Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-11
JERSEY GEN u !
SUPERvs0R5 SEE
PRESIDENT IAfI
Fee of Newark Customs Collector
Is Awarded-0ther Washiug-
ton Items of Interest.
Especial to the newark s.ar.1l

WASHINGTON, Dec. u.-When the
supervising. architect of the Treasury
Department completes the plans for
Park, it is, expected it will show thai
the progressive summer resort viii
Ultimately nave ONE OF the ~nalasofnes
postolhces In the Sta.e. WllAam ii.
bannard, postmaster at Asnury rark,
Was mere anu spent some time at the
office OF The supervising arcpirect.
Mar. IS Will pieaseo With the
tentative pians Tor the new ONCE. He
is also Pleased with the progress that
is being maze, and 1t is expected tnat
the pans Will be in shape 80 that bids
for the erection OF the building may De
asked Tor mex April The building viii
be almost a duplicate of the new post
office at Atlantic City. The new post
office will face the south in direction of
the railroad station at Aspury Park.
There will be a splendid working room,
a comnlodious lobby, offices tor the
postmaster and assistant postmaster,
and everything u~p-to-date in every re-
spect.
The. Secretary of the Treasury has
reported to Congress that the COM
pensation paid to the collectors of Gus
toms in New Jersey was as follows.
Newark, George l.. Smith, collector,
salary $3.50; fees, s4,235. 46; total, s4,-
1915; Perth Amboy. Robert Carson,
collector, salary, $3.50; fees, $5,014; to-
tai, 1924; Burlington, r. Branch, col
lector, salary. $780,, fees, 1915; total,
S153.75; Bridgeton, w. b. Roome, coli
lector, $3.50, fees, $21.60; total. $271 so;
Great Egg Harbor, Walter Fiield, coi-
let tor, salary. $3.50, fees, s4s5. 80, total,
sos. 30; Little Egg Harbor, +. W. Leach,
collector, salary, $3.50. fees. $64.2o, total,
s3l4.eo.
In the report of the operations of the
meat inspection department of the De-
partment of Agriculture, just made to
Congress-, 1t is shown that there are So
employees at Jersey City. with salaries
ranging from $500 to- 1000; while the
city of Newark has a force of % men,
with the salaries ranging between the
same amount. :,
The New Jersey supervisors Of the
census are having a strenuous time of
it while. here this week. They had a
conference at the Census ONCE and this
afternoon they all went to the White
House, where they met President Taft
The Secretary of the Department of
Commerce and Labor also addressed
them today.
Representative Hughes has, intro
dpced a bill to grant a pension to Mrs.
Orlando l.. Westing at the rate of
500 a month"; a bill to pension Martin
B.. Lucky. formerly Of Troop K. Twen-
ty-eighth Cavalry. at $50 "a month. and
William Bodensten at $40 a month.
II. E. Evans. of Trenten. national
president of the National Union. a f-a-
ternai order. was In town. He came
down to AXE part in the initiation of
$40 mel into the order. He is ac-
cornpanied by his wife,
Representatives Wood, Gardner and
Loudenslager will attend the banquet
this evening at Philadelphia of the
South Jersey contingent of the Union
League.
Representative Wood has taken up
lis work as a. member of the COM
mittee on foreign affairs. n this COM
mittee has the Nicaragua matter be-
fore 1t for consideration.