The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-29
O.P.W. BUDGET WILL
RUN CLOSE TO
s5,900.0OO
This Is Nearly Two Million 0ye1
Last Years Figures, But Commits
GOner Haarer Says the Money
Il Needed.
Police Department Asks 200 New
Patrolmen and Salary Boosts Fire
Estimates Are Higher, Too.

my budget this year will be close
to $4,000. 0OO." said Public Works Com
missioner Haarer, Saturday morning.
Il know that is a big increase. nearly
100000 more than asked last year.
hut 1t can't be helped. am trying "a
keep the figures down as low az pos
slbly can. Detroit, you know. Is ger.
ting to be pretty big town and am
getting requests for improvements.
such as sewers, for instance, from new
industrial institutions, that In former
years were not made at all. These
things are all needed and 1t will take
money to put them in"
! Practically the entire force I'm the
department of works Is at work on the
budget and the commissioner expects
to have it ready for submission to tho
controller by Monday. 1t viii be
finished tonight.
The commissioner asked last year
81, 204, POSTS.
crou Wants More, Too.
Police Commissioners Croul asks ST.
113.797.35 with which to run the police
department and install some new
ideas, during 1910.
Last year s799, $4,000 was allowed.
and the amount asked was $901..
992.70.
mong the larger items in the 1910
budget Is a request for $4,000 for
automobile equipment; a proposition
to add 500 a year to the salary OF
every uniformed officer drawing 81.
500 or less; $1,000 for new motor
cycles; and 200 new patrolmen at an
initial salary of 1910.
Canfaing nOw dro wi KIM nor
year, leutenants, sergeants, patrol
men and doormen all figure in the pro-
posed increase of 800 a year. Detec-
tives, precinct detectives, and Night
Superintendent Mack, whose salary Ia
$1,660, and Capt. Alphonse Baker. OF
the Central precinct, who draws $4,000
1 per year, are not 10 benefit by the
raise.
Commissioners Croul asks $3.50 for
improvements to the police signal
service, and $4,000 for the instala-
ton OF additional patrol boxes In the
outlying districts. twenty-five horses
!, are asked for the mounted squad, at
! 1925 each; total $5,625.
The $4,000 item for automobile
equipment is separate from request
for $500 for equipping the proposed
auto patrols with stretchers, and first
buIBACdl CdSebJ l0dI lu6y may 10
used as ambulances on all police calls.
The ambulance proposition seems
to me to depend on the success Of the
: automobile item" says Commissioner
Croul. II don't think the old style
patrol wagons wilB be practical a.
ambulances. But IL we get the auto
patrols, they will respond TO all acci-
dent calls OF az emergency nature"
"Flrst Aid" Glasses Planned.
In this connection, Commissioner
Croul asks that DR.. Grifith Thomas.
now ranking as patrolman, be made
First Aid Surgeon, with an increase OF
salary from $1,000 to $1,000. The
proposition is TO have DIR. Thomas
hold classes for signal officers. and
teach them the rudiments of first aid
to the injured. In this way, every
auto patrol--if auto patrols are al
lowed-will be equipped with a signal
officer who is practically an ambul-
ance surgeon. fitted for first aid work.
Police Surgeon Gorenfo will suner-
wise the work. An increase OF from
$1,000 to $1,000 is asked for him.
Commissioner Craul wants a dep
uty superintendent" at $4,000. Detec-
tive Judd Lombard, now acting assist
ant superintendent, on a detective
lieutenants salary, would probably
get the Job.
The cost or the auto patrol now In
commission, and paid for out OF Com
missioner Croul's own picket, Is be
taken out OF the $4,000 appropriation.
The wagon cost $4.910, and was made
by the Packard Motor Works.
4 Commissioners Croul wants more
patrol wagons, and a motor truck for
the sealer of weights and measures.
Would Boost Many Salaries.
Requested increases in salary are
quite general and pronounced. Some
OF them are: Capt. G. l.. Sponenburgh,
OF the signal service, $500 to $4,000:
assistant signal superintendent, 81 200
to $1.400: machinist. $500 to $1,000;
nine operators, 5000 to $1,000; three
time keepers, $500 to $940: eight
matrons, $50 to $55 per month; Chief
Clerk Bernie Chappee, OF Supt. Dow
news office, 81 200 to $1,000. Chappee
| once got $1,000, but the estimators
! cut It, two years ago. Stenographer
= Leo Banker Is down for boost from
, S1,O34 to $1,000.
Sergt. Herman Auberlin, superin-
!, tendent Of buildings and repairs, now
4 drawing $1,100 as a sergeant, wants
1 $1,000 as building superintendent
2 Discussing his request Tor zVO new
j. patrolmen, Commissioners Croui sala-
Z "The city needs them, badly. Inere
, are beats where the residents don't
see a policeman In month. what
| want is not more ofhcers' put more
men to walk beats"
FAST RTfFFALo-CIose.