The sun., 1895-05-28
EXPENSIVE COL. WARING.
5000, 600 WOULD BE HIS SHORTAGE
ron 1898 At THIS RATE.


mn. re Says ne Can Keep It Down &c
100000 By Reducing the Force ans
Keopi.g the city Less Clean, but Toiern'
bly, Clean The eseO n Year May He Cut
The committee Of the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment appointed to- Investigate the
prospective shortage of money In the Street
Cleaning Department met In secret yesterday to
consider tho statement prepared by Auditor
Lyon OF the Finance Department Col. Waring
was called in and consulted, and Mayor Strong
sent over the report OF Commissioner OF Ac-
counts Terry. who had made separate investi-
cation. AT the close Of the committees meet
ing the following statement was made public:
hookkeepors OF the Finance Department shows
that II the average monthly cost of admnister-
Whole year is ommensurate with the average
monthly cost for the first four months OF the
year and the arst eighteen days Of MAY oe1s%d snn
and Ice which can bo met by the issue OF bonds)
there would be M in hs
and am IL Ice s apto May has been sies 900 IN addi-
pose pose in the Anal estimate. and the estimsted
cost Of new plant for the year will be Sl32.
ciuded in the annual estimate. In response TO an
inquiry from the committee as to what could be
the The Of sas
sented the following letter:
Hon. John Jsrolonan; Chairman. ,,.. ,.,, =. ..
the % prospscts FOR further money and the actual
s
ess and drivers e 200 from now until the end St
the Board liz s
MAJ ." Commssionsr Of Str eet Cleaning.
Tho Auditors statement shows that of the
$2,3D8000 appropriated there has been ex:
aSy e Tho e esvns
70 carry the department through the balance OF
August September. October, November. and
December. about seven months and 2 half, tho
Of s sr sS Sssncs o
year are 81 ,ssa $1,000, leaving a deficiency for
the year at this rate Of Ssl0, 0,9D3os.
or this amount $l64, 900 has been due to the
Increase of salaries for the year In sweeping. and
$4,000 Is due to increase Of salaries in carting.
ence between 5000 per year and S7"o is SEAL
warrant of law for the Issue Of bonds for. tho
eb sum OF eaynS to be provided for from
This latter sum viii be further reduced by
credits from redemptions and sales in the sum
S Of the sf ssl0
Is no appropriation and no authority to issue
bonds; %S,. T.. - ,s,,.,,n - a.. 10. -, ,..-oou
seventy and eighty thousand dollars a year by
the transfer or the payments for trimming soows
from the city treasury to Walton & Co.
Tho committee asked Corporation Counsel
Scott for an opinion as to the power of the
Board of Estimate to alter the pay of employees
during the current year. 1t then adjourned to
Friday next The Board was authorized last
year to fI the pay of the employees Of the Street
$720 year. or about $3.50 a day. At that time
the rate was $500 year, and tho Board prompt
ly raised II to the limit. The present rate of
Col WArinp Ia nearly don la
ket price for labor OF the kind.
Col. Waring declined TO discuss the statement
made by the committee until 1t should have
and Apportionment. One of the Commissioners
friends said:
The findings Of the committee constitute a
vindicaton Of Col Warnings statements. Several
that the estimated deficit would be about $780,
600. In his letter to the Board Of Estimate and
Apporttonment he said 1t would be about $780,
between his two estimates made at different
dates. There seems to be Misrepresentation in
some quarters regarding tho deficit, There
N ment Shows SHOWS That that the 1' Commissionsr es s'e has
10000 Of tho original appropriation. State
ments have been freely made that he had al
ready II Others to think that
kind. He informed the Board that at the rate
Of expenditure for the first five and half
months deficit would exist. He left 1t to the
or the outlay for labor diminished. II is evil
IDENTIFY intended by the committee. which has
all along been considered hostile to Col. Waring.
tail: He has never denied that his arrangement
with Walton & Co. would entail a temporary
loss of revenue to the city. but he believes that
the e1pes5imsnt .s is worth the cost and that the
revenue from the disposal Of rubbish than it
ever has in past years."