The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-16
CITY FINANCIERS MEET.
EsTIMATED ExPENsEs FOR NEXT
 YEAR WERE CoNSIDERED.

Health and Road mmisaioncrs and Li-
 brary Directors Present Their Claims fox
 Increased proprIations : M unicipsi Gsrs
 bage Plant Wanted.
 At the meeting of the board of finance last evening for the purpose of consld- ering estimates for the next fiscal year hearings were given to the representa- lives of the board of health. board of public works. and the directors of the free public library. The latter was reps resented by J. Rice winchell and Sam. uel R. Avis. the health department by Commissioners Manning, Fleischner and Blake, and the board of public works by Commissioners States and Brown, Superintendent Doyle and City Engineer Kelly.
 The health commissioners set forth their various claims and especially urged establishment of a municipal gar. bage plant. In reference to this subject Commissioners Manning and Fleischs ner stated that the present system of collecting garbage was very inefficient- Ten thousand dollars Is needed for q permanent plant. and 5000 for current expenses. The present system of feeding the garbage to pigs. 1t was claimed, was unhealthy and barbarous. Boston has already forbidden such disposal of gar. bage as danger to the health of the public. The present system, it was claimed, was worse than useless and the establishment of a municipal plant would do away with all such trouble in the future. Commissioner Blake ex- plained at length the other needs of the department. J. Rice Winchen asked for $12,O for the free public library for the next fiscal year. He stated that in 1899 the depart. ment received an appropriation of $l0,. 0O0, while the running expenses were 312,47O. In 1893 the appropriation was $lO,0O0 and the expenses 311,473. This deficit was made up by the sale of 5. .0b0 catalogues. In 1894 the expenditure wss $l6,S2S, the extra expense being necess sary in consequence of the alterations to the building.
 The road department come next and Commissioner States acted as spoken. AA1As AAAo ucpdIIIuGuC ASkS TOT $bU,O for new bridge at the Chapel street railroad crossing and 1000 for & new bridge over the Quinnipiac river, All these were urged as absolutely neces- sary to the public safety. The depart- mont also asks for an appropriation of 900 for general street repairing and ordinary labor.
 In reference to these items Commits sioner States said: we need every cent of that amount. Last winter we spent $12,000 alone for shoveling snow. We cannot afford to be financially cramped in reference to the care of streets, as we have been in the past" Commission CT States also made a strong plea for the granting of the petition of the board of health for the establishment of mu- nicipal garbage plant, and said that in his opinion the amount asked for was very low, and the request should be granted in the interest of the public health.
 The city f1nanciers took no action in the matter other than to generally dis cuss the claims made by the represen, tatives of the several departments. Shortly after il o'clock the meeting ad. journed until 7:3O o'clock this evening. when the claims of the police and fire departments will be, considered. r