Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-21
Reductions Made by the Change.


med up as follows: In the executive offices,
from s19.6515o to $4,000. q decrease OF a.
351 80; in the auditors office from $. 50
to S.. 500. q decrease of 1851 50: In the en-
gineer's Office from S115.S14.60 to sill. l40.
decrease of $4.674.60: in the assessment Of
fee, from $751; 80 to $780, saving of $3.50;
in the street sweeping Office. from $15.513
to $f4,7o0. a decrease of $813; in the sur
veyor's office, from SCI. 93A-75 to $20.O79.
decrease of 81. $50. 20: at the bathing beach.
from s1,Oo1.50 to S1.0o0. decrease of $50:
in the electrical department, from SIS, 151-50
to S1S.115, a decrease of $576.50; at the
house of detention from S., 216 % to S.. 100.
decrease of 1862 in the board of charities,
a reduction from STOOL 10 of 500; in the
Washington asylum. from $3.765.15 to
$3.325. decrease Of $440.15; and In the
water department. from $56.5942o to
so. 260. a decrease of 80. 1874 25, total re-
duction of from 1888, 555 to s211 ,02S, or
Si2, 52I.23.
Boys Reform School.
The bill omits all provision for the sup
port and management of the reform school
for boys, and provides instead an appropri-
alton of $4,000 for the care and mainte-
nance of boys committed to that institu-
ton by the courts of the District of CO.
lumbia under a contract to be entered into
by the board of charities.
1.-THE reform school," the report says. els
penal and reformatory institution belong
chased and nearly all of its improvements
have been paid for out of the federal treas
ury, and its management is wholly under
the control of the Department of Justice.
Therefore, it is believed that as an institu-
ton for the reception of Juvenile offenders
against the laws of the United States its
maintenance should be provided for. as are
other penal institutions of the federal gov
eminent, in the sundry civil appropria ton
BILL with provision made, as proposed IN
the accompanying bill for the cost of care
and maintenance of Juvenile offenders COM
mitted to it by the courts of the District
Freedmen's Hospital.
An appropriation of $25, 500 Is proposed
for the care and treatment of .fndigent
patients In the Freedmen's Hospital under
a contract to be made by the board Of
charities. The institution in question is
purely a federal one it is explained. land
is by law under the control of the Depart
ment of the Interior, which controls all adj
missions thereto. During the last fiscal
year, of the 2,007 persons treated therein.
76O We're non-residents of the District and
in no sense were proper charges on the
local revenues. Unless the hospital shall by
law be turned over to the control and
mana cement of the local authorities, with
power to exclude therefrOm non-residentS,
it is believed that it should be provided
for as all other like institutions of the
United States, in the sundry civil appro-
priation bill. and the District of Column
bia be required to pay a reasonable charge
under contract for each of it's residents
cared for therein, as is done in the case
OF the insane, who are committed from the
District of Columbia to the Government
Hospital for the Insane and of the deaf
and dumb who are admitted to the CO.
iumoia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb"
Emergency Hospital Service. n
The bill omits the specific appropriations
NJ
pensary and Emergency Hospital and the
Eastern Dispensary, respectively and pro-
poses instead appropriation of $4,000
ito enable the board of charities to pro-
vide for emergency care and treatment
or and for dlspensary service to INDECENT
patients under contracts or agreements
with hospitals and dispensares no part
lish or maintain any hospital or dispen-
sary not now existing in the District of
Columbia The proposed change unifies the
whole system of medical charities in the
District In that it brings them all under the
contract system.
Uni6cation Plan Appropriations.
In connection with the unification plan
for District charities, first put into effect
in the present bill, the following items are
of general interest: For the care and
maintenance of children under a contract
to be made with the National Associa ton
for the Relief of Destitute CoIored Women
and Children by the board of charities,
not to exceed $1,000. (This is the sum ap-
propriated last year and the sum asked
for by the Commissioners for the fiscal
year 1908.
For the care of children under a similar
contract to be made with the Washington
Hospital for Foundlings, $1,000 an increase
OF $1,000 over the Commissioners estimates.
For the care of children under similar
contract with the st. AIMS Infant Asylum
s., 400, or $500 more than estimated,
The sum of $1,000 is appropriated for the
maintenance of the Women's Christian As
ISOLATION, just half the appropriation for
last year.
The sum of 5000 is appropriated for the
care of women and children under a con-
tract to be made by the board of charities
with the Florence Crittenden Mission.
Free Public Library.
The sum Of $50, 100 is carried by the bill
for the maintenance Of the free public
library during the next fiscal year. The
appropriation for tie current year is $780,
800. and $50960 was asked for the fiscal
year 1906. The increase allowed Is for an
additional assistant librarian at $500 one
additional assistant at $720. copyist at
$3.50, and 81, 700 for keeping the library open
on Sundays from until 10 o'clock; on five
holidays from 10 o'clock in the morning
until 10 in the evening. and for three extra
hours Saturday afternoons during July
August and September. A note with re-
gard to this latter appropriation says that
there is strong public demand for this
increased service 1t is desired to keep
open all public departments of the library
except the circulation, and including refer
ence, children's open-shelf and periodicals
rooms. The lump sum Is asked with the
understanding that a so per cent increase
over the hourly rate usually paid to en-
ployes filling the necessary places Except
to the building force shall be paid to vol
unteers chosen either from the regular
staff outside it's ranks"
Miscellaneous District Expenses.
In the list of contingent and miscellaneous
expenses of the District government there
are several changes from last year The
appropriation fer the services of collectors
or bailiffs in the, collection Of overdue per-
sonal taxes by distraint and sale and other
wise is increased from So. 500 to $1,000, and
the appropriation for advertising notice of
taxes in arrears on July / is reduced from
So. 600 to 81 600.
The sum of $500 is carried by the bill
for the purchase of the plats and field notes
of William j. Latimer. A note explains the
necessity for this appropriation in the
statement that Mr.. William j. Latimer,
private surveyor, alone possesses data COW
ering that part of the District of Columbia