Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-12-11

WAS RECORDBREAKER.
Receipts and Expenditures Practical
ly Doubled During Past Twelve
Ycurs-Comprehensive Exhibit.

1t required S2O3,543.l0 to pay the
municipal expenses of the city of
Alexandria for the last fiscal year,
according to the report of E. F.
Price, City Auditor, which has just
been printed and delivered to the Of
fcers of the city government and to
the tax payers. This is the largest
amount that has ever been spent by
the city in year, the receipts and
expenditures having practically doub-
led within the last twelve years. The
report of the city auditor is very COM
prehensive, detailed figures being
given of every penny of revenue and
every expenditure
The cost of the various departments
Curing the past fiscal year follows:
The salaries paid to city officials was
$S,4S6.65, which is only portion OF
the amount paid in salaries as many
of the officers receive fees which are
collected from various sources and
which to do not appear on the books
of the city auditor. The police force
was maintained at an expense Of
Sl3S52.90, there being one chief OF
police, three sergeants ana fifteen prl-
Yates. During the past year the
city paid S31,O26 on it's interest
coupons, 5000 on temporary loan
made in March 1912. The further
sum of $4,000 was paid into the sink
ing fund for the redemption of bonds.
The expenses of the Corporation
Court, incluing one-half of the sal
ary of Judge Louis c. Barley, and
the salaries of the various attaches of
the court was S3,246.2l. The Circuit
Court expenses were s697.17, the city
iail, S3SS.0I, the chain gang, Still
55. leyal expenses $371 and lunacy
commissions Sl2790. The expenses
Of CITY Council were $1,lOl.41, the
sale Of delinquent property Sl5S.
The cost of operating the police
station was S629.24, the auditors Of
flee $37 81, the treasurer's office, SILL
90. the tax collectors Office, So, the
commissioner of revenues office S24.-
25 the city engineers Office sS7,95,
the mayors office 5000.
The fire protection of the city cost
the sum of s9.OSS.22, the expenses be-
ing divided among =, the three COM
panies as follows: Reliance s3,5fi.-
25. Columbia, $4,O4S.76, Relief Hook
and Ladder Company, $1,467.49. In
addition the cost Of fire plugs was
S203.6O.
The DOOR of the city was taken care
of at an expense of S2574.2o for rhe
uoor house, $727 for out door poor,
81 $50 for the Associated Charities.
Further than this the Alexandria
HOSPITAL received $500 and the Chill
dren's Home $3.50.
A large portion of the money oil
the city went into street work, ne"
sewers and improvement OF pubic
property. For new streets the sum OF
sS4.57l.65 wss spent. Sewer WORK
took $9,2OS.Os. Curbing and o1ck
l,onoht amounted to S7,642.95, sewer
pipe was purchased at cost OF
SlSl5.32. repairing streets came 10
Nl72s6 One of the largest items
of expenses is that for cleaning
streets, it having cost the city OF
Alexandria slO,62l.s3 to keep Its
highways in good condition. Another
big expense was the cost OF hghtne
the city, the current bill amoun1ihe
TO s7.O23, in addition to4the gas winch
was supplied by the city gas depart
ment. Repairs to public buildings
amounted to $9li.73.
The public schools We're maintained
at a cost of s2S055.23 and of this
sum the city paid $1,000 and the
state of virginf:, the balance.
Other items Of expense were the
annexation proceedings which cos
$1,000, printing and advertising which
amounted to s503.21, election expen
seS s499.ss Alexandria Free Kinder
rarten, $3.50. Virginia Munaclps
LexgUe, Sl0L30, street toals, S7oS,
10, surveying streets, $sl6.6S, eoro
ner's iaquasts, ssS; and log license
Ssl.