Mayor on the run--fears public rage ; Library to help cut down city's expenses ; A weak fire directed by council at budget today ; S.H. Church to preside at meeting ; See saving in Horse Bureau

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horses.   Commenting pungently on this bold illegality, Dr. Kerr said:
"I. offer a resolution asking the mayor why the ordinance of February 4, 1914. creating the bureau of horses, was not put into effect, with a saving1 of $27,000 in horse feed alone to the city?"
The much chastened gang council-men joined in a unanimous condemnation of the mayor, contained in the resolution. It passed without a dissenting vote. Dr. Kerr further com^ mented that if the city could be muj^ ed $27,000 in one year on the item or hay and oats alone, revelations of millions wasted in large items were
coming. A tribute was paid Superintendent E. A. Ward, of the bureau, acknowledging his competency, but declaring he was not afforded supervision and inspection facilities.
Another bitter comment on maladministration was made by Dr. J. P. Kerr, who pointed out that the city had millions to waste on sinecures, but not $300 to afford proper medical attention to the inmates of the Warner home, where an assistant resident physician at $900 a year had asi^qd an Increase to $1,200. ^
"If this doctor's full servicers are worth $900 a year," said Kerr, "then a whole lot of attorneys in the doddering law department are not worth $500 a year."
As soon as Dr. Kerr mentioned the protected law, department with its "Snow" Lejpfox and gang of $100-a-day expe^C, he was promptly ruled out ot^rder. Flour for the Warner home/was cut from $8,400 to $6,000 an4/ft was explained that this would not a decrease in rations, but due entirely to lower prices in flour now prevailing.
Acting Chairman Goehring announced that the executive committee of the Carnegie institute would meet late this
afternoon at the request of President S. H. Church^ According to the rules of the Carnegie institute, there is an automatic increase yearly in the salaries oft employes, and as council has placed itself on record against salary increases of any kind, this problem ip administration will be taken up.
Presaging an assault on all syj^tires created in the first few monM^bf the Armstrong administration^p^ancilman Kerr offered a resolutioirthat the civil service commission be instructed to furnish council immediately with a list of the new: positions created and the new appointments made in 1914. This list is declared to be the opening wedge of scandalous revelations of how a corrupt administration pays off political debts and actually maintains a "secret payroll" for the hangers-on.
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Library to Help Cut Down City's Expenses
Directors of Institution to Meet Late Today and Consider Reduction of Estimates for Year's Eeq^Tr^ ments � Automatic Salary Increases May Not Be Granted.
Carnegie library is to play its part i/a the economies of Pittsburgh in 1915. Ways and meains for reducing the city's appropriation for the maintenance of the library will be discussed at wha,t probably will be a protracted conference of the board of trustees to be held at the call of President -Samuel Harden Church late today in the institute.
While council has been hard at work slashing the budget to hold down the millage for next year, the directors of the library have bethought themselves of the possibility of supplementing the work of council by a consideration of opportunities for economy in the operation of the library.
They believe, it is understood, that in View of prevailing conditions due to the war, together with the retrenchment in all the city departments, the library should help to lighten the city's burden. It was though probable, it is said, that some reduction in the annual estimate for the library can be made.
At the conference today the trustees will inveetibate every department of the library, to ascertain just where the proposed cuts can be made with the least curtailing of the library's efficiency. The session, It is anticipated, will be a protracted ope, as, it is understood, the matter will'be gone intq thoroughly.
In the course of a few days President Church will make a report of the findings of the board of trustees to council, provided the prospective cuts will be found advisable.
Councilman Enoch Rauh, chairman of the  parks  and  libraries  committee  of council; President John M. Goehring, and Councilman S. S. Woodburn, who represent the city on the board of trustees, said they had received notices and would attend the meeting. This year the library board is faced | with a long list of automatic salary in-| creases.   It is expected that ell of these employes will be forced to forego these j (raises until next year at least.
COUNCIL AT
Although the city estimates for 1915, as they now stand, call for a tax rate of current expenses of about 12 mills an increase of more than 70 per cent over the 1914 rate, the budget committee of council accomplished very little this morning in the direction of ctitung the estimates. ' The committee was in session only an hour and a quarter and then adjourned until tomorrow morning.
Tr   v* a-s   announced   that   no   session would bo held during- the afternoon because of a scheduled conference with Mayor Armstrong- on the movement for better street ear .service and a conference  of  the  Carnegie  institute  board \ of trustees, including; the representa- I tives of council on the. board.    There \ has been talk of the probability of a, : substantial cut in the estimate sent to j council  by the  institute  trustees  and 1 there is speculation as to whether the Estimate is .to' be under discussion at ; �Jie' GQ't�f'e$Gnc and ?)'  and lt; and m)tc.il'fti# and , Gpehring, j Kituh 'a lid Woodbur^i, t h"e*""*6d uU'Ci I'm a n i c j members of the board, said that they; had not been informed as to the pur- ; 4 and ose of the eonfei*enee. '
A LATE START.
Although the budget committee was scheduled to meet at 10 o'clock this morning- it was 11:45 o'clock when the committee was called to. order.   In the , absence of Chairman Garland, who is
! out of the city today, Councilman Goehring- presided, on motion of Dr Iverr. Several of the councilmen are 2omplaining- over the tardiness of the 2ommtttee in beginning- its meetings, uhe delays having- been pronounced during the past week. The declarators)m and $ ar$ tfe and t the council has a pJff job en h�a� and has very little time jn whi#fc to perform it, m the city-8.flfl.oal y$ar will begiij on Jan. J,
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