Wm. Oland Bourne Left Handed Penmanship Contest Box 4 Folder 7 Series 1 241-250 #241 Chester, Delaware Co, Pa. Ian. To The Editor of the Soldier's Friend Mr, Editor In accordance with request for communications from left handed soldiers I respectfully submit the following for Your consideration, The writer Your humble servant enlisted in the cause of his Country the tenth day of August 1861 to serve for three years or sooner dis charged. Have considered the dangers and hards hips incident to the soldier's life I resolved to risk my all trusting to Him who held my life in His Hands for my safety while I battled for right and humanity. I was serving at my apprenticeship when this rebellion broke out I have two years to serve before my apprenticeship would expire but when I heard of my Countrymen turning traitors And assailing their Goverment I came to the con clusion to server the other two in the defence of 2 that Goverment assailed, having fully made my up to go knowing that I would lose my trade and perhaps some of my limbs I went to abide by the consequence and like the soldier with his head carried away by a cannon ball never to regret it. I served all through the Peninsula Cam paign from the beginning untill the ending From Yorktown to Fair Oaks there was with my regiment in the battle of 27th of May this was the heaviest musketry fight the writer was ever in I had the good fortune to escape unhurt I was with my regiment during that disastrous retreat down the Peninsula, as nothing noteworthy occurred to the writer during this campaign I will give an account in another part of the field but before going any further I mention [?] battles I have been in during this memorable campaign. Yorktown Fair Oaks Savage Station White Oak Swamp Malvern Hill and the second Malvern Hill, I was fortunate enough 3 to escape unhurt through all these, but at the battle of Antietam I was not fortunate, I just had time to fire my peice and was in the act of reloading when I was struck in the right arm just below the shoulder. My peice rested on my left wrist in left hand I held the cartridge in the act of tearing the paper off the ball with right hand when I was struck I seis ed my peice with my right hand and for two minutes or more I could not released my hold and my peice kept twisting around while in my hand and as soon as I my hold was released my wound commence to bleed very freely which was alarming to me as I did not know how to stop it it being so close to shoulder and the bone being bad ly shattered I suffered severely. I dragged my peice as far as I was able to to prevent it falling into the hands of the rebels. I now looked to myself for I was bleeding freely now for the Doctor to have my wound bandaged to prevent its bleeding and the thought this ran quick ly through my mind and I made all haste for the rear going about a mile and a half to the hospital only to be Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862 - W.O.B. 4 disappointed in not finding a Doctor but at last a hospital steward dressed my wound and I felt considerable releived. I endured my sufferings patiently knowing that I would be properly attended to in time be sides there were others who were worse than I who had to be attended to first. here lay at this hospital until the following morning when I was removed to our own division hospital. they put two of us in an amb ulance and drove us through the woods over an new ly made road and our sufferings were severely felt by the jar of the ambulance in going over stumps and stones my comrade being wounded in the right lung it caused him to spit blood. at the division hospital I lay three days without anything to eat excepting a few crackers and some green apples the fourth day some of the members of the Sanitary Commission ma de their appeance and then I was comfortably carried for my wound properly dressed and mys elf clad in clean in clean clothes. Many thanks to the Sanitary Commission. here at this I lay two 5 weeks then I was removed to Frederick City to the Convent hospital, I suffered severely come over the mountains in the Ambulance the road was so rough that it caused the ambulance to jar my fractured limb so that my sufferings were intense, And during all this time I had nothing done for wound except simple ce[va]te dres sing. while at this hospital a regular Army surgeon took charge of the ward I was in and the nurse called his attention to my case. now this was the first time that I had had a regular surgical exami nation of my arm since the battle it being in a sling ever since the day that I wounded. the Doctor took a hold of my arm and drew it from my body in a hurried manner, which caused me much pain, Now I am not in the habit of swearing but on this occ assion I said something which I ought not to have said for which the Doctor in reproving for said that I was a brave young man out not to swear. I then beg his pardon, he told me to beg God pardon and not his. And he then told me that I would I have 6 to loose my arm now this seem hard but as I made up my my mind to abide by the consequence I did [*not*] give away to feelings Knowing that I had been wounded in an honorable and just cause, my arm was amputated at the shoulder joint on account of mortification setting in the Doctors deeming it neccesary, for three days I lay insensible and on comming to my senses I was told that I could not live twenty four hours and advised to send for my Friends, I was very weak form the loss of blood the main artery had come untied and the blood from it had, soak through three matresses before discovered But never the less I did not feel discouraged and I live contrary to the predictions of the Doctors although I was six months in recovering and my stump did not heal entirely until the 25th day of May 1863, my treatment while in the hospital was good and my case had all the attention it required and thanks to Him who hold our destinies in his hands and to the skill of my 4 to have Doctor also to the Sister of Charity who acted the part of the good Samaritan towards me. who when the nurses could not come near me on account of my stump smelling so offensive assisted the Doctor in dressing it, but enough of this I have been asked how I felt on going into battle well to the truth I felt badly scared but on becoming engaged with the Enemy all fear vanished and when ever I would see a comrade fall felt as if I could take two lives for one for I felt bounded to my comrades as so they were my Kindred relations. here the writer would beg to be excused from any further on account of the awkwardness and the tediousome labor of this left hand writing he Respectfully subscribe himself Your Obedient Servant Frederick R Cutler late Private Co K 2nd Reg Pa. Vol No 241 Jan 27 /66 1866 Jan [undated] series 1 242 John Foster Wm. Oland Bourne Dear Sir I forward you my contribution for competition. These gentlemen's signatures below will testify that the contribution was my own composition and written with my left hand. Also that I had not used my left hand for writing till I lost my right arm. Enclosed you will find fifty cents for one years pay for the soldiers friend. Respect. Yrs. John F. Foster Gloucester, Mass. William A. Pew Collector Wm H Haskell P.M. F. W. Comans Joseph Garland January 1866. William Oland Bourne. Editor of the Soldiers Friend. Dear Sir, With my left hand minus two phalanges of my fore finger I will give you a specimen of my penmanship in an account to my army life. My great grandfather was a Col. in the Seminole war, my Occupation before the war was the same as my Grandfather and Father before me, Officers in the Merchant service. Being at sea the first part of the war I did not arrive home until the summer of Sixty Two, my love of country being strong, I left my family, business and friends to defend our country's flag in its hour of peril. From an officer of a ship, I enlisted as a private to work my way up the ladder of promotion. I enlisted Aug. 1862 in Company F 35th Mass. Vol. and begun a soldier's life. Our Reg. left Boston the 20th day of the month and proceeded to Washington for instructions. On arriving there we were ordered to Arlington Heights; it was about the time they had the 2nd Bull run fight: our Reg. layed camped there about a fortnight when orders 2. came for us to pack up. The rebel army was in Maryland and there was no time to be lost: on arriving at Washington we were put in a brigade under Gen. Burnside commanding the Corps we then started marching day and night, till we reached Frederick city. The rebels had left the day before: on we went after them hardly stopping to get our hard tack and coffee till we fell on there rear then the battle begun at South Mountain just twenty five days from Boston; that was the commencement of our soldiers life. We drove the rebels over the mountains down the valley and across the Antietam river and on our attempt to ascend the hill which rose before us we met with rebel fortifications; the Rebels fled on our approach and the Battle of Antietam commenced: of which you have read. After the battle our brigade camped in Pleasant valley there we had a few days of rest waiting for the Shoeless Soldiers that Mc. Clellan had called on Washington to provide for. On the 24th of October Our corps under Gen. Burnside led the advance crossing the Potomac on pontoon bridges at Berlin. We were now in Virginia marching during the day and camping nights occasionally skirmishing with the rebel Cavalry which told us the enemy were near. On our arrival at Warrenton Gen. McClellan was relieved from the command of the army of the Potomac and Gen. Burnside appointed his successor. Then Gen. Sumner took command of the right grand division our brigade forming a part, we in the advance. Our Gen. was so eager to press forward that we we were obliged to stop at Jefferson and retreat back to White Sulphur Springs, to wait for another division to come up; we spent three days in this place. The first day our Col. and Adg. crossed the ford ford for provisions and while in a house a spy showing a white flag the rebel Cavalry came up and captured them ; the news soon flew into camp and the 35th Reg. was[s] ordered across the ford: we remained round the house that night but the rebels had previously fled taking with them our officers. We joined our brigade the next day, and the day after broke camp and marched on till we were surprised by a rebel battery opening on us. Our battery replied to it: the 35th being the rear Reg. were ordered back to support our battery: We laid there two hours under fire, our battery being in the valley and firing up hill did not do much execution; soon after we received another battery of larger calibre on the hill opposite the rebel battery and a few rounds dispersed them. After joining our brigade we marched along till we arrived at Falmouth there we did the duty of soldiers for twenty days. On the 11th Gen. Franklin's 4. division crossed over on the Pontoons and held the city. We crossed on the morning of the next day on the right and laid in the city all that day the rebels being in their fortifications in the rear of the city. The 13th being[* * *] the day appointed for the attack on the heights we were all ready and each one eager to gain them. In advancing up through the storm of shot and shell very near the fortifications. I received a blow from a piece of shell that burst over my head; shattering my right arm from the shoulder to the elbow causing me to drop instantly. on coming to my senses and realizing my situation I arose up and started to the rear with my wounded arm in my left hand and all my equipments on narrowly escaping the deadly aim of the rebel sharpshooters; after walking two miles in this situation I found the surgeon of the division and also the assisting surgeon of my Reg. which made me feel all right when he said to me Foster you are wounded come with me. I followed him into the building, the floor covered with wounded and dying. I proceeded to the operating room in the back part of the building. I was placed on the operating table was made to inhale chloroform. On recovering from its effects I found my right arm amputated to the shoulder by Surgeon Kossack. I was in an upper room suffering from my wound. At daylight the next morning [* *Fredericksburg, 13th December, 1862. -- W.O.B.*] 5 I was taken up put in an ambulance and carried across the river where there were tents for the wounded. There I heard of my fellow townsman Geo. S. Low a member of my company just alive with the typhoid fever and his feet badly frozen so that amputation was necessary We were in these tents provided by the Sanitary Commission two weeks. Miss Gilson of Chelsea visited us daily and showed us many attentions appreciated only by a soldier away from home and friends. A ministering angel to the wounded and sick we shall ever remember her as such. We were conveyed from here to the Douglas Hospital at Washington; after staying here a short time we were transfered to Hospitals in Philadelphia. In all the hospitals I received every comfort that one could need and I might say more than one could expect. I received my discharge the 15th day of March 1863 and returned home. To every man who will read these specimens of our left hand penmanship I would say, give the soldier some employment to recompence him for his sacrifice; that he may still provide for the little ones dependent on him, and thus feel that he is remembered when his resources for maintenance are so limited without one's right arm. Respect. yrs. John F. Foster. Gloucester. Mass. No 242 Jan 27 /66 1866 Jan 27 series 1 243 [W] M. Hamilton Jan. 27, 1866 Clear Spring Indiana January 23rd 1866 [*Sir.*] I write not with the expectation of [gaining] gaining the premiu offered to the best penman, for I know that is entirely out of the question for many reasons. But as I am one of [*the*] one-armed corps I of course am somewhat interested in this work and think it no harm in exposing my ignorance by becoming one of the contributors. As my notice is so very short and having no time to think of this matter I of course am excusable by every-body for going it rough shod. So hear goes never to late to do good. I will not dwell long so do not get inpatient my readers. My experience of the war. I volunteered between the age of 17 & 18 and served from June 12th 1861 untill August 29th 1865 when I was discharged with my Regt at Indianapolis Indiana. We was organized and mustered in on the 12 of June 1861 for three years unless sooner discharged. Our field & staff officers were as followes Milo & Haskell Col. John T. Wilder Lt Col George W Gorman Major Edmond Kustater Adjitent L Noble Q. M. Now bound for war we we the boys in blue now with gray hats. 2 After leaving Indiana about the last of June we went by way of cincinati and thare on the 4th of July we had a splendid Dinner withe 15 Ind for our right bour and can say that during the last two of three year of the rebellion many such feasts was rarely found & the reasons all can imagin. We remained in camp clay a few dayes found it quite pleasant soldiering Now we will pass on to Via now for our car ride in that rough country going down the W. was the wonders of the world then but readers that have not experienced soldiering were with me a short time untill I escort you to our first fight at Greenbrier the 3 of Oct 1861 But before we come to this let me tell you of our first knight atact now remember we was recruts then any way Milo was much of military man & he wanting us to be ready for war as soon as posable he concluded that we must fight some-thing that very knight so finding a good place in the hills near Parkersburgh Via. So during the knigh of July the 25/61 head the bugle sound the alarm [??] that [*Sound*] I never will forget. the long roll was beat and all the peculiar noises thatt all the 3- Soldiers had to become acquainted with any way "fall" in was the cry so hear we went [uver] over ditches fences and whatever might hapen now our line was formed and with throbbing harts we awaited them, as we thought now the order was fire now the guns that long had been lo[*a*]ded was in that forest exploded & I asure you that Rebs would not been safe even 30 feet up the trees and I asure you thare was not many braves but what quivered in his boots and I am in hopes every Buter-nut mgy have my feelings on that knight eaven if it is down whare they are shore to go. Hear I would lik to give you my opinion of the thing but as I must hasten as my time is limated I will Just say when I think of my condition & then what a part of my soul layes I cannot help but think that I would like have the powr in my one left-hand to smash them with evry Rebe and cast the seed from off the face of the earth. But my my one armed fellows I can say I hope thare Is a beter time coming and I am Boldly for for striking for higher wages and give us enough to board us at $2.50 per wk 4 any how if nothing for clothing & whoe has any beter right than we criples do who helped defend this property of the north I say let us strok for higher wages than $8. a month I am shore that had In not had a good home to have come to I might starved to death before this time I cannot get in any kind of imploy now what is to be done I am now ready for a situation if any body has any thig that I can doe. But on I must go and get don my scribling on we go afte Nels on through Ky and through Miss with Buell & then through Ala Ky Tenn Back through Ky & Tenn then into Ga at the Battle of Chicimaugh and many other places and then to start with Rossa after passing through Ky & Tenn difirent times we left the army at N. V. on the 22d Dec 1862 to go back into Ky aft the Reb Gen Morgan Wilder being a wonderful man for adventsure of diferent kinds he tells the Division comander (this was on new years or knight reather before new-years) 5 That if he would let him have enough mules out of the Division train to mount his men he would inshore him that he would capture Morgan so by 11 OC that knight all was ready and orders come for evry man to take his partner or mule it turned out to be. So hear we went for the mule no sadeles as you may enpose and willd mules to you can guess we had high times for an hour or to mules Balling men falling laughing holloring, crying curseing preying & every other manoever you can picture out O but if I only had a phiz of it to put in some public place so I will just say that we did not go any nor did we get any Morgan But enough fun to last till now woven through life. I must hasten now I will will not say anything more untill our noted Col Wilder got to teasing Gen Rosecrans to give us the Spincer gun and mount us. Now fun of soldiering set in we had to press our horses mules Jacks or any thing that would ride a man as we ust to say amongst ourselves & c 6 Gay times these were finding the fine horses in the parlor and then the fair damsull of the south come and beg with tears in his eyes to leave her riding hors it looked hard to do but our orders were insperation and must be obeyed & so it went untill we were mounted then we spent a very pleasant 2 months in scenting the enemy around about Lebanon (not in the old country) but [[intems ??]] and very open come in contact with a bunch of J [[hucys ??]] though part of the time we had our old brigade so well known as William Brigade it was formed of the 17 Ind 72 Ind 98 Ill & 123 Illinois. Now comes Rosecrans advance from Murfreesboro to Chatanooga we took an active part [first] we were the first to look upon Chatanooga from the oposit shore. Then we pass on to Chicamauga hear we took [*a*] part our Brigade was first atact I say Bully for Rosea at this fight he done well now we come back and leve the army and no with the cavelry was put after the Reb Gen Wheeler which after routing him [*a few times*] we set him back on the other side of the River 7 Now we [su?te?] down at Brownsboro Ala for some rest and a recruit of horses hear we remained a short time when apart of the command was ordered to east Tenn now we go to Huntsville Ala then to Pulaski Tenn hear now was the fun the order for [ertcome ??] some anxious and some not so anxious any way Our Officers gave us some very patriotic spiaches fine Jokes about going home to see our Ducks & and our Captain being a very patriotic man announced publicly that he would give evry man that would set out of his Co the best diner Indianapolis culd aford. By the by our Regt turned out well now or go home for 30 days and have a fine time now bound for Dixie on a Rail Road kur to Louisville Ky hear we draw horses and go astrad the rest of the way passing through a good many skirmishes fights etc. then after going with Shirman all his rounds untill he started south from Altanta hear we give up our horses up to Killpatrick and come to the rear or to Louisville to get new horses. Dun so and then struck south 7 [8] On the 28 of Dec 1864 Back through Tenn and into Ala At Gravely springs we put up winter quarters and Wilson organized his Cavelry for his trip through Ala Mar the 22 1865 we started on we went through the roughest country I ever saw any whare and on the 1st day of April 1865 I received my wound in my right arm just above the elbow When wounded I was in the Rebels lines after geting the natural [aux??] of abuse taking my clothing they left me thankful I was too. Hear Our company Rest 20 men out of 60 captain included I was then left in the Reb[s] hands at Selma Ala while the comand went on this being nexto the last fight our Regt was in I will hasten to a close any way this was near the focus of the Rebellion and not much more time I will begin to wind up my poorly composed contribution. After my arm got so I could be moved the war being ove I was shiped west with some more livestock Then the [J?yes] [whi??] I thought of friends and horse once mor. Now summing all up and accrding to our Cols report we 9[8] have been in 84 diferent engagements besides skirmishes that no account was kep Well I was a member of the 17 Ind and was Discharged as 1st Segt Co G 17 Ind with my Regt the 29 of Aug 1865 since that time I have been goin to school at Clear Spring as regular as circumstances would permit But for what I am going to be fit for I cannot say bu hoping I with the rest of the Left-armed Corps may be of some use to our selves & others But hear I am and say God help us Leaveing ths with you asking you Mr Editor to curect mistakes if published for this is my first atemp and send along one of the volumes if you please Sucsess to you in your undertakings. Your in Hope Mart D Hamilton [Mo????y] Indiana Lost right arm in skirmish [in] [*near Selma*] Alabama, April 1, 1865. No 243 Jan 27 /66 #244 Mr. Bourne, Dear Sir, I reply to your circular for the reason that I am the only one armed representative of the 53rd Reg't Mass. Vols, and not with any design of competing for the premium, for I am a farmer, and our hard manual labor is not calculated to improve our penmanship. But I would not have it understood that the old Fifty Third never did any service on account of having only one of our number minus the good right arm, so I will give a short sketch of the Regiment. It was raised in Worcester Co. Mass. and assigned to Gen. Banks' command in the Department of the Gulf. We were in camp on Long Island a few days, and had the pleasure of cleaning out the cook house from which we were fed by contract, in style not laid down in the Regulations, and likewise of demolishing the establishment of a sutler who wanted double price for everything, so completely that in two minutes nothing was left him but a little hay. Our first sight of the enemy was at Fort Bisland on the Bayou Teche. We routed them but several of our boys fell. Then came the long and tedious march in pursuit of the flying enemy to Alexandria on the Red River. From there, another toilsome tramp to the north side of Port Hudson. We were engaged in the preliminary skirmishes of the siege and on the 28th of May again confronted the foe in line of battle but the rebs withstood us manfully. On the 14th of June we were in the the hottest of the fight, and to many of us it was a sad, sad day. We found to our sorrow that it is very easy to plan away in the rear out of danger, but somewhat difficult to execute, under volleys of leaden hail. Alas! for the hand grenades which were to have driven the enemy from behind their works, and the sacks of cotton to fill the ditch, and enable us to scale the enemy's works! Perhaps some will say the fault lay as much with us as with the plan, but let the records tell. Two thirds of the company to which I belonged were killed or wounded, our dead lying within a stone's throw of the enemy's works. My share of the loss was my right arm. My captain, more fortunate, lost a small part of the left ear. But I am thankful that my arm, and not my life, was taken. Fred. L. Sanderson Private, Co. F. 53rd Mass. Vols. Petersham, Mass. No 244 Jan 27 /66 THE CITY RECORD. OFFICIAL JOURNAL. VOL. IX. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1881. NUMBER 2,387. POLICE DEPARTMENT ________________________ The Board of Police met on the 5th day of April, 1881. Present-Commissioners French, Nichols, Mason, and Matthews. Leaves of Absence Granted. S. C. Hawley, one week. Sergeant Thomas Huff, Twenty-third Precinct, three days. Patrolman George Lyman, Steamboat Squad, ninety days, with sick pay. Leaves of Absence Granted under Rule 564 - Approved. April 1. Patrolman John Watson, First Precinct, three days. " 2. " William A. Smith, Thirty-third precinct, half day. " 2. " Philip Daab, Eighth Precinct, half day. " 4. " George Brown, Fourth Precinct, one and a half days. Parades referred to the Superintendent. Carl Schurz Rifles, April 4. Parade. N. Y. Butcher Light Guard, April 2. Funeral. Koltes Post, No 32, G. A. R., April 3. Funeral. Public Waiters' Beneficial Association, April 3. Funeral. Ancient Order Hibernians, April 3. Funeral St. Elosis Benevolent Society, April 4. Funeral. Masked Balls Approved. Anti-Kaffern Club, at 291 Bowery, April 9. Citizens' Frauen K. U. Verein, 334 West Forty-fourth street, April 18. Report of the Superintendent, relative to enforcement of the Excise Law of the 3rd instant, was ordered on file. Deaths Reported Doorman James F. Reilley, Detective Squad, at 3 P. M., 1st instant. Eliza Geary, a pensioner. Report of the Board of Surgeons, on application of Patrolman Michael Smith, Eighteenth Precinct, for detail, was referred to the Superintendent to report a place for his detail. Weekly statement of the Comptroller, showing condition of the several accounts of the Police Department, was referred to the Treasurer. Application of H. O. Thompson, Commissioner of Public Works, for copy of Rules and Regulations, was referred to the Chief Clerk to furnish. Application of Patrolman John Nugent, Twenty-second Precinct, for full pay while sick, was referred to the Superintendent and Board of Surgeons for report. Communication from Mrs. John J. Grant, relative to John A. Butler, was referred to the Chief Clerk to answer. Communication from the Treasurer's Bookkeeper, relative to pension due Stephen B. Rockwell at the time of his death, was referred to the Committee on Pensions. Communication from Max F. Eller, relative to complaint against Patrolman James Brennan, Twenty-seventh Precinct, was referred to the Chief Clerk to answer. On reading and filing communication from A. T. Woodward, asking permission to connect the Fire Department with the Police Central Office by underground telegraph, it was Resolved, That the desired permission be granted, provided the connection be made without expense to this Department, and that such other permissions as may be requisite are given. On reading and filing communication from the editors of the Courier E'Etat Unis and others, it was Resolved, That Patrolman Benjamin Tessaro, Fifteenth Precinct, be granted permission to receive a gold medal, "in recognition of his services to French citizens." Appointment - Doorman. Arthur McManus, Detective Squad. Appointments - Patrolmen. Daniel Flynn, Fifth Precinct. Nelson J. Macnevin, Tenth Precinct. John Carey, Twenty-ninth Precinct. Arthur A. Johnston, First Precinct. Anthony Westphal, Fourth Precinct. Reappointment - Patrolman. William Reynolds, Seventeenth Precinct - all aye. Appointment as Patrolman Revoked. John T. McCarthy. Resolved, That the following transfers, details, and remands to patrol duty, be and are hereby ordered: Patrolman John Reynolds, from Eighth Precinct to Seventh Precinct, and detail Violation Corporation ordinances. Patrolman Patrick Doyle, from Seventh Precinct to Eighth Precinct, for patrol. " David Jackson, from Fourteenth Precinct to Fourth Precinct. Patrolman Isaac Schneittacher, from Fourteenth Precinct to Fourth Precinct, and detail at Hunter's Point Ferry. Patrolman David Davis, from Fourth Precinct to Fourteenth Precinct, for patrol. " Franklin W. Lake, from Fifteenth Precinct to First Precinct. " William Fitzmaurice, from Fourth Precinct to Twenty-second Precinct. Resolved, That the Treasurer be directed to pay over to the Police Pension Fund the sum of $1,144.41, for fines imposed during the month of March, 1881, in pursuance of section 3, chapter 389, Laws of 1878 - all aye. Resolved, That the Treasurer be directed to pay over to the Police Pension Fund the sum of $7,563 (receipts), under section 3, chapter 389, Laws of 1878, for the month of March, 1881 - all aye. Resolved, That the Chairman of the Committee on Repairs and Supplies be requested to report to this Board, recommending a suitable steamboat to be engaged for service by the Harbor Police. On recommendation of the Committee on Repairs and Supplies, it was Resolved, That the following bills be approved, and the Treasurer authorized to pay the same - all aye: George B. Brown, repairs . . . . . . . . . . . $10 50 " " . . . . . . .. . . . 12 50 " " . . . . . . . . . . . 15 40 William Carlin, horseshoeing . . . . . . . . . 34 50 Clark & Wilkins, wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 50 John Doran, newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 13 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 35 B. Gray, carriage, hire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 00 E. P. Gleeson Mfg. Co., gas-fittings . . . . 12 66 C. H. Hance, soap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 75 George Hopcroft, telegraph expenses . . 15 33 Howe Bros., horseshoeing . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 52 P. Malone, " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 50 National Stove Works, stove castings . . . 9 60 " " " . . . 78 85 T. New, roofing, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . $205 00 John Pritchard, horseshoeing . . . . . . 16 50 J. E. Quackenbush & Son, hardware . . . . 24 00 " " " . . . . . 2 35 " " " . . . . . 12 00 " " " . . . . . 12 00 Captain John Sanders, cartages . . . . . . . 2 50 " " . . . . . . . 2 75 Roundsman Charles Sheldon, expenses . . 2 75 Captain Robert O. Webb, cartages . . . . . . 3 50 White & Co., Agents, horse feed . . . . . . 24 63 " " . . . . . . 100 42 " coal . . . . . . . . . . . 52 50 $824 99 Judgments - Fines Imposed. Patrolman Thomas Bowes, Fourteenth Precinct, two days' pay " James C. Flood, Eighteenth Precinct, one day's pay. " John J. Doolin, Eighteenth Precinct, one day's pay. " William R. Deeves, Eighteenth Precinct, two days' pay. " Michael Fleming, Twenty-third Precinct, one day's pay. " Daniel Crowley, Twenty-ninth Precinct, ten days' pay. Complaints Dismissed. Patrolman Daniel J. McInerney, Seventeenth Precinct. " James Fahey, Twenty-first Precinct. " Lawrence McGovern, Twenty-first Precinct. " William Gardmer, Steamboat Squad. " Edward Kennedy, Third District Court. Street Cleaning. Communication from the National Temperance Society and Publishing House (transmitted from Mayor's Office), complaining that ashes have not been taken away from 58 and 60 Reade street, was referred to the Committee on Street Cleaning. Resolved, That the bill for rent of Eighteenth Ward Market, for the month of March, 1881, amounting to $250, be and is hereby ordered to be paid by the Treasurer - all aye. Resolved, That Commissioner Matthews be and is hereby requested to give his opinion and advice whether the Board of Police is obliged to enforce the ordinance compelling the separation of ashes from garbage, in the absence of any specified order or request from the Health Department for such separation; and if so, to recommend some plan to this Board for a proper enforcement thereof. On recommendation of the Committee on Street Cleaning, it was Resolved, That the following bills be approved, and the Treasurer authorized to pay the same - all aye: Beard & Robinson, wharfage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1 50 William Dall, hay and straw . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 288 79 J. H. Dahlman, horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 00 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 00 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 00 Frazee & Co., feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 13 A. S. Flandreau & Co., gig repairs . . . .. . . . . . 15 00 M. Goodwin, use of scow . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 217 00 Wm. H. Gautier & Co., use of scow . . . . . . . . 192 00 Hotchkiss, Field & Co., iron, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 17 Sam'l L'Hommedieu, towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 00 J. F. Leahy, horse collars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 96 00 E. W. McClave & Co., yellow pine . . . . . . . . . . 1 06 Manhattan Gas-Light Co., gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 95 Oakley & Smith, horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895 00 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 00 C. & R. Poillon, tug repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 12 The Screw Dock Co., use of dock . . . . . . . . . . . 60 00 Charles S. Smith, car fare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 25 Terence O'Brien, use of scow . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 186 00 $4,137 97 Adjourned. S. C. HAWLEY, Chief Clerk. __________________ POLICE DEPARTMENT-CITY OF NEW YORK, } 300 MULBERRY STREET April 8, 1881. } THOMAS COSTIGAN, Esq., Supervisor City Record: SIR - Pursuant to section 44, chapter 335, Laws of 1873, I hereby submit the following list of appointments, and applicants for appointments, in the Police Department of the City of New York, during the two weeks ending Thursday, April 7, 1881: Appointments as Patrolmen. Thomas Mooney, iron roller, 214 East One Hundred and Twenty-first street. Timothy Ryan, porter, 84 Madison street. Joseph H. Colligan, porter, 121 East Broadway. John T. McCarthy, printer, 49 James street (appointment revoked). Timothy P. Marron, clerk, 50 Varick street. William Jordan, driver, 318 East Forty-seventh street. Daniel Flynn, agent, Little Falls, New York. Nelson J. Macnevin, piano maker, 339 East Twelfth street. John Carey, livery, Southhold, Long Island. Arthur A. Johnston, truckman, 312 East Third street. Anthony Westphal, cigarmaker, 179 Second street. William Reynolds, laborer, 338 Ninth avenue. Appointment as Doorman. Redmond McManus. Applications for Appointment as Patrolmen. John J. Phillips, painter, 308 East Sixty-sixth street. Passed. James Boyle, cartman, 512 East Fifteenth street. Passed. John J. Driscoll, driver, 66 Gouverneur street. Rejected. George Banks, dyer, One Hundred and Twentieth street, near Tenth avenue. Passed. Charles W. Greene, clerk, 855 Tenth avenue. Rejected. John Sinder, varnisher, 546 East Eleventh street. Passed. Ambrose Murray, laborer, Irvington, New York. Passed. Charles H. Henderson, painter, 634 East Ninth street. Rejected. John McMahon, clerk, 349 East Seventy-sixth street. Rejected. John Lynch, junk dealer, 646 East Thirteenth street. Rejected. Michael H. Dynan, driver, 302 Henry street. Rejected. George Smith, laborer, 445 Eleventh avenue. Passed. William H. McGrath, farmer, 193 Fulton street. Passed. John Elliott, laborer, 1173 Second avenue. Rejected. Philip Straus, musician, 173 Allen street. Rejected. Francis Kiernan, conductor, 273 Mott street. Rejected. James W. Brown, printer, 53 Oak street. Rejected. John Ewald, bricklayer, 432 West Fifty-first street. Rejected. George Wrede, grocer, 137 West Twenty-ninth street. Passed. Timothy Saunders, shoemaker, 310 East Forty-ninth street. Rejected. John B. Sheridan, teamster, Sixty-fourth street and Eleventh avenue. Passed. Respectfully submitted, S. C. HAWLEY, Chief Clerk. 578 THE CITY RECORD. APRIL 9, 1881. (column 1 of 4) OFFICIAL DIRECTORY STATEMENT OF THE HOURS DURING WHICH all the Public Offices in the City are open for business, and at which each Court regularly opens and adjourns, as well as of the places where such offices are kept and such Courts are held ; together with the heads of Departments and Courts. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Mayor's Office. No. 6 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. WILLIAM R. GRACE, Mayor; JOHN TRACEY, Chief Clerk; WILLIAM M. IVINS, Secretary. Mayor's Marshal's Office. No. 1 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. CHARLES REILLY, First Marshal. Permit Bureau Office. No. 13 1/2 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. HENRY WOLTMAN, Registrar. Sealers and Inspectors of Weights and Measures. No. 7 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. WILLIAM EYLERS, Sealer First District; THOMAS BRADY, Sealer Second District; JOHN MURRAY, Inspector First District; JOSEPH SHANNON, Inspector Second District. ________ LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Office of Clerk of Common Council. No. 8 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. PATRICK KEENAN, President Board of Aldermen. FRANCIS J. TWOMEY, Clerk Common Council. _________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Commissioner's Office. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. HUBERT O. THOMPSON, Commissioner; FREDERICK H. HAMLIN, Deputy Commissioner. Bureau of Water Register. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN H. CHAMBERS, Register. Bureau of Incumbrances. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, Superintendent. Bureau of Lamps and Gas. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN MCCORMICK, Superintendent. Bureau of Streets. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JAMES J. MOONEY, Superintendent. Bureau of Sewers. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEVENSON TOWLE, Engineer-in-Charge Bureau of Chief Engineer. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ISAAC NEWTON, Chief Engineer. Bureau of Street Improvements No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ORGE A JEREMIAH, Superintendent. Bureau of Repairs and Supplies. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS KEECH, Superintendent. Bureau of Water Purveyor. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DANIEL O'REILLY, Water Purveyor. Keeper of Buildings in City Hall Park JOHN F. SLOPER, City Hall. __________ FINANCE DEPARTMENT. Comptroller's Office. Nos. 19 and 20 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller; RICHARD A. STORRS, Deputy Comptroller. Auditing Bureau. No. 19 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DANIEL JACKSON, Auditor of Accounts. Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents. No. 5 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ARTEMAS CADY, Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears. Bureau for the Collection of City Revenues and of Markets No. 6 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS F. DEVOE, Collector of City Revenue and Superintendent of Markets. Bureau for the Collection of Taxes. First floor Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park. MARTIN T. MCMAHON, Receiver of Taxes; ALFRED VREDENBURG, Deputy Receiver of Taxes. Bureau of the City Chamberlain. No. 18 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. J. NELSON TAPPAN, City Chamberlain. Office of the City Paymaster. Room 1, New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. MOOR FALLS, City Paymaster. __________ LAW DEPARTMENT. Office of the Counsel to the Corporation. Staats Zeitung Building, third floor, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Saturday, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, Counsel to the Corporation. ANDREW T. CAMPBELL, Chief Clerk. Office of the Public Administrator No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN, Public Administrator. Office of the Corporation Attorney. No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM A. BOYD, Corporation Attorney. _________ POLICE DEPARTMENT. Central Office. No. 300 Mulberry street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN B. FRENCH, President; SETH C. HAWLEY, Chief Clerk _________ DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. Central Office. No. 66 Third avenue, corner Eleventh street, 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. JACOB HESS, President; GEORGE F. BRITTON, Secretary. _________ FIRE DEPARTMENT. Headquarters. Nos. 155 and 157 Mercer street. VINCENT C. KING, President ; CARL JUSSEN, Secretary Bureau of Chief of Department. ELI BATES, Chief of Department. Bureau of Inspector of Cumbustibles. PETER SEERY, Inspector of Combustibles. Bureau of Fire Marshal. GEORGE H. SHELDON, Fire Marshal. (column 2 of 4) Bureau of Inspection of Buildings. WM. P. ESTERBROOK, Inspector of Buildings. Office hours, Headquarters and Bureaus, from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. (Saturdays to 3 P.M.) Fire Alarm Telegraph. J. ELLIOT SMITH, Superintendent of Telegraph. Repair Shops. Nos. 128 and 130 West Third street. JOHN McCABE, Captain-in-Charge, 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. Hospital Stables. No. 199 Christie street. DEDERICK G. GALE, Superintendent of Horses. __________ HEALTH DEPARTMENT No. 301 Mott street, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. CHARLES F. CHANDLER, President; EMMONS CLARK, Secretary. __________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS No. 36 Union square, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. EDWARD P. BARKER, Secretary. Civil and Topographical Office. Arsenal, 64th street and 5th avenue, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Office of Superintendent of 23rd and 24th Wards. Fordham 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. __________ DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. Nos. 117 and 119 Duane street, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. EUGENE T. LYNCH, Secretary. _________ DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. THOMAS B. ASTEN, President; ALBERT STORER, Secretary. _________ BOARD OF ASSESSORS. Office City Hall, Room No. 11 1/2, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. JOHN R. LYDECKER, Chairman; WM. H. JASPER, Secretary. __________ BOARD OF EXCISE. Corner Mulberry and Houston streets, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, President; ANTHONY HARTMAN, Chief Clerk. _________ SHERIFF'S OFFICE Nos. 3 and 4 New Country Court-house, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. PETER BOWE, Sheriff, JOEL O. STEVENS, Under Sheriff. _________ REGISTER'S OFFICE. East side City Hall Park, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. AUGUSTUS T. DOCHARTY, Register ; J. FAIRFAX McLAUGHLIN, Deputy Register. _________ COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS. No. 1 County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WM. PITT SHEARMAN, JOHN W. BARROW _________ COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. No. 17 New County Court-house, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. THOMAS DUNLAP, Commissioner ; ALFRED J. KEEGAN Deputy Commissioner ___________ COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. Nos. 7 and 8 New County Court-house, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. WILLIAM A. BUTLER, County Clerk; J. HENRY FORD, Deputy County Clerk. _________ DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE Second floor, Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. DANIEL G. ROLLINS, District Attorney; B. B. FOSTER, Chief Clerk. _________ THE CITY RECORD OFFICE. And Bureau of Printing, Stationery, and Blank Books No. 2 City Hall, 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. THOMAS COSTIGAN, Supervisor; R. P. H. ABELL, Bookkeeper _________ CORONERS' OFFICE No. 40 East Houston street. MORITZ ELLINGER, GERSON N. HERRMAN THOMAS C. KNOX, and JOHN H. BRADY, Coroners _________ RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSIONERS. RICHARD M. HOE, 504 Grand street. JOHN J. CRANE, 138th street, Morrisania. GUSTAV SCHWAB, 2 Bowling Green. CHARLES L. PERKINS, 23 Nassau street. WILLIAM M. OLLIFFE, 6 Bowery. _______ SUPREME COURT. Second Floor, New County Court-house, 10 1/2 A.M. to 3 P.M. General Term, Room No. 9 Special Term, Room No. 10. Chambers, Room No. 11. Circuit, Part I., Room No. 12. Circuit, Part II., Room No. 13. Circuit, Part III., Room No. 14. Judges' Private Chambers, Room No. 15. NOAH DAVIS, Chief Justice ; WILLIAM A. BUTLER Clerk. _________ SUPERIOR COURT. Third floor, New County Court-house, 11 A. M. General Term, Room No. 29. Special Term, Room No. 33 Chambers, Room No. 33. Part I., Room No. 34. Part II., Room No. 35. Part III., Room No. 36. Judges' Private Chambers, Room No. 30. Naturalization Bureau, Room No 32. Clerk's Office, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M., Room No 31. JOHN SEDGWICK, Chief Judge ; THOMAS BOESE, Chie Clerk. __________ COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Third floor, New County Court-house, 11 A.M. Clerk's Office, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M., Room No. 22. General Term, Room No. 24. Special Term, Room No. 21. Chambers, Room No. 21. Part I., Room No. 25. Part II., Room No. 26. Part III., Room No. 27. Naturalization Bureau, Room No 23. CHARLES P. DALY, Chief Justice ; NATHANIEL JARVIS Jr., Chief Clerk. ___________ COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. 32 Chambers street. Parts I and II. FREDERICK SMYTH, Recorder, Presiding Judge of the General Sessions ; HENRY A. GILDERSLEEVE and RUFUS B. COWING, Judges. Terms first Monday each month. JOHN SPARKS, Clerk. (column 3 of 4) MARINE COURT. General Term, Room 15, City Hall. Trial Term, Parts I., II., and III. second floor. City Hall. Special Term, Chambers, Room 21, City Hall, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. Clerk's Office, Room 10, City Hall. GEORGE SHEA, Chief Justice ; JOHN SAVAGE, Clerk. _________ OYER AND TERMINER COURT. General Term, New Country Court-house, second floor southeast corner, Room 13, 10:30 A. M. Clerk's Office, Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park econd floor, northwest corner ________ COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS At Tombs, corner Franklin and Centre streets, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, 10 A. M. Clerk's Office, Tombs. ________ DISTRICT CIVIL COURTS. First District—First, Second, Third, and Fifth Wards southwest corner of Centre and Chambers streets, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN CALLAHAN, Justice. Second District—Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Wards Nos. 112 and 114 White street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. CHARLES M. CLANCY, Justice. Third District—Eighth, Ninth, and Fifteenth Wards Sixth avenue, corner West Tenth street. GEORGE W. PARKER, Justice. Fourth District—Tenth and Seventeenth Wards, Nos. 20 and 22 Second avenue, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN A. DINKEL, Justice. Fifth District—Seventh, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Wards, No. 154 Clinton street. TIMOTHY J. CAMPBELL, Justice. ________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } NO. 66 THIRD AVENUE. } TO CONTRACTORS. PROPOSALS FOR ESTIMATES. ESTIMATES FOR THE FOLLOWING-NAMED Works, viz.: 1. The work and material required in the erection of a one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island. 2. The slating and tinning required for the one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island. 3. The mason work and material required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 4. The cut stone and setting required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 5. The carpenter work and materials required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 6. The iron and wire work required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 7. The slating and tinning required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 8. The work and material required in the erection of a one-story pavilion at Alms-house on Blackwell’s Island. 9. The slating and tinning required for the one-story pavilion at Almshouse, Blackwell’s Island. 10. The mason work, iron work, carpenter work, and materials required in the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island. 11. The slating and tinning required for the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island ; —will be received by the Board of Commissioners at the head of the Department of Public Charities and Correction, at the office of said Department, No. 66 Third avenue, in the City of New York, until 9:30 o’clock A. M., of Tuesday, the 21st day of April, 1881, at which place and time the bids will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The award of the contracts, if awarded, will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Any person making an estimate for the work shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its pre- sentation, and a statement of the work to which it relates. The amount of security required in each of the above- named works is as follows, viz. : 1. Of the work and material required in the erection of a one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island, six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) 2. Of the slating and tinning required for the one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). 3. Of the mason work and material required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00). 4. Of the cut stone and setting required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00). 5. Of the carpenter work and materials required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00). 6. Of the iron and wire work required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, nine thousand dollars ($9,000.00). 7. Of the slating and tinning required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). 8. Of the work and material required in the erection of a one-story pavilion at Alms-house on Blackwell’s Island, six thousand dollars ($6,000.00). 9. Of the slating and tinning required for the one-story pavilion at Alms-house, Blackwell’s Island, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). 10. Of the mason work, iron work, carpenter work, and materials required in the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island, five thousand dollars ($5,000.00). 11. Of the slating and tinning required for the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). The above several works will be required to be completed as follows, viz.: 1. The work and material required in the erection of a one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island, within 175 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 2. Of the slating and tinning required for the one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island, within 75 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 3. Of the mason work and material required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 300 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 4. Of the cut stone and setting required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 300 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 5. Of the carpenter work and materials required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 300 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 6. Of the iron and wire work required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 300 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 7. Of the slating and tinning required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 100 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. (column 4 of 4) 8. Of the work and material required in the erection of a one-story pavilion at Alms-house on Blackwell’s Island, within 175 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 9. Of slating and tinning required for the one-story pavilion at Alms-house, Blackwell’s Island, within 75 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 10. Of the mason work, iron work, carpenter work, and materials required in the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island, within 100 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 11. Of the slating and tinning required for the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island. For information as to the amount and kind of work to be done, bidders are referred to the specifications, which are annexed to and form part of these proposals, and the plans, which can be seen at the office of said Department. The damages to be paid by the contractor for each day that the contract may be unfulfilled after the time specified for the completion thereof shall have expired, are, by a clause in the contract, fixed and liquidated at fifty dollars per day. Should the person or persons to whom the contract is awarded neglect or refuse to accept the contract for forty-eight hours after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or estimate, or if, after acceptance, he or they should refuse or neglect to execute the contract and give the proper security for forty- eight hours after notice that the same is ready for execution, he or they will be considered as having abandoned it, and the contract will be readvertised and relet, and so on until it be accepted and executed. The Department of Public Charities and Correction reserves the right to decline any and all bids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation. Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein ; and if no other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact ; that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud ; and that no member of the Common Council, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, Deputy thereof or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested. Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in the City of New York, with their respective places of business or residence, to the effect, that if the contract be awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance; and that if he shall omit or refuse to execute the same, they will pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its completion, and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded at any subsequent letting; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of this contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities, as bail, surety, or otherwise; and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by law. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York, after the award is made, and prior to the signing of the contract. Bidders will state the price for doing either of the works by which the bids will be tested. Bidders will write out the amount of their estimate in addition to inserting the same in figures. Payment will be made by a requisition on the Comptroller, issued in the manner specified in the contract. Bidders are informed that no deviation from the specifications will be allowed, unless under the written instruction of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction. The form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment for the work, will be furnished at the office of the Department. Dated New York, April 8, 1881. JACOB HESS, THOMAS S. BRENNAN, TOWNSEND COX, Commissioners of the Department of Public Charities and Correction. ________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } NO. 66 THIRD AVENUE, } NEW YORK, April 2, 1881. } IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDINANCE OF the Common Council, "In relation to the burial of strangers or unknown persons who may die in any of the public institutions of the City of New York," the Commissioners of Public Charities and correction report as follows: At Work-house, Blackwell's Island-Cyrus I. Holmes ; aged 36 years. Committed February 22, for two months. Nothing known of his friends or relatives. At Infant's Hospital, Randall's Island-Mary Reilly ; aged 36 years. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. At Homœopathic Hospital, Ward's Island-Bridget Boyle ; age 41 years ; 5 feet 3 inches high ; brown eyes and hair. Had on when admitted calico dress, striped skirt, garters. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. At Branch Lunatic Asylum, Hart's Island-Ann Bradley ; age 55 years ; gray eyes ; brown hair. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. By Order, G. F. BRITTON, Secretary. _______ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } NO. 66 THIRD AVENUE } TO CONTRACTORS. PROPOSALS FOR ESTIMATES. ESTIMATES FOR SLATING AND TINNING required for the alterations and additions to be made to the Retreat Building at the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, will be received by the Board of Commissioners at the head of the Department of Public Charities and Correction at the office of said Department, No. 66 Third avenue, in the City of New York, until 9:30 o'clock A. M. of Friday, the 15th day of April, 1881, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The award of the contract, if awarded, will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of bids. Any person making an estimate of the work shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope, to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its presentation, and a statement of the work to which it relates. The bidder to whom the award is made shall give security for the faithful performance of the contract, in the manner prescribed and required by ordinance, in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. No. 244 1. Wm. Bourne Dear Sir, I reply to your circular for the reason that I am the only one armed representative of the 53rd Regt. Mass. Vols., and not with any design in competing for the premium, for I am a farmer, and our hard manual labor is not calculated to improve our penmanship. But I would not have it understood that the Old Fifty Third never did any service on account of having only one of our number minus the good right arm, so I will give you a short sketch of the regiment. I was raised in Worchester Co, Mass: and assigned to General Bank's Command in the depart- ment of the Gulf. We were in camp on Long Island a few days, and had the pleasure of cleaning out the cookhouse from which we were fed by contract, in style and laid down in the regulations, and likewise of demolishing the establishment of another, who wanted double price for everything, so completely that in two minutes nothing was left him, but a little hay. Our first sight of the enemy was at Fort Bisland, on the Bayou Tesche. We routed them, but several of our boys fell. Then came the long and tedious march in pursuit of the flying enemy to Alexandria on the Red River. From there, another toilsome tramp to the No 244. 2. North side of Fort Hudson. We were engaged in the preliminary skirmishes of the siege, and on the 28th of May again confronted the foe in line of battle; but the rebs withstood us manfully. On the 14th of June we were in the hottest of the fight, and to many of us it was a sad, sad day. We found to our sorrow that it is vey easy to plan away in the rear, out of danger, but somewhat difficult to execute under volleys of leaden hail. Alas! for the hand grenades which were to have driven the enemy from behind their works, and the sacks of cotton, to fill the ditch, and enable us to scale the enemy's works! Perhaps some may say the fault lay as much with us as with the plan, but let the records tell. Two thirds of the Company to which I belonged were killed or wounded, our dead lying within a stone's throw of the enemy's works. My share of the loss was my right arm. My Captain, more fortunate lost a small part of the left ear. But I am thankful that my arm, and not my life was taken. Fred L. Sanderson Private Co. "F" 53rd Mass. Vols: Petersham, Mass. #245 Enfield N H Jan 1866 Dear Sir At your request I will give you a specimen of my hand writing As I am mumberd with thousands of unfortunate Soldiers who have lost their right arm in the Army I will give you a narative of my experience while in the service I enlisted [in the] in Co. H. 11th N H Vols the 13th day of August and was mustered into the U. S. Service the last day of September 1862. my Regiment joined the 2and Brigade 2and Dvisn 9th Army Corps at Plesant Valey M. A. I was with the Reg on the march through Va. to Halmouth and in the fight at Fredericksburg the 13th of Dec. 1862. Transfered with th Corps to Newport News Va. about the middle of Febr. 1863. Encamped their untll the last of March. We was then tranfered to Kentucky from their down the Mississippi river to Vicksburg at which plase we arived about the 20th of June was in the siege untill the surrender the 4th of July 1863: Was in the Fight at Jackson Miss. the 13th of July. We was then transfered with the Corps back to Ky. from thier over the Cumberland Mts to Knoxville east Tenn. under Command of Gen. Burnside while we was beseiged our rations was reducd to eat ears of corn a day to a man. We was then transfered to Annapolis Md. ath which place we arrived the last of March 1864: Started on the march ot join the army of the Potomac about the 26 of April joined the 6th day of May in the Wildness. My Reg was in every battle of that memorable Campaign that the Corps was engaged in up to the battle of Popular Spring Church the 30th of September at which place I was hit three times one ball passed through the claf of my right lage anoter through my right wrist the thir through my arm above the elbow which [*No 245 Jan 29/66*] shattered the bone and was the cause of the loss of my arm (I was promoted Corporal Sept 1 1864) I was sent to Casbes Hospital my wound was well in a months time. I was discharged the 13th day of May 1865. I am now at home going to school. I was 20 yrs old the 15th day of last Oct. this finishes my history. Axcept this with my most sincere thanks for your attention to the Crippled Soldiers. Respectfully your Obedient servant Lewis D Curries Enfield. NH, Grafton C. O. NH #246 1 Boston, 27th January, 1866. Mr. Wm Orland Bourne: Your circular of the 10th inst. came to hand a few days since and contents noticed. I wish I had known of it earlier, then I could have tried for the prize with some hope of success; but "faint heart never won fair lady," and if I am not one of the successful ones I shall be highly gratified to receive a copy of the memorial volume which will be a prize worth striving for. I enlisted in Ashburnham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, on the 23rd day of September 1861, for three years, in Company F. Twenty fifth (25) Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. I went into camp at Worcester, Massachusetts. We were stationed there about 2 one month, then were ordered to Annapolis, Md. where we remained until the sailing of the famous Burnside Expedition with which we went. The first battle in which I was engaged was designated Roannoke Island, February 8th 1862. It being my maiden fight it was imprinted more distinctly upon my mind than any in which I was engaged. My second battle was called the battle of Newbern, March 14th 1862. This for the numbers engaged was the most sharply contested fight it was my fortune to witness. I with my regiment made two successful charges, in one of which we captured the enemy's flag and about two hundred prisoners. We then marched into town where we were placed on provost duty for a few weeks and 3 were then ordered on picket where we remained during the summer and fall. In December we went on the Goldsboro Expedition; in this we were engaged in the following named battles: Kingston, Whitehall and Goldsboro. During the following spring and summer we were on picket and also went on several expeditions and were in a number of skirmishes. In October we went to Newport News; at this place over four hundred of the regiment reenlisted and went home on furloughs. After the return of the regiment we were engaged in preparing for the spring campaign of 1864. In May we started up the James river, and landed at Bermuda Hundred. The next morning we marched some 4 twelve miles and went into camp. Our brigade went on a reconnoissance to the Richmond and Petersburg railroad where we had a sharp but short engagement. The object of the reconnoissance being accomplished we returned to the main army; next morning May 8th our division went to the railroad, and after a severe engagement dislodged the enemy and destroyed communication between Richmond and Petersburg. May 9th the the whole army was in motion, the 10th corps marching towards Richmond and the 18th towards Petersburg, destroying the railroad as much as possible. After skirmishing nearly all day we found the enemy in force near Petersburg, had a fine view of them and were of so much annoyance that a charge was made 5 upon us which was handsomly repulsed; but in which I was shot through the right arm so badly that it was necessary to have it amputated near the shoulder; the operation was performed in Hampton Hospital, May 15th 1864. This was called the battle of Arrowfield Church. I was discharged from the service 20th October 1864. Respectfully yours S. Augustus Rockwood Corporal Co. F. 25th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, at Comer's Commercial College. No. 323 Washington St. Boston, Massachusetts. No 246 Jan 29 66 [*246*] [*G. A. Rockwood.*] THE CITY RECORD. OFFICIAL JOURNAL. VOL. IX. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1881. NUMBER 2,387. (column 1 of 2) SIGILLUM CIVITATIS NOVI EBORACI POLICE DEPARTMENT ________ The Board of Police met on the 5th day of April, 1881. Present - Commissioners French, Nichols, Mason, and Matthews. Leaves of Absence Granted S. C. Hawley, one week. Sergeant Thomas Huff, Twenty-third Precinct, three days. Patrolman George Lyman, Steamboat Squad, ninety days, with sick pay. Leaves of Absence Granted under Rule 564 - Approved. April 1. Patrolman John Watson, First Precinct, three days. " 2. " William A. Smith, Thirty-third precinct, half day. " 2. " Philip Daab, Eighth Precinct, half day. " 4. " George Brown, Fourth Precinct, one and a half days. Parades referred to the Superintendent. Carl Shurz Rifles, April 4. Parade. N. Y. Butcher Light Guard April 2. Funeral. Koltes Post, No 32, G. A. R., April 3. Funeral. Public Waiters' Beneficial Association, April 3. Funeral. Ancient Order Hibernians, April 3. Funeral St. Elosis Benevolent Society, April 4. Funeral. Masked Balls Approved. Anti-Kaffern Club, at 291 Bowery, April 9. Citizens' Frauen K. U. Verein, 334 West Forty-fourth street, April 18. Report of the Superintendent, relative to enforcement of the Excise Law of the 3rd instant was ordered on file. Deaths Reported. Doorman James F. Reilley, Detective Squad, at 3 p.m., 1st instant. Eliza Geary, a pensioner. Report of the Board of Surgeons, on application of patrolman Michael Smith, Eighteenth Precinct, for detail, was referred to the superintendent to report a place for his detail. Weekly statement of the Comptroller, showing condition of the several accounts of the Police Department, was referred to the Treasurer. Application of H. O. Thompson, Commissioner of Public Works, for copy of Rules and Regulations, was referred to the Chief Clerk to furnish. Application of Patrolman John Nugent, Twenty-second Precinct, for full pay while sick, was referred to the Superintendent and Board of Surgeons for report. Communication from Mrs. John J. Grant, relative to John A. Butler, was referred to the Chief Clerk to answer. Communication from the Treasurer's Bookkeeper, relative to pension due Stephen B. Rockwell at the time of his death, was referred to the Committee on Pensions. Communication from Max F. Eller, relative to complaint against Patrolman James Brennan, Twenty-seventh Precinct, was referred to the Chief Clerk to answer. On reading and filing communication from A. T. Woodward, asking permission to connect the Fire Department with the Police Central Office by underground telegraph, it was Resolved, That the desired permission be granted, provided the connection be made without expense to this Department, and that such other permissions as may be requisite are given. On reading and filing communication from the editors of the Courier E'Etat Unis and others, it was Resolved, That Patrolman Benjamin Tessaro, Fifteenth Precinct, be granted permission to receive a gold medal, "in recognition of his services to French citizens." Appointment - Doorman. Arthur McManus, Detective Squad. Appointments - Patrolmen. Daniel Flynn, Fifth Precinct. Nelson J. Macnevin, Tenth Precinct. John Carey, Twenty-ninth Precinct. Arthur A. Johnston, First Precinct. Anthony Westphal, Fourth Precinct. Reappointment - Patrolman. William Reynolds, Seventeenth Precinct - all aye. Appointment at Patrolman Revoked. John T. McCarthy. Resolved, That the following transfers, details, and remands to patrol duty, be and are hereby ordered: Patrolman John Reynolds, from Eighth Precinct to Seventh Precinct, and detail Violation Corporation ordinances. Patrolman Patrick Doyle, from Seventh Precinct to Eighth Precinct, for patrol. Patrolman David Jackson, from Fourteenth Precinct to Fourth Precinct. Patrolman Isaac Schneittacher, from Fourteenth Precinct to Fourth Precinct, and detail at Hunter's Point Ferry. Patrolman David Davis, from Fourth Precinct to Fourteenth Precinct, for patrol. Patrolman Franklin W. Lake, from Fifteenth Precinct to First Precinct. Patrolman William Fitzmaurice, from Fourth Precinct to Twenty-second Precinct. Resolved, That the Treasurer be directed to pay over to the Police Pension Fund the sum of $1,144.41, for fines imposed during the month of March, 1881, in pursuance of section 3, chapter 389, Laws of 1878 - all aye. Resolved, That the Treasurer be directed to pay over to the Police Pension Fund the sum of $7,563 (receipts), under section 3, chapter 389, Laws of 1878, for the month of March, 1881 - all aye. Resolved, That the Chairman of the Committee on Repairs and Supplies be requested to report to this Board, recommending a suitable steamboat to be engaged for service by the Harbor Police. On recommendation of the Committee on Repairs and Supplies, it was Resolved, That the following bills be approved, and the Treasurer authorized to pay the same - all aye: (column 2 of 2) George B. Brown, repairs . . . . . . . . . . . $10 50 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 50 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 40 William Carlin, horseshoeing . . . . . . . . . 34 50 Clark & Wilkins, wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 50 John Doran, newspapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 13 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 35 B. Gray, carriage, hire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 00 E. P. Gleeson Mfg. Co., gas-fittings . . . . 12 66 C. H. Hance, soap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 75 George Hopcroft, telegraph expenses . . . 15 33 Howe Bros., horsehoeing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 52 P. Malone, " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 50 National Stove Works, stove castings . . . 9 60 " " " . . . . . . . . . . 78 85 T. New, roofing, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $205 00 John Pritchard, horsehoeing . . . . . . . . . . . 16 50 J. E. Quackenbush & Son, hardware . . . . . 24 00 " " " . . . . . 2 35 " " " . . . . . 12 00 " " " . . . . . 12 00 Captain John Sanders, cartages . . . . . . . . 2 50 " " . . . . . 2 75 Roundsman Charles Sheldon, expenses . . . 2 75 Captain Robert O. Webb, cartages . . . . . . . . 3 50 White & Co., Agents, horse feed . . . . . . . . . 24 63 " " . . . . . 100 42 " coal . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 50 $824 99 ________ Judgments - Fines Imposed. Patrolman Thomas Bowes, Fourteenth Precinct, two days' pay " James C. Flood, Eighteenth Precinct, one day's pay. " John J. Doolin, Eighteenth Precinct, one day's pay. " William R. Deeves, Eighteenth Precinct, two days' pay. " Michael Fleming, Twenty-third Precinct, one day's pay. " Daniel Crowley, Twenty-ninth Precinct, ten days' pay. Complaints Dismissed. Patrolman Daniel J. McInerney, Seventeenth Precinct. " James Fahey, Twenty-first Precinct. " Lawrence McGovern, Twenty-first Precinct. " William Gardiner, Steamboat Squad. " Edward Kennedy, Third District Court. Street Cleaning. Communication from the National Temperance Society and Publishing House (transmitted from Mayor's Office), complaining that ashes have not been taken away from 58 and 60 Reade street, was referred to the Committee on Street Cleaning. Resolved, That the bill for rent of Eighteenth Ward Market, for the month of March, 1881, amounting to $250, be and is hereby ordered to be paid by the Treasurer - all aye. Resolved, That commissioner Matthews be and is hereby requested to give his opinion and advice whether the Board of Police is obliged to enforce the ordinance compelling the separation of ashes from garbage, in the absence of any specified order or request from the Health Department for such separation; and if so, to recommend some plan to this Board for a proper enforcement thereof. On recommendation of the Committee on Street Cleaning, it was Resolved, That the following bills be approved, and the Treasurer authorized to pay the same - all aye: Beard & Robinson, wharfage . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 50 William Dall, hay and straw . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 79 J. H. Dahlman, horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 00 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 00 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 00 Frazee & Co., feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 13 A. S. Flandreau & Co., gig repairs . . . . . . . 15 00 M. Goodwin, use of scow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 00 Wm. H. Gautier & Co., use of scow . . . . . . 192 00 Hotchkiss, Field & co., iron, etc . . . . . . . . . . 3 17 Sam'l L'Hommedieu, towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 00 J. F. Leahy, horse collars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $96 00 E. W. McClave & Co., yellow pine . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 06 Manhattan Gas-Light Co., gas . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 95 Oakley & Smith, horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895 00 " " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 00 C. & R. Poillon, tug repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 12 The Screw Dock Co., use of dock . . . . . . . . . . 60 00 Charles S. Smith, car fare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 25 Terrence O'Brien, use of scow . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 00 $4,137 97 Adjourned. S. C. HAWLEY, Chief Clerk. _____________ POLICE DEPARTMENT-CITY OF NEW YORK, } 300 MULBERRY STREET April 8, 1881. } THOMAS COSTIGAN, Esq., Supervisor City Record: SIR.-Pursuant to section 44, chapter 335, Laws of 1873, I hereby submit the following list of appointments, and applicants for appointments, in the Police Department of the City of New York, during the two weeks ending Thursday, April 7, 1881. Appointments as Patrolmen. Thomas Mooney, iron roller, 214 East One Hundred and Twenty-first street. Timothy Ryan, porter, 84 Madison street. Joseph H. Colligan, porter, 121 East Broadway. John T. McCarthy, printer, 49 James street (appointment revoked). Timothy P. Marron, clerk, 50 Varick street. William Jordan, driver, 318 East Forty-seventh street. Daniel Flynn, agent, Little Falls, New York. Nelson J. Macnevin, piano maker, 339 East Twelfth street. John Carey, livery, Southhold, Long Island. Arthur A. Johnston, truckman, 312 East Third street. Anthony Westpahl, cigarmaker, 179 Second street. William Reynolds, laborer, 338 Ninth avenue. Appointment as Doorman. Redmond McManus. Applications for Appointment as Patrolmen. John J. Phillips, painter, 308 East Sixty-sixth street. Passed. James Boyle, cartman, 512 East Fifteenth street. Passed. John J. Driscoll, driver, 66 Gouverneur street. Rejected. George Banks, dyer, One Hundred and Twentieth street, near Tenth avenue. Passed. Charles W. Greene, clerk, 855 Tenth avenue. Rejected. John Sinder, varnisher, 546 East Eleventh street. Passed. Ambrose Murray, laborer, Irvington, New York. Passed. Charles H. Henderson, painter, 634 East Ninth street. Rejected. John McMahon, clerk, 349 East Seventy-sixth street. Rejected. John Lynch, junk dealer, 646 East Thirteenth street. Rejected. Michael H. Dynan, driver, 302 Henry street. Rejected. George Smith, laborer, 445 Eleventh avenue. Passed. William H. McGrath, farmer, 193 Fulton street. Passed. John Elliott, laborer, 1173 Second avenue. Rejected. Philip Straus, musician, 173 Allen street. Rejected. Francis Kiernan, conductor, 273 Mott street. Rejected. James W. Brown, printer, 53 Oak street. Rejected. John Ewald, bricklayer, 432 West Fifty-first street. Rejected. George Wrede, grocer, 137 West Twenty-ninth street. Passed. Timothy Saunders, shoemaker, 310 East Forty-ninth street. Rejected. John B. Sheridan, teamster, Sixty-fourth street and Eleventh avenue. Passed. Respectfully submitted, S. C. HAWLEY, Chief Clerk. 578 THE CITY RECORD. APRIL 9, 1881. (column 1 of 4) OFFICIAL DIRECTORY STATEMENT OF THE HOURS DURING WHICH all the Public Offices in the City are open for business, and at which each Court regularly opens and adjourns, as well as of the places where such offices are kept and such Courts are held; together with the heads of Departments and Courts. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Mayor's Office. No. 6 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. WILLIAM R. GRACE, Mayor; JOHN TRACEY, Chief Clerk; WILLIAM M. IVINS, Secretary. Mayor's Marshal's Office. No. 1 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. CHARLES REILLY, First Marshal. Permit Bureau Office. No. 13 1/2 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. HENRY WOLTMAN, Registrar. Sealers and Inspectors of Weights and Measures. No. 7 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. WILLIAM EYLERS, Sealer First District; THOMAS BRADY, Sealer Second District; JOHN MURRAY, Inspector First District; JOSEPH SHANNON, Inspector Second District. ___________ LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Office of Clerk of Common Council. No. 8 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. PATRICK KEENAN, President Board of Aldermen. FRANCIS J. TWOMEY, Clerk Common Council. ___________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Commissioner's Office. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. HUBERT O. THOMPSON, Commissioner; FREDERICK H. HAMLIN, Deputy Commissioner. Bureau of Water Register. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN H. CHAMBERS, Register. Bureau of Incumbrances. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, Superintendent. Bureau of Lamps and Gas. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN MCCORMICK, Superintendent. Bureau of Streets. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JAMES J. MOONEY, Superintendent. Bureau of Sewers. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEVENSON TOWLE, Engineer-in-Charge Bureau of Chief Engineer. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ISAAC NEWTON, Chief Engineer. Bureau of Street Improvements No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ORGE A JEREMIAH, Superintendent. Bureau of Repairs and Supplies. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS KEECH, Superintendent. Bureau of Water Purveyor. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DANIEL O'REILLY, Water Purveyor. Keeper of Buildings in City Hall Park JOHN F. SLOPER, City Hall. ____________ FINANCE DEPARTMENT. Comptroller's Office. Nos. 19 and 20 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller; RICHARD A. STORRS, Deputy Comptroller. Auditing Bureau. No. 19 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DANIEL JACKSON, Auditor of Accounts. Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents. No. 5 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ARTEMAS CADY, Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears. Bureau for the Collection of City Revenues and of Markets No. 6 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS F. DEVOE, Collector of City Revenue and Superintendent of Markets. Bureau for the Collection of Taxes. First floor Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park. MARTIN T. McMAHON, Receiver of Taxes; ALFRED VREDENBURG, Deputy Receiver of Taxes. Bureau of the City Chamberlain. No. 18 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. J. NELSON TAPPAN, City Chamberlain. Office of the City Paymaster. Room 1, New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. MOOR FALLS, City Paymaster. ___________ LAW DEPARTMENT. Office of the Counsel to the Corporation. Staats Zeitung Building, third floor, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Saturday, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, Counsel to the Corporation. ANDREW T. CAMPBELL, Chief Clerk. Office of the Public Administrator No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN, Public Administrator. Office of the Corporation Attorney. No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM A. BOYD, Corporation Attorney. _______ POLICE DEPARTMENT. Central Office. No. 300 Mulberry street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN B. FRENCH, President; SETH C. HAWLEY, Chief Clerk _________ DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. Central Office. No. 66 Third avenue, corner Eleventh street, 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. JACOB HESS, President; GEORGE F. BRITTON, Secretary. _________ FIRE DEPARTMENT. Headquarters. Nos. 155 and 157 Mercer street. VINCENT C. KING, President; CARL JUSSEN, Secretary Bureau of Chief of Department. ELI BATES, Chief of Department. Bureau of Inspector of Combustibles. PETER SEERY, Inspector of Combustibles. Bureau of Fire Marshal. GEORGE H. SHELDON, Fire Marshal. (column 2 of 4) Bureau of Inspection of Buildings. WM. P. ESTERBROOK, Inspector of Buildings. Office hours, Headquarters and Bureaus, from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. (Saturdays to 3 P.M.) Fire Alarm Telegraph. J. ELLIOT SMITH, Superintendent of Telegraph. Repair Shops. Nos. 128 and 130 West Third street. JOHN McCABE, Captain-in-Charge, 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. Hospital Stables. No. 199 Christie street. DEDERICK G. GALE, Superintendent of Horses. _________ HEALTH DEPARTMENT No. 301 Mott street, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. CHARLES F. CHANDLER, President; EMMONS CLARK, Secretary. _________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS No. 36 Union square, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. EDWARD P. BARKER, Secretary. Civil and Topographical Office. Arsenal, 64th street and 5th avenue, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Office of Superintendent of 23rd and 24th Wards. Fordham 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. _________ DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. Nos. 117 and 119 Duane street, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. EUGENE T. LYNCH, Secretary. __________ DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. THOMAS B. ASTEN, President; ALBERT STORER, Secretary. ________ BOARD OF ASSESSORS. Office City Hall, Room No. 11 1/2, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. JOHN R. LYDECKER, Chairman; WM. H. JASPER, Secretary. ________ BOARD OF EXCISE. Corner Mulberry and Houston streets, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, President; ANTHONY HARTMAN, Chief Clerk. ________ SHERIFF'S OFFICE. Nos. 3 and 4 New Country Court-house, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. PETER BOWE, Sheriff, JOEL O. STEVENS, Under Sheriff. ________ REGISTER'S OFFICE. East side City Hall Park, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. AUGUST T. DOCHARTY, Register; J. FAIRFAX MCLAUGHLIN, Deputy Register. ________ COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS. No. 1 County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WM. PITT SHEARMAN, JOHN W. BARROW ________ COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. No. 17 New County Court-house, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. THOMAS DUNLAP, Commissioner; ALFRED J. KEEGAN Deputy Commissioner ________ COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. Nos. 7 and 8 New County Court-house, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. WILLIAM A. BUTLER, County Clerk ; J. HENRY FORD, Deputy County Clerk. ________ DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. Second floor, Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. DANIEL G. ROLLINS, District Attorney; B.B. FOSTER, Chief Clerk. ________ THE CITY RECORD OFFICE. And Bureau of Printing, Stationery, and Blank Books No. 2 City Hall, 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. THOMAS COSTIGAN, Supervisor; R. P. H. ABELL, Bookkeeper ________ CORONERS' OFFICE No. 40 East Houston street. MORITZ ELLINGER, GERSON N. HERRMAN THOMAS C. KNOX, and JOHN H. BRADY, Coroners ________ RAPID TRANSIT COMMISSIONERS. RICHARD M. HOE, 504 Grand street. JOHN J. CRANE, 138th street, Morrisania. GUSTAV SCHWAB, 2 Bowling Green. CHARLES L. PERKINS, 23 Nassau street. WILLIAM M. OLLIFFE, 6 Bowery. ________ SUPREME COURT. Second Floor, New County Court-house, 10 1/2 A.M. to 3 P.M. General Term, Room No. 9 Special Term, Room No. 10. Chambers, Room No. 11. Circuit, Part I., Room No. 12. Circuit, Part II., Room No. 13. Circuit, Part III., Room No. 14. Judges' Private Chambers, Room No. 15. NOAH DAVIS, Chief Justice ; WILLIAM A. BUTLER Clerk. ________ SUPERIOR COURT. Third floor, New County Court-house, 11 A.M. General Term, Room No. 29 Special Term, Room No. 33 Chambers, Room No. 33. Part I., Room No. 34. Part II., Room No. 35. Part III., Room No. 36. Judges' Private Chambers, Room No. 30. Naturalization Bureau, Room No 32. Clerk's Office, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M., Room No 31. JOHN SEDGWICK, Chief Judge ; THOMAS BOESE, Chief Clerk. ________ COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Third floor, New County Court-house, 11 A.M. Clerk's Office, 9 A.M. to 4 P.M., Room No. 22. General Term, Room No. 24. Special Term, Room No. 21. Chambers, Room No. 21. Part I., Room No. 25. Part II., Room No. 26. Part III., Room No. 27. Naturalization Bureau, Room No. 23. CHARLES P. DALY, Chief Justice ; NATHANIEL JARVIS Jr., Chief Clerk. ________ COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS. 32 Chambers street. Parts I and II. FREDERICK SMYTH, Recorder, Presiding Judge of the General Sessions ; HENRY A. GILDERSLEEVE and RUFUS B. COWING, Judges. Terms first Monday each month. JOHN SPARKS, Clerk. (column 3 of 4) MARINE COURT. General Term, Room 15, City Hall. Trial Term, Parts I., II., and III. second floor. City Hall. Special Term, Chambers, Room 21, City Hall, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. Clerk's Office, Room 10, City Hall. GEORGE SHEA, Chief Justice ; JOHN SAVAGE, Clerk. ________ OYER AND TERMINER COURT. General Term, New Country Court-house, second floor southeast corner, Room 13, 10:30 A. M. Clerk's Office, Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park second floor, northwest corner ________ COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS At Tombs, corner Franklin and Centre streets, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, 10 A. M. Clerk's Office, Tombs. ________ DISTRICT CIVIL COURTS. First District—First, Second, Third, and Fifth Wards southwest corner of Centre and Chambers streets, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN CALLAHAN, Justice. Second District—Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Wards Nos. 112 and 114 White street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. CHARLES M. CLANCY, Justice. Third District—Eighth, Ninth, and Fifteenth Wards Sixth avenue, corner West Tenth street. GEORGE W. PARKER, Justice. Fourth District—Tenth and Seventeenth Wards, Nos. 20 and 22 Second avenue, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN A. DINKEL, Justice. Fifth District—Seventh, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Wards, No. 154 Clinton street. TIMOTHY J. CAMPBELL, Justice. ________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } NO. 66 THIRD AVENUE. } TO CONTRACTORS. PROPOSALS FOR ESTIMATES. ESTIMATES FOR THE FOLLOWING-NAMED Works, viz.: 1. The work and material required in the erection of a one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island. 2. The slating and tinning required for the one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island. 3. The mason work and material required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 4. The cut stone and setting required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 5. The carpenter work and materials required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 6. The iron and wire work required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 7. The slating and tinning required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island. 8. The work and material required in the erection of a one-story pavilion at Alms-house on Blackwell’s Island. 9. The slating and tinning required for the one-story pavilion at Almshouse, Blackwell’s Island. 10. The mason work, iron work, carpenter work, and materials required in the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island. 11. The slating and tinning required for the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island; —will be received by the Board of Commissioners at the head of the Department of Public Charities and Correction, at the office of said Department, No. 66 Third avenue, in the City of New York, until 9:30 o’clock A. M., of Tuesday, the 21st day of April, 1881, at which place and time the bids will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The award of the contracts, if awarded, will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Any person making an estimate for the work shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its presentation, and a statement of the work to which it relates. The amount of security required in each of the above- named works is as follows, viz.: 1. Of the work and material required in the erection of a one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island, seven thousand dollars ($6,000.00) 2. Of the slating and tinning required for the one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). 3. Of the mason work and material required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00). 4. Of the cut stone and setting required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00). 5. Of the carpenter work and materials required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00). 6. Of the iron and wire work required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, nine thousand dollars ($9,000.00). 7. Of the slating and tinning required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). 8. Of the work and material required in the erection of a one-story pavilion at Alms-house on Blackwell’s Island, six thousand dollars ($6,000.00). 9. Of the slating and tinning required for the one-story pavilion at Almshouse, Blackwell’s Island, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). 10. Of the mason work, iron work, carpenter work, and materials required in the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island, five thousand dollars ($5,000.00). 11. Of the slating and tinning required for the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00). The above several works will be required to be completed as follows, viz.: 1. The work and material required in the erection of a one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island, within 175 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 2. Of the slating and tinning required for the one-story quarantine pavilion on Randall’s Island, within 75 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 3. Of the mason work and material required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 300 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 4. Of the cut stone and setting required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 300 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 5. Of the carpenter work and materials required in the erection of the east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 300 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 6. Of the iron and wire work required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 100 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 7. Of the slating and tinning required in the erection of east wing for Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island, within 100 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. (column 4 of 4) 8. Of the work and material required in the erection of a one-story pavilion at Alms-house on Blackwell’s Island, within 175 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 9. Of slating and tinning required for the one-story pavilion at Alms-house, Blackwell’s Island, within 75 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 10. Of the mason work, iron work, carpenter work, and materials required in the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island, within 100 working days after the date of the commencement thereof. 11. Of the slating and tinning required for the alterations and additions to be made to engine-house, kitchen, and laundry at Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell’s Island. For information as to the amount and kind of work to be done, bidders are referred to the specifications, which are annexed to and form part of these proposals, and the plans, which can be seen at the office of said Department. The damages to be paid by the contractor for each day that the contract may be unfulfilled after the time specified for the completion thereof shall have expired, are, by a clause in the contract, fixed and liquidated at fifty dollars per day. Should the person or persons to whom the contract is awarded neglect or refuse to accept the contract for forty-eight hours after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or estimate, or if, after acceptance, he or they should refuse or neglect to execute the contract and give the proper security for forty- eight hours after notice that the same is ready for execution, he or they will be considered as having abandoned it, and the contract will be readvertised and relet, and so on until it be accepted and executed. The Department of Public Charities and Correction reserves the right to decline any and all bids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation. Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein; and if no other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact; that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud; and that no member of the Common Council, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, Deputy thereof or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested. Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in the City of New York, with their respective places of business or residence, to the effect, that if the contract be awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance; and that if he shall omit or refuse to execute the same, they shall pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its completion, and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded at any subsequent letting; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of this contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities, as bail, surety, or otherwise; and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by law. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York, after the award is made, and prior to the signing of the contract. Bidders will state he price for doing either of the works by which the bids will be tested. Bidders will write out the amount of their estimate in addition to inserting the same in figures. Payment will be made by a requisition on the Comptroller, issued in the manner specified in the contract. Bidders are informed that no deviation from the specifications will be allowed, unless under the written instruction of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction. The form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment for the work, will be furnished at the office of the Department. Dated, New York, April 8, 1881. JACOB HESS, TOWNSEND COX, THOMAS S. BRENNAN, Commissioners of the Department of Public Charities and Correction ___________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } NO. 66 THIRD AVENUE, } NEW YORK, April 2, 1881. } IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDINANCE OF the Common Council, "In relation to the burial of strangers or unknown persons who may die in any of the public institutions of the City of New York," the Commissioners of Public Charities and correction report as follows: At Work-house, Blackwell's Island-Cyrus I. Holmes; aged 36 years. Committed February 22, for two months. Nothing known of his friends or relatives. At Infant's Hospital, Randall's Island-Mary Reilly; aged 36 years. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. At Homœopathic Hospital, Ward's Island-Bridget Boyle; age 41 years; 5 feet 3 inches high; brown eyes and hair. Had on when admitted calico dress, striped skirt, garters. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. At Branch Lunatic Asylum, Hart's Island-Ann Bradley; age 55 years; gray eyes; brown hair. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. By Order, G. F. BRITTON, Secretary. __________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } NO. 66 THIRD AVENUE. } TO CONTRACTORS. PROPOSALS FOR ESTIMATES. ESTIMATES FOR SLATING AND TINNING required for the alterations and additions to be made to the Retreat Building at the Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, will be received by the Board of Commissioners at the head of the Department of Public Charities and Correction at the office of said Department, No. 66 Third avenue, in the City of New York, until 9:30 o'clock A. M. of Friday, the 15th day of April, 1881, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The award of the contract, if awarded, will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of bids. Any person making an estimate of the work shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope, to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its presentation, and a statement of the work to which it relates. The bidder to whom the award is made shall give security for the faithful performance of the contract, in the manner prescribed and required by ordinance, in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. No. 246 1 Boston, 27th January 1866 Mr. Wm. Oland Bourne, Your circular of the 10th inst. came to hand a few days since and contents noticed. I wish I had known of it earlier, then I could I have tried for the prize with some hope of success; but "faint heart never won fair lady," and if I am not one of the successful ones, I shall be highly gratified to receive a copy of the memorial volume which will be a prize worth striving for. I enlisted in Ashburnham, Worchester County, Massachusetts on the 23rd day of Septem- ber, 1861, for three years, in Company "F", 25th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. I went into Camp at Worchester, Mass. We were stationed there about one month, then were ordered to Annapolis, Maryland where we re- mained until the sailing of the famous Burnside Expedition with which we went. The first battle in which I was engaged was designated Roanoke Island, February 8th 1862. It being my maiden fight, it was imprinted more distinctly in my mind than any in which I was engaged. My second battle was called was called the battle of Newbern, No. 246.- 2. March 14th, 1862. This for the numbers engaged was the most sharply contested fight it was my fortune to witness. I with my regiment made two successful charges, in one of which we captured the enemy's flag and about two hundred prisoners. We then marched into town where we were placed on provost duty for a few weeks and were then ordered on picket where we remained during the summer and fall. In December we went on the Goldsboro Expedition; in this we were engaged in the following named battles : "Kingston, Whitehall, and Goldsboro." During the following spring and summer we were on picket, and also went on several expeditions and were in a number of skirmishes. In October we went to Newport News; at this place over four hundred of the regiment reinlisted and went home on furloughs. After the return of the regiment we were engaged in preparing for the spring campaign of 1864. In May we started up the James River, and landed at Bermuda Hundred. The next morning we marched some twelve miles and went into camp. Our brigade went on a reconnaissance to the Richmond and Petersburg railroad where we had a sharp but short engagement. The object of the reconnaissance being accomplished we returned to the main army next morning, May, the 8th, our No. 246. 3. division went to the railroad, and after a severe engagement dislodged the enemy and destroyed communication between Richmond and Petersburg. May, the 9th, the whole army was in motion; the 10th Corps marching towards Richmond and the 18th towards Petersburg, destroying the railroad as much as possible. After skirmishing nearly [the] all day we found the enemy in force near Petersburg, had a fine view of them and were of so much annoyance that a charge was made upon us, which was handsomely repulsed; but in which I was shot through the right arm so badly that it was necessary to have it amputated near the shoulder; the operation was performed in Hampton Hospital, May 15th 1864. - This was called the balled of Arrowfield Church. I was discharged from the service the 20th October, 1864. - Respectfully Yours. S. Augustus Rockwood. Corporal C. "F", 25th Regt. Mass: Inf. Vols. at Comer's Commercial College, No 323, Washington St., Boston, Mass: #247 [*Jan. 29, 1866*] I enlisted the 23d day of October 1861 a private in the 23d N. Y. Voll. Infantry, was mustered into the U.S. Service at Elmira N. Y; and was soon on my way to Washington where we arrived in due time, we were marched then to Upton Hill where the Regiment was in camp, we were then marched to Head Quarters, and assigned to different Companies, by request I was assigned to Company (H) the 9th of December we found ourselves busy erecting habitations for the winter, the three months December, January, and February that we remained in this pleasant camp soon sped away, the time was occupied almost invariably in drills, reviews, and picket, at 3 O Clock A. M. the 10th day of March 1862 General Yankee Doodle called us into line, and we set out in the darkness for Centerville (more properly Richmond) it was a rainy march, and a weary one, but as we encountered no enemy it was uninterrupted, the 15th we found ourselves on the march for Alexandra, for the purpose of taking Transports, rain had fallen the previous night and during the day it poured down, just before night we halted at Four Mile Run, this little stream had suddenly become a lake and impassable, the next morning an attempt was made to bridge the steam but to no purpose and we returned to our old quarters at Upton Dale, we again took up our march the 6th of April for Richmond; (as we supposed) the over land rout, the 19th we bivouacked two miles south of Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg, the 7th of May we crossed the River, and occupied Fredericksburg, the 18th we had a slight skirmish with the Enemy's Cavalry, about two miles south of Fredericksburg, on the Bowling Green Road, which resulted in completely routing the Enemy, and putting them to flight, while in this Regiment I took part in the following engagements, Rapahannock Station, White Sulphur Springs, Ganesville, Groveton, Bull Run, Shantilla, South Mountain, and Antietam, the 20th November we found ourselves in camp near Brooks Station, while here I was taken sick with the Typhoid Fever and on the 8th of December was sent to Washington to General Hospital, where I lay Five months. the 8th of May 1863 I was sent to my Regiment, which at that time was doing provost duty at Aqua Creek, early in the morning of the 11th of May we found ourselves on our homeward march, a sad accident occured on our way home near Marysville Pa, Captain Clark of my Company was climbing on top of the rear Car, just as the train was passing under a bridge, the bridge struck him on the head killing him instantly. we arrived at Elmira in the evening. the 22d we were mustered out, and returned to our homes. I remained home until the 27th of December then reinlisted in Company (F) 15th N. Y. V. Cav. at the time I joined the Regiment, it lay at Burlington Va; in February 1864 we started for Winchester, the following November our Brigade (then under command of Genl. Duffey) were sent to Cumberland Md. for the purpose of being remounted, having lost nearly all of our horses on the Hunter raid, while here I was promoted to Corporal, while in this Regiment I took part in the following engagements, Lost River Gap, New Town, Winchester, Harrisonburg, Wanesborrough, and Ashland, in March 1865 we joined the Army of the Potomac, the 1st of April we attacted the enemy at Five Forks, and after a hard, and bloody contest we succeeded in routing them, we followed them day, and night, until the night of the 8th of April we surprised them in their camp near Appomattox Court House, we were ordered to charge, and with General Custer for our leader we did charge, it was in this charge I was struck with a piece of Shell, I was soon taken to the rear. cloriform was soon administered, and when I awoke I found in the place of my good right Arm, (that had served me so long and faithfully) nothing but a gory stump. I was taken to [*x1864*] City Point, and from there to Jarvis U.S. General Hospital Baltimore, Md. the 20th of June I got my Discharge, and returned home, although minus an arm I have great reason to be thankful that I did not meet the fate of thousands of my comrads, whose bones lay bleehing on southern Battle Fields. The second enlistment is not as correct a history as the first, on account of loosing my Diary. I cannot recolect the dates, but hoping this will be satisfactory I am Yours truly Alfred B. Tuttle Manlius Onondaga Co. N. Y. No 247 Jan 29 66 248 [248] Strongsville Jan 26th 1866 Wm. Oland Bourne Notice of what the left hand soldiers were douing did not reach me untile the 20th though I Should not have aspired to write for the premium I send a skeleton of my life in the army which use as seems best to you. A memoriat volume would be very acceptable as I am interested in the "brotherhood" Samuel A. Carpenter Strongsville Ohio #249 1 Columbus, Ohio January, 25, 1860 [*1866?*] Mr. Wm. Oland Bourne Dear Sir I was formly a member in Co. H. 113. Reg. O. V. I. and by rank a Sergeant. I Enlisted at Franklington, Franklin County. Ohio. August 22nd 1862, for to serve thee years or Sooner Discharged the Regament left Camp Dennison, for Kentucky on the 28th day of December, 1862 and arrived at Louisvill K. y. on New Years day /63. thair wee Received Orders to go to a place Called Muldrows hill on the Louisvil and Nashvill Rail Road how long wee were thair I can not tell. Suffice it to say that over over thair during that deep snow that fell in the winter of /63. soon after the snow wee wer ordered back to Louisvill for to embark on the Str. St. patrick whitch was to sail in that great fleet Commanded by General C C Gilbert whitch was to land at Nashvill 2 wee was on the Water about Twelve days and nights it was a varry pleasant trip for some, while with others it did not agree with. As for my self, I enjoyed it finely wee landed at Nashvill in the night, and the next day, wee martched to a little Town by the name of Franklin a distance of a bout Eighteen miles. how long wee Remained at this place I can not tell, as I never kept any account of any of our doings. I think wee left Frankling to wards the last of May, and started for a little place Called Trynne, wee was at this place, I think about Three weeks. and then Started for the Town of Shelbyville we arrived thair on the Third day of July and during the time wee left Trynne untill wee came to Shlbyville wee never was dry. it rained all the time wee wer martching Bouth day and night I think wee broke up our quiet [*camp*] again about the middle of August for to start for Chattanooga during this martch thair was not so much 3 Rain or bad weather, wee arrived at Chattanooga on or about the Tenth of September most all of the Boys was expecting that we would Camp in or near a great City. wee did not stop at Chattanooga, but was taken to a place by the name of Rossvill, in Georga it is about seven miles from Chattanooga I do not know how long wee was in this Camp, but I know it was not long untill wee was orderd up Closer to the front. while the Battle of Chickamauga was going on. on. Saturday wee wee runing from one place to another and on Sunday forenoon wee did the same but at about one oclock they found a place for General J. B. Steadmans Division and from that time untill deark wee was in the thickest of the Fight after dark that night wee fell back to our old Camp at Rossville, Ga wee laid thair that night and the next day, and in the night of the 21 Inst. wee was all ordered back to Chattanooga 4 and our Brigade was Camped on Stringers Ridge. it is about one mile from Chattanooga. it was about this time that our Rations began to get short and soon after the Battle of Chickamauga, the Rebel Gen. Wheeler got in our rear and distroyed our supply train in the Sequatchea vally. as soon as the news came to Chattanooga our Brigade was orderd to the vally but before wee got thair, Wheeler and his band had left. wee was out on this trip Two days and the most wee had to eat was the corn that wee found that was not burned to bad to eat wee at last got back to our old Quarters and Remained thair untill the Battle of Mission Ridge in this Battle our Regament was not engaged, but as soon as Rebs left the Bridge wee began to follow them and caught their rear at a place Called Wilsons Creek 5 hear wee gave them a few rounds and they lit out again. wee was then order to Knoxvill and when wee was within about Twenty mile of thair, wee got orders to return back to Chattanooga again wee was on this tramp, Twenty Eight, days part of the time wee had our own supples and the balance of the time wee lived on what ever wee could find in the Country you can Immagin the looks and the Condition of the men after martching and rolling in the mud and dirt, for 28 days and nights wee did not even have time for to wash our old Shirts. wee at last got back to Chattanooga and went into our old Quarters on Stringers Ridge. it was only a few days untill wee got orders to move again wee was then taken close to our old Camp at Rossvill, for to Camp for the winter wee was put in the Woods and with a Couple of old axes wee soon had our Shanties Built for the winter in Georga. while at this place wee don varry well 6 our Picket duty was not vary hard and wee got plenty of good old army Rations in fact all things was gay while wee was thair in our huts but on the Second day of May, Gen W. T. Sherman was ready to martch to the Sea and with the best army that ever met @ foe he started for to make the great strike at the Rebellion and all along through the Campaign as luck would have it for I know of nothing else wee did not get into any engagement untill the Twenty Seventh day of June at the Kenasaw Mountain our Brigade was formed into a line of Battle, the Regaments that formed our Brigade was the 113 O.V.I. 121 O.V.I. 98 O.V.I. and the 78 Ill.V.I. 34 Ill V.I. the 34 Ill. was put on the Skirmish line and the 113 Reg. O.V.I. formed the first line of Battle and was to take the lead in that great and desperate charge and on that day I was Wounded 7 I was with the Reg. and Co untill the whole line was Compelled to stop. and when the line stoped and could go no further I thought that perhaps it was just about as safe for to ly down, as for to stand up, and with those thougts I was just in the act of lying down when I was struck in bouth Arms causing the Amputation of my Right hand. I then started to look for a doctor, and a hospital and I found them bouth I Remained thair in the hospital untill the next day and was then taken back to big Shanty and was thair Three or Four days and was taken back to Chattanooga in a Freight Car. I arrived at this place on the Third day of July and Remained in Chattanooga a bout a week and was then sent to Nashvill and was thair a week, and then started for Louisvill, K. y. after arriveing thair 8 I was sent to the Totton hospital at about one mile from the City I Remained thair Two weeks and then got a Special Transfer for Columbus I started arriveing in Columbus on the Second day of August 1864 I was then sent to Camp Chase General Hospital and was thair untill I was Transferd to the 124th Co. V. R. C. I Reported to my Company in Columbus at the Seminary hospital on or about the 20th day of November and was thair untill the 27th day of December on that day I Received my Discharge David O. Mull Sergeant Co. H 113 Reg. O. V. I. [*Kennsaw Moutin Jun 27, 1864*] 1866 Jan 18 (18) 1 series 1 250 C. A. Norton Bangor, Jan 18/66 Mr Wm Oland Bourne, Dear Sir. The Author of the lines, that you will recive with this letter, has been a Soldier in the Union Army from the comencement of the war. I have been in four Battles, and any quaniety of skermishes, I am, when discharged, a member of the 7th New Hamphir, Regt. Co K. I lost my right arm, of hand at Fort Fisher, on the 15 of Jan 1865. I do not write for the Premium because I know that I can not get any but I should like a Book to see what the left armed men can do. If you should like these lines please let me know perhaps I can write some thing that would be interesting in prose, as I kept a journal in the Armey an it is full of matter of interest. Yours Truley, Private Chas A. Norton Bangor, Maine. PS/ if you should publish these lines be so kind kind as to send me a copy. C. A. N. Page 1 Long Bridge Long Bridge crosses the Potomac from Washington to the Va side. Over this Bridge have gone the long lines of proud Soldiers hastening to thare Countrys defence. Back acrost this Bridge have come the heavy loaded Ambulences, filled with sick and wounded Soldiers, in fact this Bridge has been the great vein, through which has rushed the grandest Armey the world ever saw. Long Bridge By Private Chas. A. Norton Many are the feet that pressed that Bridge, never to press it again. Many noble souls that went over that Bridge, now are numbered with the slain. Many brave men crossed that Bridge, determined their Country to save. Many brave men were soon laid low, low, in a Soldiers grave, Over the Bridge. Page 2 2 Acrost that Bridge went the Countrys hope, strong with vigor and might. Acrost that Bridge went the thronging hosts, hastening on to the fight. Acrost that Bridge went many light hearts, fresh from their native town. Acrost that Bridge many have gon who laid their bodies down. Over the Bridge. 3. Over that Bridge many have gon, gon to the Prisons cell. Over that Bridge many have gon, who bid their homes a last farewell. Over that Bridge many have passed into the foul dungeons door. Over that Bridge, O how may went, went to come back no more, Over the Bridge. 4. Some have come back over that Bridge, wounded mangled and torn. Some have gon back to their homes, all sick Page 3 and battle worn, Some have marched back over that Bridge, proud of the victory won, Some have been brought back over that Bridge, with an arm forever gon, Over the Bridge. 5. Those that never returned, who went over with the thronging band, Those have passed to a happier home, in the fare off better land. Those that found a Soldiers grave, when their marches and battles were ore, Those have all been mustered in on the bright and shining shore. Over the Bridge. 6. Through another Bridge we all must pass, when done with this world of strife, Through that Bridge we all must pass, that leads to the River of Life. Through this Bridge which is the Tumb. Page 4 we all must pass to the other shore. Through this Bridge, we all must go to sing Gods praises evermore, Over the Bridge. Lines on the Death of a My Mess Mate, By Private C. A. N. Rest, hero rest, the Battles done. The fight is ended, and the victory won. The Potomac washes along the shore, With a sadder sound, than ear before, The stars shing bright ore your lone low grave, Your name lives on, with the good and Brave. Rest, hero rest, Heavens own at last, Life's tempests ore, and its dangers passed. You fell for the land you dearley love, You'll reap your rewards, in the home above, Rest, hero rest, from the Battles alarms, You fled for repose in your Saviors arms. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.