Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-05
MONEY FOR THE NAVY
ANNUAL ESTIMATES OF THE SEC
RETARy OF THE NAVY.

Bonaparte for the maintenance of the naval
establishment for the next fiscal year ag-
gregate $l2f.565,719. an increase of $31, $50, :
4oS over the amount appropriated for the
current fiscal year for the same purposes,
ana decrease of s19J11 ,444. compared with
current appropriations for similar items.
me sum of s11.423.159 is estimated for en-
tirely new items, of which the principal are
S,Sso,6o7 for the bureau of ordnance, 81, S;,2 :
90 for public works under the bureau OF
yards and docks, s793.031 is for increase of
the Marine Corps $4,000 for the naval
training station on the great lakes $751;
cVo Tor the bureau of medicine and surgery
and s3I9,520 for the bureau of steam en-
cheering
The estimates under the various heads are
as follows: Pay for the navy, s22924. SI6;
pay, miscellaneous, 100000; contingent
navy, $4,000; bureau of navigation, 50 GOO,
w, bureau of ordnance. S15,i31 GA: bu-
reau OF equipment, $6,S77 DDS; bureau of
YARDS and docks, 81 ,025, 527; public works,
bureau i,' or yards and docks, s9,o54.67o. Pub
lC WORKS, Secretary of the Navy:
naval Academy, sI.130,O00; naval training
station, California. S79. $50; naval training
station Rhode Island. Sl12250: Naval War
Soiiege. u 20; naval training station great
lakes, 100000; United States Naval Home.
s5o,WO; public works, bureau of ordnance.
soo5,ooe; public works, bureau of equipment
$4,000; public works, bureau of medicine
anu surgery, x3sI,0Ga; bureau of medicine
ana surgery $4,000; bureau of supplies and
accounts, S6,oS1 ,032; bureau Of construction
ana repair, $S,630,S24; bureau of steam en-
g,neerlng, s6,3S2, 40; Naval Academy, STA
,iu, MARINE Corps, paymaster, So, Ill 1874;
qaartermaster. $3,114, 452. Increase of the
navy: Construction and machinery, ST.
o'o'o-3; arlnor and armament, $14,OOo,O90.
Of Local Interest.
tho ectt,,a+a, ~
terest are the following for the Washington
navy yard: Machinery for existing shops,
sloo650; machinery for proposed new foun-
dry s121,075; boilers. $780, 900; machinery
for locomotive house, sl2, coo; paving. to ex-
1eno' S9,oo0; underground conduit system, to
extend, 5000; railroad system, to extend
So'W'o; heating system, extension 5000:
wafer system to extend, 100000: ward wall
10 complete, $4,000; quay wall in front of
o 0la yard 10000; grading, to extend, &c.
wv; one 15-ton platform scale and house
Tor same, H,S00: new floors in north and
south gun shop and east gun carriage shop
sZoCo0; extension and improvements. tele-
phone and fire alarm systems $1,000; la
trlnes, additional, 5000; extension of gas
plant. $4,000; locomotive and Ioeomotive
crane mouse, $4,000; new brass and iron
foundry (to cost 100000, $40, 900: tools
ana machinery for yards and docks, So 600;
storage bins for foundry material $40 600.
fireproof model storage building for con-
slruclon and repair, $40 900; raising floor
norm end of storehouse for guns and
mounts, $1,000; purchase of land west of
the yard, to complete, $500; for purchase of
lana and modification and extensions of rail-
road system incident to abolition of grade
crossings, $143.O0O
Other local estimates are as follows: For
Naval Hospital, this city, 100000; for i'm
provements at the naval proving ground,
indian Head, Nd, 500, 100; for grading
grounds and roads of the naval observatory,
$4,000.
The total estimates for the civil establish
ment OF the navy, mostly in this city ag-
gregate $I4615O, being an increase of 3d.
24o over the amount appropriated for the
current year for similar items and includ-
Ing $500 for entirely new items The es-
Inmates for the various offices are as fol-
lows: For the Secretarys Office, 81, 900. in
Guiding two telephone operators at $500
each (new); judge advocate generals office,
sl9, 100; bureau of navigation So, $40; office
of naval intelligence, s11,360; bureau of
equipment s26,O40; photographic office,
s142.6a0; naval observatory, sol, 73O includ-
ing $3.50 for new boiler; for bureau of
steam engineering, SD, $50; bureau of con-
struction and repair, $50, $50; bureau of ord
nance, ,760; bureau of supplies and ac-
counts, $4,000; bureau of medicine and sur
gerry, SIT $40: bureau of yards and Docks
s1S,6S0; Navy Department annex Mills
building, s24,500; contingent expenses, sl4,-
oO0, and printing and binding, 100000.