. Engineering and Contracting. nd close of the fiscal year. Whatever savings r^ay for relatively small amounts, so as to secure the the contracts were also awarded without com- have been made can be accounted for as foi- trkaork° ^^ possible number of con- petition at the uniform price of $ a square lows: February 16, 1910. ENGINEERING-CONTRACTING 143 1. By the discharge of some of the superflu-ous employes in the lower grades, such as labor-ers, mechanics, inspectors, etc., due in part to acreditable, though insufficient, extension of thecontract system. 2, By the discharge or reduction i
. Engineering and Contracting. nd close of the fiscal year. Whatever savings r^ay for relatively small amounts, so as to secure the the contracts were also awarded without com- have been made can be accounted for as foi- trkaork° ^^ possible number of con- petition at the uniform price of $ a square lows: February 16, 1910. ENGINEERING-CONTRACTING 143 1. By the discharge of some of the superflu-ous employes in the lower grades, such as labor-ers, mechanics, inspectors, etc., due in part to acreditable, though insufficient, extension of thecontract system. 2, By the discharge or reduction in salary ofa few in the higher grades. The results are far below the reasonable ex-pectations of those interested in reducing thecitys expenditures. No good reason can begiven for the failure to adopt the formerFinance Commissions recommendations as to reductions in_salaries in the Assessing, Collect-ing Treasury, City Clerk, Clerk of CommonCouncil, Clerk of Committees, City Messenger, Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Section. Fig. 2—View of Chimney Being JacketedWith Concrete. Soldiers Relief, Weights and Measures and oth-er departments. Unnecessary appointments have also beenmade, as for example those of the two addition-al assessors, which, in effect, were nothing morenor less than deliberate gifts of $8,000 a yearof the citys nionej. Moreover, the mayors of-fice has frequently interfered with the conductof the departments in the making of appoint-, ments to subordinate offices, and in at least , that of the Penal Institutions Depart-ment, with demonstrated pernicious results. We shall pass by the evidence afforded bythis report of the manifest economy of con-tract -work over day labor in constructingand maintaining city works. The contentionof this journal from the first and persistentlysince is now being proved on so many handsthat it needs but little argument. There is,however, another matter which we have urgedthat is worthy of further comment. This isthe valu
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