The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1905-11-06
$4,000, 900 IS NEEDED
TO CARRY OUT PLANS or ENDE-
C0TT BOARD.
BriEadfer General, Chief OF Engineers,
Renders Report ON Forfi6cn-
tion Of Sea Coast OF
Nnfi0a.

washington, Nov. s,---slxteen million
dollars will. be necessary to complete
the engineering work OF the sea coast
fortifications of the United States under
tho plan Of the Endicott board. accord
ing to the report OF Brigadier General
Alexander Mackenzie, chief OF en-
gineers.
There has already been appropriated
for this purpose $2s.s9s.434. Perma-
nent projects at thirty-one different
points have been adopted and most of
them are well under way. These
points are:
Frenchrnan's Bay. Maine; Penobscot
River. Maine; Kennebec River Maine;
Portland, Maine; Portsmouth, N. H.;
Boston. Mass: New Bedford. Mass;
Narrangansett Bay. r. L.: Eastern En-
trance to Long Island Sound: New
York. NJ Y; Delaware River; Baltimore,
Nd: Washington, d. c.; Hampton
Roads. va; entrance to Chesapeake
Bay, at Cape Henry; Cape Fear River.
N. C.; Charleston. s. c.; Port Royal, s..
G.; Savannah, Ga: St. Johns River,
Fla. Kew west, Fla; Tampa Bay, Fla;
Pensacola, Fla; Mobile, Ala; New Or
leans, La: Galveston. Texas; San Diego.
Cal; San Francisco, CAL; Columbia,
River. oregon and Puget Sunday.
Washington: Lake Champlain.
The defense of the great lakes and
the st. Lawrence River Is under con-
sideration.
these Notifications does not contemplate
anything more than the projects out
lined by the Endicott board. Modern
anpIiances and additional projects
which may be adopted by the Taft
board. appointed last summer, and the
foHifications of the insuiar possessions
may increase the estimates when. addir
49, f.,.a
n Is estimated that $4.263.364 will be
required to put into execution by the
en- gineer department the schemes OF the
artillery and signal corps for fire con-
troll of the sea coast defenses.
II is stated that the reconstruction
of the works destroyed by the storm
of 1900 at Galveston are nearly COM
pie. ed, cut the barracks and quarters
ans other post buildings which must
| be located at Ports Travis and San
Jacinto are unprotected, as well as
range finder stations and other engi-
neer accessories Very heavy sea walls
and extensive sand filling will be es-
sential TO making protection complete
at those points.
Work has been progressing on the
Sort!fications for the defenses of Ma
Mia Bay ard Subig Bay, Cuba and of
the purchase of sites for Notifications
in Hawaii.
Negotiations have been continued for
the acquisition OF one site at the east
ern entrance to Long Island Sound and
of a tract at Mobile, Ala. A tract on
the Kennebec river, Maine, one near
Charleston, S. c.. and on the Columbia
river Narragansett Bay and Puget
sound were acquired during the year.
The total estimates for fertilization
works under the Engineer Department
for the fiscal year 1907 amount to $i1.-
424.153 divided as follows:
Construction of gun and mortar bat
taries. $4,000,000: undermining older
emplaceIpents, $494,500; sites for FORTH
fications and sea coast defenses. $780,
900: searchlights for harbor defenses.
$500. 900; protection. preservation and
repair of Notifications. $S0O,000s propo-
sitions of plans for fortifications, So
900; supplies for sea coat defenses, $40,-
900: sea walls and entertainments, S2I5.-
900; sea walls. defenses OF Galveston.
Tex, $l,433.s53; classmates, galleries.
etc. for sub marine mines. $40, 100;
preservation and repair of torpedo
structures. $4,000.
Defenses insular possessions. sea
coast batteries. Manila, 100000; sea
coast batteries, Subig Bay, $500, 900 !;
harbor. Hawaii, 100000; procurement
of land for sites for defenses of the
Hawaiian Islands, $326.100. al
An estimate OF $4,000 is made for
improvements In the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park.
Expenditures on river and harbor Inn
provements In the United States reach
ed S22,3S3,323. This does not include
SCISSORS under the Mississippi River
River Commission and $97,575 for en-
largement of Governors Island, n. Y.
No estimates are made this year for
river and harbor improvements, save
those provided for under continuing
contracts. This amounts 70 $17,456.s01.