The Washington times., 1901-07-18
WORK IN NEW YORK HARBoR.
Major NarshnlIs Report for the Last
Fiscal Year Received.

! Brig. Gen. George /. Gillespie. Chief of
| Engineers has received a report from
Major w L. Marshall, the officer in
charge on the progress of the work of
Improvement of New York Harbor. Of
! Bay Ridge Red Hook, and Buttermik
channels and the Gowanus Creek channel
during the fiscal year ended June 80 last.
| According 10 the report, under the prof.
| ect of March 3, 1893. for connecting the
deep water in the lower bay with the
ocean by a channel 2,00o feet wide and 40
! feet deep at low water, crossing the bay
| by way of the Ambrose or Old East
channel. 21s,SS0 cubic yards of earth were
! excavated: at Coney Island channel part
of an old shoal known as the Lewis was
removed and the channel Strengthened
making it $50 yards wide and II feet deep;
at Fort Hamilton pier the channel of ap-
preach was deepened II feet and made 100
feet wide; at Port Hancock pier the chan
mel was deepened TO Is feet and made 50
feet wide.
Under the project for making Ambrose
channel 1900 feet wide and 40 feet deep
which will entail the removal of 45 800, 900
cubic yards of earth, but AZ, ,2O9 were ex-
cavated UP to the close of the fiscal year
There were numerous delays in the work
the report states. due to various reasons
The channel as improved up to date from
deep water down to the Narrows, has a
depth at low water of 80 feet and a gen.
eral width of 1000 feet except at the
northwest shoal where it is 1000 feet
wide.
During the year. si6,552 was spent in the
general work of improvement leaving an
available balance Of $13.Sis An appropria-
ton expended in work on the Ambrose
channel was s33.5l9, leaving an available
balance of sl.O55,552. An appropriation of
$500. 900 additional is asked.
Under the contract for making the Bay
Ridge and Red Hook channels l.2Oe feet
wide and 20 feet deep. 2s4.5O1 cubic yards
Of material were excavated, giving the
Bay Ridge channel width of 800 feet and
a depth of 26 feet. II was previously es-
iimated that up to June 30 1853, $3.50. 900
yards of material would have been exca-
waited at a cost of 1916 900. but the report
estimates the amount of material which
will have been removed within that period
at I 700J. 900 cubic yards, at a cost OF $780,
The available sum remaining TO con-
tinue this work is S5G2, 900 and an addition
al appropriation of 500, 900 is asked.
Gowanus Creek channel was widened
Is feet, but cannot the report states, be
widened to the pier line without endan-
gering the pier heads. The entire avail
able sum of 81 1853 available for this work
having been expended the sum of S20, ,000
is asked.
The expenditures for the entire work of
Improvement in New York Harbor during
the past fiscal year were sl0S. .791. itemized
as follows:
General improvements in New York
Harbor. $685.. Ambrose channel So 719:
Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, Sl2-
SO; Bay Ridge. Red Hook. and Butter
milk channels. S.262; Gowanus Creek
channel. $7,553; emergencies in river and
harbor improvements, 81 $50. and raising
sunken wrecks, s120. For the Bay Ridge
ana Red Hook channels. Sf7S, ,S35 is still
available. and an additional appropria-
tion of 10000 is asked. The entire cost
of completing the latter project is esti-
mated at s.. $4,000.