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Show I BOOKS ARE OPEN, I REFORMHAS BEGUN City Engineer Kelsej Starts j Ball Rollins in His De partment. FOURTEEN USELESS HEADS FALL UNDER HIS AX j By This Act Saves City $12,000 Per Year: End Is Not Yet. With the entering of the American party officials upon their duties there la coming an investigation of the conduct of affairs by tho last administration that promises some startling' disclosures. And If n thorough probing of the accounts docs not spell graft It will be something hard to classify under any less vigorous term Making a Beginning. City Engineer Kelsey is the first official to start the ball rolling !n this direction Wednesday evening the heads of four surveying sur-veying parties, fourteen men In all. fell 1 Info the basket and no appointments were made to fill the vacancies, Nor does It pcem probable that any such appointments appoint-ments will be made. Just Drawing Pay. ! This action was taken because after in- 1 vestlgation it was learned that these members of the engineer's payroll were drawing their pay with regularity and do-' do-' Ing mighty little else that could ! con- b trued service to the -1 1 At least ij this is the opinion of those In 8 position tn know the facts. Save Thousand Per Month. The members of these surveying parties received from $iV to JIOT. per month, or to be exact, a total of PX7 monthly, no ln-considerable ln-considerable amount when It Is considered I that thhs sort of thing has gone on month after month, with the- work accomplished 1 showing results that it would require a high-power telesenpe to .lis. Fortune Has Been Wasted B As a demonstration of how to spend money and get little In return the engl-H engl-H a ncerlng department during the last ad-ministration ad-ministration Is certainly entitled to a medal The total expenses for the y-.-tr In this department aggregate JCJ.iJOO. and It 1 Is said upon competent authority that the 1 work done should have been done for not to exceed one-half that amount. Indlcat-ing Indlcat-ing a distribution of more than $30,000 for which practically nothing was received. There's More to Come. Nor is this all. A searching and com-B com-B Detent Investigation of the entire depart- h i -it will made If men drew full pay while they were absent from their 'work for days at a time the fact will be made pnhlir- If month1 were spent In tusks 1 that should have been finished In less B than one-half the time occupied the truth will become known. The era of wasting city mone to supply 1 easy berths to those who are Incompetent. Q negligent and idle la over In Salt lake, H for it is now an American city. |