The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-11
100000 TO KEEP
LIBRARY DOOR OPEN
Tentative Budget Appropria-
tions Made by Estimate
Board Committee.
100000 FOR MUSEUM
Other Items Include Sum of
$87,051,061 for Educa-
ton in City.

Pntting itself upon the back for its
liberality. the finance and budget COM
lhittee Of the Board of Estimate al
lotted to the New York Public Library
s1,100,000 yesterday in the tentative
budget and recommended also that the
employees OF the Library should get
the percentage increases of salary
granted to other city employees.
II the tentative appropriations are
made permanent the library will be
rescued, probably, from the necessity
for closing its doors, a necessity which
has seemed to the director to be fairly
close at hand. The appropriation Of
$1,100,000, (which is approximately
$4,000 more than requested by the
library trustees on August 1, 1919" the
finance committee observes in passing,
will include the support Of the branch
libraries in Manhattan and Richmond.
Increase for Employees.
'-The additional amount" it was
stated sis to provide a margin suf-
fcient to meet the increased salaries of
library employees. This Is on the basis
of 20 per cent for those receiving $1,000
or under. IL per cent. between $1,000
and $1,000 and 10 per cent. from $500
to $500"
For the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
an appropriation Of 100000 is recon-
mended, the full amount requested by
the trustees. The American Museum OF
Natural History gets s2s5.140. approx
hnately $4,000 more than was re-
quested for the employees. The New
York Geological Garden gets $230.o0o
for salary increases and other purposes
ard $4,000 is recommended for the
New York Botanical Garden.
Other recommendations are: Aqua
rum, $4,000, the total amount request
ed Brooklyn Public Library, $675,00o,
$4,000 more than was requested Cen
trail Institute of the Brooklyn Museum
OF Arts and Sciences, $4,000; Child
ren's Museum in Brooklyn. s1S,50o
Brooklyn Botanical Garden, $4,000
Queens Public Library. $29o.000; Staten
Island Museum Of Arts and Sciences.
sT,os7. These appropriations are to be
made subject to tho condition that NO
payment Is to be made from the funds
except by schedules to be approved by
the Board Of Estimate and Apportion-
ment, which will carry into effect the
increases proposed to be given to the
employees Of the various institutions.
Money for Education.
The tentative appropriation for the
Board of Education was $s7.051, 061.26.
This estimate under the requirements
of the education law should have been
submitted on Sept 1, 1919" the COM
mittee complains. THE time elapsing
after the receipt of the itemized esti-
mate has not been sufficient for full ex-
animation and consideration of these
items by the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment, and they are therefore
included in this tentative budget at the
amounts requested to afford an oppor-
tunity for public discussion and further
examination and revision" The sum
requested is $43.976,457.15 in excess OF
the amount mandatorily required.
A million dollars is recommended for
dredging Jamaica Bay and otherwise
improving the harbor, the money to be
used when injunctions by private prop
erty owners which restrain Federal Gov
eminent, State and city from proceed
ing with the improvement shall have
been vacated.