The evening world. Newspaper, October 28, 1921, Page 33

$37 00,000 ADDED TO-CATY BUDGET 10 INBREASE SALARIES Of Total Boost $71,000,000 Is uitside of Mandatory Legislation, Repeated attempts have been mude ecently by Mayor Hylan to make it | vppear that mandatory legislation by the State is responsible for the stead- | ly imereasing cost of City Govern-} yaent, which added $107,406,280.57 to | the budget between 1918 und 1921. To make up this difference, $1,500,- | 100,000 was added to th nt | solls on the valuation Dd 41 points were added ate, with a consequent tron’ $30 to $200 In the annual rent! bill of the average family | Patt of this increase was brouglit boat by mandatory legislation; but esponsibility im a larger measure vestd‘on the Board of Estimate and pportionment, us is proved by an evalysis of the figures as they eear'in the budgets for 1918 Juding all appropriations schools, in which mandatory ‘on! figured largely, « al institutions, it st 00,000 ot the increase ne Board o nd Apportionment, und that where | ‘mandatory acts figured im these at i they were almost in entirety cither mandatory acts which were "passed | before the present Adminis! i into office or mandat had th 000,000. The cost of running ough Presidents’ offices increas $9,686,454 to $17,409,652. Of th 85, $41 was for increased salari nelyding raises for the Borou; ‘residents themselves, provided state‘bill approved by the Mayor, Adding to these figures those fo’ yard of Estimate, the Sinking F ance Department, City Cham Department of Taxes end of Charter pi tie total increas ty the Board up to $50,000,000 without 1@ debt service. Of this $50,990.01 $87,000,000 was for incrvased « It 18 clalmed by the elty auth that the State prevailing wage la .as been responsible for much of the! jump. Asa matter of fact, an inquiry recently made by The World showed! clearly many departments are paying | day laborers wages tn excess of tho prevailing rate of wages. | ‘The one other important item to gv | nto the increases for which the| Hoard of Estimate !s clearly respunsi- | ble ts the city’s debt service, Increased i st from $75,000,000 to $105,000,000 of this, of course, was forced on he present board by action of previ- vs boards, but it is Indicated that the abandonment of the pay-as-you- xo policy has had a good deal to do with the jump. Appropriations for they redemption of special revenue bo} $10,000,000 in 1918 This jump of ai 00, | es. $21,090,000 for this purpose was more than ‘two-thirds the total increase, Of this, $8,000,000 was to pay teachers’ | salaries raised by the State. Of special interest ts the examina- tion of some of Mayor Hylan's own cepgrtments. Because some tions were transferred from the Dock Department to the Department of| Plant and Structures, they are con- sideted together. Wages in theso two * cepartments jumped from $1,705,532 to $4,355,567, an increase of nearly 250 er cent. The total cost of the de- partments increased from $2,838,171 to $8,802,208. The cost of tho Municipal Oa Service jumped from $107,493 © $217,998, AD increase of more than 100 per cent. The price of running the Street ‘loaning Department jumped from 1,000,000 to $16,000,000, of which more lan $5,000,000 was due to increased ages and salaries, The cost of run- ning the parks jumped from $2,397,- 759 tap$4,032,916, the salary bill having early doubled. Salaries in the De- parttient of Markets jumped from | $56,830.40 to $142,020.15, an increase of| more than 150 per cent. while the! total cost of running the department jumaped from $87,000 to $196,000, —$_——__—_ SHIP GULF HURRICANE \ LEFT ADRIFT IS IN TOW| Guard Cutter Finds Helpless | func- | Comst the | Wre@erick Luckenbach {a Tampa Bay. KEY WEST, Fla, Oct. 28.—Thoj toast Guari cutter Tallapoosa re-| ported by radio yesterday that she} foung the American steamship Fred-| rick ‘Luckenbach helplessly adrift at » o'clock last night fifty-four miles trom the entrance of Tampa Bay. The ‘Luekénbach was badly listed and with-| out steam. The cutter t n m tow for Tampe. De Standard O11 subs cho-Slovakian Rights. PRAQUE, Oct. 28.—Contracts giving che "Standard Frranco-American Ot! Sompeny of Paris exclusive rights tn| developing of] territory and in trading in petroleum products throughout the Frater, pert of Czecho-Slovakia have een approved by the Cabinet. 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