Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-24

that came to work yesterday morn
ing. The term higher up" is used
to designate those men who draw
a yearly stipend of $500 or more
from the county.
For on the previous day they had
been religiously dumped and sat on
by the Board of Freeholders in the
matter of salary raises. The board
deoreed that no man drawing more
than 81. 800 yearly should have an in
crease.
And then calmly, and as though to
rub It In, the board has ignored its
own. decree and had granted increases
In three cases where the holders OF
the Offices were getting more than the
$1,000 limit.
But to make II still worse the board
had zrecognized the action taken by
the finance committee at several
times during the past few months,
when applications for increases had
been presented and acted on favor
ablrsS even though the figure involved
wassover the fateful $500 mark.
George L. Manr deputy county
clerk: Charles F. Kocher, deputy
surrogate, and A. K. Thomas, deputy
register had all spent a month or
more tentatively figuring what they
would do with the $500 year their
salaries were to be increased. The
finance committee had agreed that
the salary of these three deputies
should be Increased from $500 TO
So. 600, only to have this action re-
scinded by the board, when the ST.
500 limit was placed. And the three
men named are not the only ones
that for a month or more had
chance to contemplate a nice juicy
increase in salary only to have 1t
Ia ken away from them before they
ever got it. About a score OF coun-
ty employees will take less expensive
vacations than they planned for this
summer.
One of the disgruntled "higher ups
who got dumped on his increase when
informed that Harry Housed. assist
ant county auditor and, Therefore,
one of the men directly under the
control of the Board of Freeholders,
had been increased from $4,000 to $s,-
600 remarked: well, you know the
Lord protects those He loves"
County Auditor Albert T. Guenther
is some ''kidder," believe the writer,
although you would never think so
to hear him talk He had Raymond
L. Mahoney, of the county counsel's
office. going the other day for fair
Guenther was telling about ball
club composed of old-time players
he belongs to. and to make the story
good displayed a picture of the team
taken years ago. In the picture Guen-
Their looks just as old as he does to-
day, which caused Mahoney to re-
mark, Some of the members of the
team must be pretty old men,"
well, I play shortstop. and am the
Oldest. I'm " and our pitcher is e5
years old. The youngest man is the
first baseman and he is 81"
90 you play often?" asked Maho-
ney.
yep, we play every Saturday dur
ing4 the season." said Guenther with
out1cracking a smile.
Mhhoney gave him reproachful
look and went back to his office say
as he did. ST think some one is doing
somssprevaricating around here"
Guenther, by the way. has new
method Of announcing that the
finance committee of the Board of
Freeholders is ready to open its
semi-monthly sessions. The meetings
are scheduled for 10 o'clock in the
morning, but are proverbially a
couple of hours late in getting under
way. Guenther's announcement is
this: .1t Is now u o'clock. The 10
o'clock meeting of the finance COM
nittee will please come to order"
At the sale of the Seheuer building
property in the corridor of the Court
House, on Wednesday afternoon,
Siegfried Leschziner was the only
bidder against H. H. Dawson, who
was acting for the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company's interests. When
$4,000 was reached Mr.. Leschziner
remarked, IF the Mutual Benefit is
buying this property for the purpose
of Improvement I'll quit bidding
right now. That's the kind of a
Newark booster l am Mr.. Dawson
said nothing and Mr.. Lesehziner kept
him bidding higher and higher until
the property was finally knocked
down to Mr.. Dawson for $541 900.
william Lee. secretary of the Essex
County Mosquito Commission, handed
out this cheerful piece of news to
mosquito haters on Thursday when
he was appealing to the finance COM
rnittee of the Board of Freeholders
for SIC, 900 instead of $4,000 available
funds for the work of the commission
on June 1
This rainy and damp weather is
just what the mosquito needs at this
time of the year to breed rapidly and
in great numbers. If the same sort
of weather keeps up for few days
we are due for an awful pest of mos
quitoes if our work is hampered in
any way
The finance committee hurriedly
granted the commission the $4,000
asked for and told him to get busy
DISCRIMINATING.
At the meeting of the Board Of
F'reeholders Thursday John II. Wa
tiers, minority leader of the board, OBJ
jected because Majority Leader Rich
ard F.. Malta was having resolutions
for salary increases laid on the table
for further consideration without CIV
ing any reason for so doing. Waters
SUMNER RESORTS.