New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-19

These were bought by condemnation. For sixteen
sites bought at private sale the city paid 37.
while the assessed value was only S7SS,1eO. The
Bureau of Municipal Research issued a statement
the city budget for 19l0-the amount OF money
which IL will cost the taxpayers 10 run the city
government during the coming year-in which Il Is
estimated that the high water mark OF sl56 100
reached last year. will be increased by many mill
ions of dollars. The requests OF the various city
departments for the tentative budget nearly all
in, and they total approximately SlS3.OO00O0. This
contains one item OF $50OO00OO for interest alone on
the city debt"
THE record of past extravaganza" unused Busy
Man. 1T shows graphically what we pay for the
privilege and pleasure of being governed by Tam
many Hall Amy persons of Importance die?'
Bishop q. w. McCloskey, of Kentucky, the old
est Catholic Bishop In the country. died in Louis
Vile. Professor w. T. Smith, dean of the Dart
mouth Medical School, died in Hanover, n. H..
Edward Marjoribanks. second Baron Tweedmouth
who First Lord Of the Admiralty in the
Campbell-Bannerman administration, died in Lon
don He had been politically dead since the early
part of 1868, when II was discovered that he had
been corresponding with the German Emperor on
the subject of the British naval programme. Will
lam Lloyd Garrison pubcist and reformer, a son
OF the great AbotiOnist died In Lexington, Mass.
Colonel Michael j. OBrten, president OF the South
ern Express Company, died In this city. 'ohn N
A. Griswod, former president OF the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad. died at Newport. James DAVID
city. John w. Castles. president OF the Union
Trust Company, at No. 80 Broadway, committed
suicide, following a nervous breakdown. The Rev.
Philip Aud Harrison Brown. for thlrty-four years
assistant and vicar of historic st. Johns Chapel
in Farick street, died at Cooperstown N Y. Charles
i. McKim, head of the firm Of McKim Meade &,
White, architects, died on Long Island. II is said
that the killing of his partner, Stanford White by
Harry K. Thaw precipitated nervous breakdown
from which he never fully recovered"
aaid E,,oY
is hard-on plenty of people besides himself
What else happened that ought to remember
New Jersey held a special election 10 vote on
hve proposed amendments TO the constitution of
the state. The hrst three OF the amendments pro-
cordance with the recommendations OF the Ameri-
can Bar Association. The fourth amendment in
creased the salaries of legislators from $500 to 1900
a year. The fifth amendment provided for increas-
ing by one year the terms OF Office OF Senators
Assemhlymen. the Governor. county clerks cor
oners. shertns, etc, for the election of Assembly
men by districts. for biennial elections and for a
separation of state and county elections from mu
nicipal elections. All these needed reforms were
defeated and the state must get along for five
years more at least under the inadequate and un-
satisfactory terms of an obsolete constitution
The time allowed TO yacht owners to nay the duty
on foreign built yachts assessed under the new
tariff law expired Only three Yacht owners So
tied. and the customs officials now await the Arht
TO be made In the courts The full extent OF the
claims which the PETERBOROUGH Rapid Transit Con-
struction Company has presented 10 the citv for
extra work IN the building Of the present subway
was revealed for the first time when the Fo,hl,o
service Commission sent requistion for ylsoooo IN
the Board OF Estimate TO pay the expenses ~ arn,
uaung these claims This requisition brings ont
ihe TACT that the PETERBOROUGH company has asked
- sA's'sV" ZOE extra work Ths Interborouxh