The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-27
SCHOOL BUDGET
IS CUT DEEPLY
Over 100000 Clipped OF By Esti-
majors Committee, Salaries and
Votes For Buildings Trimmed.

For the first time since the board
OF estimates got down to business. q
committee report was defeated Mon.
day night. An item of s37.7s0 for a
new engine company In the Eighteenth
ward, Woodmere district, was restors
after being cut by the fire department
fund committee. OF which Estimator
Schneider IL chairman.
Estimator Wobrock started the flgh.
TO keep that engine house In the bull
get and Aid Gilman backed him up
with three eloquent speeches, the first
OF which WAS enough TO carry the II sm.
Estimators Barnett, Brown, Robinson,
and Ferguson also assaulted the re-
port and II went down by a vote or
&c to 7 as far as that particular Item
was concerned.
In everything else the committee
was sustained, however. Fire Com
missioner Moore tried to get an add
tional auto company. and Commission
er McGraw north end ladder com.
pany, but both failed.
Big cuts are shown In the report CT
the school fund committee which came
In. This fund Is GU. $5l2.332, mostly
through refusing all the new scnCols
asked for except one near Livernois
ave. and Herbert-st., and the other
near Charlevoix-st. and Burn%ave.
The cutting alone extended To the
night schools. manual training, pay
grounds and vacation schools and sal
aries Of tina once force. Supervisor
Stewards salary is left at $4,000.
For adding severa, lots to the Bisn-
op school grounds $4,000 Is appro-
priated. and additional ground Is al
lowed for some other schools. Thee
will be no gymnasium and library,
costing $4,000 at the Houghton
school. II was found that the money
to be received from the state In prim-
airy school money Is much less that
had been at first expected and the
amount to be raised by taxation for
teachers sa.aries Is up to $559,1I5 this
year.
This committee also left in its re.
port the item for a $4,000 branch
library out Gratiot-ave. The report
will be acted on Wednesday night, as
will also the report OF the committee
nm public building and ID. p. W. gen.
eral funds. This committee allowed a
number OF moderate increases In
salary, and also new assistant TO
the city engineer to act solely on
ortde separation work.
No change OF moment was made in
the police budget as submitted by the
committee having that fund In charge
This fund came up at the Monday
night meeting. and the warmest de.
bate was over the item Of $4,000 for
car tickets. which the committee had
cut to $500 Commissioner Smith wish
ed to know why this was done. and
Chairman Smith told him that 1t was
because he understood that many po-
licemen used bicycles and saved their
car tickets and that captains rode on
free tickets.
The commissioner retorted that the
department had to beg tickets from
the ID. u. r. to enable It's plain clothes
men to ride, and that this was a dis
grace. Estimator Mcqueen came back
with the statement that all other city
employees had to pay their own fares
and he did not see why the police
should not.
The item stood at 81 500.
Tuesday afternoon the general fund,
which includes the salaries and run
ming expenses OF most OF the city hall
offices. will come up. This commit
tee presented a report strongly In
favor OF voting machines. but recon-
mended that they be paid for with
bonds.