Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — THE CITY DEPARTMENTS. [ARTICLE]

THE CITY DEPARTMENTS.

Under Reform Administration. Will the taxpayers read over the bills that were passed bj' the Board ot Aidermen on Tuesday, August 6. 1895. Here Is a specimen of one of the bills: R. W. Carman, disinfectant, $249.55, for what? This is enough of disinfectant to disinfect the whole of Long Island City. Here are other speedmens. A. Vaughan, incidental expenses, $5.60. for what? William E. Stewart, $12.96. for what? M. J. Goldner, sundry expenses, for what? F.H. Batterman, expenses, $7.50, for what! All of these named we believe are drawing good salaries of the taxpayers. What right has the taxpayers to pay for disinfectant for the City Hall cellars? How long must the taxpayers (stand this, or in the words of Aiderman McGee, mints an extravagance, And surely any taxpayer that will glance over the last batch of bills passed by the Board of Aidermen must agree with Aiderman McGee's remarks on Mints extravagance and the loose manner the Department of Fublic Works Is managed. Well may some make it their braggadocio that they have $25,000, when but only a little over two years ago they did not have that many cents. But in the words of that eloquent orator and brainy man, City Treasurer Knapp, who said without fear, “there is a day of judgment coming when the people will know all," and Chinfoo said there is a day

coming when some fellow wnu not have his cur fare to ride with a few years ago and had to ride on shanks mare, and that some fellow may have to tell where the fast colt came from and a few more little matters the public may ask to know. Time will tell all and the people will have to confess they were damnably fooled in reform administration .