New-York tribune., 1922-11-29
'Hylan Sq,leezes.
Bureau to Aid
StreetC,leanino
Calls Estimate Beard on
Learning of 81. 900, 600
Deficit TO Make Up Funds
From Other Departments
Schools Also Helped
Comptroller Says Emergency
May Be Met With Short
Term b o N d ON Notes

When Mayor Hylan awoke yesterday
aoruing and saw the snow in his front
Yard he hurried to the City Hall
earlier than usual, determined that the
aeaei: in the Street Cleaning Depart.
sssnt should be made up forthwith.
1he seasons first snow storm stirred
unpieasant memories in the Mayors
uriad of the cfty's experience during
his arst administration, when traffic
was suspended for days and days be-
cause of the failure or the Street
Cleaning Department to respond to the
emergency.
The matter of sI,oo0,0o0 deficit in
the educational budget, the charitable
Institutions and other departments for
the rest of the year had been the
eause of stormy controversy in the
open meetings of the Board of Esti-
mate during the Mayors absence in the
Middle West. Nothing much has been
said about the shortage in the Street
Cleaning Department. The Mayor
promptly convened the board in ex-
whole yesterday, and it was under
stood the street cleaning item was the
first consideration.
S0EA,vVV Is Needeo
II was found that that department
needed $522,0 900, which had been taken
from it's funds to meet earlier def
ciences in other departments, and the
charitable organizations were short
$4,000, which had been used for a
similar purpose. Examiners of the
Board OF Estimate had been prying
around in the borough presidents of
fees and other city departments to find
what money they could In unused funds,
surpluses and accruals, to cover the
deficits. Fortified with their reports the
Mayor and Comptroller Craig welded
the big stick in the meeting yester-
day and forced the borough presidents
and other departments to disgorge
enough to cover the two items. After
this major operation had been per-
formed the fact WAS disclosed by the
Comptroller. and broken gently to the
members of the board, that the Board
Of Education was still short 100000.
Tho departments that contributed
toward the $1,100,000 deficit main
tsined that they had been picked to
the bone and had given the last penny
they could without running behind
themselves before the first of the year.
1t was left to the Comptroller to find
Il was said at the Comptroller's Office
that this would probably have to be
done by the issue of short term bonds
or notes to meet the emergency, pre-
sumably to be taken care of next year.
Money From Other Departments
To meet the Street Cleaning Depart
nent and Charitable Institutions de-
'seiency moneys were transferred from
Hrious department surpluses and ac-
auais. The chief items consisted of
S2S2 600 from the Police Pension Fund,
$4,000 from the borough presidents
Offices, S75,0 900 from the Board of Elec-
tions, $4,000 from the Dock Depart
ment and $4,000 from the Department
Of Plant and Structures The Board
OF Aldermen were also called upon to
issue the remaining 100000 of special
revenue bonds in their legal allotment
o. S2000,O 900 annually for emergencies.
The balance was made up of smaller
transfers from other departments.
Comptroller Craig had been pound
ing the borough presidents hard re-
Gently to make good their promises of
several months ago that they would
contribute largely toward the year-end
deficiencies. They finally came through
Yesterday with less than half of what
was expected of them-ali but Bor-
ough President Maurice E. Connolly of
Queens, who declined to contribute on
the ground that he had barely enough
to carry his department through the
year. The Manhattan Borough Presi-
dent contributed $4,000, Brooklyn
$4,000, the Bronx, S4S,000 and Rich
mond $4,000.