New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-26
SUPERVISORS FAREWELL
THEY DIVIDE BY FOUR CORONER BAN
NTNG'S BILL FOR 500 \ DAY.
f,r-r THE. VOTE THEIR CLERK AN ALLOW
ANCE BESIDES HIS SALARY, FOR DIS
RURsEMENTs AND EXTRA
CONVERSATIONS"
COMPENSATION"

CONVERSATIONS
The Board OF Supervisors Of Nestcieslei
County held its last session yesterday at "Alle
plains before the rev system, which limits the
regular meetings to one in a month with an
,,ual salaries Of 5000 to each OF the tnlrty-nNe
members. goes into effect, on June i. oeNefai
% +ba s1,nervisors were missing from their
seats Chairman John NJ Shinn made state
rnent in explanation Of the number Of sessions
% the hoard. which has met more times in the
last wear than any similar body in the State.
Mr.. shinn blamed the judiciary committee
.erhis committee was instructed TO prepare
rules for the government of the board long ago.
said Mr. shinn ''but it has not done So Ihats
the reason why the board holds so many SEES
sions'
The most important subject before the board
YESTERDAY was that OF building extensions 10
tho corntv courthouse at White Plains. Chair
man Sterling of the committee on repairs ana
supplies reported that the committee had dis
covered that the basement Of the County Reg
sster's office where fourteen clerks have been
working for about five years. making an index
of the county records very unheaithful
place. The committee wanted permission to
have an architect draw plans for an addition
TO the Registers office. The addition, it was
said would cost about $1,000
Supervisor Smith Hopkins attacked the
scheme in vigorous fashion. He declared that
the county should not be put to the expense OF
paying for any more ''cubbyholes" about the
county courthouse, but that the board should
decide upon an addition large enough to meet
all the demands and make one job Of it. The
present method Of making small additions every
few wears, Mr.. Hopkins declared, was eXtraVa-
giant. The motion was voted down. Super
visor Forsythe, Of Yonkers. then called atten-
ton to the fact that the board had in its pos
session a set of plans for extensive additions
TO the courthouse which would be sufficient to
meet the demands for years 70 come, and that
il would not be necessary to pay for sets
OF plans 1t agreed that the committee
should examine the plans referred to by Nh.
Forsythe and then make q report on the cost
The board went into executive session to con-
slider bin Of DR.. Archibald T. Banning Of
Mount vernon for 81, 100 for his personal ser
vices in conducting the county smallpox hos
pital, at East View. Coroner Banning conduct-
ed the hospital for forty-one days. and cared for
eight patients, ali Of whom recovered. Some
of the supervisors wanted TO give him SZ,ooO,
and others wanted TO make it 5000, so $1,000
YVES agreed on as a compromise Lr. RAINING
said afterward that, while the amount was far
from satisfactory, he was in no position TO sue,
he one OF the cOroners Of the county
The board, while voting to cut Coroner Ban
nings BILL put through resolution to pay h.
r. Hopkins clerk TO The board. an extra allow
ance besides his salary OF 500, for ''disburse-
rnents and extra compensation" The board be-
fore adjourning adopted Supervisor Bgelow's
GeSOlDklOb winch calls lOT Inc uheHlIIS pay
Of bills, and also confirmed the tax budgets
of the towns, so that the collection can begin in
2 few days. The supervisors are to meet again
next Thursday at the New-York Catholic Pro-
tectory, at West Chester. TO make their annual
inspection of the institution and enjoy a din
ner with the faculty
1t said yesterday that while the conec-
ton Of taxes was to begin soon in the towns, 1t
would be delayed in the cities a few weeks
longer. At the Common Council meeting in
New-Rocheue on Wednesday night there was
trouble over the budget, which amounts to
S544, 600, and four Of the aldermen refused to
sign it. The budget put through by the
vote of Mayor Clarke, who declared that he
would go TO the courts and get -maadamus to
compel the aldermen to sign II. The Sour MEM
bers who refused TO sign We're led by Alderman
Peter Cunneen. He charged that the estimate
of S54I,0O0 was excessive, and that IL included
$1,000 TO pay salaries Of officers whom the
Mayor had no right 20 appoint, they were
not called for IL The charter. He said that
Mayor Clarke promised TO enforce economy II
elected, and trying 10 put the tax
payers to unnecessary expense
The three aldermen who voted with Mr. Cum
Were Republicans. The city is hard up
for money, but il is feared that legal proceedings
will be taken which viii still further delay the
collection Of taxes, which should have begun
weeks ago. The taxpayers Of New-Rechelle are
the only people who not worried about the
and they in no hurry for Cae collection to
begin. Some of them say that they do not care
If the taxes are never collected.
IL is said in explanation Of the large budget
that 100000 of the amount represents certif-
Gates of Indebtedness and temporary loans con-
tracted by the former Mayor and aldermen
Several Of these certificates are now overdue.