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Show ! lull Mo UK 11L1II1..MHMKM. TueprvMut City Council liaidoni rnuou lu the way uf roirnui biuoui; II bai gladtlaued the ueerie uf lha tel. payara tu a very appieoiabla eiteut by reduolug etoraiiTe aalanaa aud abuh.h. lug many um.tua.iary tliuoa. Thlt axiravaganURIolal Hit waa made up i' y couiolman who waul lutu cHlcr wllB aviwed delrrmluatlou 10 uiikerialt I.ako Cliy a "malropolltan town" at whatuvar coal tu tha properly ' awuen, 'I Lev therefore aol lu work and created Innuinernbla drpartfnant. na doubt lo ba In Iba fa.mon Wllb Chloaito, New Verk aod olllea ol lhat clue. Moil of theaa oftloee have remalnad In exltlenae, lo lha great chagrin aod dlaeom. fllure of lha taapayert, for a period of nearly Hi yeara. Al laat a change haa cnma and lha board of municipal manageri recently eleota haa awakened to reallaatloa af tha liot lhat the city waa naarlng a itala of bankruptcy, and thai mmaihlng moil be dona quirkly. Thli lomalhing, or a long Hap lu lie direction, baa been done, ami tba oily ha been relieved nf n uiinecraaary annual expenditure of over $Au,000 for aalarlae alone, and baa bran glveu promlaa of a lurlhi r relief nf mora than double lhat amount by c intolldalloa and retrenchment lo varlnua department!. Thequmlon now In Iillpoiilble 1111 lurlhir to reduce lha rxinnaeaor lha munloipailiy without hindering lie pn gre? Theamwer oomaa from many: "Yra, wa brllava ao;" and of d une in auliaianliatlon or audi a reply re-ply II would nolbeemlia to point out wherein lhat further reductlun could bo made. II haa bean ougreeie , and properly, wa think, thai lha till a of aanltary Inaptctor whlob glvie to He Incumbent a monthly emeluuient of (loo could wall ba dUpenaed wlln. Tha iuggnilon It alto made that In lha abollahlng of Ibal nfllce, tha work heretofore reeling upon lhat tfTlolal could vary properly be given lo lha plumbing Inapaotor. Iulhle luggaallun we think there It eomethlng wurlh contlderlng. During the month of January lha plumbing lntiactur laeued tut twenty rmlti, a Itlxir of aooul twenty hour., for wblcb ha reoalved hie monthly atlpend of 1 00. Could ba nol alao alUnd to Ike dullta of tannery Ineptolor and Ihui be given Work iqulvalanl lo bla pay? It would team ao, and to lha praaant olont the consideration ol the fea.lbll. geeUd. II lhay aae In It lha mania of a Jutt and rqullakla ralrer.rh. menl, let them anolnh tha oltloa ol aaullary Intpecloi; or, If Ibal ba regarded re-garded aa i.eoraaary, let lha man who looba after Ilia pluim.lng builneae for liaalhanan hour a day ba ulipeneed with and tba aaullary department lake up hla work. Thle li but one pointer of a numtiar that might ba glveu the culling of lha maJlaaa foroe In Iba Ireaiurer'e da-parlmanl, da-parlmanl, for Inotaiice. llut H will do fur a pmeenl tuggaatlon, and to Intimate lo lha city felhere lhat while tba reduction made haa Leon highly onimeoUable, all Ibal out ba profitably profit-ably done In Ihi line hai aul yal boo acoaujpllth.il. |