New-York tribune., 1902-04-30
A NEW CITY CIVIL SERVICE
poApn OF ESTIMATE TO FIX SALARIES
T1nER NEWLY CREATED GRADES.

1,,o Roord of Estimate and Apportionment
tbts morning after making pubic the hsu
the new budget and the amount VI
bonds necessary to provide Tor lne citS
penditures for the current year, Will hA 'oi
in the various departments upon INC Dd0i oA
the grades as published in the circulars recehtIS
tssned on that subject under date of April H.
Mayor Low. in statement issued ias' iiis'
outlined the plan of the city officials for the re-
organization of the Civil Service as follows:
On Saturday. May g. at 10 a. M, f,i Ine brna-
Civil Service Commission will give PUBLIC neafnE o
its offices TO all interested IN .e Isdes for
rules necessary to substitute these new 3 In ecbed
those % 1HT ge in A9y at Re
give hesrn IN n1{ the Mayors Office preliminary to
Submitted af 1m to hm by the civil service
On Saturday; May TO- the state ,h eici1 changes of
rules that may be accepted by the Mayor roors.,,zs
the entire Civil Service of the city in so short
time. In this endeavor to bring order out Oh @ Cnaos
body, The Civil Service Commission, through its its
heads of departments and with others specially III
terested. - .,sa 1abors will
Re Is GiTf fg' service e for the city more uniformly
graded than ever before Doubtless much viii stu stu
oughIy we'll organized service, but 1t Is Deneved
that the bulk Of the work will have 10 The cty in
the long run ought to be great -,- -.
the Rapd T0TT Transtt G commission No 32O Broadway
the Mayor will present the three plans that nave
been carefully worked for the permanent solu-
tion of the bridge problem: r. ,r. o,,i -
First-The report of the board of expert ehgl- eI
neers on the Manhattan terminal of the Ne"-1orN
and Brooklyn Bridge . ,,oL =.
Second-Tne so-called Martin plan, Whlch Is d
modification of the foregoing. f.. A.
Third-Commissioner LindenthaIS plan ior Ile
stations approaches and connections OF the loii
East River bridges. .,, Ill, 10
this time Commissioner Llndehthdi VIII N0
velop and explain his plan
At the meeting Of the Board Of Estimate TINS
forenoon Controller Grout will make pubic
comparative statement showing the increases
and decreases as compared with the present
budget AS announced in The Tribune yester-
day. it is expected that the increase over the olo
budget will be between 100000 and sOoooo-
After the new budget has been disposed OF the
members of the board will act on the recon-
mendaticrs of the heads of departments OH
salary organization. Controller Grout, IN com
menting on the salaries question. last night salu'
Il expect there will be more or less OF nedrt-
burning in connection with the raising ana ioW-
ering of salaries but it necessary TO DO IL III
order to get the departments on common sense
basis After the offices once cldsSlfled lhS
clerks in the respective grades can look 1or"dI u
10 promotions along systematic lines. IN my
own department have been able. by aboIlshlng
certain places to affect d saving OF over H''oV'o
in salaries This has not been done by cutting
down the wages of all the employees IN very
many cases wages have been advanced. Ihls IS
particularly true with respect TO engineers many
of whom have been underpaid