Amount paid for pay-rolls laborers and mechanics.... Amount paid for labor, paid by voucher................ Amount paid for plumbing material and drain and water pipes Amount paid for hardware, rope, and tools.... Amount paid for hauling and freight... Amount paid for lime, sand, and cement.. Amount paid for foundation stone Amount paid for bricks..... Amount paid for iron beams and plates Amount paid for stationery and drawing-paper. Amount paid for vault lights Amount paid for advertising.. Amount paid for laying Seneca flag and gutters. Amount paid for lumber $46, 235 49 593 17 1,246 06 418 80 218 25 4,050 38 3, 413 71 5,008 75 2,761 06 68 97 2,140 00 51 16 65 25 71, 151 46 32 47 2,534 14 88 13 721 60 1,209 50 1,215 03 Amount paid for draughtsman. 240 00 Amount unexpended ....... 56,536 62 200,000 00 Amount appropriated March 3, 1885 .... 200,000 00 LIGHTING UNITED STATES CAPITOL and GROUNDS. Amount paid for gas service.... $16,737 15 Amount paid for superintendent of meters and lamp-lighters. Amount paid for electric lighting.... Amount paid for material for electric lighting. Amount paid for chandeliers and gas-fixtures Amount paid for gas-governors and piping... Appropriated March 3, 1885 Most respectfully submitted. Hon. L. Q. C. LAMAR, Secretary of the Interior. EDWARD CLARK, Architect United States Capitol. 1,475 90 576 00 147 14 483 41 520 00 60 00 20,000 00 20,000 00 REPORT ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW PENSION BUILDING. OFFICE OF SUPERVISING ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT, NEW PENSION BUILDING, Washington, D. C., September 22, 1886. SIR: At the date of the last annual report of this office, 18th September, 1885, the office rooms were all under roof; the two ends of the great hall were also covered, although a part of the tin roof covering had not been completed. Five of the main iron trusses of the roof of the middle hall, 151 feet high, were in place. This hall had not been floored, but on parts of the galleries temporary wooden floors had then been laid down. The office rooms in the first and second stories and in one-fourth part of the third story had been plastered and floored with wood, and plas tering and flooring in another section of the third story was in progress. None of the interior of the great hall had been plastered. The masonry of the north and south gables of the great hall was not completed. The balance of appropriation then available was $69,240.87. During the fall and winter the roof and the masonry were completed. The windows of the clere-story or superstructure, lighting the hall were glazed and the building entirely inclosed. It had been occupied from May 13, 1885, by part of the officers and clerks of the Pension Bureau, and the whole force and its clerks and furniture were gradually transferred during the year 1885 to the new building as rooms were completed and made ready for occupation. The heating apparatus was kept at work in the rooms in which the plaster was fresh, and the walls, under its influ ence, dried out rapidly, and no inconvenience or ill health, at first apprehended, seems to have been caused by the dampness of the walls. On the 30th November, 1885, the funds available having been exhausted, work was suspended. Congress at its late session, by law approved 5th August, 1886, granted an appropriation of $89,000 for plastering and flooring with tiles the great hall and for completing the building; and also appropriated $61,000 for extending the fourth floor throughout the building in order to increase the area of floors for office purposes and provide record rooms on the fourth floor for the great and constantly accumulating mass of papers which now occupy rooms which should be reserved for clerical work and the general business of the bureau. Advertisements and specifications were printed, copies of which accompany this report; and contracts have been awarded for the completion of the building and the extension of the fourth floor. Work was commenced on 9th August, in order to save time, upon the plastering of the great hall, and by the time, prescribed conditions of adver tisement and making contracts were completed, all the walls and arches under the arcade of the lower gallery, 20 feet high and 12 feet wide, around the ground floor of the building had received one coat of plaster, parts had been second coated, and the plastering of walls and ceiling of the eastern gallery, 116 feet in length, had been finished. Upon execution of the contract for plastering, this work was turned over for completion to the contractor. Some progress has been made in the new work. In all the rooms in the cellar permanent floors of masonry have been laid. The brick work Time lost by sickness in old quarters during time lost by sickness in new building during the 30, 1886, 10,114 days; saving in time, 8,622 days. ness for one person. fiscal year of 1884-'85, 18,736 days; fiscal year of 1885-'86, ending June This is equal to 23 years of sick of the walls to support the new fourth floor has been commenced in about one-half of the third story. About half of the work of plastering the lower gallery of the hall, or about 432 feet of its length, is now done. The material for the floor of the great hall and the galleries therein is being prepared, and brick masons are at work completing the upper flights of north and south staircases left unfinished when operations ceased last winter. The total cubic contents of the building are 8,211,491 cubic feet. The floor space after the fourth floor is completed will be 188,258 square feet. The law of August 7, 1882, appropriated for Pension building.. The law of August 5, 1886, appropriated for completing building. Total appropriations ... Total amount expended to September 16, 1885, date of last annual re $250,000 00 150,000 00 40,000 00 266, 559 62 30,000 00 11,000 00 89,000 00 61, 000 00 897,559 62 Total amount expended from September 16, 1885, to September 20, 1886: For construction of building.. From appropriation for gas-pipes... $49, 143 25 19,372 59 69 37 197 40 68,782 61 747,101 36 $81,539 58 812 03 7,304 05 60, 802 60 From appropriation for gallery and extending fourth floor... Total amount remaining available for all purposes I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 150, 458 26 M. C. MEIGS, Supervising Engineer and Architect New Pension Building. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF VISITORS OF THE GOVERN. MENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, Washington, D. C., October 1, 1886. SIR: The Board of Visitors of the Government Hospital for the Insane respectfully submit this their thirty-first annual report. Attention is called to the following tables, which give the results of the year's work, with the changes in the population of the hospital, during the year ending June 30, 1886. |
