The evening world., 1893-12-18
WORST DEAL OF ALL.
100000 Of City Money Wasted
on Dumping soows.
This SWeIIs the Total for Two Years
to Nearly $500, 600.
startling Facts About the Street.
Cleaning Department.

The deeper one digs into the records
of the Street-Cleaning Department OF
New York, the more astonishing appears
the extravaganza which has prevailed
In that department, and the more waste
full appears to have been the expendi-
turc of public money.
THE Evening World has already
proven an absolute waste of nearly So
900 in the purchase of ash-cart horses,
and an undue extravaganza of $4,000
expenditure for horse feed. during the
two years administration of Thomas s.
Brennan. STRENGTHENING Commissioner
from Sert. II, 1891. TO July %. 1895.
The whitewashing investigation OF the
charges of extravaganza in the horse
deal has not been followed by an in
v~estigatlon by the Commissioners Of Ac-
counts into the sis, 900 deal in horse
feed, and there is no likelihood that II
will be.
In reality the farcical investigation
held by owen md Wahle. Commissioners
of Accounts. into the method of buying
ash-cart horses was the veriest bluff"
There is abundance of material at
hand for further Investigations, as 1.-The
Evening World" has discovered other
"iA
lures of money in the Strcet-Clcaning
Department during the Brennan admin
istratior.
The citizens and taxpayers OF New
York who are compelled to pay each
year an enormous revenue for street
cleaning purposes, over two millions of
dollars being appropriated annually. VIII
be Interested to learn TINT thousands OF
dollars have been wasted In the final
disposition department of the city
STRENGTHENING Department.
For upward of ten or twelve years
the Street-Cleaning Department. not
owning ash and garbnge scows of Its
flatboats or scows from the firm known
as the Barney Dumping-Boat Company.
of 39 broadway.
The city OF New York pays simply for
the use of the Barney compnny's scows,
and the cost of propelling them and the
cost of loading and unloading them Is
betrayed In other avs, and the money
paid to other contractors.
In 1859, before big Tom" Brennan be-
came connected with the Strect-Clcan.
ing Department the city pai9 aoou,
scows. Each scow cost per day about
SO.
Soon after Brennan assumed his office
in 1891 this cost was increased to about
$500 per month, for the use OF fourteen
scows, each scow costing about SIC per
day.
On the lst OF January, 1893, during
Brennan's administration, this cost was
further increased to about $1,000 per
month for the use OF twelve scows.
Each scow cost about $40 per day.
During the last month that Brennan
oficiated as City Street, Cleaning Com,
missioner, the cost to the city for the
rental or use of twelve scows was over
$500 per month; each scow costing 81
per day.
Here is a record which will doubtless
astonish ever the gentlemen VINO nave
been so busily engaged in mixing white
wash and spreading II over the street
Cleaning Department.
The books and records OF the First
Auditor of Accounts, in the comptroller's
Office tell the story In plain figures,
In lSS9-Eleven scows did the work FOL
about $1,000 per month.
In 1S90-Thirteen scows did the work FOL
about A.300 per month.
In 1S9t-Fourteen scoWSd did the work FOL
about SO. 200 per month.
In lSa2-Fourtcen sCuws did the work fol
about $500 per month.
In lS93-Twelvc scoWS lil the work 70
about $500 per month.
The actual amounts In Cnsh paid q
the Barney Dumping l!oat Company, 70
the use only Of II dozen ScOwH uurinl
BrcnnGn'a administration, was n