Elevator doors of less elaborate design.

Area railings less ornamental than originally.

Roofing-Copper substituted for tile on pitched or sloping parts of armory and drill room roof and corresponding parts on north section.

Carpenter Work-Omitting all portable or screen partitions.

Painting-All the decorative painting of walls and ceilings omitted, except the painting of the plastered surface in the private corridors off the Commissioner's and Deputy Commissioners' rooms.

Plumbing-Substituting galvanized iron pipe for turned brass for hot water and circulation pipes.

Omitting two water filters.

A reduction of house tank to 10,600 gallon capacity. Omitting escutcheons on pipe lines and covering on exposed pipes. Reducing marble partition inclosures to 6 feet in height.

Omitting single wash basins in office, but retaining all pipes which would permit of their installation if deemed a necessity. Using "Class B" slop sinks. Substituting sewage ejector for pump.

Electric Work-Substituting marbleized slate for marble for main switchboard. Omitting ornamental switch on generator panels, each ammeter simply recording current on its respective dynamo.

Substituting a three-pole single knife switch for circuit breakers for panels 1 to 12 and tower feeder. Installing three-pole circuit breaker, with independent operating arm of type similar to others specified, the rating of which to be 800 amperes. Omitting rubber mat. Reducing booster generator feed as the storage battery is reduced; the power feeds for elevators and fans and also the leads to the storage battery are reduced slightly.

Main switch omitted for regular light section on each board. As most of the locations for calls and push buttons are covered by the telephone system, this permits omitting the bell calls.

Time clock system omitted. Telephone conduit omitted. The cost of elevator cars reduced and position indicators omitted, the elevator for prison to be operated by rope instead of push button stop.

The capacity of the storage battery is reduced about one half.

Heating and Ventilating-Eliminate "potter" separator in boilers, also steam gauges on board in engine room and steam drum in engine room, omitting the nonconducting covering and air space on all vertical flue riser flues, omitting air space on horizontal ducts, covering same with magnesia blocks only, omitting automatic temperature regulation.

The architect's estimate for these alterations, substitutions and omissions is $85.000, which is about $20,000 more than the difference between the lowest bid received and the appropriation; hence I am led to believe that the cost of the building, if erected according to the amended plans, will be well within the appropriation.

Therefore, in my opinion, the amended plans (submitted by the Police Commissioner on September 9, 1904) may receive the approval of the Commissioners of the

Sinking Fund, as required by chapter 350 of the Laws of 1892, as amended by chapter 495 of the Laws of 1895.

Respectfully,

EUG. E. McLEAN, Engineer.

Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 350 of the Laws of 1892, as amended by chapter 495 of the Laws of 1895, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby approve of the amended plans for the New Police Headquarters Building, on the block bounded by Grand, Centre and Broome streets and Centre Market place, Borough of Manhattan, as submitted by the Police Commissioner, September 9, 1904. The report was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted.

The following communication was received from the Comptroller, turning over to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund the property known as Centre Market, situated on the block bounded by Grand, Centre, Broome streets and Centre Market place, in the Borough of Manhattan:

To the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund:

SEPTEMBER 15, 1904.

GENTLEMEN-I present herewith a report made to me by the Appraiser of Real Estate in the Department of Finance, relative to the discontinuance as a public market of the property known as Centre Market, situated on the block bounded by Grand, Centre, Broome and Centre Market place, in the Borough of Manhattan, and in which it is recommended that the property be turned over to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund and by them assigned to the Police Department.

I therefore turn the property over to this Board for such disposition as it may seem fit to make.

Respectfully,

Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller:

EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1904.

SIR-The Board of Aldermen, at a meeting held on June 30, 1903, adopted a resolution abolishing Centre Market as a market, and discontinued the use of the same as such, in accordance with the provisions of section 47 of the Revised Ordinances of The City of New York of 1897. Centre Market now being under the control of the Comptroller of The City of New York, I would respectfully recommend that the same be turned over to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in order that the Commissioners may adopt a resolution assigning and turning over to the Commissioner of Police the said Centre Market site for the purpose of erecting thereon headquarters for the Department of Police.

Respectfully submitted for approval,

Approved:

MORTIMER J. BROWN,

Appraiser of Real Estate in Charge of Bureau.

EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller.

In connection therewith, the Comptroller offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of section 205 of the Amended Greater New York Charter, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby assign to the Police Department the premises formerly known as Centre Market, situated on the block bounded by Grand, Centre, Broome and Centre Market place, in the Borough of Manhattan, for the purpose of erecting thereon a New Police Headquarters Building. Which was unanimously adopted.

Adjourned.

N. TAYLOR PHILLIPS, Secretary.

COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING

THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

FUND OF

Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund at a Meeting Held in Room 16, City Hall, at 11 o'clock A. M., on Wednesday, September 28, 1904.

Present-George B. McClellan, Mayor; Edward M. Grout, Comptroller; Patrick Keenan, Chamberlain; Charles V. Fornes, President, Board of Aldermen; and John T. McCall, Chairman Finance Committee, Board of Aldermen.

The minutes of the meetings held August 25 and September 16, 1904, were approved as printed.

On motion, John Korb, Jr., was elected Secretary pro tem.

The following communication was received from the Commissioner of Docks requesting that he be authorized to entertain an application from Mr. John H. Starin to sublet a portion of the East Thirty-second street Pier to the American Ice Company (see Minutes, 1903, page 678):

NEW YORK, September 23, 1904.

N. TAYLOR PHILLIPS, Esq., Secretary, Commissioners of the Sinking Fund:

SIR-Under date of July 16, 1903, a resolution was adopted by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund authorizing a lease of the East Thirty-second street Pier, in the Borough of Manhattan, for a term of five years at a rental of $2,500 per annum, to John H. Starin, the resolution providing that the lease would not contain a provision permitting the lessee to sublet a portion of the pier for an ice bridge.

When the proposed lease was submitted to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund at that time a provision was included allowing Mr. Starin to sublet a portion of the pier to the American Ice Company for the purpose of maintaining an ice bridge

thereat, the intention being to grant the privilege to the American Ice Company in lieu of the lease which was then and is still held by that company covering the East Thirty-third Street Pier, the change being desired in order to facilitate the work of constructing a tunnel under the East river.

The lease, in accordance with the resolution adopted by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund above referred to, was duly executed by Mr. John H. Starin and by this Department, but several urgent requests have been made upon me by the Fennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad Company to grant the American Ice Company such facilities on the East Thirty-second Street Pier as will permit the latter company to vacate the East Thirty-third Street Pier. It is found that that pier is absolutely needed by the railroad company in order to permit the carrying on of the vast tunnel improvement.

I would respectfully request that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopt a resolution as will authorize me to entertain an application from Mr. Starin to suble. a portion of the East Thirty-second Street Pier to the American Ice Company. I might state that no application will be granted unless the American Ice Company will first agree to entirely relinquish any and all of its rights on the East Thirty-third Street Pier.

Yours respectfully,

MAURICE FEATHERSON, Commissioner.

On July 7, 1903, I reported at length on the lease of this pier, and my report will be found in the Minutes of July 16, 1903 (page 678). As there was decided objection made by the owners of the bulkhead adjoining this pier on the north to the subletting of any portion for an ice bridge, the Commissioner of Docks at the time withdrew his recommendation and the lease was authorized, omitting the privilege to sublet. If the matter is to be taken up again, I would suggest that Mr. O. B. Gould, No. 271 Broadway, be notified before final action is taken by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund.

EUG. E. McLEAN, Engineer, Department of Finance.

Mr. O. B. Gould was again heard in regard to the matter, whereupon, on motion, the matter was laid over until the next meeting, the Secretary being directed to notify both Mr. Gould and Mr. Starin of the meeting and request them to be present.

The following communication was received from the Commissioner of Docks requesting that he be authorized to make offers to purchase bulkhead rights between East Third and East Fourth streets, and between East Third and East Houston streets, Borough of Manhattan:

NEW YORK, September 17, 1904.

N. TAYLOR PHILLIPS, Esq., Secretary, Commissioners of the Sinking Fund:

SIR-After an examination of the water front in the vicinity of Third street, East river, and the conditions prevailing thereat, I am of the opinion that the interests of the City would be best subserved by the acquisition of the private rights in and to the bulkhead between the northerly line of East Houston street and the southerly line of East Third street, and between the northerly line of East Third street and the south