The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-20

destined to take rank with the seve II
wonders If the world
Well il did
1t collapsed ana tell into pieces with
the first rain storm
he point Of wonder was that lt had
lasted rs long As itdid,
Put togefher-piuned toge her as one
might say Ito hold only until tue gang
could ccnas lDt0 possession OF the SI00,0U0
expended on il, t disappointed ali the ex
pectations Of its promoters by lasting for
a whole year.
All NewarK.oF course lanents the loss
of the $T0o 900, Ii strikes the popular
pocket, out not the popular conscience. Ii
does not seem to have occurred to any,
body thas there is guilt sou1ew here, and
that some one may be liable to punish
ment for the gross abuse Of pubic
trust.
AN OFFICIAL GRAB.
More recently tue cotnDlaisant people
have seen one OF their city officials delib-
eratelg divert puDlc moneys 70 his own
use without raising a row about it. 1t is
the story OF the fees for tax liens in the
Comp5rollars office on properly in pro-
cess OF transfer, nof 4 very serious affair
to be sure, but spgviceable as showing the
prevailing indiff renee to things thar
people living in 4 more healthy atmos-
phere would loudly condemn. The fees
PAID for the searches used to 90 into ti g
City Treasury, and the Comntroller re-
ceived an unusual allowance for making
them. BIIt last week Mr.. Comptroller
Connolly went to Trenton and secured
the passage or an act permitting hln to
put Lhe receipts in his own pocket.
That's where they go now.
~ o one seems to know how much goes
there, though the comptroller in Il STATE
ment submitted to the Council the other
evening, whites his possible ''earniDgs"
lar r. Ia -
Comptrollers Of old received 81. 500 year
for making the searches. Even on Mr.
Connolly's figures he doubles the money
by the change of plan which he himself
enacted into law. 1t is likely, however,
that the difference for the city to lose
will be very much larger.
VI course every cent above the ST. 600
salary allowed to the old line of Comp
trollers thar Mr.. Connolly pockets is a
loss TO the city, buG Connolly knowing
his people, knows that such a trifiing
steal" as this will never arouse the
public resentment. Like all the rest of
the placemen, he is in Office for what he
can make out of il.
mis- scandal is now rampant Only on
Friday night it was the subject Of d
scandalouss row in tue City Council
THE OFFICIALS WE'RE IN IT.
Even within the past few days the pub
lie has been treated TO another exhibition
pl tue inidlily GHAb perVaueS Tue couuucL
Of city affairs. Recently the woodside
section of the city was startled by an an
nouncement that some one had been
licensed by the authorities to locate q
pondrette factory in its choicest part.
Those who knew what pondrette factory
is know that it is not one of the most
savory things ia the world. aud the whole
Of the suburb was up in arms. Protests
were made; bat the works reared their
walls. More violent protests we re made;
they were met only by the ira nsportation
of raw material TO the place. Wuile the
most violent protests rent the air, the
smoke from the inodorous fertilizing fac
tory curled out of the chimney aud i'm
pregnated the air.
The only notice the authorities took OF
the popular opposition was an effort TO
convince the people that their smellers
were out OF order, and that the atmos-
pheric flavor which they had regarded as
stencil was as fragrant us a lily.
The obdurate residents. accepting the
evidence OF their noses, refused TO be
eajoied, and then wondered why their
protests had been so rlnavaling.
The explanation, just vouchsafed, is
that some city officials are stockholders
in the ill-havored business.