The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-29
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FOR A LIBERAL BUDGET.
Clerk Bouton Will Urge the
Financiers to Grant
Money Asked For.
ADVANTAGES OF CLEAN STREETS
Dispute Over the Use of Lii
cense Money--Engineering
Bureaus Payroll.
ADVANTAGES OF CLEAN STREETS

There is to be a meeting of the Finance
| Board this afternoon. The Street and
Water Commissioners have been sum-
moned TO explain their estimate of APP
preparations required for the coming fiscal
year. Clerk Bonton has prepared a
strong argument in favor of the granting
of everything that is asked. Last year
only $4,000 was allowed for sweeping and
cleaning streets and removing ashes and
garbage. This year $4,000 is asked for
the same purpose.
1--WE urge writes Mr.. Bouton, "the
necessity for a greater liberality in the
amount allowed for street cleaning.
Aside from any sanitary consideration we
believe that clean streets appeal more
strongly to contemplative locaters than
does any other branch of the municipal
economy. Comparisons of amounts Of
like funds with other large cities are
odious."
For cleaning sewers, $4,000 is asked, an
increase of 81, 500 over last year. For the
maintenance of public grounds and build
ings 5000 is asked, or $1,000 more than last
year. The increase is due the fact that
there are three new public parks to be
cared for.
For the general reconstruction of sewers
s., 900 is asked, which is an increase of
So, 900 over last year.
This request for $1,000 is not to be con-
founded with license MONIES" Mr.. Bou-
ton writes. This is a fund to repair
minor breaks n sudden calls when Ii
cense monies have either been expended
or are not available"
For the universal reconstruction of sew
49, cen 0Qn TO- o~lo1 If oIlou,o1 ~ mill hn
expended in this Way
Gregory street, s12, 0OO; Van Worst and
Essex street, sS,0o0: Bay street, s18. 0O0;
Steuben street, s., 1000; Thirteenth street,
1000; Harrison avenue, $4,000; Ash street,
and Pacific avenue, $4,000: total, $1,000.
In addition to this s12.50 is to be asked
for the repair of the New York avenue
sewer. The work necessary on that sewer
will cost S25 900. One half will LAY to
be paid by West Hoboken. Twenty-Five
per cent. of all license money should go to
a special street fund, but under the Wan
ser administration. the money of that
fund was diverted and used on repairing
sewers. Since then the same use of the
fund has continued.
The proposition does not suit the Street
and Water Commissioners, and in this APP
peal to the Finance Board they write
"We again urge the necessity of divert
ing these matters from license moneys.
These calls made upon us for the repair
and repaving of streets are so many n
constant, and the justice of SO many re-
quests is SO apparent, THAT will a fund
depleted by wholesale sewer reconstruc-
ton we are prevented from doing that
very thing for which the fund was inaug-i
urated."
Chief Engineer Van Keuren, on the
other hand, argues that a good sewer
system will be more beneficial to the city
than good streets. The extra $4,000 is
not likely to be allowed by the Finance
Board.
There is an increase of 1880 in the pay
rell of the Engineering Bureau. This is
due to a command made by Mayor Hoos.
that each department shoulder its own
burden and pay its own clerks. 1t has
been customary to detail clerks to vari-
GUS departments and pay them out of
the water accounts. The Mayor objects
to the continuance of the custom. The
present force Of the engineering bureau is
as follows:-