Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-29
HIGHER PAY EPIDEMIC
STRIKES COURT HOUSE
Higher Cost of Living Excuse of All Those County Servants
Who Think Their Salaries Are Not in Unison With the
importance of Their Duty.

Who will be the lucky county en-
ployees to draw salary increases from
spring?
That is the absorbing question that
is bothering almost every person on
the pay roll of the county these
days. especially in the Court House,
where increases have been sought by
almost every clerk in the building.
The finance committee of the Board
of Freeholders decided year ago that
all increases in salary would be
made to date in the future from May
/, which is the beginning of the MS
cal year of the county.
Heads of all departments were told
to make their applications prior to
that time. and as a result requests
for increases have been pouring in
ever since the first of this year.
According to the requests made in
writing and in person almost every
employee of the county is underpald'
at least so they state in their petit
lions for more salary.
High cost of living" has got to
be a joke with the finance commit
tee, and nowadays when the head OF
a county department or institution
pokes his head in the room where
the committee is meeting there is an
instant chorus of here comes tur-
ther proof of the high cost of living.
They know at once that the ofnclai
is seeking more salaries for his
clerks.
AS a matter of fact, there are some
rather glaring examples of discrep-
ancy in salaries paid in the Court
House One instance is in the TACT
that sergeant-at-arms and court
criers in the different courts receive
more salary than the court clerks.
The clerks are under the county
clerk and have to get increases in
salary through him. The sergeant
alarms and criers are under the 1u-
risdiction of the judge to whose court
they are attached. The salaries OF
the court clerks range from $l,2OO TO
$1,000 yearly. The criers and ser
geants get 81 800. From this it would
appear that the appeal to the free
holders of the judges on the "hlgh
cost of living is more potent than
that of the county clerk. The clerks
are required to transact large
volume of business six days a week.
The other officials named do nothing
but make a few announcements each
day and preserve order in the court
rooms.
Walter A Evans, director OF the
Board of F'reeholders, was asked Y
he did not think the finance commit
tee had made a mistake in having the
salary increase applications all come
in a bunch instead of scattering them
through the entire year
Not on your life," replied Evans.
"If YOU knew you were to be bitten
by all the mosquitoes in New Jersey
Won would rather have the bites all
AT once and have it over with,
wouldn't you? Well, | look at the
salary increase pest the same way
The smallness of the world was
once more illustrated in the trials OF
Mrs. Maddalena Ciccone and Antonio
Fiore for the murder of Leonardo
Ciccone, husband of the woman.
Practically all the evidence in the
case was worked up by County De-
tective Antonio Delegates.
A quarter of a century ago De
Rogates came from the town of
Teora, Province of Avellino, Italy, to
Newark. A dozen years ago Mrs.
Maddalena Ciccone came from Teora
and settled in Newark. Antonio Fiore
was born in Coma, Province of Avel
limo, Italy. three miles from Teors,
and came to America about the same
time as Mrs. Ciccone
Strange, isn't it, that Delegates,
probably the only man who ever came
from the little town of Teora, should
be called on to furnish the evidence
that would put in jeopardy the lives
of two of his townspeople out of the
thousands of Italians in this section
of the world.
John Roberts. the Orange man now
in the county jail on a charge of
sending scurrillous and threatening
postal cards to City Comptroller Tyle-
Psrnly, Carl Bannwart, secretary of
the Shade Tree Commission. and the
County Board Of Taxation. and who