Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-04


During his four years of service as
keeper of the county's money Golfers
Arthur II. Bailey, Paxtang. earned
nearly $7,5OO-$7,397.67, to be exact
for Dauphin county.
Ihe figures comprise some of the
interesting high lights of the annual
report of the retiring county treasurer.
He completed the statement late yes
terday following the closing of the
office for 1916 business at high noon.
EX-County Treasurer Bailey was
succeeded by Mark Mumma, Steelton,
but while the office formally changed
hands at noon along with the other
county departments, the retiring Off
cial did business up until ~ o'clock
Naturally, the mornings figures had to
be incorporated in the report
Mr.. Bailey'S Cash Earnings
The S7,397.67 represents just so
much cash which Mr.. Bailey turned
into the county treasury through an
efficiency business system which he
had inaugurated at the. beginning of
his term four years ago. This plan, in
brief, was the depositing of daily bal
ances in city banks which would pay
interest for the use of the funds.
During 1915 the income from this
source totaled $1,9S0.54. In 1914 the
earnings amounted. to $1,993.56; in
1913, S2,040.32, and in 1912 to
$1,433.25. Prior to Mr.. Baiey's ad-
ministration no income for the county
was derived from these balances.
During the past year, however, Mr..
Bailey inaugurated another new plan
which earned some money for the
state. Some thousands of dollars are
paid into the county treasury from
time to time which is eventually
turned into the States treasury. This
includes fees for hunters licenses
mercantile licenses. etc. Instead of
returning this in small sums Mr.. Bailey
conceived the idea of depositing these
balances in local banks until goodly
sized amount was piled up. These
funds, incidentally, drew interest. BY
this method Mr. Bailey was enabled to
surprise the State authorities the other
day with check for $22S.53.
Office Nearly Sclf-SuppOrting
The interest earning plan is not the
only commendable feature about Mr..
Bailey's tenure, however; his admins
tration was unique in that in all the
four years the county, because of Mr..
Bailey's efficient business methods,
didn't need to borrow a cent on tenn
porary loans. And against the nearly
$500 earnings from interest on bal
anceS can be checked Mr. Baileys
salary, approximating $4,000. Which
made his office pretty nearly self
supporting.
The report of the treasurer as sub
mitted to-day to the county commits
sioners shows that the county begins
the new year with the comfortable
balance on hand of Just $1SS,277.54.
The receipts included the following:
Balance in bank and on hand,
S160,SS3.70: county taxes, $27S, ,494.32;
State taxes, $52,S21.47; dog taxes
$9SS.95; return taxes, $575.56; re-
demptions, $90.5S; redemptions, county
commissioners, $132.23; agent direct
ors of the poor, $3,S7707; prison in
spector, $3.50.
General and miscellaneous receipts
included as following:
The Receipts, S6i1, 1864
Lunacy, $1,922.95; county's share of
liquor licenses, $S,225; nonresident
hunters license, $5; Northumberland
county's share of bridge repairs,
S743.0S; Lancaster countys share,
S30S.2S; from State for bounties, $9O2;
State, for county fairs. $1,30S; for
feited bail, SS46.50; II. f. Holler, pro-
thonotary, $1O,155.53; O. G. Wicker
sham, recorder, $3,734.S3; Roy C. Dan
ner, register, $354.55; fines, $40; SELL
ing old iron. $1S0.3S; old lumber.
$57.65; interest on sinking funds,
$S.732.22; from city for maintaining
prisoners, S1,912.S2; miscellaneous,
$259.76; interest on deposits. s1,93O.54;
a total of $37S.71S.17 From liquor
licenses there was received $63.4OO;
mercantile. $31,147.24; hunters Ii
censes, $7,334; interest from State de-
posits, $22S.53; or S102, 2,1O9.77 from
these sources. making a grand total of
receipts of $641 1864 during the year
for the county.
The Expenditures, 5O0,SSI.1O
The expenditures included the fol-
lowing:
Vouchers for county commissioners
for conducting affairs of the county,
$SO3, ,0S0.72; directors of the poor,
71,647.20; prison inspectors, S26.-
039.41, total of $400,767.33. To this
was added these disbursements:
Distribution of liquor license,
S63,4 mercantile fees turned over
TO State, 1,14724; hunters licenses,
S7,341; interest on State deposits,
$22S.53; making grand total of
$5O2, SS4.10 in county expenditures.