Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-11
$4,000 SLICE
IN APPROPRIATION
FOR OVERLOOK
FreehoIders Cut Out $4,000
in Tax Levy After Long
Wrestle. ..

The Board of Freeholders started
their annual wrestle with the tax levy
Of 1910, as prepared by the finance corn-
njttee exactly at noon today, one hour
later than the scheduled time.
The delay in getting together was
caused b.. an eleventh-hour kick made
by County Supervisor Fred J.. Bald
win against the sum appropriates
for the maintenance of the ONerhrooN
Asylum for tic Insane The figures
recommended by the committee We're
se4S.000. Baldwin wanted 10 cut S1o'o59
out OF this, but after "A long wransie
si3.0 900 was deducted.
The free bridge account was cut down
to $50. 900 and 5000 was taken from the
allowance for county bridges and Gull
verts. making that account s4o,ooo. An
item of 81. 500 for mosquito externllra-
ton was killed.
With these cuts the entire tax levy
as presented to the board, totaied as
follows.
Total county tax levy. sl,961, 72a.o4:
state school tax, 81 $40. as6.0f. Total
1921, 6S5.6S. an increase OF s25e,sS2.2-
over the figures OF lsst year.
Xl w.
Baldwin and Chairman Benjamin Has
Lcli. Of the hospital COMMITTEE. over tha
Oyerbrool. appropriation vas very
warm at times. Mr.. Baldwin Insisted
that the COMMITTEES ues asking for too
much money, but Mr.. Haskell just as
WARMLY commended that every cent
asked for was needed. Tfle committee
fnully adjusted the matter by cutting
$4,000 from the appropriation.
Couniy.s Ncrtnary Record.
The report of County Physician Will
fam Fl. mckenzie shows that during
the fiscal year ending April 30 there
were 1,105 deaths in Essex c,inty, of
Which III occurred in Newark. OF the
ceaths 544 were due to |noturai causes.
1sl still hitths and 3s5 accidents, sui
cides and murders. Ninety-fo1r coi1-
nlitted suicide, forty-six OF this num-
her being cue to the Use Of poison Of
some kind. illuminating gae bells i1e.l
Responsible FOR just one-l1alf tie total
ppiaber.
Eight took earbolie ac,6. orc third O.
tl,e nur,ber O year ago. I.le dec ease
Is explained by Or. Mckenzie as beins
due TO the rigid enforcement Of the
drug lan against selling poisoas. OF
lie torty-cignt suicides by o;her meth
oHs. sh5oting or hanging were rc.orteI
TO by fourteen in eaci, instance, waltz
eleven persons ended their lives bY
drowning. Four persons cut theif
threats and one dic1 IS g result or
cutting the wrist arteries.
Bofnici6es numbered TWENTY-FIVE.
pistols being responsible for nine cases,
fist fights in FIVE. stab wounds in four,
drowning, Two; suffocation. poisor, ar
scn and blows from a shovel. ore eaca.
IN the other cases the cause OF 1eata
was unknown.
In accidental deaths the list number
sis. railroad accidents being response
HE for thirty deaths; fire and burning,
thirty-eight: trolley accidents, even
teen; Drowning, twenty-five, and ele-
yator accidents, nine
Following the presentation ut ta'
l,tdget after the $4,000 had been cat
out, the board took a recess OF ten
Minutes. while a special committee
consisting of Freehol1ers pecam?.
Brady. Malta. Nathan and Amer
went over the budget as handed III D!
the finance committee.
More cutting was in order by this
committee. IS, 1000 beipg ~slashed froo
the county bridges and cll'erts az
count. reducing the item to $4,000. Ire
item of $1,000 fer mosquito eNtern'lha-
ton was cut out entirely, as was the
Gun, OF $4,000 Tor All electric hSn'
plant at the Court House.
The cut in the first two items Nef"
approved unanimously. but the items !
OF SOS. 600 for the lighting plant erousht
up a big argument and was 1aal'y te+
stored to the budget.
H. 1.~ atI AAItGlnN III .
Montclsir. started the trouble when he
moved that tho item be restored TO the
budget. 49,,
Trselolaer DeCamp opposed the
restoration and gave as his grounds
mat the county at the present time was
installing an electric plant at the couh-
ty jail. 49,.
n..T believe said Mr.. pcCamp, that
Ve should wait until this plant is III
operation before we saddle the county
with another one, IL the one at tie jail
proves successful after 1t is in opera
tion we will then have something to
base an opinion on as to whether 1t
viii save the county money or not.
When DeCamp finished WINSTON
Jumped 10 his feet with, an ardent plea
In favor of the plant.
II do not want to be put in the posi-
fipn OF having 1t said I am standing III
with the Public Service Corporation.
II we do not establish this plant we viii
he so classed and | for one do not want
10, be so classed.'
hlMr. Winslcw then declared that pub
lie lighting plants at the Newark city
Hall and the Public Library had sue
cessfully proved that money was saved
hy their operation.
ON q r~ollrcsll the item was restored
to the budget by a vote OF Is to II.
With the budget out of the way the
freeholders got busy on salary increases
fecorr mended by the finance commit
tee. William ]. Douglas. physician at
the conta gious disease hospital, was
raised from $1,000 to LOO a year: Miss
Mary 4. Pear. head nurse. was raised
from $1,000 to 1890. and Miss Anna