New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
ALDERMEN CUT
PAY OF CUTTERS
Salary Raises for Tirrell
and AdamsOn Sliced
Out of Budget.
EDUCATION BOARD
LOSES S219,950
Board of Estimate 100000
Halved in Making S410,700
Reduction for 1915.

Before passing the budget for 1915
yesterday the Board of Aldermen cut
$4,000 out of the 1929, ,2S6 %,
which was the figure it stood at when
passed to the aldermen by the Poard
of Estimate.
The Mayor has the right to put back
any of the cuts made, but if he does
not the budget for 1915 will be $685.
S22,5s6. He has ten days in which 10
consider his action. The Board of Al
dermen could pass the cuts over the
Mayors veto only by three-fourths
vote.
OF the total number of cuts made
BY the aldermen S6S,000 came out of
the budget Of the Board of Estimate.
This included rejecting the increase in
the salaries of Tilden Adamson, di-
rector of the Bureau of Contracts, and
George Tirrell, director of the Bureau
of Standards, from $4,000 to $500
year. These increases have caused
great deal of discussion in view of the
fact that the efforts this year had been
to cut down rather than 20 increase
salaries.
An attempt was made to defeat the
paragraph in the report of the finance
committee pIONluluB lOi CUTTING NuN
these increases, but it passed by vote
Of so to 9. Of the nine votes, six were
those of the Borough Presidents and
President McAneny of the Board of
Aldermen, all of whom voted for the
increases in the Board of Estimate.
The Board of Education was nit
harder than any other department,
total of s219,950 being taken out of
its budget. OF that amount sl6O,0OO
came from the $l,000,000 put in the
budget for new teachers. From the
fund for lecturers fees S32,500 was
taken, and $37, 800 from the general
fund for free public lectures in the
schools. The finance committee ar
gued that the Board of Education mad
oyerestimated the number Of new
pupils in the public schools the COM
ing year.
The appropriation of the Board of
Estimate for contingencies was cut
from 100000 to $4,000. Provision
that had been made for a secretary on
recreation, at $4,000, and two exam
iners, one at $500 and another at
$1,000, for the committee on social
welfare of the Board of Estimate, was
cut out. One examiner, at $4,000, was
taken away from the committee on
markets of the Board of Estimate. Its
committee on taxation had $4,000
Topped from the appropriation for ex-
penses.
The Board of Aldermen wiped out
the entire appropriation for the So
called efficiency staff attached to the
Commissioner Of Accounts Office, with
the exception of that for BENJAMIN
+. Welton, its head, who gets $4,000 a
year. and John +. Mooney, who, al
though classed as sewer basin clean
CT on the rolls, is really chief IN
spector. at 81 200 a year. This stan
was attached to the Board of Estimate
until its reorganization, early TINS
year. when it was transferred to the
Commissioner of Accounts. The sp-
preparation for the salaries of eleven
members of the staff, total OF $780,
zoo, was wiped out by the aldermen.
Another cut was Of $4,000 appro-
priated for eight new places on the
staff of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals.
for one chief of the medical service, at
$4,000, and three at $1,000 each, and
fer one chief of the surgical service,
at $4,000, and three at $4,000 each.
Then various aldermen got busy in
an effort TO make additional cuts.
They succeeded IN getting tHfousH
cut of s1l 500 in the appropriation for
the Board of Inebriety, including cut
in salary for the superintendent of
from $4,000 TO $4,000. The appropria-
ton for the salary of Walter Lincoln
Sears. head of the Municipal Employ
ment Bureau, was slashed from $1,000
10 $4,000. This is an attempt TO force
Mr.. Sears out. He is an expert from
Boston, and the aldermen hold man
from this city should be chosen for
the place.
A drive to cut out the appropriation
Of s236,5O0 for vocational schools. in
cluding $4,000 which is to go to two
experts from the West engaged TO
start the system, failed. An attempt
to cut out the appropriation for the
social workers of the Department OF
Charities met with a similar fate.
1t was learned that the Tammany AL
dermen, to make a grandstsnd play, |
favored cutting out of the budget ST.
600. 900 of the s6.l12,092 provided to
meet the deficiency caused by that
amount Of uncollectible taxes. This !
would have simply deferred this pay |
ment for another year. The Corpora |
tion Counsel gave an opinion that the |
aldermen had no right TO decrease any |
items of this character.
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