Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-08
BIG JUMP IN
The EXPENSES
OF The STATE

Trenton, June s:--State Aud;fov
William E. Drake yesterday gave Gov
ernor Fort report of the exnensa ~
maintaining state institutions for the
first six months of the current fiscal
year, showing that the cost was $44-
1910 greater than for the correspond
ing period of last year.
The state educational institutions a.
whole cost $l2,2l467 more for the six
months ending April 80 last fhau for
the SIX months ending April 30, 1909.
Inc other state institutions, correc-
tlonsl and charitable, showed total
increased cost of $32,5s2.73.
For the first time in the history of
tne state no appropriation was made
thls year Tor the educational institu-
tions. Under the law passed in 1909 at
the recommendation of Governor Fort
ana the special joint legislative COM
mlttee the educational institutions are
now maintained from funds that were
formerly dedicated by statute to the
public schools of New Jersey.
small income is realized by some
OF the state institutions from such
sources as students board at the Tren.
ton Normal School. This goes to make
up only fractional part of the $780,
loo.l2 which Auditor Drake Is report
SHOWS to have been six months cost
OF running these educational establish
ments. The amount mentioned indica-
tes that the State will take not less
than $300,O00 of public school money
Ior the nscal year ending October 81
next to pay for maintenance of the in
stltutlons classed as educational This
amount will be deducted from the taxes
collected from the railroads and canals
ON frst-class property.
II VIII affect every municipality In
the State. Newark s annual loss means
tax rate Of at least two points higher
every year unless a Legislature is elect
ed that will repeal the 1909 law.
The comparative figures shown in
MI Drake s report for the first half of
the last and the current fiscal wear. in
state educational Institutions mainten-
ance follow:
State Normal School, Montclair-
This year ,$2s,202.60; last year, $780,
State Normal School, Trenton--This
year, $S9, 9,S0l.17; last year, $S6,527.06
State School for Deaf This year
$27 ,552.49; last year, $27, ,O54.77.
Manual Training and Industrial
School, Bordentown-This year, $ll,-
OI2.ll; last year, $l0,623.31.
Farnum Preparatory School-This
year, $3,596S2; last year, $3,5I3.5s.
Total for all State Schools-This
year, $3.50, ,165.12; last year, $147, $780,
45. Increase, $12,21467.
Auditor Drake shows that lit cost the
State $254,200.67 to maintain Morris
Plains Hospital for the insane for the
first half of the present fiscal year, as
against $240, ,092.08 last year, an in
crease of more than $4,000
Trenton Insane Asylum expenses
were $164,366.30, an increase of more
than $4,000. The State Village OF Epi-
leptics, $62,549.46, as against $54 ,30s.s5
a year ago. The Home for Feeble
Minded Women, to April 80, 1910, cost
to maintain, $22, ,4S9 .06, approximately
$4,000 more than for the first six
months of the year ending October 81,
1909. The expenses Of the State Home
for Girls this year were $39, ,546.7s as
against $32 for the corresponds
ing period Of last year
A comparison of the expenses of the
other State institutions follows:
State Home for Beys4-phis. year,
$50, ,280.20; last year, 46,1836 81. W
Sanitorium for Tuberculous Diseases
at Glen Gardner-This year, $34, ,260.77;
last year, $40,427lS.
Soldiers Home at Kearny-This year
$42, ,596.46; last year, 43,58S.1l.
Home for Soldiers, Sailors, Marines
and their Wives, Vineland-This year,
$30,73s.70; last year, $2s,2OS.25.
State Prison-This year, $1s4,623.21;
last year, $134, 4,001.2I
Railway Reformatory--Phis year,
$9l 1910 last year, $S3,734.05.
1t will be seen from the foregoing
figures that the State Home for Boys
and Glen Gardner Sanitorium show big
decreases, though that may not mean
decrease for the year.
To care for its insane charges cost
the State $4lS,566.97 for the frst half
of this fiscal year, an increase of about
per cent, that indicates an annual
cost of million year to maintain
asylums in the very near future.
Correctional institutions are costing
the State at the rate Of over 100000 a
year in aggregate, double what it costs
to run State educational institutions.
Mr.. brakes report is a pure array
Of figures showing in minute detail all
debts incurred for whatever purpose
during the period covered.
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