Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-11

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The total payments from the city treasury
OF Philadelphia in 1893 were Ss6o59, 6lt73
enough TO have provided seven new battle
ships for the American navy. The manner
in which the demands OF q great city made
inroads upon the public treasury Is strik-
ingly shown BY the departmental expenses
OF Philadelphia
For the education Of the children in the
public schools Philadelphia willingly spent
A,7a2,5OO The police department cost $685.
092 the fire department S1,174976 and tho
water department S7,5S7,s94 The bureau Of
street cleaning required S1,197,9s7, the bureau
OF highways 1924 62 and the bureau Of city
property S1,017,296.
Into the bureau of surveys went 81, sS5 7oi,
the electrical bureau absorbed 1,3156 9i and
the lighting bureau S32S, 922. For the work
o. the bureau Of health t21, S7s was required
and for the bureau OF charities 1851, Isl.
During the year a continuous stream of
orders, all calling for money. was presented
at the window Of the municipal cashier,
who was kept busy paying bills for the
city's living and growing expenses.
st. Louis, although larger got along with
less expenditure than Boston the total Of
the western city being S1slO4,74s, and that
Of the Massachusetts metropolis $50, $685. 29.
For the maintenance Of government st.
Louis used SllN5,24s, for schools S2,s6S. 1854
and for public improvements SS192, 1856. Much
of this money went to meet the pay rolls
OF workers, ranging all the way from expert
engineers and heads Of departments down
to street laborers and day toilers on the
various works Of Improvement.
Baltimore paid out &c. 4Os, 1868 in all. IS, 25s.
$50 going for the conduct Of the government
Pittsburg spent more, S14542, Ola in all, main
% syo,yorf,-,anf nd
schools s., 99O.66S
Total expenditures at Washington were
Sl1.Sss, 1874; Kansas City, S6sssOOO; Denver
IS, 1896; Buffalo. 49, .S97; New Orleans
A,S9l6ss; Memphis, A,lO5.5s5; Los Angeles
s., 765,S72
These are simply sample figures taken
from different parts OF the country to in
dicate the enormous extent Of the Ameri-
can municipal pay roll and expense account.
OF course, all money paid out from a
city treasury for the purpose Of municipal
maintenance drifts back in one form or
another to the public pocket, yet the more
direct method Of transferring funds from
city vaults to general circulation is through
the salaries paid employees.
In this outlay New York led in 1903, as
usual, with a salary account of $50, 1884, 272
Chicago came next with S14, ,OO2 and Phil
adelphia third with SlO.7SS,7iO the latter be-
ing pushed closely by Boston, whose salary
list amounted to $10O95,639.
Baltimore paid out in salaries 50, 721, s7s;
Washington, S3,242.6s4; Newark, N. j., $2,194-
40; Cincinnati, S274S,121; Detroit, 81, 7Ss,615;
San Francisco, A3S5,SS4.
The 175 cities from which information was
secured by the census bureau paid total
Of S192229,60O in salaries and wages, and
their total service expenses amounted to
SS2s.742,75T.
1t appears that not enough municipal
buildings are owned for the needs Of the
cities, as S,s2S,SH was paid for rents. Most
Of this great sum went for additional school
buildings, made necessary by increasing
numbers OF public school children