Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-01-30
EXPENSES OF
COUNTY BLDG
What the Court House, Jail and
Offices Cost Taxpayers Last
Year.
THE MONTHLY AMOUNT.
Special to the EVENING NEWS:

Special to the EVENING NEWS:
NEW BRUNSWICK, Jan. 30.-In
addition to the $12,S3395 paid last
year for running the county Jail and
sheriff's Office there was an expense
of S7,512.46 attached to the running
of the county Offices, surrogate and
county clerk, the court house and
the grounds surrounding the county
Offices. This makes the total expense
to the county for the buildings in the
court yard $40, ,406.41, or at the rate
of over 81 600 a month.
The expenses in connection with
the court house and county buildings
are made up of number of interest
ing charges. The county pays jan
itor $50 a month to look after the
court house and grounds by day and
night watchman the large sum of
fifty cents a week to see that no one
steals any of the buildings at night.
There is also a janitor for the county
offices who gets SIS a month
To make the county Offices up TO
date the telephone is in use at a cost
of $12 a month. Sc for each of the
two offices, surrogate and county
clerk. The county CLERK Office is too
small to provide the room necessary
for the recording of the deeds, mort
cages, etc, so that the county clerk
mad to secure a room in a private
house nearby for which the county
pays rent at the rate of SIS a month.
There We're any number of charges
during the year for repairs to the
court house walls. supplying furni-
ture for some of the buildings, look
ing after the hinges and locks, clean
ing the court room carpet, repairing
the tile floor in the court house cor
ridor, providing new lamps for the
clerks Office and new electrical fix
lures for the county offices, etc.
TO keep warm in the winter the
county paid S5S1.26 for coal and
S2S6. 80 for man TO look after the
furnaces at night during six months
Of the year and keep the steam up
properly. To keep cool in summer
the ice man has to be paid his bill
averaging s. a month.
Although there are any number of
prisoners in the jail who could be
brought out and put to work remoy-
ing snow there was paid last Febru-
AIRY bill of S. for removing snow
about the grounds. That the court
house and buildings may have all the
couyeniences necessary towels are
supplied for the toilet rooms at an
expense of SO q month
To add TO the beauty OF the court
yard in summer flowers are supplied,
the cost last summer being S56 for
this ornament. Then the grass has
to be looked after and kept green.
/ The county scattered about the yard
grass seed costing S1.75. and seats
were purchased where lovers could
gather at night and do their spoon
ing and elderly married people
could rest. catch the inspiration from
the growing generation and renew
their love making as in the years
gone by. These seats cost about SO
To trim the grass where it had not
been trodden down the mowers had
to lie sharpened and kept in repair.
the expense for this amounting last
year to S16.S5. Then the court yard
brick walk was repaved at cost OF
S109.29 and a concrete sidewalk laid
on one side of the square, completing
/ the walk about the court yard, the
cost for this being $464.09.
The sprinkling wagon makes daily
trips about the streets surrounding
the court yard TO lay the dust in sum-
mer and for this the county hands
/ out 50 a month A bill of SIS was
also paid for rolling the court yard
There crc SIX lamps in the coart