The evening world. Newspaper, November 17, 1915, Page 4

(a rn Re ae , Mot Mate in Theatre. error it wns stated yee- young woman bad deen @ emall room ip the Mokin- ‘Theatre carly Sunday morn- tng by three men. The aanoult did not ooour in the MoKinic Square Theat-o, ‘the Bronx, but in a amall room of the ‘MoMialey Square Carino, a dance ball Hun management of the casino. Corns, Good: Boy “Gets-It” New-Pian Corn Remedy That Never Fails. The Simple, Common NEW YORKS (Continued from First Page.) Porations the taxes they ahould pay and from other corporations taxes which they never have patd. Public utilities corporations and miscellaneous corporations cannot be |forced to pay thelr share of the |tax + under the exisiing laws. The only way to reach these corporations is to impose a@ tax on thelr gross in- come The Special Franchise Tax Law, Sense Way. which was fought by the corporations prota until they found they could not beat NR ead reign otal it and was then adapted by them to q £econds, withow fuse or trouble, salves that m: What's 6 tone “ the em their own purposes, must be amended. The Evening World has discovered the city bas presonied the public utili- tles corporations with $15,000,000 tn fourteen years by cempromiaes in epecial franchise taxes outside of court actions and will show up the system by which the public utility corporations of this city, after deriv- ing their living from the taxpayer, turn around and rob bim by deliber- ately dodging the payment of taxes. TAXATION FIGURES THAT STAG- GER AVERAGE TAXPAYER. It is known to very few persons in Now York that the value of real es- tate in this city asseased for taxation purposes in $8,220,601,014, ‘This includes $838,647,000 of property of public ser- vice corporations, and included in this latter item is $43,000,000, the as- 4. | sessed valuation of public service cor- poration property in the city streets on which special franchise taxes are be colv railroads, in all t $18,000,000, Real ate pays In taxes Nearly ten times as much ws the pub- He service corporations. There is much real property in this on will pay Only yor: city which returns more than 10 per cent. on the assessed valuation, and there is much more that pays less than 10 per cent. or pays nothing at all. For purposes of comparison we A will say that the £8,000,000,000 worth! HT of taxable realty in this city gives ita te owners @ gross return of 10 per cent. | ut posedly $800,000,000 a year. Out of this $800,000,000 they will pay thie year $176,000,000 in taxes. A almple | road over 21 per cent.—almost one-fourth gis of the income of New York real es- tate—is paid out for taxes, THE COMPARATIVE IMMUNITY | less OF THESE CORPORATIONS. trea taxation {# imposed upon them for | Poll the privilege of doing business in the | clus! greatest city in the world? Of tho gas and electric light com- the public 75,000,000 a year; 000,000 a year. The telephone and citizens of New York about $40,000,000 a year, These are the public utility corporations which can be checked up, but there remains another clnass— the steam railronds. There are no local figures available as to the amount corporations, telegraph companies receive from the | income of 6 wed tra ‘ation experts ii 1 freight h riking an ave) t the steam rativos ® each year exclusively, becau the advantages offered by Kk Clty, not less than $35,000,000. New York City pays each year To gas and electric sess $75,000,000 railway com- 94,000,000 total of ere is cl dollars of gross returns to public a8, pay in all taxes, ineluding the arithmetical calculation proves that farcical special franchise tax, only public 000,000 a wury. year Into the Real estate, with @ grosm income of than a billion dollars @ year, pays | $176,000,000 in taxes, or almost ten RUTLDINGS $220,964, So the net tax Now look at the public service cor- | #™es an much as the public utiiities| payment made to the city im 1914 by porations of the City of New York. Corporations, whose gross income i#| the Consolidated Gas Company was What proportion of the burden of @!most one-fourth that of real estate. lowing this line to its logioal con- fon we find that— | IF PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORA- | TIONS PAID IN TAXES THE PRO- panies the twelve most important are | PORTION OF GROSS INCOME PAID paid by the citizens of New York BY REAL ESTATE THEY WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE CITY NOT tributes to the street ratlways, In- | FAR FROM $61,000,000 A YEAR IN- cluding subway and L lines, $94,- | STEAD OF $18,000,000 A YEAR. Inasmuch as the proportion of gross team railways within the city, which ts the direct result of the advantage of having New York, is conjectural to @ con- siderable extent, look into the purely | public service corporations, riments dia wide divergence of New y corporations arising out of the Said owners realize in rentals sup-|fact that they are doing business in| Now York City. The public utilities including steam raii-| termingls in clean off. » Chicago fold in New| avt Me sian ML) suppoaed to be collected. can't hurt| Now prepare for an astounding Fant off— revelation. Tho real estate of the city “Getn Ie" in sold at all druggists, 260 a) will pay in taxes this year approxi- bottle, or wont direct by B. Lawrence & | mately $176,000,000. have their terminals in this And the public Id has globe. The Evening W: directly received by the steam rail- roads every year solely because they greatest industrial community on the The returns of the etrect railways, including subways and “L” lines and of the electric Light and gas com- panies are @ matter of record on file with the Public Service Commission. The returns of the telegraph oom-| | Panies @re based on computations! made from an official basis of com- parison which was established by the __ HE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1918. TAX PROBLEM :: collect whatever tax is iimpoxed on corporations as soon as it is due and Jet the dinsatisfled corporations fight about it afterward in the way of aeek- Ing to recover their money A case in point in this connection ts | £,000,000 people ahould not wens al SiCK FUND PROVIDED greater share of the burden of tama- BY EDISON COMPANY. tion? It Is said on behalf of the public] corporation J in Plam for name of Amma Steinhauer lives at address, The utilities corporations that if 1: were not for the street railways, the steam ne, and ra, that of the Consolidated Gas Com-| railways, the gas and electrlo com- 1 Be 4 anything of those pany, which fought The Evening | panies, there would be no Néw York.| Six thousand employees of the New World from trenches, ambush, fortifi-|On the other hand, if all the people| York Madison Company and its allled concerns will profit by ite sick beneft fund and services annulty—the latter amounting to long service pension pro- vision—eanounced by the company yes- ‘tinder the pension proviston am om- lovee who is fi old or over and | cations and Jaw offices for many long months before this paper, with the ald of the Legisiature and the courta, forced the reduction in the price of was to $0 cents. In its report of business of the year 1914, on file with the Pubite Ser- vice Commission, the Consolidated Gas Company admits that it received | In grose earnings $14,185, patd only $609,184.90 In all | this stm $160,000 was for State taxes and $80,364.04 for Federal income taxes. All the Consolidated Gas paid the elty in 1914 In taxes out of more than $14,000,000 gress recéipta was $284,820, and of this amount paid the city for taxes it coMected FROM THE crty FOR ULIGHTING THE STREETS AND MUNICIPAL were to move out of New York the public utility corporations would be about as profitable as an Ince oream parlor at the North Pole. New York has been very kind to the publie utilities corporations. It has permitted them to wreck theniselv through stock market manipulation it has allowed them to dodge thelr | wa share of taxation and has supinely | (rsa in abe submitted to legislation, passed In) average, wasee Albany, which had for ite sole pur-|¥ears of service. poss the reduction of taxes on cor- porations engaged in public service and the increase of taz*s on real estate within the elt Mrs, EB. Conmy of No. 1 Street, Brooklyn, $164,866, or a little in excesw of 0.1 per cent. of the gros receipts. Th itement shows that the Con- |i oll Gas Company owes the city $1,745,070 in unpald epecial franchise taxes, $968,001 in taxés on mains, pipes and connections, $6,547 in unpaid taxes on real estate and $452,727 for personal taxes. The special frunchiee tax imposed by the city in 1914 on Consolidated Gas was $341,650.40. The company refused to may the amount and placidly allowed the city to add ft to the other unpaid special franchise taxes stretching back into bygone years, THE CONSOLIDATED GAS COM- PANY OWES THE CITY FOR UN- PAID TAXES, MOSTLY FRANCHISE TAX, $3,174,246, ‘The Evening World does not advo- cate that public utilities corporations be asked to contribute 25 per cent. of thelr gross earnings to the city treas- ury i the shape of taxes. But real estate staggers along under alnrost as OPPENHEIM, GLLUINS & € 34th Street —New.,York Will Close Out Thursday 275 Women’s Trimmed Hats From the Regular Stock Women’s Street and Dress Hats of Velvet, Gold and Silver Lace, also White Hats, Trimmings of Fur, Flowers and Ostrich. Formerly Sold at 12.50 15.00 and 18.00 World to explain that no one of the ame of Anne Stetwheuer in a letter written by who een suicide at it made clear that no one in her who iy Western Unton—that one-seventh of |/heavy a burden. And {s there any the telegraph business of the country | reason why public utilities companisa is done in this city. The telephone! which earn enormous inoomen be- receipts are matters of record brought| cause they are located in a city of out while The Evening World was : fighting for a 6-cent toll rate through- jout the greater city. It is found that the street railways |systems are assessed for taxation | purposes on ® valuation of $289,907,+ 979, and that their gross returns from fares, freight, rent, sale of power and other sources is, according to the |latest figures available, $94,000,000 a! year. The gross return of the street railways amounts to about 331-38 per cent, of the assessed valuation of their Property in the City of New York, while it is stretching posalbilities | when {t 1s assumed that the gross re- jturn on real estate amounts to 10 per cent, The property of the gas and electrie | companies is assessed for $240,480,567, and their gross receipts are $75,000,000 a year. Their gross income is almost | 831-8 per cent, of the asseased value » You men who have been paying $1.00-a facaee teed ata; | garment for ordinary ‘underwear, why not get a lasiee UAYE Droste tn he nlie ones complete Hanes Union Suit for the same price. Look what you get for vod for taxation Durpoaes at a your money in Hanes Union Suits, . gross receipts are $40,000,000 payeg _ Avsnng, elastic collarette that will keep your neck warm and won't flare close to 831-8 per cent. of the as- out. Specially knitted cuffs that hug the wrists and will not rip. Form- fitting anklets that keep the wind out and your legs warm. B. Altman & Cn. FIFTH AVENUE-MADISON AVENUE Thirty-fourth Street NBW YORK Thirty-fifth Street , FURS AND FUR GARMENTS An Assortment of Fur Garments, Muffs & Neckpieces hh . of the most exclusive and rarest of Furs is displayed, in addition to the more moderately priced Models. ts >) | Also an extensive collection of Natural Silver and Natural Blue Fox Sets, ready for _ immediate wear; as well as choice Skins for individual selection. w sessed valuation of their property. On a valuation of $655,292,060 the ELASTIC ANIT UNDERWEAR » Has Unbreakable Seams 4 telephone corporations will pay in taxes this year close to $14,000,000. IF THEY PAID TAXES IN PRO- PORTION TO THE SHARE BORNE | ‘You can ‘get your moneBack or anew Hanes Union Suit or garment free of charge if any seam breaks or Wie other underwear carries such a guarantee ? t es ep one suit, men. Your money does double work when you buy Hanes, so buy two or three suits you're about it. See the dealers’ names below. BY REAL ESfATE, THEY WOULD P. H. HANES KNITTING CO., Winston-Salem, N. C. } CONTRIBUTE TO THE CITY IMPORTANT TREASURY NoT FAR FROM $4,-| An important Sale of Fox Furs for to-morrow (Thursday) will afford exceptional values: 000,000. | Aa for the Special Franchise Tax Law it need only be said that the tax | does not impose on the public service companies an adequate proportion of | thelr share of taxation and the pub- He service corporati have man- aged to evade about ber cent. of | that inadequate tax levy. If the pub- | He service corporations don't Nke the | TAX ASHeSHMONt they refuse to pav It, | the city goes to law and the matter MUFFS $55.00 55.00 SCARFS . $55.00 Rose Colored Fox ‘ 55.00 White Fox . . . MUFFS SOARFS $45.00 $45.00 45.00 35.00 Slate Colored Fox F Blue Colored Fox ( ALSO A NUMBER OF MEN’S OVERCOATS OF BROADCLOTH o (lined with Natural Muskrat) This advertisement may not appear again, so cut winds up in a compromise, The way out the names of these Hanes dealers right now. LES) Sees LA Oe The Rene in Oxford or black, with collars of Beaver, Hudson Seal, or Persian Lamb, World will show by Sllustrations, is to GuAND conti CLOTHIERS | = ba PLT iol ice at the special price of $58.00 i BLUNIENFELD'S DEPT. STORE ses1.28 sean, P: NUNZIATO 11 Neeipeery ee ees R. M. KOLISCH ta thine GA ped pital 520 Second Ave JOSEPH J. KLEIN ats 165 Orchard St. AM GREENEEIR & sons "aise TEMERTER ance, ; A Distinctive American Novelty The First Showing | MORMIS FELDMAN Sma MMADELBACH "tae Spa At Actual in Evening Hosiery of Evening Boots of Satin “" « ‘THE LEWIS CO.—LOUIS ISAACS THOS. COURTNEY & SON JACK GOLDBERG H. SILVERMAN A. &M. GOODMAN L. KASSNER HENRY BERKSON JOSEPH SHAPIRO JOSEPH KARALIER ISAAC MARKS LOUIS SILVERMAN een” MAUENTHAL'S DEPT, STORE Yt Bross sie Meaty $ 95 ‘ S. ROSENFELD shite aici «OT as wissteey, aeetrs PLUSH COA’ Other novelty designs, as well as hosiery in In every detail, they may be accounted the J, KOLLISCH & SON 731 Grand 8. JULIUS SENDENOFF peeing hey Dont. Sieve Sir eae plain colors, present every facility for selection. Boot of distinction. Hosiery to match. pga ded 235 Piret Ave. DAVID WEINER Red Fox Sets, 18.50 M. J. DAVIDSON 28th Ave, S» GOLDSTOFF aden 45.00 JACOB HARRISON ) Second ave, Ps Je HARTNETT Real Kitt 3 me pre ' : Losiose DEPT, STORE main Som mas a Women’s and Misses’ Smart Winter Hats CTOR y Cor a7 & Lenox Ave ROBT, C, TOMPKINS ve TEVY 207 It Ave, 146 Richmond Ave,, Port Richmond . MAGLIETTA BROS. MRS. I, LIPSITZ ‘7 mr Sale to-morrow in the Millinery Department on the First F . HELLENIC TAILORING Co, ‘dees Greaeaeee “as will be placed on Special le oor, CAERRAMAN & Borsa ita way SUTSCHER’S DEPT, stone 1 sonte® a ced TRIMMED HATS in a diversity of attractive styles, in Velvet, MalineorJet, . . at $9.50 aL ae ay tek ere ae UNTRIMMED HATS of Silk Beaver or Velvet =» + + + et es wt $2,758 | ” seal a Dare eae = 7 See ieee _ eee eis eas) | S. SPIEGEL & SON SUGARMAN DEP1. STORE ih ave., soth & Stat Ste 1410 34 Ave. 310 Spring St. 85 Desbrosses St 2896 6th Ave 103 Pleat Ave, 200 Madison St. 45 Greenwich St. ATIS First Ave. 45 Lenox Ave. S. BLOCK H. FELIX H, SETOMER A. M. ELKUS S. FRIESTEIN JULIUS MORRIS EST. R. SHARPE FAIR D. G, HOUSE—M, GINSBERG, PROP. S. J. SCHREIBER 130 Central A\ rookly a iktyn, Bay Ktidge) 168 Norman Ave., Brooklyn 73 Meore Bt, Brooklyn ‘M47 Grand St, Brooklyn (653-5 Fulton 8t., Brooktyn 673 Third Ave., Brooklyn 467 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn 128 Sth Ave., lireoklyn Ey Gu 759 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn Nearseal Coats Hudson Seal Coats Manufacturer’s Prices pectals Thurs., Fri. & Sat. ARANTPED AS REIRESENTED 32.50 45.00 85.00 Releeted Sictns, Pinest Skins, is being introduced, gorgeously sequined in a variety of iridescent hues. In the elaborate design the high boot effect is attained, the sequins blending with the silken shade of the hose, and harmonizing with richly scintilant evening gowns, or a jeweled corsage. will interest those who contemplate the selecs tion of an “a la mode” style. These Boots, which will be made to order in any of the fash- ionable evening shades, are unusually grace- ful in contour, are ten inches in height, and the effect of slimmess is perfectly achieved.