The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-10-16
For THE
CITY AFF4iRS.
Committee, &c.

In May last, THE RECORD, under the head
ing of $. Improvements, endeavored to call
the attention of the citizens TO the changes
then being made, to improve the streets, tl}9
buildings, and to afford better facilities for
business.
Certain assertions were then made, and
conclusions drawn in regard to the work and
its effects, and time has verified some of the
ideas advanced, and some have not been veri-
fed.
The communication in THE RECORD of last
week is proof that the extraordinary high
step Of ten or tcetoe inches at the intersection
of Union and Coryel streets has not become
popular with the aged, the young, she weak
and infirm, during the past five months that
surprise that so much forbearahce has been
exercised by the public, in submitting to this
useless annoyance, and that suits.gat law
have not been commenced against the city.
In front of Mr.. Boozer's premises the cob
BILE stones, taken out of his paved gutter, lay
in the same confused pile as they were thrown
some five months ago, preventing access of
vehicles to the curb, greatly to his damage
and annoyauceS and disgfacesto the neat and
clearly neighborhood.
The city was congratulated on the fact that
the newly-elected Council" having appoint
ed one of their own number City Engineer,
whereby the work would be promptly done
with skill and Judgment ..,.i5.. 4 As bas
BY the proceedings Of Common Council, of
the 7th ult., it is evident that the term " En-
gineer " was missioner, and does not indi-
cate Surveyor, and for good and obvious reas-
ons, viz The City Surveyor has fixed sal
airy of eighty dollars per year, which he can
claim, whether he performs any duty not I;
hence we can account for the following taken
from the proceedings of Council last Monday
evening " 1t was resolved that if the City
Surveyor fails to measure. the properties on
South Main Street ordered two months SINCE
by next meeting of Council, another Survey
or would be employed"
Now, if the proposer of this resolution
wished to show integrity Of purpose, he would
have inserted g prcyiso to take from the
salary of the City Surveyor the expenses of
another Surveyor"
We all know that our City Surveyor is af-
fected by the Greenback mania, and has re-
ceived the nomination for Congress for this
District, and so much of his time is required
to make speeches that Surveying for the city
cannot be attended to and why need it be,
if the Council can appoint some one else to do
the work and still pay him his full salary
AT the Council meeting of the 7th ult, Mr.
Boozer presented preamble and resolution,
which was adopted, which to the ordinary UNI
Outstanding seems an adroit plan to take
from the city treasury money! apparently
according to law. The preamble states:
And, whereas, the City Surveyor recon.
mends that an Assistant be employed, sc.
Therefore, be it
Resotoed, That Edward r. Solliday be APP
pointed and declared an Assistant to the City
Surveyor" &c.
At the same meeting, Mr.. Guillick present
ed the following
g Reso1yed. That there be an order for one
hundred dollars drawn in favor of Mr. +. r..
Solliday," &c.
BY looking into the workings of the pres
ent City Council we find that the party lines
are strictly drawn, and that thereis one Dem
ocratic majority. DR.. Larson, a Democrat,
was made City Surveyor, and by the general
public, IF not by the Council, it was suppos-
4 ed that he neither had time or the praetiea
skill to perform the duty-but there is by or
dinance salary attached to the office, and il
work was required by the city, it was the du-
ty of the City Surveyor TO perform and live
up to his stipulations but to see the bare
facedness of the Council in appropriatinf
funds, and appointing another to do the worl
that one of their body agreed to do, and il
undoubtedly paid for doing, does not SAVIOR o
the true spirit of Republicanism. I