The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-10
Annual Report, Mrs. to MIR. |:


SIR: Having examined those Wash
ingtoH publications you brought home
the other night, including the Report
Of the subcommittee of the Board of
Managers of American Ruins on the
Disappearance of the Congress Shoe
and, likewise, the two volume survey
OF the Director of the Department of
Delicatessen on Wages and Hours In
the Mustard Pickle Industry, feel
in duty bound to submit brief state
ment on the internal affairs Of Apart
ment z, SSS West Eighty eighth street,
Borough Of Manhattan, in the county
and city Of New York.
The general administration of the
last year has extended over period
of about 800 days, the conventional
four seasons being used. The person
mel Of the board Of managers has re-
manned unchanged in spite of what
people said when we got married.
There has been, however, d consider
able labor turnover in the various de-
partments, the addition of a washing
machine having failed to eliminate al
together the objection of the field force
to carrying clothes up two flights to
hang them out on the roof.
In the Department of the Interior
serious embarrassment has been en-
countered, due In part to the failure
OF the appropriation to meet rising
industrial cost levels. The only one
who stayed whole month was the
one who didn't know how to cook any
thing except ham and eggs. For the
purpose Of carrying this department
safely over the approaching season
of festiyity' the department should
have immediate relief in the form of
an issue of special revenue bonds.
This cook will leave unless she gets
500, and your whole tribe Is coming
for Christmas. In order to obtain
certain ingredients commonly consid-
cred necessary to the welfare of
mince pies I suggest an early issue Of
corporate stock.
Having somewhat unwillingly as
sumed the supervision of the geologi-
cal division, l beg to report that the
latest advices from the conservator
of mineral deposits In the basement
are to the effect that maybe there's
enough to last until the middle of
January but no longer and that while
he has written TO the landlord to buy
some more coal the landlord has re-
piled that, personally, he cannot feel
the need of artificial heating. The
landlord is In Havana.
In my capacity of Indian Commits
sioner I beg to report that the chill
drcn are well. Under separate cover
/ am sending to you various petitions
addressed by them to s. CLAUS, chief
of the bureau of flue aviation and
general inspector of hosiery. The cleo
trio train referred to in one of these
communications costs $50 and / can
not too strongly recommend that you
delete this item, for the Lord knows
that If there was $50 to spare in this
house would think of getting that
winter coat.
In transmitting the tentative bud
get for the coming year beg to offer
the opinion that such proposed i'm
provements as 1t contains In the way
Of objects of art and culture must be
dispensed with unless certain other
items, excessively high in the figures
of the past year, return to the normal.
AS a typical case, let me point to the
fact that the cost OF one proposed pur-
chase, 1. e., Lives Of Defeated Can
didates for Lieutenant-G Governor" (S2s
metz, equals almost exactly the rise
in expenditures for ralslns and brown
sugar during the past fiscal year. One
or the other item must be sacrificed.
In conclusion, sir, let me point out
how happily the proposed changes in
the new Federal tax schedule will
coincide with our domestic economy.
A higher rate on gasolene would be
painful were IL not for the fact that
the higher rate on incomes Will pre-
vent us from having car.
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