The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-10
ALDERMEN GRID TO
FIGHT SALARY JUMP
Want No Increase to $500 for
Two Of Mayor Mitchel's
Aids.
WILL GET BUDGET TO-DAY

Although Mayor Mitchell said yesterday
that Tslden Adamson and George TirroN
bureau chiefs of the Board OF Estimate
had earned a raise In salary from So 600
to $500 and that he heartily approved
their getting II in the new city budr.
opposition in the Board OF Aldermen :.
increasing II Is even predicted that ~
board will excise the extra appropr,,-
ton, and that II the Mayor vetoes their
cut they will resort 20 their right Of over.
ruling a veto--a right which Is rarely
exercised.
The complaint In that Adamson and
Tirrell, as members OF the budget sub.
committee, were instrumental In boosting
their own salaries in "a bad year, while
at the same time they recommended de-
creases elsewhere, notably in the Dock
Department. which would have put $50
iaborers out of Jobs II Commissioner
Smith hadn't made "A fight and got enough
money to keep his flock on half time unal
June l.
In defence of the two bureau heads 81
Is said that they not only are well worth
$500 "a year but were assured by the
Board of Estimate when the bureaus were
created that they would be raised TO that
salary in the 1915 budget.
Goes TO Aldermen To-day.
The budget will be handed TO the Board
OF Aldermen at a special meeting to-day
but no immediate action Is looked for
The Aldermen have twenty days for dis
cussion.
The tentative budget itself shows that
the estimates OF Mr.. Adamson's bureau
OF contract supervision and Mr. Tirrell's
bureau OF Standardization were not Item
lied. The desired appropriation was put
down as n lump sum for each bureau. In
which the salary Increases we're included
Apparently the Board OF Estimate knew
all about the matter but the public did
not
Mayor Mitchell said yesterday: 81 mos,
certainly approve OF the increases and
voted for them in tho executive meeting
OF the Board of Estimate. The work OF
these two men. especially Mr.. Adamson.
In the preparation of the budget shows
that they are entitled 20 a higher salary
In private corporation Mr.. Adamson's
work would rank HIM an efficiency engi-
neer. and efficiency engineers receive
from 500 TO $3.50 a day"
The Mayor was reminded that $1,000
In tho salary OF the Police Commissioner
and OF the Borough Presidents of Man
haitian, Bronx and Brooklyn. and $4,000
more than President McAneny OF the
Board OF Aldermen gets.
Thin'ts Others Underpaid.
THE Police Commissioner should get
more than $500" he said. There is a
striking dlsproportion In the salaries
paid by the city. The President OF the
Board OF Aldermen is frgh;fuly under
paid. i am convinced that Tirrell and
Adamson earn $500 n year. but tina,
does not commit me to saying that thoy
are worth more than the Alderman.c
President. who receives less
Regarding the $50 Dock Department
men who almost lost their Jobs the Mayor
said: They are not needed next year.
They are supernumeraries. In providing
$4,000 TO tide them over the winter We
simply performed a humanitarian act"
From Mr.. McAneny there was only
this: II voted for the Increases once and
have nothing more TO say"
The District Attorneys office also has
budget grievance. 1t requested thai
Lloyd Willis. Mr.. whitman's personal sec
rotary. be made secretary to the prose
cutor's department with an increase In
salary from $500 TO $1,000 a year. H.
work was to be increased also and two
clerks were 10 be laid Off. Upon the rec
ommendaton OF the committee. of which
Tirrell and Adnmson are members the
two clerks were laid or all right, but
Willis 20 80,