Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 286, 9 October 1913 — Page 10

PAGE TEN

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAI, OCT. 9, 1313

CABINET MEETINGS MERE FORMALITIES UNDER OT NOW (Continued irom Page One)

this work falls on the city controller, the mayor and the president of the board of public works. Each department chief is called in bo that he can make an estimate of the probable expenses of his department for the ensuing year, and their estimates are, as a rule, excessive. For instance, this year Street Commissioner Genn asked that $32,000 be appropriated for the 1914 payroll of his department. It was finally cut down to $30,000, although the payroll of the Dayton street department last year totaled only $21,000. If the budget makers at least had the advantage of written monthly reports of all departments they could go about their work in a little less crude fashion. But there have been

very few such reports submitted this I

year at the mayor s cabinet meetings, and the only monthly report the council receives are those of the light plant superintendent and the meat inspector. Necessary Data Lacking. As a result of this inefficient system in the conduct of city affairs the

work of preparing a budget, one of the !

most important functions of municipal government, depends for the most part on a comparison of preceding budgets and guessing as to what the actual expenses of the city will- be the following year. Not only is the method of budget making as now tolerated careless and Inefficient to the extreme but the management of some of the important departments is so loose as to be ridiculous if it did not affect so vitally the welfare of the community. What btisiness concern in the city employing men by the hour would consider for a moment any plan for paying the men which did not provide a record of the number of hours each man worked? Not one, it can be said without fear of contradiction.

But this is precisely the method i which obtains In one branch of the department of public health. , Collection of Garbage. The garbage collecting service is under the jurisdiction of the health department. There are two one horse garbage wagons and four two horse wagons. The drivers of the two small wagons each receive $3.50 per, day, while the drivers of the large wagons each receive $3.75 per day. Supervision over their worktias been delegated by the health officer to the superintendent' of the crematory, but this official in his reports to the mayor's cabinet, and it will be noticed he is the only deparement head who has submitted written reports tq each of the nine meetings held this year, only notes the amount of wet garbage and dry garbage burned. Not a word in his reports about the number of wagon load 8 gathered or the number of hours each driver has worked. The men are paid by the day and it Is presumed that they do a day's work, but, judging from the number of complaints' ffiiKistered with the health department there are many residents of Rlchf'4 who do not share in this belief. V V Efficients' in the garbage collection department will never be obtained under'tthe system which Is now in vogue and has been for these many years. To ascertain whether the number of

wagons now in use is enough to handle properly the city's garbage, or whether too many are used efficiency demands that a complete record be kept of the work the garbage collectors do. Daily reports should be made out by each driver, and submitted to the mayor's cabinet each month. Every driver should be made responsible for all complaints from the district in which he works. But there is no such rule in the garbage collection service. One wagon has a small district to serve in the central part of the city and it requires less than a half a day to make all the collections in this territory. The remainder of the

day this wagon Is stationed at the crematory for emergency purposes. It responds to all calls for garbage collections which will, Creamtory Superintendent Whitacre estimates, average

five per day the year round. The System Which Prevails. Thus it is seen that this wagon while on "reserve" is idle a good part of the time. Its driver receives $3.50 per day, half earned while patroling his small district, the remainder, $1.75 while stationed at the crematory waiting on emergency calls. As has been stated these number about five a day. Divide 5 into $1.75 and you discover that it coBts the city on the average 35 cents to respond to each of these calls and collect on the average one can of garbage. There is no reason to doubt that if the highest efficiency was obtained in garbage collection work, by keeping a record of the actual work performed by garbage wagon drivers, to obtain the maximum amount of service from them, and to make every driver res

ponsible for the complaints in his district, there' would be no necessity of stationing an "emergency" wagon at the crematory. It can be safely said that not half the work each garbage wagon driver is capable of doing per day is obtained by the city. Crematory Too Small. Because the capacity of the one furnace at the crematory caniot handle

in the summer months hair tne supply of garbage makes the garbage collection work all the more inefficient. Much of the time two wagons could have been devoted to collecting garbage on their districts the past summer was taken up hauling to two farmers garbage which could not be reduced at the crematory. Health Officer Davis frankly admits that tho prematorv cannot nerform

half the work expected of it during the season there is the greatest amount of garbage the summer months.

The haphazard method or preparing the citv budget for this year is respon

sible for this inefficiency.

The budget provided an appropriation of $3,000 for enlarging the plant, but last spring the board of public works found it necessary to resort to "fund juggling" at the expense of the necessary Improvement at the crematory. In other words the $3,000 for enlarging the crematory so that it could handle all the city's garbage was placed in another fund, for which too small an appropriation had been made in the budget. The budget for next year contains no aproprlation for the crematory improvement. ELGIN RE-ENTERS WABASH LINEUP

TAG DAY TO ASSIST MEMORIALHOSPITAL (Continued from Page One.)

DYNAMITER SHOWS, r UNION'S PRACTICES

pital, in answer to the uqestion. "Well, I hardly know. There are so many many things that we ought to have. If I had $500 to spend right now, I don't know where I would want to use it first." "At present we are handicapped in the training of nurses through lack of anatomatical charts and similar equipment that is of almost vital necessity in the proper training of the student

nurses. It would take close upon $100 j

to supply this crying need. Need More Nurses. "We do not have enough nurses and we can take no more girls to train because we have no place to put them. We have sixteen young women in the training school but we could readily use thirty-five. I have ten applications from girls who desire the training, but I am unable to give them the opportunity they desire, although their presence in the hispital training school would add materially to the amount of work that could be done by the institution. Mrs. George Eggemeyer will have charge of the solicitation of funds on Tag Day. Saturday will be in truth Hospital Day in Richmond, and the women intend to see that every resident and visitor in the city has had an opportunity to purchase one of the Red Cross tags before the day i over.

TAKE INVENTORY AT COUNTY FARM

faM- 7jf I Richmond's Daylight Store iJPIWEEK EN!

PI! 11

nil

I I f m I I VI I

V 9 I

The quarterly inventory of the pro-!

I perty at the county farm was taken j

today by the county commissioners, i The commissioners also made an ex- j amination of a bridge south of Milton i

in answer to complaints received from residents of that vicinity. The bridge was said to be badly in need of repairs. The commissioners will hold a meeting tomorrow morning.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 9. Eglin, the star Wabash player who has been temporarily out of the game, owing to the fact that he was behind In his studies, has succeeded in workink off his conditions and will be seen in the lineup again next Saturday. Capt. Howard, however, is still under the faculty ban, but it is probable that

he will be reinstated in the near fu

ture.

Style and Comfort

Couch

By Day

Bed By Night

If you find a Davenport in the home you also find a satisfied housewife. If you have a Davenport in your home you can always find a place for your company to sleep. If you do not have a Davenport in your home you are missing one of the most useful and ornamental pieces of furniture you could place in your home. In our stock you will find Davenports in Mahogany, Golden Oak, Early English or Fumed Oak ,upholstered with Spanish and Black, Genuine or Chase Leather, Priced $18.50, $22.50, $35.00 $42.50 up to $75.00

His Ambition. "To think." said the prison visitor, "that you will have to go through life an ex-convict!" "Well, miss." replied Crowbar Claude, "to tell you the truth, just at present there ain't nothing I'd like more to be." Exchange.

George E. Davis, the New York iron worker, who is now in Indianapolis awaiting a hearing before the Federai

court, who has made a complete confession to the effect that he was one of the band of professional dynamiters employed by the International Assiciation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers for the purpose of destroying any work completed by non-union men in various parts of the country. In his confession Davis implicates Frank C. Webb, one of the most prominent officials in the union. Davis also discloses the fact that the dynamite plots were hatched even after Frank M. Ryan, president of the International and several other officials had been convicted in connection with the outrages.

Burr's Pension Papers. Aaron IJurr s pension papers, which are dated 18S4, are to be seen in W asn-ington.

0

n

Week-

mwmn

II! trod

ale I

"If There Were No Thistlethwaite Drug Stores There'd Be No Cut Rate Drugs."

SCRAP TOBACCO 6 for 25c Always CHEWING GUMS 3 for 10c Always

BORDEN'S EAGLE MILK 2 for 25c Always FATIMA CIGARETTES 2 for 25c Always

CANDY SALE

1 n Unusually Attractive Assortment, priced at 1 A lUt 10c, 15c and 20c per Pound. AUC

15c

STEAMING HOT LUNCHES Served at our Soda Counter and Tables )r "The Thistlethwaite Way" Just a Little More OC and Just a Little Better. Than You Get Elsewhere.

SPECIALS Friday, Saturday, Sunday $1 Duffy's Malt 75c $1.00 Pinkham's Comp 69c $1 Caldwell's Pepsin 69c $1 Wyeth's Sage & Sulphur 69c 50c Wyeth's Sage & Sulphur 34c $1 Danderine 69c 50c Danderine 34c 25c Danderine 16c

50c Doan's Kidney Pills.... 34c 50c DeWitt's Kidney Pills. .34c

SPECIALS Friday, Saturday, Sunday 50c LaBlache Powder 34c 50c Melba Powder 34c 50c Melba Cleanser 34c 50c Canthrox 34c 25c Satin Skin Powder 16c 25c Sanitol Powder .16c 25c Mennen's Talcum, 2 for 25c 25c Almond Cream 16c 25c Hymettus Shampoo . . . 16c 10c Palm Olive Soap. .4 for 25c

Womens' and Misses' Man-Tailored Snitts Guaranteed Linings, Newest Models, All Pure Wool Fabrics, worth $15.00, for

Womcns' Fine AM-Wool Serge Dresses High Lace Collars, Long Sleeves, $8.75 value, for

Women's SHU Dresses

Worth 95 s3 CTh

$1.00 ALARM CLOCKS 69c

ESKAY: WATCHES Nickel, Gilt or Gunmetal 98c

STANDING OF CONTESTANTS IN PIANO CONTEST

No. Votes 1 192260 2 270375 3 304150 4 245575 5 277S25 6 2679S5 7 224965 S 247995 9271575 10 279695 11 2516S5 12 266455 13 310090 14 2467S0 15 207735 16 205955 17 355660 IS 230410 19201050

No. Votes 39 219630 40 226955 41 153S95 42 160895 43 166985 44 241765 45 233S75 46 1S0795 47 205660 48 185895 49 21S7S5 50 225875 51 243085 52 200620 53 229955 54 186915 55 1S4055 56 209895 57 198945

No. Votes 77 204895 78 210970 79 191695 80 198520 81 230240 82 194985 83 223400 84 244920 So 203685 86 159595 87 191170 SS 211695 89 198195 90 189895 91 223785 92 209495 93 214595 94 194995 95 209225

No. Votes 20 199990 21 226S75 22 216640 23 354460 24 224870 25 172925 26 235930 27 219345 2S 263185 29 217645 30 345120 31 201675 32 189945 S3 246885 34 210895 35 207995 36 209985 37 22S595 3S 256735

No. Votes 58 173775 59 ;225995 60 194985 61 209995 62 205075 63 212375 64 228470 65 1S8S95 66 220865 67 221955 68 190975 69 215905 70 18SS95 71 218795 72 199685 73 198965 74 2488S5 75 205995 76 209995

No. Votes 96 211890 97 347375 98 222895 99 218020 100 226670 101 224595 102 189835 . 103191605 104 205935 105 212885 106 194895 107 227990 108 213490 109 196S55 110 172985 111 182945 112 177655 113 137565 114 142320

Th sftothtf to s

$7.50 for

Women's Pure Silk Messaline Petticoats Pure Silk Messaiine, All Colors, $3.00 value for

Women's Extra Quality Sat teen Petticoats Embroidered and Scalloped Edges, $2.00 value for

20 Models in New Fall Sheer Lingerie Waists High Neck, Long Sleeves, $1 .50 value for

98c

Women's 34 Length Sweater Coats Absolutely All Wool, Close Fitting Collar, $5.00 value for

S8

Children's Pure Wool Sweaters

S2.00 Value for -

LOO

Jnsttritfe Corsets

Sl.OO Value for .

French Undermtislins Embroidered and Scalloped Edges, $2.00 and $3.00 Values for

ioOO

Children's Wash Dresses $1.00 and $1.50 Values for

r4 i1

79c

mm

CO

GUT-RATE DRUG STORES 8th & North E 6th & Main 8th & South E