New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-18
CITY PENSION LAW
IS Due THIS YEAR
Uniform System for New
Works Employees Likely
To Be Effected.
rs BENEFICIARlES
ARE CARED FOR NOW
Grady Measure, at Present Oper-
alive. Covers Only Part OF
the Public Services.

Probably before the end Of the year
the city will have a uniform pen
sion law. Mayor Gaynor last year "p
pointed special committee OF citizens 10
study the entire subject and report It's
findings This report should be READY
before long. in the mean time the Doa,o
Of Aldermen, which under the nome ruio
law has the power 10 provide pension
system FOR the city, has appointed per
r,aneut committee which is going 10 WORN
ON tho subject
In spite of the fact that there is
general pension law-the CRAZY
which provides for pensions Tor al cry
d.nartments outside the Police. FIRE ana
street Cleaning departments ana inc
rsrtmept Of Education. which have theh
,u.p nension systems. there have oeeh Ell
forts to get special pension systems loi
other departments The Board or Esu-
mate on Friday passed resolution put
80 ;,soif an record against any legisla-
lion AT Albany regarding pensions or the
retirement of city employees untu si'e'
tho Nfavor's commission had reported.
An investigation Of the workings oi 'i'e
Grady pension law. which has beeh III
operation for two years shows that eish-
,v-two city employees have been retlreo
crd nensioned under it. This number mas
heen reduced bv death until II stands no"
of seventv-eight. The highest amount OIL
yearly pensions paid was S69Sl2 IS. when
t. now reduced TO $1,000 45 This is ABOUT
era-tbirtieth Of per cent of the annual
budget.
rho Grady law provides that any man
who has served the city for thirty years
may retire after the age of slXty-nNe' IL
he is a veteran he may retire AFTER t"eh-
~ wears service and after having reached
The age limit. The pension allowance Is
half paw. More than fifty Of the pen
sioners have passed the age Of seventy
The Oldest pensioner on the rolls Is
George Hoproft. who was deputy clerk
in the Police Department. lie dld not
come under the special police pension
system because he was not member oil
the uniformed force. Mr.. Hoproft is eigh-
tv-two years old, and served the city Tor
fftv-tbree years. His pension is $1,000.
Henry J. Storrs, whose pension is the
same. served the city for the same length
OF time. He was chief clerk OF the FL
nance Department.
In point of service Philip Holmes holds
the record. When he was retired from
his position as keeper of the menagerie,
i'm the Park Department he had been en-
ploved by the city for ffty-four years.
His pension is $50 year.
The largest pension is drawn by Horace
LOOMS. who was a consulting engineer
for the Borough of Manhattan. lie retired
AT the age of seventy-three, after thirty
years service. on pension of 5000.
Martin J. Browne. an assistant en-
gineer i'm the Bureau Of Sewers, retired
after thirty years service on 5000 Charles
V. Adee. the chief clerk of the Board OF
Estimate. who retired a month or so ago
after forty years service, is seventy
seven wears old. He gets 5000 a year.
in addition to those named there are Eve
persons Who get 800 a year, twenty
three who receive between 5000 and $500,
and forty-three who get between 500 and
$1,000
There are just three women on the
Grady pension rolls Margaret Raleigh,
who is eighty years old. served for thirty
years as cottage attendant In the
Park Department. She now has retired
on $500 a year. Mrs. Jane Manney, whose
pension is $40 Il. served In the Park De-
partment for thirty-one years. Elizabeth
Stone. who is seventy-three years old,
served for thirty-two years as matron
IA the Department Of Correction.