The evening world., 1893-12-19
WHO GETS IT, Then?
Barney Dumping-B Boat Company's
Dividend Hardly One Per Cent.
Yet the City Pays Twice as Much
as Formerly for Its Work.
{ Costs New York $24 for a Scow
That Boston Gets for $12.

No"Ss
Boston pays only $3.50 a day for the
same kin of scow.
This is a difference of sl2 a day for
each scow. In other words. New York
pays twice as much as Boston.
The only excuse given for this aston
ishing difference in price lies in the fact
that Boston pays for the repairing of
her rented scows and New York doesn't.
The Boston people may run things
differently than We do here, and 'div-
vies'' may be unknown in the city Of
baked beans.
Fol years the Street, Cleaning De-
partment has been a burden upon the
taxpayers of this metropolis a regular
white elephant. as 1t were.
People have never known why It has
required such large sums of money to
run the Department each year-and the
amount has Increased every year-while
there have been no adequate returns
for the big money invested by the tax
payers.
But dividends are not for the people
only for the bosses.
The readers of The Evening World"
are having their eyes opened, and
through the columns of this newspaper
are beginning to discover how they
and other Taxpayers in this city have
been made the victims of numerous pri-
vate deals. schemes, combines, contracts
and " divvies."
The record thus far given in "The
Eyening World" Is simply scandalous.
two years in the purchase of T' asbca la
horses. $4,000 wasted in the purchase Of
horse, feed n $1,000 wasted in the
rentai OF dumping-scows. it is easy, at
ms stage OF the game, to see. upon the
surface at least. where the money goes.
The Final Disposition" Department
or the Street-Cleaning Bureau Is a most
the Comptroller's office show that in ad-
dition to the $3.50. 900 paid to the Barney
D~umping-Boat Company for the use Of
riod Or t fourteen vsar seows duri. ,.S "a g pc
year has also been paid to other parties
Tor the rental of scows, and that about
sie,ooo each year has been paid out by the
swells the record for the use and abuse
of .scows to about $40. 600 in two years.
An "Eyening World" reporter called
~ Roa inc co o1hee or th aso Barney Dumping
day. The stockholders of the Company
are Woodbury. Langdon, Thomas j. Da-
Yis; RICHARD w. Bogert. Walter Stanton,
Mr.. WINS, who is secretary and mana
ger OF the company, said:
the city Of aost oDAf for a ,l2.5 eeP per day ayt fo ap
a boat. 1t is not fair to make a
comparison between the price paid by
for the use of our scows, because in
Boston we do not pay for any repairs
Here in New York, however. we nav
for repairs and supplies as well as fur
nlshing the men to run the boats.
Then there are other expenses such
as insurance, office rent, clerk hire.
of the $24.53 a day We receive for the use
Of each of our scows.
we nave made no money at the bust
years we have not averaged one per cent.
In dividends. / think our dividends for
the eleven years amounts to S1-2 per
The reader will be p~ardoned for Won
dering who got the dividends IL the
Company didn't. since the city now pays
~ a day for a scow that a few years ago
N more scows are used now than
then. vet The total cost has doubled. If
TIE Company didn't get a dividend from
For the first four years" continued
Mr.. WINS, 1--WE lost money on our work
for the city at $40 or sl2 a day for COWS.
n mone Sow we we io sfe t Wa S.v !e g na e esoh the
and our boats are hired from day to day
by. the Street-Cleaning Commissioner,
About four years ago We commenced
making a small profit on our work for
the city, and in order to get even on
our Losses we raised our prices a year
ago s. a day on each boat in use.
wv are now doing the work for the
city cheaper than 1t was ever done be-
fore. Why, our work Is worth all of
ss a day for each of our boats in use.
"Under the old 1at-boat system It
cost the city mucn more to carry its re-
fuse and ashes out to sea than under the
present system"
AS the rental of scows Is the most
important item Of expense in the final
disposition" branch of the Street-Clean-
ms Department, a comparison of
amounts spent in different years will
be highly interesting:
Following was the cost of the Final
Disposition" Department for 1889. 1890,
1891 and 1892: