The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-11

see the people up at Snake Hill must have
been kept pretty busily employed at eat
ing.
It's wonder they had the physical en-
durance to get away with all this food.
Or did they get away with it,
Then there are two other showing items,
hardware and coal. The first for the year
under consideration cost s6, 1915; the
second cost $14,029.31.
Whatever becomes of the hardware sent
to Snake Hill is conundrum 1t GER
tainly can't be good to eat, and 1t certainly
can't Wither or eVaporate. Here, in these
five items, we have an aggregate OF al
most 900, an amount sufficient IN
itself to provision all the institutions for a
year.
For the next year-that is, for the year
ending on the first of last December-the
report shows falling off in some of these
expenses, but it must be remembered that
very many of the bills contracted by the
Board were not presented or passed until
after December l. and hence do not appear
i'll the Collectors report. Still enough ap-
pears to show that no effort was being
made toward retrenchment. The bills
paid during the period were:-For fresh
meat, $10,678; for milk, $6,06S. S5; for gro
Gerry supplies, SIG, ,622; for hardware, "a $50,
and for coal, SIG, SIS. Here we have a
total of over S54 600 for five items already,
without all the bills for the rest of these
items being in. Now, when we consider
the great number of inmates in these
MISUNDERSTANDING 1900 souls
any man who has had any experience
on such matters knows perfectly well
that the daily cost per head for food need
NOT exceed Ten CENTS ~. 2A3 500 for the
wear. It has been shown that the lluconl-
nnlere items for. rneaf milk and GROCERIES
alone for last wear amounted to S33. .36S.
Even at daily cost for food and fuel of
fifteen cents a head the total would be
only S65 700 r. to this shollld he added
the ANIMAL salary list of the employees on
Che Hill. which is about $50. coo. the result
would be SI15 700. and if to this again be
added s1O0 600 a. wear for incidentals the
grand total would be only s125. ZOO. The
annual appropriation now for the main
tenance Of these institutions is S16O. 600
and this appropriation is annually ex-
ceeded hv from $40 600 to s4OOOO
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Inc meaning ana lesson OF these ngures
Is that snake Till coStS Ine people OF unlS
county from SoO, ,OUU 70 stU,OUO more year
than 1t should cost. THE NEWS does not
mean 10 charge that any OF the contrac-
county is dlshonest. Each OF them IS
looking out Tor himself. he IS trying 10
sell as much as posslDle OF MS goods 10 tne
county. He endeavors to get as big orders
and as good prices as he can manage to
secure. Many OF these men bear the best
OF regulations, and have the highest stand
ing IN business clrcles-ln the community.
But they are more or less powerful IN
politics, and the Freeholders appreciate
their influence, and are only too anxious
to concll1ate Them. !,
AN nodse IraC ealses ~ ullis yb,, 1,u
ever ANYTHING is wanted that is not, fl1r-
nished on contract n reouisition is made
and fine Freeholders TAKE tnrns in obtain
ino and disnensino these reauisitions
The Freeholder who gets a reuuisition
oives II to whomsoeyer he pIeases among
his friends and the friend Supplies the
goods called for by the reuuisition at gilt
edped prices Sometimes a reo,lisition
will cali for but a single article or q few
insionificant articles tt would hur.t,