The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-15
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
THE sHERIFF's DoUcEURs-A SHELL FIRED INTO
THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.
The Board Of Aldermen held their regular meet
ing yesterday afternoon and transacted consider
able business.
THE sHERIFrs DoucEuRs
. The report OF the Committee Salaries was
handed In. 1t was rather brief and the chief item
ofinterest In 1t to the taxpayers was the rate
fixed for the Sherin's ontcial services "for which
no specific compensation Is fixed or allowed by
statute" The rates fixed were as follows:-
CRIMINAL courts Of record OF The city and county thirty
SG GaeS srSs thu Of Staff Of
sd Sessions ss cents o each
panea GnsysE TU nf Sy Prison to the
House S q ksiuss Rs"ass island r'''n 10 the
Sessions and back to City Prison. 81 rs
THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS CATECHIsRD.
Mr.. BLESSING offered resolution, which, at his
request, was laid on the table ana ordered to be
printed for the information OF members. The doc
ument will create lively work among the Park
Department officials, and probably, II Is said. be
the cause OF change in the Commission before
next month. The resolution requires the Commits
siOners to report within fifteen days what amount
OF money was appropriated 10 the depart
ment by she State Legislature and the
Board of ApporLionment since June /, 1879, and
the disposition made OF all moneys in their hands
during that period; what contracts have been
given out and to what parties and when; what
salaries have been paid to Commissioners and
orncials, clerks and employees; what number Of
men they have had ana have IN their employ as
foremen, laborers, policemen, &c.
THE RYAN FARM
This resolution was supplemented by another
offered by Mr.. GILoN, which requires the Commis-
sioners TO report what houses OF business there
are in the parks and places under their control,
to whom leased and for what purpose.
MT. Blessing and Mr.. Gilon, in Offering these
resolutions, we're by no means complimentary In
their remarks concerning the Park Department,
Mr.. Blessing contending that II the iacts could be
got at 1t would be made plain that the department
was the "most rotten" OF any department in the
CITY government, whlle Mr.. Gllon said that he mad
often, but IN VAIN, tried to ind out what was the
exact revenue derived from extraordinary priv
leges granted to favored individuals who were
comfortably loc ted, and much 10 their uw profit,
or II ound under the control oil the Park Commits
sloners. rhe Ryan farm, 1t is expected WIN be
heard rom In queer way II the resolution Is
properly answered.
WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
A resolution offered by Mr.. BLESSING, which was
adopted, requiring the Departments OF Parks,
Docks and Public Works to report what new
work cOul0 De prosecuted ana what WORK already
begun ana not vet completed could be advanta-
geously continued was offered with the view OF
giving men out of employment enough work 10 do
to keep them rom want during the winter.
MIR. GREENS FINANCiERING.
Mr.. SEERY offered the folowiDg:-
Whereas in the Message of His Honor the MAYOR, to
curs:-:ihe time has arrived whcn in my Judgment
and d sHSaa
tins subject and Without such iniormaon It viii be inn M
70 deyse 0d carry 9ut any Praclei Of
the views thus expressed by his Honor The Mayor aud
sired information; be it 0'''A'"N VIC &C
@ &c s ssard BE he
OF thirty days or AZ the next meeting OF the Board
the Of the city
h year eadns the bamees o
er years the interest on unpaid taxes ana asses ments
7hird-The expenditures tor the last year.
Fourth he claims IN his Office against the city unad
FvGl-Thc amount OF the judgments obtained against
the city during his term OF Office with the costs taxed
siDA-rhe amount saved to the city by litigation
during the same period BY decisions De-, IN Its favor
city created by authority OF he state LEGISLATURE and
the Board OF super and The amount approved or
ae sOp aS s Oh ME city and
Elhh-rhe amount OF UNPAID taxes and assessments
bonds outsianlins at ths same date: - y ''~''
Ninh-A balance sheet showing the financial position
OF the city at the close OF the last year
DELAY FOR A PURPOSE.
This resolution gave rise TO quite lively debate,
during which Mr.. VANCE said that 1t should be laiu
over and printed not passed hastily. 1t led
TO very important matter and might cover
all the ground necessary and there might be In it,
too, some Things which some o! the members could
not vote Tor, although they might be willing to
vote tor some portions.
Mr.. Gross, Mr.. Seery, Mr.. Reilly and Mr.. Purroy
believed the reSOiuti tons ought to pass at once. IL
was not a plan OF finance, out simple inquiry
to what our present plan had done for us and as
to what we owed and what We had lost and gained
by 1t.
Mr.. ROWLAND and Mr.. BILLINGS opposed it's i'm
mediate passage tor the same reason which in
duced Mri Vance to oppose 1t, and finally, Mr..
Seery cOnsentlng 1t was laid on the table and or
dered printed.
"HOME, SWEET HOME0
Mr.. GILON introduced an ordinance, which was
laid over under tue rules, which provides that
hereafter no person not citizen OF the State and
a resident OF the city snail oe eligible to appoint
ment as head or a department OF bureau or clerk
or employG thereof, and mat any person who is
now ut the head OF or IN the employ any 0epart-
ment OF the city government who becomes 4 non
resident shall by that fact render hts appointment
null and void.
IS THERE 'NIGGER" IN IT9
passed looking to the purchase OF certain plot of
ground IRON John Davidson Tor o new station
house in Jne Nineteenth ward, but the opposition
OF MIR. GOa and Mr. Reilly prevented 1t, and 1t
was on the latter's motion referred to the Com
mttee on Lands and Places. Mr. GilOn contended
that the price nxed (s3o.oOo for the ground was