The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-15
CITY MATTERS.
A Sinking Fund and Healthy Financial
Prospects.
A Newly Invented water Lifting APP
paratus in Connection with the
Tangipahoa River water
works.

The report OF Mr.. McCaffrey, Admin
istrator Of Improvements, made to the
Council, shows what a little money,
judiciously expended, can accomplish.
The cleaning cut Of the Claiborne
drainage canal, from Elysian Fields
street to Orleans street, a distance OF o
mile. for the sum OF $3.50, is an evil
dence Of this. Referring to the expense
In Mr.. McCaffrey's department OF
$4,000 above the pro rata. OF the
months Of January and February,
no alarm should be created. This ex-
penditure was incurred principally for
material which Is to be used during the
remainder OF the year. At all events,
the Legislature has already provided
FOR THU RELIEF
Of the city to handsome extent. The
budget for the current year had hxea
the expenses OF the Metropolitan poliee
at $499, 900. The new police law, just
enacted, limits this expense at $325, 900,
attending a relief in this direction OF
$174, 900.
The acts relative to the cost OF crimt-
nal proceedings In the city further de-
creases the estimate In the budget Tor
that branch of the civil service fully
800, 900, and the education bill will re-
lieve the budget still further, say $48.-
75s, the difference between $273, 75o, The
estimated cost of running the schools,
and 1926, 900, the limit Of the cost OF the
schools per annum as provided Tor IN
the school bill.
This makes already grand total OF
$252,75o
RCoNoMIZED TO THE CITY.
or this sum 1t is proposed that $3.50. GOO
shall 60 to a sinking fund, to be created
for the purpose of meeting the annual
deficiencies In the collection OF taxes
and licenses, and other purposes. :,
The remaining sum OF $52,7 shall
60 to aid the various bureaus In meet
ing their obligations. The Department
of improvements, which will receive the
greatest share, will therefore be ena-
bled in a measure to put the thorough
fares and squares OF the city in con-
dition to please the eye as well as 10 en-
sure cleanliness and health. -
1t seems to be the intention OF the
Council, under the new law, to estab-
lish q police force OF from four hundred
and fifty to five hundred men OF all
grades, and including the door men and
ushers and process-servers OF the NUM-
cipal courts, or q number equivalent TO
the force in 1865, which had then only
the first four Districts Of the city to
guard. Taking the first figure for the
number OF patrolmen, at fifty dollars
q month,
IN CASH,
the cost would be annually $270,0oo,
which will leave $50, 900, q good margin,
for the pay of superior officers, detect
ives and the expenses OF the Police
Board and the cost OF operating the po-
lice and ere alarm telegraph.
pxy he ~ will n
fer to the Waterworks matter, which Is
one az the greatest Importance to every
individual member Of this community.
The House bill now before the Senate
for concurrence, we are reliably IN.
formed, not only meets the approval OF
the Board OF Underwriters OF this city,
but will receive the material aid OF our
fire Insurance. companies. The Iangi-
pahoa river scheme seems also to be the
favorite, and there Is probability that
it will be adopted.
NEW INVENTION,
q lifting pump, or great power
and cheap in its cost and operation, 10
said to have been made which will
greatly cheaper the construction OF the
new waterworks. AS originally pro-
require between sixty and eighty miles
of piping to reach the Tangipahoa river
at point, the Gle gation OF which would
send the water to the upper stories OF our
buildings. The new invention, 1t is
claimed, reduces the length Of piping
to be laid to thirty miles, where, with
the aid Of the new invention, it will be
pumped into reservoir OF sufficient
elevation to meet the desired end, a full
supply OF pure clear water and that
will reach the upper stories Of our
highest residences.