Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1897-10-28
GREATER YORK'S EXPENSES.
Cost of the New Municipality Com
pared with That of London.

Cost of the New Municipality Conn
pared with That of London.
The municipal expenditures of Lon
don, the largest city in the world,
amount to about $50, ,OOO, 900 yearly, thus
divided, roughly, among the various
items: Water service, S10,0O0,000; po-
lice department, S1O,OOO,OOO; public
charities, S12, 100000; schools, S1O,OOO.-
600; health department, So, 500, 900; fire
department, s1,OOO,OOO; department of
streets, s10,O0O,O0O; gas, S3,OOO,OOO; in
terest on municipal debt, 5000, 900, and
miscellaneous expenses, the balance,
$15,000,0OO. Paris, with about one-half
the total population of the city of Lon
don, spends in year SIS ,O0O, 900, or con-
siderably more per capita. The ques-
ton has been asked how the expenses
of the Greater New York are likely to
compare with those of London and
Paris.
The present population of London is,
roughly, 5,500,000, and the population of
the Greater New York is, roughly,
100000, the relation of the two cities
to each other in respect of population
being as five to three. The population
of Paris is 2,5OO, 900. The total expenses
of the city of New York in a year
amount, approximately, to s47,OOO,O 900.
Those of the city of Brooklyn amount,
approximately, to S13,OOO,OOO. The ex-
penses of Long Island City are about
100000 year, of Richmond county
S500,000, and of the Queens county
towns annexed to the Greater New York
S150,000, making a total of SCI, ,25O, 900
for the whole of the territory to be in
cluded. on January 1, 1898, in the Great
er New York. This is larger ratio of
municipal expenditure to the popula-
tion than prevails in London, but
smaller one than is the rule in Paris.
The police department of New York
city costs S6,000,00O a year, and the po-
lice department in Brooklyn So 300, 900,
and the total cost of the police in the
Greater New York viii be about 81, ,5OO,-
600 year, or nearly as much as that of
the city of London. The street and wa
ter services are Joined in this city in
stead of being separated, as is the case
in London. The expenses of the de-
partment of public works in New York
are $4,000, 900, and those of the depart
ment of city works, which corresponds
to it in Brooklyn, 50, 100 900, and when
to this the expense of the department
of street Improvements in the future
borough of Bronx, $3.50 900, is added
there is total in excess of Sc, ,00O, 900 in
the whole territory for these items.
The expense of the fire department in
New York is S2,9O0,OOO. In Brooklyn
it is s1,3O0,000, and in all of the Greater
New York it is, substantially, So 500. 900.
The item of interest on the public debt
amounts in New York to SIS 5,5OO, 900 and
in Brooklyn to $1,000. 900. and In the
other localities included in the Greater
New York to 100000. total of about
S9,0oo,O0O, or about twice that of Lon
Gon. The expenditure for charitable
purposes in New York city this year is
S2,OO0,000, and in Brooklyn about $780,
coo. The item of education appears to
the extent of s6,OOO.O 900 in the budget of
New York city, and to the extent of 81
100000 in the budget of Brooklyn, ire
spective of the contributions of these
two cities and of the other districts of
the Greater New York to the state edu-
cational fund, which brings up the to-
tai amount to S10,0O0,0O0. Long Island
City expends S115,OOO year for educa-
tionaf purposes-N Y. Sun.