New-York tribune., 1922-10-25
$6,O0O,OOO in
Hylan Budget
Goes for Plll1ns
Analysis Shows 25 New Jobs
Created; Police Are Given
$J,9I2,567.57 Increasc,.
With Whalen Close Up
Mayor Dodges Attacks
Reads Wine List as Answer
to Citizens Union Figures
and Scores Transit Board

Pay roll increases accounting for al
most $6,oo0,0o0 of the. $1l,00o0o0 In
crease In the 1923 budget over that Of
last wear were revealed yesterday when
the proposed budget Gazing for the
expenditure of 1851, ,767 .56b.5s for next
year was issued. Scattered through
the maize of tabulated figures, which
fill 62o printed pages of book con-
siderably larger than the telephone
directory, are raises for many Of the
higher paid officials in tle city gov
ernment, and some twenty-five addi-
tional high salaried positions in the
thirteen departments presided over by
members of the Hylan cabinet.
All of the pay roll boosts are within
the departments which come directly
under the supervision of tho Mayor
and, with the exception Of the few in
creases for certain classifications in
the Fire and Police departments, were
not made necessary by any act Of the
Legislature. Like the abortive attempt
to hand the Hylan cabinet raises of
$1,000 each, many Of the raises included
in the proposed budget were not
broached at open hearings but were in
serted at secret sessions Of the budget
committee Of the Board Of Estimate.
The increases granted by the board
are IS follows: Police Department, $1,~
e12,576.5e; Fire Department, $47s,-
204.s3; Public Welfare Department,
sb55, 5,47o.53; Health Department, sl1,-
647; Correction Department. $2o,ss1:
Department of Plant and Structures,
s9l6,67S.81; Department Of Docks, $685.
9b0.75; Department Water Suppl Gas
ment of Street Cleaning, S1,05o,3Al 90;
Tenement House Department., S2a,486;
Accounts Department, s17,4S6; License
Department, S2,427, and Department of
Public Markets, S129,09S.73.
The Citizens Union attack on the
budget was answered by the Mayor yes
terday with some excerpts which he
read from pamphlet, presumably q
wine list, which he intimated was is
sued by Schieffelin & Co., whose head,
William Jay Schieffelin, is president Of
the Citizens Union. Mayor Hylan de-
clared that he would notify the Police
Department of this advertisement OF
wines and liquors.
Il thought that Schieffelin g. Co.
we're Wholesale druggists" he said. SIT
is interesting to let the people know
what some people are doing under the
Volstead act. 1t is a joke when the
Citizens Union attempts to criticize
those persons who are making up the
budget. ] don't see them criticizing
the enforcement Of the prohibition
law"
Later in the day the Mayor issued
another blast in answer to the Citizens
Union attack, in which he again called
attention to the mandatory legislation
which had made certain salary in
creases necessary, and pointed out that
S2,500,0oo in the budget was forced
upon the city for payment Of salaries
for the Transit Commission. The com
mission has cost the city S3,7oO,o0o to
date, Mayor Hylan declared, in return
for which no new subways have been
built. Tne stenographers and clerks
employed by the commission, he
charged, are being used to turn out
statements assailing the city admin
istration for opposing the "McAneny-
Miller junk traction program"
The Citizens Union, he concluded,
should investigate the pay roll of the
Transit Commission and disclose some
Of the sinecures which the Mayor al
leges are contained therein.