The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-08
TOOK UP GORGEOUS BILLS
BUT TIE BOARD OF FINANCE
DROPPED THEM AGAIN.

10 DC considered Mt Eult Board Meeting
Next Monday Afternoon-New Plan Pro-
posed for Giving Out City Advertising
To be Given to the Lowest Bidders-rhe
Mayors Suggestion.
The board Of finance last night, after
for two hours methods for
giving out the city advertising and the
mode Of procedure to be followed in
dealing with the gorgeous sprinkling
assessment advertising bills, voted at
1l;45 to hold a special meeting Monday
afternoon at o'clock to consider the
big advertising bills, which would prob
ably have been considered last night
had a full membership of the board
been present. Commissioner Forsyth
was absent, however, and according to
until all the members were present, the
matter could not be formally consider
ed The clerk was directed to notify
Mr.. Fors.rth of the special meeting to
be held Monday afternoon.
Another vote passed by the board at
the suggestion of Mayor Farnsworth,
was as follows: THAT the city clerk be
requested to obtain from each of the
city newspapers bid for all the city
advertising from November l, 1897, to
January /, 1899, as a basis for a recon-
mendation to the court of common
council in regard to the city advertis-
ing
The board began it's session at eight
o'clock, but the first hour was occupied
in signing bills. This business and 9TH
er minor matters having been attended
to, Commissioner Mansfield said:
When are we going to get at those
bills for the sprinkling assessments ad-
them up tonight, though of course we
must take recognizance of our vote to
consider them in a full board"
Mayor Farnsworth-'.I will explain
another matter like that. Now, the
committee on the revision of the ordi
nances has completed it's labors and
the ordinances as revised are before
the court of common council. They
will probably soon pass that body and
will come to me to be signed Now,
every one is anxious to have them
adopted at once, but before they can
go into effect they must be published
as is required by law, in the newspa-
pers. These ordinances will take as
much space as did the sprinkling as
sessment advertising, and am 10th to
sign them and let them be sent to the
papers without first getting rates from
the papers"
Mr.. Mansf1eld-"M Must they be pub
lished in all of the papers"'
Mayor Farnsworth-"No, only in two.
If the common council adopts these or
dinances, as I suppose it will, and / ap-
prove them, then they will go to the
papers to be advertised, under the same
plan as the sprinkling assessment ad
vertising was given out. The building
ORDINANCES alone will fill a page of a
newspaper.
Il suggest that it would be good pol
icy for the city to ask the papers to
submit rates on q big job like this. The
papers should take the bitter with the
sweet and make yearly prices for all
things. They should do so before these
ordinances are adopted. l suggest that
this board direct the city clerk to ask
the papers to submit a price per inch
for which they will do the city adver-
tising, with the understanding that the
advertisements will be printed in one
morning and one evening paper-the
papers submitting the lowest rates"
r. FL. Would you have them
specify nonpareil, BREWER or any par
ticular size of type?"
Mayor Farnsworth-'I have been
getting some information on newspaper
advertising in other cities. The city of
Worcester, where each department
does it's own advertising, last year eX-
pended $3,691.91. Now, they must eth
er do less advertising then New Haven
or get cheaper rates. Worcester is
about the size of New Haven, too. I
am satisfied that New Haven could get
along with less advertising. Rich
mond Va, spent last year 81, $50 for
city advertising. Atlanta, Ga, let's it's
advertising to the lowest bidder.
Charleston, S. c., last year appropriat-
ed $1,7O0 for advertising. Printing is
there given out by contract, and for
advertising the papers make a reduc-
ton to the city of S31s per cent. from
their regular rates. Columbus, Ohio,
paid $500 for advertising last year.
I'm Omaha, Neb., there is no specific
appropriation for newspaper advertis-
ing, but two papers are selected and
designated as city papers and receive
the city advertising. They get 80 cents
per square for the first insertion and Is
cents per square for each subsequent
insertion. We pay $1.20 per inch. The
corporation counsel of Omaha informs
me that city advertising there is looked
upon as sop to the papers.
80, gentlemen, these are the facts.
Now, this big job of printing is coming
on, and if this matter of getting rates
is not attended to I may have to let
the ordinances go without my approx
al. / will not put my approval on them
because that would be approving send
ing them to the papers to print under
the present arrangement"
City Clerk Lyon-'They will become
a law and will be printed just the
same"
Mayor Farnsworth-"Yes; but they
won't get my sanction. The last time
they asked the papers to bid, each bid
81. 20 per inch for the first insertion and
40 cents for subsequent insertions,
r. H. Brown-"Lets give them
chance to do it again.