Show EXPENSE INCREASE ONLY CANNO Engineer Says Auditor In Included eluded in Report Items j Not to Be Charged An explanation why the tho expenditures f of the city street department are shown to have been greater for the tho thoa a first ten months of 1916 than for the corresponding period of 1915 are con con- in a letter addressed yesterday to Commissioner Heber lieber M. M Wells of the 7 street department by Sylvester Q Cannon Can Can- non imon city engineer When the tho report was Issued Mr Wells asked for an explanation Sir Mr f Cannon says in Iii his letter that the apparent ap- ap parent increase Is duo due to the fact that thata a number of public Improvements are j included in the auditors auditor's report which 1 cannot be construed as maintenance Included in those se items for all of which appropriations were made by time the commission are the Liberty park comfort corn com fort station street signs rest benches GOO improvements at n time tho Warm Springs baths city's portion of bridge at Twenty first South Improvement of Hillside avenue drainage for surplus canal 12 Ninth South street storm According to Mr Ir Cannon accounts for for this work are being carried on the tha books of time tho engineering department and for that reason time tho expenditures made thus far on It are shown as a apart p part of the departments department's expense for tho tilo first ten months of this year S S. S |