Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-13
ESSEX EXPENSE
MUCH LESS THAN
HUDSON'S OUTLAY
Exhibition Charts Show Com
parison of the Cost of the
Two Counties.
Special to the Evening star.

Special 10 inc Evening StHf.
JERSEY CITY, Oct. 13.7-A COMPARE
son of the receipts and expenditures
of Hudson and Essex counties is
found in the exhibit at the Free Pub
lie Library here under the direction
of the Citizens Federation.
The charts represent many days of
research and are instructive as well
as interesting. In all more than a
score of charts are on exhibition.
They compare the salaries and re-
ceipts of the several county offices
in Hudson county with those of Es-
sex. In nearly every instance 1t Is
shown that while Essex County does
more business than Hudson, 1t does
not have near the expense.
Comparison is made with Essex
County because the two counties are
adjacent and have almost equal popu-
lation. Essex County Is much richer
than Hudson and its ratables are in
creasing faster than those of Hud-
son, but its expenses are not increas-
ing as fast as those in Hudson. All
of the financial comparisons shown
are based for Hudson County on the
fiscal year closing November 20, 1918,
and those of Essex for the year end
ing May 1. 1914.
Striking Comparisons.
One of the first and most important
charts at the exhibition is that of
the sheriff offices of the two counties.
In Hudson County the salaries paid
for the sheriff's office, including the
employees at the County Jail totals
sos, 500. The receipts from the same
office amounted to 500, ASH. In Essex
County the salaries paid for the same
purposes amounts to $45,2SS, and the
receipts to 63.S45.35, showing that
Hudson is paying about $12,5o0 more
u year for the transaction of only
about $4,000 more business.
The office of the County Clerk also
shows q striking comparison, accord
ing to the charts. In Hudson County,
the receipts from the Office for the
year ending November 20, 1918 were
$39, 596. 26 while the salaries paid
amounted to $49.S6o, or the salaries
exceeded the receipts by about
Sc, 700. In Essex County, the receipts
from the County Clerks office we're
$25,1S4.S7 and the salaries paid sci ,537,
indicating that the office of the
County Clerk in Essex is not an added
burden on the tax payers, and that
in that office s2S,S23 less than Hud-
son County.
Surrogates' Offices.
That the Office of the County Surro-
gate in Hudson is more expensive
than that of Essex also is shown in
the charts. In Hudson County the
salaries for the surrogate's office to-
tai Sal, 1896, and the receipts approx
aI,a L
aries exceed the receipts by nearly
3d. 900, an excess of expenses which
the taxpayers must pay. On the
other hand. in Essex County the SAL
aries paid are $20S29,60, and the re-
ceipts $27.444. The receipts in Hudson
arc approximately $4,000 more than in
Essex, but the salaries In Hudson
are nearly $21 900 larger.
The office of county register in
Hudson also shows a striking COM
parison with that of Essex County.
The salaries paid in the Hudson
County surrogate's Office total $73,-
GAO, while the receipts are only $54,-
I14.31, an excess in salaries of about
5000 over the receipts. The re-
ceipts for the same office in Essex
County were $50, 125.29 and the sala,
ries paid s40,050, an excess of $l9.>
1883 of receipts. This shows n diff
ference of about $4,000 in the surro-
gates office salaries in the two coun-
ties in favor of Essex.
Essex Does More Business.
Another comparison in the office of
the surrogate is that in Essex Coun-
ty $4,000 documents of all kinds were
handled, while in Hudson 23.722 docu-
ments were handled, showing that Es-
sex County does more business with
much less expense.
There also is a considerable differ
ence shown in the charts in the main
tenance of the courthouse of the two
counties. To maintain the court
house in Hudson County costs $51, 72C
a year as against sa2,636 in Essex
| County.
Another chart of interest to Essex
County people is that dealing with
| the outdoor employment of county
l prisoners, and recommending that the
/ same method as adopted in Essex
County be instituted in Hudson Coun-
| ty.
The exhibit shows that the expenses
| of Hudson County have increased
away out of proportion to the growth
in business and not in proportion &c