Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-06

ures OF the Newark at the beginning
of 1914, the year of my retirement
Dec. 81, 1882 Dec. 81, 1913
Tax Ratables. ss4, 3s7, 1880 1894, 301, 1914. 90
Value of City
staP Property sl.sss, lo7s1 sss, ~, $50 20 90
eeuhpblic Debt. SO, 1876, 896S6 $21, 902,471.
:. Approp'tion s1se2444s s1,e55,s4Ss4
zpprop'tion $5574eso @2,seO,141. &c
Tax Rate. $2H 5000
Population -. 10000 $4,000
Area In Square
Miles ...... IS 23.40
Miles of Paved
Streets -. so 2Ss,es
School Houses 81 IS
Miles of Sewers 81 29811
1.-THE changed conditions presented
to you are the result of thirty-one
years of Newark's development, and
1t is but just to add that the Newark
of today is selling its temporary
bonds. bearing less than 81 per cent.
interest, at a premium, and its per-
manent bonds at as low interest
rates. and at as high premium as
any city in the United States.
Newark Has No Superior.
As to the policical control of the
government of the municipality dur
Ing the years of this wonderful de-
veIopment that has made Newark
without a superior in all that goes to
make a great city, or that should
compel civic pride on the part of its
inhabitants, 1t has been twenty-five
years under Democratic and eight
years under Republican domination,
SO far as the Mayor, or chief execu-
tive, who is vested with the veto
power is concerned-a power that is
the most important and salutary
IN nfff
of vernment-national, State or mu-
nicipal, and one that never should be
) changed.
1.-The city needs a more modern,
sifnplified organic law, known as a
charter. One Of the many, and GER
tainly not the least Of the acts of his
honor, Mayor Haussling for which
he is deserving of the lasting thanks
of the people of Newark, was that of
appointing a charter revision COM
mission, the personnel of which could
not have been improved upon. 1t
was made up of men who understood
Newark from every viewpoint, and
after upwards of five years of gratui-
tous labor that commission did pre-
sent charter, which, while not per-
feet would have, had it been adopted,
simplified the administrative part of
the government and given to the city
that which above all else 1t most
needs-a larger measure of home
rule that is SO necessary to the con-
tinuance of it's development intelli-
gently, prudently and economically"
An OficiaI Record.
sGentlemen of the Common Council,
present to you and through you to
the people of Newark, this, my last
statement in official life, as official
record. 1t is meet at this time to
say a word more, for during all the
years of my connection with the
municipal affairs of Newark / have
been brought in contact with it's adj
ministratiye policies whether under
Democratic or Republican rule, and
outside of one mishap, for which the
guilty one suffered the punishment of
the law, l have known of no great
peculation in the administration of
the affairs.
No matter what form of govern
ment you adopt for the government
of a corporation of billion dollars
assets, tangible and intangible, some
thing must be loose. You cannot ex-
pect all to be perfect. But when you
go through all the years that have
spoken of without scandal of any
great moment during such develop
ment as those figures that cannot be
controverted show, under God, don't
believe that you can find city under
the folds of Old Glory purer, better
or more honestly governed.
s'The mistakes will come as long as
human nature is human nature. But
If on top of those mistakes you find
improvements like those that that
statement of facts shows you find
the city spreading out and increasing
second to none, when you md the
financial statements in such good
keeping, when you find its promises
to pay gathered up as they have been
In the last few weeks at less than
per cent. to the filth brought into the
history of governmental affairs, that
Is the one answer that cannot be
controverted. Show me the mans
credit and will show you the calibre
OF the man. Newark's credit stands
as solid today as does the credit OF
the nation over which that flag waves
(pojnting to the flag in the council
chamber), and as long as you are
honest and keep that way. just so
long will people keep you and honor
you, and when the day comes that
YOU fail, then may God and the peo-
pie retire you to oblivion"
A resolution fixing the new incum-
bent's salary at $500 was adopted,
but not without the protest OF Alder
u,
ton amended to make the salary
$1,000 and Alderman Bleick, who Sec
onded the amendment. The latter was
lost.
The Retirement Resolution.
The retirement resolution affecting
the city clerk, reads as follows:
whereas, James F. Connolly, city
clerk of the City of Newark, New Jer-
sey, requests to be retired from said
position, on pension, in accordance
with chapter eighty-four, pamphlet
laws of New Jersey, approved March
10, 1912 and tie facts to make effec-
tive such retirement having been
found to be correct as set forth in his
application, hereunto attached, there
fore, be it
Resolved, That the said James F.
Connolly be, and he hereby is, re-
tires. MS city clerk Of the city of New
arb Y. j., in accordance with and
pursuant to chapter eighty -four,
pam phlet laws of the State of New
Jergsy 1912, a. the sum, or pension,
of three thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars ($3,750) per annum; Off
and during his natural life; said sum,
or pension. being in amount one-half
of the salary n " received by the said
James r. Connolly, city clerk Of the
city of Newark, by virtue of con-
tract of the city of Newark, N. ].
o..tnraI into xuIf n fho said .Iamas II.