Evening journal., 1899-09-22
MORSE'S SHIP YARD.
Plant at Camden Will Rival
Anything In This Country.
.VECLAIMIEG ACRES FROM WATER

NLOlAl MANO hOlsho hSm W "A A0AA
PI ANS FOR MAMMOTH BUILD
IN'GS, PIERS AND DRYDOCKl
NOW BEING PREPARED-YARDI
PRkrsENTs A SCENE OF UN-
CEAsING ACTION.
Preparations for the construction of
extensive shipyards for the New York
Shipbnilding Company, Of Camden, of
which Henry G. Morse, formerly of the
Edge Moor Iron Company and later Of
the Harlan and Hollingsworth Com
pany, is president, are going rapidly
forward and a large force Of men is
now engaged in making the grounds
ready for the erection Of about fifteen
buildings, which will make up one of
the largest and best equipped plants in
the United States.
A frontage OF $500 feet on the Della
ware river directly south of Bulston
street pier, of the P. & R. rail-
way, was secured by the company, and
the property extends back as far as
Broadway, and south to Newton creek,
giving upwards of 130 acres in area.
The frontage carries a depth of from
30 to 40 feet at the governments bor-
der line, but when the company took
hold much of the land was a marsh and
field. This is now being filed in to the
level Of Broadway by pumping on it
the material dredged from the bottom
of the Delaware, as it is intended to es-
ltablish depth along one-half OF the
frontage Of 30 feet at mean and low
water. The pump is operated by the
American Dredging Company out in
the river. and is connected with the
marsh by pipe 20 inches in diameter
and 1000 feet long, fitted with flexibl,
joints, that prevent any interference,
with the work by rise or fall of tides
| BUILDINGS A THOUSAND FEET
LONG.
Next in magnitude to the task o
/ lhlling in the ground was the laying o
r foundations for the immense building
and shops to be erected during tn
Winter In this direction wonder
have been performed during the pas
a eight weeks. Building A, $50 feet lon
, and 100 feet wide, which VIII be use
! flor receiving material, is already out
3 lined in steel girders, and the roof
8 nearly finished. Buildings b and L
; mo feet high, extend parallel to Broad
way for a length Of ,O9O feet. and, un
s der one roof, will form the main work
shop OF the yard. Piers for foundation
! lare already completed, and as soon a
q the architects drawings are receive
d active erection will begin. A two-stor
e lbrick dwelling was removed entire o
y lrollers 800 feet, and is used as an emel
q geney office building. Across Broat
/. way, opposite the centre of the trac
q foundations have been laid for III
y handsome three-stoBied building {
= brick. which is contemplated for th
k. company's offices and draughtsmen
il rooms. A large temporary machiT
shop for the manufacture Of tools an
material for workmen has been on II
ts ground for some time A travelir
electric crane will traverse the sntii
t. length of buildings B and e, connect,
or by smaller cranes with the adjoinir
buildings.
ei Tracks Of the Camden. Gloucest
Ut and Mount Ephraim Railroad CompaI
now cross the eompany's grounds, b
m will be moved and relaid just west
the tracks of the West Jersey railroa
ne Turnout tracks of the Pennsylvan
Ia and Philadelphia and Reading compa
we les have already been laid to come
er with the yards.
~ LONG PIERS AND A DRYDOCK.
'at Along the river front there is mu
we activity Five dredges are employ
i'll in deepening the frontage and filling
ne the marshes, and q temporary pier
n. revetment several hundred feet 10
ie- has been constructed to aid in u
Is branch of the work. Scarcely fifty fC
~, from the Grading Company's pier bul
M heads are building for the main pier
ac- the shipbuilding company, designed
len be / 900 feet long, and probably exceC
" ing anything now on the Delawa
other piers, the number of which h
RE not yet been decided, and an INNER
IL uisuo0A WIZ DC eie0'eu "nen
frontage has been completed a
strengthened. The launching ways v
Re- go down from the southern end OF I
sta construction buildings, nearly oppos
Ipe- 1.-The main offices. and novel feat,