Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-29

WHAT IT II, AND WHAT IT OUGHT TO
Mayor .................... Sl,20U
Should be reduced to $500.
Comptroller .................. 4,O0O
$4,000 would be a good salary.
Treasurer ................... Z,SUU
81 600 would pay.
City clerk ................... 3,OUO
Wouldn't 81, 500 be enough
Street commissioner. ....... 1900
Would $500 pay
Deputy street commissioner. 1000
$500 is good pay.
Assistant street commissioner. 1000
Better abolish the office. II not,
cut the salary down to 5000.
Surveyor ..................... $500
The labor can be performed for $1,000.
Chief of police. ............ 1000
Competent men would take it at $1,000.
Captain of police. .....-. .,... 1920
Who doesn't think 5000 is enough ?
Lieutenant of police. .......... 1000
Too much for keeping stove hot.
One hundred men want it at $500.
Superintendent of city market. 1900
Better close the market entirely, OF
cut the salary down to 5000.
Superintendent of fire alarm 800
$3.50 would pay that official.
Scavenger-First district. 49,. 800
Scavenger-Second district. 49,. 500
Sclvenger-Third district. 80. 500
The scavengers have q dirty job,
but $500 would pay them.
Superintendent of aims house. 600
We learn that there are abuses in
this department In tho superin-
tendent's family there are five per-
sons, who are furnished everything
but clothing, at a cost of S1,050 a
year. People think too much is
paid by $3.50.
Overseer of poor. .......... 1000
Give the overseer $400, and the re-
mainder to the city poor.
Janitor of city hall ...... 1000
$500 is enough. Plenty of good
men would like that salary.
City physician, lower wards -. $50
Good doctors would cure people for
less sum.
City physician, upper wards 49,. 500
Good doctors would kill people for
great deal less money.
Tender iron bridge, Port ..... 400
Let this be reduced one-half.
Tender iron bridge, South St.. 200
Let the above salary be reduced
Health inspector. ........ 1900
Is the office worth $500
Keeper First ward station house 100
$50 would pay any man.
Keeper Fourth ward station house 400
The salary should be cut down to 800.
We intend keeping up steady fire
on the question of reduction of sala-
ries of city officials, until reform is eff
fected. We republish, in to-day's pa.
per, the list of salaries paid the city Of
ficers. We also give what we consider
fair estimate OF what the salaries
should be at the present time, when our
tax payers are heavily burdened. The
salaries have beeu growing larger year
by year, until they have at last reached
enormous rates. Look at the enormous
amount of money it costs the tax payers
to pay the expenses of the city of Eliza
beth--a city of twenty five thousand in
habitants. Please put down in figures
the large and exorbitant amount paid in
salaries. 1t is no wonder that tho tax
payers growl. Our taxes are too heavy.
There are good and honest men to be
found who would take the above offices
fer one-half the salaries at present paid
thereby causing saving 10 the city
OF about fifty per cent. No wonder the
city is in debt Let us have a reform
in the matter of salaries, and our city
will soon be out of its perplexing situa-
ton. Then, people will come in our
midst, and live among us, and the city
will grow again.
As long as the present state of things
exist, people will not come among us.
They do not fancy the idea of paying
other peoples debts. 1t is time change
was made. Let the large salaries be cut
down to reason, and hen we will be bet
ter of. Keep it before the people, and
more particularly the incoming council.
The taxes must be lower.