The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-30
PAIRING CITY'S SALARY LIST
THE COUPTROILER mas PtI OF'
FIFTI EMPLOYEES CIT.
Confined to- ,udn Bareaa Wni $50 AFTER
other Hurraus Later One $4,000
JSb abolished President We Aneny
Points tOSaIar, Reductions Hes Made.

Other Hurraus Later Ono sS,OOO
! Jsb abolished President We Aneny
Points tOSaIarS Reductions HES Made.
Compt roller Prsndergast. who for three
months has been planning "A reorganiIa-
tion of his department, started yesterday
TO put the changes into efeot. ~. had the
salaries of about tifty employees p'duoed
| 10y n resolution h. introduced yesterday
at the meeting of the Board Of Estimate
and he ALSO made a shakeup IN the audit
bureau. The reduction in salaries ranged
from $50 to 81. $50 a year
The largest cat was made ~ the case
~ John Andrews. cont raot clerk. whose
salary was reduced from H.SO0 To 81. $50
Richard p. Chapman 81 BROOKLYN. who
for about dozen years has t--en the
auditor Of disbursements. was dropped
by MIR. Pr.ndergast His salary was
S.ooo a year. and hrs place will bs taken
by Major r.. r. Eh=t"in. an auditor Ut tho
department. who will continue To do
his present work and also take over Mr.
Chapman's duties.
John j. Kelly. VINO served IN the book
keeping division under Frank Smith.
chief bookkeeper who resigned soon
after Mr.. Prendergast came into Office
and is now chief clerk Of the Court OF
Special SESSIONS. was advanced from
$500 to t3.Joo a year and will serve "a
assistant to Major Ebstein. James J.
Monroe Was made head OF the inspection
bureau in place Of W. ID. Hoag. hut he
will get only q. $50 a year as compared
with the N.OOo salary received 10y Hoag.
Duncan Mclnnes-. auditor Of receipts.
was made chief accountant to succeed
Frank Smith. hut his salary will he 81 .ODO
= year Lrss than the 81 .GD received hy
smith
These shifts and reductions are only
part ut the changes which Mr.. Prender
ga-t has determined upon. Yesterdays
shaksup was confined almost entirely
to the audit bureau. but II - the purpose.
Of the Comptroller To take mp IA turn
every other bureau m the department
Comment was made yesterday on the
fact that tn. men who had either b+-n
lowered IA salary or place by Mr. Prender-
CAST were among those Who had heen
favored particularly by Comptroller Her
man 4 Metz.
Mr. Prendergast will sail for EUROPE
to-day for a months vacation. He has
appointed George 1irr-ll. has private
secretary Assistant Deputy Comptroller
Hubert Smith and henderson VI. Wolfe.
one of tin. chief accountants of the de
partm~nt. to continue the work which
he had begun and To have ready for HIM
ON his return report ON rrmOd" ling
the -tafs Of tLs various bureaus
Borough President McAnrny Ot Man
haitian issued a statement yesterday To
the effect that although the salary list
prepared by Comptroller Pr-nderga-t
said that he had cut the salary rolls ~ his
department tlUs UO during the first SIR
IN onths OF this year as compared with
the first slx months Of last year these
figures dad not give him as much credit
for ecOnOmy as he Was entitled Ia. Mr.
NcAneny said that the Comptrollsr's
report gave only a partial picture OF the
result Of applying business principles
70 has branch of the city government.
Mr.. McAneny explained that allowing
for adjustments in accounts that had not
reached the Comptroller's Office when !
saving IN Manhattan for the first SIX
months ~ slS2 .33S. or upon the same basis I
t2sS 600 for the year
IL appears. however. that the net figures !
do not in themselves show the application |
81 money saved from appropriations
and devoted to new work and that on the |
basis of original allowances SS4s Gc5 will
he saved for the full year IN salaries /
alone. About $50 go will be saved ON
supply accounts. II the difference IN the
salary lists of the corporation inspectors I
- considered. 81 go at this time. against
NO7 90 q year ago. the total amount ,
saved Mr.. McAneny said on Manhattan !
psyrolls for the year 1910. directly and
indirectly. will not be far from half a
million dollars