The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-18
CASH TO RUN THE CITY.
BOARD OF EsTIlrA7E HEARS TIE
WEEDS OF THE DEPARTM ENTs.

Demands PRPiicu,arp ana Not Regulations for
Lump sums- Slunicipnl Assembly Promises
10 Cest e3oo, 900 n Yenr-The Borough
Presidents Ace DoinE Considerable Gurssing
The Board Of Estimate began yesterday TO
consider the estimates for 1893 for the city
departments, rs now constituted. Tho Mayor
apparently docs not intend to allow any appro-
~priations to DO rushed through without careful
examination. and he insists on knowing just
what tho money is to be spont for. He sub
mitted q partial estimate for the expenses OF his
office, which included his own salary and tho sal
ariss of his private secretary and the clerks
and attendants under his immediate control. Tho
amount asked for these purposes was $780,
600. Tho Mayor said he had Increased tho
force in his office by adding an assistant chief
clerk and two confidential clerks SO that a rec
ord might be kept OF all warrants. bonds and
pay rolls signed by him. Tho item was passed.
City Clerk Scully asked for 100000 for the
expenses Of tho Municipal Assembly and his
Office. OF this amount $4,000 was for the
Council, and 1t included Mr.. Scully's salary,
$1,000; the salary Of President Guggenhoimcr.
$4,000; tho salary of twenty eight Councilmen
at 81, 500 each and $4,000 to be distributed
among twcnty-nine clerks and assistants. Tho
expenses of tho Board OF Aldermen, including
the salary of sixty members at 81 900 each,
were put at $s7, 900. For his own office tho
City Clerk asked for $15, 800 for salaries, ga, 800
for contingencies, S7,454 for the Brooklyn
branch and So, 1000 each for branch offices in
the smaller boroughs. Tho estimate was re-
ferred to the Comptroller for examination.
President Peters OF The borough of Manhattan
wanted S5o,ooo for his department: HS said
to be spent by him in ADVERTISING. President
Circuit Of the borough Of Brooklyn, asked for
only $l4,25O. President Haffen of the borough
of the Bronx wanted 1885, 800. including the pay
of n corps of engineers. President Bowley Of
the borough Of Queens asked for a lump sum Of
you can't get. ANYTHING through here. I'M;
less you specify what you want the money for
n don't know just what ! do want it for"
replied Mr.; Bowley. IT was in hopes hat this
That's a matter for you to find out" said
well, / noticed that some Of the others
the President of the borough Of Queens.
"Ah, but their appropriations haven't been
all the estimates OF the borough Presidents
We're referred to the Comptroller.
asked for $17,I55, which is the amount nppro-
priated for the License Bureau by the old
NJ Roche is the first one to como within tho
limit" remarked the Mayor, and the appro-
Municipal Statistics, asked for S23,400; Tho
charter provides that the expenses Of the ,bu-
Otherwise provided Tor BY the Board Of EST.
mate" DR.. Nugle read an elaborate state
ment showing what similar bureaus cost in
this country and in Franco, Germany, and Eng.
land.
"We have too many foreign ideas in our char
ter now" said the Mayor, and DR.. Nagle's es.
innate was laid over.
Comptroller Coler asked for $774.427.73, an
| quired last year to administer the finances Of
all tho cities and towns taken into the CONSOLE
dalton. He said that for lack Of sufficient
help in the past the books of the department
here had got behindhand, and also that the csti;
mates Of BROOKLYN made by the old board had
omitted one large item and cut another down
too much. The appropriation was passed at
the amount asked for.
President Feitncr Of the Department of Taxes
asked for 1892, 600, and got it.