New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-05
MAYOR RAPS HOLAHAN.
TEsTY REMARKS ABOUT DEPARTMENT
ESTIMATES.

A lively tilt between Mayor Van wyck and
President Holahan of the Board of Public I'm
p7ovements occurred in the Mayors Office yester-
day when the Board Of Estimate and Apportlon-
inent was considering departmental estimates for
100 Mr.. Holahan appeared ait the meeting TO ask
or an appropriation for the Board OF Public I'm
provenents in the amount of S4s 435, against 500 9S5
allowed for 1893
You take the prize" said the Mayor. "An IN
crease of % per cent?
Mr.. Hoahan said II was necessary to increase
the force in outside boroughs, that the number Of
street opening proceedings had increased from two
hundred TO six hundred in the year. that maps for
these proceedings demanded, and that the
men were needed 10 make them.
You ask for four times many in the topo-
graphical bureau you had said the Mayor,
and you do not assist this Board in finding out
why you want them. You might well ask for
ten times many"
Mr. Holahan protested that the Mayor put
ting him IN a wrong light.
II repeat you give this Board aid" said the
Mayor.
II have people pounding me all the time for these
maps" said Mr.. Holahan.
"Oh, I have as many people pounding me-" re-
Piled the Mayor. You don't aid US at all You
, have not aided US in the slightest degree"
Mr.. Holahau went out apparently angry.
The Commissioner Of Highways asked for A,255.-
s5z a. against g ga e. allowed last year OF this
increase $4,000 for the Borough of Manhattan,
ana of that s250000 increase for repaving
streets and avenues. Commissioner Heating said
the Municipal Assembly had recently acceded TO the
demand for the issue Of bonds to repave streets
and avenues and the increase, therefore, would not
be needed The same applied TO the Borough OF The
Bronx, where $4,000 extra for repavng streets
was asked for, and in Brooklyn where demand
for an extra allowance Of $450,0o0 was asked for
The Mayor said the Commissioner would have to
get the money from the proceeds Of bonds. Com
missioner Keadng complained that several of his
engineers had resigned and gone with the Rapid
Transit Commission. which paid them more money,
and he wanted $1,000 increase engineers salaries
and $4,000 extra for labor and maintenance
You are asking too much from this Board said
the Mayor.
In Queens there was an increase of s21558o and
sn Richmond SIS 600. The Deputy Commissioner for
Richmond said that thirty miles Of new macadam
roads had been made. and the money was needed
70 maintain them.
I'VE have heard that cry for three years. now"
Baid the Mayor.
The PARK DEPARTMENT asked for s27S55Ss 4o
against s. SIS 115 As allowed last year Commissioner
Clausen explained the different items of increase
He wanted 5000 to increase the salaries of the
superintendent and chief engineer
You can't have them increased" cried the
Mayor. "If they don't like what they are getting
let them go somewhere else"
There was an increase of 100000 for maintaining
new parks. 5000 for the Museum Of Natural
History $4,000 for boilers for the Aquarium,
$4,000 for repaving Eightysxth-st, $4,000 for sum
dry new improvements. 5000 for an approach to
the new conservatory. $500 for the conservatory
itself 5000 for a driveway. $4,000 for a new ap-
proach to the Metropolitan Museum of Art $4,000
for drainage $4,000 for sewering, $4,000 to widen
the roadway Of Fifty-ninth-st and 1885, 900 for re-
paving Central Park West The Mayor made no
comments on any of the items. Deputy Controller
Levey asked if Mr.. Clausen believed the city
should maintain two geological gardens, i ne
y s3ia sct snst the Zoo IN Cenrai
100000 for a pavilion at Coney Island. He asked
for il last year The Mayor said ii would nave 10
Commissioner Moebus, of the Borough of The
Bronx. asked for S24 600 for a museum, $4,000 for
Forest Park. $4,000 for music stands 5000 Tor
sheltering houses, S23.0D for water supply ana
drainage and 1000 increase for the Geological
Garden. lie also wanted small increase for mt
ting out the new golf links IN Pelhan Bay Fark;
In to Deputy Controller Levey. he said
he was competent TO pronounce on the de-
The Commissioner of Sewers asked for S970,3sl,
increase of Slb7 20S last year There was an
increase of $4,000 for repairing and cleaning sew
an increase of IS 100 in salaries in Queens.
The Mayor declared the increases would not be
allowed. z---
CAN'T TAKE CENTRAL PARK ANIMALS.
Madison Grant secretary of the New-York Zoo
logical Society. was at his Office, No II Wall
St, yesterday by a Tribune reporter in regard to
the suggested consolidation Of the Central Park
and Bronx Park menageres. Mr.. Grant said:
None of the officers OF our society nor any one
responsible in the society has made such a sugges-
ton expressed desire for the removal Of the
animals from Central Park to Bronx Park. The
animals have not been offered yet. and they could
not be accepted in consequence. If they were Of
fred to Fs It would be mRosspile to acc
house will not be finished for several months, so
Central Park. We could take none of the lions
the larger carnivores, which require housing,
for our a vear Is 70 the h pDGm M n
elephants, II will be several years before our own