The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-08
THE DOCKS.

Meeting of tho Board Of COmmissioue
Renting, Rebuilding and Repairing Piers
The Department Has Only sixty Th0usand
Dollars at Its Disposal Instead Of the An-
ticipated Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
characterization OF Expenses.
The Commissioners Of Docks met yesterday after
noon at two O'Clock In the rooms OF the Department
OF Docks, corner OF Broadway and Franklin street.
Mr.. Wilson G. Hunt presided and all OF the other
the minutes Of the last weekly meeting were read
and adopted. Mr.. John 7. Agnew read report Of
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
m reference to the leasing OF the south side OF pier
o. North River. to Mr.. I. H. Starin; also report
IN favor of the petition OF Mr.. william Il. Carr who
asks. behalf Of the International Elevating AssO
ciatlon for permission to build, at his own ex-
pense at the foot OF Sixtythrd street. East River.
dock for unloading grain for the Second and Third
avenue railroads. The report recommends the
Board to enact by resolution that the desired per-
mission ne granted, provided the dock be built IN
the form OF crib and that the petitioner pay the
rent Of the land under water which 1t Will occupy at
the rate OF $400 yearly Another report was read
in relation to the petition Of MI. Thomas Kane, VINO
enlarges upon the dangerous condition OF
PIERS NOS. so, 81 AND So EAST RIVER,
prays that they be repaired so as to render them
serviceable for the unloading OF large vessels.
and the Executive Committee recommended that
the petitioners be informed that the private owners
their purchase When the Board acquired sufficient
funds to secure the title to the property 1t would
then be placed in condition OF perfect repair. The
petition Of MI A. 4" fenA '0' 'n0 lease u ''0 'e'
BULKHEAD ON THIsrEENTH AVENUE
at the foot OF West Twelfth street, North RIVER was
recommended by the Executive Committee to be
denied, as the premises mentioned were required
for usage OF the Bureau OF Engineers OF the De-
partment. The Executive Committee also, In re-
porting upon the report OF superintendent Ransom,
OF the Fourth water asrc M ' fne
platform on piles at the intersection OF Rtvlngton
ana East streets, which had been
DANGEROUSLY DAMAGED by THE ICE AND CURRENTS,
the expense L he uoOut three hundred dollars.
These reports or the Executive Committee were sew
In the report OF superintendent Ransom, as above
referred TO- IL was stated that the platform supported
on piles at the intersection OF klvlngton and East
streets In danger OF being carried away at any
time by the ice and river currents He thought that
this platform should be replaced by block and
pier extending out TO the pier line.
REPAIRING OF PIERS.
superintendent Westervelts report In relation to
work done In his department during the past month
piers Nos. s. O. and 81 had been slightly re-
paired; the pier at the loot OF HOratio street mad
been repaired after being damaged by the Ice; the
pier at the foot OF Twenty street, North River
had also been repaired. and the triangular bulkhead
now building between piers Nos. "a and IS Tor
Homer Ramsdell and the Erie hallway Company
was nearly completed. These TWO reports were re-
ferred to the Executive Committee.
COOKING FUMES.
A communication from the Commissioners Of
Pilots, complaining that most dtsagreeabe
efiuvla prevailed at midday at the foot OF Maiden
lane from a cooking shanty near the Dulkhead, and
asking that 1t be removed. was referred to the
Executive Committee.
LACK OF MONEY.
Commissioner WOOD suggested that In order to
reduce the expenses OF the department the experts
VINO had been for some time employed by the Board
be dismissed; for II Comptroller Green would give
them no money with which 10 pay their employees
was most njudicious for the Board to make itself
bankrupt. Instead OF the $260,00O which they had
hoped TO have at their disposal they had only about
sixty thousand dollars.
This was merely o suggestion, and was not acted
upon.