The bid of Peet, McAnerney & Powers, No. 255 Fourth avenue, $16,694, being the lowest, I think the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund may properly concur in the action of the Armory Board. Respectfully, EUG. E MCLEAN, Engineer. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby concur in the following resolution, adopted by the Armory Board, at meeting held February 11, 1904: "Resolved, That the bid of Peet, McAnerney & Powers, No. 255 Fourth avenue, "in the Borough of Manhattan, for the complete installation of a power plant in "the Twenty-third Regiment Armory (Item No. 9), amounting to the sum of six"teen thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars ($16,694), 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." The report was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted. 46 66 The Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution, relative to the cresent-shaped strip of land owned by the City on the northerly side of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, between Broadway and Kingsbridge avenue, Borough of Manhattan: Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller: APRIL 21, 1904. SIR-Regarding the strip of land owned by the City on the northerly side of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, between Broadway and Kingsbridge avenue, which was formerly a part of the street surface of the old road, or Broadway, before the laying out of Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, as set forth in detail in the papers herewith, I have the honor to report as follows: This is a crescent-shaped plot on the north side of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the northeasterly side of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, distant 53.63 feet southeasterly from the southeasterly corner of Kingsbridge avenue and West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, and running thence southeasterly 71.84 feet; thence again southeasterly 240.62 feet all along the northeasterly side of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street; thence northerly and northwesterly by a curved line along the old north line of old Broadway, or the old road, the following distances: 30.32 feet; 119.37 feet; 177.58 feet to the point or place of beginning, being the premises known as Lot No. 85 in Block 3404, Section 13, Volume 1, on the Land Map of the County of New York. It has a total street frontage of 312.46 feet and its greatest depth is 34 feet. The plot contains approximately 7,000 square feet. A somewhat similar shaped plot on the same block front, west of this land, and another similar plot east of it, both belonging to the J. H. Godwin Estate, were taken by the City in condemnation proceedings for the opening of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street. The Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment, in order that they may determine the damage caused abutting property-owners, request that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund shall determine whether the City does or does not desire to retain the portion of the old road so discontinued, for some other public use, and if the Commissioners shall determine that they do not so require it, that they adopt a resolution so stating, in order that the papers be returned to the Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment for the purpose of closing and making their final report. I would respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopt such a resolution for the reason that after the opening of the street there will be no need of this old road being continued as such, and after the Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment have made their final report, the question of the disposition of the said portion of the old road so closed and discontinued may be left for future consideration. Respectfully submitted for approval, Approved: MORTIMER J. BROWN, Appraiser of Real Estate in Charge of Bureau. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby determine that the City does not desire to retain for public use the crescent-shaped strip of land, owned by the City, on the northerly side of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, between Broadway and Kingsbridge avenue, Borough of Manhattan, which was formerly a part of the street surface of the old road, or Broadway, before the laying out of Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point on the northeasterly side of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street distant 53.63 feet southeasterly from the southeasterly corner of Kingsbridge avenue and West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street, and running thence southeasterly 71.84 feet; thence again southeasterly 240.62 feet all along the northeasterly side of West Two Hundred and Thirtieth street; thence northerly and north westerly by a curved line along the old north line of old Broadway, or the old road, the following distances: 30.32 feet; 119.37 feet; 177.58 feet to the point or place of beginning, being the premises known as Lot No. 85 in Block 3404, Section 13, Volume 1, on the Land Map of the County of New York." The report was accepted and the resolution unanimously adopted. The Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolution, relative to the bill of Messrs. Werner & Windolph, architects, for services in connection with the alterations to the doors of certain armories: To the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: APRIL 23, 1904. GENTLEMEN-At a meeting of this Board, held March 29, 1904, there was referred to me for further investigation the matter of a bill of Messrs. Werner & Windolph, amounting to $870.87, for professional services rendered in preparing plans and specifications and the necessary supervision in the alterations to the doors of the Ninth. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Sixty-ninth and Seventy-first Regiment Armories, and the Seventeenth Separate Company. This bill, it will be remembered, is upon the basis of 10 per cent. of the cost of the work, $12,441, i. e., 7 per cent. on $12,441, or $870.87 for the plans and detailed specifications upon which the contract was let, it being the intention to charge 3 per cent. on the cost of the work for supervision. The City has never allowed but 5 per cent. for work of this character, and the Engineers of my Department figure that a total fee of 5 per cent. on the cost of the work, or 32 per cent. of $12,441, which equals $435.44, for the preparation of the plans, specifications and general details, together with 12 per cent. of $12,441, or $186.61 for the necessary supervision of the work, making a total fee of $622.05 for the entire work, would be full compensation and fair market price. I have personally gone into the matter very thoroughly, however, and while I am loath to establish a precedent by paying 10 per cent. for this kind of work, I am of the opinion that in this particular case there is some merit in the claim for 10 per cent. on account of the work being scattered in eight different armories and in three different boroughs, and recommend, therefore, that the resolution adopted February 5. 1904, be rescinded and the resolution of the Armory Board, adopted November 20, 1903. be concurred in. Respectfully, EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller. Resolved. That the resolution adopted by this Board at meeting held February 5, 1904, approving of the payment to Messrs Werner & Windolph, architects, of the sum of four hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-four cents ($435.44), for services rendered in preparing plans and specifications in the alterations to the doors of certain armories be and the same is hereby rescinded. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby concur in the following resolution adopted by the Armory Board at meeting held November 20, 1903: 'Resolved, That the Armory Board does hereby approve the bill and expense of "Werner & Windolph, architects, amounting to eight hundred and seventy dollars "and eighty-seven cents ($870.87), on account, as per accompanying voucher, for pro'fessional services rendered in preparing plans and specifications and the necessary supervision in the alterations to the doors of the Ninth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Twen"ty-second, Twenty-third, Sixty-ninth and Seventy-first Regiments, and the Seven"teenth Separate Company, and that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund be "respectfully requested to concur in the same." 46 The report was accepted and the resolutions severally unanimously adopted. The following petition was received from Julia W. Barr, Mary E. Lequin and the Brooklyn Trust Company, as executor and trustee under the last will and testament of Cornelia B. Remsen, deceased, for a release or quit-claim of the City's interest in a portion of the old Gowanus road in the Borough of Brooklyn (see page 234): To the Honorable Sinking Fund Commission of The City of New York: The petition of the Brooklyn Trust Company, Julia W. Barr and Mary E. Lequin respectfully shows: That your petitioner, the Brooklyn Trust Company, is the executor of the last will and testament of Cornelia B. Remsen, deceased, late of the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York; that Julia W. Barr, Mary E. Lequin and Cornelia B. Remsen, in her lifetime, were the owners of the premises situated on the southerly side of Lincoln place and the northerly side of Berkeley place, distant one hundred and nine feet east of Fifth avenue, in the Borough of Brooklyn, said premises being one hundred and forty feet in front on Lincoln place and Berkeley place and two hundred feet in depth. The Gowanus road ran through a portion of this property. The Brooklyn Trust Company, as such executor, and Julia W. Barr and Mary E. Lequin have agreed to sell the property hereinbefore described, and would like to obtain from the City a conveyance of all its right, title and interest in and to the said Gowanus road running through the premises as herein described. Wherefore your petitioners pray your Honorable Board that the City will exe cute and deliver to them a release or quit-claim of all its interest in said property. BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANY, Executor, By F. C. COLTON, Vice-President. City and State of New York, County of Kings, ss: Frederick C. Colton, being duly sworn, says that he is the Vice-President of the Brooklyn Trust Company, the petitioner above named; that he has read the foregoing petition and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true of his own know! edge, except as to the matters therein stated to be alleged on information and belief, and as to those matters he believes it to be true. Deponent further says that the reason this verification is not made by the petitioner is that it is a corporation and he is the Vice-President thereof, and that deponent makes the same from his personal knowledge and supervision of the affairs and business of said corporation. FREDERICK C. COLTON. Sworn to before me this 17th day of March, 1904. City and State of New York, County of Kings, ss: Julia W. Barr, being duly sworn, says that she is one of the petitioners above named; that she has read the foregoing petition and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true of her own knowledge, except as to the matters therein stated to be alleged on information and belief, and as to those matters she believes it to be true. Sworn to before me this 18th day of March, 1904. JOSEPH A. KENNEDY, Notary Public, Kings County. City and State of New York, County of Kings, ss: JULIA W. BARR. Mary E. Lequin, being duly sworn, says that she is one of the petitioners above named; that she has read the foregoing petition and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true of her own knowledge, except as to the matters therein stated to be alleged on information and belief, and as to those matters she believes it to be true. Sworn to before me this 18th day of March, 1904. JOSEPH A. KENNEDY, Notary Public, Kings County. MARY E. LEQUIN. In connection therewith the Comptroller presented the following report of the Appraiser of Real Estate, and offered the following resolution: Hon. EDWARD M. GROUT, Comptroller: MARCH 19, 1904. SIR-The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a meeting held March 16, 1904, adopted a resolution by unanimous vote authorizing a release or quit-claim to the Brooklyn Trust Company, as Executor and Trustee under the last will and testament of Cornelia B. Remsen, deceased, of all the right, title and interest of The City of New York to all that portion of the old Gowanus road, in the Borough of Brooklyn, lying within the area of the plot of ground bounded and described as follows: "Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Lincoln place distant 109 feet 3 "inches easterly from the southeasterly corner of Lincoln place and Fifth avenue; run“ning thence southerly parallel with Fifth avenue 200 feet to the northerly side of Berkeley place; thence easterly along the northerly side of Berkeley place 140 feet; thence "northerly and again parallel with Fifth avenue 200 feet to the southerly side of Lincoln "place; thence westerly along the southerly side of Lincoln place 140 feet to the point or place of beginning." This release was given in accordance with an opinion of the Corporation Counsel, |