The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1917, Page 16

" THE EVENING WORLD, | AMAL EATATE FOR SALE MEAL ROTATE FOR GALE | LL) TH FOR GALE ws br aM a page “ HIiCHMOND (Slaten leland)y RICHMOND (Staten letend) Wahdons (Matar leerd) 4 7 SVU HHT NNN aps renvnevenin i ® svi TTS War Time Real Estate (To Close Estate of Late Chas. E. Wood) Stupendous Offer 200 New York City Lots $100 Each $1 First Payment $1 Per Week These beautiful lots, within 5c fare, on Staten Island, are ready for cultivation-—an ideal spot for this Summer's garden, where enough potatoes may be grown to pay a large part of the cost of the lot. Possession given on first payment. In order to hasten the settlement of Chas. E. Wood's estate and give city dwellers a chance to lessen the cost of living, we are offering 200 lots at less than '% their regular price—but it is necessary to act immediately. These lots are high, dry and in a most attractive section of the Borough of Richmond and have or are to have the following improvements, without cost to purchaser —graded and macadamized streets, cement sidewalks, shade trees. These improvements alone cost us a substantial portion of the price we ask for the lots. Location—Richmond Turnpike and Willow Brook Road. Take Staten Island Municipal Ferry at the Battery. Go ashore from upper deck and take Silver Lake trolley to our property office at Jewett Avenue and Richmond Turnpike, Act at once! This ad. may not appear again. Come to-day, to-morrow or Sunday Phone, write or call for free Tickets Wm. E. Harmon & Co., Inc. (Formerly Wood, Harmon & Co.) Telephone: Barclay 6500 261 Broadway, New York ONAN Nu ET Uy } HUES AANA a MMM . « « « The little old lady was sitting ona bench in the sun . . . Beside her was a mall black satchel and a bundle done up in a piece of checked muslin. She sat very still but seemed, at the same time, to be strangely alert . . . “Sending the old lady away” I asked the super- | intendent (of the London camp for Belgian refugees). | ve me replied, “she Ay going away. She has | 464-466 Fulton ‘St. Brooklyn pea lp Bog ~ Aon vy tel a HERE IS REAL, OnLiberal Credit Flesh-and-Blood Drama S UNDER THE TITLE 15 - The Most Tragic Men's and Young Men's 2 and 3 a button Sack Suits in every new Incident | Saw i in the War.” model; made of serges, cassimeres and mixtures, Every Suit is built by a most reputable manufacturer CO Boys’ Suits Fancy mixtures and cassi- Told by Famous War Correspondents l Arthur Ruhl ara William G. Shepherd Herbert Bayard Swope On Any Purchase Up to $10 We Offer Special Terms of $1 DOWN & $1 A WEEK | ANSWERS QUERY NO. 9, restate The Evening World's argu- chise tax payments on its west side | chance of the city securing increased facts. The | Central in the Borough of Manhattan |by the Supreme Court up to and in- |{t 19 not good argument to assume | house owners. I am sure that the ween te - ne ee tts A COCALO LLL LILLIE I LLL ED TL, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, BY RIVERSIDE DEAL — Increased Revenue Sure Come, and People Can't Protest of Sp o cial Franchise ¢°) 5 Ma , : makes a refund only in t Taxes Makes No Dif an order by the court, Inde Instantly! Few drops stop corn-sorenese above, $858,583.55, to show ¢ ference only to point to the figure mentioned = city hae in fact collected taxes de Tr fhe PAiton of the Kventng World | epi Tho ninth question in the Evening. # World's nerios about the Went Side improvement was as follows: “What reason haa the city to ex- Pect increased tax revenues in the future from the New York Central West Bide Une, as claimed by Comptroller Prendergast, under the | proposed Improvement contract, | th when anecial franchise tax asseus- Eps ments on these same tracks have been contested by the company an- nually for ten veara im the courte | and are still unsettled?” | In answering this question, let me ment as given in the article accom-)| panying the question. First, the rail- Toad has contested its special fran-| line in every year since 1906, except! in 1914. Second, a tax paid under! protest is assumed not to be a pay-!| ment at all. Third, “therefore, the! revenue under the new plan when it has been unable to collect the smaller | revenue under the present condi-| tions is subject to considerable doubt.” The essential part of this argument is that @ tax paid under protest is not @ payment at all, Let us look at the ceived in ep the west side line of th: the sum of $858,583.55 since the year 1900. This su:: is a net figure, after having deducted cancellations ordered cluding 1905 and discounts which the law prescribes for early payment. It would appear to me that this sum is @ very substantial collection and that that it is not in fact the collection of a tax. THE TAX RIGHTS OF CORPORA- TIONS, It may be said that @ certain pro- portion of the money received by the city for the 1906 and subsequent spe- cial franchise taxes may be ordered returned to the railroad in just the same way that the city is obligated to return overpayments or erroneous payments in real estate taxes paid by writer in The Evening World would not argue that the city has not col- lected real estate taxes simply be- cause certain parts of individual payments have been refunded in ac- cordance with the law. Now let me state what I deem to be a truth underlying all muntetpa! taxation, The city collects and keeps all taxes which are just and equitable and levied tn accordance with law. In other words, the city collects the taxes which the law says it !s entitled to. A protest by the New York Cen- tral or by any other corporation or by any indiviual is of absolutely no avail unless the complaint proves to be right. “he law puts upon the State Tax Commission the power to value spe- cial franchises for purposes of taxa- tion, and this valuation 1s the basis for figuring the taxes which the city has the right to collect, At the same time, the law gives the taxpayer, whether he be an Individual or a cor- poration, certain rights protecting him against unjust taxation, One of these rights is the right to ask the Supreme Court in what ts known as a —————————— Every Expectant Mother. can now enjoy the comfort and style of Lane Bryant Maternity Apparel made possible by onening of oar | |) the inexpensive department, up, Suits 5.00up d Underwear Be sure to ask for ¢ “Lower Store’ 3 Went Sth Ate! | FOR GALE. FOR SALE. ual DIAMONDS ON CREDIT FASY TERMS—ALL GOODS GUARANTEED, American Watch & Diamond Co. @ MAIDEN LANE, Phove Cort, 6807, Agent cals, DIAMONDS® EDI ci ta Look for These Wartime Masterpieces pa |< The Sunday World Magazine NEXT SUNDAY ey N. B.—Your Newsdealer’s World's Are Always Sold Out fi Early; and, Furthermore, the Edition Is Limited, DIAMONDS i) WATCHES SEND FOR 800K OF GEMS 92599 $1 Weekly OPEN Daly $ 50° NA HT $100°2 42.Weekly? TILL PM. FIDENTIAL WAY "ASTLE SON \ EDIT. ry $ DIAMONDS? CREDIT) ~~ WEST VALE 35 ROYA eed, BASLEST TERMS, & WATCH G ohn 243." Agent cal _ PATENTS, are Eleanor Franklin Egan | fae ee Lats OR i E BO aeDitMOND NGM, $1Weeks| ighlands, Seabright, Long Brancky jury Park aud al) Jersey Seuside tow Porte, Boule lonve W. BOER By Sitv By Ay KEANSBURG, NJ, BY; 282 4b rT ub 6.30 P.M. Bete, & Suns, er Hi Asp HELP WANTED—MALE. ; PHOTO ENGKAV ES for all brepobes; alee eommercial arti, 1218 Oiliaeae Bidg,, Chere \Q the tasen baad pon the eanive and unfair (0 CITY GETS AND HOLDS MONEY TILL COURTS OECIDE Evening W Canes ever come to trial the court may : very well decide that the New York tenius in Cincinnati who discovered 1917, —————$——$ mf onl ihe ralitond’s property & ime y_sleven| much Inoregeed hy ti nin pumed ae t Tee a ‘ olal franchiae tm The city will in ne all special franc Therefor port lagal activities on the tha ratirond not enter , | mae one way oF the other, 0 ne eee #1 TORT T an Never Let Corns Ache Twice then corns and calluses shrivel, loosen te complaints by the railroad. and lift:out with fingers—No pain! t ma at the city will newer r in any of the money the railroad has paid. If there The world owen thanks to the|plying freesone or afterwards, doesn't even irritate the skin or { For a few cents one can now 6 tid of every hard corn, soft corn, oF corn between the as well of at any drug store for) vaintul calluses on bottom of 4st. cents. You simply apply @ few) Feveryone who tries freesone frops of this freezone upon @ ten-lan enthusiast because It Jer, aching corn or a hardened cal-[ doesn't hurt or pain one particle. us. Instantly the soreness disappears Tell your druggist you want « ind shortly you will find the corn or} small bottle of genuine freesene, vallus so loose and shriveled that you] Bach bottle is packed in a litte round > ift it off with the fingers. Not a bit] wood case. Don't accept anything Mf pain or soreness is felt when ap- | else.—Advt. pecial franchise the weat e, the new ether drug. « equitably of the magic fluid company cial franchise aa la AGL! e Store Opens 9A. M. Closes 6 P. M. Daily. Private Subway Entrance—Hoyt St, | In Spite of the 50 Per Cent. Shortage of Wool, Here Are 200 Men’s New Spring Suits at $15.75 That By Rights Should Sell for $18.00 to $22.50 HECKING back over several years, we do not think that we have had, within that time, such good newly-bought Suits to sell at so low a price. We know the maker well—and his work. Plenty of his Suits are in our stock at $20 to $22.50. These equal them—in cloth, in style, in careful making. But the secre-— of course there is one—is that there are but from one to ten Suits of a pattern; the maker's short ends of material, in a word, Twenty-eight stunning patterns—-Flannel Effects, Cassimeres, Homespuns, Worsteds, light and dark; plain and fancy. _200 Suits, all told; and all regular sizes, as well as some stout and long, in the lot. Of course, though, there are not all sizes in every pattern. ; We expect men to grasp the importance of this offering without much argument. If they really do, there should be mighty quick buying of this splendid lot of Suits. Becond floor, Men's Shop, Hay: Street, Continuing the Sale of Women’s $7.50 to $15 Sample Hats WEW YORK ‘PARIS. They Are Among the Most Beautiful Hats Made in America “RAWAK” and “EARL” Hats need no introduction to women of fashs fon. We are offering over 1,200 of the original model creations for Spring and Summer. Both Paris copies and originations. They are just from the handsome Manhattan show-rooms of these famous makers. In Almost Every Case the Hats Are One of a Kind—Offering Approximately 1,200 Distinct Styles It would be impossible to list each of the varieties. Suffice to say there are hundreds of Hats, each for every social and utility occasion of the day or evening. They embrace Hats of Leghorn Milan Hemp Organdie Real Hair Visca Chiifon Real Milan Rough Braids Velvet Taffeta Satin Lisere Lace and Straw Panama Hair Lace and Silk They comprise thé smartest of the season in novelty ornaments; aigrettes, flowers, pins, feathers, ribbons, etc. Mexsanine floor, Wast Building,