The Jersey City news., 1902-03-06

5 last Everyone with whom | came in
contact deals with generalities, and for
a specific statement of facts in connec-
ton with disputed claim bills. or contin-
gent conditions about which information
may be desired, it is necessary TO so from
pillar to post and post to pillar with dis
couraging monotony. Assistance in the
direction of correction instead of justifica-
tion would save great deal Of time
Respectfully,
FOREST A. HEATH, Auditor
Memorandum of claims audited and re-
ported on the 5th of March. 1902 to the
Committee on Concurrent Resolutions:-
Claim No. 123. E. O'Donnell, for hay and
feed. Wayne street stables January, 1902,
S127.52 There are at the Wayne street
stables five Water Account horses, four
Street Account horses, and four belong
ing to the Engineers Department. Com
missioner Heintze says the horses of the
last department should be divided between
the Street and the Water Accounts. Thus
there are seven animals to be fed out of
the Water Account. The claims for feed
during the fourteen months from Janu-
ary, 1901, to and including February, 1902
amount to 81, 1,740.42. or at the rate of $lf75
per horse. When the attention of the
Commission was called to the fact that
$500 is a fair average for monthly feed
it was admitted that the Water Account
had been falsified. There should be ss5S
worth of feed now to the credit of the
Water Account on this IA months alone.
1t is not there, and thus $S5S of lost water
money is found in the Street Department
The prices charged in the bill under con-
sideration allow a sufficient margin over
the best prices this year to pay per cent.
on the s12752 for the ensuing twelve
months.
1t is respectfully suggested that this
claim and those contracted hereafter for
feed be paid out of the Street Department
fund until the 500 noted shall have been
made up.
Claim No. 225, A. E. Nolan, for day book
and record book. Wayne street stables,
January, 1902, s5.25.
The man who o. KID for those books,
Geo. Siebert told me they were not at
the Wayne street stables but at the Water
Department office. At the Water Depart
ment I learned that the books had been
delivered to Mr.. Siebert at the stables.
Again each informed me that the other
was mistaken. Then Commissioner
Heintze was told of the situation, and
twenty minutes later he explained that
the books had been In the Water DEPART
nent office to be indexed and started. This
was thirty-fiv days after the books were
/ alleged to have been delivered There is a
charge in the bill for indexing. Such books
ar not needed at the Wayne street stables,
Mr.. Siebert assured me, as the only clerical
work was the keeping of account of stock,
and this was done by memorandum on a
| slip of paper and taken to the Water De-
partment office each day.
This claim is recommended for non-con-
currence.
Claim No. e55; Jersey Sity Supply Co.,
! for repairing meters, jan, 1902, 1880:
/ Mr.. siebert informed me that these
!, meters were old ones that had been in
| use a good many years: new ones had
been put in thir places, and these sent
for repair Asa matter of accounting for
| work done was unable to find that any
repairs had been rrade or that the meters
were good for anything but old iron after
! this money had been expended on them.
Mr. Henry of the Jersey City Supply Co.
assured me that the repairs in such case
were absolutely unnecessary.
| This claim is recommended for non-con-
| currence.
| Claims Nos $50, ga. and 656 Jersey city
Supply Co., for various supplies for the
Pipe Yard sl.oss-75.
| These bills are dated December a. De-
| cember 2S and January Is last but with
| the exception of $50 worth furnished on
the Goth of December and the 18th Of Jan
+ nary the articles were ordered between