Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-01
MAYOR PREPARES
TO OBOOST WAGES
Smith and Gaffney to Start
Finance Plan in Coun-
ellis Today
EEK APPROPRIATIONS
Will Ask $4,000 for Executives
Expenses and $500 for
Honoring Guards
SEEK APPROPRIATIONS

So certain are Mayor Smith and ms
financial adviser, Chairman CARNEY OF
Councils Finance Committee, that they WIN
be able TO provide sufficient funds for
salary Increases. that they had transferred
at todays session of Councils Sb0,S35 OF
the fund that Is i'm reserve for such move
The transfer bill provides $4,000 Tor
Mayor Smiths department on account ot
loan and transfer items; $500 for the en-
tertainment Of returning troops from the
border, $1,000 for expenses of Legislative
Committee and many other items.
As the various salary-raising bills have
not as vet been reported out by the Finance
Committee they will lie over for action at
future meetings of Councils. the pan Is
to have the salary increases become erect
i've April l. and this can be done If the bllls
are reported promptly The reason given
for their not being reported today was that
the increases in the county offices have not
as yet been definitely decided upon. Ihe
delay is occasioned by the failure OF Re-
corder OF Deeds Hazlett to report on ms
present salary roll, affected by the equah-
zation plan.
Controller Walton in a letter to Councils
called attention to the fact that this year
appropriations are $7,000,000 in excess OF
those for 1916, and suggests that by careful
revision sums in excess of actual needs can
be secured to apply to salary and wage IN
creases. The Controller offered his services
in an effort to bring about a revision
At the same time he advised Councils
that an appropriation of s2s5,617.14 to pay
interest on new loans Is invalid, for the rea-
son that the fund was part of loan,
II was proposed to use this money Tor
salary increases. Chairman Gaffney Is con-
fdent that enough money is available for
salary increases without resorting to the
suggestion made by the Controller.
FOR 81" STATIONS
one of the most important bills passed
today selects and appropriates and di-
rects the City Solicitor to acquire twenty
two properties located in the Eleventh
Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third
Twenty fifth, Thirty-first, Thrty-third and
Forty-ffth Wards as sites for stations
for the elevated railway from Front
and Arch streets to Rhawn street via Front
street. Kensington Gvenue and Frankford
avenue.
Measures providing for land condemna.
tion proceedings rule make an IN
funded debt and a charge against the city's
borrowing capacity The twenty-five plots
to be taken for transit do not come i'm this
class of bills, the purchase price fol
all the properties will come from the loar
moneys set aside for the construction OF
the various sections OF the Frankford ele
waited. Another transit measure approved
authorizes the location and erection of 9
station building upon a city-owncd plot Of
grbund at the southeast corner of kensing
ton avenue and Tioga street, in the Forty
| fifth Ward.
TO REGULATE PARKWAY
A bill. drawn by numoer of member.
| of the Farmount Park Commission, regu
lating the location, size and use of build
| ings along the Parkway, provides that nc
building, any portion of which comes within
| the boundary lines of the Parkway be
| tween Broad street and Eighteenth street
or within 200 feet of the line, shall here
after be erected, altered or used except il
| conformity with well-outlined provisions.
The act provides that the cornice lin
| Of buildings shall not exceed in fheigh
| three times the width OF its facade front
ing. No such building shalt be used for
stable. garage or any manufacturing pur
pose or for the display of a billboard o.
| roof sign, All plans for buildings mus
| first be approved by the art jury .
| Other measures passed provide for open
! ing of Leiper street from the east side o
| o street to the west side of Adams avenue
and to authorize the purchase of a lot o
| ground on the east side of Twenty-eightl
street in the Twenty ninth Ward