The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-06
Superintendent Stutler on
Plan to Increase Eff
ficienCy.
TO PUT MEN ON ANNUAL LIST
Inspectors Now Specially Assigned as Per
Diem Employees Cannot Always Be
Used to Best Advantage One
New appointment

Considerable interest was manifested at
the District Building this morning over
the published accounts of the proposed re
organization Of the Street Cleaning De-
rartment. The accounts published IS com
ing from the Senate District Committee
made it appear that the department was
to be greatly enlarged by the appoint
ment Of several officials whose titles and
salaries were mentioned.
Such, however, is not the fact The
amendment which it is proposed to add to
the District appropriation bill is the same
as that proposed to Congress by the Com
missioners in their estimates, and applies
merely 10 the Reorganization of the de
Partment as it now IS by placing the pres
ent employees upon al annual salary in
stead OF per diem basis. There are TO
be no new appointments, except one.
The only new place is that of chief in
spectOr. who is TO replace the two fore
men whose services the department was
forced to dispense with in accordance with
decision rendered by the Comptroller Of
the Treasury during the present fiscal
year.
In explaining the proposed changes this
morning, NJ. Warner StCtIer, Superin-
tended OF Street Cleaning, said:
How Employees Are Assigned.
at the present time there are twenty
two employees in this department On the
annual salary list and thirteen on the
permanent list The former class are
engaged on street cleaning work. But
one Of these is a clerk, the only one in
the department 50 designated, and owing
TO the increase in Office work. due to the
continued increase in the area OF streets
10 be cleaned, il was found necessary n
detail two inspectors for continuous dutv
IN the Office IN order that the clerical
Wcfh might be properly performed. The
Balance OF the inspectors on the street
cleaning annual list are paid from 5000
TO $l,2eU fer supervising the cleaning of
the streets, and as their duties are ideu-
teal IN character II would be only inst
that they be paid uniform CONDENSATION
IN July 1900, the work Of supervising
the collection and disposal OF all classes
OF city refuse was assigned 10 this de-
paTtment- and for this purpose It was
necessary 10 employ thirteen persons.
VINO, as stated above, are on the per diem
list OF these eight are inspectors six
OF whom oversee the work in the six
districts into which the city has been
ciViqed for this purpose The other two
perform the necessary clerical work in
the Office incident TO the service. and nv
reason Of decision Of the accounting
ofncer they are also obliged to 20 ouf
on inspection duty. thus gripping the Of
fee TO that extent
From the foregoing ii viii, therefore
be seen that the Office force at present
consists of one clerk (stTeet cIeaningl
TWO inspectors (street cleaning). and two
inspectors tcity refuse}, the three former
on the per 2nnum list and the two latter
on the per diem list
Benefits to Be Secured.
Under the present classification the
service is seriously hampered, owing TO
the fact that some Of the EMPLOYEES on
street cleaning work are better qualified
20 perform city refuse work, and vice
versa. We cannot, however, detail them
so as to get the best results because of 3
decision that employees on the street
cleaning list are TO be confined 10 that
class Of work and those on the city refuse
list 70 city refuse work whereas II they
we're all OF the annual list each couId
be assigned 10 such duties as he is best
fitted for
The present salaries, both Der diem
and annual, exclusive OF laboreTs. amount
30 S42,495, and under the proposed re-
adjustment and proper classification they
would amount TO $40 200, being an increase
q but SEQ When ii is considered how
ever. that the proposed change would add
greatly TO the efficiency Of the service
IT may be said that the slight increase
would be more than Offset by the benefits
which VroIrlT he derived