The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-03-24
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Beneficiaries of Sal
airy Grab 81
.LAKEWOOD-BLVD.
NOT TO BE PAVED
Aldermen Will Cut Out
Three-HOuse
Street

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municipal court building will have
their pay increased from 81 to y2.25
day, II the action taken by the
council committee on public build.
ings, Tuesday morning. Is allowed to
stand. Nine mattresses are employ.
ed In the city hall and four In the
municipal building.
"If the council Is going to increase
the salary list all the way down the
line. let us not forget the scrub
women who have TO work hard for
their money" said Aid. Heating.
He offered the motion that they
be given an increase OF 25 cents .
day.
But that will put them under
civil service protested Aid. Guth-
ard. chairman OF the committee.
THAT will be all the better" de-
clared Aid. Heating. Certainly the
women now employed in the city
hall and the municipal court build
ing will be able to pass the civil ser
vice examination because they know
how to manipulate a scrub brush
and mop. do not think the civil
service commissioners viii ask them
to sing arias from grand operas. II
civil service will help to protect
their jobs. I'm for H."
The city hall matron will also be
1 votad n OK rant innra.aa 80 a. 40
make her pay correspond to that OF
the mattresses.
The three elevator conductors in
the city hall each received an in
crease from $3.50 to $1,000. The ele-
vator conductor In the municipal
building was boosted from 5000 to
$1,000. Aid. Heating explaining that
II was the committees duty TO equal
ize salaries as much as possible
None OF these salary increases was
asked by Commissioner Fenkell.
who as custodian OF municipal build
ings. submitted the salary list. One
salary boost was asked for. increas-
ing the pay OF the chief janitor in
the municipal court building from
$3.50 10 $1,000 a year.
The committee poked holes in the
appropriations asked for the main
tenance OF the city hall. the
municipal court building and the
health board building.
An item OF $3.50 for the care OF
clocks was cut to $500, the aldermen
being informed that all the city
clocks are in good repair. For the
third consecutive year, the COM
mittee refused an item OF $4,000 for
an electric elevator in the health
building. and also cut out $500 asked
10 equip the building with a revolv-
ing front door. Secretary John +.
McKinlay was unable TO tell Aid
Heating what general repair work
needed TO be done In the health
building. and that item was cut from
$500 TO $3.50. Altogether the cuts
In the three maintenance budgets
amounted TO $1,000. The committee
allowed 1856 for the completion
OF the d. p. w. garage. The bid on
the garage exceeded the $4,000 APP
preparation by that much.
The parks and boulevards COM
mittee. Aid. Alexander Dill. chair
man, made a tour OF the Grand-blvd.
and visited Belle Isle, Tuesday
morning. Park Commissioner Dust
accompanied the committee. On the
island interest conferred in the con-
templated sewer system and pump
ing station for which $4,000 was
appropriated last year Commission.
err Dust Is anxious TO start on the
work as soon as the committee con-
firms the contracts according to his
recommendations
Aid. Dill announced before the
committee left the city hall that
Iakewood-blvd would not be visited
There is an item OF 100000 in the
budget for paving this boulevard
on which at the present time there
are only three houses.
"If we appropriate any money for
paving boulevards, II will be used
on the Grand-blvd.," said Aid. Dill.
Aid. Ellis. member OF the commit
tee, declared he would stand with
the chairman In opposing the item,
The committee on streets, Mon
day, cut s16s.765 from the estimates
for track foundations on threecent
lines. allowing $4,000 which Com
missioner Fenkell viii use az he