Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-19
LEADERS ASSURE
SUCCESS OF LOAN
BILLIN COUNCILS
I Finance Committee Members
Declare No Distinctions
Will Be Placed in Path Of
Measure Today.

AfANt@oaAC = O1Ay
councils today will consider the lesisla-
lion necessary for floating the sii.9oOOoo
mupieipat loan for permanent public inn
provements authorized at the last eiec-
tlon.
Members OF the Finance COMMITTEES Of
Councils have asserted that there shall be
no obstruction placed in the way Of the
measure that will provide funds fer the
inception OF the great transit develop
rnent planned for Philadelphia by Director
a. Merritt Taylor. Of the City Transit De-
paftment. and for the beginning Of the
task OF eliminating railroad grade cross
ings that have retarded the expansion OF
South Philadelphia.
Tho Transit Department will receive
e5o0,oo0 for preliminary work Of relocating
sewers In the central part OF the city.
An Hem OF si,O00,O00 will start the work
OF grade crossing elimination. other
municipal projects included In the loan
arc FOR harbor and pier development inn
provemont OF highways and bridges: an
itcm Of 100000 is for buildings for the
new Municipal Court. other items are
fer payment OF mandamuses.
The ordinance authorizing the floating
OF the loan will be introduced today. The
Finance Committee Will go into session
during the meeting Of Common Council
and VIII report back favorably on the
bill that II may be placed on the calendar
Tor passage at the next session.
resolution directing the Clerks OF |
Councils TO advertise the loan for four |
weeks will also be introduced and passed. |
aud advertising OF the intent OF the city |
to hoat the loan will be begun tomorrow. |
CONTRACTS ON MARCH 1.
Later LEGISLATION will provide for final
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priating to the various departments and
bureaus the funds from the loan items.
1t, is believed that under the most ad-
Vantageous conditions contracts might be
let under the loan. about March /. Heads |
of the municipal departments have assert
ed that plans and specifications for the
improvements under the loan are now vir-
tuaily completed, and that letting OF the
contracts can be started as soon as the
last question OF legality is removed.
Included In transfer bill of 100000
that Is to be passed by Councils today are
items that will insure payment during
tho remainder of the year for approxi-
mately 20 positions created by the Mu-
nlcipal Court, November l.
Counclls action on the bill will virtually
increase the annual salary roll of the
expensive Municipal Court by approxi-
mately $4,000 year. and will extend the
patronage feature of the tribunal that
nAS the unQuallneQ lnuOrSement OF every |
Organization man in both branches OF |
the city's legislative bodies.
The bulk Of the transfer bill provides |
funds that are essential to meet de-
In the annual appropriations for |
operating tho municipal departments and
county offices during the remainder of the {
year. The direct and indirect appropria-
tiOns to the Municipal Court I'm the bill
that provides financial sustenance to the /
courts employment expansion policies ]
during the remaining months OF this year :
amount to about $4,000.
Up to this time the new attaches OF J
the court have been paid chiefly by man
damus issued by President Judge Brown.
PROBLEM OF SALARIES.
Salaries for II court officers at $1,000
year comprise big item OF, the expanded
employment roll OF the Municipal Court.
An Assistant Probation Officer will get
1880 and 80 subordinate clerks and other
employees, ranging In salary from 1890 |
a year to $40 a. year. are added to the ,
of the new municipal tri-
bunaL Every Organization member of I
Councils has already received his orders J
to support the Municipal Court financial
aid item. that will increase the list OF j
employees beyond the number authorized I
bv Councils at the beginning OF the year. b
Councils will receive today the eertln- Il
cation OF the election OF six Common
gouncilmen and six Select Councilmen to l.
Hll vacancies caused in tho legislative s
bodies by designations and one death. I
The new Councilmen In each branch, who a
viii take oath today assuming their duties Il
an1ide the usual formalities, are: &
SELECT COUNCIL ,
First ward-W. Edwin Bonnick, b
fifth Ward-George 7. Conrade. 1;
Tenth Ward-Joshua Evans. II
Eleventh Ward--Wllliam r, Nickels. n
Twelfth Ward-Oscar Il. Levy. .,
Forty-eighth ward-c. Walter Glasgow. ir
COMMON COUNCIL. b
HfrBt ward-Harvey NJ Rightsr. p
Fifteenth Ward-Samuel McQuads. II
Twenty-hrst WRrd--John P. Thompson. 81
Twsnty-seventh Ward-William F. Glea- c
son. q
Twenty-eighth Ward-william d. Asnip. p
F'orty-sighth Ward-George Won II. Pot g
er III
Messages from Mayor Blankenhurg will II
irEe Councils TO establish. more gas and o'
,lectrfc street lamps and will call to the Il
attention OF the bodies that during the
ast two years only four new electric u
freet lamps have been allowed, with no ri
xtensions, to the gas service in street b,
amps. ~
The Mayor will also advocate immediate 81
Iassage OF an ordinance that would au- Ok
horlze the United Gas Improvement Com re
any TO extend Its mains for connection
o street lamps now burning gasoline. ~
'aasage OF that ordinance would provide ai
Fork for the unemployed by expenditure n
( 100000 by the United Gas Improvement ei
sompany and would also save the city 20
1900 q year py substituting the gaH o'
amps for gasoline. The ordinance has
cen pending IN Councils for months. ~
The Committss on Steam Railroads will ~
sport against permitting the Rennsylva- ~
IA Railrosd Company 70 make additions ~
- - - =. 80 ,.e... - "a
The City Property Committee Will re- 3,
oFt favorably an ordinances to establish -
curb market On Marshall street. from ~
roNn 10 Parrish streets. A curb mar -
Fl l. now IN operation on Marshall street n,
rom Fopi=f sueet 70 eIala avenue NJ
iTEIsoN MEMORIAL PLAN 5.