The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-26

to be available for any work the past
summer. The Passaic gets $4,000 by
amendment in the Senate, the House
voting for only 49, 900; the Raritan Bay
Delaware below Trenton S2O5. 600 instead
of $95, 900 as originally fixed by the House
committee. The other improvements
have IN hand nearly all of their APP
and they will be lucky if they get the
same for next year-$6,000 for the chan
mel between New Jersey and Staten
Island. $40, 900 for the Raritan River;
River; $1,000 for Ailoway Creek;
1000 for the Elizabeth River; $1,000 for
Mattawan Greek; 5000 for the Rancocas
River; $1,000 for Shoal HARDER and Comp
ton Creek; $1,N0 for Salem River and
$1,000 for Goshen Creek.
TO REPAIR OUR POST OFFICE.
AS a matter of course there are many
branches of the service of the Govern
ment in which the people of New Jersey
are interested, but for these the esti-
mates are made in bulk, and We must
ton bills. In general, however, there
has been a general increase. Thus in
the pay of lighthouse keepers:-For the
current year $3.50, 600 were appropriated,
but 500, 900 are asked for. The Life Saw
ing Service wants 81, 504, 800 for the next
year, against $1.3T,1 47 available for the
present year. The Revenue Cutter Ser
vice wants 1924, 900 against $1,O79,OOO ap-
p~ropriated. For the lighting of rivers
100000 are now available, but $3.50. 900
are wanted, and so on. The coast sur
of the coast of New Jersey, and the
cost of this is included in a lump sum of
$4,000 fer r~e-surveys. The aid given
State Soldier Homes under the act of
$625, 600 are asked for next year, while
the expenses of the National Homes, of
which General Sewell is still a manager,
are raised from s., 1924, 479 to 49, I'll, 326. O6.
Our beloved General Sewell did not draw
much on his account for the past fiscal
year, as his total expenses, including
clerk hire, are given at only $3.50.
From the appendices to the book of es-
Inmates We have a few facts concerning
expenditures during the fiscal year ended
on June 80 last, not found in other reports
Newark Post Office Superintendent Henry
c. Klemm charged 81 O. day for every
day in the year, receiving in all 81, 555,
Foreman James A. Christie was paid
receiving 81, 565; Robert S, Grummon serv-
ed Jos days as clerk, and was paid 1924;
John M. Holloway served POI days as
clerk, and got sS2S. A Waterman named
Peter McGinnis vas credited with 163
days, and was paid 326; for keeping the
the various Government buildings in New
Jersey in repair, the following was paid
during the year:-Post office at Hoboken,
$~i,207.35; post office at Jersey City, S1e6. 45;
post Office at Newark, $S54.40; post office
at Trenton, 1888 There were also paid
for assistant ~custodians, firemen. scrub
women. etc, at these places:-Hoboken.
81, $3.50; Jersey City. $3.50; Newark. $3.50;
Trenton. $3,210. The Newark building is
expected to be finished during the next
fiscal year, and an estimate is made for
one %janitor, at $500; one engineer, at 5000;
two firenen, each at s720; one elevator
conductor, at 5000; three laborers, at $40
s270; total, $3.50. The above covers
about all the points of local interest to
New Jersey found in the Book of Esti-
mates for 1895-1896.