Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-22
NEWARK AS COMPARED WITH
OTHER NEW JERSEY CITIES
High Standard of Municipality the Result of Democratic
Administration Improvements, Is Pointed Out by William
E. neutrality-suspicious. Will Come Back TenfoId, He As
serts. and Declares Proof Is Already Evident

street which our administration has
just beautified into the noblest mu-
nicipal thoroughfare in the land.
Bergen avenue, her chief promenade,
is country lane to those who know
our High street and Mt. Prospect ave-
nue. and Clinton avenue. Sunken
sidewalks and pavement gullies, and
/ litter, dust in the dry season and
slush to the boot-tops in the wet sea-
son, complete the picture of her land
scape.
Shall we push the comparison fur
| Their? Well, there's her City Hall,
gay in cheap habiliments and put to
the blush by the imposing and i'm
pressive municipal building Demo-
cratic administration has given us
here. Her water plant, that cost 49,
600 900 more-under Republican aus
pices, too. by the way-looks like
thirty cents by the side of the great
storage system a Democratic admin
istration reared for us in all the hills
around. Her school system. though
much enlarged and developed under
recent Democratic administrations,
has scarcely attained the point our
splendid educational equipment here
passed twenty years ago.
But what's the use? These things
are. disparagement to Jersey City,
but they are not said to disparage.
They are mentioned only to show
how much more we get for our
money than our big neighbor across
the meadows gets for hers. And yet
1 ,11 11,.l t.. A.
as big as ours. 1t doesn't show up
in works. There's the test of benefi-
cial administrative activity Does the
taxpayers money reveal itself In a
better, a handsomer, a livelier city?
If Newark looks in on her only mu-
nicipal rival in the State for her
answer she should be pleased to the
/ marrow with the returns from her
| OUTLAWS.
| Newark Steal Works.
There's a civic pride in Newark. l
know, that keeps up her administra-
tive standard under any party. But
1t seems to have been bit higher
under Democratic regimes. I think
| remember the time when a per-
sistent Republican majority lowered
| II so far that our City Hall was pop
ularly known as the Newark Steal
Works. Persistent Democratic tri-
umphs have since cleaned 1t of the
cdium. And then compare old
Schoomaster Joseph Haynes's ad-
ministration with that of his Repub-
lican successor, Lebkuecher! The
city took snooze from the Haynes
hustle while Lebkuecher ruled.
/ And then along came Haussling to
get her awake and busy again. And
she has been booming along ever
since. There has been no loss of mu-
nicipal dignity or prestige; of our
order and cleanliness our low-inter-
est bonds are at a premium in dull
markets; our schools are up to the
s top notch! The health and comfort.
and even the pleasure of our people,
are conserved. Prudent co-opera-
ton is accorded to the facilities that
make for municipal expansion. Gem
erous improvements are helping the
city to become every day a more
beautiful and desirable one to live
/, in.
| And we are keeping officially so
| bravely abreast with the require
ments of our natural growth that
one may well wonder what reason
there can be for the change which
some people are urging upon us.
WILLIAM Il. SACKETT.