The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1915, Page 4

aT ees Naame meee 2 ere. ———s | N.Y. COULD SAVE YEARLY MILLION AND A HALF IN PUBLIC SERVICE. EXPENSES Foots the Bills, Cannot Question Un- der Present Law, Which Calls for Amendment—Amazing Engineer Charges and Comparisons With Other Big Public Works. It is possible to cut the budget of the City of New York nearly $1,600,- 000 @ year by changes in the matter of regulating the Public-Service Com- mission of the Fist District #o that, cost of the expense of onforoing the: the State shall pay its share of the SAVE YOUR HAIR! 2o CENT BOTTLE STOPS DANDRUFF Every bit of dandruff dis- appears and hair stops coming out. Try this! Your hair appears glossy, abundant, wavy and beautiful. Thin, brittle, colorless and hair is mute evidence of a neglected scalp; of dandruff—that awful seurf. There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life, avemtaally producing a feverisn- ness and itching of the scalp, which if not remedied causes the hair roots to shrink, loosen and die—then the hair fails out fast. A litte Danderine to- night—now—any time—will surely save your hair, ‘ “ Get a 25-cent head of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter, and after the first bi gel will take on that life, lustre iance which is so beautiful. It will enenepy in oto Cy toeien eppessance a ce, an incom able gloss and softness; but what will please you most will be after just a few weeks’ use, when you will actually see « lot of fine, downy bair—new ng all over the scalp. ‘Danderine is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots, in- vigorates and sti ns them. hilarating and life-producing pro; ‘cause the hair to grow long, strong and beautif vt. Its ex- Here's something to be thankful for! That we told you about record A-1825, That's the disc, to joy you along when you're alone and is just as Ph be friends drop in— e ey will all learn to call for it. “Floating Down the OldGreen River” and “The ’Mancipation Handicap.” Both funny—both good-spirited songs. ‘ « The first a tenor solo—the second ‘ tenor and baritone duo. Your dealenis holding this for you— pleased to deliver into your hand this night A1825—65 Cents. CO rue par- wall bair—grow- perties State laws as to traffic regulations and rates and the city shall take over and administer the actual engi- neering work connected with the eon- struction of the subways. As each $800,000 in the budget means @ point added to the rate of taxation & @aving of $1,600,000 would seem a subtraction of two points from the tax rate, To illustrate: If the budget | makers were able to take $1,600,000 from the budget for the ourrent year the approximate rate would be $2.10 instead of $2.12, ‘ The Public Service Commission of the First District cost the City of New York $3,000,000 in round num- bers in 1914 and will cost, in round numbers $3,500,000 for the current year, This is exclusive of the salaries of the five Commissioners, $15,000 a year cach, the salary of the Chief Counsel, $10,000 @ year and tho palary of the Secretary of the Comminsion, $6,000 a year, all of which are paid by the State. Bear in mind that the Public Service Commission of the First District was created by the State and is @ State institution, The Commissioners are appointed by the Governor, Although tt is @ State institution, the running expgnses of which, with the exceptions noted, are all paid by the city, the Public Service Commis- sion of the First District is runnine wild, without control: etther by the State or the city, It is costing the city $1,660,000 a year ‘too much, be- cause some $700,000 of the expense of running it should be borne by tho State and some $850,000 of the ex- penditure for supervision of the con. traction of the rapid transit syetems is thrown away in the shape of un- necessary salaries, TOO MANY EMPLOYEES CLOG AND DELAY PUBLIC NESS. ‘The several floors of the New York Tribune Bullding ocoupied by the Publle Service Commission are actual- ly jammed with employees. In ome of the bureaus or divisions there is no room in the offices for all the engineers, accountants, clerks and stenographers, and the, overflow’ ts camped out in the halls, In all de- partments the Public Service Gom- mission has close to 2,600 employées, according to the last roster published in the City Record. Small wonder there is congestion in Nassau Street and Park Row: ev evening when the Public Service dis- gorges its enginecring and office foros, A couple of regiments of them pour gut ‘into the traffic and the roster shows that a very considerable pro- portion lives outside the eity Limits, It needs but al ingpection of the offices to establish that the-num- ber of employees is excessive. The gorged payroll, however, is not the only item of needless expense. 80 many secretaries, en- Fairy sandwiches. Light, delicate wafers wth candy cream: filling, Three flavors in one box Chocolate, Lemon, Vanilla Look for this Display Rack at your Dealer's Joose-Waze Brecur (mrant Bakers of Sunshine Biscuits NEV" YORK ‘in veach package. of TAK ROMA: BISCUIT: Eight, Pretty costumes in many; other varieties. See list in Tak- ~homa Package. 'y| Which are paid by the State, is ex- |day a payroll account of approxi- Lighting Co, in spite of which C rate charged by other compantes in No. of con- 1010. 1911, oumers .... 17,867 19,782 Gas sold (c.ft.) 680,727,505 634,101,334 + 95,656,679.42 $5,672,571.80 952,395.20 415,402.53 666,160.85 573,210.31 Dividends 120,000.00 120,000.00 sincere, assistant onginecra, suntor| engineers, junior assistant engineers, architectural draughtsinen, draughta- men, junior draughtsmen, clerks, ac- countants, statisticians, stenographera and office boys, that they congest the flow of official business, Matters of public interest pass along from one hand to another until they are lost In the shuffie and sometimes do not come up for alr for a couple of years. This breeds exrensive delay for citizens having business with the commission pod costs the city money also, for lelay always furnishes excuse for a demand for more help. WELL, ANYWAY, THERE ARE ENOUGH SECRETARIES, ‘The commission ts woll secretaried from top to bottom, Besides the Secretary to the commission and his three Assistant Secretaries, each of the Commissioners has a secretary. ; The Chairman's secretary gets $4,200 @ year and the others $3,000 a year. The chief counsel, with a salary of $10,000 a year, has sixteen assistants who draw from $8,000 a year down to $2,100. It requires a statistical clerk at $1,650 a year and four Ming clerks at $1,200 a year each to file away complaints in their proper onholes, | ‘or the purpose of tabulating and compiling and cross-tabulating and cross-compiling all the red tape of | the commission, @ chief statistician at $5,000 @ your, thirteen assistant statisticlans at from $1,800 to $3,000 a | year each and enough others to make | 3 8 staf of thirty-four are em-| ved. There are on the commission's pay- roll about 800 architectural draughts- men, draughtsmen and junior assist. | ant draughtamen drawing salaries of | from $900 to $2,400 a year, The State | Architect's office in’ Albany, which | designs all the State buildings, water | supply, sewage disposal plants, alter- | ations and repairs for State institu- tidns, employs only twenty draughts- men. In the Chief Engineer's Department of the Publio Service Commission there ts & Chief al $20,000 a year and thirty-six other engineers, This is only @ starter, Bureau of Material Inspection engineers draw from $4,500 down to $900 @ yoar, those in the Bureau of Sewers $6,500 to $900, and similar sal- fairies aro paid in the Bureaus of De- signs, Esiimates and Sub-Surface; Structures, There aro six divisions in control of rapid tranait construc- tion, each of which is in charge of a division engineer at $7,000 a year, with assistants at salaries ranging from $3,750 down to $2,400, juniors at $1,800 and junior assistants at $1,200. NOBODY KNOWS NOR CARES WHAT THE EXPENSES ARE, No one outside of the Public Service Commission knows just what these well-paid employees do. ‘The city au- | thorities say they don't know and are| powerless to find out. As a matter of fact they have never tried to find out. The State authorities do not know and do not concern themselves. Tho Public Service Commission su mite to the city Its lump sum ri quirements, the city makes the aj propriations and the Comptroller pays the bills. All this procedure fs in accordance with the law. Should the Board of Estimate attempt to hold up an ap- propriation desired by the Public Service Comminsion the commission could go to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for an order com- pelling the city to pay. The Second District Public Service Commission, the entire expenses of clusively a regulative body with con- trol outaide the city and also over the telephone lines in the city, The Public Service Commission of this district combines regulative fune- tions exercised solély for the State and supervisory functions over con- struction work exercised solely for the city. The records of the com- mission do not show fust exactly which employees perform regulative services for the State and which em- Ployees are engaged or works of con- struction for the cit: CITY FOOTS THE BILL, 80 WHO CARES? The apparent reason why such records have not been prepared is be- cause the city pays all tho bills and nobody has considered the question of whether the city should pay for State work of enough importance to take up some of the time of the comnitesion’s statisticians and ac- countants, urally the State of- feials are not interested in how much it ia costing the City of New York to @o work whieh should be paid for by the Btate. The Public Service Commission ald out, in the year ending Dec. 31, 914, approximately $25,000,000 to con- tractors for work done on rapid tran- ait construction. It is estimated that the amount will be increased about 20 per cent. this year, and the total payments to contractors between Jan. 1 and Dec, 81, 1915 will aggregate, therefore, $30,000,000, To supervise this work and also to carry on the work of regulation tmposed on it by the laws of the State the Public Service Commission ts carrying to- mately $3,000,000 a year, Outalde ‘of the engineering depart. Your Doctor Recommends It— iSHULTS; BRAN Figures That Make 95c Gas Rate In Brooklyn a Painful Joke These are some of the significant figures of the Kings County Sommissioner Williams allows this twenty-five-year-old corporation a 95cent gaa rate as against ah 80-cent jis too high because the job is over- Jat Standard Park. that section ‘ 1912, 1013. 1, | 21,07 24,521 26,544 701,482,805 730,295,495 816,301,621 9%6,110,718.72 §6,075,365.47 96,110,711.09 || 452,515.97 699,547.28 678,902.63 526,598.04 998,403.00 0 120,000.00 118,608.09 breed ment the rostet shows a NM of $535,000, ‘Thin ineludes ‘the ‘pay. of seoretartes, lawyers and statisticians. The Bureaus of Gas and Electricity, Transit Inspection and Equipment | Inspection are purely regulative and| thei. payrolls, which are included in the $536,000 mentioned above, aggre- Bate $223,000 a year, However, the Public Service Com- mission 80 conducts ite business that engineers and others employed in the engineering departments regula- tive work and employees In the regu- lative departments do work on ac- count of construction, Inasmuch as this condition extets and all charges outside of those applying directly to subway construction are overhea: and apply to enforcement of the laws of the State, the State should pay them, IT'S A LOOSE SYSTEM AND THE CITY LOSES, Tf the exact cost of supervision were to be separated from the cost of engineering, it is gafe to assume that the State would be found liable for about all the payroll of the com- mission outside of that directly con- nected with subway construction work—approximately $600,000, The State also should pay the rent of the Public Service Commission, amount- ing to $100,000 a year, and settle for the supplies, amounting to another $100,000 a year, Both these items are settled by the State for the Second District Commission. They are legiti- mate charges against the State for a body appointed by the State and performing State functions, Here, if the State were made to pay fts rightful share of the expenses ot the Public Service Commiasion of the First District, would be the sum ot approximately $700,000 cut out of the budget, Coming to the question of the cost of supervision over oo: i can be shown readily that the coat engineered. As againat-an outlay of $25,000,000 for construction the Public Service Commission carries, for bossing the Prog & payroll of approximately §2,- 000, It costs the city, through the Public Service Commission engineer- ing payroll, 10 per ovnt. of what ia paid to subway contractors to see that the work is properly done. Tnstaneés of the thor fhnéss of the supervision of the Public Service Commission engineers were recently presented in Seventh Avenue and Broadway. Th barge canal is an engineering job of magnitude conducted by the State. The actual construction ac- counts have averaged about $1,000,000 @ month. is has been carried by an engineering payroll of mately $800,000 yearly, State $800,000 a year to supervise $12,000,000 worth of canal construction and no one assumes for a minute that the State in stingy. The State pays 6.6 per cent. of the construction cost of the canals in en- gineering costs, These include not only supervision, but a share in the preparation of plans, The plans for the subways are prepared by the en- gineers of the Interborough or the B, BR. T. and are carried out by the contractors, All the Public Service Commission engineers have to do is oversee the work, BARGE CANAL COST COMPARED WITH SUBWAY COST. The barge canal work is looked after by officers responsible to the State Government. The sub con- struction work should be looked after by officers responsible to the City Government, In other words, the con- trol of that part of the Public Ser- vice Commission's work which re- lates solely to subway construction should be turned over to the city so that the executives of the City Gov- ernment, representing the taxpayers who have a partnership interest in the subways, might check up and regulate the expenses, It should be possible for the olty to| cut down the percentage cost of su- pervision to a@ level at least as low as that which prevails on the barge canal, If the cost of supervision can be cut from 10 per cent. to 6 per cent, the city will save, on a basis of ex- penditure of $25,000,000 a year construction, approximately $825,000 a | year, and on a basis of $80,000,000 a year for construction approximately $990,000 a, year, Ingluding five Commissioners up-State Public Service Commission, exercising exactly the same sort of regulative functions as the commis- sion of this city, canrtes a payroll em- bracing 144 names and an expe: ture of $322,272 a year in sadart ‘The apparent reeutative: cost of the Public Service Commission of this city ds-over $500,000 @ year and emptoyees number a 400, E STATEN ISLAND NOTES, A cross country run to hounds will be held by the Richmond County Hunt, with Victor J, McQuade, as M. F. , to-morrow morning, starting | at 10.30 from the Country Clubhouse, Dongan Hills, Mrs. Arthur Kavanagh of Lowe ‘Terrace, New Brighton, will introduge her second daughter, Miss Dorothea Johnston Kavanagh, at a reception to be given at her home, Del Monte, on Friday afternoon from 4 uatil 7 o'clock, Miss Bessie Davenport of New! Brighton has gone*to Los Angeles, Cal., where she will be the guest of her ‘sister, Mrs, Shankland, for the winter, Mrs. William L, DeBost will enter- | tain the Monday Bridge Club at her home Nov. 29, Miss HWleanor Sparks of Bt, Geor; has returned froma visit to Brock | bridge, Mass, | The Drill Corps of Empire Com- mandery No. 66, K. 'T., will hold a euchre and reception at the German clubrooms, Stapleton, Friday evening. ‘The annual parade and target shoot of the Castleton Guards of Weat New Brighton will take placa to-morrow The annual ball of the Montana A ©. will take place in the German club- rooms, Stapleton, this evening. Counsellor Henry G. De Meli of Fort Wadsworth has returned from a BEND £0 Ete, eaten WORK OF ROBBERY INCREASED PAY ENDS WHEN TWO) FOR CAPTAINS IS PLUNGE TO DEATH) — ASKED BY WOODS | Fall Through Elevator Shaft] Commissioner Says That in Loft Building Discloses Some Other Policemen Also Attempted Burglary. ONE WAS AN ENGINEER. Should Get More. . The police captains of this city, ac- cording to Commissioner Arthur Woods, are underpaid and ought to Police Believe That Valuables] e ven ® salary boost all along the Would Have Been Stolen But for Tragedy. Une. The captains get only $2,750 a year, the Commissioner sald, whieh 1s not enongh for men tn whom such groat responsibility is reposed. The plea for the underpaid captains was made at to-day’s session of the ‘The discovery of the bodies of two Finance Committees of the Board of 44|men locked together In a death em- brace at the bottom of an elevator! assistance of Commisstoner Aldermen. Alderman Henry Curran came to the Woods shaft in the loft building at No. 129] when he said: West Twenty-seventh Street was the tragio aftermath to-day of an attempt| #*t® $10,000 « year, “The Chief of the Fire Department and the Chief In- made last night to rob the establish. | SPector of the Police Department but ment of the Wearwell Waist Co: pany, on the fifth floor of the bull $6,000 a year. Do you think, Mr. Commissioner, that thie difference is ing, It is believed the two men accis. * fair one?” dentally plunged down the shaft to thelr death while loading the elevator with stolen silks. One of the men, a negro, was Robert Green, thirty-one years old, who was employed in the building as an eleva- tor man and caretaker. The other vic- tim, a white man, was identified as Jacob J. Jagendorf, thirty years old, of No. 587 -West One Hundred and Thirty-third Street. Jagendort was engineer of a loft building at No. 115 West Twenty-seventh Street. The police believe other men were engaged in a plot with Green and Jagendort to rob the building, to which Green had easy access by means of his keys. Green left the building at 7 o’clook last night, after closing and looking it, According to Robert Dioclen, ele- vator boy in the building where Je- gendort was employed, the latter sent him late in the afternoon to Green with a brace and bit and a chisel. That the burglars had made con- siderable progress before the fatal accident was shown by the fact that in the elevator were piled fifteen bolts of silk taken from the waist concern on the fifth floor. The police believe that as the men were loading the ele- vator in the darkness it suddenly went up of its own accord and with- out their knowledge, stopping where it was found above the tenth floor. Green and Jagendorf, according to this theory, stepping, as they sup- posed, into the elevator, plunged in- stead Into space and fell five floors to their death, It was then, accord- ing to the police theory, that their accomplices closed the open door and fled in terror. Jewelry Clerk Falls Dead, Just after reaching the office of Dr. J, Schneider, at No, 26 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, this morning, Mills Hohnstedt, sixty years old, of No. 504 Warwick ‘Street, New York, died of heart failure, He had been taken ill at the Jewelry store of A. A. Webster, at No. 440 Fulton Street, where he has been employed for the past twenty-five years, “1 certainly do not,” replied Woods. You Can’t Brush or Wash Out Dandruff The only sure way to get rid of dan- druff is to dissolve it, then you destroy it entirely. 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G.N. ¥., fired “Last year I succeeded in getting tno] a ‘ a salute of twenty-one guns as the | Chief Inspector increased from $3,600! 14. way hoisted to the music of the tu $6,009, The worst paid men in the | Old Guards’ ife and drum corps. department, however, are the first-| ‘rhe battery was in command of Lieut. grade patrolmen, many of whom have] J. 8 Larkin celv bt 00 1 Vid Guard hag been in ext large families and receive but $1,4 A base in oe a year, “How much do you think these a. during the Revolution. One thousand $1,400 a year men should be raised?” people witnessed to-day’s ceremonies, asked Alderman Dowling. “To $1,500 a year at least,” replied the Police Commissioner. The Finance Committee agreed with Commissioner Woods and promised to recommend the conferring of more power on his office. ee CELEBRATE EVACUATION DAY. 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