two men to
arr it.
can DAILY WAS SICK.
ac- The twenty-round bout betw
ST. "Jack" DAILY, Of this city, and
Fri Curran, Of England, which was to I
ence place before the Lenox A. c., in J