The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-07-11

on detailed order from me. Wnen
the feed is received at the city barn
a printed receipt is made out show
ing the quantity received, which re-
ceipt is filed in my office. AS the
number of mules belonging to the
city remains the same, any variation
in the amount of feed used will be
quickly noticeable.
II. "Do you buy the supplies for
the light and water plant, such as
wood, oil, etc?" The supplies for
the l.. & w. plant are bought on or
ders from my office.
IS. How do you measure wood?
In the car, or after it is unloaded?"
Ans.-The wood for the l.. & W.
plant is measured partly on the car
and partly after it is unloaded. The
measurement is made by the super
intendent of the l.. & w. plant, who
removes the wood opposite the car
doors, and measures the wood thus
taken out. The wood back from the
doors is then measured
The measurement or a typical car
is as follows: Across the doors there
are two tiers with the wood endwise
to the doors. On each side of the
doors there are three tiers with the
wood placed lengthwise of the car.
The inside width or an ordinary box
car is eight feet nine inches. The
wood is piled to height of six feet.
Each tier across the car is treated as
a four-foot pile of wood in a rack.
There is thus the equivalent of six
racks of four foot wood eight and
three quarters feet long in the ends
outside of the door and two more
similar racks opposite the doors. This
makes a tota! Of eight racks eight
feet, nine inches long of wood four
feet wide and six feet high, which is
the same as one rack 3-4XS feet
long or 20 feet long. The number of
cords would be (7Ox6X4) divided by
1928, equals 13 is cords. This same
wood when unloaded and re-racked
would measure over A cords, due to
the fact that it could not be piled
with so small a proportion of spaces
between the sticks as exists after the
wood is shaken together by the mo-
tion of the car.
10. "Do you take shippers load
and count?"
Ans.-The shippers load and
count are not taken. The measure
ments are all made by the superin-
tendent of the plant.
20. "Is the city clerk, the city
buyer, the plumbing inspector, the
sanitary inspector, under your su-
pervison, responsible to YOU as city
manager for the faithful perform
ance of their duties?"
All of the officials named and all
other city officials are responsible
to me for the faithful performance
Of their duties.
q. Has your. investigations OF
the city's affairs demonstrated that
you have too many city employees?
Having been only something over
two months in my present position,
| am not yet prepared to give a def
mite reply to this question. 1t
might be that it would be possible
to put the duties Of the street de-
partmcnt under the sanitary depart
ment, except that the head Of this
department has monthly pure fcod
inspections to make of the groccrs
and butchers as well as of the milk
supply. In that case the repair
work on the streets would be ham
died by a foreman under the head ol
the sanitary department There could
be little gain in this, however, for
the present street foreman works as
laborcr with his men and receives
only sixty dollars month. The city
clerk might possibly be able to take
the treasurcr's duties if people could
be got to do business with these Of
fcials at pre-arranged times so that
several people would not be kept
waiting their turn as would be the
case If such a change were made
without some such arrangement.
Furthermore, the city clerk would
find Il impossible to do justice to the
duties OF assessor now performed by
the city treasurer IT would be i'm
possible for the sanitary officer to
perform the duties of the plumbing
inspector and attend properly to his
own duties as above listed. The
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