, 1876-12-17
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE CITY-HAII.

THE C1TY-HAIL.
The Comptroller yesterday redeemed abou
S25, 600 worth Of city certificates.
The Health Department yesterday Issued per
| NIT for the burial OF woman who had reached tn
unusual age Of 9f years.
The Comptroller will begin tomorrow the pay
| ment OF the January interest on city bonds. Pay
ments will be made at the Treasurcr's Office.
John Taylor yesterday took ont permit to built
| dve-story and basement stone-front store. 81
1903 feet, on the northeast corner OF Wabash avenu
] and Washington street.
The Department OF Public Works. yesterda.
issued an estimate OF ST., 478 to Fitzsimons &
Connell for work done on the Fnllerton. avenue
been giEen Oh thar work is 3243 ISL.
Building Inspector Cieaveland yesterday had q
s subeet 5P o pus
yicws OF both sides were freely expressed. and i,
Is likely that out Of the multitude Of suggestions
and plans for safe buildings that good win come.
Some OF the people to whom the city Is indebted
Tor tha work Of raising the houses fronting the ap
! proach to the Milwaukee, avenue viaduc1 have sr-
ranged to he paid In Hridewell-made bricks. John
A'ehberg has taken S5, $40 bricks in considers
The health Of the city during the week inst closed
has been about as in the preceding week. There
has not been marked decrease in the number Of
deaths from and diphtherfa, but there
has been no increase. There s lio small -pox in
the city excep! the case OF the Mlwankcean at the
small pox hospital.
The scientific people ard city officials Of Nash
VILE, Tenn, hayu been receiving from ex-Com-
of Public Works, in:tluctlqa upon thc manner @ in n
which the water -systom Of city should be ar
ranged .a and managed, Or rather 3lr; Thompson
Nashville folk how the Chicago water-system is
operated, for all Of which they we're thankful.
The foreign insurance company agents seem to
be determined 10 be called 10 the attention OF the
Grand Jury, for, notwithstanding that they have
been abuntantly notified By the press and oaicialy
notified b. tie Comptroller that they were obliged
under the charter to pay annually into the City
Of them have complied with the chartel provision.
They will be properly looked after BY the city
guardians
Some day during the coming week the Committee
On ta Fire md Wnter accompanied by as many Of
will make the annual tour OF inspection among the
fire. engine houses, with view Of better under
standing the condition. workings, and needs OF the
Department. Experiments in hitching up, ETC.,
will be made. and the activity Of tho men tested
In the inspections made in former years the OIL
cias have been surprised at the alacrity displayed
IN preparing for work. 1t ia safe to suppose that
they will be surprised again,
c sTqhsS ;s; AND CAPTURED PROPERTY:
order to the Captains, tie object in view being that
stolen property may be better kept sight Ut and re-
turned to the proper owners:
xoq I'll station
f. isSsss II ses eav fSn
tcn iaE ii ths column on Tie 1darsa in lie
arrests hook at the time such prisputr il
viii liz Il
may be useful Or foF future rerercnee such
as far a the space will permit.
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
The subject Of appropriations for the municipal
expenses for the year commencing Jan. !, 1917,
is attracting good deal OF attention from the
heads Of the various departments. That the City
Government has been we'll operated under the re-
duccd force, no one can we'll deny, but that it Is
run as well as 1t might be- with even little addI-
tion in the form Of men aud money, Is the question
which the official mind IS now eogitat;ns over.
Tho Police Department Fire Department. fact,
all the departments, ts,-sufered sensible reductions
not many months ago, and still the work done by
them b hay been &c grea5et and ot better quality than
did not know whether or not any addition
would be asked for the, police force:
It could be demonstEated that the police work Of
the city was as we'll done now as 1t would be we're
there more men to do it, OF course no addition
would be asked One feet in connection with po-
ss ese will Waeb she BE 1nSh III
for considerations: that is, the inEdeguacy OF the
amount Of money allowed for the pursuit. and cap
members Of the police force sent out to pursue
criminals have been obliged when on the point Of
capture to give up the chase and beg their wxy
home, having exhausted the small amount Of
money with which they aet cut. The Fire Depart
ment, judging by its work, has suffered not at all
by the reduction, but the men individually have
suffered. On two occasions, once come weeks ago
and again last night, the eugine- houses,
left entirely unprotected, have been ransacked
aud the men robbed OF what they had been obliged
to leave behind them. This state OF Affairs ia due
to the absence of the wxtchn1en, n1l such having
been dispensed with at the time Of the general re-
duction. When the gong sounds for fire, there is
no time to lock up those articles that may be lying
about, and tue houses are open TO any one who
chooses to enter; the fires in the stoves might set
fire to the building; any accident might happen,
and there would be no one to correct it. What is
wanted is q watchmau for each engine e-house,-nota
worn-out, decrepit old individual. but an active
young man to learn the drcman's business and
make himself useful. Perhaps he might, after
learning the trade, be detained for attendance at
one Of the theatres il the plan OF statoning IRE
man in each ut the time Of the performance should
be adopted.
Health Commissioner Wright in speaking Of
what he thought should be done In the way OF I'M
proving his Department, said that he should like
one man for each OF the wards and tho reletting
after March Of the contract for the scaycnger
wo:k Of thA city. The expenses thus incurred
would be greater than they at present for such
services, but by reduction In other ways the gen
eral expenses OF the Department wonld be d:a1in-
ished from what they have been Of late. The other
departments are busy making ont their estimatea,
but hare not yet got far enough to know exactly
what will be wanted.