New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-14
EXPENSES OF THE OFFICE.

This $4,000 il spen, as follows: For Coroners
salaries $40 900. for physicians. sl2Ooo' Tor Cor
oners' clerks. ss.ooos for chief clerk, $500: for
c,erts 70 the hoard So OOO for stenographer $780,
for extra clerks expert testimony. etc. $4,000 ana
,or tho contingent funds. $1,000 Each Coroner
has $1,000 a year for his contingent fund but 'he
o,or, -, bis rrivate clerk and his share OF the
salaries 81 the three 81 900 clerks are TO De de-
ducted from this The rest il supposed TO De Tor
,o,anhone messages. car fare. carriage hire, etc.
FINDER tho Massachusetts, system the work OF
tho coroners themselves would be done py '"e
nolice Justices and there would be no neeu VI
stenographer or clerks as the medical eNa.n Nan,
iners would write out their own ~ IT, nm,
send them TO the Dlstrlct-Attorney' me -. -,
her If the On Gals row known as vi
,,bveicions could be- increased, and the net say .
ing would still be considerable In aGu''o,'' ~
coroners have a handsome suite OF Offices III ~, ~,
new Criminal Courts Building, winch MS. - ~
turned over 10 some nuhl'iPa' "'p
III rbn tnstailation Of Drs Emil w. Hoeber ana
william O'Meagher as Coroners on 'a'. ."ist , +,
un1,ubtedlv lessons me cause OFT coihplai'
AGAINST the DEPARTMENT. Both are sklllel pm! 81.
clans and honored men, VINO TOOK ol'iV h, ~
as members Of any political orgaiiIa sderra
servants Of the people They have the 'onnus,'Co
80 ali ,vho know them and had they anu men
IKE them been Coroners for the last deoaue
,,ul1 have been none Of the Complaints VIM, ~ II
IA been hcapel UP dShlHH' ~.
sa,ne time they form only half OF the Doar w.
T. T FITZPATRICK and W. II. poobs remahhs ~.
,,rce Coroner Fitzpatrick is Tammany ledueI
In tho IVth Assembly District ana 'hor"us'.
,nlitic,an Ue was put in office for the ser NiOe
hc had given To Tammany ana those VIM"
,,.,s nxnected t. give. Dobbs Is also Iahihid"!
man but less conspicuous as a Wo'Ncl 10 =,
I,ttyn,,ricls The office has always been steepeu
., nnli,irs and has been used To furnish sooi
,hinger IA .'heelers" Fitzpatrick ana bopu'
u,uI he in office two years longer. ana 'he oti,s
homo Of having the city's business thoi oue''',
,,eu done is to legislate the entire Doaiu uu' Va
oxistence II might seem hard on DTS hosue.
na o,Ne,qher whom the people have Just
elected TO give reform administrators out -. 80
woud certainly be appointed medicai eNa,'i'n,. ,
under the new system anu "'
fer no financial loss ~ a 1, bis
c,mnlaint which Blackstone maze III me
"coumcntaries' about the Coroners OF MS uu!
SONS curious in this day and city, me "ri.e'
declares that the office mas fallen INTO uisrepu.,'
"Formerly" he says. no coroner "o. "a
dascend IN he paid for serving his country anu
indeed they were expressly forbidden 10 taAe a
,au.ard under pain Of n great forfeiture I'D Wv Wv
King yet for many years past they "a,c p,'''
dasired IN he chosen for their perquisites reI
o,isites' are as important now as t"ey "e'o
then. - A.. ,oonia to aid I'm
the great work of reform. mas d plan ,,hdra "
TIL. amendment to the Constitution "itau' -. !"
,rry from the Coroner's office the pro'ec',uos'
formerly vouchsafed IT, was adopted because III, e
neonle wanted new system 'nrouuSeu.
duty OF the Assembly the Senate ana me uoN
ernor is clear unmistakably Clear ine an" On.
ouated. superfuous and corrupt coroner UNIV
ahoud be abolished.