The evening world., 1893-12-19
WHO GETS IT, then?
Barney Dumping-Bo 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.

New 1OTk phyb s<f'oo n uay aeisoi "
du~mping-scows.
Boston pays only $3.50 a day for the
same kind of scow.
This is a difference of $12 a day for
each scow. In other words, New York
pays twice as much as Boston.
The only excuse given for this aston
ishins 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.
For 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 y%ear-and the
amount has increased every year-while
there have been no adequate returns
for the big money invested by the tax
payers.
Blu dividends are not for the people
only for the bosses.
The readers of 1.-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 1.-THE
Evening, World Is simply scandalous.
With $4,000 of public money wasted in
two years In the purchase of ashcart
horses, $4,000 wasted In the purchase OF
horse. feed. and 100000 wasted in the
this stage OF the game, to see, upon the
surface at least, where the money goes.
The Final Disposition" Department
remarkable institution. The records al
the Comptroller's office show that in ad
dition to the $780, 900 paid to the Barne,
p tWeIya g. fnurt Company psoys for 5u the use s n Of
riod Of two years, some $50, 900 9
year has also been paid to other parties
for the rental Of scows, and that abou'
4 1000 each year has been paid out by tn,
city, for the repairing. OF scows. Thi!
of scowst to about .27o, 900 in two years:
at the office Of the Barney Dumping
!, Boat Company, at 3l9 Broadway. yester
day. The stockholders Of the Compan,
; Wis. Richard W. Bogert, Walter Stanton
, J; 3; n. Grosvenor. Ralph L. Cutter ant
: d: c. Wins.
2 MT. lNlnS, VINO ID secretary ana mana
ger of the Company, said:
. Two OF our boats are rented out t.
each boat. It is not fair to make ,
Boston and the price paid by New Yori
for the use of our scows, because II
Boston we do not a for n repair
Here in New York, however. we pa!
for. repairs and supplies as well as fur
3 nishing the men to run the boats.
as Insurance, office rent. clerk hire
: taxes. &C., all of which must come gu
of the .s24.63 a day we receive for the US
OF each of our scows.
ness anyway, n for the past clever
, years we have not averaged one per cent
: IN dividends. I think our dividends 70
the eleven years amounts to IL pc
cent"
The reader will be pardoned for won
; dering who, got the dividends IL tn
v S4 a day for a scow that a few years ag
cost $40 or Sl2.
e No more scows are used now tina,
= then. vet The total cost has doubled. l
the Company didn't get a dividend fror
G this gigantic increase, who did?
For the first four years." continue
. for the city at $40 or sl2 a day for scows
and cow we are trying to get back tn
$ and S our boats are hired from day to da
u ~ hAS
About -four years ago we commence
making a small profit on our work 70
the city, n in order to get even O
our losges we raised our prices a yea
ago IS a day on each boat in use.
j, w are now doing the work for tn
u city cheaper thai 1t was ever done be
fore. Why, our work is worth all G
S35 a day for each of our boats In use.
d Under the old fat-boat system
l. cost the city mucn more to carry It's re
' fuse and ashes out to sea than under tn
present system"
n. As the rental Of scows Is the mos
lie important item of expense in the "fns
disposition" hranch Of the Street-Clear
ing Department.. a comparison c
le amounts spent In different years W.
ID be highly interesting:
& Following was the cost Of the "Fini
Disposition" Department for 1889. lS9
s; 1891 and 1892:
4 1905. .$kio, foSl
" 1857. ...........ss... lto, loIr
1881 ............. 40, 40.
1879 ........... o3z,Uio.
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