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Show ) A Primitive Process. There is no government tng at tha Norfolk navy yard now, and in moving heavy vesscL along the wharf front the hauling is accomplished mostly by the bull teams of the yard, a primitive process, pro-cess, but the best available at present. It takes about four yoke of bulls to move a vessel easily along, but when they tackle a big ship like the double turreted monitor Ainphitrite the bulls generally go down exhausted before the hauling is over. In doing tug duty for the past year the bull team appears as a new factor fac-tor in the economy of navy yard affairs. Washington Star. |