Work Yards at Gansevoort and East Sixteenth Streets, including Grading, Fencing, Sheds, and Offices. Vosburgh & Gilbertson, building office at Battery. Patterson Brothers, builders, hardware for offices at Battery and Gansevoort $1,219 93 street Tobias New, roofing shed at Gansevoort street, etc Mulligan Brothers, painting sheds and fences at Gansevoort street. William Bogardus, painting office at Battery. P. T. O'Brien, building brick piers for shed at East Sixteenth street. Page, Thomas, & Co., roofing office at Battery, etc.. Noyes & Wines, iron siding for shed at East Sixteenth street. James A. Bourke, painting shed and fence at East Sixteenth street. John L. Cheeseman, sashes, sky-lights, etc., for shed at East Sixteenth st. John C. Larkin, draining, grading and graveling yard at Gansevoort street.. Fairbanks & Co., scales for yards... Williamson, Goodhue & Co., gunny bags, yard at Gansevoort street. D. Berrian & Co., bellows for blacksmith J. G. & D. D. Foreman, steel hammers for blacksmith Donegan & Reilley, repairing pump at Battery. 3,888 15 62.00 10 40 Coal for Tugs, Dredges, Pile-drivers, etc. 12,235 12 Laying Granite and Concrete for River Wall and Pier No. 1, North River. Robert Whitehead, carriage hire for Superintendent of Repairs and Supplies. E. Van Ranst, carriage hire for inspection of water front. 25 50 William B. Finley, use of horse and wagon in Fifth District, North river.. Edward Dunphy, allowance for injuries received while in the employ of the Department at rebuilding of Pier 18, East river. S. H. Mason & Co., carriage hire for inspection of water front. 20.75 Bradley & Co., carriage hire for inspection of water front. P. Sheridan, cartage of lumber, etc..... Thomas Canda, cartage of lumber, etc. By amount of rents remaining uncollected, consisting principally of claims in the hands of the Counsel to the Corporation for suit previous to May 20, 1870. By cash in bank to the credit of the Department of Docks. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM WOOD, 53 ENGINEER'S BUREAU-REPORT OF OPERATIONS. DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS, ENGINEER'S BUREAU, 346 and 348 Broadway, NEW YORK, April 30, 1872. To the Honorable Commissioners of Docks: GENTLEMEN-In presenting a statement of the operations of this Bureau for the year ending April 30, 1872, I desire to submit a few preliminary remarks. I regret extremely that we cannot report greater progress in the construction of the new river wall, but the Commissioners understand that the obstacles were of a nature entirely beyond my control. You are well aware of the very serious inconveniences under which this Bureau has labored for several months past in consequence of the inadequacy and uncertainty of the financial supplies at the disposition of the Department, and you will not regard me as going beyond the limits of this report when I repeat, what I have often stated to you heretofore, that it is and will always prove to be impossible to carry on a work of such magnitude as ours with economy and dispatch unless the appropriations are sufficiently large, and the amount allowed to be expended 55 accurately known before the opening of the working season, with a certainty that the funds will be forthcoming when they are needed. The disturbed condition of affairs during the past few months has been such as to render the supply of money for carrying on our work a matter of great uncertainty, but I feel it due to myself to state that in consequence of this uncertainty as to the amount that would be at the disposal of the Board, I have been unable to make any arrangements for the supply of material, or the making of contracts for the construction of the river wall beyond the portion commenced last year. All these arrangements for future work should have been perfected during the winter, and we ought now to be engaged on the extension of the new river wall. As it is, the locality even of the next work to be performed is not decided upon, the necessary rights are not acquired—not an arrangement looking to future operations has been made, with the exception that the general working plans are ready for that part of the work which I have constantly recommended as the next to be taken up-so that, under the most favorable circumstances now possible, we cannot avail ourselves of a great part of the working season of this year. The experience of another year has only strengthened my convictions of the soundness of the general plan adopted for the improvement of the water front. Since the approval of those maps which covered only a |