Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-01
PREPARING C|TY'S
GENERAL BUDGET
Finance Committee of Common
Council Gets Statements of
Needs from Departments.
FIRE CHIEF MOORE GETS
AN INCREASE IN SALARY
Applications from Other De-
partment Workers for More
Pay Are Received.

AS the ilISl Slep toward making up
the general city budget for the fiscal
year of 1918, the finance committee
of the Common Council last night re-
ceived the budgets of a number of
city departments showing the
amounts that will be needed during
the next twelve months. Most of
these requests were simply received
and will be acted upon later.
As in the past, it Is quite probable
that none of the departm will
receive the full amount that they
ask 1t is doubtful. however, if sub
stantial cuts can be made from any
of the amounts asked without inn
pairing the work of the department
in question Opposition was raised to
the granting of any money this year
to the Humane Society, which last
year received "a, 400
The police budget was S991, 1856. so;
that of the Playground Commissions.
s175, 600; the Board of Health, $173,-
3S1; the City Hospital $19S,392. The
Board of Healths expenses last year
were $165,03032, but in this years
budget is included an estimate of $10,-
900 for taking over the work in pre-
venting infant mortality hitherto
carried on by the Public Welfare
Committee, and $4,550 for work in sex
hygiene and social ethics. The ex-
penses of the City Hospital last year
were 1888, 655.42, and the increase
asked for this year is largely ac-
counted for by items for new equip-
ment, among which is a pulmotor
Richard c. Jenkinson, former Gov
ernor Franklin Murphy and Justice
Swayze, representing the trustees of
the Free Public Library, asked that
the appropriation of $4,000 for the
museum which is housed there be
increased to $4,000 This amount, it
was stated, would take care of the
collection for another year, and after
that it was hoped to have sepa-
rate building 1t was pointed. out
that $4,000 people visited the museum
last year and that from the members
OF the museum association $13, 900 was
raised.
Mr.. Jenkinson also asked $7,0S4 for
new boiler and freight elevator at
the library, and this request was
granted, contracts having been let
for the work when the committee re-
Gently promised $4,000 which was
asked at that time.
From former Alderman Charles l..
whitfield a request was received for
$500 for the Burke Memorial Day
Nursery.
The work of the Public Welfare
Committee in connection with infant
mortality was explained by the presi-
dent of that body, DR.. Laban Dennis,
and by Mrs Nina Van Wrinkle and
Edward Blau. DIR. Dennis pointed
put> the desirability of having this
work done by the Board of Health,
providing that $4,000 would be APP
propriated. He said that least year
the committee had treated 500 babies
and had been able to reduce the
death rate from over IA per cent to
2.Os per cent, or had saved the lives
of about fifty babies. The Board of
Health, he figured. would be able to
open six consultation stations this
summer, instead of the four the COM
mittee had operated and would be
able to treat 1900 patients and to
save the lives of 10 per cent. who
otherwise might die. ,
Mrs. Van Wrinkle said that the
commonly accepted notion that
women were born with the ability to
take care of children was fallacious,
and that the work of teaching women
what to do with children was one of
the important features of the COM
mittee's endeavors.
alderman Hopping, one of the min
ority members of the committee, said
he would object when the time came
to this money being given to the
Board of Health, believing that body
had too much to do at present. He
would be in favor, he said. of having
the appropriation made to the Pub
lie Welfare Committee and of having
that body carry on the work.
Further. Alderman Hopping said
that he wasn't in favor of giving the
Humane Society, the duty of which
is to impound stray dogs, any, money
at all this year. Last year the So
ciety got about $4,000. Mr.. Hopping
said the society wasn't of any use
as far as stray dogs was concerned,
and that the only dogs the society
ever captured were those which they
went around to somebody's yard and
caught such dogs being harmless
Police Commissioner Bladder APP
peared before the committee, asking
for an appropriation of $1,000 for
slU-SldtiOn VI the pOilCe department
to be located in the Vailsburg sec
tol.
The committee decided to increase
the salary of Fire Chief Moore from
$4,000 to $1,000, in accordance with the
provisions of an act passed at the
recent session of the Legislature. AL
derman Hopping said that the minor
ity had no objection to this increase
and that it's recent decision to oppose
salary raises was designed to apply
only to employees at City Hall.
Alderman Reilly was given assur-
ance that his request for $4,000, to be
used with $4,000 appropriated some
time ago for a new Tuckhouse at
South Orange avenue and Twenty
first street, would be granted.
From the Assessment Commission
came request for salary raise in
that department. These were Oliver
B. Burdett clerk and surveyor. from
5000 to $500: Charles A. Reilly. as
sistant, from 1850 to $1,000; Albert +.