South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-05-07
SUNDAY ARRESTS
FOR DRUNKENNESS
SHOW Biz SLUMP
Drop Nearly 80 PR Cent From
Last Years nosJrd-Water
Department ReportS Saving
in Cost of Materials.

That the Sunday arrests for drunk
enness during the first four months OF
the Keller administration was nearly
90 per cent less than during the cor
responding four months OF the last
year OF the Goetz administration. was
the cause of some jolliftcation at the
meeting Of the heads of departments
called together by the mayor Wednes-
day afternoon. Figures furnished by
Clerk Josephson of the board OF safe
ay, place the Sunday arrests for jan
uary, February, March and April, 1914,
at 20. as against 4 3 for the correspond
ing months of year ago.
For the total number of arrests,
however. all offenses, and all days of
the week, this year puts over the last
bv 1853, the arrests in 1913 numbering
549 as against 763 this year. Four
Sundays this year. there were no ar
rests for drunkenness at all. Whether
the department is placing charges
other than drunkenness, perhaps for
vagrancy, assault, etc, where formerly
drunkenness was the popular charge,
and thus keeping down the Sunday
drum record, cannot be ascertained.
but that there is an increase in the
total number of arrests might indicate
something OF the kind.
Getting Reduced Prices.
Report of superintendent Toyne, of
the water department filed with the
mayor, presents another important
feature of the administration oper-
ations to date, showing a considerable
reduction in the purchase price paid
for some materials utilized in the de-
partment Part of them are conceded
by the superintendent to be due to
general reduction in prices, but only
on pipe and some specials, though not
enough to equal all the reductions,
even on those items.
Pipe in 1913 cost the city S24.s5
ton: this year it is s22.35, abut 81 of
which is learned from outside sources,
to be due TO careful buying. The city
uses about 400 tons a season.
Specials are dropped from 500 q ,on
TO 500 this year, about $1.50 of which
is due to regular market reductions,
and the balance TO judiciOus buying.
Hydrants are reduced from $25 each
in 1913 TO s24 in 1914, about 40 to be
bought: lead drops from S4.75 to S4.10
on a lotion lot: jutes drop from $3.50
TO So on two tons; service boxes are
reduced from 81 To so cents on 500,
and a five per cent reduction has been
obtained on service connections, and
on Smith special sleeves and values,
while on meters a reduction of 10 per
cent has been secured. No increases
are reported.
improvements scheduled
to date will when completed, cost the
city $275,3S1.27 in addition to which
work costing s31,037 has been done,
making the total of improvements
$306, ,41S.27
StOrE is i'm Lead.
And the stork is flying on away
ahead of the grim reaper according to
the report of the board Of health. The
births for April were 15S to rs deaths.
which has been about the proportion
during the past four years. Births
have been running about LOO a year
to 500 deaths, showing a healthy in
crease OF population regardless of
changing residences.
OF the deaths during April, 10 were
from tuberculosis. one from typhoid
fever, II from pneumonia, one from
and two from accidents.
There are in the city at the present
time. nine reported cases of scarlet
fever. seven of diphtheria, 13 of
mumps, II of chicken-pOx, seven of
measles, 50 of whOoping- cough, and
two Of typhoid fever.
The street commissioner reports 1 3
cartmen at work cleaning the streets
seven teams and Il laborers employed
at sweeping and collecting, this being
regarded as his part in maintaining
public sanitation.