Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-13

wealth per capita throughout the
county. 1t is estimated that the
county expenses have more than
doubled in the last ten years,
The salaries of the positions OF
sheriff, register, surrogate and county
clerk are fixed by statute for Hudson
and Essex counties. The compensa-
ton of the subordinates in these
| offices Is not so fixed, however, and
is subject to the control of the Board
Of Chosen Freeholders.
The deputy register in Hudson
County receives $500 per annum as
against $4,000 in Essex County.
The fee clerk in Hudson County
receives $1,000: there Is no position
of this title in Essex County. but
the head clerk and bookkeeper Of the
latter office Is paid $1,000.
Outside of the above mentioned
positions Essex County pays no sal
airy in it's registers office in excess
of 81 200, whereas in Hudson County
there are twenty clerks who receive
more than $1,000.
The civil service rosters show forty
six employees for the office of register
in Essex County, thirty-five of whom
are copyists who are not paid a
stated salary but whose compensa-
ton is one-third of the recording fee.
The registers office in Hudson County
has sixty-six employees, all of whom
are on a salary basis. The figures
explain the expenditure of $101,252 for
salaries in Hudson County for the
year 1910-11 as against, $4,000 for
Essex County for the same period.
+ The net cost of this office to Hudson
County was over $4,000
In Hudson County the sheriff has
fourteen employees connected with his
office as against five for Essex Coun-
ty. The under sheriff in Hudson
County receives $4,000 per annurn, as
contrasted with $4,000 paid in Essex.
Hudson County pays $1,000 per an
mum for the services of stenograph-
er for the sheriff, as against $500 paid
in Essex.
There are no process servers for
the Essex sheriff, who uses the regu-
lar court attendants or constables for
this work, no extra compensation be-
ing paid. Hudson County has three
process servers attached to the Of
fee of the sheriff. who receive $1,000
per annum. Constables are paid
$1,092 per annum. The net cost of
this Office to the county for the year
billie was S14, 1879.
The number of employees in the sur
rogates office consists of twenty five
in Hudson County. as against eleven
In Essex County, eight of the former
being included under the judicial ac-
count" Essex pays the deputy sur
rogate $3.50 as against $500 in
Hudson. The highest paid clerk In
the Essex County office receives
81, 500. whereas in Hudson there are
six who receive salary in excess of
81. 500.
The county clerk OF Hudson has
thirty-four assistants, whereas only
sixteen are needed in Essex, and FIVE
OF the latter act as clerks In the
Court of Common Pleas and are
charged against the courts account.
The deputy county clerk of Essex
receives 81, 200, but the salary in Hud-
son County is 81 400 more than this
The chief clerk of this office in Hud-
son receives $1,000, as against $1,SoC
in Essex, and the remaining thirty
two positions in the Hudson County
office are similarly highly paid.
Institutional Salaries.
The warden of the Hudson County
Jail is paid 1880. Essex County pays
! s., 800.
The position of commissary was
created a year ago in Hudson at a
salary of $1,000 Essex County jail
/ has no such official. In Hudson
County foodstuffs and provisions are
purchased by the sheriff for his owr
account, as the county pays him
per diem rate for feeding the pris-
oners, witnesses, etc.
Hudson pays the superintendent o.
its Court House $4,000, as agains
! s.. 900 paid in Essex. Four elevator
men at 5000 per annum are employed
| IN Hudson, as against three at S7S'
| ner annum in Essex County. Telc
| phone operators and Waterman re
! ceive 5000 in Hudson County. a;
| against 1924 and s720, respectively in
Essex County. Essex Court Hous'
needs no clerk at $1,000. custodian a
81 500, nor janitor at $1,000, such al
| Hudson has.
| The medical director of the tuber
| culosis sanitarium in this county re
ceives s3,5O0 per annum, whereas thu
same position in Essex is paid $1,000.
A storekeeper receives $1,000 PEI
annum here, while in Essex Count,
and New York the same position Il
paid 5000 per annum,
Hudson County pays the superin
| tendent of its almshouse $4,000. Esse1
| has no county almshouse, hence com
parison is made with the almshous
Of Erie County. New York, wher'
s2,500l per annum is paid. Hudson
County has an assistant deputy su
perintendent at 5000 per annum, bu
Erie has found no need for such |
position.
The warden of tbs county peniten
tiary of Hudson County receives
Sc, 1000, as against 1880 in Essex.