Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-20
olD-TIME CITY SALARIES
Glance Over These Payroll Figures Of
Thirty Years Ago and Compare
Them With Those Of Today.
New York Figures, Too
by GEORGE NON Mccain

| Arthur Conan Doyles lectures in this city.
| one of the participants was widely
| known state politician. who was decidedly
| skeptical on the subject of communication
| with the departed. He had gone down with
! the rest in the Alter catastrophe.
lie declined TO accept the assurances OF
| the distinguished British spiritualist that
| he and his friends had been in personal
| touch with those who had passed into the
other life.
Finally my friend the politician. said:
- There's only one thing that would ever
convince, me that there's anything in this
If Conan Doyle or any of his people
can get into communication with Penrose
and ask him what he thinks of this mess
! that the Organization in the State has got
to get out of it, I'll believe in the Doyle
doctrine.
COUNCILMAN CHARLES b. HALLS
~ movement for survey to determine
definitely what should be done to put the
city in shape for the Scsqu Centennial is
an advanced idea.
Not only should the survey include high
ways. communication and kindred subjects.
but it should also include the question of
hotel accommodations.
Philadelphia in the past has never failed
to care for the crowds that visited here on
the occasion of great events.
The last thing of the kind. which was
of nation wide interest. was the Republican
National Convention Of 1000. which at
tracted an estimated quarter Of million
strangers from all over the country.
There were very few complaints Of made
Quate accommodations or cxtortionate prices.
After the captains and kings of politics
had departed, the Baltimore American had
this to say cditorially:
philadelphia has shown n true hospi-
tnlity. and many of the delegates to the
Republican National Convention will long
remember with great pleasure the week they
spent IN the great metropolis Of the Key
stone State.
Baltimore extends TO her hearty con-
Sratuintions on her success in entertaining
on" of the greatest political gatherings ever
known IN the history of the country
TT HAS always been weakness Of our
L ncghboring and rival cities to point out
Philadelphia s dcrclcti ions in every way pos
siblc.
New. York abandoned the foolish and
jealous practice twenty years ago.
Before that, however. say generation
ago. She would aim the finger Of scorn and
chidc US for our apparent shortcomings.
The New York Sun. under Charles A.
Dana once published Il generation ago
TO be exact il was on July 10, ,1sol-an
interesting comparison of the cost of gov
"rnmont in the two cities
II is worth reproduction.
Dana Sun curiously failed to note or
comment upon the difference in salaries,
''''' al iuNol OIL IHllhucInnlA. IN which
pnrsimony in such matters in New York
seemed to be conspicuous.
'"T>llE laws and ordinances for the control
l. and protection of public moneys, COL
.or"n, cr,"u, dcr"SitSd gnd disbursed by public
are about seventy five years, in pont of
esislation. behind those governing like of.
fcials in New York.
T., "IaH sTa od@ ppbG Bile debt of Philadelphia, which
the public debt of New York.
The assets of Philadelphia for the pay.
n"nt of the debt are per capita less than
those of New York '"
. The affairs of Philadelphia have been,
are now and were for many years managed
by Rrpublicans: of the latter by Democrats
for similarly long period.
s67NHE Mayor of Philadelphia receives
l. $1,000 a year; the Mayor of New
York receives $4,000 ''
The Receiver of Taxes in PHILADELPHIA
gets $4,000 a year, while in Ncw Ynrii
he is paid $1,000 Ao'N
'Th" Corporation Counsel in tho civ
OF New York receives $4,000 year, Tho
City Solicitor who in pbilodeInhia ,,an
forms the same duties. receives S1O Ono
''Thc Sheriff Of New York receives nc
deputy gets $4,000. ' '"'''
81, i@e @e oS% sherif III of Of Philadelphia receives
Nhn
business in New York is about domhI. ,,Lnt
it is in Philadelphia '''' "H"'
=" VIE M Register OF New York gets S1o..
L ooo. lie has staff of seventy. sevon
persons their compensation ronpin, 'r.em eel,
| 5000 to $1,000 wear "e"s from
The Recorder of Deeds in pbil,do,rh;o
| receives Hlo'o'o year. and has n staff ~
seventy persons. their salaries rangina fro,n ",
| 500 TO $500 n year i'''i
For tIp amount ,r ,rau,.
two men in Philadelphia in this nuh,io ,"He' iIe'
| partncnt to perform the labor of one IN
| New York. ' ohc III
| The Police Department in pbi,odo,nh,,
pears the nam name of the Department of Public
Safety. The head of it gets $1,000 n vnar
The president of the Police Department in
New York gets $1,000 "' :"
Captains of police in Philadelphia 70.
ceiye $1,000 li"utennnts S1275 and scrgcants
| S113S.2S. The patrolmen receive 50 5o mor
day. with an allowance Of $40 a vcor for for
| clothing and regala. The police motrons
! receive $50 n month! o"'
'In New York the police captains rccciro
| $3.50. sorgoantS $1,000. roun[smen S19o0
and p"tr"'m'n from $1,000 TO $1,000 accord
ing to grade.
18th" chief of the Detective Bureor IN
! New York receives $4,000 and the dctcctivn
| scrgpantS $1,000 each
! "In Philadcl rhia the chief Of the detective
force receives $500 and each of his eleven
aids Sl350.'
A TT. through this column Of comparIson
n one finds little snarling comments Ike
| this one:
There are more criminals TO pursue in
New York than in Philadclphia bur ,hcrc
nrc more Offenders uncaught in Philademh,
than in New York. Then this artist in
statistics proceeds:
"poIicc judges in Now York receive sS0Oo
year
''Th"rr are fifteen Of then. 50 their com.
| bincd salary amounts yearly to 500, 600
In Philadelphia Judges are called mapis
tratcs. Those presiding over police courts
get $4,000 year.
| There arc twenty eight Of them, md
this item of expense to the city IS sS4. 900
| year.
''Thc District Attorney of New York 70.
ceives SO 900 a year. The District Attor-