The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-04
SEvENTY-FIVE MEN
TO BE DISCHARGED
Work to End at Midnight
100000 Loan to City's
Saa
General Fund Authorized
at Meeting - Board of
Works Attacked.


town and major thoroughfare
streets will be stopped at mid
night tonight, John F. Walker,
street cleaning superintendent,
announced today.
Failure of city council Monday
night to transfer $4,000 to the team
hire fund is responsible, Walker said.
Eighteen teams and seventy-f1ve
men will be temporarily discharged.
after midnight we will have just
$40 left in the team hire fund.-"
Walker said. ST have talked to
councilmen for weeks, telling them
what the situation would be, and
I had been assured the money would
be transferred Monday night.
Hiring Is Policy
For years the city has hired
most of the street cleaning teams
so it would not have to feed them
during the winter months. Conse-
Quently we have only enough city
owned animals to work the down
town district and such major high
ways as Meridian and Washington
SITS. The teams go ahead of the
motor f1ushers.
1--WE have to lay off the seventy
five men who work with the eighteen
teams.
1.-THE fund is short because in
making this years budget my re-
quest for $4,000 for team hire was
cut to $4,000. The expense for this
year reaches a higher figure than I
estimated because some Of the city
owned animals wore out last spring
and we had to sell them and hire
more"
The city pays team owners $1.25
a day for the animals and S. a day
for driving them.
Loan Authorized
The council authorized the 100000
temporary loan for the general fund.
While councilmen scored the board
for jumping the gun on the city plan
commission by proceeding with the
widening of E. New York ST., the
body adopted the major thorough
fare plan which had long been
slumbering in committee. Otto Ray,
rebel leader. announced he would
prepare an amendment fixing maxi
mum width Of New York st. at
forty-eight feet instead Of from fifty
to fifty-four feet.
Schmidt Speaks
Gustav G.. Schmidt, plan commits
sion member, told councilmen the
city would pay rs per cent Of New
York st. improvement and other pro
jects, from $35O,000 year the plan
commission will receive.
The board of works was rebuked
when council refused to transfer
$4,000 to the blank books and adver-
Using fund and did not override
remonstrance of property owners on
the improvement of Rowland Ave.
from Newman st. to Commerce Ave.
Councilman put to a speedy death
the ordinance transferring 900 to
the fund for salaries of paving in
spectors, thereby delaying $500, 900
WOIlH OIL puD1lC improvements.
Appropriation for Signals
The stop and go signals will con-
tinue to flash their messages to
motorists, for the council APP
propriated $4,000 to pay current bills
during the remainder of the ad
ninistration. The board of safety
also was victorious through passage
of ordinances appropriating S1,400 to
buy red light truck for the police
department. adding $500 to the police
motorcycle fund, and transferring
$4,000 from the oil to the gasoline
fund.
However, council rejected num-
Der of board of safety measures, in
Guiding appropriation Of $3.50 to ma
terial and supplies fund for east city
market, and $500 to the motorcycle
repair fund of the police depart
ment.