Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-24

Grand List ana hata Bill 900 oo Hospitals 5.494 55 Interest including interest on bondS 6,59s l5 Legal Expenses 76 30 Military Enrol ment 3l5 GO Outside Poor 15,140 Sj Police Court 452 13 Roads Under Conr ract 2.qf9 01 Roads not rndrr Contract 9,9tS 66 Registrar Births, NJ. and Deaths 1,167 o3 Selectmen 2,l50 OO Serving Liquor N ticos 80 75 State Communication Tax 15,487 10 School Districts 4,107 30 Selectmen and Town Clerks Offices S77 69 Town Clerks Salary 800 % Town Trcasurer's Salary 300 co Town Physirians salary Gil co Town Auditors Salary 30 co Watering Troughs e4 OO *Miscellaneous Account 1,061 So
 Total Ss5, ,ss9 B
 The cash credits and outstanding bills October 1, 1887 ,amourted to $5, 3S and S10, ,044.38 respectively, leaving the actual expenses from October l. 1887, to October 1, 1888, $69, ,592.77.
 Under the head of remarks the selectmen put recapitulation of their work, which covers the whole ground We put the re- marks in their original form:
 ALMsHoUsE-We have been obliged during the year to purchase quite quantity of farming tools and make necessary repairs on house, etc. The gross amount of cash orders drawn during the year was SS, ,sS1.4S. This amount includes the sum of $1 ,433 SS outstanding from last year. Our cash credits received up to the time of closing the books amount to S1 ,SS4. O2; by deducting the outstanding and cash from the gross amount of orders drawn, we find that our net or actual expense for the town farm and almshouse for year just endingamounts to s, 469.5 .5S. We are also pleased to say, in connection with above, that all bills against this depart
 ment have been paid, excepting the actual necessaries for September. We do not be- | leve such bills will reach the amount of l S2O0; and further, with regard to the cred | it's here reported you will notice We have not given any credit to the-alms house for work performed on the highways as has been the custom of former years. The amount of time reported is a little more than formerly, but as this has been habit ually credited to the farm, amounting to | anywhere from $1 300 to &, ,000, but never chargetlto the roads not under contract, we know ot no good reason why it should be | so credited. We conclude, therefore, to make no deductions from the account, excepting l the outstanding bills Chose contracted prior to October 1, 199O, and the actual cash re- ! ceived. That the people may form q fair | idea how and for what this money is eX- pended, we herewith make a rough con | solidation of the amounts: Meat bills $1,- l ~@tC-Jo OIeat'l biilS, tO1o. SIoSCllCS feed bills, S1 ,359. 65; clothing and boots and shoes, IA; dry goods and bedding etc, S336 S6; hardware, farm tools, moving machines, road tools, etc. ,$269. r; druggists bills, including tobacco, paints, glass, etc, $S60S Sundry other bills, including re- pairs on buildings, inside and out, coal, l insurance, plumbers bills, salary of keeper and farm hand, manure, etc, etc, g, 3S2.
 13. The expense for the previous year, as per report, was g, 590 .45; to this add the outstanding as above reported (and which 1 is printed in detaiD the actual expense for year ending October 1, 1887, would be 1 S9.024 33
 OUTSIDE PooR-During the year we have drawn cash orders for this depart Ment amounting in gross S15, ,O72.49, and | in this amount, as ill the almShouSe ac- count, are also included the outstanding bills due the first of last October and paid | by us this year, amounting to S2, 6S0. 76. Our cash credits amount to $91O91, leaving our net expenses for this account during the year at $11 ,4S0.S2. In the above amount is included everything possible to be found in the way of bills. All outside poor rents, grocery orders or bills of all kinds are paid in full to September 30
 Therefore at the commencement of the ap- ! preaching year we cannot see where it will | be possible to have more than from one 1 hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars outstanding against this account, and this we estimate for orders which we may be obliged to draw during the coming two weeks. For last year this account was re- ported at SIP, ,473.97. This together with the outstanding, amounting to S2,6S0. 76, makes the actual expense S10, 154 73. Gro cery and provision bills, S5,596.91; rents, $3, ,466. 5G; fuel, S1 ,364.S0 funeral eXpen- | S1d~. nlofoino hnnfS and Shnac road fares, passage tickets, monthly allow ances (some families getting a specified allowance once a month). Paid to outside towns for support of the poor who drift about the state and yet remain chargeable to this town, $4, 397 .16. We find the num- Der of people looking for said assistance to | be increasing to quite an extent, and with this increase and the multiplicity of causes offered by the applicants and the conse- quent amount of investigation necessary, 1 it practically consumes all of one mans time for this department alone. In the | judgment of this board this is subject which in the near future must claim more attention and more space in the annual report. The town has been obliged during the year to bury fifty persons-forty from the list of outside poor and ten from the almshouse We have assisted during the year, in our account of outside poor 1 2S2 families, representing some 6O0 persons ROADS Nor UNDER CoNTRACT.-October 1, 1887, showed this account as costing
 net, SIP, ,473.97. The outstanding pre- scented and paid amounted to $1, ,166.33, thereby increasing the amount to S13, ,640.- 30. For the year just ending we have drawn cash orders in gross to the amount of S9, 94S.66, from this amount deduct the outstanding as above reported and the cash credit of S5S7.45 (the latter being princi- pally reimbursements from the Meriden railroad, for work done by the town on roads which they had injured and which
 we preferred to repair ourselves and charge the expense to them) and we find our net expenses for the year just closing to be l $S, ,154 S9. With this account we have the misfortune of a very large expense on Sunnyside avenue. This is the road which probably most all the towns people remem- Der was discussed during the spring months to some extent in the daily press. About one hundred feet of said highway dropped out of sight during the early October rains It was immediately put in order again, hut soon after was found to he in the old