New Britain herald., 1918-01-22

There was action aplenty at the 1 initial meeting of the salary revision 1 committee last night and among other | things it was recommended that the
 salary of Building Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford be reduced from $500 to l s2,200. An attempt was also made to 1 reduce the salary of City Comptroller
 H. l.. Curtis from $1 ,000 to $500 and that of Corporation Counsel J. F.. 1 Cooper from $2,700 to $2,OOO. There 1 were very few salary increases recom- 1 mended however and the meeting ad- journed while Fred BelOin was fight 1 ing hard to have the salary of his
 friend and neighbor, Ernest N. Hum- phrey, chairman of the board of pub ! lie works, increased from S200 to 1 $500 Although a number of salary items were considered, not a single
 one Of those nost directly interested l were summoned before the committee to show cause why he should get in
 creascs or why lie should not be re- duccd in pay.
 Alderman Curtis Absent
 1 Those present were Chairman AL
 bert r. Eichstaedt, Councilman F. T. l McDonOugh, Councilman Jacob Kra-
 vice, Councilman C. J. Dehm, Coun-
 cilman w. J. Lenehan, Alderman l Charles May and Councilman o. R. i Falk of the council salary committed
 and Gorden J. Ely, Daniel J. Sullivan and Fred Beloin, of the special auxl- 1 iarv committee appointed by the
 mayor Alderman o. F. Curtis. faith l in
 the appointment of this auxiliary
 committee, was not present and He'd
 lev P. Garter was also absent. There
 were several spectators present among
 whom were George P. Spear, treas
 urer of the war bureau, Alderman M
 I, Jester and Comptroller Curtis.
 Spear Suspects Curtis.
 1 On organizing, MT. Ely was elected 1 clerk and the first matter taken up l was whether all salaried officials of
 the city should be placed on the di-
 rect salary list, or whether some de- 1 partments should be permitted to pay 1 their own help from their individual
 departmental appropriations 1nme-
 diatelv MT. Spear took the floor and
 asked for lucid explanation of this
 matter. Said MT Spear: ''I think the direct attack of that motion as intro duced at the common council is at 1 the War. Bureau which l represent. 1 We hired a clerk We got S2 900 from l the council and S4,000 from outside sources We pay the clerk Mr Earl T>isselbraclE, $1,S00, I'm frank to ad- init and I think that is the nlgger in the Woodpilc.' I think the fact that we got s2.0O0 from the city is MT. Curtis lever to get i this joker v. After some discussion it was the sense of the meeting that the War make sure a motion offered by MT. Beloin was passed which provides that the matter of the War Bureau, it's receipts and expenses. be left to the council. Another motion of MT. Beloin, that all salaries be placed on
 the salary list as asked in the coun- cl resolution, was passed. Then on motion of MT. Sullivan it was voted to go through the entire salary list for readiustme regardless or whether the individuals had sought i relative to the board of public works it developed that there are five en- gineers employed there at salaries or i $40, S84, $l50, $l25 and $50 per
 month respectively. lnasmuch as i these men are paid from special | funds in the board of public works ] and some arc paid by the water de- ! partment for work done there was a (Cop+inund On Third pama>