Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-28
ESSEX COUNTY TO
GET BIG SLICE Of
PATRONAGE PIE
Chairman Dalrymple Being Con-
graduated on Victory
of Xmas Eve.
GETS TWO COMMITTEE
CLERKS AND D00RkEEPER
Credited With Obtaining Five
PIums Over Last Years
Total.
[Erom ! stan correepondent. ]


STATE HOUSE, TRENTON, Dec. q.
-Essex's slice of the legislative patron
age pie. 1t developed at the State House
today. will be fully one-third Of the
whole pastry. In cutting the pie at
the last minute the knife slipped, and,
in the language of the knowing ones,
it is charged that Alfred N Dalrympie.
chairman of the Essex Republican
County Committee. showed the pie
carver's elbow. thereby grabbing off a
bigger slice than anybody had antiei-.
pated.
Dalrymple, by the way. was being
congratulated right and left upon MS
victory of Christmas eve.
The steering committee" Of which
Assemblyman William w. SrnalIey. OF
Somerset, is the chairman, went into
session in the Assembly chamber at II
o'clock
The members expected that Dai-
ry1nple was on the job to get all he
could, and when Louis G. Bowden, OF
Cedar Grove, the only Essex member
of the committee, reminded the chair
man that the best he could hope for,
in addition to all that he had already
plncked, were assistant journal clerk,
five doorkeepers and three pages, the
Essex chairman got buster than usual.
The result was that Dalrympie got an
additional doorl1eeper and two commit
tee clerkships.
Summed up, Essex in the 1910 Legis-
lature gets the following jobs: Super
visor Of bills, Alderman Henry W.
Bergman, of Orange. $1,000 and ex-
penses; assistant supervisor Of bills
Walter P. Pursell, 5000 and expenses,
sergeant-at- arms, John r. Fiayell, Sfs#
and expenses; assistant journal clerk
$500 and expenses; six doorkeepers at
$3.50 each a year and expenses, and
three pages who will collect about szu5
year each.
The twos.co collHnirsee clerkslfips vii
approximate about 81 .Gs9 year and
expenses. Besides the se-called better
Jobs Essex last year had but two door
keepers and four pages The two doos-
Keepers last wear were Paul Week
mueller and Charles p. Schmidt TheT
nav be reappointed again. The fott,'
pages last wear were George W. Scar
lett. William Waddams, Jr.. Louis ~
Dickson and Joseph Linarducci. Ti1ese
pages are men, and il is the desire OF
Leader Duane z. Minard to have boys
fill these positions this year. Ther7
were sixteen pages in the House last
year and only four Of the number were
boys Dalrymple is credited with nav
ing obtained for Essex grand total o.
fifteen jobs, which exceeds by hxe thss
number last year.
The steering committee and the
Republican leaders, in making the an
portionment, figure the jobs from a
! monetary basis almost exclusively t'x-
elusive of the committee chairnlanshirs
| and clerks. Essex this year will receiv.
| an allotment Of $500 worth Of Offices
.Hully gee.'' said rotunda hanger.
Essex gets six door-keepers, and l am
blessed if I can ind more than that
number of doors. The rest OF the State
gets another six doorkeepers. too"
/ Essex having been assured OF the po-
/ sition of assistant journal clerk there
now rises in Newark ight for the
place. Former Treeholder Louis j.
/ Beyer, who held the job last year. IS
making a fight for reappointment.
/ Beyer is a Fourteenth warder and
| that section of the cit1 has held the
place for two seasons. The Sixteenth
ward demands the place this year. and
/ the candidate is Charles Troxler. the
I strong man" Whether Troxler Is
/ strong enough remains to be seen.
I The steering committee MADE the
/ following apportionments: Atlantic,
/ one stenographer; Bergen. enc door
/ keeper one page and ~os'master; Bur
iingrnn. two donrkeepers and tsgo
! pages; Camden. assistant bill clerk. t"e
dcorkeepers, one page: Cape May, as
/ sistant to clerk of House; CunberlanH.
/ enc doorkeeper one page; Essex, as
sistant 10 journal clerk. six pages,
( three doorkeepers.
Mercer, stenographsr. one page and
postmaster: Monmouth. one doorkeeper,
/ one page and postmaster: Norris, one
doorkeeper. one page; ocean. one door
/ Keeper. one page; Passaic. assistant t.
supervisor of bills, two doorkeepers. ons
page; Salem. one doorkeeper, one pase'
| Somerset, one deorkeeper, one paees
Union. two doorkeepers.