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U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE,

Room 31 Army Building,

New York City, April 3rd 1888

Colonel T. L. Casey

Corps of Engineers, Washington D.C.

Colonel

I have respectfully to state that yesterdays tide in the Kills was lost by heavy fog. Today we got two good runs on the flood through the Bridge - but owing to the wire on the barrels breaking on account of the swash from a passing steamer, we only used one float at a time instead of three as I expected to do. A Penna: tow came through with six heavy draft barges at the usual time with only one tow boat on it, and got through better than the ten-boat tow of