ELECTRIC LIGHTS FOR PROPAGATING GARDENS. Sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, approved June 28, 1902, contained a provision for the installation of six electric lights at the propagating gardens, as follows For introducing, lighting, and maintaining six arc electric lights at the propagating gardens, at seventy-two dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights, four hundred and thirty-two dollars— and the contract made August 27, 1902, by this Office for electric lights for the public grounds for the fiscal year contained an item providing for the erection of those six lamps. Work was at once commenced by the electric-light company laying the conduits for the cables, and by September the conduits had been laid and the brick hand-holes on the sites for the poles constructed. Owing to delays at the foundry, however, the electric-light company did not receive the iron poles until February 13, 1903. Their erection and the installation of the cables was completed on February 24, and four of the lamps lighted from that date and the fifth lamp from February 27. Owing to an accidental break in the conduit, which necessitated the relaying of a portion of it, the connections for the sixth lamp could not be made until March 13, and it was lighted from that date. SHOPS BUILDING, PROPAGATING GARDENS. Sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, appropriated the sum of $2,000 for purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for grading around the building. Under this provision the following machinery was purchased and installed in the shops building during the month of April, 1903: One saw bench with equipment, belted to one 3-horsepower electric motor. One pipe-threading machine, belted to one 4-horsepower electric motor. One cut gear, belted to one 1-horsepower electric motor. One one-half horsepower electric motor, belted to a forge blower, the latter already in place. The foregoing machinery is operated by electricity supplied from the dynamo in the power house of the Washington Monument. To convey this current to the shops, 1,562 feet of terra-cotta conduit was laid in a trench with concrete bottom from the power house to the shops building, and 3,072 feet of No. 0 standard lead-covered cable run through the conduit. The final connections with the motors were made, the current turned on, and the machinery started on May 4. The ground and slopes of the roadway between the shops building and the storehouse building were rough graded and a retaining wall of cement concrete was built on either side of this roadway, and a retaining wall of same materials was also built at the south end of the shops building and at the north end of the storehouse. STATUES. Following is a list of the 22 statues in the public grounds of Washington under charge of this Office. This table gives the character of each statue, its location, the sculptor, the date of unveiling, and its cost, how provided for, etc. Supplementary to this list of completed statues is the list of the statues in contemplation and for which appropriations have been made. These tables were compiled by Mr. William Livingston Browning, of this Office, and represent much careful labor. Photographs of these 22 statues follow the tables. Statues in the public grounds, District of Columbia, under charge of office public buildings and grounds. [Compiled by William Livingston Browning, March 1, 1903.] Appropriated by Congress: $7,500 for statue, act Mar. Cost of statue and pedestal, $50,000. Appropriated by For statue and pedestal. act of Mar. 2, 1889, $40,000; Presented to the Government by the Photographic Presented by physicians and surgeons of the United Presented by Mr. Stilson Hutchins to United States. 1903. Errata, annual report of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, Washington, D. C., for the fiscal year ending June 30, Item 5.-President Lincoln. Instead of information given, read: [To be attached to page 2560 of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, 1903.] Sculptor. Lot Washington, D. C. of a The statue of General Rawlins was origin 17, 1886, $500 was appropriated for its removal b The statue of Daguerre was removed fro buildings and grounds Apr. 12, 1897. Rochambeau W Remarks. Cost of statue, $32,000; act of Congress Mar. 3, 1853, Act of Congress June 10, 1872, appropriated $10,000 Appropriated by Congress: For statue, Mar. 2, 1867, |