The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1915, Page 6

QVERLAPPING CITY BUREAUS | DO SAME WORK MANY TIMES. AND MILK N. Y. FOR MILLIONS System of “Buck Passing” and! Responsibility Dodging, Born of} Suspicion That Every Department: Head Is a Crook, Now a Burden on the People. The Evening World has shown how the staff of the Board of Estimate, @ purely legislative body, as created by the Charter, has Jumped from two employees with a payroll of $5,200 in 1898 to 260 employees with a payrot! Of $446,735 in 1915, The why and the how of this addition to the budget of over $500,000—the appropriation for 1916 ts $ taxpayer and rent payer. This ter-/rific payroll growth was not forced by eC—_—_——cCOCT |the Legislature. Every dollar of it was created by the City Government Tho fundamental idea of the men who drew the Chartor of the City of} w York was to formulate a Govern- ment which would attract active responsive officials to its service, Up to a few years ago each head of a do- partment in the Government consid- ered himself a responsible agent of the people and had some freedom of action. Borough President Abearn, for instance, was removed from office, primarily because the streets of Man- hattan were, under his administra- tion, In just about the same condition To think clearly you must see clearly. Even the printed page, seen indistinctly, cannot convey a j offices 5—should interest every | clear cut thought. Clear thinking is a necessity, and induces quick, strong de- cisions. Quick, strong decisions make impression and get the results you want. Your vision may be clear, You may not feel the need of glasses yet or those you wear give you perfect sight. mut if the time comes when you do feel te need of a change, consult We have the ‘skill and the as they are to-day, Then there came upon the city the era of “passing the buck.” Re- sponsibility was divided. OMe’ Is who wished to shoulder responsibility found themselves located in the sone of suspicion and those who wished to avoid responsibility | 1 an easy time achieving their desire. City Government affairs began to m.se tn clreular paths unt: there who es- sayed to follow i~y definite proposi tion became dizzy. THROWING MONKEY WRENCHES IN THE CITY DYNAMO. Up sprang the bureaus and engi- will to produce the results you Harris Glasses cost $2 or neers and assistant engineers and su- pervisors and checkers and overseers, Ther development of the idea that no department head was honest or able enough to do hig work by himself created a class of elty employees who, i ‘ unconsciously no doubt, threw a lot Oculist 4 Optic’ of monkey wrenches into the dynamo ot City Government.” 4m Ave.| A clerk in the Department of Ft- hance, as an illustration, grasping |the idea that municipal reform was not only popular but, sometimes, lu- erative proceeds to demonstrate t great value to all municipal unde: yajtakings of records and statistics. Presto! The simplo unnoticed work of one or two clerks mm the Comp- 234 Bt., near Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets Girls & Boys Shoe Shop A Separate Shop on the Third Floor A Separate Shop devoted exclusively to Misses’, Girls’, Boys’ and Small Children’s Shoes; including Slippers for Holiday Gifts. Saturday at Speciat Prices Small Children’s Shoes 4to6 Years 8 8 to 1014 Of selected tan or lack Russia calf on broad orthopedic lasts, buttoned or laced. Welted soles and spring heels, Special Girls’ Winter Shoes 7 to 10 Years—Sizes 11 to 2 Of black or tan Russia calf, made on crfhapedie lasts, buttoned or laced. Welted soles, flat heels. Special 2.50 2.25 Misses’ Winter Shoes 12 to 20 Years—Sizes 2% to7 Smart laced or buttoned shoes of selected tan Made on stylish lasts, Special or black Russia calf. welted soles and low heels. 3.75 Boys’ and Youths’ Shoes Damp-proof soles—Sizes 1 to 6 Of durable black velour calfskin on comfort. ble fitting lasts. Damp. welted soles and heels. Blucher Special 2.95 nds into a well d and extensive u of the Board troller’s office ¢ advertised, compli as to payroll—bure of Estimate Another clerk leaps into fame as a standardizer, Still another clerk, working on the idea that all di - ment heads are boneheads and ev body dealing with the city is a crook, projects into the Board of Estimate a 1 of Contract Supervision « gentiomen follow their ideas imo large salaries and surround themselves with staffs of well-paid alleged municipal experts, And th Comptrolle their activi- ties to take of his most faithful sub rol other than h the Comptroller's of Board of Estimate, by a rally and punt of sta- over ground al- rovered by similar workers. Charles Hervey was an auditor in the Comptroller's office in 1910. In thone days the city pald bills when they were properly certified and «c- companied by the proper vouchers. | Mr. Hervey conceived the idea that; the bills for work done wete not suf- ficient, They should be accompanied by the reports of investigators of the work as it was being performed, FLUNG HARD BY CUPID LEFTY HITS LINE AGAIN Flynn, Former Yale Star, Divorced by Chorus Girl, Will Marry Miss Blanche Palmer. | Maurice Bennett Flynn, star fullback wy oe iden, Brew an auditint|on the 1912 Yale football team, 1s to that costs the city $380,000 a year.|™arry Miss Blanche Shrove Pulmer, daughter of Dr, Edmund J. Palmer of No, 103 West Eighty-sixth Street, it was this work of audit ts elther paral or touched upon by other bu- as working along the same lines |announved to-day, the growth of confusion and the| Fiynn was known as “Lefty” Flynn at | rifice of hundreds of thousands o: He was refused readmission to Yale. system of promotions which does Goltare In lost time a® well as in | away with the erude plan of Increas-| ries, In rome departments every bit| te University to receive his degree be- ing jof material rece ix checked four| cause of bis marriage to Mins Rena Bo it comes to pass that there are) times Leary, @ chorus girl, in the collese @ to-day six mmittees | in the Hoard of Estimat bu sand six standir regular employees. The Lu of Records and Minutes and the 1u of Public Lmprovements, bott formerly embraced in 400 payrol of the Board of fifty-t payroll ¢ ENGINEERS “EVERYWHERE, AT HIGH SALARIES. the va Engineers are everywhere payroll The Bureau of f 8 has a chief engin deputy chief at coating nical into the work whi . was formerly done by similar bureaus in the Law Depart- ment and the Public Service Com mission. It is run by a chiet eng! neer at $7,600 @ year, four assistant engineers drawing a total of $12,400) ° a year and a topographical draughts- man drawing $1,600 a year, The Bureau of Contract Supervision is a whale. » work of this bureau was formerly done by the Comptroller and the Commissioner of Accounts that other ploys a dir examin assistant eng!- year, two engi- ng $3,000 a year, neers costing $% neer inspectors a director of the Cen’ ting La- boratory at $6,000 a year, eight fuel engineering chernists ne $14,100 a year, three engineering chemists cost- ing $5,100 a year, seven common or garden chemists costing $12,400 a year and ten coal samplers costing r. The equipment for this bureau has cost a vast sum of money It is claimed for the bureau that it saves the city money by preventing ting, but all departments should be respo: The bi the pa: | She divorced him in 1914 | lute has been set for his new WISCONSIN FEUDISTS : “put ie i) sald they will go Went ding. | Four Children Burned Death, | Who Shot Deputy Sheriff} HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Dec. 3—News i |reached here to-day that four children | af ie the we Bandits Protected by Members of Colony jhad been burned to death in Logan ' , County yesterday, The little son and) —Hide in Dense Woods. ughter of Henry Prichard of Holden | | were fatally burned while playing Indian | the two chil n of James Lowe of RHINELANDER, Wis, Dec fight was expected Rum Creek lost when thelr destre to-day betw poase of 6 men and the “feudists” of Oneida County, who, it is reported, have risen to a man to prevent the capture of three of their colony, Wednesday these three men robbed a aloon at Starks and shot eriff Hans Rodd and And n when the latter corn in a barricaded hut in t c It was thought last night the men had been surrounded in the under-| brush betwen Gager and Stark, Early to-day Skirmishers reported the tn robbers had crawled through the todon of deputies and had e: to the dense timberland of On In this wild section lives a colony of men who emigrated from the Ken-| tucky mountains following a cam-| paign against the feudists there some years ago. | Officials here to-day sald if It ws true the former Kentucky mountatn-| cers have armed to defond the ban dits, a condition worse than that which occurred during the days of f John Deitz's long fight against tho lumber operators of the northwest is impending ardizing supplies is a new body. For- merly the work was done by Bureau of Statistics and Inv tions in the Comptroller's of small bureau, ably and econom\ managed. ay the burenw t# 1 the management of a director at $6,000 a year and its engineering staff con- dists of three assistant engineers costing $6,400 @ year, an expert ac- countant at $3,500 a year, four archi- tectural draughtsmen costing $4,950 a year and two mechunical draugats- men costing $2,400 a year, The supplies division of the Bureau of Standards employs an expert in charge at $5,000 a year and three us- sistant engineers costing $7,250 a year One of these assistants lives in Yonk- ers—a favorite place of residence for city employees, by the way. SEWAGE, CITY BEAUTIFUL AND EDUCATION MADE EXPERIENCE. Although each of the Borough Presidents is in charge of the sewers of his borough and maintains a bu- reau for the purpose of atvending to the sewage question and the Public Service Commission maintains a big and expensive bureau, which plains and builds ers along and across subway routes there is a Bureau of Sewer Plan in the Board of Estimate. It supports an engineer at $4,000, a consulting sanitary engineer at $3,000, €n assistant engineer at $2,100 and mechanical draughteman at $1,659, The Committee on City Plan furnishes sustenance to an assistant engineer at $1,800, a draughtsman at $1,350 and ~~ two topographical draughtsmen at $1,200 a year each, Other permanent ‘employees bring the payroll total in the budget for next year up to $13,760, Provision \s also made tn the budget for temporary employees, in- cluding a “consultant on city plan- ning” at $5,000, an investigator at $2,100, @ draughtsman at §1,2 transit expert at $10 a day ‘and a typewriting copytst. The cost of temporary employees totals $9,150 and the gross payroll cost of the Committee on City Plan is $22,820. The point for the taxpayer to re- member is that the work which this committee is doing—planning a better and more beautiful city, in brief—was formerly done by the Borough Presi- dents and the various local Boards of Improvements at no cost to the city. A Committee on Education is a new bureau in the Board of Estimate, The chief function of this bureau Is to check up the Board of Education in the matter of expenses, and the payroll amounts to $29,700 a year, On this payroll is a Ind., schoo! expert. Mr. Wirt gets a salary of $10,000 a year for coming here one week each month— expenses pald—and stopping at the Hotel Plaza, These supervisory and tnvestigat- ing and regulating bureaus and com- mittees duplicate the work of other bureaus and divisions in the city ser- vice, especially in the Comptroller's office and the office of the Cominis- sioner of Accounts, The Comptrol- lor's office maintains, for example, a Bureau of Municipal Investigation and Statistics, which costs $121,680 a year, an engineering bureau costs $83,190 a year and a staff of examining auditors and Inspectors whose salaries aggregate $721,110 a year. Finally, there ts the office of the Commissioner of Accounts, a big bu- reau swarming with experts who cost the city in salaries $229,670 a year. This bureau supervises rything in The best of steaks will be improved with a dash of Fine in sou Soups and stews. Grocers end Detica- tessen Stores sell it 10c Made by E, Pritchard, 331 Spring St., N.Y, William Wirt, the | which | th Strect tn Ave. Corner 1 Saturday, a Decisive Coat Clearance A Sale of Absolutely Unprecedented Values Your Choice, Without Reserve, of 400 Stylish Long Flare Coats Former Prices to $25.00 Latest styles; most of them are lined throughout with rich silks and warmly interlined; fur, plush or velvet trimmed. Winter Suits « 10” Values to $25.00—Some Higher Various favored materials; coats are silk lined and inter- lined, Women’s and misses’ sizes, ttt eee ee. Cee eee SREB iT oa] i J. BAUM 84 ST. & SAVE. Né BRO * [oom 94:00 A WEEK perrere NP Reset Opens an Account} 9" New % |) We Close |Our Liberal CREDIT Terms apply 4 | Evenings at [*!#0 to Long Island, New Jersey and MAILED x | 6 o'Clock. Connecticut. FREE, x WePay Freight & Railroad Fare % —- Mahogany mulshod Furnished, : Library Tab'e, i Beer 2 | A Sntsen 9425 | Bisons 150 "ails aachaienl Saeed tab inc soins ined iat dah eee aaa THE EVENING WCRLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1915. Franklin Simon 8 Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets An Unusual Sale Saturda New Models—Misses’ Fur Trimmed Suits From the Balance of Materials From Our Custom Tailoring Three distinct dels, showing entirely new features in Coats and ! Skirts, jour or Broadcloth; also Black and White Stripes and Mannish Mixtures, t trimmed with Natural Beaver, Hudson Seal or Skunk 0 Opossum Fur; silk. ned and warmly interlined; 14 to 20 years. 22.50 Actual Values $29.50 to $45.00 Misses’ Fur Trimmed Callot Checks Suits Also of Plain Wool Velour or Broadcloth New Length Flare Coats of Callot Checks, in Green, Brown or Black and White: also Wool Velour or Broadcloth; trimmed with Beaver, Hudson Seal, Skunk or Raccoon; latest model skirts. 14 to 20 years. Special 29.50 New Model Misses’ Fur Trimmed S Of Wool Velour, Broadcloth or Velveteen Six New Models of Wool Velour, Broadcloth or Velveteen, in the new Winter Colorings, trimmed with various high grade furs. 14 to 20 years. Special 45.00 uits Sale Saturday Misses’ Winter Coats—Fur Chin Collars. A large variety of models of Zibeline or Wool Velour in prevailing colors, high chin collars of Beaver, Skunk Opossum or Hudson Seal Fur. 14 to 20 years. Value $25.00 Misses’ Winter Coats—Fur Collars and Cuffs. 19.75 Of Wool Velour, Wool Plush or Broadcloth; high chin or roll | collars and cuffs of Natural Raccoon, Skunk Raccoon, Beaver, Badger, Hudson Seal or Civet Fur. 14 to 20 years. Value $39.50 29.50 Misses’ Evening Coats—White Fur Trimmed. Of Chiffon Piush or Mother of Pearl Velvet in all evening colors, Collars and cuffs of White Iceland Fox Fur, white brocaded or flowered silk lining. 14 to 20 years. Value $45.00 38.00 | Sale Saturday Girls’ Winter Coats Girls’ Dressy Coats Plain or Fur-Trimmed Models Ruesian Belted and Flare Models Of Broadcloth, Zibeline, Crepe Cheviot | Of Wool Velour, Broadcloth, Corduroy or Mannish Mixtures or Chinchilla. Velveteen, trimmed with high grade 6 to 16 years, furs. 6 to 16 years. 18.50 Heretofore $14.50 to $19.75 Heretofore $29.50 New Model Misses’ Afternoon Dresses Of Crepe Meteor, Taffeta or Charmeuse Silk; combined with Georgette Crepe; in the new fashionable colors; embroidered or fur trimmed. 14 to 20 years. Special New Model Misses’ Evening Gowns Of Soiree Silk, Taffeta, Charmeuse, Georgette Crepe or Nets, in all evening colors, with silver lace, crystal beads, rosebuds or fur trimmings, 14 to 20 years, Special 29.50 18.50 Boys' Apparel Shop Saturday at Special Prices Saturday at Special Prices Boys’ Winter Suits Boys’ Winter Overcoats Norfolk Models—Extra Knickerbockers Double Breasted M odels—9 to 18 Years Norfolk models with extra Knickerbockers of all wool tweed, cheviot or mixtures in gray or brown, 9 to 18 years. 7.50 Regular price $10.00 Of Imported English Overcoatings in plain or fency weaves, gray, brown and olive heather mixtures, 9.50 Regular price $12.75 JAUTT AND *F THE GREATEST 2, JEFF SERIAL EVER PRINTED RNROw APPEARS DAILY ON THE SPORTING PAGE OF THE, MORNING WORLD! a ADVERTISERS PAY_NO MORE SINCE MUTT AND JEFF STEPPED IN! cx"x" = Gamera og <I Pn a De