The Lambertville record., 1916-09-14
VOTE TUESDAY
ON COMMISSION

COMMISSION Government VIII Dt
voted upon in the city of Lambert
vile next Tuesday. September 10,
the polls being open from 6 a. M,
to p. M, when every voter regis
tered either last year or this year
will have a chance to cast his ballot
for or against change.
Mayor Frederick w. Donnelly, of
Trenton, will address a meeting at
St. Andrews hall on Saturday even
ing, and open-air meetings will be
held in each ward on Monday even
ing next. Prosecutor of the Pleas
Martin P. Devlin, of Mercer county,
spoke last Saturday evening.
Every effort is being made to get
every voter interested so that he
will have a chance to cast his ballot.
Mayor George N. Seger, of Pas
sale, who spoke here once in favor
of commission government, writes
the following interesting letter to
Charles A. Malloy, who has taken
such an active interest in the fur
thering of the new form of city ad-
ministration for this city:
Commission Government, so far
as know. is giving entire satisfaction
to the citizens of Passaic. Of course
there are few who from time to
time come out wi h statements
criticising the various departments
and their Directors for what they
consider willful extravaganza and
mismanagemenf, but rarely suggest
any constructive remedy.
During the five years of Com
mission rule many improvements
were undertaken and carried through
which should have been done by
previous dullllillSCl dIlOllo anu WIiNH
had tendency to increase the tax
rate. Outside of these few malcon-
tents the average citizen was salts
fled to bear this additional burden
after the publicity which was given
to each and every improvement and
the need for it had been made pub
lie and understood. The Commission
ers are about completing the de-
velopment of a large area of park
lands which were purchased during
the old administration and left lie
idle in the midst of thickly populated
sections where they were urgently
needed.
The great trunk sewer which
runs from Paterson to the Lower
Bay is about completed, Passaic
sharing upward to 100000 in the
expense of this flume.
Our streets are all being per-
manently improved instead of being
repaired with the old water-bound
macadam which is no longer suit
able for the present day vehicular
traffic.
"A new school building costing
almost $300,000.00 is being com
pleted and will be conducted under
the Work-Study-Play plan with a
view of giving more technical and
practical training to the boys who
will have to work in the mills.
"The Commissioners have just
concluded contract with the d. l..
& w. R. R. for the elimination OF
one of our very dangerous crossings
in which the railroad company's
share of expense will be about $l60,
100000 and the city's about $25, 900.
Despite the fact of theseimprove-
ments already made and those still
uncompleted and contemplated, the
tax rate this year will probably be
from s to 10 points lower than it
was last year. This is due entirely
to the fact every Commissioner de-
votes all his time to his department
and gives the most careful scrutiny
to the expenditures of his depart
ment. | do not believe that the
people of Passaic would again care
to go back to the old form of gov
ernment even if they had an oppor-
tunity to do So"