Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 24, 1917, Page 12

NEW LONDON AND ITS TAXATION | One Member of Board of Assessors and Equilization Believers Increased Revenue Should Be Obtained from Higher Rate Rather Than Hgiher Valuation—Wants to Avoid Double Taxation—Bigger ' Budget By $100,000 This Year—Jackson Slated For Police Captain. mora _territorial area. : Mr. Murray may be wrong and his increase of (Special to. The Bulletin.) There friction in the co board of l:-u-orsnu:d lg‘-rd of .equml- | associates right in the tzation, sach board being. composed of | the mame members, Allen Penhalle, ! ¥ylncis J. Bracken and:Thomas R. { Murray, and there is rumor that Mr. y Murray contemplates fesignation in conseqgnce. yme time ago, a year or more, the mayer appointed the as- + sessors as a board of equalization and aluations knowing that there is-aiso to be an increase in tax rate, but it it ‘will be hard to pound that policy into the head of the average tax- payer. It may be because the aver- age tax payer is dull of apprehension, and it may hot. stick to his post and abandon the idea of.resigning. He is to be the next re- tring mcmbal; ‘st '(hefboard. 'Hel ought i E to "be a can late for renomination m,’ for lth':ml;:re:e::l :fl:}flig and-let the voters render the verdict. ! ihe eity income. It was not supposed | the spider .to the fiy? % that an equalization of . taxation meant a general increase on practical- T }v every piece of real estate in the|said the .:ad.» to the fly? The fiy | city, as most of the. taxation in thelaccepted: the invitation, so the story i residential -are now practical- , and flew no more. So it is with '3y to the limit. The madjority of the|that eelf-appeinted and so-called cit- ' board has acted upon the.theory that|izens' committee and the police com- ‘he equalization desired by the mayor|mittee of the New London court of { mw® <A nanvt of commen council was|common council. the city acting as the “ii lcicase 1n property valuation and |spider. It is mow semi-officially an- bave acted accordingly. $t is said{nounced that the police committee has that every dwellng and building lot in|laid down, so to speak, and is to per- i gemerally supposed for the pur- } pose of piacing the taxable property in “Will- you walk into my parior2” the city has been imcreased in valua- tion at least ten per cent, and that means real hardship on the great ma- jority of the workingmen Who owm * their little homes or who have the same under heavy mortgage, and all thev can do to pay the inteerst and the present rate of taxation and this more so than ever at present with the pre- vailing high cost of living. That is a reason why Mr. Murray _dissents from his two associates on the board. Assessor Murray contends that if more meney is needed to meet the war exigencies and the extreme demands of the state tax and assessment for the new bridge at Niantic, it ought to be raised by an imcrease ‘in the. tax rate, rather than imcrease in valmtion F is plain that the present' budget of the court of common council requires increased revenue to meet the increas- ©3 espepses, and no serious objection crease in the tax rate for the pres- could reasonably be made te an i ent year to meet the present eémergen- Y =g ecenbiny the rate could be reduced a year later. The raising of the tax rate need not necessarily be permanent. Not so with property valuation. But the .raising of the tax rate and increasing valua- ticr "at the same time is practically double {axation, one of a permanent aud the other of a temporary nature. This js what Assessor Murray does not approve. - At present the tax rate is --38 mills, but at the city meeting the i finance committee of the court of common council statd a 20 mill tax would be nome tqo large, and -now. when the assessors are combleting their work, it is indicated thati-the tax _rate will be 22 mills, perhaps, in ad- dition to_the increased valuation in the grand list. Mr. Murray helieves that the court of common council recommends and the city approves of estimates chove the recsipis that the council and the people should bear the responsibility by fixing the-tax rate, and have it ample to meet a1l re- quirements. and he is no objector to a fair equalization of taxable property, bu: he considers that a general in- of valuation does not cover aiizadon in sny sense. especially when that valuation is hased .on the ficticious vaiue of real estate during thees war times. when the ity is over- crowded and there is demand . for dwelling houses. There i= mure to be a drop. in the excessive values the, siump that is snre ts come gets here, or when conditions veturn to mormal.. . The new valuatfon. will re- main. even should there he reduction: in the tax rate. = rs ago when the squalization of taxation was so stronglv urmed i\ wa< ed that the equalization me~nt reduction in tax rates and withaut. 1o o¢ vevenue to the city. That tr S the little feilaw wou'd . be and the hig fellow wau ¢ ear his just pai of the bu den’ . of taxation. is Assescor s L ssociates in sist ‘tba‘ the only way f( gzet the ve- tyrrs aceording to the expressed wish of the maror -ard, tha court e =sessors . is to raise the coin increasing the vahation and In- creasing the tax rate as well. Messrs. Penhaliow and Bracken, ‘bath ‘experi- enced assessors, (as well a4 Mr! Mur- ray) .claim that their: plan 3 one practical and. will _tkerefore L = x - the tax rate based op the grand list and the assesscrs wifl see to it that the grand list will be amply large enough for the most extragant citv expendfures, regardless of the size of the roll of the poorer tax payers. and the dear pub- lic in. generaf, all heing indireét tax payers. THg city budget for this year as pre pared by the court of common council is ahout $103.000 more than la: which” upon- its face meaps an crease of two mills of more, but it is bedieved that when the city meeting comes for_the fixing of the tax rate that 2 couple of mills more will be 2dded. There must be need for thi rea. or the honorable and intelli- gent court of common council would not eo recommend. That the last court o feomon eouncil, the same that made up the budget, is of a =enerous ma up.is shown in t berality in raising dv overpaid salaries .of some city offcials. Tn these instances, perhaps. the: inereased cost of living was faken into ccusideration, but no considera- tion was given to' the a'ready over- burdened tax payer, the little fellow who possesses- his heavily mortgaged home, or to the workingman who hires the tenements and really pays the tax: The grand list of New London Ifas trebled within the past iwenty years e which is all of ont of propartion. to t #rand list of New London 53 increasein population. Fast vear the srand list of New London was about $1.500.000 lacger than the . town of Norwich with about three times or mit the citizens’ committee to nawme a gentleman named Jackson, of Con- neeticut, to captain the police force of New London. Mr. Jackson was until recentiy a member of the state police, a_position he resigned to become as- sitant to State Attorney Hadlai A Hull, who is not less than the secona in command of the citizens’ commit- tee, of which George S. Palmer is the recognized head. The police commit- tee accepted invitation to mes? the citizens' commiittee, that is Messrs. Palmer- and Hull and assoclates. in Mr. Palmer’s parlor office. The aldermen ‘of the committee had‘ been in the conference but a short while. when a point was reached to the effect, that Police Lieutenant Jeffers, who has werved the city faithfully - for more than thirty vears was not to be rec- ommiended for promotion to the cap- taincy. That cuieted the nerves ot the cltizens’ committee, and the pro- posed public hearing that the’ citizéns’ ommittee was to force the police ommittee to hoid in relation to the promotion of Jeffers was thrown in the discard. The Palmer-Hull com- ination won out. Then came the in- formation that with Mr. Jackson a= the head of the police department, the state atforney could get along with- out him 23 an assistant with salary paid by the state. As captain of po- lice he conld also serve as assistant to the state attormey, and at the ex- pense of the city. Of course the pay of the captain of police has been in- adequate for vears, and with Mr. Tacksen as the successor of General Haven. the citizens’ committee will see to it that the court of common coun- il arranges for a substantial”increase in salary for the gentleman of -their skofce. That will be nice. i At this meeting the citizens’ com- mittee decided not to press the prom- ised charges against Lieutenant, Jef- fers, as for the time being they were content in blocking his promotion Just to show that there is no personal animosity against the iieutenant, the gommittee to retain the services of the ally consented to permit the police committee to retain tre services of the lieutenant, but with the understanding that he is to resign his place in tE> near future and go to the retired list. to make room .for a successor- to be chosen from somewhere in Connecii- cut, perhaps.. If all reports fromn thac inot public meeting in the Palmer of- i fice be true neither of the commit- “TFEELLKER ~ NEW BENG” | “FRUIT-A-TIVES” Brousht The Joy Cf , Health After Two Years’ Suffering — e | i ] - i MAD | ~ 858t. Rose St., Montreal. April 4th, | “Forover two years I was sick and miserable. I suffered from constant Headaghes, and had_Palpitation of the Heart 30 badly that I feared I would die. There seemed to be a lump in my. ‘stomach ‘acd the - Censtipation was dreadful. I suffered from. Pain in the | Back and Kidney Disease. . | _ Iwas treated by a physician for 2 year ‘ and a half and he did me no good at: all. I tried ““Fruit-a-tives ” as a last resort. After using three boxes, I was greatly improved and twelve boxes made me well. « Now I'can work all day and there are no Headaches, mo Palpitation, no Heart Trouble, no. Constipatiop, no - Pain or Kidney Trouble and / fze/ like. anew being—and it was “Fruit-a-tives that gave me back my health . Mapaux ARTHUR LAPLANTE. 50c. a'box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25, At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit- -tives Limited, Ogdensburg, New York. - .+ TRUCK TIRE SERVICE If you want the BEST in Truck Tires call 731 and delivery on Truck my 17 Fdbme the GOODS Tires is the QUICKEST the best, and my different types are most have to make ‘excuses on delivery, I deli ent are in favor of having any | XNew Londoner either captain or liew- tenant of the police force, and in order to wet a couple of officers from ths outside are ready to raise the salarics to be paid with money from the pock- ets of the people of New London. Hats off to the citizens' committee. They never could have been elected to the Places they assumed by the vote of tho people. that elected the.members of the police committee and. all other mem- bers of the court of common council, and in good faith. This self-consti- tuted citizens' committee has caused the resignation of Captain Haven, is forcing Lieutenant. Jeffers to resan. and are even now threatening to zet the scalps of other .mambers of the force. In fact it is. the play of the committee to comtrol the police de- partments. it has been suggested that the council fade away, and let this new committee charge of all city affairs. It might be well to save the mayor. as it is understood that he is in full ‘sympathy with the _citizens’ committee, as against some of his own appointees in the court of common council. However, the reformers are all gentlemen of the bighest type of citizenship and whatever they may do is for the best interest of the city, per- But every meraber of that com- haps. mittee cannot alide-with a safety down every cellar door. Suprose it does come to pass that Mr. Jackson is made captain of the - New London police force, will he mpaturally work under the direction of the police committer or the committee that secures the job for him Panama Cold Storage. Plant. In carrying out its plans to make the Canal Zone self-supporting as far as possible the commisgary division of the Panama Canal finds it neces- sary to have some larger buildings: one for an ice-manufacturing and cold-storage plant. A large ice and cold-storage plant in Cristobal, Canal Zone. just outside the city of Colon, of reinforced - concrete constructisem, three stories high, 330 by 105 feet, is pianned. On the first floor will be the ice factory to make 150 tons a day. the ice-cream plant-to make 500 gal- AUDITORIUM<=Vaudeville Mon., Tues. and Wed. Mat. 2.30. Even. 7 and 8.45 BILLY NEWKIRK and HOMER SISTERS SINGERS AND DANCERS CHRISTIE COMEDY FULL OF LAUGHS Montagu Love, June Elvidge, Arthur Ashley IN A FIVE-PART WILLIAM A. BRADY PICTURE THE GUARDIAN Matinee 15¢ Evening 15¢c and 20c Last Chance Today--Don’t Miss Seeing THE HONOR SYSTEM Three Performances—2 p. m., 6.30 and 8.30 FULLER and MEADE COMEDY SINGING and TALKING SPECIAL SCENERY CONCERT ORCHESTRA FRANK BENSON, Director making ice cream and stor- s for vegetables. fruits, milk, cheese, eggs and cured and pickled meats. On the third floor will be the sausage tory, chill roems for 500 beef carcases and coolers with a capacity for 6000 beef carcases and 1000 hogs. This big plant is to serve as a supply depot for the seventesn commissary stores throughout the Canal Zone. It is expected that the building will be completed within a vear at an estimated cost of $730.000. —Commerce Reports. z butter, We Use Other Words. r decreed tha -alled “Wirklicher that sounds it Bernstorff _has New The Kais Count von Eer Geheima 2 isn't a ma - to what been called in this country. York Herald. Your Part is Easy. begrudge the government i der the bulldos | emy the war taxes it is charging you. Remember, other ‘Americans are paying their share of their obliga- tion to the country with their lives. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Is Still Prudent. Of course, the German get so chesty over whipping a few second-hand Russian ships that it will g0 out and wiggle its fingers un- nothing fleet will not of the eagle Mountain of a Mole Hill. ! “rom the American point of view,! the political crisis in Great Britain is| an illustration of making a mountain | {of a mole hill and setting the moun- | tain m_one’s guns and the en- ville Courier-Journal. | i e Another Call for Iron Crosses. German soldiers in their desperation are again heroically assaulting fruit trees in the’ war zone which they find { remain at untenable—New York Telegraph. BREED) THEATRE TODAY AND TONIGHT Selig Presents the Popular Stage Star HELEN WARE IAND AN ALL STAR CAST IN “The Garden of Allah” /A GIGANTIC 'PRODUCTION IN TEN BIG ACTS Hearst-Pathe Weekly wing to the Length of This Pro- mme the First Evening Show il Start at 6:30 P. M. Wm. Coming Monday and Tuesday THE MANX-MAN By Hall Caine No Change. The . postage on drop letters will iwo cents, so the hero who trades at home will continue to get all his customary bills. —~ Kansas City Star. The Real Thing. The Postoffice Department wants a design for a new 1Z-cent stamp. How about a profile of the Jinx?—Boston Transcript. Lucky Aberration. “Russians Cut Their V Through KEITH VAUDEVILLE 4—SHOWS TODAY—4 AT 1.30, 3.15, 6 and 8 4 ENTERTAINERS The Harmony Fun Makers EARL & BARTLET “The Gabbers” MARTINI & MAXMILIAN “Magic That Isp't™ Margery Wilson In the Five Part Triangle Play “WILD SUMAC” A Tale of the Northwest Mounted Police A PRAIRIE HEIRESS Triagnle Komedy The Norwich Art Students’ Association PRESENTS 1AN HAY IN A NEW ILLUSTRATED WAR LECTURE CARRYINGC ON AT SLATER HALL SATURDAY, NOV. 24, AT 8 O'CLOCK TICKETS $1.00 ALL SEATS RESERVED Sale of Seats at Cranston’s, Saturday ov. at 8 a. m. PROCEEDS WILL GO TO WAR RE- LIEF. from recent performanc the Rus- sians for he time being lost their sense Gesman Lines.”—Headline. Judging of direction.—Memphis News. Announcing the Greatest Sacrifice Shoe Sale Ever Held In Norwich Brown “Calf HooH, ! - EVERY PAIR WARRANTED PERFECT IN EVERY RESPECT $7.09. Spanish or military heels. See Cur Window Display ‘Tammst $3.50 and $4.00 sn;ou; and "Cuban heels. Patent- Leather. 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