Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-06
TO DOLE OUT CITY FUNDS
Mayor and Council Will Take Up the
Problem at Once.
CENTRAL TOOL HOUSE Is URGED
DohIman Backs Up Tom Flynn I'm
This and VIII Press the Mat
ter Before the other
Officials.

Members OF the city council will meet
Thursday morning with the mayor and
other city officials to go over the re-
quests for apportionment OF funds for
the year. 1t is expected that final agree
ment will be reached after two or three
sessions.
Mayor Dahlman, who has in his posses
sion all the requests Of city officers, has
some notions of his own as to what ought
to be done in certain departments and
will present his IDEAS to the conference.
lie will back up Street Commissioner
Flynn's suggestion that the city should
have a central tool house, or service
building, for the street department, with
two other stations located in the south
and north sections Of the city.
The present headquarters Of the work
ing force Of the department Is under the
Sixteenth street viaduct. Great waste II
time is involved In handling the machln-
cry from this point, because Of the long
distances to be covered in getting the
machines and the men to outlying places
where work is to be done.
Il believe that the thinking citizens Of
Omaha will give support TO the council
IL 1t decides to adopt my recommends
tion and get more machines, to be handily
located for work." said the mayor,
There is absolutely no sense in having
the machinery kept in a place from which
It can be moved only with the greatest
difficulty in bad weather. And there is
just as little sense in wasting time for
which the city is paying good money
moving the apparatus and the men from
that place to distant points. This city is
widely spread and some elegant residence
districts exist far out. Why not have
two or more buildings in different sec
lions wherein to store flushers and sweep
ers and where the workers can report to
the foreman and start on their work at
once7
Besides the subsidiary tool houses in
the north and south sections, perhaps one
should also be located in the West Far
nam district, but, for a starter, the coun-
ell can we'll take up the matter OF building
a central house and two others at this
time. These tool houses need not neces-
sarily be costly, and can be built on prop
erty the city owns, or on ground that can
easily be secured. they could be moved
without any trouble later on, II that should
be necessary
Another matter that will very likely en-
gage the attention of the officials is the
standardizing of city account keeping.
Comptroller Lobeck and his deputy, Fred
II Cosgrove, have worked out a plan which
has been explained to most of the council
men, and seems to win their commenda-
ton. 1t may involve the securing of some
additional expert clerks, but 1t is asserted
that this increased cost will be more than
offset by the resulting good to the city.
Blanks required to put the proposed new
system into effect have been prepared, and
book headings outlined. If the council
gives It's Endorsement, all new printing
ordered under contracts just awarded
will be gotten up along the lines of the
standard plan. which closely follows the
recommendations of the United States
census bureau touching city accounting.