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Capt. Edward E. Potter, U. S. Navy, now the governor of the institution, reports that the asylum building and grounds have been kept in excellent condition of repair and preservation during the past year. As far as the funds have permitted improvements have been made adding to the comfort of the inmates. The stairways of the interior have been extensively improved, two summer houses have been erected in the grounds, sidewalks have been relaid, the library and musical and other entertainments maintained.

The following table shows the changes during the past fiscal year:

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This is a slight increase over the previous year.

193

25

5

223

3

16

6

26

197

As the room provided by the new back building authorized by Congress will relieve the crowding and discomfort referred to in previous reports, the question of adding to the comfort of these aged and deserving beneficiaries of the nation principally engages the consideration of the Bureau and the authorities of the institution. ·

An estimate of $4,000 is submitted for building a first class hydraulic elevator in the asylum with means for keeping up the necessary hydraulic pressure. This improvement is most necessary and desirable for an institution of this kind, many of the inmates being so infirm as to make the climbing of stairways a slow and painful task, and the dining-room being placed in the basement, the use of the stairways is necessarily frequent during the day.

An estimate of $4,850 is also submitted for cementing the floor of the asylum cellar. The floor just above the cellar is the one in which the dining-room is placed, and is damp, especially when the furnaces are not in operation. It is believed that the cementing of the cellar floor would remove to a great degree this source of trouble and improve the sanitary condition of the building.

The Bureau approves of the repeated recommendations of the governors of the asylum for an increase of the pay of the employés; especially is this necessary in regard to the chief cook and the assistant cooks. It is a matter so directly connected with the daily life of the inmates that pay commanding a better grade of employés in this particular will be felt most sensibly and constantly by them.

It is hoped that when the consideration of the above matters is made by Congress that it will be borne in mind that the Naval Asylum is supported, and all these improvements paid for, from the income of the naval pension fund, a fund created by the exertions of the men of the naval service, many of whom are now beneficiaries of this institution.

The Bureau desires to express its approval of the change of name, proposed in the bill that has passed the Senate and is pending in the House of Representatives, to that of "United States Naval Home," and also the bill to sell the lot known as the "wharf lot," through which the Schuylkill East Side Railroad now passes, provided a proper sewerage access to the river is given to the institution; and that the money received from this sale is to be expended for the improvement of the Naval Asylum and the provision of further comfort to its inmates.

CONTINGENT.

The sum of $40,000 is required and estimated for under this head, to be used for unforeseen emergencies and accidents that may arise calling for immediate outlay, and also to meet necessary expenditures for objects that are indispensable and for which the yearly appropriations of "General maintenance" and "Repairs and preservation" may not have proven sufficient.

GENERAL MAINTENANCE.

For this an amount of $200,000 is asked. The most necessary and pressing expenditures of the different yards come under this head, such as repairs to fire engines, purchases of horses and oxen and their maintenance, carts and tools, coal, water, and gas, telegrams, incidental labor, pay of watchmen, cleaning yards, the care of buildings, purchase of and care of machinery of every description, rents, etc. The need for the amount estimated is consequently obvious. On account of the reduced appropriations of the past few years there has been a deficiency caused in the live stock, vehicles, in furniture of houses especially, and in the funds for the general cleaning and care of the yards.

It is trusted that the reduction made by the Bureau for this purpose from the estimates submitted to it will not receive further reduction.

REPAIRS AND PRESERVATION.

The amount asked for ($275,000) under this head is reduced to what is considered absolutely necessary. It is earnestly hoped that no further reduction will be made to this general appropriation which has been reduced very greatly from the estimates submitted to it from the various yards, and is also a reduction from the amount appropriated for the present fiscal year.

The entire amount asked for by the Bureau is $1,744,849.58, the detail of which is contained on the tabulated sheets Nos. 1 to 6, recapitulated as follows:

1. For support of Bureau of Yards and Docks

2. For general maintenance and contingent 3. For support of Naval Asylum....

4. For repairs and preservation.

5. For improvement at navy-yards 6. For civil establishment....

Total........

$10,980.00 240,000.00 80, 125.00 275,000.00 1,089, 248.98 49, 495.60

1,744, 849.58

A statement showing the amount expended under each specific head of appropriation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, and the balance remaining unexpended June 30, as required by section 429 Revised Statutes, is appended.

Also, a report showing amount expended during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888, from appropriations pertaining to this Bureau for civilians employed on clerical duty or in any other capacity than as ordinary mechanics and workingmen at the several navy-yards, with estimates for the same for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, in compliance with the third section of naval appropriation act, approved January 30, 1885.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. Wм. C. WHITNEY,

Secretary of the Navy.

D. B. HARMONY,

Chief of Bureau.

Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department.

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GENERAL MAINTENANCE.

For general maintenance of yards and docks, namely: For freight and transportation of materials and stores; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fireengines; machinery; repairs on steam fire-engines and attendance on the same; purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams; carts and timberwheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards, and tools and repairs of the same; postage on letters and other mailable matter on public service sent to foreign countries, and telegrams; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in the navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire-engines, and apparatus; for incidental labor at navy-yards; water-tax and tolls and ferriages; rent of four officers' quarters at Philadelphia, Pa.; for pay of watchmen in navy-yards, and for awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks purposes (September 7, 1888)

CONTINGENT.

For contingent expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations (September 7, 1888)

NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

1,800.00

1,600.00

$1,800.00

1,800.00

1,800.00

1,600.00

1,400.00

1,200.00

720.00

660.00

1, 400.00
1, 200. 00
720.00
660.00

$10,980.00

10,980.00

10,980.00

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One superintendent (September 7, 1888).
One steward, increase of $120, submitted.

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One matron, increase of $120, submitted (same act).
One chief cook, increase of $240, submitted (same act)..

4-0.00

360,00

480.00

240.00

One assistant cook, increase of $192, submitted (same act)..

360.00

168.00

One assistant cook, increase of $132, submitted (same act).
One chief laundress (same act)

300.00

168.00

192.00

192.00

Four laundresses, reduced two laundresses, at $168 each
(same act)..

672.00

Four scrubbers (same act)

672.00

Eight waiters (same act)

1,344. 00

1,008.00

672.00 1,344.00

Six laborers (same act).

1,440. 00

1, 440. 00

One stable-keeper and driver (same act)

360.00

360.00

One master-at-arms, increase of $120, submitted (same act)
One barber (same act)

600.00

480.00

360.00

360.00

One carpenter (same act).

845.00

845.00

Two house corporals, an increase of $60 each, submitted
(same act)...

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For transportation of indigent and destituto beneficiaries
to the Naval Asylum (same act)..

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For repairs to buildings, furnaces, grates, ranges, furniture

and repairs of furniture (same act)..

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For water rent and gas (same act)

1,800.00

1,800.00

For cemetery, burial expenses, and head-stones (same act)

350.00

350.00

For improvement of grounds (same act).
For music in chapel (same act).

500.00

500.00

600.00

600.00

Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year, etc.—Continued.

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Navy-yard, Mare Island, Cal.-Continued.

For continuing work on granite dry-dock, to be available immediately (submitted)

For gas holder (submitted). .

For sectional dock basin (submitted).

For finishing boiler and machine-shop (September 7, 1888)

For extending wharf from coal-house to foundry (Sep-
tember 7, 1888)

For crane-scow (September 7, 1888)
For mud-scow (September 7, 1888)
For pile-driver (September 7, 1888).
Naval station, Port Royal, S. C.:
For officers' quarters (submitted)

For fencing (September 7, 1888)

$80,000.00
16, 664. 09
30, 947. 84

For artesian well (September 7, 1888)
For boat-house (September 7, 1888).

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Electric lighting at navy-yards:

For the establishment of plant and the inauguration of electric lighting in the navy-yards at New York, N. Y., Norfolk, Va., and Mare Island, Cal. (submitted)|

Selection of locations for navy-yards upon Gulf of Mexico, etc., and on the Pacific coast:

For expenses of commission of three officers and for sounding, surveying, and making estimates for location of navy-yard on or near the Gulf of Mexico (September 7, 1888).

For expenses of commission to select suitable site for a navy-yard on the Pacific coast north of 420 N. latitude (same act).

Adjustable stern-dock:

For one adjustable stern-dock, to be constructed at such place as the Secretary of the Navy may determine (same act)...

Naval station, Key West, Fla. :

For two houses for officers' quarters (submitted).

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT.

Naval station, Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. :

$277, 367.33

$4,200.00

30,000.00

7,000.00

4,500.00

5, 000. 00

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One ship-keeper, at $1 per diem* (September 7, 1888)...

365.00

365.00

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