New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-24
p1VER AND HARBOR WORK.
.,,,povrNfENTS MADE ABOUT NEW
YORK IN THE YEAR.

,r ur-rsoN DrEPENwD FROM TROY TO cox
s,cxIr-orERAr1oNs At sPUYTEN DUYvu.
AND HE'LL GATr. ~ NEW YORK
HARBoR AND * NEw-JERsEY.
,,o.,i,e,.or July q (SpeclaD The War Depart
~. once Of the chief Of Engineers, IS in receipt
=. ,sa annual report Of Major Miller. engineer in
,aree among other plans. Of the hudson RIVER
- Tho r,vors and harbors OF Northeastern New
rrsev for the fiscal year which ended June 70.
oo Oroit.,rr estimates and suggestions in regard
. the work which will be made 20 Congress and
.-.ha,d as confidential until submitted to Congress.
.he substance Of this report IS rs follows
Thai norton OF the Hudson now under improve
NOV, bv the United states extends from the State
4aro 81 Troy down stream 10 Coxsackie. The OBJ
,. &c - nrovidc twelve foot channel three hun
s~o1 foo. wide from rhe State dam 10 broadway.
rrov and four lndred feet wide from Broadway.
Trov 20 Coxsackic. Below the later point there
arc ample depth and width
~ This improvement all of tho 81 AZ COG sc esti-
,.ed cost IN the River ana IIarhor Act Of 1892 has
heen APPROPRIATED except $50 SOC 5s which Is pro-
,aos -o- IN tho Sundry civil act for 1870.
- number Of passengers carried on the river In
,so- us SO O1 In round numbers, the registered
tonnage II ali vessels is above 5000 These are
.to 1,,es returns accessible before August I. 1895.
when dredging on Elizabeth River was suspended
o channel seven feet deep and thirty 10 sixty fee;
-1. mad been secured from the mouth TO Bridge
:, Elizabeth. Il has probably dNteriorated.
Two work done on the Raritan River increased the
channel width from sixty 10 one hundred feet for
.orr hundred feet; 70. an additional distance II
,vo hundred feet width OF one hundred feet was
made and for further distance OF one hundred
feet a width Of fifty feet vas made.
Mora than the estimated cost was expended with
ou, completing the Matawan Creek improvement.
The same remark is made Of Shrewsbury River be-
cause Of frequent dredging. Congress seems 10
pfr-ar
IMPROVEMENTS ABOUT NEW-YORK
The report Of Major Adams touching the harhoT
n. NeW-York and the rivers and ports adjacent 10
%ov-York City Is thus summarized;
The East Chester project in 1897 was nearly com
rle,ed. there remained only the widening OF the
obarnel between Town Dock and Lockwoods by
dredging and removing a small amount OF rocN'
TIE channel has been made ninety feet woe
., moan high water and about one hundred feet
wide from Pelham Bridge to point three thou-
- foot above Lockwood's. 1t is in good condl-
.oo bnt the dikes below Lockwood's on the east
SIDE show some deterioration. Tho project IS con-
sdc-ed completed.
The operations on the Bronx consisting OF Ton
.,,a,.7,ion and removal resulted In removing I'ao
ett. IDS and were completed September .. 1891.
rb-.s lodges have been removed. lying within the
6f,v.foot channel from a point 1900 feet below 10
40 above the Nestchester ave, bridge except I'M
r4diately under and close TO the bridge Iah,"s
deBth .. sS ~ vbare no work has been done. the
channel depth is from zero TO TWO anu one man
Al Port jefferson Harbor the ork done was re-
moving Is ~ cubic yards Of sand and stones; M
"bannel Of Nv Give feet depth at mean low water
was wdened sixty feet making us "la1. 10, ,,
and on the inner half OF the ha' an """'''''' >
of twenty feet width was made ~ ,. r.,a,d
The iettv work at Patchogue River. Long lSIdnu
had been eo9psted at fHe 60 oeS The drSdging was
completed August o. 1877. me Jet,N ilaS, ur ~. =
100 feet. the channel has been dredseo So fryn
wide and six feet deep at mean low water iron,
Great South Bay 10 eighty ieet rom r.1, Fse !.
- made one hundred feet wide. and parts OF ne
channel have been widened by private PERSONS -
nnSg,ne is s,n In progress on Newtown Creek
AT Harlem River and spuyien. DuyT!, t"' y ''i r.
amount dredged unde: me coh1ItAr. ~ Hudson
Moore was 121o cubic yaTa. rom t1ln ri c6an
nei is nov twelve feet deep and over at mean low
water and from 80 TO 800 feet wide; the depth Is
So feet From Macombs Dam south TO Wards
Island the available channel Is fifteen fsel Geep anu
over and nowhere less than lao feet wide. To com
phonnei 10 the full width Of $50 to 100 feet deepen
inc ~ ~ s,teen feet and revetting the banks whore
The channel excavation passes through meade" OF
upland.
tn. report on New-York Harbor covers about
,uentv tvpewritten pages. The project IS de-
scrihed IN full. The operations for the year CON
,ls-ed Of removing shoals widening the chanhei anu
resurveying the harbor. The present CONDITION Is
thus stated: The improved channel for oeeP 49, I
below
~ a den,b OF thirty feet at mean low water, ana
= general width of one thousand feet thronfh1tI,
At Northwest Shoal the ihiTtY-'oo' '"""'''' ''@'
been wdened TO 100 feet 1911, . .,,a.o-,.i
Al Gowanus Bay l4ss 462 cubic yards O. ma'eIi on
have been dredged Bay Ridge channel mas De', ,
dredged eight hundred feet wide ana ,we,llN-st1N.
feet deep at mean low water throughout ~
alec ne triangular area between Bay Kldso anu
pa Hook channels Rel Hook channel. -
dredrod twenty-six feet deep. win "ldtis % 80"
TurG-ed feet or less where work is now IN ItoE-
rese These channels have shoaled IN places from
ON I'm Fast river and Hell Gate thirty-on" tons oI
rock were removed in the Eear Inf depth
&C. .tgbteon feet The list OF names OF roc rs
removed is given table OF nam fn2 &t Of ihc
,,1ps nd ,eers 10 be removed The original pro
eced depth twen,y-fourr feet - ut%cniy1six
.a, ~ n INC voc X In or near Hell Gate ana lD
some OF the others. shell Reef ana lng ciSsnneI
~. u f.LL,L u