Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-16
NEW CITY JOB
TO BE CREATED
BY ORDINANCE
Assistant Chief of Fire De-
partment Needed to Com
ply With Law.
YEARLY SALARY $4,000

Creation of another assistant chieftain-
shin Of the fire department at a salary
of Sc. 900 a year, reduction Of the salary
Of the electrical engineer, head of the
electrical department, from $500 TO $500
a year and correction Of an error by
which it is believed the Jewett admins
tratiOn Illegally paid six members of
the fire department from March 81 to
Dec. 81, 1921, is provided in an ordinance
to be submitted to the city council for
introduction tonight by the board Of
public safety.
Suspension of the rules and immediate
action upon the ordinance providing
funds for Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank's
plan to help solve the unemployment
problem is expected to be asked Of the
council The administration probably
will have introduced three other ordi-
pances
The Indianapolis Jitney Drivers As
sOciation also has announced it will
offer for introduction Il measure amend
ing the iitney elimination ordinance so
as to eliminate features they consider Op-
pressive.
William T. Bailey, assistant city at
torney assigned as counsel for the board
to the police and iremen's salary or
dinance said the new assistant chief Is to
De created in compliance with the State
law, passed in a special session Of the
Legislature in 1920 creating the two pla,
t0on system in the fire department. The
law provides that there shall be a full
complement Of officers at the head of
both the day and night platoons and that
no fireman shall be compelled to be on
Fvva Vt Of
time, excepting in times Of great emer-
gency. Simon c. HOyt. first assistant
chief for the past four years, has been
on duty both day and night since the
two platoon system was installed The
board Of safety intends that there shall
be an assistant chief for both the day
and night platoons, Mr.. Bailey said
The new officer probably will be Sc
lected from the eight battalion chiefs.
The battalion chiefs salary Is s.. 400.
Promotion to assistant chief viii in
crease the pay of the man selected 5000
This will be more than offset, Mr.. Bailey
pointed out, by the decrease Of 81, 100 IN
the electrical engineers salary. James
Berry is the electrical engineer. The sal
airy was fixed at s., 600 when E. n. Temp
kins was brought here from California
to head the department by the Jewett ad-
ministration two years ago.
City Controller Joseph L. Hogue dis
covered the supposedly illegal payment
Of the six fremen by the Jewett admin
istratiOn. An amendment to the police
and fremen's salary ordinance effective
at the end OF last March did not fix the
pay Of the six iremen who operate the
steamers, or even mention them, as the
original ordinance did. However, their
pay went right on at 81 500 per year To
a1a h. fv,ss. Arr,,+- Too
question which State accountants might
ask about this the salary amendment Will
include a paragraph fixing the engineers
salary at 81 500.
The ordinance to finance the unempIoy-
ment schemes provides for the transfer Of
$4,000 each from the unimproved street
and street cleaning maintenance funds
to new fund to be known as the emer-
gency unemployment fund. The $50. coo
will be used to pay Indianapolis citizens
in dire need of funds 50 per day or %
cents an hour for work on unimproved
streets during the present emergency.
BILL WILL URGE
BOND ISSUE.
One Of the other bills to be introduced
by the administration is that authorizing
the sale of bonds to the extent Of $500
600 for the purchase from heirs Of Slough
ton A Fletcher Of the vacant quarter
block across Alabama street from the city
hall as the site for a city hail annex TO
house police headquarters. city court and
other departments now crowded either
in the city hall or city court building at
Alabama and Pearl streets. Il is planned
to sell the old city court building for a
sum Sufficient to purchase the new site.
The third measure to be presented by
the administration authorizes the trans
fer OF the duty of fmDrovpd street. rnaFD-
tenance and the funds therefor from the
street commissioners department to the
city civil engineering department The
fourth would create a boxing commits
sion.
JITNEY DRIVERS
ASK RELIEF.
The jitney drivers bin would eliml-
nate the provisions Of the jitney eIimina-
ton ordinance prohibiting jitneys from
receiving or dlscharging passengers upon
streets where street car lines are located
reduce drivers bonds from $4,000 for
cars Of FIVE or less passenger ca
pacity and $4,000 for cars Of six or more
capacity to 5000 and 5000; make the
bond applicable to taxi as well as tit
ney drivers and provide that drivers re-
fused licenses because of physical dis
ability may appeal to q committee of
representatives chosen by the mayor. city
controller and the applicant.
Officials of the Brookside Civic Ieague
have introduced an ordinance restricting
the building Of factories in residence dis
tricts They have had the matter under
consideration for some time as part of
their effort to prevent the Victor Bear
ings Company from building a new plant
now under construction at Massachusetts
avenue and Steele street.