New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-15
SAVES MONEY FOR CITY
Correction Department Sends III
Budget for Next Year.
ACTUAL DECREASE sits
But Commissioner Points to I'M
movements That Will Econ
omize Later.

c..,r,;~s4oner whitney Of the Department
IS co-raction in making up his budget estl-
mate for 1910, which has been rece1Veo %
tho Finance Department, reduces 'iO
amount allowed to his department thiS
wear by s27Ts Under the last McCleiia"
administration the annual appropriations
for the department jumped from sSe9'oo' III
1905 to sf,273574 which was voted last DC
tober for the current year
The amount asked for by Commissioner
Whitney for next year is s.. 210.374- 1t IS eA-
pected that this amount may be reduced
still further on analysis by the Bureau Oh
Municipal Investigation and STATISTICS
A saving of S4s. oS5 has been made in the
estimate for general supplies This mas
been made by close pairing all along the
line: for instance. $3.50 has been cut from
coal and 800 from telephones.
The estimate for manufacturing supp1es
has been increased by $4,000 to 100000, but
this, It is believed. will result in saving
TO the city in the end, as the plant Will be
able to turn out supplies for the various
departments much cheaper than they can
be purchased elsewhere
Plant for Brush Spindles.
For instance. II is planned to equip the
pIant for refflling the brush spindles for the
sweeping machines of the Street Cleaning
Department There are some two thousand
OF these spindles which have 10 be reflled
on an average of once week This plant
will be able to fill them for 81 each, where
as It would cost about SIS each in a resu-
lar factory. The budget estimate goes on
TO say:
1T is also intended to use part of the
100000 requested for the manufacturing
plant in providing increased facilities for
greater number of prison workmen. There
are about three hundred men at present
employed in the plant. and it is planned 70
double This total. The plant makes all the
iron beds and bedsprings used in the Police
and Fire departments and also in the city
jails, prisons and in the penitentiary itself
All the clothing worn by the prisoners and
workhouse inmates is manufactured
Shoes are made for the city hospitals
and carpet slippers are manufactured for
free distribution in the city charities and
the workhouse Stockings also are manu-
featured and hair broonls and brushes
Keen Rivalry Among Convicts.
There is keen business rivalry between
the penttentiary manufacturing plant and
the plant operated by the convicts in the
sing sing prison. L he peHILSHIldTy pIISOil-
ers pride themselves that they turn out
boots superior TO those made in Sing Sing,
and at present the two prisoner factories
are in competition for the sale of these
boots TO the various city and state depart
ments using them. Many pairs of the shoes
manufactured in the Blackwelfs Island
penitentiary are given to prisoners dis
charged from the island
The Commissioner says he needs aGdi-
tiona1 money TO prevent trouble among the
cooks
-Four cooks are employed In the depart
ment,' he says, and, in keeping with the
present day tendency of all cooks, they
have refused to work longer for $3.50 a year
They demand $500. and the Commissioner of
the department states in his estimate that
trouble can be avoided only by granting
their request.
Despite the decrease in the departmental
estimate. there is an increase in the num-
her of prisoners in the penitentiary on
BlackwelrS Island and in the warehouses;
Acting Mayor Mitchell has sent a request
to the head Of each department asking him
to give his personal attention TO the prepa-
ration of his exhibits for the budget exhibit
TO be held in October, and to do everything
in his power to make IL a success