The Bridgeport Evening Farmer

OVER A MILLION
INCREASE FOR
N. Y. SALARIES
Budget Shows Boost of 18,488—Women Neglected
In Schedule.

New York, Nov. 22.—An analysis of the full list of salary increases for city employees was made at City Hall yesterday following a report from George L. Tirrell, director of the Bureau of Standards of the Board of Estimate.

The report shows increases for 18,488 city employees, aggregating $1,147,180.

This amount will raise the tax rate nearly one and a half points and is responsible for that amount in the 1917 budget, which foots up to $211,115,016.

Of the 18,488 increases all but approximately 5,700 are made for uniformed members of the Police, Fire, Street Cleaning and Correction departments.

There are no salary decreases in the 1917 budget, and if any positions are abolished or new ones created they are not shown in Director Tirrell's report.

Frank L. Dowling, newly elected president of the Board of Aldermen, heads the list of recipients of salary boosts with an increase from $5,000 to $7,500.

Col. Merritt H. Smith, chief engineer of the Bureau of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, comes next, with an increase of $2,000, from $10,000 to $12,000.

The smallest increases appear in the estimates for the Health Department, where a number of women are recommended for an increase of $12 a year—from salaries of $360 to $372, meaning a raise of $1 a month.

The raise for President Dowling follows the decision of the Board, made before he assumed office and during the incumbency of George McAneny, who refused the increase.

With his increase, President Dowling gets just half the salary of the Mayor and Comptroller, but, like them, has three votes in the Board of Estimate.

Outside of President Dowling and Col. Smith the next highest increases go to Director Tirrell of the bureau of Standards and Tilden Adamson, brother of Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson, who each receive a boost of $1,500.

Tilden Adamson is chief of the Bureau of Contract Supervision.

Fifty-nine other employees in all receive increases of $500 or more. Chief among these, with their old and new salaries, are:

Thomas Brophy, marshal, Fire Department, $3,600, $5,000; F. Stuart Crawford, secretary Corporation Counsel, $3,500, $4,680; J. Rice, engineer, Queens Pres., $5,000, $6,120; Eugene Stern, engineer, Manhattan Pres., $5,000, $6,120; Charles E. Gregory, engineer, Manhattan Pres., $5,000, $6,120;

Max Schmittberger, chief inspector, police, $5,000, $6,000; Dr. C. Stuart Gager, director, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, $4,000, $5,000; no name given, special department clerk, Supreme Court, First Department, $2,500, $3,500; A. C. Baur, chief clerk, Finance Department, $3,150, $4,140; William Van Wert, secretary, Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner, $2,100, $3,060;

Louis E. Lewee, superintendent of reformatory, $2,520, $3,480; Calvin J. Crocker, engineer, Plant & S. Department, $4,000, $4,860; Paul C. Wilson, assistant secretary, to Mayor, $5,000, $5,820; Anna I. Lohmann, private secretary, Charities Department, $1,560, $2,340; Farley Carter Childs, secretary Plant Department, $3,000, $3,780;

Hungary A. Watkins, confidential inspector, Dock Department, $2,250, $3,000; James Dillon, Queens and Brooklyn Borough inspector, police, $3,500, $4,200; F. V. Hickey, chief clerk, Register, Kings, $1,800, $2,500; Jas. J. Flynn, chief officer, Parole Commission, $1,680, $2,340; Charles J. Druhan Assistant Corporation Counsel, $2,850, $3,480;

Stanley H. Howe, secretary, Charities Department, $3,500, $4,080; John R. Keefe, clerk, Fire Department, $4,000, $4,560; Valentine F. Keller, clerk, Finance Department, $1,800, $2,340; George B. Buck, actuary, Pension Division, $3,600, $4,140; Walter C. Sheppard Assistant Corporation, $5,000, $5,520;

John F. Carroll, clerk, Queens Pres., $2,000, $2,500; Alexander C. Wilson, social investigator, Charities, $4,000, $4,500; John Brennan chief of Vehicle Licenses, $2,500, $3,000; Emanuel Friendlich, secretary, Bronx Pres., $3,000, $3,500; no names given, twenty-four special deputy clerks, Supreme Court, First Department, $2,500, $3,000.

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