The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1916-08-03
CHICAGO PAYS HIGH
Mayor Gets $4,000 a Year and
Seventy Aldermen $4,000 Each.
NEW YORK IS NEXT IN LINE.
Gotham Allows It's Chief Executive
$4,000, Philadelphia $4,000, Boston,
ST. Louis, Newark, N. j.. Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Pittsburgh $4,000, in
dianapoIis and Seattle $500.

Cleveland and Pittsburgh $4,000, in
dianapois and Seattle $500.
Washington has the high
est priced mayor In the country. He
gets $4,000 a year and serves four
! years. New York comes next, with
! a $4,000 mayor, whose term also lasts
four years. Philadelphia, third in the
list, gives its mayor $4,000 year for
four years. Boston, St Louis. New
ark, N. j.; Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Pittsburgh pay their mayors $4,000
annually, the term being four years
in Boston. Pittsburgh and St Louis,
and two years in Cincinnati, Cleveland
and Newark
indianapolis and Seattle pay their
mayors $500 year; San Francisco.
Baltimore and Minneapolis $4,000 each;
East St Louis, Louisville, New Bed
ford, Detroit Kansas City. BIZ falo,
Mount Vernon, Rochester, COluInbus,
Scranton, Providence, San Antonio,
Tex, and Richmond pay $1,000 each.
The aldermen. who share with the
mayor and certain other officials the
responsibility of government in Ameri-
can cities, cost the taxpayers varying
sums. Chicago has seventy aldermen,
at $4,000 each; Boston, nine. at $500
each; st, Louis. twenty-nine at 81, 800
each; Newark, thirty-two at $500 each:
New York. seventy-three, at $1,000
each; Cincinnati thirty-two, at S1,150
apiece; Cleveland, twenty-six. at $1,000
each; Philadelphia, forty-eight select
councilmen aud eighty-three common
councilmen. an serving without salary;
Pittsburgh, nine aldermen at $500
each; Indianapolis. nine at 5000 apiece.
and Seattle. nine. at $1,000 apiece.
The only cities that have an upper
and lower house of aldermen or
councllmen are Hartford. Conn: New
Britain. Conn: Atlanta Louisville.
Portland, Ne; Baltimore thirty three
In all, at $1,000 EACH; Brockton Mass;
Cambridge, Mass; Everett. Mass. NAL
den, Mass. Fitchburg Mass; New Bed
ford, Mass: pittSfeld. Mass: Spring
| field. Mass; Worcester. Mass. Kansas
| city, Mo; Manchester. y. H.; Buffalo
nhirty-s six in all. at 81 900 EACH; Ian
caster. Pa; Philadelphia, Pawtucket.
r. l.; Providence, r. l.; Woonsocket,
Il. l.; Lynchhurg Va: Norfolk. Va;
! Portsmouth, Va; Richmond Va. Sad
Roanoke. Va.
| The commission form of government.
which takes the place Of mayors and
aldermen, involves smaller salary
outlay. In Washington. d, G.. the
/ three commissioners get total Of
$1,000: in Denver. $4,000; in San
! Diego. $1,000: In Topeka. $4,000, In
New Orleans. S30OoO: in Salem. Mass.
/ $1,000. in ST. Pau. $31.50O: In Lin
coin. Neb. $4,000 in Atlantic City.
/ $4,000; in Bayonne, n j.. $4,000: in
| Hohoken, $1,000: i'm Jersey City. $685.
00o; In Trenton. $4,000, and in Har-
risburg. $4,000.
/ In some Of the commission governed
cities mayor is elected as SUCH while
! in others he is chosen by the commits
sion. Sometimes he gets an extra al
1 lowancc rs chairman # the commits
sion. but this rarely exceeds $500 and
/ Is included in most of the above totals.
/ While most cities employ assessors
! to fix the valuation of property for
/ the purposes of taxation. those OF
/ some states have no assessors, but re-
/ port to the county the amount required
( to be raised for city purposes