Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-23
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
City officials Working Against the Big
Overlap in Funds.
MAYOR KoUTsN PRACTICES ECONOMY
All Unnecessary Expenses stopped
and Employees Reduced TO the
Lowest Possible Point 60
save City Money.

City o~fncials are still working on the
overlap proposition and hope to keep 1t
down to $40, GOO. when the last count was
made the overlap showed a deficit of $751;
600, but with additions recently made this
sum will be increased to not less than
$40, 900. 1t is the intention Of Mayor
Koutsky, to keep the deficit down as low
as possible, and yet pay all floating In
debtedness. in his efforts to do this the
mayor has curtailed expenses in every de-
partment and now the city is being run on
an economical basis. No useless employees
are on the street department. The mayor
and the city engineer perform the duties
of former street commissioner and thus
save the city quite a sum OF money aside
from the salary of such an official. Then
again there is o saving in the building In
spector's department and In the PLUMBING
inspectors once. One clerk now does wnat
was formerly the work Of two men and an
assistant. II the. method now in vogue be
carried out. Mayor Koutsky hopes to keep
the overlap down so that when bonds are
voted he can show that the overlap was
not caused by extravaganza during his ad-
ministration.
ArbOr Day Observed.
Very little attention was paid to Aroor
dav In South Omaha yesterday. I'd oahks
closed, and the mail carriers made only one
delivery Of mail. The public school emil
dren we're dismissed one hour earlier tnan
usual. There was no attempt MADE 70 CLOSE
b~uslness houses, nor was there any sisns
of tree planting, All the scnooi nuaas
are now provided with trees and conse-
o,antlv. there was no, ceremony OF any
Kind at the schools.
--I..a@ pNf0aH.
Restaurant keepers in South omaha are
complaining about the rapid Increase In
the price OF meats. One restaurant man
said last night to a Bee reporter that NUT
ton chors were selling at 10 cents q pounu,
rib roasts at about - cents. beef loins at
~ cents and pork loins at 10 cents. On
account OF the raise IN prices the res
taursnts here are talking Of buying the
meat they use from outside concerns. II Is
asserted that meat can be shipped In from
Iowa cheaper thar the prices charged here
Harmon stops Grading.
lust at the time when people expected
Dan Harmon to get busy and finish the
grading Of Seventeenth street his big ma
y chine broke down. The accident occurred
veaterday afternoon and Harmon asserts
that It is due to the carelessness of one OF
his employees. Some castings will have to
be sent for and It may be a week before
the grading can be resumed
Police Board m
There was a report on the streets Wednes-
day afternoon to the effect that Gov
ernor Mickey had named members for the
South Omaha fire and police commission.
The list given out by A. L.. Bergquist fol-
lows: w. b. vansant. John Keegan, George
i. w. Mason, @. M. Hunt. Jehn Fitz Roberts.
In order to s~ubstantiate this report a
message was sent to Lincoln and the an
swer was that the governor had not ap-
pointed a board and would not do so until
later In the week. Those who claim TO be
on the inside assert that the slate mem
toned goes, whenever the governor gets
around to making the appointments public
inspectors working Again.
A settlement OF some sort appears to
have been made between telephone in
spectors and officers OF the Nebraska Teie-
phone company. For a few days all Of the
inspectors employed In South Omaha were
out OF work on account Of the strike OF the
llnemen Yesterday the inspectors returned
to work n telephones In residences may
now be repaired or inspected as formerly,
The South Omaha once OF the telephone
company was In hrst-clsss condition and
consequently there was little Inconvenience
on account of the strike. Now that the
inspectors are at work the regular inspec-
tions OF instruments viii again.
Maggie City Gossip.
philip Rraus OF Albright has as his guest
his brother from New York.
DIR. w. I. Curtis Is out after having un-
dergone IN operation for appendicitis.
Frank Thompson has purchased the Bond
saloon at Twenty-fourth and X streets.
The dog catcher will be turned loose on
May l. Tags are for sale at the city clerks
once now.
Mike O'Hern was up from his farm a
Piattsmouth yesterday looking after his
nroperty interests. He said hat Mrs