The Washington times., 1902-05-07
Proposed Reorganization
OF Department Causes
Comment.
NOTHING RADICAL PROPOSED
Caange Made in Case of Per Diem En-
ployes, Who Are to Be Put on a Salary
basis-Chief Inspector to Be Ap-
pointed.

The proposed reorganization of the
street Cleaning Department was discuss
ed extensively at the District building
yesterday. 1t was at first supposed that
the service was to be put upon an en-
trely new basis by the appointment of
several Office clerks and inspectors. But
II was soon discovered that the accounts
published as coming from the Senate COM
mittee were slightly misleading, and that
the amendment to be added to the District
appropriation bill had in view only the
REORGANIZATION of the service as il now is
by placing the present members of the
department on salary instead of a per
diem basis
The amendment, as proposed, was sug-
gested in the estimates submitted by the
Commissioners TO Congress and only one
appointment, that of chief inspector is to
be made This office the Superintendent
was forced to dispense with under rul-
ing of the Comptroller of the Treasury
last year.
Mr.. Warner Stutler. Superintendent OF
Street Cleaning, explained the proposed
changes yesterday as follows:
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 clerk, the only one in
the department SO designated, and owing
TO the increase in Office work, due to the
continued increase in :he area of streets
TO be cleaned, ii was found necessary to
detail two inspectors for continuous duty
in the office in order that the clerical
work might be properly performed The
balance of the inspectors on the street
cleaning annual list arc paid from $500
to 81. 200 for supervising the cleaning Of
the streets. and as their duties are iden-
deal in character 1t would be only just
that they be paid uniform compensation.
In July 1900 the work OF supervising
the collection and disposal of all classes
OF city refuse was assigned to this de-
partment. and for this purpose IL was
necessary to employ thirteen persons.
who, 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
divided for this purpose. The other two
perform the necessary clerical work in
the office incident TO the service. and by
reason OF a decision OF the accounting
officer they are also obliged TO go out
on inspection duty, thus Gripping the Of
fee to that extent.
From the foregoing IL will. therefore
be seen that the office force al present
consists of one clerk tstreet cieaning),
two inspectors tstreet cleaning, and two
inspectors tcity refuse). the three former
on the per annum 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
TO perform city refuse work, and vice
versa. We cannot, however, detail then
so as to get the best results because of 9
decision that employees on the street
cleaning list are 10 be confined to that
class of work and those on the city refuse
list to city refuse work. whereas If the,
were all on the annual list each coulC
be assigned to such duties as he is bes
fitted for.
1.-THE present salaries. both per diem
and annual exclusive of laborers, amount
TO sa2.4s5, and under the proposed re-
adjustment and proper classification tbel
would amount to s42, 700, being an increas'
of but s205. When IL is considered, how
ever. that the proposed change would adj
greatly TO the efficiency of the service
i. MAY be said that the slight inereas'
uould be more than Offset by the benefiti
which would be derived from the re-
adjustment.