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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27
F SOURCE OF RErENuE AND PURPOSES OF

amount was increased to S20.6450O0 by
the 100000 taken from the proceeds
of the sale of the current years reve-
nue. bonds to provide for deficiencies in
the collection of arrears of the 1905 tax
levy. There were redeemed, however,
$29.O19, SS6 of revenue bonds issued
against the uncollected taxes OF levies
prior to 1903, so that here again the sur
plus receipts applicable to the current
years budget were drawn upon to the
extent of $S,374, $50 to provide money for
the redemption of revenue bonds of for
mer years. After making these two con-
tributions there remained to the credit
of budget accounts 1921 ,O15 which,
added to the accumulated surplus dur
ing the previous nine months, gave
budget accounts surplus at the end OF
the year OF $14,967, 9S1. This amount
was increased by the add" and de
duct" transfers to $15,2O4, 122. But it
viii be recalled that there was taken In
1907 $6.001 ,G04 from the receipts Of per-
manent Improvement accounts which
was used TO redeem revenue OF former
years This sum has not been returned
to those accounts. Deducting the amount
from the surplus receipts of budget ac-
counts at the end of 1903 there re-
manned q cash balance to the credit
of those accounts at the end Of that year
Of $9.203.11S.
THE YEARS TRANSACTIONS.
The amount which the Chamberlain :
EH.
from the current years receipts and
used to redeem revenue bonds of former
years was also increased during the last
quarter to $1T,645.926 But details
given in the Controllers charter report
and not shown In the segregation of the
Chamberlain's cash accounts. indica+e
that, of the total taxes and refunds re-
ceived during the year, $17,T4O,313 were
arrears of levies of years prior to zoos
With the opening cash balance added
this made the available receipts in 1908
from levies of former year S19,51O, lou.
The same details show that, of the total
budget appropriations paid in 1908 Sill
IOl'Io3 were on account OF budgets OF
years prior TO 1905 According to these
figures. arrears Of taxes collected during
the twelve months were not only sum
Client to pay all budget appropriations
OF former years but left surplus as well
OF SI,S0S,373. While this fact makes II
hard to understand what Justification
the Controller had for selling s17.645.-
900 of revenue bonds against unsolicited
taxes of lev'es of prior years in 1908 so
far as the needs of the budget were con-
cerned. the surplus of $7,S0S.3T3 was
available to reduce the SIT, 045. 9e6
which the Chamberlain's cash accounts
show to have been diverted from the
receipts Of the current years budget
and used to redeem old revenue bonds.
This made the net amount 80 taken dur
ing the year So. .55S.
The Chamberlain's records show that
there VAS on hand in the city treasury
at the end OF 1905 s2S.9$7, 45S. which Inc
Tribune's analysis demonstrates was
made up OF sl4734S40 to the credit OF
permanent Improvement accounts ana
$9,20S.lls to the credit OF budget ac-
counts. The cash balance to the credit
OF this latter group OF accounts was de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

Exactly the same method of treat
ment has been followed in dealing with
the receipts and expenditures of budget
accounts, except that the general
source of receipts and purposes of ex-
pCnditures are given in detail. The pro-
ceeds from the sale of special revenue
bonds and the expenditures of special
revenue bond fund, or emergency budget
account, are included in the gross totals
OF budget accounts. The following table
gives, in quarterly periods. the receipts
and expenditures Of budget accounts,
compiled from the Chamberlain's week
Is cash statements, with the totals Of
the various groups segregated in like
manner. taken from the charter report
for the purposes o. comparison:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

first period Of three months combined
permanent Improvement accounts show
a surplus of $31, 614,357 in receipts over
expenditures. Practically all of this sur
plus came from the proceeds Of the
February sale Of corporate stock and
assessment bonds. Budget accounts
also had a surplus of SS,9SS,579. The
receipts, with the opening cash balance
from the previous year were S1S,117,01S
and the expenditures were $34, 215,9T4.
This left deficiency as between re-
ceipts and expenditures of SCI, 134,955,
which had to be supplied by the proceeds
from the sale Of revenue bonds issued
in anticipation of the collection OF the
wears taxes. There were issued and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

The total receipts of permanent i'm
provement and budget accounts, as given
in the tables, show the income of the
city treasury to have been S3I3,219,lll
for the year including the opening cash
balance Of 1882. III. The expenditures
were S349, PSI $50, but these totals are
100000 less than the amount shown
to have been received and S30O0,0o0 less
than the amount shown to have been
paid out by the official records, The rea-
son is that in separating the transac-
tons Of permanent Improvement groups
from the transactions of budget accounts
1t was found necessary to in effect cancel
a warrant for $3,OO0,000. BY means of
this warrant the sum mentioned, which
had been obtained from the sale of reVe-
hue bonds to. provide for deficiencies in
the collection OF 1906 taxes. is shown by
the official records to have been trans
ferred to special and trust accounts.
The transfer has been cancelled by de-
Quoting both the amount paid and the
amount received in this transaction. so
that the 100000 has been left in
budget accounts, where it properly be-
longs, in The Tribune's segregation Of
the cash receipts and expenditures for
the year. The change has been effected
without altering the relative status OF
the figures or affecting IN any way the
debit and credit balances produced in
the official records.
There is another difference which re-
quires explanation, and which was re-
Terred TO III q previously published artl-
Gle. In the expenditures of bond ac-
count, as given on page 104 of the char
ter report for 1903 and also in the de-
tails OF the Chamberlain's cash accounts,
there is record of a payment of $24,
207 300 'for the redemption Of revenue
bonds and interest thereon" This pay
inent included, according to the records,
So, 7j6, 800 for the redemption OF revenue
bonds and 81, 450. 705 for the payment of
interest and exchange. The amount
shown to have been paid out for interest
and exchange on this lot of revenue
bonds has been added TO the expendl-
lures Of budget accounts, thereby in
creasing the amount shown in the official
records TO have been paid out on that
account by St45O.7 100. after the deduc-
ton already explained of S3,0OOOOO for
deficiencies in tax collections Of 1906
transferred by warrant 20 special and
trust accounts.
From the first table, giving the re-
ceipts and expenditures OF corporate
STOCK and special and trust accounts. It
will be noticed that there was at the end
Of the year a cash balance to the credit
Of these combined accounts for the pur-
pose OF permanent improvements
amounting to $s.732, 736. But in 1907 it
has been demonstrated that receipts of
these accounts to the amount Of s6,o0l,-
GOA were diverted and used to redeem
old revenue bonds. The cash balance to
the credit OF budget accounts at the end
OF 1908 made it possible for those ac-
counts to refund the amount so niisap
Piled during tho preceding twelve
months. With this addition TO their re-
oeipts permanent Improvement accounts
would emerge from the yearis business
with balance OF cash to their credit
OF .l4734,s4o
References 70 tbs skcord table giving
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27
MUSlCA GUILTY
YOUTH so PLEADS.
Plea Then HithdrazCn to Ar
range for Bal.

Philip S1usica. who told on the witness
stand on Monday OF conferences with gov
eminent employees IN the alleged Conspiracy
TO defraud the government of duties o,
cheese through short weighing inpo-t.
sprung a surprise on the court YESTERDAY
by pleading guilty to one OF the counts r
the indictments. AS continuance OF BAL
was denied. the plea was Withdrawn and
will be made this morning, It was said
The trial OF his father. Antonio Musies.
indicted with him. win be Continued to-day.
Young Musica. It was reported, VIII hsvs
an opportunity 10 tell his story to the fed
eral grand jury.
When the case openAd in the morning be
fore Judge Holt, in the Criminal Branch Of
the United States Circuit Court. Philip was
put on the stand. The letter he TESTIFIED
about the day before was referred to again.
He said that he had received IL from the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

sold in anticipation of the collection Of
the years taxes amounted to S16 1o0,-
600 But this included 100000 TO pro-
vide for deficiencies in the collection Of
arrears of the 1905 levy, leaving S13,-
100000 for the purposes OF the current
years budget. Revenue bonds issued in
anticipation Of the collection of 1908
taxes were redeemed to the amount Of
SCI, O92 200, so it became necessary to
take $47, 1892 200 from the surplus re-
ceipts of budget accounts to make up
the deficiency.
There were also sold during the last
period of three months S17,645.o00 Of
revenue bonds issued in anticipation OF
the collection of arrears Of taxes. This
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

was upheld to-day by the Court OF Appeals
The road runs from Sayviile to Belmont
Park The court declares that when the
Public Service Commission found that pub
lie convenience and necessity required the
proposed road IL had no right 10 deny the
application OF the South Shore company
for other reasons, which were given.
The finding of the court makes possible
the issuing at once OF a franchise 10 the
South Shore Traction Company at terms
agreed upon by that company with the city
and assures TO the people OF Queens. within
the course OF a few months, the privilege OF
riding. without change OF cars. for one fare
from the limits of Queens Borough, across
the greensboro Bridge, to seth street, Man
haitian.
On May : the Board of Estimate granted
the company it's franchise. but the Public
Service Commission promptly objected to
its terms on several grounds. the principal
OF which was that they tended to create 4
monopoly.
Commissioner Bassett, in an opinion ex-
pressed at the time, which was incorporat-
ed in the commissions summing UP in the
present proceedings. declared thst the fran
chise gave control for a term OF years to
one railroad company Of the streets men
toned and the bridge. and that no provision
was made to compel that company to make
extensions needed to meet traffic conditions
that might arise.
The sole claim OF the city and OF the
railroad company upon which the present
decision IS based, however. vas that the
Board OF Estimate alone had the right 10
prescribe terms for the franchise grant. the
Public Service Commission being limited IN
the matter 10 powers inherited from the old
Rapid Transit Commission, which had au-
thority only to pass upon the need and
utility Of roads in question. This conten-
ton was upheld IN the Appellate Division,
and the Court OF Appeals has now put the
hnal seal OF approval upon It.
When Controller Metz was seen with re-
gard to the case he said:
Its good thing that there's some DOW
er large enough to make those people mind
their own business. If they'd done so rixht
along we'd have had moro subways now"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

tion of arrears of taxes, but si,369,t0O
was paid out for their redemption.
From the sale OF revenue bonds during
the quarter. therefore. s15,s9s.7o0 was
realized TO provide for deficiency Of
SEQ, 7O1 .001 in budget accounts. This
reduced the surplus to the credit OK
these accounts. at the end of the prev
ious quarter, to $s,726,s65 and increased
the amount taken from the receipts. ap-
plicable to the current years expendi.
lures that had been used to redeem
revenue bonds OF former years to 3d.
271,039.
THE FOURTH QUARTER.
!. In the last quarter, though the re-
ceipts Of permanent Improvement ac-
counts were augmented by proceeds
from the sale Of corporate stock bonds
to the public in November. there was
another deficit. This time 1t amounted
TO $5,179,e36 and reduced the surplus
remaining to the credit of these accounts
at the end OF the previous quarter to
$S690,2T7. The add" and deduct
transfers shown In the table reduced
this surplus to $S,732.7S6. But in 1907
as already shown by The Tribune, there
was taken from the receipts of perIna-
nent Improvement accounts s6,o0i.6o4
which was diverted and used to redeem
old revenue bonds. At the end OF 1908
budget accounts had a surplus large
enough to permit of this money being
returned TO tho accounts from which it
had been taken in the preceding year.
This would give permanent improve
ment accounts a surplus of sl4,7S4,S4o
at the end Of 1908.
The tax collections for the twelve
months came into budget accounts dur
ing the last quarter, with the result that
the receipts were swelled to Sis. 902.
while the expenditures were only S49,-
514,S0o. This left a surplus Of 2,6oS,-
1O2. Still the issue and sale Of revenue
bonds went on just the same. Those
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27
p. S. c. LOSES CASE.
Court of appeals Says Fran
chise Must Be Granted.

Albany Oct. 26.-The decision of the Ap-
pellate Division reversing the Public Ser
vice Commission. 1st District. IN denying
the application OF the South Shore Traction
Company Of Long Island. which proposed
to extend its route and to exercise fran
chise granted by the city Of New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27
MISCELLANY.

1t is announced by Charles Scribner's
Sons that they viii begin to publish this
fall probably next month, the new Me
mortal edition Of the works Of George
Meredith. It will appear in twenty-five
or twenty seven volumes printed from
new type on fine paper, handsomely
bound, and will be sold By subscription.
Considerable new material viii go into
this edition. There will be included a
new novel. @'Celt and Saxon" an unfin-
ished comedy called THE Sentimental
lists" and various critical reviews and
other literary articles. Some fra gmen-
tary additions will be made to the vol
umes Of short stories and essays, and not
only will all of Meredith's poems be
brought together, but some hitherto IN
published stanzas for Love in the Val
ley will be printed, as well as an early
draft Of THE Head Of Bran" One vol
urne will be devoted 10 a complete bibH-
ography and TO indications Of the
changes he made in his works. The
illustrations Will embrace q number of
those which were made for his novels
and poems on their publication in maya
zine form, years ago. As Miliais, Du
Maurier, sandys and Charles Keene
made many of these drawings. the edi-
ton will have q special artistic interest.
Several portraits of Meredith will be
given, with pictures of scenes with which
he was identified. Altogether this prom
ises to be a very desirable edition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

Mr. Alvin Langdon Coburn has a high
place among those photographers who
in recent years nave gone about using a
camera with something OF the spirit OF
the artist. Under the title of London
q handsome folio has just been issued
from Brentano's, containing twenty views
that he has taken in the English capt.
tai. Very effective they are, on their
stout mounts. They give us really pictu-
rescue portraits OF Westminster Abbey,
ST. PauPs, seen from the river; TrafaI-
gar Square, the Houses of Parliament,
and so on. The point of view which the
photographer selects is generally uncon-
ventional and, what is more, he seems
TO have a gift for the denotement OF ct
mospheric conditions which one would
hardly believe compatible with the me-
clanical process employed. The charm
of such plates as THE Temple or ..St.
Pauls, from Ludgate Circus" IN this
book does much TO explain why photog-
raphers like Dir. Coburn are sometimes
spoken Of as though they were painters.
The gulf Between photography and art
remains, OF course, unbridged. but that
IS no reason why we should not find
beauty in photographs like these. Mr.
Cob0rn's Views are wen worthy OF the
stately form given to them, and It was
quite appropriate that they should ba-,.
been introduced BY one Of Mr.. Hflaire
Beuocs characteristic ESSAYS, a synpa-
thetic discourse on the great cid city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

From the buttons come seven more
volumes in the always welcome Every
mans Library" Two are given to THE
Count Of Monte Cristo," surely a wise
selection. In history We have Prescotts
Conquest OF Mexico" in two volumes.
and IN biography the series is enriched
by THE Bayard of India" Captain Trot-
ter's life Of Sir James Outram. and DR..
George Smiths memoir Of the shoemaker
missionary. William Carey To the col
lection Of oratorical examples the pub
fishers add Lord Macaulay's Speeches
on Politics and Literature" Every
batch of "Everyman's" that We receive
deepens our appreciation of this cheap,
well edited series of reprints.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

The John Lane Company has published
in THE Master Painters of Britain" q.
compilation by the late Gleeson White
which gives z very entertaining survey
Of the subject. II is not framed on too
exacting principle. The sentimental
lists and uninspired painters Of pictorial
anecdote receive rather more attention
than would be granted to them in a
strictly critical volume. But on the
other hand, none OF the very eminent
painters is neglected, and in any case
the prevalence in Victorian art Of the
story telling type could hardly be ig-
nored. The Illustrations, for which. of
course, the book is published, make a
fairly representative gallery. They are
excellent full page plates, in haIftona.
MI. White had a wide knowledge of
British painting, and his notes on the
four periods into which he divides 1t, be-
ginning with Hogarth and ending with
Byam Shaw. are full Of useful informa-
ton, pleasantly arranged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27
The Hero of the Conquest of
Me1icO.

FERNANDO CoRTEs AND TIE CON
QUEST OF MEXICO. 1fS3-l51. by
Francis Augustus MacNGtt Illustrated
12nlo, pp 40. @. p Putnam SONS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

Tie conduct u tie var against 4
fce III prepared, supenstitious, credulous
sad JEALOUS was bound 10 la attended
wlrh horrible cruelty and needless szpeF-
iy The historian is constantly forczd
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-04
COP GETS SURPRISE
WHEN HE FOUND It
Lands With His Club ON
the Bottom of a Cork
Leg.

After this when officer Borchert has
occasion to awaken a sleeper who is
slumbering in an alley because Of his
overload of liquor he will investigate
first the condition of the sleeper's feet.
He had occasion yesterday to resort
TO the well-known police method Of
awakening a sleeper by rapping him
more or less gently on the 'soles of his
feet Outside of a thousand-volt elec-
tric shock there is nothing 50 reviving
al a rap on the soles of the feet, but
this method failed utterly yesterday on
one Joseph Ryan.
Joseph who halls from the Canadian
border. was found by the officer and the
heavy load that he carried had evident
~ borne him to the ground. Tapping
him first gently on the soles and then
more briskly. Ryan failed TO show any
signs Of awaking. Finally the Of
fcer picked him up and stood him on
his feet. but Ryan again lost his bal
ance and finally the officer proped him
against the wall of a building.
"Scuse. me officer. but would you
mind handing me my cane on the
ground there. you see have two wood
en- legs. and that's why / lose my bal
ance"
A great light dawned upon the Of
fcer He brought him to the station
and there ne was booked. This morn
ing the hospitality of Tom Grants
country home at Crown Point was ex-
tended to the Canadian visitor. The ac-
ceptance Of the hospitality was rather
| forced. however as Judge McMshor
! fined him 81 and costs
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-04
TIMES
WASNEAREST
THE TRUTH
Gary Men Who Made In
dianapolis Trip to Confer
With Governor Reticent
About Mission-Were in
Hammond Today.

James Bowling and George Nestoro-
vich. two Of the Gary men who made
the gumshoe trip to indianapolis re-
Gently and who learned the decisive
opinion Of Governor Marshall in regard
10 Gary, whether anv other results were
obtained or not, were seen this morn
ing BY Il TINES reporter travelling on
an interurban car from Gary 70 Ham
mond. Any attempt to secure the least
vestige OF information from them prov
ed fruitless.
When seen on the car the men who
had recently affiliated themselves with
w c. Crolius were asked concerning
the purpose of their trip to Indianap-
oils.
The papers were wrong in regard
to the import of our trip" said Dowl-
ing, but I guess THE TIMES came clos
est to it, The fact that we entered
protest against the Gary police force is
untruthfuI The business that we had
with the governor will remain strictly
confidential for the present"
I'm what respects were the stories
emanating from Indianapolis wrong,
he was asked and if they are wrong
why don't you enter a denial"
We'll" Bowling replied, 7 don't care
to discuss the reports at the present
time; and there will be time enough
for denial later. The paper that said
we were attempting a blackmailing
scheme will be forced to retract
The trip to Hammond today seems
almost as mysterious as that to In
dianapols few days ago. That there
is something in the air seems beyond
question, but with the exception Of the
principals no one seems TO know what
ii is all about. It Is evident. however,
that it has something 10 do with law
and order in Gary, and this no ene has
denied Whether anything has been
| accomplished or not remains to be seem
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-04
SHERIFF DESTROYS
CONF|sCATEO LIQUOR
Nary a Drop Permitted to
Enter a Parched
Throat.
WHITING MANS PROPERTY
Beer, Whiskey and Wine All Are
Emptied in Hammond Sewer
Glasses Are Smashed.

It's a sad tale to tell the lovers of
the amber fluid and the frewater, but
the law is inexonorable.
From the dungeons of the superior
court building Deupty Sheriff Blocki
this morning hauled forth wholesale
lots of liquor and spilled them into the
sewer and nary a drop found its way
down a parched throat
What a treat it would have been to
the guests of Sheriff Thomas Grant at
his place at Crown Point if the goods
had been given them for a Christmas
present, but again the law has no SEN
timent.
The liquor spilled this morning was
at one time the property of Frank Sic
bert, who operated last October in dry
district in Whiting
The court ordered his goods confs-
Gated and destroyed and the orders
We're carried out this morning
They were composed of five and a
half barrels of beer. six dozen Bottles
of beer. three dozen bottles of export
beer. three bottles of rock and rye and
gallons of post wine.
All of this went into the catchbasin
BY the courts orders there was also
destroyed 100 beer glasses. four dozer
whiskey glasses and four jugs These
including the barrel slaves went into
the furnace.