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of the city and county began their sessions in the 

 Criminal 'Courthouse, on Center Street, on Sept. 

 3. The office of the district attorney was also 

 removed to that place about the same time. 



On Nov. 12 formal charges were preferred 

 against District-Attorney Fellows by Preble 

 Tucker, Fulton McMahon, and R. W. G. Wel- 

 ling, of New York city, charging him with fail- 

 ure " to bring to speedy trial many persons un- 

 der indictment for criminal offenses, with the 

 result that the administration of criminal justice 

 in said county [New York] has become a matter 

 of grave public scandal," in accordance with 

 which he was ordered to show cause why he 

 should not be removed from office by a notifica- 

 tion from the Governor on Nov. 21. Additional 

 charges having been preferred by members of 

 the German Reform Union, Gov. Flower, on 

 Nov. 27, appointed John J. Linson commissioner 

 " to take the testimony and the examination of 

 witnesses as to the truth of said charges, and to 

 report the same to me, and also the material 

 facts which he deems to be established by the 

 evidence." 



Testimony was submitted before the commis- 

 sioner by the complainants, resulting in his re- 

 port to the Governor, from which it was decided 

 by him that, after a full, fair, and impartial 

 hearing, no cause was disclosed that would jus- 

 tify the removal of the district attorney, in con- 

 sequence of which the charges were dismissed on 

 Dec. 21. 



Post Office. This department is a Federal 

 office under the jurisdiction of the Post Office 

 Department in Washington. The postmaster is 

 Charles W. Dayton. The Post Office building is 

 at the junction of Broadway and Park Row, op- 

 posite Barclay Street. Among the new branch 

 post offices established during the year are 0, at 

 72 Fifth Avenue ; V, at 95 Hudson Street ; Y, at 

 1160 Third Avenue: and one on Ellis Island; 

 also several substations were established. The 

 report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, 

 shows that there were delivered through lock 

 boxes and by carriers 455,191,631 pieces of ordi- 

 nary mail matter, divided as follow : Letters 

 through boxes, 76,612,366 ; by carriers, 223,509,- 

 835. Postal cards through boxes, 7,244,958 ; by 

 carriers, 45,427,575. Other mail matter through 

 boxes, 51,683,807; by carriers, 53,713,090. In 

 the registered-letter department 1,529,192 pieces 

 were delivered, and 1,734,429 of domestic and 

 940.944 of foreign origin were recorded and dis- 

 tributed to other offices. In the distribution de- 

 partment 876.829,571 pieces were handled, in- 

 cluding letters of local origin, 289.240,500; 

 received by mail, 51,061,365 ; foreign dispatched, 

 29,539,375. Postal cards of local origin, 44,498,- 

 538; received by mail, 12,765,341; foreign dis- 

 patched, 1.406,637. Other matter of local ori- 

 gin, 321,785,204; received by mail, 70,883,388; 

 foreign dispatched, 55.649,223. The total num- 

 ber of pieces of mail matter of all kinds handled 

 during the year was 1,336,225,767, a daily aver- 

 age of 3,660,892 an increase over the previous 

 year of 28,971,307. 



At the General Post Office, 1,346,628 money 

 orders were issued and paid amounting to $10,- 

 058,163.54, and 844,941 postal notes, amounting 

 to $1,243,105.28; at the 40 post offices and sub- 

 stations the number of orders issued and paid 



was 330,210, amounting to $4,659,895.49, and the 

 number of postal notes 155,268, amounting to 

 $295,613.79. The aggregate business of the 

 money-order department amounted to $103 355 - 

 487.83. The total receipts of the office were 

 $6,942,873.51, and the total expenditures $2,791 - 

 951.05 (including $1,218.785.28 expended for free- 

 delivery service), giving a net revenue of $4 150 - 

 922.46. 



Immigration. The reception of the immi- 

 grants in New York city is under national super- 

 vision. Ellis island has been set apart for that 

 purpose, and the superintendent is Joseph H. 

 Senner. During 1893 167,665 immigrants were 

 landed on Ellis island, of whom 98,031 were 

 males and 69,634 females. They brought $3,- 

 050,948 with them. These are the chief coun- 

 tries from which they came : Italy, 36,723 ; Ger- 

 many, 25,818 : Ireland, 20,476 ; Russia, 20,003 : 

 Austria and Hungary, 19,054 ; Sweden, 10,367 ; 

 England, 10,869 ; Norway, 5.424 ; Denmark, 

 3,661; Switzerland, 2,207; France, 2,074; Scot- 

 land, 1,786. There were debarred 1,500 immi- 

 grants, mostly contract laborers. The majority 

 of the immigrants were under middle age. 

 There were 30,954 under fifteen and 117,080 be- 

 tween fifteen and forty, and 19,631 over forty ; 

 25.513 could neither read nor write, and 81,887 

 had less than $30. 



Harbor Improvements. This work is un- 

 der the supervision of the United States Corps 

 of Engineers, and is locally directed by Col. 

 George S. Gillespie. In his report of the work 

 accomplished during the last fiscal year, he says 

 concerning the Harlem ship canal that it will 

 cost $2,700,000, mostly for dredging. During the 

 year Col. Gillespie expended $289,000 on that 

 work. The channel in the Harlem river from 

 High Bridge to Morris Dock is 150 feet wide and 

 10 feet deep mean low water, and thence to Dyck- 

 man creek 9 feet deep. The cut through Dyck- 

 man meadow, 1,000 feet long, 350 feet wideband 

 18 feet deep, has been completed, with the ex- 

 ception of 620 cubic yards of ledge work in the 

 northeast corner. There has been built for the 

 protection of the sides of this cut 730 linear feet 

 of stone retaining wall and 820 linear feet of 

 crib-and-pile revetment. The channel from the 

 west end of the cut to the Hudson river has been 

 dredged to a width of 140 feet and a depth of 9 

 feet mean low water. The contractors removed, 

 to June 30, 4,380 yards of rock and 155,519 

 yards of other material. The work in the East 

 river at Hell Gate cost the Government $50,000 

 last year, being about the last expenditure to be 

 made on this $5,000,000 improvement. The in- 

 crease in depth over the more prominent rocks 

 since work began in the East river, in 1867, is as 

 follows : Diamond reef, 17 to 26 feet ; Coenties 

 reef, 14-3 to 25'5 feet; Frying Pan, 11 to 228 

 feet ; Pot Rock, 20 to 22 3' feet ; Heel Tap, 11-1 

 to 20-5 feet ; North Brother island reef, 16 to 26 

 feet ; Pilgrim Rock, 12 to 24 feet ; Ferry reef, 

 off Thirty-fourth Street, 7 to 24 feet: reef off 

 Diamond reef, 19 to 26 feet. Blasting and dredg- 

 ing have increased the depth over other obstruc- 

 tions as follow : Hallett's Point, 26 feet ; Mid- 

 dle reef, 30 feet; Shell reef, 18 feet; Middle 

 Ground, 14 and 16 feet. The Government has 

 expended in Buttermilk channel $1,000,000 dur- 

 ing the year in removing material from Red 



