Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-19

| tendants ehivalrously herded nurses
| into a corner and stood between them
and danger.
reorganization Of the department of
labor and that the bill to consolidate
the various oyster commissions and
/ the bureau of shell fisheries will fail
Ito pass, there will still remain
| tWenty-nine appointments to be made
| before tomorrow night.
These include five members of the
new Board Of Taxes and Assessment
which takes the place of the State
Board of Assessors and the State
Board of Equalization of Taxes;
eight members of the advisory board
of the new health department; eight
of the new department of commerce
and navigation, and eight OF the de-
partment on conservation and de-
velopment.
The only positions to be filled car
rying salaries are those on the Board
of Taxes and Assessments, the presl-
dent of which will receive $4,000, and
the other members $1,000 each. There
are five members on the present State
Tax Board and four on the State
Board of Assessors, making 1t certain
that at least four members will be
disappointed when the new appoint
ments are announced.
The tax board is made up of Frank
3. Jess, Haddon Heights; former Sem
ator Bloomfield H. Minch, Bridgeton;
Lucus T. Russell, Elizabeth; Alfred
r. Holley, Hackensack, and George 7.
Bouton, Jersey City. On the Board OF
Assessors are George L. Record and
Charles z. Hendrickson. jr., Jersey
City; Isaac Barber, Phillipsburg, and
Fred A. Jentieu, of Pennsgrove.
Mr.. Jess, Mr.. Russell. Mr.. Minch,
Mr. Hendrickson and Mr.. Bouton are
all regarded as in line for appoint
ment TO the new board, though the
governor may decide upon a complete
reorganization of the new body. OF
all the communities in the State, Jer-
sey City, because of the vast ter
minals and other railroad pronerty
within its boundaries, is most VitallY
interested in the subject OF railroad
taxation. 1t always has been the
contention of the Jersey City authori
ties that the municipality did not re-
ceive a fair share of its taxes from
this class of property. 1t would,
therefore, not be surprising if Jersey
City, or at least Hudson county, Is
we'll represented on the new board.
Among the outsiders spoken of as
possible appointees are ex-Assembly-
man George Whyte, Camden; eX-
Judge John G. Horner, Burlington;
ex- Senator Edmund Wilson, Atlantic,
and owen F. Conlon, Newark. The
BOARD will have the naming Of a di-
rector of taxes, a position which
seems likely to go to Thomas b.
Usher, who was for many years sec
retary of the State Tax Board and is
now a member OF the Hudson County
Tax Board.
Next in Importance to the tax board
is the new health board, In connec-
ton with which the following names
are being spoken: William H. Chew,
Camden, member of the present
board; DR.. Hyman I. Goldstein, Cam
Joseph B. Shaw, Trenton; George P.
Olcott, East Orange; DR.. Elmer
Allen, Jersey City; DR.. H. C. H. Her
old, Newark, and DR.. Harry D. Roll
linson, Railway.
The director of health to be elected
by the new board will receive a sal
ary of IS 600 a year. In making this
appointment the board will be linz
tied by a provision in the law re-
quiring that the director shall have
had at least five years experience in
public health matters. DR.. r. B. Fitz-
randolph, head of the present depart
ment of food and drugs; DR.. A. Cole
Newton, president OF the board; ex-
Senator Jacob L. Price, the present
secretary, and DIR. A. Clark Hunt, the
assistant secretary, have all been
spoken of as possible appointees to
the dictatorship.
1t is probable that the new Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment will be selected largely from the
present membership Of the State
Geological Survey, State Forestry
Commission and the various park
commissions in the merger.
No intimation has been given as to
the probable appointees to the De-
partment of Commerce and Navlga-
ton, though IT is likely that the In
land Waterways Commission, the Ri
parian Commission. and the Harbor
Commission will be represented on the
new body.
Full Crew Repeater.
The Stevens repeater of the full
crew law, greatly desired by the rail-
roads, has not as yet seen daylight
1t has been consigned to the care of
the committee on railroads and
canals. Several efforts have been
put forth to move the measure into
the open and have the fight out, but
they have proved unavailing and il
Is now said to be probable that the
end of the session will be reached
without action upon this bill
Among the more important bills to
come before the Legislature this week
is Assemblyman Peaeock's measure
revising the salaries Of the members
Of the various county tax boards. Mr..
Peacock says the bill will be approved
by both houses.
The measure Is intended to save the
State about 100000 In salaries. This
provides that the county shall pay
the salary instead of the State. It
makes the secretary of the board q
member thereof, and the salaries Of
the other two members are no greater,
and in some cases less. than the pres
ent salary of the secretary.
Another change in the present order
of things Is the placing of the ap-
pointment Of such members in the
hands Of the board of freeholders.
At present members of the county tax