The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-27
SCHOOL BUDGET
IS GUT 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. a
committee report WAS defeated Mon
day night. An item OF s37.79O for
new engine company In the Eighteenth
ward, Woodmere district. was restors 1
after being cut by the fire department
fund committee. OF which Estimator
Schneider II CHAIRMAN.
Estimator Wobrocx started the flgh.
to keep that engine house In the sni
get and Aid Gilman backed him ny
with three eloquent speeches, the FIRST
OF which WAS enough TO carry the item
Estimators Barnett. Brown. Robinson
and Ferguson also assaulted the re-
port and IL went down by vote OF
26 TO as fur as that particular Item
was concerned.
In everything else the committee
was sustained, -howeyer.-Fir Com'
missioner Moore tried to get an add
tional auto company and Commission
err McGraw north end ladder com
pany, but botn failed.
Big cuts are shown In the report Ct
the school furd committee which cams
In. This fund is Gu. S512.332, mostly
through refusing all the new scnC,ls
asked for except one near Livcrnois-
ave. and Vurbert-st.. and the other
near Charlevoix-st. and BurnS-ave.
The cutting alone extended ID the
night schools. manual training, pay
grounds and vacation schools and sal.
aries OF Ia, ONCE force. Supervisor
Stewards salary is left at $4,000.
For adding severa. lots to the Stsn-
op school grounds $4,000 is appro-
priated, anG additional ground Is al
lowed for some other schools. There
will be no gymnasium and library.
costing $4,000 at the HoughtJn
school. II vas found that the money
10 be received from the state In prim-
airy school money Is much less that
had been at first expected and the
amount to De raised by taxation for
teachers saiaries 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, rs
will also the report OF the committee
on public building and ID. p. w. gen.
eral funds. This committee allowed :
number OF moderate increases In
salary. and also a new assistant 10
the city engineer TO act solely ON
grade separation work.
No change OF moment was mnde 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 hid
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
rec tickets.
The commissioner retorted that the
department had to beg tickets from
The d. ". r. to enable its plain clothes
men to ride, and that this was dis
grace. Estimator Mcqueen cane 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 report strongly In
favor OF voting machines, but recon-
mended that they be paid for with
bonds.