New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-30
LARGE ESTIMATES CUT DOWN
WORK OF THE BOARD OF kPPoRTIoNMENr
TIE HEALTH BOARDS DEMANDS REDUCED-PRAIs-


ING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Tic BOARD of Estimate Yesterday continued IT'S
consideration Of the estimates submltte1 py sHe
variOus departments bureaus ana courts loi me-.
Most Of the provisional WORK Is nov bors 70
is disposition the part of all the me loGIS ~
keep the amounts allowed down 10 the 49,
figures consistent with the efficiency Oh tHG Of
ments General Shaer submitted the esvin, ,t ~
the Health Department. For 1850 the amount ar
loved was $i60,75s. of which 800; was ZOE
contingent expenses in case OF the advent Oh
cHoleTa This was not spent, leaving the appro-
prlation for the ordinary expenses OF s1e e. S
ment $4l973S For IooG tOtal Oh r'Io 10
President Coleman-What is needed Is more practical
work and less theory. believe that your department.
can s1 mat such amounts are asked for this depart
men In you asked for S74O799 and IN 1885 over
$500, 600,
General Shalor replied that the Department had
only keOt pace in its expenditures with the growth
of the city, For the item of salaries S22l 100 Was Was
asked. President Coleman salq da' t 3aoo sum
he appropriated. President Sanger SAID that
be would not favor 80 large a redactdo4t'
Ibo Mavor concurrcd in this but said he
was not willing TO allow the department. lie S 0nn
he allowed for salaries, not including the salarltis
of The twenty additional SANITARY inspectors az
lowed by law. Ibis was passed by TIE votes on
Tho Mayor and President Sanger President CoIy-
man voting against il: rhcn $4,000 was a.
invcI far the additional Sanitary Inspectors. Ih9
following items were then agreed to
EOr
&c 600 payment OF thirty policemen, $4,000; remoT;
ing night soil and of $4,000; hospital supple am
brother Island. and other buildings ara repairs 9loooo;
total $3l1 800.
,oc,t were taken up. President French and Com
,nisslouers McClaYe and NO3rhls explained the
items asked fer. They had reduced ssy-
eTsl of these including the amount asked Tor ccrk
hire as compared with last year. Prosideat fIcAch
explained that during last year htty-tliIe9 patIol-
- lrl fpr
tion for $50, and twonty-elght BE- the saving IL
lost time etc, of the active fcrc3. Inc ponce
force now consists Of 2,GiS soTgeaats ana pitI3l-
mon There Is now only detailed ot1cer; lie
is at the Chinese Mission. and un@erstanus tH3
language The officers in uniform at BANKS uuet
ca,uranies lite Insurance c".upallCS, etc' are
maid Inv those institutions and are not carried on
fhe rolls of the force. Commissioner oerhls slld
that he would furnish detailed statements Oh thc
en"5itIon of the police stations Many Of them are
i'm very bad state of repair. FOrthlS te. SjO,Voo
was asked. The COlnm ssiOners asked for the 1oI-
Salaries OF Commissioners and force, So 7o? 792 lO
Salaries clerical force S3392O salaries tS!TSF 59
alterations in stations $4,000 expenses GeieES 50
and contingent expenses sI3o2o; eonsirpe1o" ci
$5,l0O; total S39l3,oI9.
President French nlale a strong appeal Tor one
hundred additional paroim ID, on ,V ofo Eo CIV
they were needed in the uppT part OF tEe cry.
This would call for 100000, the new men beng
paid$1 900 each. Finally after dlscussloR bWe, n
live new nan were allowed. The sum OF 9ZOUVV
was also allowed for twenty patrj!mch during 'ue
inSDth OF probation that each nan has to r gc
through after he is appointed on the f2rce. IIe
iSnard complimented tho Police ConmI5-
soncrs their evident d c@T1 to rot G ao%
the faiI amount asked for. Tho fetal reductions
were $50 900, and of this $4,000 was for for the inc
seyenty-five additional p licemen ana @2,fUo IoI
rents. commissioner WORMS sand that he wiSn-9
TO saw that whenever friends had accompanied
them ON the police boat Patrol the refreshments
had been paid for by the Police COmmlssl4nerS
For the Finance Department Controller LoG3W
anno,,nced that lac would ask for the same ms The
present year. with the exception of $4,000 aGdlII
tional for cleaning tho markets. The amount aSheu
for was $266. 800 and it was allowed.
The Controller called attention 10 the TACT ma,
commissioners of the new Harlem Bridge ordered
10 he constructed by the last Legislature lad made
a reauisiion on the Board for Sl.0OO;O3O and TINS
must be borrowed. The members looked bre oyer oyer
fine announcements IL was finally suggested That
n would he better 10 pass II for the present.
The estimates Tor the Bureau OF ElectlOni me
various civil aud criminal courts and the charlt
able institutions all of which are fixed by lay,
were passed upon. The District Atiorncy, ShenG
County CLERK and Register were told TO appear TINS
morning at II O'CLOCK