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Show THE EXPLOSION AT HELLGATE. At 9 minutes to 3 o'clock ou-Sun-dfly afternooa the electric spark was communicated to the mines at Hell-gate, Hell-gate, New York harbor, by the little daughter of General Newton, not quite three years old, and the eip'o-sion eip'o-sion took place according lo the programme. pro-gramme. Beyond the disturbance ot the water directly over the mine, and the throwing up to the height of twelve feet of ft quantity of water and rock, there was nothing to be seen, and in the city only a slight rumbling sensation of the earth was experienced. experi-enced. There was a gifiat deal of excitement ex-citement in the city, and a!l available points where the explosion could be witnessed were occupied by thousands of people. Quite a number of invited guests viewed the explosion from Ward's island. Not the slightest accident ac-cident lias occurred from tho commencement com-mencement of the work to the final successful conclusion. The report was scarcely noticeable, and not so much aa a ripple was caused upon the water, save just over the spot where the explosion took place. There was no concussion in the air, and not a pane of glass was broken in the city or on Ward's island. The coffer dam which surrounded the shaft was entirely gone, and the small house which etocd close by the shaft was thrown ten feet, but all the other buildings were just as they were be fore the explosion. The afl.iir was a complete Bucce3, and the whole rest was blown up. The tide has been materially changed by the explosion and now as the current sets directly on Big and Little Mill rocks they will have to be exploded next. In reply to a long letter from Win, E. Dodge, who pretested aainat what he termed an unnecessary desecration dese-cration of the 3.ibbath, intimating that a public show wa3 being made of the explosion, Gen. Newton forwarded for-warded the following note : I have receivf d a communiciti n from vou dated S-plemb-r in which juu dttcline an ali-g'-d invitaiiyn from mo to witness It e eip oion at Hoiigim on Sunday the 14th inat. As y-u tat.e B great deal of pains to go out of your way to violate iLe common couric?k,i of social intercourse, 1 take this ocensi -n ( inform you that I Oid n t invre you nr even know of your iiivilali-m until the receipt ynur itfus'il In accept. Tli'i trutn 13 I left Uie m niter t,f invitations tithe ti-the Chamber ' Corn me re) and i Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Willard, L'ni'.'.-d Stme3 er gineer, with instructions to invito a curtain number of g-ntlcmen I regret to tiiid that in one cae he hs made a niUtnlie. Your obedient servant. Job) Njiwto.v. |
