New-York tribune., 1910-09-19
Mass of Illegal Stuff Printed.

All along the line gross waste has been
revealed. and when the new contracts are
made much waste that cannot be stopped
while they are in force will be cut off.
Under the direction of Supervisor Fergu-.
son. backed by Mayor Gaynor. the cost of
the CITY Record has come down an average
of $50 a day, all due 10 making depart
rnents keep their stuff down TO what the
charter requires shall be printed. It was
discovered that a great, mass Of stuff had
been printed that was absolutely Illegal
For instance, there were the minutes Of
the Board of Health. the Public Service
Commission. the trustees Of Bellevue and
Allied Hospitals and other things. which
had been printed at great expense 70 the
public. The charter provision states that
only brief extracts Of such minutes shall
he printed. including the minutes of the
Board of Aldermen The saving is running
now $50 DAY. or 81. 800 a week. on the City
Record which will be close to $4,000 a year,
and that will he effected merely by elini-
mating from its columns the vast amounts
of Illegal stuff that had been printed in
them under the old order of things.
There also has been large saving on all
the supplements that have been issued since
July !. On the civil list supplement there
was 4 saving Of between Sc. 500 and $4,000
THAT saving was effected simply by fol
lowing the suggestions OF the commission
and by having II printed in BREWER instead
of in nonpareil type" Supervisor Ferguson
said. There are 10000 ems on a nonpa-
reil page and 1920 on a BREWER page
We made the big saving by eliminating the
fat Of which the commission had com
planned In fact We have eliminated every
oe h
ord. We have made the contractors set
ii as close as ANYBODY on earth could set it
They have carried out our instructions with
out the least bit of friction. We have had
no trouble with Brown & Co
It was said, however. that although
Brown & Co. have fallen into the new order
Of things without friction. the Pratt COM
panv has not been so prone TO fall into line
without compulsion being exercised.
"On the assessed valuation supplement TO
the City Record last year the cost 10
the city was $4,000 Supervisor Ferguson
continued. This year il will cost in the
reighborhood OF 81 900. We haven't all
the sections in vet. The last one will be in
this week. Last year it contained $500
pages Of nonpareil outrageously padded. at
an average of s13 81 a page. This year
there VIII ne fewer than 800 pages of bre
vier. at a cost of s6 i a page. That makes
q difference of s. 70 page in favor of the
CITY
We have used a larger and cleaner type.
and that enormous saving has been effected |
merely by eliminating the fat and having
this matter set honestly The volume of
matter in this supplement is greater this
wear than ever before. and We are using
larger type for II. and yet the list covers
500 fewer pages than II did last year and
We got the work done for less than half
what It cost before. The Mayors commits
sion had some sample pages set UP. showing
what could be effected in the way of saving,
and those sample pages have been OF the
greatest value to US in having this supple
rnent printed honestly"