The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1876, Page 5

BEFORE THE BLAST Description of the Famous [ron Gate to the Sound. { i | LOCKS AND BARS OF GNEISS. | The Sunken Rocks and Their Partial Removal. LAST DAYS OF A REEF. Visit to the Cavernous Cepths Under the East River THE FEDERAL UMBRELLA. A History of Nitro-Glycerine—lts Place af Manufacture SAFE TRANSPORTATION. From the earliest days of the Dutch settlement on ‘the teland of Manhattan an¢ when New amseraam, Abe metropolis in embryo of the New World, was ba: a Inte group of buildings, ereciec under the shelter of | ‘be stockade enclosure, afterward known dery, ano wild animals roamed through the woous t! povered Murray Hill, the white man hae viewed with swe apd wonder the surging of the tirelese tides through the rock obstructea channels of Hell Gate The name which the place now bears i Indicative of the early impressions procuced | Dy ‘te seething, whirling and roaring waters or the frst oof =the = white = race that | gazed upon them, as well as being suggestive of dan- ‘gore which are, or at least have beon, ae appalling us the terrora supposed to surround the portals of the ‘nfernai abyss Legends without number are asso, elated with this remarkable channel, and old residents of ite vicinity retatl these with all the gusto of tho Eastern story tellers Tales of the Indian cays, when the redskins of Long Island and the Conneetica shore made war on those of Manhattan. Stories o, the daring of the old navigators. who forced the: bluff-bowed gallmns through the mazes of this route d’enfer from the harbor of Nieuw Amster. @am into the Sound How ‘he English of the mainiand gradually pushed the Duteh from power and the possession of the fair lands and Spreading forests that they had #0 long held by the right of might. Again, when the first whisperings of Fesistance to the Crown began to be breathed by the colomsts, and political, religious and commercial bonds ‘united al! the colonies trom Massachusetts to the Caroit- ‘Bas in a common interest, the old terry from Astoriato Eighty-sixth street was crossed backward and forward by many a plotter for the cause ef liberty. Later on the wild scene grows rapidly in imtercst lor % becomes the arena on which many his’ torie tragedies are enacted during the bloody struggle | of the men of ‘76 against the public enemy. Still later yet wo have the storics direct from the lips of the veterans ef 1812, who wero actors tn the stirring events ofthat day, As the history ot Hell Gate approaches our own time the chief interest centres in the effect it has produced on the commercial growth of Now York. The introduction of steain as a motor has robbed Hel! Gate of its chief terrors, because the carelully steored steamboat can overcome the furce of the eddies and currents that would carry an ordinary mailing crattto destruction on one of the numerous sunken reefs that stud the river bed. THE MAP OF HELL GATE. 1n order to convey @ clear idea of the dangers that @ttend navigation ip this rema~kable channel tho accompanying map, Whicl stows the relative positions of all the great rocks and reels, is presented for the reader’s guidance and information. The danger to ‘vessels attompting the passsge northward toward the Sound may be said to begin when they clear the end of Blackwell's Isiand, and to terminate after running the gauntlet between Pot Rock and Ways Reet, THE FLOOD CURRENT. Daring the flood tide the current of the East River Decomes divided into two streams by the long and nar- row Blackwell's Ieland. Reunitiug again at the north- ern extremity of that island, which ts shown on the map, the tidal current sweeps torward toward the first line of rocks that is met in this direction, These are the “Flood Rcck,”” “Hen and Chicken” toeks, “Little Negro Head,” and a number of smaller and | Bamelesa projection which ¢ombine with the rocks wbove named to form the southern side of the elevation ynown ag the “Middle Reef.’ Here the current again livides, one part moving to the northward and west. word and turning around the Mili Rock and thence flowing eastwardiy toward the ‘Frying Pan” and the “Pot” rocks, Another, and the cbief, stroum passes through the east channel, between the Flood Rock and Astoria, and meeting ths first described current near bhe Frying Pan Rock. Thence tho united curren’ again rd toward the Sound, through a wide free from obstructiona THE EBR CURRENT, The stream in tho return tid! flow through Hell }, if possible, a more dangerous one to navigate than the flood current, because, on enteriag the gate from the northward, the course of tho ship ts at once beset by the most dangeronsiy situated rocks of the entire system. Betweoa Pot Rock and Way's Reef the distance Is bareiy sutlicient for the passage of a well s@twered vessel laboring in the rushing eddics and counter currents that are created by the sunken rocks. Any miscalculation on the part of the pilot would result fm the ship driving on either the Prying Pan Rock or on some one of the numerous projectiles composing the Middle Reef, but chieily on the Gridiron Rock, which Stands nearest to the channe:. After safely passing the rocks of Hell Gate proper the ship running with the ebb current is liable io drift on the ‘Bread aod Uneese’’ Rock, which is at the extremity of Blackwoll’s Isiana MALLETT’S POINT REEF, Although close in sboro this reef forms one of the most dangerous obstructions in the Hell Gate passage, eit holds tho same relation to the Frying Pan Rock W Way's Reef does to the Pot Rock, and diablo to cause the joss of s vessel when the is trying to avoid the danger trom the Frying Pan Rock, The semovai of this immense reef by the blasting operations now in progress will create a marked difference in the set of the eb» current end will tra the attention of careful navigators, But as the Just named obstruction is ike that of Halictt's Point Reef, in process of removal by Diasting, it ts safe to say \hat when both have ceased to oxist the torrors of Heil 17S Siz¥ AND VOLUME ‘The actual arca and volume of Hallett’s Point Reef ean be readily estimated trom Genera! Newion’s meas- ar a, which sre as follows reel we im shape an irregular = seme the wooger axis, whien hes bext we the whore, being 126 fees in lengtn and tbe shorter semi-axis projecting straight into the channe! About $00 feet The cubic contents above the depth of \wenty-e:% feet as mean iow water amount to $1,000 yards. The shallowest portion of this reef isa ridge torncident with the line of stratifcation and having a direction of N. 61 £1" THE SUNKEN ROCKS. The most important of these dangerous obssructions Rave become so well known as te recoive distinctive ‘ames from the Heil Gate pllota and navigators in gen- . among them are the Pot Rock, which bad origin- ally ony eigut fees of water on it al mean iow do &nd which had the form of ® truncated pyramid with e broad whica eloped rapidly aiter ® depth of eighteen feet was reached. By a series of costiy biastings on the Poi Rock 18 surface has been lowered to twenty feet 1 Inehes below iow water, Frying Pac Rock was a long dike ridge, 12 length about sixteen feet, bus in Width only six inches, and hada depth of only nine feet of Water over 1) at low tide After blasting this devin of water was increases to sixteen four, at whica { i for {row the Gridiron to the Flood Rock | ———_— ‘NEW YORK HERALD, HE Map Showing the Scene ot RAVENSWOOD SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. the Coming Blast, the Position of tions and the Intervening Channels Sy ae a a Bed : All the Principal Obstruc- daa AriioM i ((e)))) 44) Br ' a — Some (_EESIE_CHANNEL —Z Cheese SC ——_ \ OLD FPT.STEVENS d the rock now Nes. Way’s Reef was a conical projection with only Sve feet of water over it at low tide, dut there is at present a depth of fourteen feet, due to sur- | face biasting. The Sheildrake Rock ts another of the group which bas been graded down by surface binsting until from only eight fect of wat it has now six- ‘teon feet over it at mean low tude level. THB NATURE OF THE ROCK. The geological cha of the rocks at Hell Gato has been fully determimed by the investigations of General Newton and others, They are formed ot thinly stratified gneiss, with scarcely any variation {rom tho perpendicular. ‘This. substance is very bard and dura- ble, as 1s attested by tte es ape so the constant tric- tion of the tidal current. The direction of the etratt- fication as presented to the main currents vanes on account of the bend in tho chanpel, that portion be- tween New York and Astoria being in (the same line with the flow, and that between Astoria and Ward’s Island lying directly across tt, While, the: agitation of the water im the latter part of ¢ ie greater than in the former, the dangers to naviga- tion are Hot in the same proportion. REMOVAL OF THE HOCKS AND REEFS, This great undertaking becomes imperatively noces- sary when we consider the effect the presence of these dangerous obstructions bas on the development und extension of commercial interests in their vicinity. With the superior advantages possessed by the upper portion of New York, over the jower section in the matter of deep water and available water tront, the ‘ime must come when trade will concentrate ip that part ofthe city, The ereation of # new means of the present manufactures of this city ig a maticr of so much importauce to the whole com- munity, that it furnishes the chief reason tor the in ‘displayed by the peopio tn the progress f she Heli Gate improvements. We may therefore look forward with coutidence ior tho happiest results from this grand undertaking, and feel that although cial and financial pre-eminence sho takes by this im- provement a step forward which will give ber the lead of ali competitors on this continont and even in tne world THR WORK OF PREPARATION, As the (ime draws ueur for the great explosion at Hell Gate public anxiety is awakened, and thousands who uatil receatly permitted many opportunities of visiting the works te pass unavailed of now thron, eagerly to witness the progress of the final prepax tious. Tos curiosity represents a remurkabie Increase of interest in th work and its success. THM LAST DAYS OF SIGHT SEKING AT USLL GATR, Yesterday avd to-day Were announced as the last Umes when visitors would be permitted to descend into the government excavations at Heil Gate, on the East River. Tbe announcement was deceptive, tor the government, like ail paternal governments, bad so arranged its machinery and its viectrie strings shat it Deeame necessary to iSsue an order early yosterday toraing that uo visitors should be permitied to go it side the gave, PRECAUTIONS. “An explosion might (ake placa,” sald the sarcasuic authorities, aud theo a council was held tn tue uttle shanty on (he reei and calculations were made, Sev- eral scores of people, not scared by the stories of uy- hamite explosions, Went to Astoria during the day and wandered avout ‘the premises. Lut Newton wes matbemat obdurate, and refused ail ihe Diandistments of the beautifal girls who clung to the weather-worm railing and vowed with sweet, sozodons auderbreath that they would drown them selves in the swit flowing river if he did not let thes ip. But he was us rigidly faithful as if he had been the conqueror of Elaine and had sen Ler zai! to her death ib a inud scow, “No man must go in’ was the dict! and the logos was as strict as a word jrom heaven, THX VisiTORS There, in the yellow mist, stood the beauti!ui dam sels {rom the cily, JoOKIng down into that Yellowstone near where the Gynamite had sent men to the men sat down, one of fifty and one of thirty, discuss ing the question of how to “do up" quinces. Ata suort distance stood three or four xsris, wuo, When “molas- ses” was mentioned, clappec their hands suid, “Ma's abead! ana, when sugar mentioned, — exe! gor Meanwhile crowd Milts insisted that Molasses was good evough for hard whue Sophie stuck up for sugar wiih ull ser sweet, uneconomical nature. if THE GRiM PORTALS The gray-greep Yellowstone Vatiey etil! tay there bo- | a. vous Gripping so many | Reath, with its iitsle bi pearis on thousands of strings over the rugged briok The HeKALD reporter Was NOt long in fiscovertng Cap- tain Merger on the scow, and the Captain as ouce Fr fused to perimit any one to descend “there never bas been a dit of aitro-giycerine brought on boats to this island,” said the Caprain, “except ine tew SseDger, Avaiust our strict orders, dic li as @ wan,” and bere the yes, fore little rein wus falling iment for ik, aNd the Qewspapers ougat The vain our reporter plain was #ubject tc no Ddlandishments In id him that be bac passea between the two piers of the East River Bridge, those two towers of Gave, 95¢ for Now York ana one for Broox- lyn, whieh rose toward Leaves 10 confuse tue tongues Of politicians who bub taeu,. 4 SIDE DIBCUSSION Hore the ol¢ lady with the spit caris broke 18 good enough for apy quin it you, Sopbie, I'm oier’s you, th sugar.” m We Stood on the rock boun< isiana, 4! ror faring men, as Sinbad stood o5 the back of she ry of & waale <The strings are al} ready," surely you do Gos care te risk a5 explosion 1” “Lf the works aud 1} cam," said the reporter; ‘for this '# not the first time @ pewspapcr man UAs been “blowed up'” 170 THe aid the Captain, “and owrTas. Here the reporter glidea down the eiinpery etaire into the corridor of the works, with she o oky tor « 5 plashing jes were flaunting up and the wicker busties of the avove Here the reporter secing @ man caatiousiy woking Geata, On swe bronzed, broken rocks two wo- | | Ses ee Se SE a ae Seas | ing wits | afd the blue iigut of the entrance yonder, aiitue while | skyrocket break into colors (mn mid heavens g mouths of the works went down into she darkness, uah went into the digestive appara- tu of the wha mmodiately In the Saif-blue dark. Degan to tall, catching the check of ike a bridal tear. Then s stream, which to be nothing at first but s splashing ‘sound, strikes nun ip the collar and dampens his ardor. No matter, | 4 bewspaper man would risk Lis iifo or bis collar ‘or bia paper in any legitimate enterpris WANDERING AND WONDERING, The grade turns downward into the whale-like stom- ach of this great ieviathan of the East River, Boarus here and there give @ boarding house sound to your pathway; but you do uot daro to step either to tho Tight or to the left lor fear you may go wrong. Tho | only guide our reporter liad (and he went in, (nthe | darkuess all alone) was the splashing of water, which be dodged as best he might Down, down, in puddle in takes, in litle rivers, you ko for so many feet shdt if shey were not in darkness they would not be miles, UNDER THE RIVER. i Al last we come to (he end of this wet coffin, We arc underneath tho ust River. Abevois darkness. A tew inches of frail rock, half cracked by the biusting, | divide us trom the w. ‘Over our heads the water- { wheels of swift sailing steamboats are piashing. The exquisite white yacht carcens over us, Millions of | eh, soon to de stunned to doath, are swimming in peacetulndss a few feet ap yonder.’ Here we have al- most acity underneath the river, Human itfe 1s here, though one cannot hear the sound of one’s own breathing amid the spiashing of the waterfall. How did Jonab feel al! aione in the whaie’s deliy ? PILLAKS OF STRENGTH. In tho darkness oue feels gropingly against the giant about the gap: -Bobrero. ‘ columns whieh uphold ths groat whale’s back of an nd. Their gaunt, wet sides repel one. If you ro- | tin the dank, dark eavern, where vour breath at | begins to ve audible, you strike your back against | another jagged, fangy column. HOW iT PEELS. Everywhere is dampness. Cuscades strike your | shoulder, carcades strike your tcct. This piasbing and splashing (who was it who told us?) cuiwe down at Lodore. If it were not for the inky darkness one might tancy himself a coy, striped-stockinged ure not caressing policemen aud our overshoes are full of water. ‘The sound, Lowever, is a maguiticent one, | It iw natural—more natural ¢ the cascade at the | Hippodrome. it is mumcal, aud it drips, dripa, drips, | | | | and one feels like quotmg Coleridge: Witer, water, every wh But vot a drop to drink. 4 DLUR LOOK OUT. Atlast you turn round, and anding yourselt lost among the many only tu de telt) columns, your eyos | get used to ihe darkness, and yonder comes a strany misty, cloud-biue light, [tis far off, and itis the tol wherein you came. Indeed, it 1s ouly a cloud, uo big- ger than & ¥ euded, und this eloud- like light com: Ibis weird and Deautiiully blue suicide to be in, for be would svon wish be were outside of that ma Fay oriilee, that owtiet into daylight, that bright place beyond, Which 1s the World we live in. | We may be in darkness, aud we tay be dream- Dante, but We are wot necessarily where we feel ourselves (o ve—in Hades, As our eyes | get used to the dim, bine light cascades that are dropping ip irom the Lust Miver over heaa take ight-hke lines, as if they wore pearl beads tailing | dowuward frou a silver string. The feeling is almost sleepy here, The Plashing of the water, the damp drip on o1 jaintive sivevo that, only 4 ‘ew inches above, the harsh’ water i uziy aud deep and Ashes ewim askew. Here and there one ¢ neck is suddenly circled by 4 string (ia it spiri, or wa. ter of hemp?) aud cue does not start tor teur of ex- pivsion, though these are really expiosion strings, aud the man who ts going through has no thougut of those duietu! dovila of scieuce A PRIENDLY LIGHT, Ae wo stand bere jooking out ito the far-off biue | hole, where daylight is, comes a man, tho captain of orce, Who stinks thai if a ian ig fool enough to in ho inuet with a sort of bow tor him As | leader colnes in, amid the splashes of Minnehabas, | jooking like the spirit of suime musician, some Milis or | Woltsulin, (bere :3 one Who curries she Wand of Alad- ¢ fre At once breila wud @torch the hight only beightens the gloom. As the leader comes in | the Wateriaiis possess a new color The great drops, eparkiiug is the glare of the incomiug torch, spat. ter dowuward lke (ailing stare Yoo have seen a, 30 these diops of Bast iver waters broke into culors as the | iM came ipte the gioom Overhead the green ks dripped, anda man whe bas io view the relief water and wader ground e ovject of giving ‘he re cuipts bo those who perish tn excavating this island. AN ANCIENT GINGHAM For a email price the goveroment, ap to this time, sold tO Gt borch and an Umbreila, of whlch, a4 in sarcasm on American babite of lending and dorrowing, tie umbrella was to ve returned So aris of avoid | ance preciude the idea thi 1s federal ambrelia 1s $0 | be returned. The days were woen good ola Benjamin | Franklin, who was praised even dy cyuicm Jedruys, | saia, “‘Newher « dorrower sor lender be” This | philosophy probably did vot apply to umbrellas But | thie Hel Gave umbrella, wien — averyvody but our feporter Lae dad, musi de returned The federal Gworelis aforesaid Was rovk-ribved and worn, Lt might is soi stormy shore, the wreck amever it Was 4 zoud enough ui. dreia of longituGe were al. there on ite broad hemisphere Bul the ginghai part of i was delicately reusing ts Would sot bave piensed Peer Cooper of any other sanguine politica: rag man, in point of anatotay W Was, a» an windrella, pernaps perfect Bas it seomed to emuiate the modern inter. presers of "Sardanapalas,” anc to be weil aign up. Clothe. Perhaps this was Got 4o much the fault of umbrelia as of the federal government, whieh pro- UMURRLLAS AND REPORM Surely if Tilden were President the gigantic Sgure of Reform would not stand aakediy above our Leads pointe Ing it8 emaciated umbrella toward the setting san, iy THR OUTER WORLD Auaix. In ts mot @ day for visiting, DUS one easily reaches the outer world, that Yosemite Vailey tnto whi j and while the watertaile glistom aud the bu: of some ice to know that the y the brink of the chasm is sttil laying ™ down ‘to ber ¢aughtersn-iaw shat for the doing up | the garbage trom New York between them. New York to-day enjoys the proud position of commer. | maiden cr.esivg Broadway; but these jugged columns | | broad and low roofed sheds ano a frame stab! | removable except nitro-glycerine. pound of Much cheaper than sugar, The whoie tsiand will de diown Ww the dogs ina lew days; bus if « few hunared | young girls laugh when they near the explosion, thero will be so happier sound to rige above the loud geysor than the last lisp of the young girl who said, ‘The old woman humped 1 to Sopbie and chucked « dead egg on the sugar, * In view of the excitement created by the recont ex- Plosion of this compound at Hell Gate and the extraor- dinary precautions taken by the officials to prevent any visitors from talliug viclime to her disaster we append a{uil description of this highly explosive agent, which wil! prove very interesting. WISTORY OF N:THO-GLYCRRINE, Nitro-glycorine, a8 a high explosive, was invented by Novel and Mowbray «afterward took out pat- ents (or its manutacture bere; but i did not come into general use as a diasting agent until 1863, 1864 and 1865, Pruvious to that tune its high explosive ‘qualities were kuown, but chemists dared to mix it only drop by drop. Make it Ciemistry svon developed the tact that it couid be saloly made ge quantities, and, within the Inst few yours, it hus been made at the rate of nearly ‘one ton per the aggregate product of all m: facturers to supply the demand for blasting, miuea d tunnelling on the Atlantic and Pacitic coasts aud along the lines of inland railways. Nobel was the first to make it on a large scale. The metbod of :nanutuc- sure is very interesting, and :f properly conducted is hot dangerous, That made for the government uso at Hell Gato is pure uitro-glycerine, made irom the best materials and compounded at Black Tom Island, in the barbor of New York. THE ISLAND. Black Tom Island ts an artijicial mound, rising on the Jorsey Viais about mile trom Communipaw and about one bali miles from Ellis’ Isiand, the United states depot tor artiulery stores, 1t was made | under the direction of the New Jersey Shore or Dock Improvetuent Company by sinking etiv-work tiled w The interior of the crib was filled with she ashes and other reiuse trom New York until tho crib became an isian Then the company built two piers p In order ting to the New Jersey shore and duinped | tom. .¢ more land the compacy then dumped the ashes aud earth from the two cities oo the Commani- paw shore, and have gradually lessened the distance between be walp ad and Biack fom | Island Eventually the gap will be closed and the angle formed betwoon ti isiand | and the railway dock of the railway ab Communipaw will be Ged in, On Biack Tom The about five acres {pn extent, but bas no brick either does any one iive there, The at six o'clock P.M. In January, lycorine shore exploded through care- tsinnd (ructures on At, | leasuess similar to that which cost Doyle bis life at Hell | Gate last week, Betore that time the river pirates ire- quently !anded there at oight Since that time hot a cebt’s worth has beon stolen. Under one of tue long suvds is (he Gitro-giycerine laberatory. 1 con- fists of @ wooden fraine, having three ters of suelves, having sides forming a tank Ab the end of the frame, on (be level of the tank, is a large wheel t passing around moving a small spper suet, turing # sleader shatt oper- yuive im tubs on the lower trou tubs in the tauk, six im num Shed with gitrie aud sulptarie ac ue part of Autre 40 two parts of sulpluric acid, dy weight, These acids are thorouguiy mixed by the re- Halts mentioned above, the lower ends of the satts baving oo them trop wheels like those on a pro peiler, Ou the secoud shell are jars of sweet glycerine, Siva Alter tue acids in the iron tubs beiow iglly Mixes the giycertbe 10 the jure above ¢ Murough rubber tuves. Tbe ow is con- The proportion is one ipharie and one. 1gLL of ihe iwo events acide com o: glycerine = Thermometers in (he acid (Ube slow the heat, auc When i tises to 70 dvg Fabrenue:t the Sow of glycerine ts stopped Aiter the compound is formed ia the ianks the tubs 1p the \anks are ufted oat of tbe ice which surrounds thew Aud tueir Contents poured into cueks contuming 30 gallons of Water each 10 about 10 gallous of nitro- | glycerine Uy the temperature is too high ce is put io | te reduce It The specific gravity of water being us 1, the specie gravity of nitroglycerine as 16, so the coupound sinks $0 the botiom and le drawn olf tuto use, bY an ud ber y Fes , She Water Doing changed week Alter ib bas been put in the cane the are piacod ih & Woud DOX Aud Burrowaded by try fered plaster of Paris That te tue saiest way to transport it, Docause if the compound is Kept so jong as to cab through the can i meets tue dry plaster, which umediately sets” and stops the leak. Pure aitro- glycerine i a liqu.d resembling castor oll, {4 will wos expiode under a temperasure of 300 deg Fabreubeit, And then the heat aust be appliod rapidly. ITS TRANSPOK TATION Nitro-giycerine can de tansported with pertecy soloiy Dy Mixing 1 with Mfty per cent of wood napa ‘ch renders the compoune aon-expiomive Ut juired (OF Use thew it Must de turued Ino 4 tank of water, when she urtro-glyeerme will wrk to Dottom and the woou uaphiha doat on 4 The Gitre-giycorine can then De drawn olf by the Gsuai manuer of packing nitro-giycerine t# to pul fiity pounds in @ five gauon tm cau end puta bi gollon Of Water on top lo prevent 1s trom tuking Gre if slighted maten is dropped into it Tuere cau vo uo possible danger of tte explosion while ¢0 packwa, ao- joes gross carelessness occurs, und the deain of Doyle and the otuer men at Heil Gate receatiy is distinctiy chargeable to his reckiewsauss in violating the direo- tions given to bin OTHER WIGM Ex7LOsiVER Nitro-givcerine has an expansive force of 900 vol. ties (avprox:mate, ¥ ite powder, consisting of ty-three per cont of oiwo-glycerine, mixed wita enty-ive per eens of mem or biack powucr, bus paratively ao expansive sorce of 200 volumes, or ® cue yard of rock, while uitro-glycerine 19 av .86 to do the same work, accomplishing what would ve jcired @! four pounds of the ordinary biack powder. The specific gravy of dynamite being Li, nitro-gifeerme is Ld, taking water ari. The dangers of aitrogiycerine are almost the me ae those auending gunpowder, falminate of mer. cury, &¢, @xploded wher confined, a shin piece of wood saturated with nuiiro-fiycorine will explode on recetving # direct biow. ‘the oi] bas not soaked prough the wood bo ssploni can be produced quiaces, ia | Giant powder, another game ior dynamise can be eS a RT Re: NTI and stole everything | { | | | burned, when free and ancontined, without an expio- sion, While nitro-glycerine is on storage the cans contatuing tt should be kept hi re kept delow 70 deg. Fabrenhiert, it nec. ry by the use of ice Yheo there is uo danger, It has trequently been transported by railway, but the usual manner is 10 send it by boaty or by teams, packed in plaster of Parts or in tanks of water. A GASTRONOMIC PALACE. OPEKING OF DELMONICO'S NEW UPTOWN BES TAURANT, Delmonico, the prince of restaurateurs, the sound of whose very name has ab appetier in it, commenced | | yesterday to remove from the old establishment into Ii was supposed then shat this was the only way to | dis new and elogant uptown quartera To-day wiil be ‘tho last of the old love tor to-morrow he'll bo on with she new. The habitués of the old familiar corner of Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue will look with regret at its desertion, as they call to mind the many pleasant asvociations its parlors and cosey dining rooms bring to mind, but the star of business progress and the star of empire are journeying at right angles, and tho former, like the boy who bore the banner with strange de- vice, bas for its motto “Excelsior.” The new estab- lishment is Auisbed, and the work of furnishing tt #o far advanced as to enable Mr. Dolmonico to an- nounce a formal opening for to-morrow. The new quarters and the mogaificent surroundings will atone for the loss of the old, even to those who are fond of 4wolling on the memories of the past, and such recollections when associated with the same of Deimonico aro always pleasant, The change, after aii, will mot be a great one, for, like the change ‘of the play, it will be but new scenes with old tacea, ‘The old house wili remain open for one week to receive aad execute orders for suppiics already given. She doore that it has been a pleasure to enter for the past fifteen years, will then be closed for good. Howevor much we love to think of the past we live in the pre- Sent, #0 will turo attention to THE NEW KSTABLISHMENT, an account of wnicn bas already been given in these columns. Its location is # most desirable one, exteud- ing as it does from Broadway to Fifth avenue on the south side of Twenty-sixtb street, with @ fine frontage onthe three streets. The building te leased for ten yoare a} an annual reptal of $36,000. 1t has been com- plotely overhauled and 1s now five stories bigh. Its troutage ot Broadway w 60 feet, oc Fifth avenue 57, anc along Twenty-sixth street 367 feeu Its appoint. niente Ib every respect ure the finest, combining a due regard lor the enjoyment of she onium CUx DIC and totally discarding that characte ITATR, xcose Which sometimes he surroundings of wealth. be Fifta round ‘lor will be n aren malogany, corresponding with the tmisning of the tvom Mirrors on ali «dee add to thy ite size. Costly chanaoliors # nate the roum, and @ handsomely frescoed coiling adds te tts Ddeauty. It is turther by a fountain located t the contre and sur- roupced with beautiiui Yowera The windows facing the evenucy command s view of Madison Park The other end of the ground toor will de ured asa case a@ifleront capacities, and the arrangements of eStensive that four or uve dinners me hour and without tho slight c rooms ts 60 by 19 feet aud fronts on Filth avenue [vi tnished in drab, and large crystal chandeiters furnish a vriiiant light The secoud ¢ 18 18 Dy 55 feet and iuruisted With crimson-colored satin A third, of 16 by 15 feos, upholstered :n diue satin, and a fourth : tue neuiral rooms o olive coor The same Soor contains « dali. | room on the Broadway side of the buiiiing, 60 by foet in size, an Sinple supper foo and ap addi | ona «mali dining room Here, auring the coming Winter, will de Reid sho Drilliant aud fasbionable en. Sertainments which gnoualiy scour under the roof of Delmoniea {1 wili bo the same as betore—the old ture in anew frame The thirg tloor contains « hail, which n gold 16 by 1 40 arranged be usec a ong! « ve sub- At pleasure inte three Apartments, oms Are on this floor, each One tshed in a diferent hue anu ali richly turnishea The fourth oor i# devoted to bachelors’ Wall and tne mis. eries of such ® condition of /ifo could uowhere be more thoroughly enjoyea The apartments 601 aside tor tuus Golortuvate species of humanity are divided into sua wiht every device im the World to make thet appre- cate the comforts of afé Like (he dining rooms, Severa: more diaing volstered 1p vartety of enior picasing Lo the The oth 4 iflcent style ny ‘niahed 1m a rooms the carpets furniture is r the itehen That the locus which, source of ai) ine arge rooms used oF cooking are complese in every detail and arranged the most systematic menuer. Twenty couxs will devote their skis to the preparation of tempung viande and fty walters will spread them on the doa Br number of empioy4s im the new bouse will teach department may be cousidered shough bidden from the sight, ‘9 u enjoyment of the surroundings A COURTEOUS SUICIDE Tho terrydeat New Jersey loft Jorsoy City at eight o'clock last evening tor Cortiands sirvet, Now York. When the boas bad reached the middie of the river a Tespeciadie looking siao passed through the ladies’ stranger op Tho ferryboat ne was got alter pa Ah Mages Lay oes © respectabie, though sad, appraravce as | Dace snie the ‘cabin fotere she Lotai leap submerged ‘mn water and | { 3 | i | | | { | | | i | | are rarely tound togets tacle on the appointe j player, will havo a benefit on Saturday, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES Misa Jennie Hughes is playing a9 the Adelphi, Obicugo “Waris by Night” has recently Derm mounted at the Coloseeum, Philadelphia. Mr. ¥. Bosconita # giving classical matinées tp tbe Matn Hall ef the Exposition, Philadelphia 2" will be produced as the Park Theatre oa the Isth, with new ecenory and a strong case Mz. Bowe will lore bia engagement in “Brasy” at Wa treet Theatre this week. It tas been ¢ great success “The Two Mon of Sandy Bar" will be played this wock Mr. Bret Harte, she author, was present tast bight, apd was called oo loudly fer s epeccn, dut dud aoe hae run 100 cights at the Chestnug Strout Theatre, Philadelphia, and ts stil! en she boards, ‘This ie tne rst contenary of the king tc the history of Dia sag The “Mighty Dollar’? has been played more than 209 sights ‘2 New York, with Mr. aad Mrs. Florence as the Hon, Sardweil Slote and Mra General Giltory, and begins its sixteenth weok at Wallack's to-morrow night Mra James A Oates and hor opera troupe will begia an engagement of two weeks at the Grand Opera Hou oo the Lsth inst. Their eépertowre includes “dma Angol’s Chiid,” “Princess de Trebizonde'’ ang “Giroidé Girofta* Miss Clara Loulso Kellogg appears tn concert a1 Bridgeport, Conn, on the 29tb tyst., for the benedt of Mr. Charies A. Crosby, She will be assistea by Met Lancaster, Mr, Frisch, Signor Ferrantiand Messre Pease and Colby. Miss Adetaide Vance, @ young lady who is spoken of very bigh!y, and who played with success at the arch Street Theatre as Meg Merriles lately, will appear wo. morrow evening at the Jersey City Opera House in a bew piay written for ber by Mr, Bartley Campbel, ang entitled “Cross and Crow: Sho ts suid te pos. sess yoush, beauty an¢ power—tbrea qualities which ib an actress. jeres engaged for the dalles in *Baba’? Are expected to arrive in she steamship Queem to- morrow. They ore Miles Heleno and Elizabeth Minzell, from the Imperial theatres of Berlin and enba and La Scala The rest of the ballet, thirty tz bumber and principally Kaghsh girla, begin their ree bearsals at ouce, aud as all the arrangemonts are thug compiete Niblo’s will, no doubt, open with this apec- day. Ap unapprectave French ritie says:—"Tho Batreuth wagician, Ike bis Orienta! prototype, offers ‘now lamps for old’ Warned by the fate of Aluddin mankind will be slow to accept bis unm Jodivus eccentricities in exchange for the rieb inhery tance which bas been bequeathed by along successiva of ilustrious composers And {8 will probably not be Jong before the question will be asked, ‘Why was there 80 much fuss made avout the Baireuth Festival’! At Gilmore's Garden three notable events will take place within afew days The four rifle teams wil! ve (bere an Friday, when the trophy will be presenter by General Hawley. Levy, the renowned cornet in which he will be assisted by Gilinore’s Band, Mime. Pappoote!m, Arbuckle, Castle, Poakes and two piantsts, and next two pre : week the New York Horticultural Society will bave their closing exhibition, in connection with the con certs Mr, Max Strakoach has, happily, dispelled the cloudt of uneertainty 1m respect to Itaiian opera this seasor by announcing a short season, with the following ar tsts:—Mina Palmiert and Mile. De Belocca, prime donne; Brignoli, Tom Kari aud Palmieri, tenori; Tag- Napetra, Prousser, Cony, tiall apd Baril, bass. A week of opora will be given at the Academy of Music, Philadelputa, commencing on Monday evening with Norma,” New York will be the next point d’attaque The réportoire will include “Norma,"’ “Favorita,’” “Luerezia Borgia,” “Trovatore,”” “Mignon” wad *Bar- ber of Seville." Miss Augusta Dargon will begin ap engagement at the Brookiyn Tueatre on the 18th inst tn * Deborah,’ with new scenery, Guder the supervision of Mr. George Becks In the company with which Miss Dargon witl étar this season are Misses Rachel Noah, Louise Lyle Mary Maddern, Annie Wheeler, Sara Gould, Jane Girard, Emily Phite and Mrs James W. Taylor; Messrs. James W. Taylor, George Becks, Josoph Nagle, Shirley Frauce, T. N. Kdwards, John Armstrong ang others. Miss Dargon is not as weli known in New York, ber native city, ag in the Western cities, whence she brings a very high reputaitou as a tragedienne Ardanapaius’ begins lis lth week at Booth’s to- morrow night Last week the receipts averaged $2,606 a performance. Mrs, Agnes Booth has one or two fine scenes, and her acting is admirable, But, with the ex ception of Mr, Bangs, the rest of the play expresses Byron's genius ouly by scenery and the ballet, Barto. lett! and Mascagno chase the fying houra with glow- ing feot in Byronie style The thunder and hightning scene recails His Lordsuip’s famous description of a storm in the Alps:— © night, And storm and darkness ye are wondrous strong! Yet lively in your strength, as iy the ight Of a dark exe in w. Far aiong, From peak to peak the rattling crays among Loaps the live thunder. CRUELTY TO CHILDREN, ARREST OF AN ACKOUAT AND CIRCUS MAN- AGEB—THREB LITTLE ENGLISH BOYS MADE TO PERFORM DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS VEAT6—THB CHILDREN RESCUED. ornamented | Povonkxursim, N. Y., Sept. 9, 187 £, Fellows Jenkins, Superintendens of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; William H. Gibson, attorney, and John D. Wright, president, are rived here to-day, and this afternoon attended the vertainment at Murray's circus, where the Leon chil- dren executed foaty of gymnastic skill and daring, Aller the conclusion of the act they entered the dress ing roow of the tent, accompanied by the Chief of Po Nee, and arrested Mr, Murray, proprietor of the circus and Alired Leon, who has the Leon children in charge, and also took the children The party were placed is @ close carriage waiting outside, and were driven the Police Court, where the officers of the Society made « formal co:piaint against Murray and Leon | ander the new law for the protection of children. 1s ecems that the oilicers of the | society noted Leon in New York some time | ago that be must sot exhibit the children in gym. | Gastic somersault performances, and he promised not The second floor ig divided into four private dining | to; but he went Kast with them and the agents of the society tracked them to this etty. Rocorder Taylor discharged Murray and Leon on their own recognizance, to awart the action of the Grand Jury, and placed the children in the custody of the oificors uf the society. Previous ww the Learing Dr. Campbell made aa examination of the litke acrobats, bat found bo marks of violence on them One is named Joseph Donvbus, fourteen years of age, a resiient of Birmingham, Eugiand, the second ti ed El of London, and the ird is Harry Bilis, nine yeara of ago, "brother of altred The smaiiest two performed aulieult trapeze acts, and ail three appeared lu Lue ring twice aday The oificers of the society say that the children camo here from Eugiand inet fali ond were recularly appren- ticed to Leon under the padroue system. The oldest one calls Leon master Leon says he pays a strpulatec sum for the ase of the clilidron, Both Leon ant Murray claim thas they did sut Know that the jaw for the protection of chilcren extended outside of Ni York city. The officers of the society iets Bight, with the children, for N rk. VIOLATING THE EXCISE LAW. The following persons wore yosterday arraigned be- fore Justice Morgan, at the Tombe Police Court, and beld to answer tn $100 bail each for selling liquor with. out license: — 59'Rose street; George T, Gifford, No. 16 James gp, and Thomas Brannigan, No 63 Greenwich reek, EXOIsE {[TEMS. ‘The Board of Excise Commissioners received for the Weee ending yesterday morning 166 applications for Usconses and collectea the suum of $1,084 15. AND TRADESMEN’S SCHOOL, ‘The school of the Gonera! Society of Mechanics any Tradesmen, NQ 472 Krondway, wili be opened on tha fires Monday evening «@ October, at ball-past seveg on Ail children of mechanics and tradesmen are welcomed, and theschooi is free The branches taught Inelu archivecturai and irae baad drawing, bookk