The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-14

time after the bill was paid On Sep
TENDER 3 Mr.. Scott was again allowed
50 for towels for August. Mr. Scott
has drawn $35 for towels.
There are the following offices sbn the
county side: County recorder, county
collector, county clerk, county select
men, Euperintendens of schools,
county attorney, six in all. The county
attorneys office is never supplied with
more than one or two towels per week
but call it three. An average of three
towels per week is a fair one according
to the statements of the officials That
makes Is per week, or 70 per month.
The Troy Steam laundry informs this
paper that the charge for washing tow
els Is cents per towel. That would
amount to $1.44 per month. Five per
month would furnish 250 towels per
month. That would furnish each Of
nee with Il per month, or more than
one towel per day.
The injustice of this transaction can
be seen in this illustration.
On the city side of the building are
the following offices: Board of health,
city recorder, city treasurer, city audi
tor, Watermaster, superintendent of
waterworks, supervisor of streets, city
engineer, mayor, city attorney. board
dition to these the committee rooms of
the council are kept supplied.
The bill presented by the janitor on
the city side for this same work for
the past seven months was SITS The
difference in the two accounts may
not be much, but all such items, when
footed up, count for a great deal And
there are many items of this kind.
rms paper has called attention sew
eral times to the fact that the county
IS paying too much for janitors. While
the city might with justice, pay more
Tor The work, the amounts diSbursed
to the janitors are entirely TOO great
for a court that is presumed to be
working in the interests OF economy
and retrenchment.
There are five employed on the
county side. Their combined pay foots
up to $3.50 each month, not counting
the towels. There are three on the
city side who draw 1855 per month.
There should be another man on the
city side, which would bring the fig
ure up TO $215. The difference in this
would still be enough to warrant
reduction.
The Roberts Family.
The Roberts family are doing well
this SUMNER great deal better than
when papa was in business in Bing-
ham. Since taking his Office. papa
has drawn in pay and mileage 81, 469.40,
or an average OF $1S3.7O each month.
The bills of the supervisor at Bingham
show that O. Roberts 20. may stand for
Orson, Oliver, Oscar or Orlando) has
drawn in the five months which he
worked on the road, $41S.5o. or $3.50
per month. Reuben, the janitor, has
extracted $5O4S5 by and with papa's
consent, an average of $65 per month.
Inasmuch as Reuben and 90" (Oliver.
Orson, Orlando or Oscar as the case
may be- are not of age. and papa is
entitled to their pay, it would seem
that $2,392.75 has been paid by Salt
Lake county TO the Roberts aggrega-
ton in the eight months of this
year. If this ratio is kept up when
the sun shall rise on January l, 1895,
the boys and papa will have credited
themselves with $3,4690S.
Readers of this paper will please
bear in mind that this is a Republican
county court, elected on a reform
platform.