The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-29
GREATER NEW YORK EXPENSES.
Cost of New Municipality Compared
with Expenditures of London.
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From the Sun.
The municipal expenditures of Lon
don, the largest city in the world,
amount to about $50, 100000 yearly, thus
divided, roughly, among the various
items: Water service, $10,000,000; po-
lice department, $40 900, 900; public char
tiles, $12,500000; schools, $4,000, 900;
health department, $3,50O,000; fire de-
partment, $1,000,000; department of
streets, $40, ,000. 900; gas, $4,000, 900; inter
est on municipal debt, $5,000,000, and
miscellaneous expenses, the balance.
$15,000,000. Paris, with about one-half
the total population of the city of Lon
don, spends in year SIS, ,OOO, 900, or con-
siderably more per capita. The ques-
tion 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, 5,50O,0OO, and the population of
the Greater New York is, roughly, g.
100000, the relation of the two cities to
each other in respect of population be-
ing as five to three. The population of
Paris is 2,5O0,O00. The total expenses of
the city of New York in year amount,
the city of Brooklyn amount, approx
imately. to $4,000, 600 The expenses of
Long Island City are about $4,000 a
year, of Richmond county. $500, 900, and
of the Queens county towns annexed to
the Greater New York $150,000, making
a total of $61, $50, 900 for the whole of the
territory to be included, on January l,
1898, in the Greater New York. This is
a larger ratio of municipal expenditure
to the population than prevails in Lon
don, but a smaller one than is the rule
in Paris. The police department of
New York city costs $6.OOO 900 year,
and the police department in Brooklyn,
! $2,30O000, and the total cost of the po-
| lice in the Greater New York will be
about $9,5OO,OOO year, or nearly as
much as that of the city of London.
The street and water services are Joined
in this city instead of being separated,
! as is the case in London. The expenses
of the department of public works in
New York are $3,5O0,000 and those of the
department of city works, which cor
responds to it in Brooklyn, 81, 100, 900,
and when to this the expense of the
| department of street improvements in
the future borough of Bronx, $500, 900,
|
$4,000 900 in the whole territory for these
items The expense of the fire depart
/ ment in New York is $500, 900. In
Brooklyn it is $1,3OO,OO and in all of
the Greater New York it is, substan-
TALLY, $3,500,00O The item of interest
on that public debt amounts in New
York to $5,500,000 and in Brooklyn to
S3,300,000 and in the other localities in
cluded in the Greater New York to
5000 total of about $9,000000, or
about twice that of London. The ex-
penditure for charitable purposes in
New York city this year is $4,000, 0O0
and in Brooklyn about 100000. The
item Of education appears to the extent
of $60O0,000 in the budget of New York
city, and to the extent of $2,700,0 600 in
the budget of Brooklyn irrespective of
the contributions of these two cities
and of the other districts of the Great
er New York to the state educational
fund.- which brings up the total amount
to l0000,0 900. Long Island City ex-
pends $115,0O0 a year for educationa
purposes.