The Jersey City news., 1892-05-07

sent them to Mr.. Wanser. Mr.. Wanser
has but to ask and he shall receive. 30
lar as am concerned, his suggestions
will be honored. These attacks upon our
Board, however, are quite unnecessary
and without foundation, and to my mlno
they are merely walls Of a hungry horde
who are out, endeavoring to get in."
tft THE LAMP PAYROLL.
"What do you think of Mayor Wanser.s
refusal to sign Lamp Inspector Conk's
payroll?' asked.
"Well. attribute that in a measure to
a misunderstanding of the Mayor In re-
gard to what the men have to do. When
the Lamp Inspectors department came
under our control Mr.. Conk had four
men who were employed by the Police
Commissioners. The department was
virtually In my charge | discovered the
first week they entered our Office that the
policemen made a report every morning
jn good condition on their posts.
Hooked into the matter and found that
Colonel Robinson had always kept these
reports. / then detailed Mr.. Decker to do
this work. Petitions began pouring in
for new oil and gas lamps and we granted
every petition possible. know of cases
where fifty and sixty petitions for lamps
have been turned over to Inspector Conk.
Four men were unable to do the work re-
quired of them ana l then decided to put
on two more and pay them 50 day for
every day they actually worked. Since
those men have been in my charge hun
dreds of lamps have been set and straight
ened.
Finally, l determined to put the
names OF the streets on the lamp posts,
and any observing citizen can notice that
great deal of this kind of work has been
done. New lamps have been put up and
! can trnthfully say that all of the men in
that department have earned their sal
aries. Mayor Wanser is mistaken in his
idea that these men do nothing. The
work Of Clerk Decker Is difficult and
surely Mr.. Wanser does not want US to
ask employees OF the Water Department to
do the work of an entirely different de-
partment.
Il imagine when His Honor makes a
little further Investigation ne will not
hesitate to pay the moneys. Mr.. Wanser is
being given entirely too much outside
information for his own good. Our de-
partment employs great many men,
but they all have considerable work to
do. There are no dead men on our pay
rolls. neither are they padded. 1t anyone
Is OF the opinion that they are he Is at
liberty to investigate.
AS TO RAILWAY PERMITS.
I'm relation to any intimation of pc.
culiar methods adopted with railroad
companies it is nonsensical. What our
Board has done for railroads no one can
fl nd fault with. will explain every ac-
tion of mine with respect to such COM
panies.
"What reason do you suppose the
Mayor has for refusing to sign the resolu-
tion awarding the Fifth Precinct contract
to p. j. CondonH Interrupted.
'The Mayor evidently has not followed
what has been done by our Board in rela-
tion to that station house. We refused
one set Of plans because the building
would cost more than the appropria-
tion. We had other plans drawn, and
having received estimates with
in the appropriation we made
the award. That station house
is required, and / think the Mayor Is do
ing wrong ip not signing the resolution.
What our Board has done in this matter.
too. is open for inspection. l will make
any explanation that is asked for bY His
Honor the Mayor or any citizen. / main
tain now as l always have done that we
have been deliberately misrepresented to
the public"