February 16, 1904, to February 1, 1905, at the annual rental of $8,411.25, payable quarterly, otherwise on the same terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease. Lessor, David G. Leggett. Respectfully submitted for approval, Approved: MORTIMER J. BROWN, Appraiser of Real Estate in Charge of Bureau. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller. Resolved, That the resolution adopted by this Board at meeting held March 16, 1904, authorizing a renewal of the lease of rooms in the Temple Bar Building, Nos. 38 to 44 Court street, Borough of Brooklyn, for the use of the Commissioner of Records, Kings County, as temporary quarters during repairs, alterations and additions to the Hall of Records, be and the same is hereby rescinded. Resolved, That the Comptroller be and is hereby authorized and directed to execute a renewal of the lease to the City, from David G. Leggett, of Rooms Nos. 500, 501, 502, 503, 504 and 510 on the fifth floor, and Rooms Nos. 600, 601, 606, 607, 611, 615, 616, 617 and 618 on the sixth floor, in the Temple Bar Building, Nos. 38-44 Court street, Borough of Brooklyn, for the use of the Commissioner of Records, Kings County, as temporary quarters during repairs, alterations and additions to the Hall of Records, for a term from February 16, 1904, to February 1, 1905, at an annual rental of eight thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-five cents ($8,411.25), payable quarterly, otherwise upon the same terms and conditions as contained in the existing lease; -the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund deeming the said rent fair and reasonable and that it would be for the interests of the City that such lease be made. The report was accepted and the resolutions severally unanimously adopted. The Comptroller presented the following report of the Engineer of the Department of Finance relative to the action of the Armory Board in appropriating the sum of $55,000 for the installation of a plant for supplying electricity in the Seventh Regiment Armory Building: Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller: OCTOBER 13, 1904. SIR-At a meeting of the Armory Board held September 29, 1904, the following was adopted: "Resolved, That the report of the Committee on Armories for Manhattan and The "Bronx, of date September 29, 1904. on heating and lighting the Seventh Regiment "Armory Building by an independent heating and lighting plant, be accepted and "adopted; that the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000) be and is hereby appro"priated for the installation of a plant for supplying electricity in said armory building, "including architects' fees, on the general plans prepared by Messrs. Clinton & Russell, "architects, and that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund be requested to concur "in the same and authorize the Comptroller to issue bonds to provide for the expense " thereof." I have had the matter looked into with care, including visits to plants in operation, to the armory in question, and conferences with officials of the Edison system, which is now supplying electric current to the armory. I present the result of these investigations in tabular form below: Proposed Heating and Lighting Plant. Estimated cost of new plant, including architects' fees, $55,000; allowance for interest, depreciation, etc., on this cost at 10 per cent., gives a yearly charge of ... Estimated coal consumption, 1,530 tons, at $3.50.. Estimated engine room force: Engineers, 3 at $1,460 per year. Firemen, 3 at $730 per year. Coal Passers, 2 at $730 per year.. Oil, packing waste, etc. Total yearly cost Present cost: Lighting. Edison service, average of 2 years. Heating. Coal, 250 tons at $5.45.. Engine room force, 2 Engineers at $1,460. Engine room force, 2 Firemen at $730.. $5,500 00 5.355 00 $4,380 00 2,190 00 1,460 00 8,030 00 10 per cent. on $15,000, estimated cost of new boilers for heating... Total present cost. RECAPITULATION. 500 00 $19,385 00 $8,586 20 1,362 50 $2,920 00 1,460 00 4.380 00 1,500 00 $15,828 70 Cost of new plant per year. Cost of present arrangement... Balance in favor of present system. ... $19.385 00 15,828 70 $3,556 30 It will be noticed that I include in present cost, $1,500, or 10 per cent. of the estimated cost of new boilers for heating. The boilers now in use have been 26 years in service, and must soon be replaced. I have therefore thought best to include the item here, though it is not now a charge upon the City. I believe that I have underestimated rather than overestimated the annual cost of the proposed plant, and I therefore have no hesitation in recommending the disapproval of the proposed resolution, as its adoption would mean a loss to the City of at least $3.550 per year without corresponding advantages. Approved: E. M. GROUT. Respectfully, EUG. E. McLEAN, Engineer. After consideration the matter was referred back to the Armory Board with a copy of the report: The Comptroller presented the following report of the Engineer of the Department of Finance, and offered the following resolution relative to the action of the Armory Board in accepting the bids of Thomas J. Buckley, for alterations and repairs to Squadron "A" Armory, in the Borough of Manhattan, and for alterations and repairs to the armories of the Eighth, Twelfth and Twenty-second Regiments and Squadron "A" in Manhattan, and the Fourteenth and Twenty-third Regiments in Brooklyn, and the Seventeenth Separate Company in Queens: Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller: OCTOBER 4, 1904. SIR-At a meeting of the Armory Board held September 29, 1904, the following was adopted: 'Resolved, That the bid of Thomas J. Buckley, No. 408 Tenth avenue, in the "Borough of Manhattan, for alterations and repairs to Squadron "A" Armory, in the Borough of Manhattan, Item number one, amounting to the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600), be accepted as being the lowest bid for said work; 'that the same be submitted to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund for their concurrence, and to the Comptroller for his approval of the sureties thereon, and when 'so approved the Chairman of this Board be authorized to execute the contract on behalf of the Board; that all the other bids be rejected, and the deposits received at this meeting be forwarded to the Comptroller with the request that he return the amounts received from the unsuccessful bidders." "Resolved, That the bid of Thomas J. Buckley, No. 408 Tenth avenue, in the Borough of Manhattan, for alterations and repairs to the Eighth, Twelfth, Twentysecond Regiments and Squadron 'A' in Manhattan; Fourteenth and Twenty-third Regiments in Brooklyn, and the Seventeenth Separate Company in Queens, amounting to the sum of ten thousand and five hundred dollars ($10,500), be accepted as being the lowest bid for said work; that the same be submitted to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund for their concurrence, and to the Comptroller for his approval of the sureties thereon, and when so approved the Chairman of this Board be authorized to execute the contract on behalf of the Board; that all the other bids be rejected, and the deposits received at this meeting be forwarded to the Comptroller with the request that he return the amounts received from the unsuccessful bidders." I would report that the work designated in item one is to be charged to the Armory oard's appropriation for "Repairs and Supplies." Item No. 2 is a special appropriaon of $12,000 appropriated by the Armory Board on February 15, 1904, and concurred by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund on February 2, 1904. On September 29, 1904, the Armory Board received the following bids: Item No. I. Squadron "A" Armory, Manhattan. Charles Wille, No. 39 East Thirty-eighth street.... Ralph J. F. Gerstle, No. 341 East Forty-fourth street.. Item No. 2. $4.500 00 4.564 00 4.200 00 3,600 00 Eighth, Twelfth, Twenty-second Regiments and Squadron "A", Manhattan; Fourteenth and Twenty-third Regiments in Brooklyn, and Seventeenth Separate Company in Queens. Charles Wille, No. 39 East Thirty-eighth street. Ralph J. F. Gerstle, No. 341 East Forty-fourth street. $12,784 00 11,861 00 Neptune B. Smyth, No. 1123 Broadway. 13.500 00 William Horne Company, No. 245 West Twenty-sixth street. 15,000 00 Thomas J. Buckley, No. 408 Tenth avenue... James F. Disken, No. 114 East Twenty-third street. The bids of Thomas J. Buckley for Item No. 1, $3,600, and for Item No. 2, $10.500, being the lowest, I think the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund may properly concur in the action of the Armory Board. 10,500 00 11,997 00 Respectfully, EUG. E. McLEAN, Engineer. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby concur in the action of the Armory Board by resolution adopted September 29, 1904, accepting the bid of Thomas J. Buckley for alterations and repairs to Squadron "A" Armory, in the Borough of Manhattan, amounting to the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600), and also concur in the resolution adopted on the same day, accepting the bid of Thomas J. Buckley for alterations and repairs to the Eighth, Twelfth and Twenty-second Regiments and Squadron “A” in Manhattan; Fourteenth and Twentythird Regiments in Brooklyn, and the Seventeenth Separate Company in Queens, amounting to the sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars ($10,500). The report was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted. The Comptroller presented the following report relative to the sale of property No. 28 Beaver street, in the Borough of Manhattan: To the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: OCTOBER 3, 1904. GENTLEMEN-Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund at meeting held May 23, 1904, a sale was had at 12 o'clock noon, on Monday, June 20, 1904, at the New York Real Estate salesroom, No. 161 Broadway, of the following described real estate belonging to the corporation of The City of New York, viz.: "All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, known as No. 28 Beaver street, premises being known as Lot No. 14, in Block 11, on the tax maps of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York." The property was sold to the Chelsea Realty Company for the sum of fifty-six thousand dollars ($56,000), and the proceeds deposited in the Sinking Fund for the Redemption of the City Debt. Respectfully, EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller. Filed. The Comptroller presented the following report relative to the sale of property near the corner of Plymouth and Adams strects, in the Borough of Brooklyn: To the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: OCTOBER 13, 1904. GENTLEMEN-Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund at meeting held September 16, 1904, a sale was had at 12 o'clock noon, Tuesday, October 11, at the Real Estate Exchange salesroom, No. 189 Montague street, Borough of Brooklyn, of the following described real estate belonging to the Corporation of The City of New York, viz.: All that piece or parcel of land situate and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: "Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Plymouth street, distant 115 feet westerly from the southwesterly corner of Plymouth and Adams streets, and running thence southerly and parallel with Adams street 100 feet easterly parallel with Plymouth street. 45.18 feet; thence northerly parallel with Adams street 16.06 feet; thence northwesterly 92.32 feet to a point in the southerly line of Plymouth street, distant 109.61 feet westerly from the southwesterly corner of Plymouth and Adams streets; thence running westerly 5.39 feet to the point or place of beginning." The property was soid to Robert Gair for the sum of $6,500, the upset price, and the proceeds deposited in the Sinking Fund for the Redemption of the City Debt. Respectfully, EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller. Filed. The Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution relative to a transfer of $1.493.76 from the Sinking Fund of the City of Brooklyn to the credit of the account, "Borough of Brooklyn Assessors' Arrearages, Laws of 1883," the aforesaid amount having been erroneously deposited in said Sinking Fund: |