Total cost of maintenance for the half year (Mexican currency) Total ports visited.. Total coal consumed. This division at the end of the fiscal year had the following number of vessels, launches, and men employed: The following information has been furnished by the superintendent of the division of light-house maintenance: There were under control of the light-house department at the commencement of the year: There were employed at that time in the care and maintenance of the lights and aids to navigation: During the year the following changes and additions have been made regarding lights and aids to navigation: New lights established. Lights discontinued The following changes in personnel at light stations were made during the year: Engaged for service: Keepers and assistants.. Apprentices.... Boatmen Discharged from the service: Keepers and assistants. Apprentices... Boatmen Apprentices promoted to keepers.. 22722 8 At the end of the year there were employed in the division of light-house maintenance: During the year all keepers and apprentices have been put in uniform and all keepers, officers, and petty officers of tenders drawing a salary of over $300 per annum have been placed in the civil service. On June 30 there were in existence and under control of the light-house department: The cost (Mexican) of maintaining these lights for the half year ending June 30 was: At the end of the year there were in existence and under control of the light-house department: During the year there has been expended on buoyage $16,049.61, Mexican currency, made up of the following items: Overhauling and repairing buoys at Cebu 15 second-class buoys, at $166 (gold) each. 2 third-class buoys, at $100 (gold) each.. 72 assorted shackles, at $5 each. $832.00 878.00 6,645.29 532.00 2,550.00 510.00 1,400.00 1,800.00 360.00 542.32 LIGHT-HOUSE TENDERS. The Picket, formerly the Woo Foo, is a wooden twin-screw vessel of 109 tons and was purchased at Shanghai in August, 1902. She has since been continuously employed in transporting light-house construction and maintenance supplies, placing and overhauling buoys, etc. She has laid 7 new buoys, overhauled and painted 9, made 96 visits to light-houses and steamed 12,452 nautical miles on a consumption of 484 tons of Australian coal. Her crew consists of master, mate, chief engineer, 2 machinists, oiler, 2 firemen, boatswain, 3 quartermasters, 6 sailors, cook, and mess boy. The Corregidor is a composite single-screw vessel of 250 tons, built at Shanghai in 1902. During the year she has transported a considerable quantity of construction and maintenance supplies, laid 11 new buoys, overhauled, repainted, and replaced 8, and removed 2. She had made 89 visits to light-houses and steamed 10,869 nautical miles on a consumption of 726 tons of Australian coal. Her crew consists of captain, first officer, second officer, chief engineer, assistant engineer, 2 machinists, 3 oilers, 3 firemen, 3 coal passers, boatswain, carpenter, 3 quartermasters, 2 coxswains, 8 sailors, steward, 2 cooks, and mess boy. The expenses of the tenders for the half year ending June 30 have been: The laying of some 36 new buoys is contemplated during the coming year. All of the light keepers throughout the islands are Filipinos. A large percentage are old or middle-aged men who have spent their lives in the light-house service. On the Corregidor all the employees are Filipinos, excepting the captain, first and second officers, chief and assistant engineer, who are either Americans or Europeans who have taken the oath of allegiance. On the Picket all are Filipinos excepting the master, mate, and engineer, who are either Americans or Europeans who have taken the oath of allegiance. DIVISION OF LIGHT-HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. The report of Capt. Henry Jervey, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, superintendent of light-house construction, is inclosed. Captain Jervey has been selected for duty at West Point and will soon leave the bureau, and I wish to testify to his able and conscientious performance of duty, and to his courteous and gentlemanly manners throughout the entire period he has been attached to the bureau. It seems to me that he has accomplished wonders under very trying circumstances. Respectfully, J. M. HELM, Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy, Chief of Bureau. BUREAU OF COAST GUARD AND TRANSPORTATION, The SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND POLICE. Manila, P. I. SIR: Supplementing attached report for fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, I have the honor to add, for the months of July and August: PERSONAL. On August 11 Capt. Henry Jervey, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, was relieved from duty as superintendent of light-house construction by Capt. Spencer Cosby, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. On July 22 Mr. D. D. Wilson, inspector of machinery, resigned, since which time we have had no inspector of machinery. An engineer waiting for a ship has temporarily acted as such. In the light-house construction division one clerk was promoted from class 8 to class 7 and a class 9 clerk employed; and in office of the chief of bureau an additional employee at $180 per annum was engaged. DIVISION OF VESSELS. POSTAL CLERKS ON CUTTERS. Postal clerks have been placed on the cutters Busuanga, Negros, Balabac, and Polillo. Due to the fact that all coal bills may not be in, and likewise some other bills, these figures may be short in some cases. 721.72 894.84 90.00 64.79 14.18 643.94 10.42 62. 11 6.70 1,335.87 557.68 8.70 229.98 211.44 64.66 71.45 3.04 104.69 182.06 124.75 2,474.59 LAUNCH TRANSFERS AND ASSIGNMENTS. The stern-wheel river boat Sentinel, on the Cagayan River, with headquarters at Aparri, has been transferred back to this bureau from the constabulary bureau. The Charleston, used by the constabulary, and the Denver, used by the insular purchasing agent, have been transferred back to the Quartermaster's Department, they being deemed unserviceable by the officers who had them in charge. On July 20 the Pittsburg was transferred back from the province of Misamis to this bureau. She has been put into commission as a seagoing launch for the use of the constabulary on the same footing as the Ranger, Rover, and Scout, her crew being the same in number and receiving the same salaries as the Rover's crew. VESSELS DOCKED. Since June the cutters Balabac and Palawan have been on the dock at Cavite Navy-Yard and put into good shape, both as to hull and machinery, and in addition the cutter Romblon has had extensive repairs made on her at this yard without going on the dock. |