The Detroit times., 1911-04-26
|cROUL ALLOWED
100 MORE c0PPERs
Committee Reduces Number From
200 But Allows Nearly Every
Other Item in Budget.


Following the example set by the
ways and means committee OF the
council. the board of estimates com
mittee In charge OF the police fund, In
meeting held In the committee room
OF the council chamber, Monday night
allowed practically every item asked
Tor by Police Commissioner Frank IA
+ Croul, outside OF that providing fol-
200 additional patrolmen. the number
being reduced to $50, Thus the esti
majors concur In the splendid compii
ment paid Mr.. Croul by the common
council Their action practically
amounts to an Endorsement OF his ad
ministration.
'E OF the members OF the committee
which is headed by Henry G.. Wob'
rock, only one, Estimator Klebba. was
opposed TO the motion OF Estimator
Andrus TO allow $50 new patrolmen In
stead of 200. Klebba thought that
100 additional men would be plenty
. and threatened to make fight on the
proposition I'm committee OF the whole.
President Eddie Barnett expressed
approval of the committees action,
pointing out that the Detroit Board OF
Commerce, among whose members
were some of the heaviest taxpayers
In the city, was anxious TO see Com
missioner Croul get at least 100 new
men.
The committee cut a total OF Sii,-
500 from the budget of 81; 1868; 6f2.fS
submitted by the council. or this
amount, SAL 500 was accounted for by
reducing the number OF extra police
men from 200 to $50. The items al
lowed by the council for new auto
equipment were allowed TO stand, as
we're the salary increases for the most
part. An increase OF $3.50 per year
was denied Secretary George Walters,
however.
The committee in charge of the
board Of education and public library
funds, Edgar o. Wardell, chairman,
met In the public library, Monday ant
ornoon, and made only two small cuts,
asgregating $1,000, In the budget sub
mitted by the library commission. The
budget that will be submitted TO the
board as a whole totals 1851, l22.25,
( as against S334.S17.62 allowed In 1910.
\ The committee chpped $1,000 from
y the book appropriation. reducing 1t to
$4,000, and $500 from an estimate OF
II $50 for furniture and supplies. The
largest item in the budget is that OF
3216,000 for the purchase OF site
for the new Carnegie central library.
The commission has an option on
piece OF property out Woodward-ave.,
opposite the proposed art museum
site. The money for the purchase OF
this land will be raised by bonds,
It Is practically certain that the
,committee will allow the $4,000 asked
BY the board OF education for the pur-
chase Of additional land adjoining the
s Bishop school for playground pur-
poses. II is also inclined to act favor
ably on the estimate OF So, 900, in
addition to an appropriation OF S17.-
900 allowed last year, for the pur-
chase OF site for the George school.
The committee does not favor the ac-
ceptance Of the school site offered by
the Marshland Boulevard Land Co.,
south Of Jefferson-ave., in the Fair.
view district. The committee believes
that the school should be located
north OF Jefferson-ave. The commit
tee viii meet again Tuesday after
otooASh
OF estimates, and expects to have its
report ready for submission to the
board Wednesday night.
The committee on streets is max
ing its final inspection of the streets
today.
The board of estimates, In commit
tee of the whole, Monday night, APP
proved the reports Of the committees
on the public lighting, y. sewer and
market funds and on the sinking fund
Tor the annexed district, making no
change whatever.
The board rescinded 100000 worth
OF garbage plant bonds and the SIPS.
900 worth of bonds formerly issued
for the purchase OF voting machines.
ON motion Of Estimator Porter. the
board voted 10 cancel s15,156 OF bonds
that had been fioated for the purpose
OF building the Buchanan-st. sewer,
from Eighteenth to Twenty-second-st.,
which cannot be built until after the
Twenty-third-st. sewer is completed.