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Show 01 FUND HELPS TO PAY ANOTHER Besides the liquidation of bond to the extent of $50,000, "accomplished through the use of funds accumulated in receipts of the waterworks department," depart-ment," as stated by the mornine paper in an extended comment on the city auditor's report for 1916. and the saving sav-ing of about $2,000 in interest, "by borrowing bor-rowing from ono fund to meet ex penses of another," as previously re-ported re-ported by The Standard, the auditor's report al60 discloses the gratifying fact that the cemetery department con tinues to bo self-supporting, and the further gratifying fact that the cemetery ceme-tery department and street department are now well supplied with Implemenl and tools, deemed sufficient . perhaps, for the needs of two or three years. Because of the vital interest of all the people in the city cemetery, the cost of its upkeep and deolopnirnl is quoted as follows, from the report of the auditor: "Receipts: Perpetual upkeep. ?1.100; maintenance of lots. $2, .".so. digging graves, sales, etc., 15,109.50; total, $S,-, $S,-, 769.60 "Disbursements: implements and tools, $417.80; Balaries, $6,684.01; maintenance, main-tenance, $384.60; expense, $203.20; total, to-tal, $6,689 61." "The big outstanding feature of the auditor's report," said a prominent tax payer today, "is the item of cost of the street lights, which is $26,000, minus $1.94." |