Chapter 167. Making appropriations for the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five

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CHAP. 167.— An Act Making appropriations for the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.July 26, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Military Academy appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five:

For pay of one superintendent of the United States Military AcademyPay of superintendent , professors, etc. (colonel), in addition to pay as major of engineers, one thousand dollars. For pay of eight professors, twenty-six thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-nine cents. For pay of one associate professor of mathematics, two thousand dollars. For one commandant of cadets (lieutenant-colonel), in addition to pay as captain, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For pay of one instructor of practical military engineering (major), in addition to pay as captain, five hundred dollars. For pay of one instructor of ordnance and science of gunnery (major), in addition to pay as captain, five hundred dollars. For pay of eight assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, four thousand dollars; and hereafter no graduate ofNo detail of graduates within two years.Vol. 22. p. 123. the Military Academy shall be assigned or detailed to serve at said Academy as a professor, instructor, or assistant to either within two years after his graduation, and so much of the.

Act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as requires a longer service than two years for said assignments or details is hereby repealed. For pay of three senior instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, one thousand five hundred dollars. 152 For pay of four assistant instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as second lieutenants, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For pay of one adjutant, in addition to pay as second lieutenant, four hundred dollars. For pay of one treasurer, quartermaster, and commissary of cadets, in addition to pay as captain of infantry, seven hundred dollars. For pay of one master of the sword, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of cadets, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars.Cadets. For pay of one teacher of music, one thousand and eighty dollars. For pay of the Military Academy band, nine thousand two hundred and forty dollars.Band.

For additional pay of professors and officers (on increased rank) forLongevity pay. length of service, ten thousand seventy dollars and thirty-one cents. For pay of field musicians:Field musicians. One sergeant, two hundred and sixteen dollars; Fourteen privates, two thousand one hundred and eighty four dollars; Additional pay for length of service, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; Retained pay on discharge, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; Clothing on discharge, two hundred and eighty-one dollars and eight cents; in all, three thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eight cents.

For current expenses as follows:Current expenses.Repairs, etc. Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, planks, boards, joists, wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zine, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, Hag, lime, cement, plaster, hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, machinery, mantels, and other similar materials, renewing roofs, and for pay of overseer and master builder and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men, sixteen thousand dollars.

For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal.wood, charcoal, stoves, grates,Fuel and light. heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, twenty thousand dollars. For gas pipes, fixtures, lamp posts, gasometers, and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, three thousand dollars. For postage and telegrams, two hundred and fifty dollars.Postage, etc.Stationery, etc.

For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, quills, steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, typewriting supplies, penholders, tape, desk knives, blotting pads, and rubber bands, eight hundred dollars. For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and ferriages,Transportation. one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office, includingPrinting. repairs to motor and machinery, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks and monthly reports to parents of cadets, one thousand dollars.

For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousandClerks. three hundred and fifty dollars. For clerk to adjutant in charge of cadet records, one thousand five hundred dollars. For one clerk to the adjutant, one thousand dollars. For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five hundred dollars. For one clerk to the quartermaster, one thousand dollars. For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics, namely:Department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics.

For tan bark or other proper cover for riding hall, to be immediately 153 available and to be purchased in open market on written order of the Superintendent, six hundred dollars; For repairing camp stools and camp furniture, one hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements of dressing rooms, walks and dock at swimming place, two hundred and twenty dollars; For furniture for offices and reception room for visitors, one hundred dollars; For stationery for use of instructor and assistant instructors of tactics, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For books and maps, binding books, and mounting maps, seventy-five dollars; For plumes for cadet officers of the first class, seventy-five dollars; For silk and worsted sashes for cadet officers and acting officers, two hundred and twenty dollars; For foils, masks, belts, fencing gloves and fencing jackets, gaiters, and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars; For soap used in scrubbing cadet barracks, fifty dollars; For extra pay of twenty-eight enlisted men of the cavalry detachment, employed on additional duty with the instruction battery of field artillery, United States Military Academy, at twenty dollars each, five hundred and sixty dollars;

In all, two thousand four hundred dollars. For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps,Department of civil and military engineering purchase and repair of instruments, apparatus, drawing boards, desks, chairs, shelves, and eases for books and instruments, textbooks, books of reference and stationery for the use of instructors, and contingencies, one thousand dollars; For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as draftsman, two hundred and fifty-six dollars;

In all, one thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars. For department of natural and experimental philosophy: For additionsDepartment of natural and experimental philosophy. to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy, eight hundred dollars; for books of reference, scientific periodicals, textbooks, stationery, materials, and repairs, four hundred dollars; for repairs to the observatory building and clocks, three hundred dollars; for pay of mechanic assistant, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For department of instruction in mathematics, namely: For repairsDepartment of mathematics. and materials for preservation of models and instruments, twenty-five dollars; for textbooks, books of reference, binding, and stationery, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; for one office desk and chair, seventy-five dollars; for bookcases, seventy-five dollars; for table of logarithms, twenty-five dollars; for contingencies, twenty-five dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For department of history, geography, and ethics: For textbooks,Department of history, geography, and ethics. books of reference, maps and globes, and stationery for use of instructors, and repairs, one hundred and fifty dollars; For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology; For chemicals,Department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials, five hundred dollars;

For rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and material to be used in the practical determinations of mineralogical and geological specimens, pencils and papers for the practical instructions in the same branches, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet, five hundred dollars; For repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus, five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That any of*Proviso*.Laboratory. the foregoing sums for the department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology not expended for the purposes named, may be used in fittings of the laboratory of the new academic building; 154 For pay of mechanic employed in chemical and geological section rooms and in lecture rooms, one thousand dollars;

For models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for the use of instructors, one hundred and eighty dollars; For contingencies, one hundred dollars; In all, two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For department of drawing: For drawing material for the use ofDepartment of drawing. instructors, tacks, sponges, brushes, glue, alcohol, hektograph cloth, tumblers, saucers, towels, soap, ink, paint, stationery, and so forth, and contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For repairs to models, desks, stretchers, racks, and material, seventy-five dollars; For cleaning and renewal of plaster models and statuary in store, fifty dollars; For models in flat and relief for second and third classes, one hundred dollars; For books and periodicals, one hundred dollars; For binding periodicals and loose sheets, thirty dollars; For photographic material and apparatus, one hundred and fifty dollars; For ten prismatic compasses for reconnaissance work, at fifteen dollars each, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For eighty reconnaisance boards, at three dollars and fifty cents each, two hundred and eighty dollars; For one case of drawing instruments, seventy-five dollars; For twenty new drawing boards, at two dollars and fifty cents each, fifty dollars; For thirty new steel rulers, at three dollars each, ninety dollars; For twenty new steel triangles, at two dollars and fifty cents each, fifty dollars; In all, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For department of modern languages:

For stationery, textbooks,Department of modern languages. and books of reference for the use of instructors, for repairs of books and apparatus, and for office furniture, and for printing examination papers, and for contingencies, four hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty cents. For department of law: For stationery, textbooks, books of reference,Department of law. and books for use of instructors, and for repairing and binding same, and furniture for office, two hundred and fifty dollars;

One typewriter and typewriting supplies, one hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty dollars. For department of practical military engineering: For purchase andDepartment of practical military engineering. repair of instruments, transportation, purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely: For instruments for use in instructing cadets, in making reconnaissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for platting reconnaissances, surveying instruments, instruments and material for signaling and field telegraphy; transportation of field parties; tools and material for the preservation, augmentation, and repair of wooden ponton, and one canvas pontonbridge train, sapping and mining bails and material; rope, cordage, material for rafts and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenching tools, tools and material tor the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries at the Academy, and extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, at fifty cents per day each, when performing special skilled mechanical Labor in the department of practical military engineering; for models, books of reference, and stationery, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For department of ordnance and gunnery: For purchase and repairsDepartment of Ordnance and gunnery. of instruments, models, and apparatus, and purchase of necessary materials; for the purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, 155 textbooks, stationery, and lithographic printing materials, four hundred and fifty dollars; For extra pay of one ordnance soldier, as draftsman and lithographic printer, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and titty cents, For extra pay of one ordnance soldier, as machinist, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents;

For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as clerk, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents; For manufacture or purchase of models of the new steel guns forModels. field, siege, and sea-coast services for cadet instruction, one thousand five hundred dollars; For manufacture or purchase of models of the new steel carriages for field, siege, and sea-coast services for cadet instruction, two thousand dollars: In all, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and fifty cents.

For stationery for office of the treasurer, United States MilitaryTreasurer’s office. Academy, namely, blank books, paper, envelopes, pens, mucilage, typewriting supplies, and other items of stationery, fifty dollars. For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the officesExtra pay to en listed men. of the adjutant United States Military Academy and commandant of cadets, respectively, at fifty cents and thirty-five cents per day, two hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty five cents.

For extra pay of four enlisted men as printers, at headquarters United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day, six hundred anti twenty-six dollars. For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as watchman, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents. For extra pay of one enlisted man as trumpeter at the cadet barracks, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the philosophical department, observatory, as mechanic, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents.

For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the chemical Department, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents. For extra pay of two enlisted men (cavalrymen) when performing special skilled mechanical labor, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars. For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as saddler, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents. For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of drawing, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents: *Provided*, That the extra pay provided by the nine preceding*Proviso*.No duplication. paragraphs shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-duty pay under existing laws or Army regulations: *And provided further*, That nothing contained in the Act making appropriation forQuartermaster’s department, detachment.Vol. 26, p. 167.*Post*, p. 628. the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be interpreted to prevent the number of men in the detachment of Army-service men of the Quartermaster’s Department therein provided for being made as high as one hundred and fifty, if in the opinion of the Secretary of War such number be required.

For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, threeBoard of Visitors. thousand dollars. For miscellaneous and incidental expenses:Miscellaneous expenses. For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking for lighting the academic chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables, and riding-hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharves, five thousand dollars; 156 For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For cleaning public buildings (not quarters), one thousand dollars; For brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, soap, and cloths, two hundred dollars; For chalk, crayons, sponges, slate, rubbers, and card for recitation rooms, three, hundred dollars; For compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars;Compensation. For compensation of librarian, one hundred and twenty dollars; For pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatusMechanics. for the academic building, the cadet barracks, and office building, cadet hospital, chapel, and philosophical building, including the library, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars; For pay of eight firemen, four thousand eight hundred dollars; For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand dollars; For pay of one landscape gardener, in charge of cemetery and general care of public grounds for such period as his services may be necessary, five hundred dollars; . In all, seventeen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. For pay of one superintendent of gas works, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For pay of one civilian plumber, nine hundred dollars. For pay of one scavenger, at sixty dollars a month, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For increase and expense of library, namely: For periodicals, Stationery,Library. binding books, and scientific, historical, biographical, and general literature, to be purchased in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, two thousand dollars. For repairing books, and for furniture, two hundred dollars.Furniture, etc. For furniture for cadet hospital, and repairs of the same, one hundred dollars.

For contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, one thousand dollars. For renewing furniture in section rooms, and repairing the same, five hundred dollars. For repairs, upholstering, and carpeting the Academy chapel, one thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of theContingencies, Academic Board. Academic Board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand *Proviso*.Technical supplies.dollars: *Provided*, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best.

For purchase of instruments for band, six hundred dollars.Musical supplies. For purchase of music for band, to be purchased in open market on the order of the Superintendent, two hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase of springs, pads, strings, and other necessary articles for baud instruments, one hundred and fifty dollars. public works.Public works. For buildings and grounds: For repairing roads and paths, includingRepairing roads, etc. roads and bridges on reservation, five hundred dollars.

For continuing construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, five hundred dollars. For waterworks: Renewal of material in filter beds, improving ventilationWaterworks. in filter house and water house; hose for use in cleaning filter beds and water house, and for use in fire service at same; tools, implements, and materials for use of the two keepers, and for repairs of siphon house, filter house, and of four and one-half miles of supply pipes; for shed for tools and storage of fuel for keeper of Round Fond, and 157 for tool house at filter; for gauges at Round Pond and Delafield Pond, and stairs for access to same, and all other necessary work of maintenance and repairs, five hundred dollars.

For continuing the construction of one new reservoir, twenty-fiveNew reservoir. thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and the sum of six thousand dollars appropriated in the Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for heating and supplying river water, for swimming tank in the new gymnasium, is hereby madeSwimming tank.Vol. 27, p. 521. available for supplying water for the gymnasium from the new reservoir.

For broken stone and gravel for roads, one thousand five hundred dollars. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery,Cemetery. including the purchase of trees, plants, tools, and materials, to be immediately available, one thousand dollars. For repair of cooking utensils and the replacement of wornout cookingSubsistence Department. utensils in the cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, three hundred and twenty-six dollars. For repairs of chairs, tables, and other furniture in cadet subsistence department, to be expended without advertising, fifty dollars.

For painting, kalsomining, whitewashing, and repairing interior walls of cadet mess building, kitchen, dish pantry, bakery, dormitories, and storerooms, and for incidental repairs about the same, to be expended without advertising, one hundred and fifty dollars. For reflooring cadet mess hall, ninety-six feet long by forty-five feetReflooring, etc. wide, substituting for the old and double-board floor therein a stone, slate, or tile floor, whichever may be best attainable under this appropriation, four thousand dollars, to be immediately available.

For general repairs to the cadet laundry, painting, renewing machinery,Repairs. and incidental repairs to machinery and building, to be expended without advertising, three hundred dollars. For painting, and for general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet quartermaster’s department building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, shoe repairing, and so forth, the same, to be expended as required without advertising, three hundred dollars. For completing the modernization and improvement of the plumbingPlumbing. and sewerage of the post, five thousand dollars.

For furnishing and erecting in the natatorium of the gymnasium, in Gymnasium baths.complete working order, six slate-lined compartments with six combination shower, spray, and needle baths, one gas heater, and one hot water storage tank, eight hundred and fifty dollars; and the appropriation of two thousand dollars made by the Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for asphalt road and walkRoad.Vol. 27, p. 522. in front of and around the new gymnasium, is hereby reappropriated for the construction of said road and walk of asphalt or other suitable material.

For repairs, new machines, and fixtures for gymnasium, three hundred dollars. For new balls and pins, repairs to bowling alley, one hundred and fifty dollars. For completing the plumbing in the new sinks and bathrooms forBathrooms, etc. cadets, including the purchase of bath tubs, and so forth, to be immediately available, one thousand two hundred dollars. For general repairs to cadet barracks;Repairs, cadet barracks. for replacing partitions, racks, and so forth, in tenth division; for removing old baths from basement: for painting and repairing roof; for repairs to doors, locks, hinges, and so forth, and for flagging in area, two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.

For repairs and improvements, and so forth, needed at the cadet hospital,Cadet hospital. as follows: For painting roof and woodwork of hospital throughout, two coats; for painting ceilings and walls of third floor, two coats; 158 for six hundred square feet of tile flooring for front hall way and lavatories; for reoiling and relacquering material for hardwood floors; for two hundred feet of planed boards, one inch by sixteen inches, for shelving storeroom; for ten pounds of sal ammoniac to supply battery for electric bells; for nine feet of black-walnut counter, with marble top, for dispensary; for glass screen, with door, for dispensing counter; for steam radiator, with necessary fittings for ward number two, same as ward number one; for three medicine closets for wards; for whitewashing basements throughout; for rebronzing radiators, water pipes, and so forth, throughout; for eight stationary lockers for hospital attendants; for twenty-four stationary lockers, three sets of eight each, for patients; for necessary fixtures to connect soldiers’ hospital and subdispensary by telephone with the cadet hospital, two thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy cents.

For improvements, additions, and repairs required at the soldiers’Soldiers’ hospital. hospital, as follows: For fittings for one basement room for storeroom for liquors, disinfectants, and medicines requiring cold storage; for movable louver board shutters (outside) for sixty-nine windows in buildings, with the necessary hinges, fasteners, and turnbuckles; for Butcher’s “Boston” polish for floors; for one large galvanized iron sink, with drain shelf, for kitchen (to replace the one now in use, which is very small and not adapted to the requirements of the building); for rebronzing radiator and steam pipes in main building and annex; for repainting porches and covered way leading to annex; for repainting tin roof over all porches and covered way to annex: for hard-oil finish for windows, transoms, and interior woodwork of main building and annex, except floors; for whitewashing walls and ceilings in basements undermain building and annex; for repainting screen frames under porches, and for construction of roof over open stairway leading to isolation ward from covered way between main building and annex, one thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars.

For outbuilding at the soldiers’ hospital, with stalls for four cows, two hundred dollars. For repairs and improvements to barracks of the detachment ofSoldiers’ barracks etc. Army-service men, quartermaster’s department, and for steam plant for heating same, four thousand dollars. For improving the surface draining of married enlisted men’s quarters in Logtown, five hundred dollars. For painting the exterior of five double frame houses in Rugertown, used as quarters for married enlisted men, one thousand dollars.

For repairs to ordnance laboratory, and so forth: New spouting onRepairs, laboratory, etc. all buildings, three hundred dollars; water-closets in laboratory yard, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For covered way from cavalry stables to riding hall, a frame shedding built in sections and so constructed as to be put together and taken apart as desired, four hundred dollars. For necessary paint, including cost of labor, for exterior of cavalry stable, four hundred and eighty dollars.

For new mangers and general repairs to interior of cavalry stables, one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. For building a breast-high masonry wall on east side of road from nor the gate to entrance of post cemetery, one thousand dollars. For new sewer from Rugertown to connect with new sewer from new soldiers’Sewer. hospital to river, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For removing the piling of the old south wharf, five hundred dollars. For continuing repairs to road from south gate to the southern boundary line of reservation, and for continuing the laying of a stone walk along same, three thousand dollars.

For improving and extending the present electric fire alarm system of the post, seven hundred dollars. For repairing fuel house belonging to the barracks of Company E, Battalion of Engineers, seventy-five dollars. 159 For reflooring and interior painting of barracks of Company E, Battalion of Engineers, one thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to engineer boathouses, one hundred dollars. For necessary repairs to engineer equipment shed, two hundred dollars. For placing gas pipes and gas fixtures throughout the barracks of Company E, Battalion of Engineers, three hundred dollars.

For one steam road roller, four thousand dollars.Road roller.Gun platforms. For completing one platform for new eight-inch rifle, one platform for new twelve inch breech-loading mortar, and three front-pintle platforms in the sea-coast battery, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars. Approved, July 26, 1894.