The Lambertville record., 1899-05-24

TOWN AFFAIRS.

citizens Of Lambertville in the shape
Of absolute Democratic control of city
affairs. With the blare of trumpets it
was heralded to the world that this
was the new Democracy, the simon
pure, unadulterated, free silver article,
and of better quality than the gilt
tering gold Democracy Of the days of
yore, and that municipal government
under this kind of Democracy would
be better even than under Republican
government that we should have
boulevards, parks and what not that
the streets should be more and better
than ever before; that the police de-
partment should be run on an econo-
mical basis in short. it was to be
genuine millennium. Citizens of all
parties congratulated themselves that
they had at last secured an admins
tration whose only object was to know
the peoples will, and knowing, to do.
Let us see how our wishes have been
realized. First, our streets were all
scraped and cleaned. 1t cost n good
many dollars, but it looked well and
was good Job. We rant 10 be .tair.
But this job did not make work
enough. Therefore, the Street Com
mittee and the Street Commissioner
put their heads together and evolved
the beautiful scheme of purchasing
some carloads of stone dust and placing
it on streets that had Just been clean
ed. If the weather stays dry for few
days this will all blow away, but if it
should become wet it will Immediately
become necessary to again scrape the
streets. The Street Commissioner
must be kept busy (See p. In Ishort,
the whole scheme has been n wanton,
reckless waste of the taxpayers money,
and constitutes, i'll the truest sense,
HghwaB rObbcfV!
And what of the administration of
the Police Department =? Well that
is both laughable and expensive. If
you want warrant, You go to Justice
Lyman, who issues it, aud then pro-
ceeds to hunt up the Mayor, the Mayor
i'll turn hunts mp Messrs. Chas. Treftz
and Nelson Hurley and forthwith
swears them in ms "Day Policemen
to serve this warrant. Nelse and
Charley then HE themselves away to
Shanley's quarries, where was employ
al bo ,,ortv for W HON, Tho ,rorro ~ ,vo 10
given. Upon their arrival there they
ascertained the fact that the "Sons of
Sunny Italy" slept at night and not
in the daytime-the bird had flown
Nothing daunted, however, Nelse and
Charlie, by some process of reasoning,
came TO the conclusion TINT the man
had gone to Washington's Crossing, |
and TINT the proper thing to do would |
be to go back to Lambertville and take |
the 2:06 train for that place and there |
arrest the man. They then footed it |
back from the quarry, went to the rail |
road station and purchased their tick
cts for the Crossing. While waiting
for the train it dawned upon this pair
of "Day Policemen that ii was Just
possible there would be no trains to
Lambertville after they had secured
their man. Not relishing the idea of
walking back with prisoner, they
appealed to the Mayor to solve the
problem. Why, that's easy" said
the Mayor 81 will just go around to
Schenck's livery and get John to send
n man and team down to Washington
Crossing and have him wait for you
fellows until you get ready to come
back" John sent the team, but Nelse
and Charley, for some reason, did not
go on the train-forgot it, probably,
the work being new to them but the
team, in the meantime, had gone, and
Mr.. Schenck had to telegraph to his
man to come home.
Still other ways of squandering the |
peoples money has this Economical
Reform Free Silver Democratic City |
Solicitor Mayor, among which is the
placing on the police force an extra
man every Saturday night, at the
special rate of 1S cents per hour and
even with all this we notice that the
police duties are not NIL performed by
the policemen. Chairman of the Po
lice Committee, Councilman Callan,
was noticed the other day driving the
bear man out of town. And yet,
Mt the end of the year, the taxpayers
will be told that this Economical New
Democracy has saved to them six hun
dred dollars by dispensing with the
services of Day Policeman" But
does it save money? Horse hire, tele-
grams, two or three men Is wages, OK
ira policemen, NC, must be paid. OF
course, this economical aggregation |
will not take the money from the po-
lice appropriation 10 pay these bills. |
They must be paid, however, and if |
the taxpayer will but keep his eye ON |
the incidental account, and notice how |
other appropriations are robbed to pay |
for these luxuries, he will learn how |
easy it is to run the Police Depart |
ment economically, and be led to ex-
claim, in the language of our honored
United States Attorney General, Hon. |
John w. Griggs, "yerily, this is the |
aof,n oil fynn1