The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-15
CHANGED BY THE ALDERMEN
THE ESTIM1TES REPORTED BY THE
 BOARD OF FINANCE.

Appropriations for tho Police Depart
 ment Increased S6,1OO, for the Fire
 Department SIO,OOO, and for the De-
 pertinent of Public Works $50, ,729. 0 0
 A Minority Report by Alderman
 Dove of the Committee on Estimates.
 The board of aldermen last night vot-
 ed by a two-thirds vote to change in
 several items the estimates of appropri-
 ations recommended by the board of
 finance. The majority report of the
 special committee recommending these
 changes was accepted and then adopted
 by vote of 22 to 5. The changes made
 A reduction is made from $106,229.09 to
 $60,200 in the total amount to be used
 for the reduction of the outstanding
 debt, and an addition of $S,000 is made
 to the estimated income, this being the
 amount which will be the surplus over
 the firemen's relief fund from the
 amount received from the county com
 missioners for licenses, making the total
 estimated income $1,S07,900.
 In the appropriation for the depart ment of public works the following
 changes were made: Addition of an item of $1 100 for the salary of an inspec- tor of excavations; by increasing the appropriation for cleaning streets and parks from $4O,00O to $52,829.09; by in creasing the appropriation for street sprinkling from $50,000 to $65,O00; by in creasing the appropriation for inspec- tion of sprinlsling from $500 to $2,4O0, so as to provide for the employment of four inspectors instead of only one, as provided for in the estimates as recom- mended by the board of finance; by changing the appropriation of $62, ,09S.62 for permanent pavement and providing that the amount be applied as follows: For paving of Edgewood avenue $25,0 ,000, for paving of Shelton avenue $15,000, for paving other streets for which the common council may order pavemente $22. .098.22.
 The changes made in the fire depart ment appropriation were as follows: In crease of the appropriation for payroll from s115, 1000 to $122, GOO; increase of the
 
 the fire alarm telegraph from $1,500 to $2,500; addition of an item of $2,000 for storage battery, making total ap- propriation of $159,74 for this depart ment an increase of $100O0 over the amount recommended by the board of finance. -
 In the police department estimates as reported by the finance board the fol- o1, Tnnrp1 of the appropriation for payroll from $1S1,- BOA. 55 to s1S6, BOA. .55; increase of the item for telephone repairs and supplies from $500 to $50O increase of the item for new alarm stations and moving old ones from $500 to s1.2OO; addition of $20o for an increase fin the salary of the janitor of the police building; increase of the amount of the sundry account from $500 to $60O-al1 making a total appropriation of s197, 155 for that department, an increase of $6,100.
 The only change made in the appro- priation for the lamp department was the increase from $20 00S6.75 to $22, ,1S0.75 of the appropriation for street gas lamps and Welsbach burners, total increase of $1,50O in that department, making It's total appropriation $79,680.5O.
 In the department of public health the following changes were made In- crease of the amount for the salaries of three inspectors from $2, 400 to $2.700; | adding an item of $1,20O for the salary | of an inspector of meat, fish, fruit and | adding an item of $200 for | sundries, and decreasing from $500 to s4OO the item for the care of contagious | diseases, making total increase of $1.- | 300 in that department and making the | total appropriation for the health de- | partment $15,5OO.
 To the appropriation recommended for l the department of parks the aldermen l added an item of $2.000 for purchase of | land, making the total appropriation | for parks $18,000.
 In the department of charities and | correction the item of 1000 for gen. eral expenses was increased to $3S,000, and the item of $6.000 for care of out side poor was increased to $S,000. The Item of S3,0OO for remodelling plumbing at Springside was stricken out. This makes the total appropriation for that the same as recommended by the board of finance.
 Tn the department of sundry accounts l +he item for interest on town notes was from $4,041.16 to $6, ,041.16. The Item of SAG, ,O29.O9 to pay city notes fall ing due was stricken out. The appro- priation for making the military enroll- nent was increased from $500 to $500. The item of $500 for the expenses of the ,ivil service board was divided so that ,46O should be expended for the salary If the secretary and $40 for other ex- oenses. This decreases the total appro- oriation for the sundry account in the controllers department from $457, ,22974 % $413,394.
 As soon as the session was called to order last night on suggestion of AL 7erman Chillingworth the board went nto committee of the whole in order to ,xplain to those members who were not { members of the special committee, the changes in the estimates recommended " the committee and the reasons for ( he recommendations Alderman Coo . ey was chosen chairman of the com i nittee and City Clerk Norris clerk. | The reports of the committee, the ma ority report and the minority report, |. were read by Clerk Norris The rec of the majority report are tiyen in substance above. The minor Z