New-York tribune., 1905-11-06
COAST DEFENCE REPORT.
EndicoH Plans Require $40, 100000
Estimates for the Year.

Washington. Nov. sit will require s160n.GO0 to
complete the engineering work of Notifications of
the of the United States under the plans
of the Endicott board, according to the report OF
Brigadier General Alexander Mackenzie. chief of
engineers: There has already been appropriated
for this purpose SIS 69S.434 Permanent plans for
thirty-one different points have been adopted and
work them is well under way. The points are:
Frenchman's Bay. Me- Penobscot River: Maine;
n H: Boston. New Bedford, Mass; Narragansett
New-York City, Delaware River Baltimore, Wash
ington Hampton Roads, Va; entrance to Chesa-
ptH GaroIina; r% Charleston. S e. Port Royal S c. sa-
yannah, Ga; St Johns River Florida; IL Key West
Ala. New Orleans. Galveston Tex; San Diego
Washington; Puget Sound, Washington and Lake
Champlain.
The defence of the Great Lakes and the St Law
renee River is under consideration.
The estimate for the completion of these fortifca-
tions does not contemplate anything more than
the projects outlined by the Endcott board Mod
ern appliances and additional projects which may
be recommended by the Taft board. appointed last
summer and the Notifications of the nsular pcs
sessions would increase the estimates 1t IS figured
that i26S 564 would be required to put into execu
ton the schemes of the artillery ard sigma! corps
for fire control of the seacoast defences The
port says:
stnm n1e nave been satisfactorily determined and
adopted, the actual details. on which costs largely
that the of actual construction Will probaoly
largely exceed the above sum Wheh Such deNelop-
ment is complete
II is said that the reconstruction of the works
destroyed by the storm of 1900 at Galveston are
nearly completed but the barracks and quarters
and other posi- buildings at Forts Travis and San
Jacinto are unprotected, range finder sta
tions and other engineer accessories. Heavy sea
walls and extensive sand filling will be needed to
make the protection complete at those points
Work Mas been going forward on the Notifications
for the defences of Manila Bay and Sublg Bay
Cuba and on purchase of sites for fortifca6ons
in Hawaii.
Negotiations have been continued for the acquisi-
ton of site at the eastern entrance to Long
Island Sound and of tract at Mobile, Ala
tract on the Kennebec River Maine; one near
Charleston S. c.. and the Columbia River, Mar
raeansett Ray and Puget Sound were acquired
this wear The total estimates for fortifcation
work under the engineer department for the f1scal
year 1907 amount to $11424,15S divided as follows:
and, and eatsEss t @ sGe sfez
for fortfeatons and seaeoas deenees zen es $9eoe
searchlights for harbor defenees S5@OtQ; pr95ec-
tfon preservation and repair of ortihcatons, $SG-
0O0 preparation of plans for fortifcatons. 5000:
supplies for es TaS " eencSg @t of
Galveston 5Sss sa eaSsateS 6 9resarvaon
snd siE repair epe ef tofpedo structures, $4,000
tories Manila p l.. $2,0O000o; seacoast batteries
Subig Bay Philippine Islands, o00O; harbor,
dafences of the Hawaiian Islands, $326,1o0
An estimate of $4,000 is made for Improvements
in the Yellowstone National Park.
Expenditures river and harbor improvements
in the United States reached $22 3S3,625 This does
nor include So 265 073 under the Mississippi River
commission and $97,575 for the enlargement OF
Governors Island. New-York. No estimates are
made this year for river and harbor improvements
save those provided for under continuing contracts
This amounts TO $17456,S01, to which is added $S5,-
26O to prevent deposits in New-York Harbor and
SIS 600 to be expended under the California DEBRIS
Commission, and also an estimate OF QOVoO Tor
the Mississippi commission. Among the estimates
for the continuing contracts are the following:
Mississippi River between Missouri River and 81
Paul Mimi 100000, and between ST Paul ana
Minneapolis, $299 543; Monongahea River, Fet1lsyI-
vania S3S9.196 Ohio River locks ana ga cams, ms,
s1,2S1376; Allegheny River PennsyiVahia Wy "a SzZ-o
River at the falls, Michtga1 S60oOO0; Hay LAKE
channel Michigan S10O0.O00; Detroit River Michi-
gan S7CO 900; Cleveland Harbor, &50000; San Pedro
4arb0r California 100000; mouth of Columbia
River 100000: Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii. $20OOo0:
fsaIveSton Harbor, Texas, $250.O0O, and Galveston
shin channel 100000; Black Rock Harbor and Erie
Basin NewYork s2s7 643 Riack e65 ,se Warrior and
pass Mississippi River. $5O0,000; South Pass, Mis-
Kennebec River. Maine. SAL 600; Portland Harbor,
Maine. $139OO0; Harbor of Refuge. Cape Ann, Mass
500 600; Lynn Harbor Mass. $g7,s37: Boston Har-
bor Mass, $GOG.OO0; Woods Hole Channel Mass,
100000; Providence River and Harbor. r. l.. S4O-
us; Harbor OF Refuge, Point Judith, r. l., S1OoGoO
New-York Harbor, s265,000; Channel in Gowanus
Bay New-York. S25O.000; channel between Staten
Island and New-Jersey. S10O,O00 Delaware River,
New-Jersey and Pennsylvania, s1,Go0,0o0