The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-07
---------------- MORE SALARY INCREASES.

Now the City Engineering Bureau ASKS for Them.
 The estimates of the board of educa- ton and of the department of public works were discussed before the board
 of finance last night by representatives of those departments. The board of ed- ucation asks for an appropriation of $407, 404 for the current expenses of the department during the ensuing year. The appropriation for this account ask ed for last fall for the present year was
 $402, ,50O, while $382950 was allowed The
 slight increase asked for now is to pro
 vide for several needed Improvements.
 In the Washington school in particular
 new furniture is very much needed In
 ten rooms. Nearly all the items of cur
 rent expenses are fixed items of expen-
 allure, and consequently cannot be cut
 much They include salaries of teach
 CTS, principals, the superintendent, jam
 itors and office assistance.
 For special expenses $32500 is asked
 for Last year in this account $50,000
 was asked for for the new Cedar street
 school and was allowed. The estimate
 of this account for the next year in cludes $150 000 for remodeling and chang ing the Oak street school. This is an
 old-fashioned building and now contains only four rooms. It is desired to en-
 large it to eight rooms. The other two
 schools in the district Davenport
 school and Webster school are over
 crowded and it is necessary to send six
 ty-one pupils out of the district to the
 ID -oln T1A ,1a,, tc tp
 raise the Oak street school building an
 other story with brick, as was done at
 the Edwards street school.
 Seventy-five hundred dollars is want
 ed to finish the top floor of the new Ce- dar street school. Six thousand dollars is asked for to equip and furnish the Boardman Manual Training school ad- dition recently built by means of an additional gift from Mrs. Lucy Board man. The addition gives much needed extra class room. Four thousand dol lars is wanted to buy school site in the Strong district, where the board of education considers that it will be nec- essary to build a new school sooner or la ter.
 Several increases of salaries are asked for in the department of public works. A letter was received last night from Newcomb M. Bassett, chief clerk, ask ing that his salary be increased from S1 800 to 17,50 per year. An increase of $50 per year in the salary of the sten- ographer is also asked for. In this de- partment City Engineer Kelly asks for salary increases in his bureau amount ing to s1,3OO He asks that the salary of his second assistant engineer, Henry H. Gladding, be increased from 1,600 to $1, 7O0 that the salary of Francis A. Ma loney, third assistant engineer, be in creased from $1 200 to $1,300; that one of the five transitmen, Frederick H. Os- borne, be promoted to fourth assistant engineer with an increase of salary from $1,000 which he now receives to $1, 200. He also stated that if this pro- gramme was carried out he would like to appoint another transitman at sal ary of $500 per year to take MT. Os- borne's place.
 Other items included in the estimates of the public works department are $2,- 900 for new fender pier at Quinnipiac bridge, $1, GOO for an extra bridge tend CT, $S,00O for care of parks and trees, . s11 200 for care of sewers, $12, ,0O0 for new bulkhead at the foot of Chestnut | street, 900 for repair of crushed 1 stone pavements, S66,000 for cleaning streets and care of squares, $45,5S0 for street sprinkling and $500 for a mail chute at city hall.
 Since the board of councilmen is to l be abolished after the first of next June, | the chamber now used for meetings of f that board will be no longer required | for that purpose and will be cut up | into smaller offices and rooms for other |