New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-12-07
MONEY LEFT WITH CITY
oDD FUNDS IN TREASURY.
Unclaimed Salaries Total $3.50, 100
Half Million Nth No Heirs.

-. steadily increasing total Of unclaimed
.r.-ies and wages in the city Chamberlain
-. is something that never lacks interest to
- --an vho have TO keep the figures on the
.,,ks from year TO year The trial balance
.nsst issued by city Chamberlain Martin last
- shows that in the twelvemonth the total
- r-eot up. with little prospect Of ever grow
= less To-day Il stands AZ S159.Teo So
@u-s- don't they 20 and get their wages" is
f---uf-v often heard ~ the City Chamber
lgiz's of7ce
r. answer Is that in most cases there isn't
- --rev~ That Is To say. the claimant is
So -- has moved 10 distant parts The bal
- s--e him from the city was 50 small that
:. 5fz--- consider II worth while 70 bother with
: rsr-ra hy Trtle these unclaimed grists go
.-r, ere city Chzmberlain's hopper, and the pile
.asrs right on growing
II Is hard Ia say Why these unclaimed salary
,.,s--as should keep coming said Chamberlain
No. last week. The S159.0a on the trial
..7s7-a sheet does not represent single years
,-srs-e II i the aggregate Of years Il
- does not increase fast hut IN the course
- ---a- there are many small additions 10 IL
80 --e total Al this time Is p large one
.-4 course We have TO take care % every
,-s NJ The items making up that large balance
Re cannot assume that the fellow who worked
-s 5zr for the Dock Department as a IaboreT
a.. ~ -7e pier al night and went out 70 sea
al. never come back. or that some relative viii
-s- come forward some time with proof Of kin
sim ana demand the 81 - We don't know
-ns- All Italian street sweeper who has been
frightened Of his job and perhaps has gone 10
" orleans or back TO Sicily viii come for
ua-s end ask for his pay.
Then there is some last-of-his-race fellow
mo holds a modest place with the city He
dies n hack room somewhere without any one
-,sri-g a-v attention 10 him He hasn't any rel
..ivss ard # the city owes him - no one pays
-s-4f-us- attention 10 the fact The REMAINDER
Of hs estate may 60 into the hands OF the pup
liz administrator. and the petty balance due
hn from the city i entirely overlooked me
.i-~ -az-aas-e- doesn't know that the chap IS
dead and. after holding the balance toT q llIIle'
s-t-s TO this Office with memorandum and
as f-ro the unclaimed salaries and wages
md never 10 come out again
In addition 70 the unclaimed salaries ana
wages held from decade 10 decade by the City
chamberlain. there are various balances which
s-ke IT. average man as queer
r-r- The Bronx came an envelope that looked
f---u5da1sa until TIE City Chamberlain opened
T. Il contained IS cents. It went into sep
z-are account in the pon6erous ledgers n the
r--v Chanbe-lair's Office under the heading.
-Reru-1 he-5zk and Naming Streets. The Bronx
75ar was small business" but II wasn't a
--z-ge- 70 a balance that came from the De
Martinez Of Corrections. where Commissioner
r5Egev showed his thrift 10y saving six cents
ION repairing steamboat used by his depart
7en1 ana turned II over 10 the City Chamber
lzir who had rC MAKE q separate entry Of It
None from tie estates q persons who died
zsthoz1- leaving d all or heirs Is sent 70 the
civ Chant e-Iai--s Office. He has on hand
SFlS - ~ received from such sources The
gublc administrations. perhaps after Years OF
search. failed 10 md al heir They have turned
hundreds u -i-Lle estates, running from one cent
IL hundreds q dollars. over 10 Jhe Chamberlain !
TIE Board Of Elections has way OF selling .
Old bales and sending the money down TO the .
cry Cha--ae- The proceeds Of single sale .
Go ugt amount 10 much as the board knows &
ab5r hea many ballots are going 10 be used .
every yez-- but the accumulation u E few years /
1ss raise -r- fund 10 S2.7II -
Far variety there Is nothing that can surpass +
TIE edg=-s Ia the Chamberlalu's Office indicating
re MATURE II The balances The cltE Is vast and /
lis receipts and disbursements are varied The .
CITY Chsule-Ial1's Office. - TIE place u last .
resort .ar stray funds. picks Up ana Keeps al /
array -l--- buttons that cannot be duplicated
PERHAPS. IN amy other eicy IN the world.