Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-11-07

ANNUAL REPORT OF SUPERVISING AR
TECT HILL


TECr HILL.
Mr.. James q Hill, supervising architect
OF the Treasury, yesterday afternoon sub
mitted his annual report To the Secretary of
the Treasury. The report says that owing to
the depreciation IN real estate, the sales of
government property recommended In the
last Tt port may well be deferred until more
favorable Time. IL Tenews the recOmm enda j..
ton contained in the last report, that a suita-
bic building be erected for the accommoda-
ton OF The bureau of engraving and print
ing, ana mat some provision outside the
Treasury buildir be made for the rapidly
accommodating flies. The granite couIractS,
known as the fifteen per cent. contracts, have
have been made for the government build
ings at Philadelphia, Cincinnati and st.
Louis The changes viii result in large
saving To the government. Tue only re-
m aiming contracts of this nature are those
for the stonework of the custom house at
Hartford, Conn.,, and the extension OF the
post once and sub-tressury at Boston. and
the advisability OF changes in these should
De considered when further appropriations
shall be made for these buildings Consid-
erlng The limited appropriations available
for work on public buildings during the
year, good progress has been an 3de, and a
comparison of results with amounts eX pend
ed will show that the various works have
been Judiciousiy aud economically prOsecu-
ted. The following are the balances credited
10 the appropriations (Septemoer 30tn,) In
The Treasury for the different works
baDy custom house, Sf07 1882; Atlanta
court house and post office, sos. l33.4s; Is JStOu
sub-treasury extension, Sl9 262 80; Charles
ton, :. C., custom house, ST2 $40 Is: Chicago
custom house, Si99, 2S4Tl; Cincinnati Gus
tom house, S2S9, 1S5; COvington court ho Use,
S144 tJO.05; Dover, Del, post Office, appropri-
alton expended; Evansville custom house,
S40S74I4; Fall River, Mass, custom house,
$40, 1850; Grand Rapids, Mich, court hOu se,
$50, 61O.Sy; Hartford custOm-house, 50 1878;
Helena, Montana. assay office, expended;
Jersey City post Office, S1l 1872 80; Lincoln,
Neb., custom house, Si97 10 ~; Little Rock,
ARK, custom house, 49, sol IS; Memphis
custom house, SlOl ,S59 s.; Nashville custom
house, So ,!t22.17 New Orleans custom house.
S3i6.62; New York court house aud post Of
flee, S49, 055.20; Parkersburg, w. Va, court
house, 80 010N; Philadelphia court house,
SS,96179; Port Huron, Mich, custo IN house,
ST., 1902, Raleigh court house &c, S22 46g. 50;
ROckland, Maine, custom house, post office,
&c, $3.50; San Francisco sub treasury
S5,22O16; San Francisco appraisers stores,
SO SOC; ST. Louis custom house, S2lj, Ill 81;
Trenton, N. j., post office, &C., ~ ,252 A.;
UTICA court house, &c, S15 549.53. "a addi-
ton to the ordinary current repairs TO the
various public buildings, extensive altera
7 ons have been completed on the custom
houses at Alexandria, Va, Bangor, Me-
Louisville and Plttsburg; on the assay Of
nee, New York; custom house and ap-
praisers' stores, Philadelphia, aud custom
house at San Francisco, and are in progress
on the custom house, ub-treaSury, court
house, New Orleans; custom house, Pensa-
cola, Fla, and the custom house and post of
fee, Philadelphia. The estimates for the
ems uing year will be submitted 10 Congress
along with and Included in the report of the
Secretary OF the Treasury,