Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-22
SALARIES SETTLED.
City Council Adopts Report of
Conference Committee.
The Appropriations for the Several City
Departments Made-other Matters
Disposed of Monday Night.

Disposed of Monday Night.
The members Of the city council took
hold of the big financial questions of
the city at their meeting Monday night
and disposed of the salary and the ap-
preparation bills. The latter bill was
passed just as the appropriations came
from Mayor Dodge, but there was some
more talk over the salary bill. The
committee of conference, to whom was
referred the disputed points in the bill,
on which the two branches could not
agree. reported an agreement in the
shape of a recommendation that the
salary of the city treasurer and collect
or of taxes be $4,000 a year, the SUPER
intendent of sewers $4,000, the city mes
senger at $l100, the permanent hosemen
of the fire apartment $40 a month for
their first year of service and SIS a
month thereafter, and that the call men
of the department be paid 1925 a year.
When the report of the committee was
presented to the board OF aldermen,
Alderman Mellen opposed its acceptance
on the ground that he did not believe in
OIelGldlS
the city at this time when there are so
many men about the city anxious to
work, but who are unable to get it TO
do because Of the lack of money in the
city treasury. He said all the city Off
cials were fairly paid for their work,
and some Of them were too well paid
for the services they rendered the city.
He criticised some of the heads of the
departments for blunders they have
hIIt uy1i oh
been called to an account, and said that
while he knew the report would be
accepted, he would not be silent, When
the motion to accept the report and
adopt Its recommendation was put, AL
derman Melen was the only one Ntho
voted against It.
When the report reached the common
council there w"s more opposition to
its acceptance, the contest being made
by some of the democratic members,
who wanted the salaries of the call men
of the fire department raised to $3.50.
All of the democrats present, with the
exception of Councilman Timon, who
was a member of the conference com
mittee voted in favor of an amendment
offered by Councilman O'Leary, that
the salaries of the call firemen be fixed
at $3.50. Councilman James Hunt was
the only republican member who voted
for the amendment After the defeat
of this amendment, Councilman O'Leary
moved another amendment, that the
salary of the superintendent of sewers
be liked at $1,000 a year, but this was
also voted down, and then the original
report of the committee was adopted.
The remainder of the evening was
given up to considering routine matters,
an account of which will be found in
the following detailed report of the
meeting:
IN CONCURRENCE
The following petitions were referred:
Horace H. Bigelow, compensation for
damages caused by laying out Carlton
street; Jesse F. Thompson, renumber-
ing Of Richmond avenue; w. H. Sears,
sewer in Grove and West Boylston
streets; Arthur ~ Whittemore sewer
in May street; James H. Whittle. cross
walk on Paine street; James Midgley,
sidewalk on Edgeworth street from Mil
ton to Byron streets; Hannah Mines,
discontinuance of the watering of Main
street from Gates lane to the city line;
samuel ID. Waite, abatement Of assess
ment for watering Shrewsbury street;
catherine Brosnan, abatement of as
seSSment for watering Ledge street: :
George L. Clark, sewers in Salisbury
street. Park avenue Whitman road,
Monadnock road, Sycamore road, in
new street from Park avenue to Grove
street, and in Grove street to North
street. George r. Wesson, abatement of
assessment levied ON his estate for wild
ening Grafton street
A notice of a suit brought against the
city by the Washburn Car Wheel COM
pany was referred to the city solicitor
Orders were adopted as follows Au-
thorizing the mayor to execute a lease
m hrt,n &c H.
land Railroad company for a location
through the land of the Norwich and
Worcester railroad for surface sewer
from Camp street through land of Jo-
hanna Donnelley and the railroad COM
pany; appropriating the sum of $4,000 for
abatement of taxes; requesting the may
or and city solicitor to appear at hear
ing in the state house, Friday, in OPP
position to an extension of time asked
for by the Worcester and Shrewsbury
Railroad company in which to construct
Its tracks across the causeway at the
lake, in accordance with the provisions
of chapter 1854 of the acts of 1892 re-
questing the committee on public build
ings to consider such changes in the
plans for the stone work on the Canter-
bury street school house as shall mater
tally restrict the amount of ornamental
work on the stone; for the appointment
of a Joint special committee, consisting
of four aldermen and eight councilmen,
to consider the advisability of the con-
struction by the city Of central work
shop for the use of the street, water,
sewer and public buildings departments
and the establishment of separate sub
stations at convenient localities, the
committee also to consider the advisa-
bility of the purchase of such land as
may be needed for this purpose, and of
the sale of any the city now owns that
would not be needed in case a central
shop should be constructed, and gener-
ally to take under advisement anything
relating to the project to obtain all
available information on the subject,
and to report their recommendations re-
lative thereto
The committee on finance, to whom
was reported the mayors estimates for
the appropriations for the several de-
partments for the current year, report
ed the following order, which was
adopted without dissenting vote, the
amounts appropriated being just as
they were submitted by Mayor Dodge:
Ordered ,sthat the several sums herein
after speetfe1s amounting to $1,63S, ,2SO.-
21, be and sthey are hereby appropriated
TO be paid out of the city treasury for
the purposes specified, to meet the ex-
penses Of eaeity for the year beginning
Dec. /, 1891
Assessors department ......... $11, 500 90
Auditing department ..........., 1900 90
City Clerks department $500 90
CITY hospital .......s.............. 3d. 900 90
Engineering department ........ 1880 90
Fire department ................. 1900 90
Fire patrol ...................... 1900 90
Health department ........l.:... 17,40O 90
1neidentalS ..s...................... bO00 90
Inspection and construction of
oyerseers Of poor (city reiief) ). 1900 %
Overseers Of poor (home farm 10000 90