The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-21
NINE OF CITY'S LAW
AIDS TO Be DROPPED
Victims Of Economy Move Not
Yet Informed of
Their Fate.
MANY SALARY SLASHES

MANI SAIA Fac
The dropping Of nine assistant Cor
poration Counsels from the city's Law
Department and salary cuts for seven
teen others were decreed yesterday b,
the budget Subcommittee of the Board
Of Estimate. This Is part OF "A reor
ganization plan agreed to by the new
Corporation Counsel. Lamar Hardy. ant
approved by the Mayor. The annua
saving will be s77,96o.
The names OF the lawyers who ars
to suffer were not nade public. Mr.
Hardy said that zone of the men knew
what was in store and he preferred tc
the newspapers. There are now about
sixty assistants. ranging in salary from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year. 1t seems tina,
most OF those to be dispensed with are
the lower paid. for the total amoun &c
be saved by abolition of nine positions
is 32.450.
Seventeen clerks are also to he lei
out. and ffty-four will have their pay
cut, at an additional saving of S2s.l20
There will be one new assistant at ST..
020, and increases for thirty members
of the stan. Mr.. Hardy had asked for
Sl.O42,4l0 as his allowance FOR 1916. The
subcommittee cut this to s96s,i65.
NcAneny Objects.
At yesterdays meeting of the main
budget committee, which Is hearing ap.
peals of department heads from ths
recommendation of the subcommittee
Justice was again tempered with mercy
and President McAneny Of the Aldermen
indicated his dissatisfaction with the
way in which Standardization Is being
applied. Borough President Mathewsor
fought successfully for l~eniency toward
several men In his offices. one OF them
.John Osborn. general bookkeeper, ha,
served the city thirty-four years. The
recommended cut was from $4,000 &c
$500. MIR. Mathew son succeeded in
having the salary made $3.50. TIL,
Comptroller us usual voted for the en-.
tire reduction.
Gone at $3.50" said Mr.. McAneny
like an auctloneer.
Charles Mccoy. clerk for eighteen
years. has six children. Instead OF
slashing him TO the recommended $500
the committee retained him at his pres
ent wage, $1,000. Wilson S. Custard, a
clerk for thirteen years. stayed at 1880
instead Of dropping to $1,000.
"In cases like this" said the Mayor,
Il prefer TO take the opinion OF the
head OF the bureau in which the man
works. .
In another case. that of Henry Half.
fen, an Inspector and "A relative OF ex-
Borough President Louis T. uafYen. Mfr
Mathewson admitted that the man was
overpaid at $1,000. The cut was TO
$3.50 instead of to sl.920. the sub
committees figure. still another old
timer was Charles A.. So,.ldo. stable
foreman, at s2,iOo. The subcommittee
appraised his work at $500. but be-
cause OF his twenty-six years service he
was left at s2.lOO.
Mr.. Mathewson questioned the work
Of the Bureau Of Standards.
Mayor C0mmends Work..
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ar on tba sida ~, .x;s,inr "n,dI,toas
vasr T wtsh We Gould Rr, me- ars
standardizing 30 per cent. I'm afraid
the impression Is going out that this
committee Is throwing Standardization
over. That is not true. All we are
dong is considering appeals. which in
foi'e a very small proportion OF the
tota reductions; Inc great number OF
cases nor Appealed are settled as RECON-
mended py the bureau ana the sub-com-
Mite.
ihat Is Jus' the troup!e. SAID Mr.
McAhehy' Many departments, IN the
DeNer mat the thing mas been fnalIy
settled are accepting the cuts without
appeal. therefore We IN this commit
zee are oniy scratching N" surface.
nave Voteu mere against most OF the
reouctiohs because nave no assurance
mat tney are ilsht' l don thlhk We
can ratify what mas been done, | don't
MINK we nave kept our WORD WIN EN-
pso!ees lha' theS .Woulu nave a chancs
70 confer win us peIore anything was
acme I'M not prepareu 10 80 l" these
!ensths'
FRANKLY, rcplIeo the MAYOR We are
GONE lurtler tn'h we intended thls year
oocause OF me uir,ct STATE taA'
VOW, HiT. Mayor; protested the
coihptfOiler, we DECIDED 10 ~stanudrdize
peio'e Inc S'a'e 'dA Was e'cr heard o.
"SssorPt'oh ihrough Mortaiity.'
In reply he Mayor used the phrass
absorption through mortality" lie an.