Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-01
TALKS Of SHIFTS
IN COUNTY Jobs
HOLDS ATTENTION
Several Changes Likely to Be
Made When Freeholders Re-
organize in January.

Now that 1t is definitely known that
Mayor-elect Thomas L, Raymond is
not lowering on the outskirts of New
ark. waiting for chance to elude the
lines of Office seekers and get home
for good nights sleep, attention Is
being directed toward county affairs.
The MayoAelect is taking notes on
municipal government in the Sunny
South" but the members of the
Board OF Freeholders are right here
in Essex county and must hang
around and listen to the things that
are being said
1t was given out with masked non
chalance a few days ago that when
the freehoIders meet to reorganiZe on
January 4 next, with the Republican
in full control by the score of six to
three and a Republican county super
visor to boot, everything would be as
merry as a marriage bell" with the
same old officers sticking to their Jobs,
with only such changes as added re-
quirements called for.
This sounded nice and sweet to the
incumbents, to be sure, but there have
been some jarring noises heard since.
Drifting with the zephyrs comes a
story that County Collector Richard
Both is not TO be reappointed. The
story goes farther and mentions the
name of Andrew c. Snyder, recent
Republican candidate for the New
ark Mayoralty nomination, as his
successor.
That was but one Of the shifts in
the original narrative of plans An
other has it that Alfred n. Dalrym-
pie, presentcou nty attorney, will be
moved up 70 the top notch TO take
Benjamin F. oJnes's place as county
counsel. Mr.. Jones may not figure
in the Office holding at all next year,
the tipsters having it that Harold A.
Miller, present assistant county
counsel, will continue in his position.
Rumor further has IL that DR..
Walter 8. Washington is spoken of
for the office of county physician, but
inquiry fails TO connect this with
anything tangible. DR.. Willia
Mckenzie. present county physician,
is not likely to be disturbed.
The dictatorship of the board is
not likely to be permitted to escape
more or less buffetting. Walter
Evans Is holding down that desira-
BILE post now, but Freeholder Rich
ard r. Malta, of Newark, is casting
Sleeps eyes in the direction. Then
Lnere lS Ldlk OF fTeenOldeF Wllllhm
Cardwell, of East Orange, being an
aspirant for the presiding officers
Job, with the additional information
that he is sure to give his neighbor,
Evans, from South Orange, a might
lily close run. IL, in fact, he doesn't
beat him under the wire.
Rumors of probable change in the
wardenshlp of the county jail were
said today to be without foundation,
as there is no fault to be found with
the work of Warden Ferdinand Hosp.
Benjamin r. Bailey, warden at the
Hospital for the Insane at Overbrook,
is also said TO be sure thing prop
osition.
Among the freeholders there is
some speculation as to whether Free
holder John H. Waters, who is to be
Belleville's mayor under commission
government rule, can legally hold
both offices. The question has been
raised, but 1t Ia held that there ap-
pears to be a legal bar to a person
holding the office of freeholder and
that of a commission government Off
[ al at the same time. A freeholder-
ship pays 81. 800 per year, while the
Belleville mayoralty's pay cannot ex-
ceed $1,000.