The times., 1898-10-15
BUDGET OF ESTIMATES.
The Commissioners Need $S,-
5SS,092.77 for Next Year.
EXPENSES ARE GROWING

The results of the entire weeks labor
which the District Commissioners spent
upon their annual budget of appropria-
ticns necessary, in their opinion, for the
support and maintenance of the Govern
ment and municipal institutions of the
District of Columbia during the fiscal
year of 1900 We're given publicity yester-
| day afternoon and will shortly be trans
mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.
! The total amount asked for aggregates
sS5SS, ,0a2. Il, which, with the appropriation
! of Sl29,li for the maintenance of the
water department. to be paid out of the
water fund, makes grand total of SS-
II, 7,2s3.17, as against the estimate of S.
2i,3I5.sa, including $40, SILL for water.
asked for last year.
The biggest item in the budget is for
street Improvement. which aggregates
$780, 900. This is increase of $4,000 over
the amount appropriated for the same
purpose last year, when only Sc, ,000 in
crease in the same item over the pre-
| vfous year was asked for. A decrease of
| s1G.G01 is recommended for the suburban
! roads, and an increase of $4,000 is urged
/ for assessment and permit work.
Estimates for the completion of the
! sewerage system of the city are also
large. S3s.0oo being asked for the Tiber
Creek sewer, 900 for completing the
boundary sewer. si5e.900 for completing
the east side intercepting sewer to
| Twelfth Street east. and $4,000 for COM
pleting 1t to the foot of New Jersey Ave-
nue., Sl50,0oo for completing the northerly
portion of the Tiber Creek sewer and the
| New Jersey Avenue high level intercept
! ing sewer.
Among the other large items are $780,
600 for repairing streets, $4,000 for repair
ing and replacing sidewalks around pub
] lie reservations and municipal buildings
! $3.50, 600 for repairs TO country roads, SlSs,-
( 500 for the construction of country roads,
and s207.i!3 for cleaning. sweeping. and
sprinkting streets; for the parking COM
mission, $4,000: street lighting, S1g5.00O;
electric lighting. s63 000 bathing
( beach, Ac0o; construction of bridges, S25,-
I 900: Washington Aqueduct. $4,000 one ad-
ditional public school teacher at $500;
two at $500, two at 81 800. seven at 81, ,20o
seven at s., ,0OO five at ss25. two at $780,
I seven at 500, five at $3.50, seven at $500
I nine AT $3.50, twenty-five at $500 six at
$3.50, six at 800. and $500 for night
schools; kindergartens, 5000; school
buildings and grounds, S5o6000.
/ An item of considerable interest to ev-
/ cry resident of the city Is $40 900 for the
| removal OF ashes at public expense ma de
in accordance with the recommendations
submitted in the superintendent last
! annual report
! In the police department provision is
made for an increase of $500 in the salary
! of the captain; three lieutenant in
( spectors. at l,S09 each: four surgeons. at
/ SI21 each; an increase of s1S1 for each
! lieutenant: an addition of $50 for each
l. sergeant and 201 additional privatcs at
! S2l6. 0o: an increase OF S120 for each sta
/ tiOn-keeper and in the fire department
| an increase of $500 for the chief of the
| fire department; S120 for the firemen: $50
! for the engineers S26 for the firemen till
ermen. and hostIers; s120 for the privates
and so for the watchmen; machinist at
! 81. 10; three engines at 81. 900; three hose
/ carriages, a s. 7o0;- one chemical engine
I at 81 200; TWO trucks, at $500: six new
eugine-houses. al sl30.0o0. and a stable at
$500: electrical department. s74, go, in
! Guiding $4,000 for the extension of the
police patrol system.
Among the estimates for the health de-
partment are an addition of $3.50 70 the
salary of the health officer; one deputy
health officer al 81 Sah. Increase for the
sanitary chemist to $500; chief clerk
increase of 5000: two clerks at 81 900: one
engineer for smallpox hospital S120: one
sanitary food inspector at $500: for en-
forcement of act to prevent the spread
of scarlet fever and diphtheria. disinfect-
ing service. 5000: for a pound. 5000
gratuitous vaccination 81 600: establish.
ment of meteorological laboracor
s. 0o0
The estimate for charitable purposes
when buIked Is the largest item in tbs
whole list of estimates aggregating s62S
/ $3.50. and including among others the fol
lowing provisions: For the relief of th'
. poor. s13 0e0 support of the insane sl22
si.S0: instruction of the deaf and dumb
sl0.5O0; Homeopathic Hospital, s., 500
Washington Hospital for Foundings, &C.
0On; German Orphan Asylum, 81. 500: Asso
citation for Destitute Colored Women an,
Children. $500; ST. AIMS Infant Asy
lum. SEQ: House of the Good Shepherd
$2.I0o; st. Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum
| s1.SC1. Young Woman's Christian Home
| $1,000: Newsboys Home. $1,000: Easter
nispensary. $1,000: Washington Home 70
Tncurables. $1,000; Municipal Lodgin,
House. $1,000; Columbia Lying-in Hospit
al for Women, $4,000; Temporary Hom
for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors. 81 500
Woman's Christian Association Centra
Dfspensary. and Emergency Hospital
$1,000: Chfldren's Hospital sl0.0G0 Pro
visions are also made for the Washington
Asylum, the Industrial Home School. th
School for Boys, $4,000 for Freedman
Hospital, $1,000 for isolating wards at tn
Garfield and Providence Hospitals, an,
a,Wo for the Hope and Help Mission.
In order that the property adjoining TIL
Police Court on the east may be pur
chased the sum of $4,000 is asked for
and provision is made for interest on th
sinking fund. amounting to Sl2f3 941 9,
also 1850 for reformatories and prisons
.32o for the District militia and Sl2g Il
for the water department
. request is made for ST. 600 for the res
toration of the old portraits at the Distric
and City Hall buildings: an engineer a
$3.50. watchman at $3.50 and deckhan,
at S'5o, for night crew for the polio
boat. AT present there is only day crew
AS result there are fragrant violation
OF the game and fish laws at night rob
berries of vessels and thefts of wharf coal
and dfsorderly crowds congregate figh
and gamble on the river flats. all of which
il is claimed, would be obviated by nigh
police patrol.
In the auditors office an increase of $50
per annum Is asked in the salary of th
chief clerk; an increase of 5000 for tn,
auditor. A new clerk is provided for i,
the office of the sealer of weights an,
measures at $500. In the engineers ofic
an increase of 5000 is requested for thu
superintendent of sewers; 500 increase TO
the craftsman and $500 increase for th
permit clerk. For the superintendent o
the street sweeping department an in
crease of 1920 is recommended: also al
inspector at $1,000 and three additional in
spectors at H.1O0 each
An increase of 500 is asked for the trav