Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-05

Mayor Out of Town.
Mayor Haussling could not Be
reached today, and it was said AZ
the City Hail that he was out Of
town.
In casting down the gauntlet Be
fore the Mayor. Mr. Aronson asserts
that the commission has been
"badgered" and ssharassed, and
that the shameful thing is that tl1e
little children should be made tia
victims OF political conspiracy
He charges the Mayor with urging
him, and. -spa he ALLEGES, two Of his
colleagues. TO extend their field of
work.
GO on with this work. he quotes
the Mayor as saying. and the money
will be forthcoming at the proper
time"
With his letter he enclosed one writ
ten to him by John E. Helm and
lauding him for obtaining properly at
Waverly avenue and Prince street
from the Hayes estate for playground
purposes.
He argues that the "persecufion'
of the playground commission IS
based upon a fictitious deficit oE
s2ss.35, discovered by accountants.
whom he describes as your high
price experts -
There is no warrant, he SAYS. for
the Mayors assertion that improper
methods and loose management had
| been displayed in respect to the con-
duct of the Fairgrounds.
Considers Reply an Evasion.
Here is Mr.. Aronson's letter in full.
December 5. 1872.
Hon. Jacob Haussling, Mayor, New
ark, n. J.:
Dear Sir-Your reply to my appeal
to you for the reopening of the eity's
Fairgrounds is, 1 consider, an evasion
You state in your letter of December
8 that you have no power as mayor
to issue an arbitrary order for the
reopening of the city's Fairgrounds.
That is strange, in view of the fact
that the acting mayor, in your abb
sence. issued arbitrary orders for
their closing. l will not attempt at
this time to go into the motives
which animated this unealled for act.
You have been back In the city Tnors
than a week and you have not coun-
termanded the action of your SUBJ
stitute.
You assert that there is a defcit
in the accounts Of the Playground
Commission, and that thus far no
funds have been granted 70 enable IL
to carry on its activities for the bal
ance of the year Herein lies the nc
ton upon which the persecution OF
the Playground Commission is based
Why is it that no funds have been
granted 10 enable the Playground
Commission TO continue its work.
Customary to Furnish Funds.
Throughout your administration
from the first year to the present. It
has been customary for various de-
partments to appeal to the finance
committee OF the Common Council at
the latter part of the year for adj
ditional funds to carry them through
to the end of the year. Il has been
customary for the finance committee
to grant these requests; it has been
customary for the Common Council
to approve of these requests. and it
has been customary for the mayor to
put his signature to each one Of the
resolutions making these apprupria-
tons. I have no recollection during
your terms of Office Of you ever hav-
ing vetoed any resolution granting
money to a city department to carry
on it's work for the closing months of
the year.
"The situation the Playground
Commission found itself in recently
is the same that the Board Of
Health. the City Hospital, the street
cleaning department. the sewer ae-
partment and other city departments
find themselves in at the present
moment, that is, being short of
money to continue their work. Yoa
did not order their books to be aita
dffed. nor have you employed ex
perts to investigate those departs
frp@As~>ses - e@ssa1A Raee1