The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-18
AN OVERLOOKING TREASURY.
Tammany VIII Assume Control OF
$4,000, 900 Fund.
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With s140oO0,oe0 Immediately available for
city expenditures, and proposed public
works to cost sl73.OooOO0 awaiting official
approval. the Tammany administration-to-
be sees an era of prosperity dawning with
the New Year.
Mayor Low has decided to begin none of
the great improvements proposed during
his administration which were under con-
sideration before the campaign for his re-
election began He feels to certain ex-
tent that the people expressed themselves
at the polls as dissatisfied with his admin
istration. and that the proper course for
him is to turn all this work over TO his
successor. He will devote all his energies
from now until Jan. / to the completion
of those improvements which are under
way and to the disposal of routine matters
which are still pending, in order to turn the
office over to Mayor-elect Mcclellan with a
clean slate.
To all intents the public seems to have
intimated that this should be the course
the mayor was to pursue. Up to last Tues
day his personal secretary, William j:
Moran, was overburdened with hundreds or
letters daily containing suggestions, re-
quests and complaints; in tact, the mail
ever since Mr.. Low assumed his duties as
mayor has been heavy that Mr.. Moran
found 1t necessary to spend at least three
evenings every week with the mayor at
| his home In order to dispose of it.
| During the last week there have come
only a DOZEN r or i tns cv Yesterda
| vacation of three days, he found only
| few msslves demanding his personal atten-
| ton.
Another indication that the public ex-
| poets decided change of policy under the
new administration is the fact that almost
every lawyer representing chents IN h.i .
| cation with the city, whose cases are set
| down on the calendar for trial before jan
/, has attempted to obtain adjournment I'M
| til after that date.
| mayor has advised not to press the pro-
| posed improvements, Corporation Counsel
Rives has refused to grant the ADJOURN
ments the ground that he desires TO
clear up as many pending cases as posi-
| BILE.
Mr.. Mcclellan. upon assuming his duties
treasury a condition which no incoming
| mayor i'm recent years has found. In this
| respect Mayor Lows administration breaks
| all records, since he is leaving available
| resources of more than Sl40, 900. having
| increased the borrowing capacity of the
| city by that amount through the plan TO
assess real estate throughout the city at It's
| full market value.
| Both the mayor and Controller Grout
| agreed before they went away on their
| summer vacations not to spend more than
| $40, co., 900 of this amount this year. Mr..
| Low said at that time that his own admin
istration had been hampered seriously at
the outset by the fact that Tammany had
| left him without cent in reach, and for
| the first six months he was unable TO I'M
| dertake any improvements. Like conditions
Tan Wy uhoe since sV Controller Grout and
| Charles V. Fornes have gone over to ram
| many, thus giving that organization ten
votes in the Board of Estimate, MT Low
| has decided not to press improvements
| calling for appropriations Of even this part
| of the Increase.
At the same time Tammany will not have
| a free hand In spending this money, since
| under the charter the Municipal Art Com
mission must first approve plans Tor all
| municipal improvements. This commission
| whose terms expire in 1904 are to be APP
| pointed by Mayor Low before Jan. i. mus
| the next administration will have TO deal
| during its first year with commission
| composed entirely of men appointed by
| Mayor Low, and during the second year
I Tammany will have but two members out
| of ten.
The mayor has decided not to appoint a
| commissioner of accounts to fill the va
| cancy caused by the resignation OF VIII
| appoint a new member Of the commission
| to select a site for and to supervise the
| construction of new county courthouse.
| Among the Improvements he will leave
| for Colonel Mcclellan are the proposed
| municipal building, bridge terminal and
| courthouse in Chambers street and Park
| row, plans for which have been prepared
| by Professor Hornbostel, of Columbia Uni
versity on the site Of the Stats Zeituns
| building While Controller Grout is In ia
| vor of municipal building, he is opposed
to the Hornbostel plans. which he has de-
| scribed as building on stills" because OF
the subway, surface and elevated railway
terminals located In the basement and the
first three stories.
other things to be left over are the provi
sions to increase the city's source of water
supply, the rapid transit extensions. con-
/ mr. nv Crrhu
between the Brooklyn. Williamsburg and
Manhattan bridges, and the solution of the
Manhattan terminal facilities for the new
| BlackwelPs island bridge.