The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-30

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other. The Governor takes his month
Nv STIPEND in a check for $416. 66, while
his private secretary draws $166.66.
s'Bobn Green. as the latter is called
around the State House, has several
other perquisites. Colonel Morris X.
Hamilton, the State Librarian, always
makes two pulls each month at his
salary. He generally draws about two
thirds of it the first week and the bal
ance the last. He now receives $S,O0o.
Attorney General Stockton let's MS
accumulate, drawing three months at
a time. 1t being about 81, 750, makes
a snug amount to pocket.
H NEW SUPERINTENDENT.
The management of the State
House, under the administration OF b.
j. Ford. the new Superintendent,
makes good reading. This is a study
of a reform, as far as partisan leglsla-
! ton can secure a reform. Bernard j..
/ Ford took possession Of the office OF
| Superintendent of State House and
| Grounds on May %. The first strik-
ing contrast is seen by finding in the
| same position, on opposite pages, the
last months salary paid to John
Brown, the ousted janitor, and the
first paid to b. j. Ford, the newly
made Superintendent. The former
received 1926, and the latter $221.45
for q period over a month, the normal
salary being 1856. 66. The change OF
management brought into existence
a number of new places, and
they are as afollows:-Ex-SherlH
N. K. Thompson, as j%anitor, re
ceives 800 a month. Asher Il.
Lander is the carpenter, and he gets
1888. 33 a month. A new Office was
created, that of a document
clerk, whose duty it is to classify and
keep all the state documents and to
supply them on demand. Little Alb
ram ID. Naar, who is CONSPICUOUS as
doorkeeper at all political gatherings,
left his position in the Secretary of
States Office to accept it. He receives
$50 each month. john A. Nugent is
doorkeeper at a salary of 800; Ralph
Van Kirk is night Waterman at $50.
John R. Riker, the messenger, receives
$50; Charles w. Gagg is also a messen-
ger at $50. Joseph Chandler gets 500
as a laborer. The other laborers
p. Disbrow, $50: Christian Braun,
$50. John Makechney is an engineer
at 1888. SO, and William Let's is an as
sistant at $50. Then there is an assis-
tant document clerk who draws $50.
His name is Henry J. Hewitt. Annie
G. Cough is janitress at q salary of
$50. There are other laborers and
carpenters and several w%atch1nen.
Edward Sweeney draws $25 a month
for patrolling around outside of the
State House at night to prevent any
body stealing the building.
Under the new management the
pay roll has increased about one-third
over the previous year. The total ex-
pense of running the State House is
$25, 010.83.
II ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.
There is no statement which appears
regularly in this annual Christmas
story that attracts so much attention
as the account of the legal expenses.
In short, the expenditures of the At
torney-General have been exceedingly
large and necessarily the subject of
continuous comment. The first item
is a bill of $3.50 for six days pro-
fessional services" by r. Field Stock
ton. the son of the Acknowledgement
Last fiscal year this young man
was paid by the State at the rate of
$25 a day, and the circumstance
brought forth much newspaper critic
ism. Immediately the Attorney
General wrote, for the first time
in years, a brief report, in which he
stated that he would spend no more
for extra professional service. He at
once dispensed with the services of
his son, and the items that open the
accounts this year are for work that
was done before the Acknowledgement
made his resolution. The total of the
amounts drawn by r. Field Stockton
was $1,000. The prosecution of the
railroad cases continues to take the
energies of the Acknowledgement and
his assistant, w. Y. johnson, and in
consequence some few lawyers are hay
ing very desirable and remunerative
work at the expense of the State. The
name of ex-Judge William L. Hoffman
appears frequently On the pages of the
book of the exchequer. Under the
head of illegal expenses it appears
just q dozen times, that is a bakers
dozen, and the items footed up show
that he has drawn So, 050. William S.
Gunlmere, besides drawing a neat sum
as Advisory Master, gets 81, $50 for
services rendered the Attorney Gen
eral. Barker Gummere was called on
several times to help the state out of
legal difficulties. His services cost
1861. William P. McMichael, Jr..
of Bordentown, helped to make
searches in the railroad cases and his
bill amounted to $1,410. The entire
cost of the Attorney Generals depart
ment, exclusive of his salary
and that of his assistant, was $14, 1913.
Noyember's Health Record.