The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1915, Page 4

Ads Landquist, thirty, wife of the Janitor of the where she died without being able to h! a gh om y Nt IAI IS EVENING WORLD'S PLAN FOR CITY'S TAX ELE hay Millions Overdue Frorh B. R. T., Brooklyn Union | pat Gas Company and New York Central, as Well) as‘on Millionaires’ Personal Property Assess-| ments—Collection Would Make It Unneces- sary to Impose Income, Habitation and Occy- pation Taxes, as Now Proposed. Im the Gnancial difipaities which confront the City Administration The Evening World suggests a simple remedy, Instead of levying a muticipal direct tax om the public, collect the | has wapald franchise taxes from large corporations, ’ Instead of a tax om uncarned increment, make the B. RB. T. pay up the tases due on Its franchise. Instead of » habitation tax, make the Brooklys Union Gas Company pay what fe charged against it on the tax hooks, Instead of an occupation tax, make the New York Central pay taxes for tts valuable franchise in Fourth Avenue. Inetead of burdening New Yorkers with the extra direct State tax that will pe . ce year from Albany, collect the millions due ep per- vena) property tax-dedging millionaires, enormoys expenses of city If the elty gathered in what is long past due, the treasury would be When there are maiilions of (axe. an | STO The amount of uncollected franchise. taxes is $11,000,000. The amount of unpaid taxes on personal prop- erty te $48,000, nounced uncollectible. , of which $43,000,000 is pro- The totel amount of uncollected taxes of all kinds reportedin the Comptrojler’s books is $93,000,000. A large part of this enormous, #um has been absorbed by including fo annual budgets a percentage for unpaid, taxes, which ts equivalent to writing off the sum fixed. @_UP TROUBLE FOR THER FUTURE. Under @ acheme for issuing bonds to carry on indefinitely uncollected taxes, ers pend DR BULLS CousghSyrup UP MEASLES WHOOPING COUGH My “Ball” Durham is Always / *- “Good Form” ~ the city has sold from time to time ‘ nobody is worrying about it now. ‘The uncollected taxes that bave neither been written off by provision im annual budgets, nor funded into corporate stock, amounted to $31,000,- 000 om Jan. 1 last. The city spent thie money before it was collected. Tem- fevenue bonds carrying 4% \ « Vv) r leg > - each year, to yield between $7,000,000 and $4,000,000. ‘The actual collections have been little more than one-hait that sum. As the city grows larger and the use of ite streete by public wervice corporations becomes more valuable, the franchise taxes instead of growing larger become emalier and emalior. Franchise taxes as assessed tn 1910 would have yielded $8,349,000 if all cole lected. What the city got was $4,838, 000. Franchise taxes levied in 1914 were $7,248,000, but the amount actually Collected was only $3,893,000, AA oy dutesiatl didlos of Aimerican society the handmade ‘ tt of ' tery bf “ettes, to suit eS | ‘B . i ee oe. Dahan s you.as a smoker of GENUINE luxury. It is experience, to * your own taste, with : i ized as th "etylish, correct, and ‘roll your own” ciga- LL DURHAM SMOKING TOBACCO of Tax Commissioners, #ho the amounts, The total Faluation of $43,000, vatua' } The Brooklyn Rapi Com- pany Be 19185 King assessed on ite fran- chise aan v de Co oy p is Abii The ity with f° a Priced lawyers experts to enoees serene on oy of revious years city ore . oe Pee of makiag ® com- ‘omine Ww: The brobkiyn Union fe fightin taxes, and dleputing ite taxes most valuable rights that New York over namely Fourth Avenue, giving direct entrance to the heart of the city, a privilege for which the Pennsylvania company spent many millions to dig tunnels. The Mayor and his Cabinet are dis- I rect taxes upon people of collected from millionaires and corpor- ations, ‘Tho assessment of personal property for tax purposes has been eut down one-half in ten years, althoug® wealth in New York City bas increased vastly in that time. The principal taxing officials of the ofty are not in favor of sonal taxes “ if, been oe Out of on satate onl pent taxes last year, real $188,000, Was called upon to pay 000 and sonal property was y 000, Mayor Mitchel to-day put directly up to the State the responsibility for the fact that New York City may have to resort to extraordinary and property tax levies. i we have to resort to taxes be Mayor, “the sok Hi gren ha a be State is forcing this condition o: . York City itself ‘The State of New New York City to based oy hay 1 Mi sears of running the Btate government. “New York City would get along splendidly if It were not compelled to pay the direct State tax. Even our permanent improvements would not embarrass ua to the extent of golag outside the usual channels of revenue. However, skeptics might point to lant r and say that the city did not Kave to pay @ direct tax 000 of ut vide" ‘ the tiaterest on wo Euro) renewal loan, and §3,- 700,000 for snow removal. «We are suf- from the accumulated burdens in the City Hall that others of his adminis- H! PAIN, PAI RUB RHEUMATIC, ACHING JOINTS Rub pain right out with smell trial ttle of old “St. Jacob’s Oil.” tA = $1000 000 FROM BRT VALUATION Corporation Counsel Polk Asks Mayor to Make Strong Protest at Once. CITY LOSES A MILLION. Governor Plans to Throw Out of Office Present Members “of State Board. ———ammaa Following The Bvening World's ex- Posure of the great decrease in fran- chise tax assessments in New York City, Corporation Counsel Polk to- day made sharp attack on the State Board of Tax Commissioners for cut- ting down the valuation of B. R, T. franchises by $13,000,000 for y914 and $8,000,000 more for 1915. He wrote to Mayor Mitchel recommending vigor- ous protest on the part of city author- ities, The B. R. T. was assessed $47,000,000 on its franchises for 1918 and paid its taxes without protest. But in 1914, the State Board cut down the assess- ber-| ment to $34,000,000, Referring to this fact the Corporation Counsel said: “I communicated with the State Board on April 4, 1914, requesting to be advised why these large reductions had been made, I was advised that the reductions were due in part to a decision of the Court of Appeals which held that paving between the tracks could not be included in the special. franchise assesaments as property of the company. “The. Law Department of the city | fF had the same question before the Court of Appeals in litigation of the Metropolitan Street Railway Com- pany. Without waiting for a decision in this case the State Board volun- tartly eliminated the cost of paving from special franchise assessments for 1914, ‘Court of Appeals affirmed that the cost of pavement must be included tm the value of the property. “I wrote the State Tax Board on No, 20 last, calling their attention to the recent decision. In spite of this letter, and in spite of the fact that a conference was held in Albany in the latter part of December, between feprésentatives of the State Board, the Attorney General and this office, at which the State was ad- vised by the Attorney General that they should obey the last decision of the Court, the.State Board has not included the cost of paving in the 1915 assessments. AS @ result of the State Board's failure to comply with the court's rulings and the Attorney General's ‘advice, the city is now confronted with @ total decrease of $16,000,000 in franchise tax assessments on the B. R. T. alone. Similar reductions have been made by the State Board for other public service corporations, so that the as- gessed Valuations as handed down for 1915 show net decrease of $24,000,000 from last year and $58,800,000 from 1913, This means a loss in actual taxes of approximately $1,000,000. Gov. Whitman has decreed that the ‘old State Board of Tax Commission- ers must be thrown out and the ministration bill for complete anization of the State Tax Depart- ment is now before the Legislature. @ present board consists of Thomas F. Byrnes of Brooklyn; W. H. Sullj- van of Norwich, Joseph 8. Schwab of . | New York. i vials i i & g fet j —— Ha Races Postpe ‘The races scheduled for Havana to- day are postponed until next ‘Thursday on account of rain. STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. Ii@ddition to making food more appetizing adds wholesome nourishment ' In November last the | 2. Sao Paulo Only 100 Feet From Big Vessel Which Cuts Across Her Bow. pt. Dell Amigo of the Licyd- Brasiliiero steamship Sao Paulo, Which docked to-day from South American ports, brought in twenty- ing her way in the fog and driv- ing rain about twenty ; Ambrose Channel bow of the Sao Paulo, scarcely 106 feet distant. Capt. Amigo believes it Was @ warship. He eaid she looked like both @ liner and a nfan-of-war, ARMY OF WOMEN VOTERS REGISTER IN CHICAGO Party Workers Expect 60,000 to Enroll by To-Night and Lead Men by 10,000, CHICAGO, Fed. 2.—A total regis- tration of 110,000—60,000 women and 60,000 men—was expected to-day by election officials as a result of the keen interest taken in the coming Mayoralty campaign. Hight thousand persons: were employed recording the names voters who falled properly to register last fall. The incipal efforts to-day were we toward getting ir, City Treas- urer, City Clerk, Municipal Court Judges and Aldermen—in the mary election on Feb. 2% Thei 653,265 red — BETTY’S BETTING. (From the Boston Transcript.) Alice—So you bet $5 with Tom that Harvard would win the football match id $6 with that Yale would it Be! lidn’t. I:won the $5 from Tom, and of course Jack wasa’t mean enough to let me pay the $6 I lost to him. pri- | One Man Killed and Many Others Have Narrow Escapes From Falling Coal. | LONDON, Feb, 2—Earth shocks occurred last night in a number of ff districts in, Yorkshire. One miner Wa killed and ahd many had nar-) row escapes owing to the shaking’ down of coal in the pits. In some cases the pits were fendered un- workable by the fall of coal. ———— Schooner tm Distress Near Barnegat. | A four-masted schooner was re- ported to-day to be in distress about four miles off Mantoloking Lif pure's food medicine! 50 years in use, Ps No alcohol or injurious drugs. O man is ever so hard to suit as when he is about to adapt himself to long trousers the first time. for When to make the change from knickerbockers is not on the calendar, anyway. Age has something to do with it, and size has some- thing to do with ‘it, and dis- position has something to do with it, and the remarks of your pals have a great deal to do with it—and we don’t mind saying that we hope a call at Best & Co. will have something to do with it, too. Fifth Avenue, West Side, Corner af 85th Street 1417-1423 THIRD AVEHUE NEAR 60" STREET $ i fj Fi ii § i 5 £8 fri ‘l <b " : ‘ 3 ai iH FA Fl or NY =~ 9 aS x os Note t' Unes of entirecarset, 1 meee tess mode; perfect physical support. ton Ht, Brooklyn, fer 20 following the printing of advertisement,