The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-07-02
EXPENDITURES ARE LAVISH
STATE or FINANCES IN DEPART
MENT OF PUBLIC Works.

Two-thirds of the Appropriation for the
Year Already neutrality-suspicious.
for Certain Departments Nearly Ex-
hausted-Statemen of Appropriations
and d expenditures.
AS the new director of public works
becomes conversant with the workings
of department. and as the needs of the
department become apparent during
the remainder Of the year 1897, he will
probably find that his official path is
not exactly strewn with roses AL
though but seven months of the year
have yet passed and three of the
months We're those in which compare
lively small amount Of work could be
done in the department of public works,
nevertheless about two-thirds Of the
appropriation for that department for
the entire year has already been eX-
pended. In view of this fact and the
additional fact that the need OF work
in the department during the remainder
of the year will be greater than the
needs of the portion already passed,
the position in which the newly ap-
pointed director will be placed would
seem to be indeed unenviable.
Already 1t begins to be apparent that
some of the appropriations for various
purposes in the department will be soon
exhausted and in fact some are already
exhausted. AS mentioned in another
column, the appropriation for parks and
trees has been expended and slight
amount Is needed in addition to bal
ance the pay roll now due. In the ap-
preparation of $31 300 for general re-
pairs, street cleaning, etc, $26,710.14,
has been expended, leaving only about
S4, 500 to do the work in the remaining
five months Of the year, during which
time there will be more need for street
cleaning than there has been in any
five months of the year already passed.
Not content with this state of affairs,
even at the last meeting of the old
board of public works, a commissioner
attempted to have bids for hardening
Edgewood avenue opened and the
amount left to the new director thus
cut down still more. The attempt was,
however, not successful.
The following Is a statement of the
appropriations for the year for the va
rious departments under the board of
public works, with the amounts already
expended up to June 80 in those depart
ments:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., S4970; sum
already expended, $3,15429.
Department of superintendent OF
streets, salaries-Appropria $4,000:
already expended, sl,569.72.
Department of city engineer, salaries
appropriation, s9,9S0; already expend-
ed. $5,sOl9S.
Sprinkling streets, running expenses
Appropriation. $37,225; already ex-
pended, $23,51217.
Contingent expenses-Appropriat
| $4,000; already expended. $2S60.92
Cleaning sewers and drainage, run
ming expenses-Appropriat $4,000;
already expended, $3677.41.
Crosswalks and cobble gutters-Ap-
preparation, $6,740; already expended,
| So, ,91463
General repairs, cleaning streets, etc
Appropriation, $S1.30O; already ex-
pended, $26,71O14.
IIauiHS- -AppTopTlatlon, $o,zVO; al
ready expended, $1,44975.
Park and tions, $6,-
S2919; already expended, $6,A5624.
| Hardening streets Appropriation,
$30550 already expended, $55566.
Repairing pavements, running ex-
penses-Appropriati $4,000; already
expended, s9,SS0.21.
Stone crusher and roller, running ex-
pnses-Appropriation, $2,5OO; already
expended, $22S4.31.
Walks and curbs-Appropriation, s4,-
| 500; already expended, $3,3SS.15
| Sewers, new work, repairs, etc-Ap-
preparation, $4,000; already expended,
$685. 1858.
Widening Union street at the old de-
pot-Appropriation, $500; none expend-
ed yet,