CONTRACTS WITH NORMAN WIARD. 9 About 20 powder measures, (filling shell.) 20 powder funnels. 20 loop bolts, (washer and fin.) 50 tube lanyards, (howitzer.) 1 boat howitzer field carriage. 24 water breakers. 100 ammunition boxes, (boat howitzer.) 12 spare-article boxes. 5 trail handspikes, (howitzer.) 30 soft cannon spikes. 12 fuze wrenches. 24 fuze mallets. These implements and stores I should be glad to dispose of to the Ordnance Bureau upon proper inspection, and I ask you to do me the favor to order them from me, and to give the proper instruction for their inspection. After the inspection I will present a bill for so many of them as are found correct, at such prices as it is found such articles cost at the navy yard. Respectfully, Captain H. A. WISE, NORMAN WIARD. Chief of Ordnance. NEW YORK, June 6, 1865. The prices fixed upon the articles of ordnance stores referred to in the letter of the bureau you have sent me were not all agreed upon distinctly with the bureau. The list of prices furnished me refers to but few of the articles. The prices attached to the balance of the articles were taken from a bill of prices in my hands furnished from the Washington navy yard in 1862, referred to in my last conversation on this subject with the Chief of Ordnance. I understood him, as I now suppose, to consent to those prices, but in this I may have been mistaken. I think it would be proper for you to refer the bill to the bureau again with a request that they will fix the prices according to their views of what is correct, for the sake of an easy settlement. None of the prices either in the list furnished me or in the bill referred to are near the cost of the articles, but I expected to sell them for less than cost. Respectfully, NORMAN WIARD. Mr, O. M. BEACH. FARMERS AND CITIZENS' BANK OF LONG ISLAND, DEAR SIR: I send, inclosed, receipts from Henry K. Hoff, commodore and inspector of ordnance, for 24 caissons for 12-pounder field carriages; also, for 12 12-pounder field carriages, being the articles for which I sent you a bill, on the 14th instant, of $4,320. Yours, very respectfully, O. M. BEACH, Cashier. P. S. Mr. Wiard will call at your office and indorse the order on the navy agent to me. FARMERS AND CITIZENS' BANK OF LONG ISLAND, DEAR SIR: I am informed that the alterations required on the 12 field carriages at the Very respectfully, yours, &c., Chief of Bureau of Ordnance U. S. N. A Captain H. A. WISE, O. M. BEACH, Cashier. 10 CONTRACTS WITH NORMAN WIARD. FARMERS AND CITIZENS' BANK OF LONG ISLAND, Brooklyn, November 7, 1864. DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 5th is received. I have received from Mr. Wiard the bills for gun carriages, $4,229 40. The bill of Mr. Wiard, for the 12 12-pound carriages was sent to your office by me, accompanied with his order to pay the same to me. Please inform me why the bills were not sent to me. I wish to know, that any future transaction I may have (of this kind) may be done correctly. Yours, respectfully, Captain H. A. WISE, O. M. BEACH, Cashier. Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. NEW YORK, November 19, 1864. I understood you to state when I saw you last that you would forward me a list of the implements and stores for boat howitzers that you would accept from me under my proposi tion, with the prices you would pay me attached or added. I have received a list of stores without the prices named. Will you oblige me by communicating the prices you will pay me for such of the stores named as pass inspection? I have one field-carriage and about 200 vent and fuse pouches, with belts to add to the number. Respectfully, Captain H. A. WISE, NORMAN WIARD. Chief of Ordnance, Washington. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE, NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington City, March 16, 1865. SIR: The bureau desires to be informed where and in whose keeping the pattern rifled howitzer now is which was lent to Mr. Norman Wiard, through your agency, in August, 1861. Mr. Norman Wiard has repeatedly promised verbally to return this gun, but has failed to do so yet, and the bureau desires the above information in order that steps may be taken now for its recovery and return to the New York navy yard. I am, sir, your obedient servant, Mr. H. L. STUART, No. 23 Gramercy Place, New York. R. AULICK Assistant Chief of Bureau. 113 EAST SIXTIETH STREET, NEW YORK, March 17, 1865. SIR: I never procured a howitzer in 1861, and therefore, of course, know nothing about any howitzer procured for anybody during that year. Yours, &c., H. L. STUART. FARMERS AND CITIZENS' BANK OF LONG ISLAND, DEAR SIR: I enclose herewith bill of Norman Wiard, with inspector's receipts, $1,193 49, which bill is assigned to me. Please forward the vouchers to me as soon as convenient; also, acknowledge receipt of this letter, and much oblige, Yours, very respectfully, Captain H. A. WISE, O. M. BEACH, President. Chief of Ordnance U. S. Navy. CONTRACTS WITH NORMAN WIARD. FARMERS AND CITIZENS' BANK OF LONG ISLAND, 11 DEAR SIR: Your favor asking for a copy of agreement as to prices, &c., with Mr. Norman I inclose his letter to me on the subject. If any of the prices set by him are wrong, please Captain R. AULICK, O. M. BEACH, President. Yours, very respectfully, Assistant Chief of Ordnance. FARMERS AND CITIZENS' BANK, OF LONG ISLAND, SIR: Your favor of the 13th instant, with approved triplicate bills for $1,068 99 in favor of Confidential letter to Commander Hitchcock relative to the necessity of immediately Letter from Commander Hitchcock informing the bureau that Norman Wiard will finish Telegram; bureau accepts the proposition of Mr. Wiard. Page. 13 13 Bureau incloses sketch showing manner of bouching 7-inch rifles. 13 Letter to Commander Hitchcock relative to manner of opening vent in 73-inch rifles- 14 Letter from Commander Hitchcock relative to trouble with parties in New York, as to 14 In regard to trouble in finishing 73-inch rifles in New York-"Exercise your own dis- 14 Bureau to Commander Hitchcock. Trunnion straps for 74-inch are being forwarded to 15. Hitchcock to bureau. "I called at Mr. Plass's; three of the 7-inch guns in their hands 15 "I understand it is your wish to have all the 7-inch guns which are being finished by 16 Bureau to Commander Hitchcock. 7-inch rifles are to be turned down in conformity 16 Bills for $5,270 paid Wiard for finishing seven 73-inch rifles. Bills dated May 24, 1862. Hitchcock to bureau, calling attention to the condition of the guns being finished and 16 16 Wiard to Secretary of Navy. Relates to certain experiments by which he proposes to Bureau to Wiard. By authority of Secretary of the Navy two 74-inch rifles are placed Wiard requests that the sum of $2,000 be placed at his disposal for experimenting. 17 17 18 18 Letter from bureau to Mr. Miller. "Two of the guns referred to in your letter of the 18 (Copy of above letter sent to Norman Wiard.) Letter from bureau to Mr. Miller. "What disposition, if any, has been made of the 18 SIR: The 12 field howitzer carriages inspected by Captain Badger at Trenton some time since are now all ready for delivery at the Philadelphia navy yard. Is it expected, or is it necessary, to have two ammunition boxes to each carriage to make them complete? This was intimated on here. Your earliest attention hereto will oblige me greatly. Also please send me a copy of the instruction to the Philadelphia navy yard in relation to the delivery of the 12 carriages. Very respectfully, Captain H. A. WISE, H. L. STUART. Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, U. S. N. FARMERS AND Citizens' Bank OF LONG ISLAND, DEAR SIR: Inclosed please find Norman Wiard's bill, assigned to me, for 12 12-pounder boat field carriages, at $360, $4,320. Please send vouchers for payment of the same to me. I forwarded to you by mail on the 8th instant a bill of Mr. Wiard's, also assigned to me, for $7,210. I have not heard anything from you concerning it. Please inform me if you have received it, and when the vouchers will be sent to me, and much oblige. DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 15th is received, with approved triplicate bills of Norman Wiard, $7,210. Yours, respectfully, Captain H. A. WISE, O. M. BEACH, Cashier. Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. WASHINGTON, October 18, 1864. SIR: I have on board the steamers Augusta and Savannah, Green Point, New York, next below Continental Iron Works, the following implements and stores for boat howitzer guns, viz: About 18 train tackle, (6 in block.) 12 drag ropes for 12-pounder field carriages. 62 (12-pounder rifle) passing boxes, (best leather.) 52 light 12-pounder passing boxes. 17 elevating screws, (boat howitzer.) 52 fuze pouches and buff belts. 36 gunners' haversacks. 20 fuze cutters. 20 fuze rammers. 20 gunners' gamblets. 20 vent pouches. 20 priming wires. 20 steel pincers. པ ཨས པ སPPཅཅ v་ proper inspection, and I ask you to do me the favor to order them from me, and to give the proper instruction for their inspection. After the inspection I will present a bill for so many of them as are found correct, at such prices as it is found such articles cost at the navy yard. Respectfully, Captain H. A. WISE, NORMAN WIARD. Chief of Ordnance. NEW YORK, June 6, 1865. The prices fixed upon the articles of ordnance stores referred to in the letter of the bureau you have sent me were not all agreed upon distinctly with the bureau. The list of prices furnished me refers to but few of the articles. The prices attached to the balance of the articles were taken from a bill of prices in my hands furnished from the Washington navy yard in 1862, referred to in my last conversation on this subject with the Chief of Ordnance. I understood him, as I now suppose, to consent to those prices, but in this I may have been mistaken. I think it would be proper for you to refer the bill to the bureau again with a request that they will fix the prices according to their views of what is correct, for the sake of an easy settlement. None of the prices either in the list furnished me or in the bill referred to are near the cost of the articles, but I expected to sell them for less than cost. Respectfully, NORMAN WIARD. Mr. O. M. BEACH. FARMERS AND CITIZENS' BANK OF LONG ISLAND, DEAR SIR: I send, inclosed, receipts from Henry K. Hoff, commodore and inspector of ordnance, for 24 caissons for 12-pounder field carriages; also, for 12 12-pounder field carriages, being the articles for which I sent you a bill, on the 14th instant, of $4,320. Yours, very respectfully, Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, U. S. N. Captain H. A. WISE, O. M. BEACH, Cashier. P. S. Mr. Wiard will call at your office and indorse the order on the navy agent to me. FARMERS AND CITIZENS' BANK OF LONG ISLAND, DEAR SIR: I am informed that the alterations required on the 12 field carriages at the Very respectfully, yours, &c., Chief of Bureau of Ordnance U. S. N. Captain H. A. WISE, O. M. BEACH, Cashier. A |