Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-08
PUT BRAKEON
SALES OF OLD
IMPROPERLY
Foes in Council Join Hands to
Defeat Move for Hasty
Disposal.
ONE AUTO SET AT. SIS

CpuuEl4uG0 COuuLSQ as 5NPpOAACAS
of the administration of Mayor Charles
W Jewett Joined with anti-administra-
ton members at the regular meeting OF
the council last night to defeat move
for Immediate consideration, under sus
tension of the rules, Of an ordinance
authorizing the board of public safety to
dispose of approximately $4,000 worth
Of city property said to be obsolete.
Councilman Gustav C. Schmidt declared
be thought the council ought to be IN
formed who the bidders were or might
be on some Of the property listed in
report of appraisers which accompanied
the ordinance, but President Russell Will
son ruled him out Of order. Before he
sat down. however, Mr.. Schmidt managed
to state:
Il refer to when Buick automobiles
were sold by the city for S25 each and
checks given In payment which could
not be collected on
Some of the items in the appraisers
report which attracted Mr.. Schmidt's at
tention and caused him to make the
statement included a valuation Of a Cole
touring car at $685. a Ford roadster at
SIS, a hose wagon at S. and several fire
engines at 500 each. The appraisers, J.
J. Schmid, real estate dealer; A B. Car
ter, real estate dealer, and Roy L. Zspt
time ago.
AUTOMOBILES
ALSO APPRAISED.
They appraised not only the property
which the board of safety desires to sell,
but also six automobiles under control
Of the board Of public works. An ordi-
nance authorizing sale of the six cars
also was introduced, but suspension OF
the rules for 1t was not asked. The total
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Included in the report on the board OF
safety property are appraisals Of ninety
five horses to be sold as rapidly as they
are displaced by the motor equipment
now being bought. Forty of these ami
mails have been replaced to date and
George W. Williams, executive secretary
for the board Of public safety, in a let
ter asking for immediate consideration
OF the sale ordinance, said It is costing
the city $40 a day to feed them while
they stand idle. Dwight s. Ritter, city
purchasing agent, has stated he has an
immediate market for these horses. The
appraisals on them in general are high,
It was stated.
When the motion TO suspend the rules
was put, Councilmen Schmidt and Louis
". Carnefx, ntf-administra tion,. and
President Wilson and Jesse E. Miller, ad
ministradOn members, voted against 1t
and it was lost The ordinance then was
referred to the committee on public
works.
TRAFFIC MAsURE
AMONG ORDINANCES.
The new traffic ordinance, the ordi-
nance increasing salaries Of a number of
employees under the board OF public
safety, a measure TO change the names OF
several streets, bills to approve four Goa
tracts for the purchase of fire hose and
a few minor ordinances were intro
duced.
Considerable surprise was expressed
when an ordinance to increase the sal
airy of Claude Wallin, secretary to Mayor
Jewett, from $1,000 to $1,000 a year was
introduced. The measure was sent to
the council by Mayor Jewett, II was IN
derstOod 1t carried an appropriation Of
$1,000 additional TO the salary fund OF
the department Of finance to cover the
increase this year.
SALARIES TO BE
INCREASED.
Salaries would be increased under the
board Of safety amendment to the gen
eral salary ordnance as follows:
Executive secretary to tie board, from
$500 to 81 800; police surgeon, 81, 40 to
f1,60O; assistant police surgeon, 1854 TO
$1,000; building commissioner, $1,000 to
assistant market master $3.50 to 81, 500;
electrical engineer (head Of electrical de-
partment), $500 to $1,000; repairmen and
cable splicers, S1,7S8.jO to s., so; cable
splicers' helpers, $500 to S1,733.75; in
Btrument repairmen, S1,7SS.5O to 81 500;
first assistant chief of fire department,
$3.50 to $1,000; second assistant chief,
s., 700 to $3.50; battalion chiefs, 5000 to
81, 100; captains s.. COZ to 5000; Heuten-
ant 70 ( oh rff nd
engineers, S1,733.75 to $500; privates,
first grade. S1.642.5O to S1.TH75; privates,
second grade, and substitute hremen,
81 AGO TO s1551; inspector Of detectives In
police department, $3.50 to s. 600; police
captains. 1920 TO S24OO; Heutenants,
81 ,92O to s. 200; sergeants and detectives,
s., S25 to 81, 100; motOrcyclemen, traffic
men and bicyclemen. 81, 752 to 81, 500; wag-
onmen, 81 ,679 to to S1,752; turkeys, 81, T52
to 81 800; patrOlmen, first year, S1460 to
1851; patrOlman. second year, and police
women, 81 642 to S1.733.75; sergeant as
signed to board of Childrens Guardians,
e912.5O to $1,000; bailiffs in city court,
g., 1880 to $1,000; painters and repair
men. 81, 1925 to $1,000.
PROPOSED CHANGES
IN STREET NAMES.
The proposed street name changes are
as follows;
MOnteZ street from Sherman drive 70
Denny street, changed to East Fifteenth
street; Patton street, same limits, to
Rowland avenue; Gale street, same lin
its. TO East Thirteenth street; Russ
street. same limits, to East Twelfth
street; Brentwood street from Twenty
First street to Massachusetts, avenue, to
North La Sale street; Senate avenue
from Forty Sixth to Fifty Second street,
70 Boulevard place; WinOna avenue from
Forty-Sixth street to a point 200 feet
north. to lockwood avenue. Z
Hose contracts up for approval are as
follows: Central Rubber and Supply |
Company, 1000 feet Of two and one-half
irch hose. S120 a foot; 1925 for coup
lings, total, 81 400; United States Rubber
Company, Chicago, 1000 feet of three |
inch hose. $50 q foot, couplings in |
GUIDED, total, $4,000; Van Camp Hardware !
and Iron Company, 5000 feet of two
and one-half inch hose, 90 cents a foot, |
couplings included total $500; Empire |
Tire and Rubber Company Trenton, N |
j., 1000 feet Of two and one-half inch |
hose, 81 a foot, couplings included, to. |
tai, $1,000.
Ordinances apprOpriating 81 SEQ TO the /
new automobile fund Of the board of /
public safety, S3S129O to. the board OF |
public works with which to pay an IN
paid balance OF damages due the Merid- |
ian Investment Company for condemna-
ton of land necessary to construction of |
the Fall Greek food wall several years |
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