ITEMS OF INTEREST November 2, 1912 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Announcement has been made by the directors of the port of Boston, Mass., that they have appropriated three million dollars for beginning the waterfront development. The present allotment from the nine million dollars available to the directors is to give access to the commonwealth's property off Jeffries point, and for such additional property or rights as may be found necessary for railroad tracks, connections, switching yards, freight yards, or rights of way extending from the state's property to the location of the Boston & Maine railroad in East Boston. The money will also be used for laying out, constructing, and grading highways, bridges, railroads, or other structures which may be necessary to establish railroad connections between any existing railroad and the state's property, or property which may later be secured adjacent thereto. The idea is to erect piers and wharves on this property and to do any dredging necessary.

The budget of New York city for 1913 is not likely to be much under two hundred million dollars. It was about one hundred and eighty-nine million dollars for this year. The budget committee of the board of estimate has decided to increase the salaries of first-grade (year) patrolmen from eight hundred to one thousand dollars a year, and that of second-grade patrolmen from nine hundred to one thousand dollars a year. The increase will be put into the new budget, affecting four hundred and twenty-eight first-grade men and five hundred and fifty-three second-grade men, and adding a total of one hundred and forty thousand nine hundred dollars to the budget. No decision has been reached by the committee yet as to the increase asked on behalf of the higher members of the department and for members of the fire department.

The public schools of New York city are face to face with one of the results of the equal pay law, which secures like salaries for men and women teachers. The board of education last week appointed as teachers in the elementary schools, three hundred and eightyeight women and twenty-two men, and with these appointments the eligible list for men is exhausted. It is improbable that any more men teachers will be appointed very soon, for the waiting list shows six hundred and eighty-eight women and no men. Before the equal pay law went into effect a man teacher started at nine hundred dollars and went to twenty-one hundred and fifty dollars in twelve years; now he starts at seven hundred and twenty dollars and may reach fifteen hundred dollars after fifteen years.

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