The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-20
JOBS, JOBS, J0BS!!
Things the Eyes See That Point to
General official 0orruptionl

General Official CorruptiOnl
Nos less direct results of fraud than
these out and out robberies by her public
servants are the official scandals that
the town OF late. All Newark knows of
the sins that have provoked the, scandals;
but the easy conscience of the people
makes them compliment.
The making or that big water contract
is the most noisome in the odor of cor
ruDtion that hangs over it. It is not to
be denied, Of Course. that the securing of
new water supply was desirable and
commendable enterprise for the city OF
Newark to embark in. Her water service
is as bad as Jersey City's There are rea-
sons for believing that it may be even
hlthier than that which this city is con.
demned to suffer. Her own sewage
floats up the river from the outlets to
the intakes, and is drawn into her reser-
volrs for the SHAKING of her thirst
Substances that fiud their way to one
shore Of tue river are not apt to cross the
channei TO the other This law of the
tides keeps Newark's waste oa Newark's
own side of the river for Newark's con-
sumption and protects Jersey City 10
some extent So that it may be that
new water supply is even more urgently
Gemanued there than lt is demanded
here. But it might have been got and
sAoaid have been got without making
the moral air of the town as fetid as the
water 1t wasn't, however. 1t seems to
have been only change of location for
the foulness. The new supply contract
has eyaporated it from the river into the
official atmosphere
VELVET FOR EVERYBODY
The people Of Newark knew. the mo
ment they heard what the price for the
new supply was to be, that somebody had
taken advantage of public necessity to
impose monstrnus JOB on the comInuu-
lily. 1t has been notorious for years that
the Morris Canal water rights were acz
cessible TO any city wanting to use them
for 50, 100000 1t was a clean evidence Of
fraud When IL was announced that New
ark was TO pay So, 900. 009 for them. The
offer to sell AT $1,000, 600 carried, OF course.
a good round profit with it. So that the
So, eco, coo excess is what the poker PLAYERS
would call "alt velvet for the company.
The only thing that stood in its way of
being all velvet" was the rapacity aud
greed OF the city officials whose votes
and influence we're needed to bind the
city to the Contract. One or two or three
of those interested may have been moved
by public considerations in the awarding
OF the contract. But current runor re-
ports that among the others, a nice little
DOODLE of 100000 or 100000 was
spread.
THE MURDER0US CENTRE POLES
But the cleanest give away" in cou-
nectlon with the administration of NUM-
cipal affairs in the city is the centre pole.
One can always judge of the cleanness OF
an administration by looking over the
town for the nutsances it permits IN the
private interests of rich concerns. ASH
one rides through Newark and sees the
ugly centre post disfuring every street. he
is forced 20 conclude that such an insight
ly Disagreement of the streets would not
have been permitted by straight gov
ernmeDt devoting its energies only To the
public welfare. 1t is plain to the running
glance that there is no public reason
why these vile encumbrances should be
permitted IN the thoroughfares, and the
fact that they are there is Overwhelming
proof of the wickedness of her rulers
There are on the other hand the strong
est public reasons why they should not
be in the streets They are there TO sup
port the wires of the electric car system;
but they are there also to menace the life
and limb Of the citizens. "A dozen per-
sons have already been killed or MANNED
by them. Some luckless persons have
been crushed by them, even while climb
ing into the company's own cars.
The public has protested against them
49, cA~aASAcu Aol OH0ir reluOFat, Oub HI
III vain.
The Influences that enabled the street
car company to put them there, keeps
them therel
Common report Is that the city authori-
ties sold the life and safety of their peo-
pie 70 the street car companies for $3.50
O1o IN ready cash, distributed where it
would do the most good, and great big
block of the company's stock
- NEARBY MILLION WASTED.
There was the big hume, too. Some
three or four years ago il struck the off
cials that it might be a good idea to build
a Dig Dox drain 20 carry, the sewage of the
lower end of the city across rbe meadows
10 the bay, The moment it was suggested
the public leeches saw that there were
big stakes la the prosecution OF such an
enterprise. and of course it was not many
weeks before they had got il under way.
me people Were treated 20 daily reports
from the scene Of operations. Every link
put In the big sewer was the pretext for
a new encomium upon the public spirit
Of the governing boards and at the same
time Tor new draft on the public treas
ury-
The very magnitude of the expenditure
was shrewdly made the ground for an
appeal to the popular pride, aud at the
end the people got together to congratu-
late themselves upon the successful ex-
penditure of 100000 Of their moneys
When the connecting sewers were first
turned into it the papers were filed with
column after column of exordium The
greatest engineering feat Of the aye had
been accomplished. The great hume was
was troubled with catarrh for seven years
previous to commencing the nse OF Elyis
Cream Balm. 1t has done for me what osker
SO called cures have failed 10 do--cured iaa
Ihe ,ifect Of sne Balm seemed magical. Clar-