New-York tribune., 1903-01-01

Commissioners Stursis. No longer do men hh1
Scannell and Marks run brancn OF the mu-
nicipal government for their personal aggrah-
dizement
In the Department of Water Supply. Gas anu
Electricity Commissioners Dougherty ana Mon
roe found hundreds of meters that faiseiy res
istered the amount of water passing throusn.
t.,Tigbteninp I'D the screws has increased the
receipts $500 900, as compared with the receipts
for 1901.
The Bronx. more work is being performed for
the money expended than ever before When
Commissioner Eusts took hold of me Bronx ,ss
parks he found an engineering force costing the
city about $4,000 a year. He is now gettins
twice the work done for $4,000 year. he mas
done a large amount of work in the new park
territory of The Bronx that will be more fully
appreciated five years from now. Comnlls-
sioner Willcox's studious regard for the puplic
interests has been manifested by his improving
the small parks, while in Brooklyn Conmls-
sioner Young, with expenditure OF Soo,Ooor
has reclaimed Seaside Park. at the end OF ocean
Parkway, affording comfort and enjoyment tor
thousands at spot which before resembled a
rubbish heap.
In the Tenement House Department, under
Commissioner De Forest more than 1,20o old
tenements have been altered in conformity with
the law, and plans for 519 new sanitary and up
TO date buildings, to cost S1S,000,0Oo, have been
approved.
In the Dock Department % per cent of the old
dockmasters were dismissed, and the collections
turned in by the remainder have increased the
receipts from this source Is per cent, as COM
pared with 1901. Nine piers, to be the
largest and finest in the city, have been begun.
The dump at Thirtieth-st. and North River,
leased last year to a Tammany favorite for Sloo,
this year brings in Sc 700 and the one at West
Fortieth-st., leased in 1901 for S1,SOo, was let
in 1902 for s., 100
Borough President Cantor of Manhattan, as
sisted by Controller Grout and others, succeeded
in breaking up the asphalt ring. accomplishing
a saving of 100000 to the city on asphalt CON
tracts The bureau of sewers under PRESIDENT
Cantor has cleaned twice the sewer hiiease
cleaned in 1901.
In Brooklyn President Swanstrom has given
out more contracts for necessary repaVlng tlot
in alb than in the entire four years of the van
Wyck administration. This has been oone at
an expense of S4000O compared with 81
$4,000 The price of asphalting has been re
duced from s. SO square yard to 81 40 square
yard for the same grade of work
In the county offices equally favorable results
have been obtained. Register Ronner, at the
outset of his term, dismissed useless employees
whose salaries aggregated S25.oOo yearly, and
the service in the office is vastly improved at
that Under Register Fromme the recording
work was long way in arrears Under MI
Ronner all papers are recorded the same day.
while the receipts have largely increased.
In the District Attorneys office, when Mr
Jerome took hold. there were more than nine
hundred indictments waiting action. To-day
there are less than four hundred More than
five thousand cases have come in. The office mas
kept I'D with its current work and disposed OIL
half the old cases.
And SO the record goes, all down the list OF
denartuents and bureaus. In every one of them
the comparison is distinctly favorable to the
Low administration.