The evening world., 1893-12-18
DEAL OF ALL.
100000 Of City Money Wasted
on Dumping scows.
This SweIls 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 expehdi-
turo of public money.
1.-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 $1,000
expenditure for horse feed, during the
two years administration OF Thomas >.
Brennan, STRENGTHENING Commissioned
from Sert. II. 1891. to July %, 1899.
The whitewashing investigation Of the
charges Of extravaganza in the horse
deal has not been followed by an in
v~estigation by the Commissioners OF Ac-
counts into the si19. 900 deal in horse
feed, and there is no likelihood that 1t
will be.
In reality the ~farcical Investigation
held by owen and 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 "The
Evening World" has discovered other
extravagances and wasteful expendi-
lures of money in the STRENGTHENING
Department during the Brennan admin
~istration.
The citizens and taxpayers OF New
!. York who are compelled to pay each
year ar enormous revenue for street
cleaning purposes, over two millions Of
dollars being appropriated annually. Will
be interested to learn that thousands of
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disposition department of the city
STRENGTHENING Department.
For upward OF ten or twelve years
the Street-Cleaning Department, not
owning ash and garbage scows OF It's
own, has been hiring or renting. these
fiatboats or scows from the firm known
as the Barney Dumping-Boat Company,
OF $40 Broadway.
the use of the Barney Company's scows,
and the cost of propelling them and the
cost Of loading and unloading them is
betrayed In other ways, and the money
paid to other contractors.
In 1889, before Big Tom" Brennan be-
came connected with the Strcct-Clean.
i Z soo Department. nsr moetb f sne the cry use pn of e aS%H,
scows. Each scow cost per day about
Soon after Brennan assumed his office
In 1891 his cost was Increased to about
$500 per month, for the use OF fourteen
scows. each scow costing about $40 per
day.
On the LIST of January. 1899, during
Brennan's administration, this cost was
further increased to about $1,000 peg
month for the use of twelve scows,
Each scow cost about SO per day,
During the last month that Brennan
oficiated as City STRENGTHENING Com
missioner. the cost to the city for thu
rental or use of twe.ve scows was ovei
$500 per month; each scow costing s.
per day.
Here is a record which Will doubtless
astonish even the gentlemen who have
been so busily engaged in mixing white
wash and spreading It over the street
= Cleaning Department.
The books and records OF the Frs
Auditor of Accounts IN the Comptroller,
Office tell the story In plain figures.
In lSs9-Elevon scows did the work fol
about $500 per month.
In lSSo-T'hirtsGn scows did the work foI
about 1900 per month.
In lS9i-Fourtean SCows did the work 70
about 81, en0 per month.
In l~SS2-Fourteon sCows did the work 70
about 81. 800 per month.
In lS93-Twclvp sCows did the work 70
about $500 per month.
The actual amounts in cash paid 4
the Barney Dumping Boat Company, 70
the use only of n dozen .scows uurini
~. Brennan's administration, was II
follows: