Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-13
COUNTY FINANCES
AND INSTITUTIONS
IN FINE CONDITION
Court House Ventilation Is Only
Exception, Supervisor Schick-
haus Emphasizes.

County Supervisor Edward Shickhaus
made a lengthy report to the Board of
Freeholders yesterday afternoon. The
report shows that the county finances
are in splendid shape and so are most
of the county buildings.
Ventilation at the Court House,
which has been complained of by
judges. lawyers and court attaches for
many months, is given sweeping con-
demnetion by Mr.. ~Shickhaus.
He also urges that extra efforts be
made to collect the money due the
county from municipalities for STATE
road improvements, and that a speedy
sale be made of the abandoned South
Orange avenue insane asylum build
ings.
The supervisor suggests that the
medical superintendent, DR.. Guy Payne,
at the Overlook asylum, be made SUI
RENE in authority there. He also rec
ommends that Warden Charles A.
Steadman be reduced in salary from
81, 900 to $1,000 a year, and in lieu be
given a residence n maintenance at
the asylum.
Mr.. Schickhaus also claims there are
too many employees at Overlook, and
hat the number could be materially re-
duced without affecting the efficiency
of the institution.
Anent Court House Ventilation,
In reference TO poor ventilation at
the Court House, Mr.. Schiekhaus says:
1t is To be regretted that the COM
paratively new heating and ventilating
plant at the Court House operates so
poorly. The situation requires YOU
/ Immediate attention az IL ic hr1fal IN
expect our judges, prosecutor, court at
taches and the public who are COM
PEELED to attend court to do so under
the vile and %insanitary conditions that
exist in these rooms. 1t would seem
wise to employ a thoroughly competent
and impartial expert TO go over the ell
tire plant and conditions most carefully,
with 4 view of determining the cause
n recommending "a proper remedy for
the correction OF this deplorable state
of affairs. Some additional effort
should also be made along similar lines
to produce better acoustic effects, es-
pecially in the Criminal Court room"
Verona Owes County Most.
The report shows that there is due
the county for road improvement $24,-
Sl3.66, almost one-half of which is
owed by the Borough of Verona. The
mounts owed by the different munich
palities is as follows:
City of Newark................ s3,S7O.6
Town of West Orange......... 1927
Township OF Caldwell ......... $685.. 80
Township of Livingston 49,. 1926. rs
township of Millburn ........ 643. 40
Township of Cedar Grove...... 100. So
Borough of Caldwell .......... 1,103. 20
Borough of Verona ............ 10, 6S5.03
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lotdl ....... ga, ol3.b6
In regard to crowded conditions at
the Court House, Mr.. Schickhaus says:
"When our present Court House was
erected it was thought to be sufficient
~ commodious to meet the require
ments for many years to come, but the
great growth and development of our
county has so enormously increased the
business at the county seat that 1t has
already overtaxed the capacity of the
present structure, notably in the coun-
ty clerks and registers offices.
THE project for a hall of records,
principally to accommodate these de-
paTtments and insure the preservation
of additional records, should be taken
up at an early day and the necessary
legislation secured to meet this situa-
ton"