The evening world., 1893-12-19
Barney Dumping-Boa 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.

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.
For years the STRENGTHENING De-
partment has been a burden upon the
taxpayers OF this metropolis a regular
white elephant, as 1t were.
People have never known why II has
required such large sums of money to
run the Department each year-and the
amount has increased every ~year-while
there have been M adequate returns
for the big money invested by the az
payers.
But 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 q divvieS."
The record thus far given in 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 800, 900 wasted in the
this stage of the game, to see, upon the
surface at least, where the money goes.
The Final Disposition Department
Of the et-Cleaning Bureau is a most
the Comptroller's office show that in adj
dition to the $4,000 paid to the Barney
D~umping-Boat Company for the use OF
twelve OF fourteen scows during a pc
riod Of two years, some $4,000 a
year has also been paid to other parties
for the rental of scows, and that about
city for the repairing of scows. This
swells the record for the use and abuse
of scows to about s27o, 900 in two years.
An Evening World" reporter called
Boat Company, at 3l9 Broadway. yester-
day. The stockholders of the Company
are Woodbury. Langdon. Thomas j.. Da-
Wis, Richard w. Bogert, Walter Stanton,
d. G. WINS.
Mr.. WINS, who is secretary and mana-
ger of the Company. said:
TWO Of our boats are rented out to
each boat. 1t is not fair TO make a
comparison between the price paid by
Boston and the price paid by New York
for the use of our scows. because in
Boston we do not pay for any repairs
or supplies.
Here In New York. however, we pay
for repairs and supplies as well as fur.
nishing the men to run the boats.
Then there are other expenses such
as insurance, office rent. clerk hire,
taxes. &c, all of which must come out
of the s24.5S a day we receive for the use
of each of our scows.
w have made no money at the bust.
ness anyway. and for the past eleven
years we nave not averaged one per cent
in dividends. | think our dividends for
the eleven years amounts to Sl-2 pei
The reader Will be pardoned for won.
derlng who got the dividends II the
Company didn't, since the city now pays
ga a day for a scow that a few years age
cost SO or ST..
No more scows are used now thar
then, vet the total cost has doubled. Il
the Company didn't get a dividend from
this gigantic increase, who did?
For the first four years" continued
Mr.. WINS. I'VE lost money on our worl
fol-, the city at $40 or sl2 a day for scows
and row we are trying to get back tn
and our boats are hired from day to da!
by the STRENGTHENING Commissioner.
About four years ago We commenced
making a small profit on our work TO
the city, and in order to get even OF
our losses we raised our prices "a yea
< s. "a day on each boat in use.
, I'VE are now doing the work for tn,
l city cheaper Ii 1t was ever lone be
fore. Why. our work Is. worth all o
S35 a day for each of our boats in use.
4 Under the old flat-boat system 1
: cost the city mucn more TO carry its re
fuse and ashes out to sea thar under tn
: present system"
As the rental OF scows Is the mos
G important item of expense In the 'ina
DID,. disposition branch of the Street-Clean
ing Department, a comparison O
e amounts spent in different wears vii
d be highly interesting:
Following was the cost Of the "Fina
Disposition Department for 1889. 1891
1891 ana 1892:
d ,ssa so,s AGO 4
s9n 10 20
iSsl 37S'' IA