The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1919, Page 10

ASSESSOR ADROMT THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1919. must pay assesaments for local im-| work against the interests of tax- provements charged to it ap | Payers. ts The city will have never tantial sums in the city pears as an objector,” said Mr.) WHEN ORMOND WASN'T SATIS- at do ne gh iol No one ev the FIED WITH CONDITIONS, high . it : ineen of oh t. the official report of 1916, Known their holdin are t | ae j Ther " wousat ew York Cit Administrative | inlesw through the of my Ms for 1M4 to 196," on page these assessment experts and “ ondith constitute cellent hi find that Commissioner Or- giostantial fer Spates U a place for the 1 of gu used the following langua Recorus show that at one time the ‘ the present Administration City of Minneapolia had $179,440.60 in Ion t iccess in the fice in January, 1914 there ity treasury belonging to owners who 1 ’ t many defects in the thods had overpaid, and in the City of Ch art ¢ 6 and by ite beliet| nistering the work of the cago the Comptroller's books for the that the present Adminis is un- He then cites five. such des yeara 1889, 1890 and 1891 show that > - q to fathom this camouflage by a ‘ phd lk Ormond failed the overassessments amounted to . ~ r A 4 Ra.| Proper analysis, the present Board of /to state that he was a member of 91 959,320.82 $1,396,733.30 and $1,496, Tax Clerk Who Quit Job Re-| Kistacors has found another way. In|the preceding Tonrd of Assessors Sli020.82 | $e iaa0) thd Toe 4 ; Which to deceive property owners and, from 1910 to 1914, which made no at+ aye the actual sums paid back by the veals Another Way of the city. Specifically, 1 is done in this|tempt to cure of even criticize these Sf" the actual sume pall Naew fy te manner |defects. Defect No. 1 saya: ‘The the ental aaneaninent proceeds Deceiving People ction 51 of the Oharter alnotice given to property owners in ‘one and It d h awarda|fespect of proposed assessments and mages caused t hange of |of fling claims for damages on ac- of streets, Whe the city}count of change of grade was in- velation TmINg | sees ft to change tt ablished | adequate, both as regards contents . ng, sewers and sid¢ grade of a street, an owner suffering |and time allowed.’ [ee ereaing, Perty wa the pela mage thereby is entitled to receive! “On page 197, eecond paragraph, we, Walks and hing Sos to. pay an aws 4 In the cam ot Improved | read bree price for the home, only to find | property the measure of damage is the| © bee ASL el Sd at @ seco! a | cost of making the building Monterm | the 1 out ge banks Agi i on Pn «| to the newly established grade. Thero|tionment to notify property owners | Mesament is lett Meas oh | are certain restrictions and conditions| by mail of pending assensments, ‘Tho POrhaps, & sudalinial Carlene ly | that must be observed in making the|cost of this notification is included | Cause of an error © ngin ) award and one of them is that the! in the cost of the work and assessed | t¢ Board of Assessors tion to Mayor Hy’ building must have been built prior to| against the benefited property 1t' A QUESTION FOR THE BOARD— printed last Sa in this paper | the filing of the grade. has been found that this method is | “YES OR NO.” ubject of assessments for im-| “If @ man Is entitied to damages—|!much more convenient for property| , st tWo reasons that nts ada the questionable prac. |tather. if the board thinks he ts—itlowners, Inasmuch as the old prac-| “There are just two reasone (het n . makes an award, and that amount is|tice of merely inserting advertine. | MAY be assigned for the insti ‘assessment lawyers added to the cost of the work. When|menta in the corporation newspapers | SUCH @ drastic change with its adverse ber, the city, altnougl sit other owners examine the list and see /and the City Record was not a euc- | tffect upon the taxpayer. Hither the = *|to whom awards were made, they|ceseful. means of reaching every | framers had in mind that the Borough know whether that owner is entitled | owner involved.’ tah hha Bh sige gab ARO 2 bt to such an d, and in many cases unduly de the board has profited by the infor- ses where there has been a deficiency, an owner is even worse off. A man buying a home sees all the street jmprovements made, suc In the ¢ Brnest Spitzer, the tax clerk who made startling + the tax system within the office Board of Assessors after he t his resignation after twenty service in that ‘office, in an to-@ay with The Evening We porter supplements the mado in his caustic letter years ‘miasion was obtained from rd of Estimate and Appor- W ng improvements to be condition of the stre “The Board of Estimate did appro- | ayed; or the . | matic iven it by an adjoining | Priate an initial $1,000 for this pure | ininrovement Fund, that advances the ick Wa to nae po. the Board of Assessors had \. : 4 owner and has rescinded award | P ; § had money nec as 40 ired y r 1 rescinded an award | Pron: soo notices printed for ench money y. was impaired made for reason. an assessment on of the five boroughs and special win ‘op a Cough “Why the present board should} estimate 8 necessary. In awards in what would appear |2oW enveloper furnished. Although tig fret instance it would appear surreptitious manner, by de. [NOt far reaching enouRh, still this 1%.6!uy to tie Borough Presidents ¢0 “hie home-made errm dom the 2 Casing the RE RETR dB Saeed Malice tingt 81. co RNa hed deny or affirm that gondition, and in owners affected at least that on that, due to lack of ac publicity, they received from the torneya who make a specialty ¢ making stand that it d, is hard to under: | This practice is deceptive, in not appear in the certifi 1 to the t list the latter case, it would be interesting to have the Comptroller report on the condition of that particular fund ‘weak fms berry. Easily ore. > “Wared. and eaves abent 62 soee PO00O9O% Jind consequently deprives an int lowing asrcsament matters other alte ndigbe i ay. sare ee Yoo! might be surprised to know |P8ted person from attacking + it $1,000, did not permanently | ities in this controversy. — Let tive that Fre best thing yon can use for a | Ward. Bealde is, it is arossly tere affect he ee finan co bec a no the Sucre ce Xssueen cherae thie won ; 1 | ular, because it is an understood fact | Notification (postage) was charged | | ithou c et it be severpmcough is a remedy which is | {\\"' tts an understood fact | roin the assesament lst to each | Hon without qualification and let It b | that damag r of record: easily prepared at home in just a few |jcuinat benefit: but. when on ywner s0 notified; indeed, a very ; a ini ‘ De ib en such de ner so notified; i a | ; @ mom F . It's cheap, but for prompt |orease of an individual's assessment [sonable coat for notification. However, | “Did you or did you not overassess resulff it beats anything else you ever | is placed against city-owned property | When the amount was spent the re: n violation of the charter provisions tried] Usually stops the ordinary |to avoid detection, having for ity|ords do not show that the Bo | in force at the time of confirnpatic any or all of the improvements, cited 24 hours. jeffect that this particular reduction | Assessors ever made ap on becomes a city charge, to be shared |the renewal of the appropriation and it is pure and good by every taxpayer, it would seem that |the owners now are again limited to Bole 7 a the charge made with reference to|the information they get from these | iF 24 ounces of Pinex in a pint | ine debauchery of the right of tu |assessment specialists and the large} ata th fill it h pl © | tion e rounded quanti of printed atte: 8 i - 4 ” wo - — ‘eepor TH Quttine “Reeare nuisance” | UNFAIR TREATMENT AT HIRSHFIELD HEARING jor chest cold in pleasant, too—children like it | Meets Melb omapek ctl nlte) ASL tion to the proper ambunts before con firmation necessary? \ Yes or no f sugar syrup, if desired, Thus | sible for Mayor Sylan's Board of As ke a full pint—a family supply sors keeping all public information costing no more than a smail | irom the attaches of the office who| “Cha 619, Li 1918, recon bel of ready-made cough syrup, re Itkely to make such criticism struct ertain ch provisions j Ardi as a cough medicine, there Is In Ay Mi Aad out of this plan | wi Noche to the Dg of axsess- ay really nothing better to be had at any civil wervice requirements have|ments for public improvements, How. | == peven]| St gees right to the spot and | to the detrimont Of Ue leaky Tone [nee the Pecan arrose namisaton | Clerk Will Insist on a Publi givesiquick, lasting relief. It promptly | hy assigning work to men of their|ownerg is ‘inadequate,’ no provision Hearing .To-Morrow heals] ithe inflamed membranes that | civil service classification and is made to remedy this. We do find, MNne throat and atr passages, stops | sulting not only in the irregular prac- | however, that the chapter pla th Afternoon. the noying throat tickle, loosens | tices cited, but also militating against | taxpayer at an additional disadvan- the phlegm, and soon your cough efficient functioning of departmental |tage, in that it allows the confirma-| The Evening World attempted to stops|jentirely. Splendid for bron- | organization. tion of an ass ent even before al obtain a ce of the testimony of Mr, chitid| creup, whooping cough and | iat Maver, Hi ‘a request I {mib- [spade has been turned to acoomplish |sspitzex when he appeared before Com~ . plan for eorganization | the physical work that is to produce $ id tas * es yey se concentrated com- |, office procedure, the adoption of | the benefit for which the ta payer is| missioner of Accounts Hirshfi 4 bad f Norvay pine. extract, | Nts would have climinated theso | assessed Friday afternoon to be examined, and poung o! {complained of practices. ‘These sug-| “This procedure re-establishes what| was told a copy of the testimony famope for its healing effect on the | gestions may be summed up in one | has long been known in this and other| might be had by The Evening World mem#fanes. word, ‘publicity.’ That would make |eities as the ‘rebate nuisance.’ It al. | TI&Dt be hw F for succeeding | lows the Board of Assessors to Saturday at noon ist for “2% ounces of Pinex” |boards upon which to baso their|mate the total cost of an Satur noon it Was learned by rections and don't accept any- | Judgment in cases where the same | improvement and in case that the es-| phone that the office of the Commis. Guaranteed to give abso- | Property is to be assessed again, in-| timate was too high rebates are made| sioner of Accounts was closed: that “or stead of stowing away thix neces-|to the owners overassoased and in the eee pines Cen re werne, sary Information in the mind of one|case of a deficiency a second arscas- uld not be hads" pit po void disappointment ask your |a permanent recor the oppy « i individual, which in the event of a|/ment may be laid sibly Monday would find “something” | = | Le ‘Trt-pAdrt. complete change of a board would! “The practical result of this logis-|ready for the reporter. Thé hearing FURNISHED ROOMS YO LET. FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET. + UBNISH ED UROGMS TERR ET ¥ nT Ww rooum, & tr 1 steam beat and hot wate a Ly " o o'clock in the afternoon 2st. F Ww , ue 1 f woe 0 ec a o Mr. Spitzer evidenced much disap- “ od : : pointment at the outcome of the hear- u NIT 20 We cia For | TTT W Warlem ait eas ot as ing before the Commissioner of Ac- ‘ i am. ean ban oh . Hi q counts Friday afternoon, “Instead | ai, ath Woe Raiw ial rr a at otire h 2 | of it being wblic hearing it was| CREDIT TERMS $i, referee rT ene: a aaa far private and behind closed doors,” said | D, Fe—Laree Croat room, beth. O'Tool . Bat me ¥ | al Bott Sacre were three things | $3 Down on $50-00 Meee ate Tes Tit 3 ia ra ©] Reliable Tame Sera | which worked against a fair and im-| §.00 « — « 75.001 Apartments i ae a arn 4 Y partial hearing b g given me,” con “} pA we pay i A in If You Buy tinued Spitzer bittert First, the| 7-50 « * 100-00 rhein ts i 7 attitude of the Commissioner was hos- 4. a ‘emplete win Wt ad it s . tiie; nasond. Khe two men who are res | AOee 150-00) From s i 7% * sponsible for the tax system which IT 00 “ “ 00) ri V wf t ann according to a court deci is an-| 25-00 = « »* 300-0 iti Ww, o0 40 | Urely tNegal. Commissioner Ormond v-4 8 W Jand Simmons would have been able | FREE BRASS : 2 " s to have benefited by what [ disclosed =a | 7 W Ww. x | and perhaps prevented me proving my Ws Ww waned le | charges in the future. And the oppo- ~ sition which I had to contend with Oper meat ii ‘ ¥ ver St w Commissioner Hirshfield d- | e : : ri | | monitions to the stenog er to take} T conn i mem | |Bown aniy certain fon of mine, | Pam pages while others were not recorded at all ae bar am This was not fair to me, F shall in-| 4 sist that the hearing Tuesday after- | agben | Nie x me, © BRAND |noon be conducted in a public man-| Wo Tnside ham for” busine .- aa: pene ner,” ve j Open Saturday Evenings rt ae roam Tor gentle seals Brooklyn. 9 nm | 104 ST. L STATION at CORNER | ys) ‘h1' saith friste'tamin 1 COLUMMI MnICIETS, "114" (ronktyn) Lae, SUFFERING FROM COLD AS a ee Sweetened Condensed j AND | Unsweetened Evaporated i MILK Produced and harriled unde: SHEFFIELD STANDARDS ge UNCLE SAM WASTES WOOD Poor Folk in North Carolina Not Allowed to Collect Refuse W Government Burns | ASHEVILLE, N. ©. Jan. 6.—To poor people of Asheville & throu wintry streets to homes which are cold || because firewood is high and |Jest grade of woft coal $8 a to Government posters on publ blagen the message to conser yet these people know that only miles away, at Government ry Hospital No. 19, Government official are burning odds and ends of left from construction in ag refusing to either give or s m t to ; |] ing this tuel but ia wolng te’ consiaets REPLACES FLULD MILK FOR ALL PURPOSES. | men Saeerse, ‘one ‘day ie work hire of teams employed by the United ates to bonfire an The local aul this scrap woc nted to about $200 jovernment representativ to the On sale in 200 Sheffield stores and ready for distributior to all grocers. SHEFFIELD FARMS CO, Inc, Bren Sah i obits feiss Sales Office: 254-258 West 57th Street, New York City the’ rounds Some the crap, ‘they they think the report of the $200 exe se one day | at exaggeration, HOLINESS VS. HOMELINESS. | Beauty Parlors in ¥, W. ©. A. Get | ARE YOU 4 BOOK BUYER : head the News «4 Views i» the World of Books Books for Education, Books for Gifts, Books for Enter Mra. Rockefellers Approve | Mrs. John D. Rockete jr, head |the Housing Committee of the ¥. W. (ay Yaa: approved installation of beauty parlors and m |in the recreation houses to be built by nin various cities, it was | the associat announced t ainment, | Books for the Office and the Home Are Reviewed in tog avers fade Rod Phe Editorial Section of the Sunday World | 21) oo goon ssn rd, but would be of lend dramatic value educational tion picture halls | f TH ARRESTED IN ISPRN CASE lysis” Shows Talcam™ Powder ar Ingredients of Tablets of Which 994,000 We e Seized i Dentists Dis- Blank Diplomas for Dentists cvered in Brooklyn Raid--J. M. » G.Kukay Held in $1,000 Bail Ge STITT UTM TCT ULL LILU LLL Now you know why you must Look for the Cross 294,000. alte ore than 1308 wi Company, found t ; + rete or tne 1 ingredieat 0 fe aepetound to consist of ier cent “innate material” | } H a galicylic acid were} nd ea! seventy ! Sugar water an ath Commissioner Cope be ed thousands attac thes neurone nad recour det bat V 1 but that many There of persons rushed to & inly aid not help those happened to get t their systems. thousands ot 14 throughout ae eople | tum powde lets were so! fings. of the S Drug. Division, Walter B.- Drennss, ee Verandah Chem with’ h made the Taid OB teal Company. e * nan’ sali on Diged 394,000 tablets, on tne ie me’ th af the diagno! atrenmeh Sf “mmole lot consists, tatcum powder The many -of- sere to have done & ST t out-o! ras vusiness, and J estimete AG red F : . fommhiy shipments were DO os Than 600,000 ‘tablets. He ee he he is a Spaniard ‘ang he BA pusiness for tn Veeane ace. how many verandah p' M fritons of these tadlets ha vae 3 16 8 pirin tablets T canna’ "8 Mr interesting Dhase set they eure nun rae ‘and. blank Aiptomas| A msate, * ‘Dr. Copeland intimates | anna iste. t MTT eects een nvestigation © - 130. 1, held ta $2,000 bail, vite violating the Health 1 monmaceieacid yer mama ture ranine the ‘reliable + trademark “Aspirin'’ (Reg. U.S. Pat. Office) is a au ‘ot salicylicacid im these tblew and capsules is of STS Wir Two vingle roomie, FISHER Bros COLUMBUS AVE BET.103 & 1O4"ST ‘To avoid colds, la grippe or st influenza, use a little ‘ 1 ae ane Lt be iit v i Honelanepite | he @ tubes Sek: Your druggist. OT Ha Hest, all convenien P AT Wt Rice oaetinee BOARDERS WANTED. | ; MB lS by | | Stop Your Coughing » Hen CAG - AMSTHRDAM AY, 14ns—Wis Ns, need to let that cough persist. 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