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Show CITY OPERATING CQH lira mm Nearly $34,000 of AmouB However, Was for ImlB W provements. SOME SAVING AFFECTElB Street Department Uses 000 More, but Other DB visions Counterbalance, '-K Considering every item of expense j'B cost of operating tho city governnieBf for tho first six months of 1913 exceH cd that of the same period in 1912JBI $35,000. The figures provide the fiH basi3 of comparison between the cjmml of the commission form of govommB for tho first six months of its opK tion and a period after it had hadB chance to bo put into working sfcaoeKi Tho total expenditures for tha'fijM? half of tho current year were 367E 006.44 as against $640,440.51 fo'r tK first six months of 1912. A comperijBI of tho actual cost of running the varinH departments of government, exchi&Bi of the expenditures from tho genttHr and statutory funds for improvemeHii and fixed expenses, shows the lncraR this year to have been less than $10dB Tho expenditures of the doparimenlB exclusive of the expenditures mHf tioned, totaled $4S1,741.S6, as agaidH $480,S44.10 for the corresponding perK of 1912, and this in spite of the iMWtt that now departures, new dopartmet and new equipment wero added to fVj actual running expense of the city goK crnment. -Bl For tho department of public EafeB tho cost of operation during tho half of the current year was fl77,455B as against $183208.34 for the saaK period last year, a saving of $5,752iB' notwithstanding tho fact that the uHI office of eit' electrician was added'R the burden of tho public safety dapajHjl ment since the first half of 1912 pasE Fire Department Less. 9 The cost of operating the fire depaiHj! ment decreased from $56,57S.97 in IDH I to $44,093.81 in 1913. Tho docreaVj however, is partially accounted for iHR the fact that considerable new equBl ment came out of the expenditures fHi 1912. Police and prison cost increasHa this year to $63,974.S4, as comparedW $61,392.74 last year. W In the street " department tha cost',B operation Increased nearly 512,000, v'Hf which more than 510,000 Is accounted fMK in the increased cost maintenance sflfi repair of streets and sidewalks. The oH) ot this department in 1913, first hSH was $125,453, SO as against 113,544.4LlB The water department operated withlH) decreased cost of more than $3300, UE total expenditure this year being ilmM 322 S3, as against $7G,G39.16 for tha B3H period last year. The department of parks and pubR water also sliced moro than $3400 frHI Us operating expenses this year. THe total expenditure was 553,473.07 -mK against ?G6,$9o.2i. -fli Small Increases. iS In the department of public affairs ijE finance, where the costs are more or liH fixed, an increase of less than $5C0,H shown, the total cost this year being $?K 43G.3G, as against I2S.9G9.S1. The audH Ing and license departments lncreaiBi their expenses from SSS48.43 to $9 025,IK an increase of less than $200. The PmF He library spent $13,569.45, as aguiHfe The only noticeable increase wasxK the department of streets and public IHi provements and the ravings effectedMi the departments of public safety. wsK and parks practically wiped out the $lHb 000 Increase In the street departmentK expenditures listed under statutaK and general and improvements this 5eH totaled $194,2S4.5S. whllo the cxpendltwBj last year under the same headings totaln $159,602.41. Expenditures under ihMW heads represent outlays by tho dly mWk public Improvements, payment of ln'tK est on bonds and redemption of bonB and such other fixed and necessary tmWm penditures. 'flp |