New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1921, Page 3

Boston Store Shi;'fing Materials We are large line of Madras and Sk Shirting. showing a 43-inch woven colored stripes One lot of Madras with is particularly desirable at 33¢ per yard. We Silks, $1.50 per yard, Also the Silk and Cot- have, o good showing of Tub colored stripes, from ton in stripe and Jacquard styles at | T3¢ to $1.00 yard, Crepe d¢ Chine makes a lightweight We have an at SLG0 us- cobl Summer Shirt. sortment In colored stripes yard, COLLAR BANDS. McCALL/S SHIRT PATTERNS PULLAR & NIVEN THE WOMAN CITIZEN How is it possible for the woman of tody to meet the requirements of a home-maker, mother, and voter, with all her social and political activities If she is to go on suffering the pain that comes from allments peculiar to her sex Check the Malady at qhce by o cons sclentious treatment of Lydia E, Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound at the first sign of backache, and dragging-down wensations, so dommonly to Women from female disease ASPIRIN Name “Bayer” on Genuine Warning! Unless you see the namé “Bayeér” on package or on tablets you Are not getting genulne Aspirin pre- weribed by physicians, for twenty-one years and proved safe by millions. Take Aspirin only as told in .the Bayer package for Colds, Headache, Noumigl Rheumatism, Barache, Toothache, Lumbago and for Paln. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tab- lets of Aspirin cost few cents. Drug- pists also w811 larger packages. As- pirin is the traflé mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester CORNS Lift Right Off without Pain Drop a little “Freezone” on an swhing corn, instantly that corn sops hurting, then shortly you Mft it right off with fingers. It doesn’t hurt L hit. Your AruBgist Xélls a “Freezone’” for a4 Tew cents, o romové evary hard corn, sr corn hetween the toes without & partio! — STOP AT — Sanitary ELECTRIC LUNCH Kensington, Conn. NEAR DEPOT = — tiny bottle of soft corn, the and of CORBIN MOTOR Tlll CKING O ‘ ISUTY € \n\ Rates nl'mnmblr | Confirmation Photographs? @ARCADE STUDIO, of Course! e e——— BRITAIN STAMF i STAMPS \n@ ; ! | Phane rnm luo i $1.19 o | sufficient | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY MAY 25 = ———— CITY’S FINANCES E_XPLAINED IN COMPTROLLER’S REPORT Curtis Makes Up Balance Sheet For Year Ending April 1—Where Money Went—Elections a Costly Item. Comptroller Hanford L. Curtis has completed his annual report to the common council and the’ city of New Britaln regarding the finances of the ely. The report is made out in the form requested by . 8. Bureau of the Census, which uses the figures incorporated for figuring per eapita cost of government ind other matters of kin@ and the comptroller states that it is one of the few city in this sectich that ts made up In the desired manner. One of the interesting itéms in connection with the report is the ex- peénse of clection, which runs over $£16,000. Four years ago, at the pre- ceding presidential election the cost was around $1,500. Needless to say we have the ladies to blame for this extra amount. However, there was a the reports sidential election owing to the fact that the makifig of the many as well as their Instruction in the use of voting | mext new voters was costly, machines. The report of the comptroller will be found below schedules in single column type and thé general column type. 1t i= ne follows: with the balance sheet various in two New. Britain, Conn., April 1, “To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of New Britain. “Gentlemen: “1 submit, herewith, my annual report of the cit finances for. the | vear ending March 31, 1921, covering the cash receipts and expenditures of | the city, classified by départments, sources of revenue, and the purposes of expense; also other informatioh concerning the aesets and liabilities of the city mbodied in a balince sheet with schedule exhibits explaining each.item, Very respectfully, “HANFORD L. CURTIS, Comptroller 1921, GENERAL BALANCE SHEET Capital Assets and Liabilities. April 1, 1921. CAPITAL ASSETS, Fixed properties (schedule A) § 8,829,904 .86 Cash (schedule B) Total capita) assets 0,386, 781..¢ h (schedule B) SR Uncollected Taxes (schedule C) Prepaid insurance premiums Water rents, unpaid Accounts receivable, due the clly . s -.] Assessments payable: Sewc (schedule C) Street improvement Street (schedule C) sprinkling (schedule C) Interest receivable: On property ts On sewer assessments On strcet assessments ... . Trust Assets. Bond sinking funds in banks and invests : { great deal of the expense which it will not be necessary to duplicate at the Water department Charity department Tax collecior $578,343.11 Assessments. Tax: General 'y collectable cwer assessments Street sprinkling .o Strees improvement Uncollected March 31, Bond Account. Bonds Issued for pital Outiay: Schobdls .. - 314 -\\Ahn Works 975,000.00 Subyway 196,000.00 1,090,000.00 5,000.00 111,000.00 50,000.00 \ium(‘mal Parks ... Street Building . $4,088,000.00 Total Short Time Obligations.. Bonds Issued for Current Outlay: Refunding ... . C: a,p“ql Hlll phln. Jeginning of 50,000.00 Surplus at Year Additions: Comptrolier's Balance Puréhase Properties Revenne Finds . ... Capital Obligations at Beginning of Year, Paid with Revenue Funds 63,636.00 Total Additions 386,696.12 Deductions: Sale of Fixed erty .. Reserved enue Prop- 6,000.00 26,000.00 FFands Trans- to Revenue Capital ferred Funds Adjustment counts Periods of Deductions Excess Additions Capital Surplus April 1, 1921 SUHEDULE “F (Contingent). Town Deposit I° In 1836 the Federal Government appropriated to the several states’ surplus funds from the treasury, for which it had ng immediate use. The states distributed the amount among the various towns for school purposes Total ed in bonds 489,849.83 Police penslon fund .. Subway Fund S - Firemen's relief fund . o Town deposit fund (per contra) Park purchase fund War veterans' memori Reserve fund for lecense contra) rebate (per £ T49,671.87 CAPITAL LIABILITIES Bonded debt (schedule D) $ 4,088,000.00 Short time obligations (schedule D) i Unremunerative property (per contra) Accounts Payable: Bond fund warrants outstanding Sundry creditors, (unpaid bills) Capital surplus (schedule E) . Excess of capital asscts 1,110.29 16,391.80 23,302, Total capital liabilities and surplus Current Liabilities (schedule D) $9,386,781.83 Bonded debt, refunding Accounts Payable Sundry creditors from revenue funds 50,000.00 19,414.58 jond interest coupons outstanding Revenue fund warrants outstanding 670.00 442.61 Contingent Town @eposit fund (per contra) .. Reserve fund for license' rel contra) 28,745.13 School property, buildings and tents Public Charities Municipal tarm, build- contents, live -offica equip- provisions, INVENTORY OF CITY PROPERTY. land, con- Remunerative Municipal and Realizable, Industries, Works estate, building: equipment Munieipal Iee Plant: Real estate, buildings i 960,510.46 i ! and equipment ment, ete. Isolation Cemeteries: Unsold lota, buildings and equipment Municipal garage, and buildings 114,102.2 3,500.00 hospital 5,000.00 Mumieipal Buifding City Hall, tenement property. ‘land,. ma- chinery and equip- ment whipt 3 s0ns Disposal Plant cstate, buildings equipment Cemetery Property: Land and dwelling houses Municipal House Real estate. bulldings ana equipment Total I(vmulwr-u lan 400,000.00 Sewaga Real and $3,550, Unremuncrative and Uneealizab Sewer System: Storm sanitary = pipe line, real cstate and equipment 50,000.00 . 60,000.00 auxhtes Grand total Cash Sc .h-l‘dnl(‘ Cash on hand April 1, 19 able only for cupital outlay ' wer fund .. Wa fund School fund Park funda Subway fundi . ¥ Municipal building funq fund 3 i Municipal ire fund Municipal garazé Reserve fund, hqun' 1,. censeq Fire hc‘aq umrun station 11,500.00 . $3,385,910, 16 >nduit, reet manholes, maghiner) { 190 and tools Improvement Unremuncerative But Real Mhl( Police Department: Real estate, buildingy and equipment N | Fir+ Department: i Real estate, buildingi and equipment | Stree: Department: Real estate, buildingy and equipment §1,7 and $536,876.97 Available for general purposes: Street (including light ing and sprinkling), and since that time the income has been credited to the!general fund of the town and city. It amounts to $13,1 Receipts' From General Revenue for Current Expense and Bond Issue . for Capital Outlay. For the Year Ending March 31, 1921, Town “and City Clerk’s Office: Fées . . 6,261.05 Dog Taxes b Municipal Building: Rent and Heating. ... 9 From Revenue Funds. 600. 36,939.9 Laws and Courts Police Court Fines and Costs Licenses City Courts | Ingpections and Per- mits Health Department Bullding Inspéctor . Higliwaw Streets Sprinkling Improvements .. Sanitation Bewer Assessments ... Bond Issue Total Public Subway Bond Water Rents Material Cemaeteries Municipal Ice Plant Municipal Garage ..... Service Enterpr Rentals and Issue $35,864.99 Sale 328.561.08 26.548.24 2,839.96 9.455.49 69.76 Total Charities: Miscellaneous Receipts § 6.596.26 Total { Bond Issug School T«lmmv. etc. Evening Library Trade Apparatus Grant and School Total Park Fund Walnut Hill Park PPurchase Total “ic .- - 426.86 General 3 94 Personal Total ... $49,452,087.39% Special Accounting Credits: (Miscellaneous Objects) Cash on hand April 1, 1920 erty | Interest . Tax on Bank and surance Stock Miscellaneous Bources Fine In. es 8.818.81 ,000.00 | 1921. Total Receipts EXPENS General Governmcent: Court of Counocil Salaries, Town and Clerk's Office Supplies for Office Miscellaneous Advt. Printing . $2,731,64 1,47 8,350.00 3.188.67 Total 5 . xecutive Offices: Mayor ....iii.ete e Board of Selectmen Board of Relief 2,866, fll- Total ,... Fina Treasurer Comptroller Tax Collector & Clerks Personal Tax Collector Board of Compensation and Assessment Board of Assessors Board of Finance Taxation and Total .. $ 31,247.69 | Law and Courts Corporation counsel ... $ Judges Pmseculmn‘ ofMcer Qe 2110 & Probation officors Probate court Incidental court expen: 3,000.00 4,000.00 3.366.66 1,507.00 2,072.85 493.45 Total ‘mfin-uan(-m.x Electfieal superintendent s Asst. Elec. Supt. Building inspector Inspector weighis measures Civil service commis and Total 9,988.42 Registrars Miscellaneous ‘expense! s ) 6,402.55 5 9,731.13 Miscellancous Temporary Charter and ordinance . § tebate of taxes .. .... { Municipal Record | Mistelfaneous indemnity | bonds City directories Miscellaneous printing Chickens killed by dogs . Gas light and heat . Dog tags - Medical examinatio; Registration board Posting changes in “Statutes” Memorial expenditure . Expenses finance com- mittee Cartage American Dog pound Entry fees, court Electric time Expenses 1,167.8 flags 2 1 ‘"SALAD FLAVOR —the charm of ORANGE PEKOE TEA is in its unique flavor a dohca.cy Satisfactory Clot} vVersus Money-Back Cloth We do not ‘advertise our cloth on the money-back basis. - don’t have to. The clothes do require it. The fact that we them is in itself a guaranrce satisfaction. If in some rare instance a g ment should not be satisfactoq we hope it is not necessary to t you that we will "do the Tig thing. Between gentlemen, guarant are not discusccd. They are u derstood. 7i Back your niaucy on clothes that don’t require your @00 = 19 1o T PoHicing park Petition to legisldlure Siootmom R R=R-ge - Totm ' 5,425.31] Vital Seatistics Births and deaths Burial returns ... Total 5 Municipal B Maintenance, repairs alterations Total .... 28,154.60 nd Total General 3 | Stanley park Govt. Expenses 124,569.14 GENERAL MUNICIPAL EXPENSES Iighways and Streets .. $ 166, . Improvements 667 Sprinkling 19,978.74 Street lighting 32,673.69 Total 219,595.31 Protection of Life and Property. Police department $ 126,032.55 l'in- department 6 Fire station irc alarm hoadqudlt(‘r« 9 264,087.74 and Conservation. Disposal of garbage, maintenance and gen- eral expenditure Isolation hospital Maintenance of ter-house Health Disposal of sew: struction Disposal of maintenance New catch basins 3,907.33 ,342.47 ,000.00 5,249.80 | Town farm Outside poor 5 Hospitals and asy Total State Aid cit to “l(‘lw\ | Ammessment, | Salaries | | Office expenses | . Total ] 1General maintenance park, Walnut Hill | and 1 provements tenance . Administration South | Amusements ! Total ... . % 19.761.35 H Public Service Fnterprises. Water supply .........$ 126,378.15 | Subways for wires 57.326.08 { Municipal ice plant 150.00 Cemeterie: improvement ! Municipal Slaughter- | house { Municipal i 21,982.48 | 4.957.49 | arage, cone ! Hospital money back! Hickey-Freeman, for instané Debt Obligations: etc.: 2 Expense of Coupons on bonds, Sewer Water School tefunding Park .... Street Subway . Municipal building .. Town’ improvement fund S . Tempors 41,235.00 39,250.00 52,017.50 2,337.50 4,757.50 2,000.00 6,865.00 8,600.00 Damages: On ac@buntgof ~sid walks, to persoss Temporary Payments: New Britain . Gener: hospital | A. W. Plumb City. of "New Bril 369.38 4,623.26 Total actunl expend tures - B MISCEL A&Eors‘ DEB] % & apprapria . § 162,045.14 PAYMENT OF DEBT OBLIGATIO! 45.000.00 5,000.00 2,000.00. 5,000.00 158,700.00 U7 T$219.700.00 PAYMENTS | 15,000,00 Funding .. - SPecial for: Municipa) but o i {#Valnut HIll park Public, amuse: ., comppission . (‘at?k sins pension fund E mergency account MISCF LI..\\I")O('. Total . 'I'n I.nall l Britain Ins Transfers, Revenue and From fire to police 4. . From state higshway td streets . X ! ¥rom emergency to pe 3,000.00 { 1ice | From emergency to Pu ~$20, TGQ.O')' lic amusement com New Connecticut misston ... 66,943.38 | From emergen: 11,840.14 | 6 Are gtation ... 3 28,280.81 | From emergency. to Tsg —we————=-=1 lation hospital . $107.064.38 | From emerzency Funds health 1,650.00 1,300:00 T $2,850.00 General Military " 'l‘o Public Trust Police Pension Fund ... Firemen’s Association .. \ Total Total Do Account: