The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1915, Page 4

7 HIRE A CITY MANAGER THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1915, | | but the welfare, commerce, industry Were the first ones to show decreases | none the teas Iamentably, you do not in the total allowance for the execu-| Rive a correct picture of the facts TUREEN NOT A BONE, and lives of the people ot New York. | !n SKILLED MANAGER TO DIRECT | cr Jepurtments below the years pre- fe. 23 GOVERNMENT. > “Under this board and subjec +heu was also established as a r cae to the direction of the! joint sugcestion of myself and Deputy th Mayor, there would be a competent, Comptroller Fisher. oe manager who would have ad- substitute scientific teating for meee. ministrative » ite 4 direction | Wr in checking deliveries of th , > | a es Of piles, Since ite establishment edal | ° | the government has been bought on the basis of It aD |, The duties of the Mayor of the| Value aa a heating commodlty as q City of New York are now _ Not on the basis of its weight, color : fed hal ‘a Rive dhe an tee or geographical origin. The Central ‘ u alogle man adequately to parform|tor lareast te the alte by the reduos - . City Chamberlain Agrees With The Evening World That Duplications in the Engineering Departments Means Waste of Millions a Year. City Chamberiain Henry Bruere to-day discusses The Evening World's serics of articles dealing with possible retrenchments in municipal erpenditure. Mr. Brucre admite many of The Buening World's criticisms, takes exception to others, and offers a stil! more radical remedy—the appointment of a city business manager To-mor- row The Evening World will take up in detail Mr. Bruere’s letter, them = * . ° No Mayor has | been able to do so in the past and no nan will ever be able to do so in the future, because of the vastly increas city life and city government activities, “The eity manager which 1 would establich should be responsible to th Mayor and to the Board of Katimat or Board of Directors, * *% ¢& | “A first condition to effective gov- | ernment of the City of New York 1s | to release the city from State control in such measure that it may frame \ for itnelf its owd form of government A wecond condition ta the organization of government in such manner as to of policy from questions of execution, and to fis ever @ complexity separate questions “ Deo. 4. squarely the responsibility for getting © to the matin of THe termine Wertd: |things done, Coupled with this re- | “My work in regard to the govorn.|‘"® last ten yearn makes clear, T/»ponsibility should be an adequate | 2 hope, that no one more than I de-| equipment for the responsible admin poz. yvern: “Your facts in many particulars : 25c York Chy’e government. I would 801 ary wrong. Your conclusions are un- g Thin Skinned and Jui far parallel the effectiveness of or-| sound and, in my judgement, you fa ; 2 J y levelo| }to realize that some of the things oo ped in @ great Prt-| you condemn most severely are stone Cos' B vate enterprise to which The Evening| in the direction of the better organ- GS vee end t You efit ths _ lation of the Government which you { i { ae CE EE ORE SALI A (O) RR) I LS AR ee ment of the City of Now York during —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—__ AGKER, MERRALL & CONDIT Oranges AT ALL OUR STORES Delicatessen Stores, the government of the city, Person- ally, I welcome, therefore, the viror- such as The Evening World, to the task of bringing about more effective administration of the government of New York. “My own convictions, based upon ten years’ contact with the city, make me willing to go further than The Evening World has yet suggested it is willing to go tn reorganizing New COMPANY 1820 ——z Florida Est. World points, as to establish In New York what is demonstrating Its suc- cess elsewhere in the country—a city manager form of government, By this plan I would not take away from the people ability to control the af- fairs of the city government. On the contrary, I would enhance it. “1 would have the Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment couverted into a board of directors, all elected by the city as a whole with the Mayor as chairman. The Mayor would be the head of the city govern- ment, would supervise the work of all departments, would be the leader in the work of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in its activities as @ board of directors, The mem- bers of the board representing the people of the city would devote their time exclusivoly to those great ques- tons of policy which increas- ingly urging themselves upon the at- tion of public officials, and which in- volve not only vast sums of money 10c Made by E. Pritchard, 331 Spring St,,N.Y. Announce Beginning Tomorrow a Reduction Sale of 200,000 Four-in-Hands Embracing Practically Their Entire Stock of Silk Scarfs Constituting They Believe the Largest Neckwear Sale Ever Held in America 50 Cent, 55 Cent, 35 Cents, or and 65 Cent Scarfs jReduced to Sa por gi 99 $1.00 and $1.50 Scarfs, Reduced to 65 Cents $1.50 and $2.00 Scarfs, Reduced to 95 Cents $2.00 and $2.50 Scarfs, Reduced to $1.55 $2.50, $3 and $3.50 Scarfs, Reduced to $1.95 Especially to women purchasers of Holiday gifts Sor men, this sale offere an opportunity which is not sires a businesslike administration of | ous attention of the great newspapers |) ration for effective work, such as je a successful executive in © corporation, " however, in ation of the | ce to Joity covernm progess already made and doe tice to effective constructive ste ready taken to bring about this con dition, In your article of Deo, 3 you at overlapping bureaus in the city government do the same work many times and milk New York millions. You refer particularly to the Hureaus of the Board of Bstimate and Apportionment, Then you go on to discuss the increasing cost of govern ment, and attribute to red tape the advancing budget of the City of New York. advocate, May T have space to dis- cuss yevoral matters which you criti- cise in detail? COMMENDS BUREAU OF CON- TRACT SUPERVISION. “You speak with special contempt of the Bureau of Contract Super- vision in the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which you call a ‘whale. ‘This bureau was established at the beginning of the present ad- ministration on my racommendation for these purposes primarily, to in- vestigate requests for corporate stock allowances, to review spociiica- ticns for contracts oefore whey are let, and to bring about uniform econ- omy in methods of spending bor- rowed city funds among the score or more departments for which vorpor- ate stock is authorized. “Refore the establishment of this bureau the same or similar woik which it is now doing was perfors for the Board of Estimate by the| Comptroller's Bureau of Municipal | Investigation and Statistics and part jof the staff of tha® bureau was trans- ferred to the new bureau. The Bu- |reau of Municipal Investigation and | Statistics since that Umo has de- voted its efforts ch lation of cost accounts and records tho several departments and to} appropriate work, » present cost of elty govern- ofly to the instal- nt is primarily due to the fact ‘that for years New York heedlessly | and without reckoning the future ost, Incurred indebtedness for every ivable purpose in upbuilding its sical plant and equipment, and in {some instances in arrying on the current work of « roment by the; Authorization of bonds. It was nec- essary to check this cost if, the city | ished to be saved from ‘financial amity, and taxpayers for a gener- | ation to e rom a staggering load lof indebtedness, ‘The of the | Bureau of Contract Supervision bas | justitied itself a hundred times over by the ef iveness of its supervision | | of corporate stock expenditures, | CUT DOWN THE TOTAL OF CoR- | PORATE STOCK, | “Mark this fact: ‘The average an- nual authorization for corporate stock, other than for rapid transit, water supply and dock purposes, in the eight years preceding Mayor Mitchel's administration, was $41,- 197,000. The authorization for th purposes in 1914, Mayor Mitchel’ the first year of | dministration, was | $8,968,000, Authorizations for th issue of corporate stock for th purposes, together with r water supply and dock ton is due to the fact that the Board of Estimate had available an agency | which it can control to investigate |requests presented to it for the au- thorization of e to the establish of Contract rporate stock. Prior shment of the Bureau Supervision the board for its information reports of a single member, | ly, the Comptroller, As a board jit had bo means of gaining informa- tion. Mr, Prendergast shared with |Mr, Mitchel, Mr, MeAneny and my- |self the view that the Board of Esti- | |mate as the board of direetors of the city government should h agency fi relled exclusive! upon subject to its own with nish it inform) d from th for ita cost to the city by the reduc- tion it effects in the single item of coal, leaving aside for the moment all the other supplies whose conform- ance with specifications are deter- mined by Its analyses, Thus, in the month of September of this year the payroll cost of the laboratory was $4,457, The saving on coal analyses alone for that month was $7,758.93, almoat twiee the cost of the labor tory. ‘The saving for October on coal war $ 4.81, again almost twice the cost of operating the entire labora- tory. WOULD ELIMINATE DUPLICA- TION IN ENGINEERING. You take a fling at the Central] You say that ihe budget for 1909, the | Testing Laboratory. This laboratory |last year of Mayor McClellan's ad- It of a| ministration, Tis purpose is to} to $148,446,900, and the budget for 1916 with regard to the city’s budget. I refer now to your article of Dec. 2 carried appropriations for the City ‘of New York amounting carries appropriations for the same purposes of $191,879,000. The above amount for 1909 excludes, as you state, county charges and also excludes an appropriation of $2,922,000 for tax de- ficiencies. The figure which you Use for 1918 includes tax deficiencies of $4,000,000, Furthermore, the budget for 1909 contains no provision for the Department of Docks and For- ries, Tho budget for 1916 contains an appropriation of $1,501,549 for the Department of Docks and Ferries. Therefore, the amount for 1016 should be $136,378,000, instead of $191,879,000, ag stated in your article of Dec, 2. “First to be considered is the fact that the city has grown from a p tion of 4,682,078 In 1909 to 6,6 in 1915, The budget for the Depart- r iducation has increased from to $39,866,981. The city 1 service has increased from $47,- 13,210, largely due to corporate stock authorizations dur- ing and prior to Mayor McClellan's administration, to the development of “T grant you that you have placed your finger on an important point when you eall attention to the dupli- jon of engineering service, I would Hminate this, For example, I have recommended to the Mayor, and he is lish one department for the mainte- nance of all structures in the department under his control, There are now ten such departments having charge of the muintenanee of buildings, bridges an other structures, ch with a more cr less adequate engineering staff, each with different methods, and each requiring a part of the time and attention of commissioners whose thought is more urgently demanded by the spectal functional problems of thelr departments. “Thus, the Commissioner of Public Charities, whose time should be ex- clusively devoted to the problems of hospital administration, the care of the city’s thousands of dependents, the custody and welfare of the 22,000 children under his supervision in pri- vate charitable Institutions, must give 1 large part of his time to the phys- ical maintenance of 200 buildings In the Department pf Public Charities, “and go on through health, hos- pitais, fire, police and other depart- menta into one department, where one staff can deal with them under one stand- ard and where there will be a con- centration of responsibility and mint- nm of cont. TT have similarly suggested to the Mayor, and he is now considering, a proposal to centralize in one depa ment the contro! of all the hospitals in the city, In order that one standard of eMficiency may prevail throughout thia important division of the city’s work. There are other opportunities for consolidation, WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO IM- PROVE CITY. “Please note the following steps taken during this past year to bring about greater simplification and ef- fectiveness in the administrative work of the City Government: 1. “Instead of a separate division In each department for the preparation of payrolls, one payroll division has been organized in the Department of Finance for the entire City Govern- ment, with methods unexceiled in any rivate corporation, = 2 “Despite the refusal of the Legis- lature to pass a bill, in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Estimate, for the establish- ment of a central purchasing agency, a division of purchases has been or- ganized which has made all contract purchases for the Mayor's depart- ments and which, beginning Jan. 1, make both contract and open ‘ket order purchases. ‘The Comptroller has already start- ed the centralization In his depart- ment of all accounting work for all departments now housed in the Mu- nicipal Bullding, replacing separate accounting divisions in such depart- ments. “We have worked out the plans and are now proceeding to establish a central motor service, replacing the several independent automobile ser- vices of the city government. “Finally, remember that the cost of administering the Mayor's depart- ments in 1916 will be $2,579,908 loss than the corresponding appropriation for 1914, of $60,74,64. ‘The budget for the Department of Finance is reduced tn 1916 $151,000 below 1914, The five Borough Presidents will receive $730, 000 less than for Tt | will “Unintentionally, of course, but All these should be brought | |now conaldering, a proposal to estab= | aggregating $42,02 plant ‘equipment. and| SUBSTITUTED A “PAY-AS8-YOU- q|tuted for the extravagant borowing the Catskill watershed begun in Mayor MoClellan’s administration. and to the construction of the duai subway system, We are now paying back this debt year by year in sink- ing fund and redemption charges, and we are paying a huge interest bill 4 for 1916. GO” POLICY. ‘This administration has substi- policy of the past @ ‘pay-as-you-go BUT THE JUDGE WAS WORRIED ABOUT IT 2 ae 2 ‘They couM feel thet @ contained « Redert Hmmoet, Native Hew Tories, globular metal object. Lestolbhanersmertecnstn es’ “Open package,” ordered Magistrate} LONDON, Deo. 8.—Henry James, the Simms. “But not in the court room and be very careful about it” Mr. Grossman was led into the oom- plaint clerk's room and the paper was delicately removed from a small sil- ver plated soup tureen. A great peace descended on the court building and the so went on. oN Kramer sald he had sold the sil- ver, believing it to be solid, he said, and novelist, is not the onl, former American citizen who has recently become @ sub- Joct of King George. Another ts Robert Emmet, a son of Dr. Thomas A. Emmet of New York, who has lived most of the time since he was graduated at Harvard in Warwickshire, and now hag policy for financing public improve- ments, This ‘pay-as-you-go' policy has added in the 1916 budget $1,800,- 000, but it has made it unnecessary to continue expensive fifty-year sink ing fund bonds for non-revenue pro- ducing improvements under whic! each dollar borrowed costs $2.69 be- fore final repayment, You cannot have your cake and eat it too. It you are to have new bridges, hospl- tals, schools, parks, subway system and an unparalleled watershed, the bill must be paid. We have thea« things and the bills must now be paid. "The Department of Education bud- get has increased from $27,470,736.80 in 1909 to $39,865,981.53 in 1916, In this year, for the first time in my recollection, the Board of Estima has had the courage to insist that every reasonable economy be effected in expenditures for schools. But no one 8 prepared to advocate retrench- ment in school apppropriations to a point which would work injury to the $00,000 pupils in the public school system, “Dock Department expenditures are now included in the budget. In 1909 and prior years all of the expenses of the Dock Department were charged to fifty-year bonds, and we are, there- fore, now paying in interest and city debt installments for the mainten- ance charges incurred by the depart- ment in 1909 and prior years without any compensating benefit to presen: The first budget to carry tion for the Department of that for 1910 fon was $2,- BUDGET ALLOWANCES THAN IN 1909, “Note these figures: “For 1916 the budget allowances for the following departments, among others, are less than they were in 1909 by the amounts shown be.ow: LEss City Record...... + $565,000 Borough President, Brooklyn. 301,000 Parks . 291,000 Bridge 181,000 Tenement House. 152,000 Borough President, Manhat 110,000 110,000 Finance . 109,000 Borough dent, Ric! 98,000 “The Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, the services of which have been vastly increased since 1909, has an appropriation In the tax budget for 1916 only $4,800 more than in 1909, ‘ “1 shall be glad to present the facts regarding and discuss in detail the various problems involved in con- ducting the business of the City of New York if space w'll be afforded. 1 appreciate most sincerely the educa- tional work which The Evening World is trying to do and should welcome an opportunity to co-operate in plac- ing the exact facts before the tax- payers with candor and full acknowl- edgement of the many existing short- comings In the structure and methods of New York City’s Government. —_———eeeeeeeeeee_ What the people of this community think of a store, what they say about it to their friends, is its biggest asset—or else its biggest lability. And the heaping measure of good will this Live Store has won is a natural! So Package Had to Be Opened Outside of Court and Ex- hibit “A” Was Found. Alexander Grossman, once a Tam- many leader in the Nineteenth As- sembly District and now a broker at No, 501 Fifth Avenue, got $160 to- day by way of consolation for a try- ing quarter of an hour in the West Side Court in which he was charged with being a bomb oarrier bent on the destruction of the building: and all who were in it. Mr. Grossman had a summons for Michael Kramer, a dealer in antique Jewelry and ailverware at No. 248 West Forty-second Street. He | charged Kramer With selling him Plated allverware for sterling. In his) lap as he sat at the back of the crowded courtroom waiting for the case to be called Mr, Grossman bal- anced a large square package. Court attendant W. J. Barry took note of the broker's nervous manner, his solicitous handling of the packs ,6 and hie frequent starts toward tho bench, When Grossman rose abruptly and went out to the wash- room Barry followed and laid hold of him, “What is in that package?” Barry asked. Mr. Grossman said with explosive emphasis the contents of the pack- age was nobody's business but his own. Barry asserted that he was an officer of the court and had a right to know, Mr. Grossman dared Barry to arrest him. ‘The two argued back nto the courtroom, where Barry ordered Grossman to elt down unt. Magistrate Simms co right to inspect the Dunlap and Police Li very much ex Mr. Grossman and he’ that he could not drop the package to} the floor or hurl it at the Magistrate. If you want something for your Mother, Wife, Daughter, Sweetheart or Friend that is strictly smart, chic and prace tical, our three great specialty shops for women are naturally best fitted to serce you and you take no risk what- ever, as anything that ts not satisfac- tory will be taken back or exchanged as cheerfully as it was sold. The most competent force of bright saleswomen in this great city will assist in your selections in every line of feminine foibles, Thursday {fs the day we have selected where- in to dispose and clear our stock of odd sizes, odd styles, etc.—Re- member, every garment is brand new—and we surely have just what you need. Alterations FREE gave Mr. Grossman a check for $150 to cover the difference in actual value from the price paid. Sale at Three Brooklyn Stor Thursday—“Bargain Day” @ commission in the British army. He {e @ descendant of Robert Emmet, the famous Irish patriot, FURS AT SALE PRICES CAN BE RESERVED FOR HOLIDAY DELIVERY, aison aurice FIFTH AVENUE AT 43D STREET, NEW YORK Continue their Se emi- Annual Clearance of all Millinery *5- up Suits $1 8:59 up Gowns 18-59 up Coats $25 up Blouses $4-59 up EVERY MODEL MUST BE SOLD REGARDLESS OF COST Values from $65 Up NO C.0. D's. NO APPROVALS. NO CREDITS. FULTON STREET, Cor. BRIDGE At Subway Station 1329-31 BROADWAY Near Gates Avenue 4810-12 FIFTH AVENUE Bet. asth & doth Sts. BLOUSE DEPARTMENT-—Sizes to 52 ——————————— About 500 blouses to close out to-morrow, in materials of crepe de chine, meroeilleau silk, lingerte, voiles, Georgette crepes, laces, some trimmed with fur, others plain. These are models we have recetved in the past week and will make excellent Christmas aifts. They are really wonderful values. $1.00 *1.97 82.97 to 57,75 Formerly $1.97 to $12.00. COAT DEPARTMENT—Women's and Misses’ Sizes ————— Hundreds upon hundreds of coats have been selected for thts sale tn a host of various materials, such as mixtares, corduroys, sealeltes, matelamb, ete. Some of these coats are lined through. out, and tnterlined, others are 84 and M4 lined. Some fur ‘rimmed, others plain. 6.75 "9.75 412.75 $15.00 Formerly $10.00 to $27.50 SUIT DEPARTMENT—Women's ond Misses’ Sizes Every suit in our three stores that has been formerl, high as $42.00 ts placed on sale to-morrow. We Pripiaeted here for description, but we leave it to your imagination what real bargains you will get. We would advise an early visit, $10.00 *12.00 *15.00 %20.00 Formerly $15.00 to $42.00, SKIRT DEPARTMENT—All Sts i —————————————'™ In the past week we have been fortunate tn the closing out by three manufacturers of thetr entire sample line of skirts, some of which would ordinarily sell as high as $10.00. We will place them on sale to-morrow at the following prices, and you will each and every one of them a rare bargain, = ” result of the heaping measure | to be neglected. It gives them a chance, on the basis nt of Finance budget of th with the Di result of good value we give our custom- of a big saving, to become acquainted with the Weber and Heilbroner stores, which are daily supplying the most discriminating men of New York with their personally selected haberdashery. An Appropriate Holiday Box Given with Scarfs from 65 Cents up. Eleven Stores 757 Broadway 1185 Broadway 44th and Broadway 1363 Broadway 58 Nassau 150 Nassau 20 Cortlandt 27 New 42nd and Fifth Ave The Stores at 44th and Broadway, 42nd and Fifth Avenue and 37th and & Broadway will remain open evenings until the Holidays. 241 Broadway 345 Broadway partment of $180,845 leas than its budget for 1913, and $109,285 leas than for 1909, the lust year of | Mayor MeClellan’s administration, GREAT VALUE INVESTIGATING | BUDGET REQUESTS, The Bureau of Contract’ Super- | Vision hus done notable work in the Board of Hstimate's control of cor- porate stock expenditures, Of equal value has been its work of investiga- tion of budget requests, ‘Taxpayers must understand that the Board of Estimate is the body charged with esponsibility for the an nual budget for the York ot due consideration of re- for funds, and unquestioning sxeence in dema ids, make nt ty budget toeusy. The Board of has. year after year, with tn challenged tional appropriations, with the result Uhat the budgets for 1915 aud 1916 ‘ You’d be a booster, too, if you were wearing some of our new! Kuppenheimer Clothes $18 to $35 Vogela®. 167-169 EAST 125th STREET | Near 3rd Ave. No Connection with Any Other Store| Using a Similar Name | As Usual Useful Xmas Gifts Coats Our Three Stores are stocked with Furs of every descrip tion and style at prices to suit all purses 52.97 $3.97 4.97 $5, Furs and Fur Small Furs, $5 to $250 Fur Coats, $24.50 to $500 $15.00 to $20.00 » ww w+ Formerly §3.97 to $10 January Clearance Special Purchase of 350 Street Dresses Women's and Misses’ Sites, We were extremely fortunate in being able to purchase for this sale 350 street and afternoon frocks, in a host of various ayles and ma. terials, consisting of crepe de chines, satins, Georgette crepes, taffelas and serges, Value se eee $9 75