New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-05
Secretary Garrison AllotS
$3O,OO0,O00 for Rivers
and HarbOrS.
ALLOWS $5,37l,000
FOR MISSISSIPPI
Report of Army Engineers
FavorS Several Projects
Criticised in Congress.
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Washington, April AUST how the
$3O,O00,00O allowed by Congress for
river and harbor Improvements will be
spent was announced to-day by Secre-
tary of War Garrison, following a
study of the claims of the various prof.
ects by the Board of Army Engineers.
Selection of the projects was left TO
the board by Congress as the result OF
the determined opposition Of a few he,
publican Senators to any pork barrel
proposition.
More than S2,500,OOO has been set
aside for work on New York projects.
of which S877,7S0 is allotted TO the
Hudson River. With an additional sum
of $622,220, left from last years APP
preparation, thjs brings the total avail
able for work on the Hudson this year
TO $l,500,000. Another big allotment
for New York is 100000 for Arthur
Kill, or Staten Island Sound.
The Mississippi River is allowed 3d.
81 900, of which 100000 is to be
spent under the direction of the Mis-
sissippi River Commission. For i'm
provements between the mouths OF the
Ohio and the Missouri 100000 Is al
lowed; from the mouth of the Missouri
to Minneapolis, s1,000,000; from st.
Paul to Minneapolis, $4,000, and from
Brainerd to Grand Rapids. Mimi, &c.
600.
For the Mississippi Passes.
In addition to this total, 100000 is
allowed for improvement of the South
west Pass in the Mississippi and
$4,000 for the South Pass channel in
the same river.
Philadelphia gets 100000 for the
Delaware River channel from the city
to the sea. A like sum is allowed for
improvement of the Missouri River
from Kansas City to the Mississippi,
while $4,000 is allowed to improve
the Missouri up to Sioux City and $780,
coo from Sioux City to Fort Benton.
The Ohio River is also literally
treated, $3.330000 being allowed for
locks and dams and $4,000 for open
channel work. For the building OF q
lock on the st. Mary's River in Michi-
gan Sl,006.000 is allowed.
For the improvement Of the mouth
lof the Columbia River S1,500,000 is
provided.
A strange feature Of the report is
that some Of the projects most severe
~ hammered during the fight on the
bill in Congress receive liberal allow
ances from the army engineers. The
Cumberland River, which Senator Bur
ton, of Ohio, characterized as a bad
project, is allowed S378,000, while the
Trinity River, in Texas. which SEN
ator Gallinger, Of New Hampshire,
suggested should be macadamized, is
allotted $4,000.
Small Sum for New Jersey.
Secretary Garrison is not over-lib-
eral with his own state, New Jersey
being allowed only S239, 6l2, if the Ar
thur Kill and Delaware rivers improve
ments are not charged to it. OF the
New Jersey improvements the Passaic
River gets 100000; the Shrewsbury
River. $4,000, and Raritan Bay,
$4,000
New York improvements include
Port Chester Harbor, $4,000; Mamar-
oneck Harbor, Sl4,S00; Eastchester
Greek. $4,000: Bronx River, 100000;
Harlem River, $4,000; Plattsburg
Harbor, $4,000; Narrows of Lake
Champlain, $1,000 Hudson River,
0S77,7S0; RondoUt Harbor, $4,000;
Tarrytown Harbor, $4,000; channel in
Gowanus Bay, Bay Ridge and Red
Hook channels. $125.OOO Newtown
Creek, $4,000; Great South Bay,
$4,000; Browns Creek, $4,000; Sleeps
head Bay, $4,000; Huntington Harbor,
$4,000; Arthur Kill, or Staten Island
Sound. 100000; Buffalo Harbor. $751;
375; Charlotte lIarbor, $4,000; Lake
Erie entrance 30 Black Rock Iarbor
and Erie Basin, $4,000, and Oswego
Harbor, 100000.