Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-17
.EXTRAvAGANCE IN
new COURT HOUSE,
THE CHARGE MADE
Judge Carrick Asks Commission
TO Probe Hudson County
Affairs.
BUILDING EXPENSES ARE
TOO HIGH, SAYS PETITIONER
Wants Public to Know Facts
Connected With Erection
of Structure.

To Judge Swayze in the Supreme
Court at Trenton today application
was made for the appointment of .
commission to investigate the alleged
reckless expenditure of the public
moneys IN connection with the erection
of Hudson county's new Court House,
in Newark avenue. Jersey City. So far
SO, 100000 has been expended, and the
building is nowhere near its com
pletion
Judge Carrlck the Applicant.
Representing a large number OF citi-
zens, Judge Charles L. Carrick
made the application 10 the Supreme
Court justice. Accompanying the ap
plication there was filed scores of affi-
devits OF prominent citizens OF Jersey
City, Hoboken. Bayonne and other sec
tions of Hudson county Extravaganza
is charged, and the affidavits also
set forth allegations that the three
Court House commissioners are trying
to outdo, from an architectural view
point. the Newark and other magnif1-
cent court houses. by the reckless ex-
penditure OF the public moneys.
Many Petitioners.
The following affidavits We're
signed by Judge Charles L. Carrick.
Rynier j. Wortendyke, Mungo J. Cur
rie. William Brinkerhoff. Felix E.
Tumulty. Edward P. Reichhelm, George
j. McEwan. Samuel D. Tonpkins. Ru-
dolf F. Rabe. John F. Mahnken, George
Carragan, Robert r. Tampa. Dewitt
VanBuskirk, John d, McGill. c. How
ard Slater, c. T. Rudolph Schroeder,
A U. Allen, George Gonzales, George
F. Perkins, Frank Woolsey, Reuben
Simpson Horace G. Bidwell. Joseph
Anderson, ST., Howard S. Forman and
John P. Murray.
Justice Swayze is asked to appoint
commission under the 1907 law to in
vestigate the county buildings.
Justice Swayze took the papers in the
case and informed Judge Charles L..
Carrick that he would consider the ap-
plication on December next, in Jer-
sey City.
The affidavits show that the commits
sion has refused an inspection of their
minutes showing the history of the
building of the new court house and the
plans under which it is proposed to
build a new jail and hall of records.
The building was started three years
ago 1t was thought at that time that
something little more than a million
dollars would be expended. The court
house commissioners. Clemens, Smith
and Rippe, have refused to aequaint
the public with the expenditures, so the
affidavits will ailege
There is nothing in the papers. how
ever, to indicate that there has been
anything illegal done, but the petition
ers demand full statement showing
how all the money has been spent, and
the also want the investigators to
give them an idea as to when the
spending will cease.
Speaking of the step to investigate
the work of the three commissioners,
one of the petitioners said to an EVE
MING STAR man today:
"If we don't check the Court House
Commission the affair win develop into
the biggest building scandal the State
of New Jersey ever had 1t bids fair
now to rival in proportionate extrava-
gance the Albany capital and the state
house at Harrisburg"
"AH we want is to have the court
appoint a competent commission to
make proper investigation of the
work that has been done and TO find
out when the extravaganza win cease.
The building is. of course. to be a
beautiful piece of architecture. 1t is
of marble, but we feel that there
should be a limit