The evening times., 1899-07-07

THB LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE
Extensive Improvements to Be
Made This Year.
Coast Facilities to BE Installed at n
Cost of 1$4,OOO,OOO Engineers
Drawn by Architects of the Treas
ury-Expenditures Provided For.

The Lighthouse Board is making prep
arations for the expenditure of the appro-
priation made by the last Congress for the
Improvement and extension OF the light
house service. The appropriation became
available July 1. The improvements to be
made this year are extraordinarily extern
sive and contemplate the establishment Of
lighthouses, buoys, and fog signals at
points along the entire coast line of the
United States. to cost in the aggregate
about $4,000, O00
The act of Congress providing for the
appropriation directs the Lighthouse Board
to build number of new lighthouses at
several points along the Atlantic Coast
and also on the Pacific Coast The Light
house Board has taken the preliminary
steps looking to the improvements, and has
directed engineers to make surveys of
sites on which lighthouses are to be built
and supply stations established. The
architects of the Treasury have also been
directed to make plans for the buildings
and lighthouses to be erected.
1t will probably be several weeks before
the surveys are completed and the plans
all made, consequently bids for the con-
struction of the lighthouses and buildings
provided for by Congress will not be call
ed for for some time yet.
The act provides for the following ex-
penditures:
For seamen's wages, rations, repairs, salaries
supplies. and temporary employment and Incl.
dental expenses of light-vessels, $4O0 OO0.
For expenses of establishing, replacing, and
maintaining buoys of any and all kinds and
spindles, and for incidental expenses relating
thereto, s550000.
For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and
improving fog signals and buildings connected
Herewith, and for repairs and incidental ex-
penses OF the same, s130,000.
For establishing, supplying, and maintaining
post lights on the Hudson and East Rivers New
York: the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connect
icut River, Thames River, between Norwich and
New London. Conn; the Delaware River, be-
tween Philadelphia and Bordentown N j.: the
Elk River, Maryland; York River, Virginia
James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North
Carolina; Savannah River. Georgia; Saint Johns
and Indian Rivers, Florida; at Chieott Pass
and to mark navgable channel along Grand
Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth OF Red River
Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri Ohio
Tennessee, Illinois. and Great Kanawha Rivers
Sacramento and San joaquin Rivers California
on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers Ore
gon; on Puget Sound. Washington Sound and
adjacent waters. Washington; and the channel.
in Saint Louis and Superior Bays, at the head
OF Lake Superior; the Lighthouse Board being
hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground
Tor all such lights and beacons are for TEN
porary use, or are used to point out changeab!e
channels, and which. in consequence cannot bt
made permanent. S-}O1,OOG.
For preliminary examinations, surveys, and
plans for determining the proper sites and cost
of lighthouses and STRUCTURES fer which estimate.
are to be made TO Congress. 81 600
Whitehead Light and Fog-Signal Station. Maine
For construction of keepers dwelling, So 100;
For constructing lightship. with fog signal
near Cape Elizabeth. Me-, $50, 600
For establishing a Lighthouse and fog signal
or lghtship at point north of the bell buoy
near the broken part Of Pollock Rip Shoals, a,
the northeastern entrance of Nantucket Shoals,
Mass, $4,000
For establishing Hog Island Shoal
Nauagansett Bay, R. l., light and fog signal
station to take the place of the ight-vessel now
there. S35. 600.
For establishing light and fog signal station
on Green's Ledge, Norwalk Harbor, Conn, $50
ooo
For establishing lighted beacons at Rount
Beach, Fitch's Point, White Rock Reef, ant
Grassy Hammock, Norwalk Harbor, Conn, $500
900.
For completing Orient Point Light Station
on the west side of Plum Gut at the entrance
to Long Island Sound New York, in addition tC
the $4,000 appropriated by the act approved OF
June 4. 1897 5000
For new steam tender. for construction and re
pairs in the Third lighthouse district, New York
SIS. 600
For continuing the construction of the Sc:
wall, rebuilding wharyes, and dredging the ba
sin. at the general lighthouse depot at Tompkins
vile, Staten Island, n. Y, sos 50Oo.
For re-establishing and reconstructing light
house at or near the mouth of Salem Creek, New
Jersey, s., 600.
For completing the light and fog-sgnal sta
tion on the shoals off Hooper Island, east sid
| of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. $4,000.
Bloody Point Range. South Carolina: Fo
4
con TO the side [sitel of the rear beacon
and moving the front beacon of the abandone,
Venus Point Range to make it the front beacol
Of the Bloody Point Range, $500.
For establishing depot FOR the Sixth light
house district at some suitable point TO be dc
| termined by the Lighthouse Board. S35, O00.
Repairs TO lght-vessel numbered Il to be pa
for from the balance remaining after the repai
| of light-vessel numbered 60.
For establishing a buoy and lighthouse depo
| at or near Mobile Ala, SIS, 600, and the tota
cost of establishing said depot shall not exeee
| this sum.
| Tender for inspector of the Ninth lighthous
| district. $s5.000.
| Repairing and enlarging the lighthouse depo
| at Buffalo, n. Y, S50,0O
| Establishment of light and fog signal static
4 at or near Point Arguello, the coast of Cali
| fornia. s35. .000
Point Hueneme light station, CAL, for right c
way TO public road, 5000.
! For expense of constructing telephone lin
| from United States lighthouse at Point Trinidad
| Cal, to connect with the general telephone sy:
tenn at Trinidad, in Humboldt county, Cal, s25t
! Tender for the Thirteenth lighthouse dstric;