New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1924, Page 16

16 CITY FINANGES - ARE REPORTED City Treasurer Makes Public Rectipts and Disbursements City Treasurer Curtis L. Sheldon has submitted the following report on the condition of city finances: General fund, $129,031.08; fund, $25,369.99; $82,319.05; subway, $3,416.71; improve- ment, $7,138.57; park commissioners, $6,258.16; cemetery committee, $3,- 708.10; eity building fund, $924.80; new school building fund, $9,310.08; dog license fund, $3,184.15; public amusement commission, $78.91; re- serve fund for liguor licenses, $ 875.75; municipal ice fund, $6,240.96; comfort station construction fund, o - Sl 084.57; town home annex, $113.83; municipal garage fund, $202.43; state aid to widows, $113.34; municipal | home service bureau, $015.95; muni- cipal comfort station, $286 ; total | $318,403.42. The receipts for the year, as shown in the general fund, totalled $2,492,- 087.25, including $75,168.34 on hand April 1, 1923, Tax collections on the list of 1923 amounted to $2,060,401.38 | and collections of back taxes ambunt- ed to $110,009.91. Street sprinkling assessments brought {n $11,278 personal taxes brought in $208 on the list of 1921, 89,940 on the list of 1922, $17,285.50 on the list of 1923, and $26,284 on the list of 1924, The state of Connecticut turned in $37,- 795.60 for school enumeration and | $19,201.74 In taxes on bank and in- surance stock. Tuition receipts were $26,342.50. Fines and costs at police ecourt totalled $30,803.71, Receipts from the board of publie charities amounted to $7,875.93 and the board of health, $4,287.48. The police de- | partment turned in $6,430.80 from the theaters, $402.50 for ambulance worvice, $3,087 from licenses; $567 from halla ete.; $180.60 from miscel- | laneous sources. Interest on bank | balances amounted to $14,560.786, These are the principal items in re- eeipts. Disbursements totalled t:.!fll.-‘ 036.17, leaving a balance on hand in“ the general fund, of $129,051,08, The eonsolidated achool district expendi- tures totalled «$873.435.45; street lighting $33,012,65; street sprinkling, $14,976.58; state highway, $5,000; fire department, $163,690.95; police de- partment, $160,630.33; charitics de- partment, $53,026.92; health depart- ment, $53,382.71; sewer maintenance, 315,752, special appropriations, L 74 i Interest and discount, 81 payments on principal, $315,900; incidentals, 2 salaries, 660.41; permanent pave- ment, $36,798.80; emergency account, $16,000; trausfer to street depart- ment fund, $1,270.72; appropriation to street department fund, $188,. 402.00; appropriation to town home annex, $10,000, The water fund report shows cash o hand, April 1, 1923, of 24.21 and deposited by water commission- ers, $200,133.64, with payments dur- ing the year amounting to $199,387.86, leaving $25,369.99 in the treasury | March 81, 1924, The sewer fund has | $62,041.17 in the treasury at the be. ginning of the fiscal year, and the receipts during the year were as fol. | lows: City tax collector, sewer as- | sessments, cte, $25,1 board of public works, $3,471.7 salo. of twelfth series wsecond issue sewer fund bonds, $150,000; premium on bonds sold, $2,011, Payments to- talled $160,361.08, leaving a balance in the treasury of $52,319.06, at the end of the fiscal year. The subway fund had $4,764.73 In the treasury at the beginning of the flscal year, and $3,825.09 in savings banks, Subway rentals brought in $17,035.02 and sav- ings bank interest totalled $125.52, totalling $24,766.36. Payments made amounted to $15,286.04, leaving cash the treasury totalling $3,416.71 and in savings banks $2,953.61, The recapitulation of the city's Indebtedness 1s follows Water bonds, $975,000; sewer bonds, $1,510,- 000; streeet bonds, $125,000; subway bonds, $177,000; municipal building bonds, $215,000; park bonds, $205,- #00; refunding bonds, $35,000; school bonds, $1,824,000; city notes, $47,. 000; total bonded indebtedness, 85,123,000, and the total of sinking funds was $725,509.14, making the net Indebtedness $4,297,430.58, TOPING WOMEN AROUSED IRE OF GERMAN EDITOR Feminine Sex of 200 Years Ago Spent water sewer, street Time Taking Snuff, Drinking Becr and Gambling. 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The tws hundredts: an e founding of The Cri eslabrated here this summer There eprinkied throughout Herald ciassified ada 200 too g about and induiging ording to o tly of the first to be p munity as we that = .t 1 and their hom pes and re PAYS PRISONERS' FINES Custom of Releasing Two Prisoners From Orleans Parish Prison on Good Friday Adhered to, New Orleans, May 16.—The custom of releasing two prisoners from the Orleans parish prison every Good Fric inaugurated so long 0 that the originator and the reason therefore have been forgottem, was adhered to as usual this year. No one knows how long the custom has been in vogue, but it has been handed down through the years and so far no one ever has offered objection. superintendent of the prison picks out among those serving short scntences two who have been quiet, industrious and in general model prisoners. This year they happencd to be a man serving*thirty days in lieu of $10 fine for drunkenness and another serving a similar term for re- fusal to pay a taxi cab bill, Captain Archic Rennyson, the su- perintendent, chuckled when the 1924 quota paused for great breaths of the warm, free air as they left the prison entrance. “You know," 'he said, “there's only one legal way prisoners like that be released before they've served their time and that is for mebody to pay their fine for them, i)nt it's a pretty custom—don't you think? So every year T pick out a couple of the boys who have heen good prisoners and T pay what's left of their fines myself,"” [P’reedom for the Good ¥riday selec- tions this year cost the Captain $15, DRIVER FINED $90, New Haven, May 16.—Stopped aft- er pursuing police fired four shots at him during a chase after his machine had bowled over a “silent cop” in Temple street yesterday, Robert Over- ton, 26, Park Road, Waterbury, was arrested charged with reckless driv- ing, failure to stop on signal and evasion of responsibility. 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One of 30 stray dogs brought from a nearby town was so lucky as to have his leash broken by the explosion and when last seen he was still running. The results of observations of deli- cate appliances placed at various dis- tances are curious nd inexplicable so far as reported up to the present. Those in the immediate neighborhood, 'ssel, La Courtine and Aubusson, cered only feeble shocks, Paris ieard nothing; nor did Amiens, Mou ling, Clermont-Verrand, Limoges, Strasbough or Marseill At some of these cities shiocks w registered, | but it is not certain they were caused by the explosion Bordeaux heard a dull rumbling 14 minutes afterward, or according to the |laws of science as known at present. |Similarly at Montpellier a micro telephone registered a vibration 20 minutes after the explosion occurred. | In consequence of these reports it is | considered that the results of the second and third experiments, to be made shortly, must be awaited hefore conclusions can be drawn, London, May 16.—The explosion of re HBEE ““CLOAKAND 5 RELIABLE VALUES $4.95 FOR SATURDAY $6.95 500 BEAUTIFUL SILK DRESSES ON SALE SATURDAY Dresses for Street, Business and Formal Wear; included are a number of our most expensive dresses; prices in many instances are below cost; dozens of different styles. 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