Evening journal., 1898-01-20
LAUNCHES IN SIGHT.
Sea Tugs Which Are to Pos
sess Great Power.
WILL TAKE TO WATER SHORTLY

CONTRACT FOR A ElNoCK-DOWN
BOAT FOR SOUTH AMERICAN
WATERS REPAIR WORK ON
DREDGES COMPLETED ~ MA
CHIME SHOPS BUSY ON PAPER
MACHINERY.
One of the two powerful tugs being
built by the Pusey and Jones Com
pany for the New York and New Ha-
ven Railroad Company for sea-towing
purposes, will be launched about the
10th of next nsonth and the other Will
slip off the ways the last week in
March.
They will be two OF the staunchest
tugs in the United States. Some of
their strength may be gained from the
fact that the outside Tenders are of
white oak, nine by twelve inches, and
will be plated with steel This will
give them tremendous strength and re-
sistance The sternposts, hub-bearings
and saddle-sheets are wrought from
one solid piece of iron. This is an un-
usual feature. The rudders will be OF
the swivil pattern. In addition to the
transverse bull1heads the tugs will
have belt frames of extra heaviness,
over twelve inches deep. Each tug will
be 123 feet long, 10 feet on the keel,
and with thirteen feet oYerhang aft
The steel plating is five-eighths of an
inch thick, double riveted, with inside
and outside sheets on the water line to
protect the boats from ice.
One of the tugs is entirely plated up,
and the frame vf the other is ready for
plating. The new radius-crane put the
frame Of the second tug in position
with the aid of an unusually small
number of men, and has been especially
useful in placing the plates in position
for boltin on. Bulkhead frames,
which have heretofore required sixty
men to handle, We're carried with ease
Iby this great piece of mechanism, as
was also the four-ton stern-post.
All the repair work for the dredging
| companies has been completed.
1t is reported that the ship-building
company has secured a contract for
building a knock-down steamboat for
| service in shallow South American
waters.
The company is also busily engaged
i in building paper-making machinery.
/ Out of fourteen paper machines built
| in the United States last year the
Pusey and Jones Company built
| twelve. 1t has in its shops some of the
| most expensive machinery in the
| United States for the execution of
| work connected with the manufacture
| of paper machines. 1t will turn out
| the most delicate pieces with both pre-
cision and expedition. Another feature
| is the extra care exercised in packing
the paper machines for shipment
| Every piece is packed in a separat'
box, and the work entailed in sucl
packing can be appreciated when it Il
Z considered that one of the machines
now in process of construction, vii
| extend over a space of about one-quar
ter of a mile when the rollers ant
dryers and other parts are in position
| When a contract is received. blue
prints of every detail are prepared il
the drawing room. These are taken Il
the pattern shop, where all old pat
terms are sorted out and requisite nev
ones mads from the drawings. ThOs
for casting are sent to the foundry ant
those for forging go to the blacksmith
shop. After the castings and forging
have been made they are loaded Oh
trucks and taken to the machine shops
where they are placed in the lathe
and turned down to the nicely of one
hundreth of an inch.
All expensive machinery is guide
by two general principles of feed an
/, off-bear, and to meet these require
ments necessitates extra skill and in
genuity in the work of construction
Many of the parts pertaining to a pa
per machine are of the company's ow.
invention.
But two classes of machines ar
built. The most intricate, complicate
: and expensive is of French desigr
, while the other is Of older STYLE NOR
compact, less expensive and used /
E small plants, OCCUPYING a floor space {
but fourteen feet square