The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1919, Page 3

TAX BOOKS SHOW REALTY VALUATION UP §202,a16,409 City Expects to as 10 Collet on $208,500,000 Increase in Assessments, PROFITEERS NOT HIT. Personal Assessments Reduced, but Revenue Will Be About the Same. The assessed value of New York estate is $8,171,157,608, crease of $252,516,459 over last real an in- figures, according to an official (abu- lation of the tax books made public to-day by Jacob A. Cantor, President of the Board of Taxes and Assess- nents, The inoreases Manhattan, $71,165, 768,660; Brooklyn, $118,276,689; Queens, $32,078,080; Richmond, $6,227 Brooklyn, with considerably less than one-fourth the total assessed va tion in the greater city, siderably more than half of the net taxable increase, In this the factor of improvement s important. The improvements within the last year in Brooklyn real estate are set at $53,595,410. While by boroughs Bronx, will bear con- Manhattan, with moret han half the only total assessed valuation, had $19,421,200, Improvements in boroughs were: Bronx, $196 Queens $6,393,110; Richmond, $2.44 ‘As tentatively fixed, the valuation 8 distributed by boroughs as fol- prevents the city from taxing int: gible property as personal estate. This decrease, however, is not serious as at first appears, beca year are the same as the actual ures agreed upon last year. sion, and the 1920 assessment PERSONAL ASSESSMENT John D. Rockefeller, many of the valuations carried this ‘That is, the tentative values fixed last year were cut down considerably by revi- carries the final figures of last year. 80 use NEW YORK STRIKES AFFECT 46,400 MEN AND atl PLANTS | This Doesn't lectus Include a roll oF SOME PROMINENT PERSONS. | whose per- sonal estate was fixed tentatively at $10,000,000 in 1919, filed objections and! Lockouts and Walkouts, the figure was cut to $5,000,000, thi ‘amount on which he actually p: 4,100 Men, 250 Shops. taxes, The $6,000,000 is carried year, John D, Rockefeller jr. is ta on 500,000, Other personal as: ments are: George F. Baker, ban! $1,000,000; George | 000, Helen C€. Avenue, $200,000; Vernon C. $100,000; Adolph Lewisohn, $600, shauncey M. Depew, $60,000; Will |. Corey, steel magnate, $106,000; value to their properties which Baker jr. $100, Bostwick, No. 800 ¥ Brow this xed | ker, Michael J, Reagan, Industrial Medi- ator of the Bureau of Mediation and | Arbitration of the State Industrial Commission of New York, is In the city in an effort to adjust labor differ- | ences existing here. Accoriing to the |records of Mr, Reagan's office there |are now pending in New York seven | strikes involving 46,400 workers and | affecting 811 shops. In addition, there ifth | 000; iam Ed- ard 8. Harkness, $1,09 , \ ward 8. Harkness, $1,090,000; Joseph | are the four branches of the printing W. Harriman, $50,000; William Ran- |trades which were locked out this dolph Heart, $30,000; Morrig Hillquit, morning, these affecting, according $100,00 cs E. Hughes, $60,009; |t Mr. Reagan, a total of 4,100 em- ne lack, | $100,000; B, aM, Ployees and 250 shops. ytd oh | Mr. Reagan gave the following data Fuch, $100,000; William ‘Thaw, $50.- | »egarding the strike situation in New 000; Paul M. Warburg, $100,000; Fells , yore: W arburg, 000; Wayne Whitney, Building Trades Allied Unton of $1,000, 004 ty Payne Whitney,| Mount Vernon, 350 men, went out $250,000; Helen Ray Whitney, $920,000./ Sopt, 15 for increase in wages; Nicholas Murray Butler, President] back at work pending arbitration, of Columbia University, is assessed| Want increases from $6.20 to $7.60 on $5,000; Charles F. Murphy, leader} per day for bricklayers, masons of Tammany Hall, is set down to pay} and plasterers, and $4.24 to $5.60 on the same amount, | for hodearriers, Many persons whose names are Boximakers’ and Sawyers’ Union, familiar to New Yorkers among| 700 workers involved, went out the fortunaely wealthy are not on| Sept. 2, affecting 50 shops. Have the tax rolls because they claim resi-| been averaging $24 per 48-hour dence elsewhere. week; demand increase of 30 per In explaining the method of ar-| cent. and 44-hour week. riving at increases on real estate Chandelier and Art Lamp Mak- valuation, Mr. Cantor, in a prepared | ers’ Union, 750 workers went out siutement said Sept affecting 10 shops; want e have not been influenced by | reduction from 65 to 44-hour week passion or revenge or a desire to; and increase of 20 per cent. in get even with the property owners wages. . who have been cruel in their in- Cigarmakers' International creases in rents. Nor were we in-| Union, 11,000 men and 14,000 fluenced by the demands made by| women, out July 1; want 44-hour the employees of the city Govern-] week and Boston scale of wages. ment to increase salaries, It must Hat Makers of Yonkers, 300, be recognized that property owners out Sept. 8 one shop; want wage who hav abnormally increased increase and shorter hours. rents to the extent of profiteering, Millinery Workers’ Association, have largely added an element of | 15,000 workers out, Sept. 26; want was| Teduction from 60- to 44-hour lows: Manhattan, $4.924,806,5¢; | Considered in making the assess- | week and 30 per cent. increase , oot cote S| | ments.” in wages. Bronx, $727,700,921; Brooklyn, $t “ Paper Box Makers’ union, 3,500 * $97,760,631; Queens, $608,465,970; | LAWYER SAYS LANDLORD workers, out Aug. 28 in 200 * * | shops; it 44-hour week and Richmond, $112.42 A 30 to 35 per cent. increase in REVENUE FOR CITY. Mr. Reagan listed the number af- " ud ected by the printing trades lockout Deducting the value of property ~- — see retloter tederk: a.0aer 16 : acquired by the Federal Government fudge Rebukes Man for Trying iat ote handle Re pee for war purposes the net increase for be 7 JING | men: 1,500. purposes of taxation is $208,500,000. to Bungle Tenant's ‘The mediator said that he had heard ° sate, walen e008 | that a shipyard workers’ strike had i rep peeeee tere teres Case. been called to-day but had not been optimistic property owners expect ,., | officially advised. ‘This, he said, would wil Ibe increased, this will produce don't want you to think that! afrect 20,000 men. something in excess of $5,300,000, pro- viding the figures can withstand at- tack. y 1s to corrupt honest counsel. running things In thls coun and [ won't stand for your attempting try SOLDIER, A. W. 0. L., ESCAPES THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1919 CORPL. SPERLING, FLOGGED CONPOSTORS QUI NNE MRE SHOPS, = mh NO FORA STE "gs Printers’ Walkouts Compt cates Lockout of Pressmen | in 250 Plants. Farther walkouts of compositora were features of the day's develop. | ments in the labor disturbances in New York's printing industry, In at least nine shops this morning the |, members of Typographical Union No. 6 quit work, In some of the shops the printers walked out in a body after demanding of the foreman im- mediate inauguration of the 44-hour week and the $50 scale. Im others the compositors individually totd the, foreman that they were “going on a| vacation.” Shops which reported walkouts of the printers included the Charles, Schweinler Press at No. 10 Hudson, Street, one of the largest In the city, | printers of all the Hearst periodi- cals; the Eilert Press, No. 318 West | 39th Street; the Sterling Press, same! address; the Parson Printing Com- pany, on Vandewater Street; Flem- ing & Reabely, No #44 West 38th| Street; Atlas Press, No. 336 Broad-| way; MoGraw - Phill Printing | Company, No 241 West 37th Street; the Charles Francois Press, 4th Street and Eighth Avenue, anether big shop, the output of which in- cludes the Review of Reviews, the Metropolitan and other magazines of similar character; the Isaac Gold- man shop, No 80 Lafayette Street, Both sides claimed progress to- day in the fight between the seceding pressmen on the one side and the in- ternational unions, backed by the employing printers, on the other. There was, however, little progress visible to the outside observer. The presses in 260 big printing estdblish- ments—presses which turn out 75 per cent. of the books of America, 90 per cent. of the magazines and pert- odicals of national circulation, and the greater part of the commercial printing of the citv—remained eilent, while approximately 8,000 employees, demanding @ 44-hour week and a $50 wage, are idle from double causes, The employees have declared a strike to enforce their demands and | the employers have declared a lock- lout to enforce the rule that all em- UNION REPUDIATES STRIKE OF 10,000 LONGSHOREMEN ineeseifponnenes Shipping Interests Cannot Af- ford More Wages or Less Hours, Is Report. BY COSSACKS IN SIBERIA, ENLISTED FROM BROOKLYN That the strike of 10,000 longshore- ;men and stevedores has aasumed menace the loading and unloading of ships of the United States Shipping | Board tn this port was the report to- jeay by Assistant General Superinten- dent Frederick A. Ganard to Capt. Frank Ferris, Shipping Board Di- rector of the Port of New York. “The present rates,” Mr. Ganard re- ported, “are about all that Amertcan |shipping interests can stand at pres: lent, and any further increases, either |in wages or restrictive working rules, will be an almost intolerable handicap on the Shipping Board and other | American interests.” | ‘Ten thousand Italian longshoremen, checkers, billstallers and coopers, members of a new organization |formea by Paul Vaccarelll, broke jaway from the “regular” union re- jeently and yesterday went on strike. ; | Vaccarelli claims 28,000 followers, | Notices were posted on docks and ‘piers all over the port of New York | this morning warning striking long- | shoremen and stevedores that if they |did not return to work to-day they |by the International Longshoremen’s Association. ‘The notices were signed |1. L. A. and Joseph P. Ryan, Vice- |New York. According to John Reilly, Vice-President of the New York Dis- trict Council of the I. Le 10,000 members of the |struck yesterday. |morning, but that gangs” were still out. ‘The strikers gave a Mother Has Been Unable to Locate Him Since Sent Under Secret Orders. thi Corpl. Benjamin Sperling, the American soldier who was flogged by Cossacks at Inman, Siberia, Sept. 5, and for which Gen. Rozanoff has apologized to Gen, Graves, command- |ment Commission of the change. The “grievances” alarming proportions and is likely to|” would lose their union cards issued . |by T. V. O'Connor, President of the | President in charge of the port of First A., about organization He said most of the men had returned to work this “a number of r reason for quitting work the fact that no decision had been made on their grievances by the National Adjust- United States Shipping Board, which is hold- ing sessions at the Produce Bx- consist largely in demands for increased pay. Another reason for the strike was ‘LOST My HEAD,’ LANDLORD gras, it er bs SAYS OF INSULT TO WOMAN nounced td ander I. Rorke announced to-day that Justice Weeks had ordered that he Has to Pay $25 Fine for Remark at Rent Profiteering proceed next Monday with the trial of — Hearing. 1 Plavio and Gust Alonen, who are under Indictment charging them Hyman Kaufman, No, 1932 Crotona Parkway, the Bronx, was fined $26 In with the advocacy of anarchy. the Centre Street Court to-dav because lof the way he talked Tuesday at a hearing of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering. Kaufman appeared there as @ land- lord and Mra, Bernice Faulkner, No. 416 West 215th Street, appeared ‘as ®. tenant. When she testified that she was a * especie woman Kaufman cried ou! “Can you prove it?” He was at once arrested, and at his to-day hia explanation was that, my head,” Faulkner ts of three children, Kaufman frequently quarreled with his tenants and that he once threatened to “preak the neck” of one of her children, a ly for Freedom of New Repw To further the cause of freedom for the new republics of Ukraine and Lithuania, a demonstration by more than 6,000 Ukrainians and Lithuanians of Brooklyn will be held in Willlama- burg next. Saturday afternoon and evening. A parade in national cos- tumes will be held. Grocer’s counter, ask him for a © peskege of Wheatsworth Real Whole Wheat Biscuits. We guarantee you a flavor of sweet, whole grain that will delight you. Your grocer is glad to sell Wheatsworth—he knows these tasty crackers always satisfy. At grocers iw 15 Realed Individuat ” Serotos Cartons at restauranta, F. A. BENNSTT BISCUIT CO., . Ye Franklin Simon 8 Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets CAutumn and Winter TRICOTINE SUITS Are by Fabric and by Tailoring the Well Groomed Tailleur for the Well Groomed Woman given by Reilly, who said it was “the Magistrate Harry Howard Dale, in “ : 7 loyees must be in good standing with That there will be an attack 18 I-11. Witiamsburg Bridge Maza Court TRIAL FOR ADBUCTION | i222 Tespective internationals. ing the American forces in Siberia, dicated by the uproar real estate jio.day thus rebuked Jacob Adler, for- er conference between the | *niisted eight years ago from Brook- men are making over the new figures. |:y-ave rs old, a blacksmith living at employers and representatives of|lyn. He gave as his address No, 420 ‘That there would be an ine No. 242 Metropolitan Avenue, Rrook-| Magistrate Surrenders Prisoner at (ie icant Union No. 6 will be ney aot se sae of freak yeen expected, but it was b lyn, charged with striking a woma: H aaicaat SOREN ett oro Wcoting of the Printers’ | Schneider, his uncle. mother 1s the Hylan administration would take|tenant because sie was inciting other Request of Camp Merritt A renee an at the ‘Association of| Mrs. Sarah Kravetsky of No. 322! sdvantage of the opportunity to gain [tenants against him, Officer, employing Printers will be held at the| Rodney Street, Williamsburg. : Rosenson, counsel for the com- Hotel to-morrow morning, at] Sperling served in Texas and the’ favor with the public by throwing Capt. Joseph Stephens, head of the| Astor Ho! lainant, Mrs, Ps ne Elge No. 5 ns y" 7 wived fro >| e: the additional burden of taxation |‘/*'"* _. tn nae r ae PF} military police at Camp Merritt, and a ee fel seeitlon ao ie{etilippines and went to Siberia by upon rent profiteers who have been | yee en ne dag BAe then t. Harry Wilbur, Judge Advocate of | Otte at that time, way of Japan more than a year ago. Vietimizing tenants throughout are. bo ane Agier = offered |the Special Court Martial at the camp, The soldier was arrested with Capt. ty and owners of big buildings. Mey Ta uey to mimanage ihe case £0F] appeared before Magttrate Huth in the L. P. Johns, both being in uniform and ‘the Adi ti ardent hover Came tat ttc Harlem Police Court to-day and askeal WIDDW WILLED RELATIVES «Jon omciat business in Inman. Jona THO soni a ee i ie 1 ‘ou must think iaeaee are a bie] Magistrate Huth to turn over to them escaped. When an American force the big buildings, in which rents|Magistrate Dale, “but in my opinion you} Regiment, 1st Division, who waa are Peck Ailes Beer ae. tie Cossaake ave been raised 50 per cent. and in|are very small. I have b & citizen [FAigned on the charge of abducting Marte showed resivtance and’ a Japanese some cases doubled, have escaped in- Wiltamsbur elf for yeara and|scQuade. fourteon years old, of No, 18 . . officer said that in the event of a clash ase in assesscd valuation am ashamed to that we have| The gn imi been absent from her| TFust Company's Petition Dis-}the Japanese forces would assist the As a result there is much dissatis- ]7OOr WPe he re endacl Raab bona a FE ny i ras closes Her Heirs Are Dis- Cossacks. ctio ch probabl find e he jap St 92d Street. Roth . faction, which probably ces p the @ for six months, girl and Hohn denied that th ad appointed, review of the appraisals, if they are] Mey Gets 7 to 15 For Killing, [tions C fold, the Rtas The Brooklyn Trust Company, No, 17 Against this increase in real es {of No. 53 Morton strect, who on July [punishment plied to Surroga: ‘ oe ied young s Mulcahy with} ~0hn Was surre settlement of the $38,938.34 estate of te val MAHAR there is @ dosrenns r of Hudson and -_o Mra, Maria J. Van Anden, widow of 40, 000 ARE ON STRIKE between the tentative valuations © . se by William Van Anden, who di Aug. 15, personal property for last year and | I uy int »t| BROOKLYN BOOM CONTINUES. isa, at No. 10 Weat bith Street. Th —_——-- the present, of $610,004 Part of » than 15 years in Sing Sing — trust company is executor and trustee | {nyestigation Shows Few Pickets to leg! go this is due ne lation, Charge Accounts Invited which in shades to harmonise with any costume, Prison. Mail Queen Quality Boot Shop 32 and 34 Weet 34th Street Between Brosdwoy sad Filth Avenue Realty uments Filed Dosble | o¢ the Van Anden Orders Filled European P issued @ statemen “In view of th United Army airplanes ‘rance and England arrived at sIhurst Fleld to-day for participa- in the airplane ‘reliability test jeklel to abandon tion between New York and San Francisco ‘which starts Oct, rturned pro rata, estate. nt saying he many mplated, jbales, th artment of Agriculture} ‘The Municipal Employees’ Assocla- announc f pail tion was formally disbanded to-<lay [when {ts treasurer, George Stansfield, adverse criti- |clsms regarding an assoclation so large as the one conte we have de- the project.” He said the money received, except- ing enough to cover expenses, would be Teast Filing of the settlement application and Many Seeking That there ts up in the realldisciosed that in the fourth clause of Jobs, estate boom in Brooklyn was indicated | the will, executed fn 1917, a sister of the to-day in the report “oun- » Bmma L Town, is bequeathed | Union officers to-day estimated es ty Register’s office for September. It A aed owned ho such | 40,000 employes of shipbuilding plants 5 that ruments were . earriages and stable |in Greater New York are on atrike i) n to John Flannigan, an ; i ds amily retainer, Further, it i¢ show: Union delogates gathered at N 82) H including” while the deceased “bequeathed | Duane Street this afternoon to await 53 cy iiways stock to h ni Janet BOOT SHOP ___ | for : Net ae eeenih, aa the |& vaport from J. M, Delancey, repr Hi] |more than double the number filed in| Wd not own such stock senting John Barton Payne, Chair- ; i the same period last year, a man of the United States Belectiva md @ombination —— JERSEY PLATFORM HIT. |toara.: ‘There was a pretiminacy SUES SHONTS’S DAUGHTER eee conference with Delancey last night, ee ie + | itighway Commission Condemns |ang ho was to communicate with D B Paris Modinte Anka $1,046.18 From| One Member for Political Act#. | washington before the meeting to- ress oots Mra. M.S. Bingham, TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 2—A spirited|aay, 0 Mra, Margaret Shonts Bingham,|discussolon marked the meeting of!” J. J, Miles, Secretary and ‘Treamirer auenten of the late Theodore P, yy LAs SUR er AanmaneD a of Atlantic Coast Council of Maritime ; Shonts and wife of a son of Gen, Bing- | to-day. Srow Out OF charges made) —, yorke’ . 0 Patent Coltskin Vamp, | ham, was to-day served at her home,|in the Democratic platform reflecting | Wood Workers and Calkera, sald n Dark Gray or Brown | Mo O16 Park Lvonde, with sheen ben the soma lasing 3 arbitration would be accepted on the Kid Tops, Louis Leather | and complaint in a suit to recover the |G. Thompaan characterized the attacr | wention of the 44-hour week, but } balance of a making bill amount. ment as be! that if this were granted the men ing to $1,946.18, which is alleged to be ould ate o em. owed Marie Antomette Sirie, a modiste mission adopted a resolu-| "ould arbitrate other lanues et Baran vinnes tion mning tt cal activity | The union men said that if the an- It is d the Dil was contracted | of Commissioner Blak ticipated report from Delancey in 1913 and 1914, Sererersiperrernee proved to be unfavorable it would PASTOR INJURED BY AUTO HELD AS WOMAN’S SLAYER, |mean that additional unions would ° — — join the strike, sapere Morecca Accased of Killin, 4. Vole . dis! an hs Gl ee es a =| A. G. Volck, aseistant district man Mother and Sen. ager of he Em ney Fleet Corpora Down tn Broadway, John Amar, accused of having shot [100 tg yg ere a Her Patent Coltskin Vamp, The F fel Hf tin, pastorland killed Mrs. Katherine Herr and | “0% did that on an average not mo Dull Kid Tops, L of the Fort Washington sbyterian| her son, Albert, about 17 years old at| tan seven men to # consruction yard Self: hee Church, was reported to-day to be re-|plaintleld, N. J. Was arraigned there |Of the corporation had quit. elf-cove eels. covering from injuries rvcelved in an| to-day and held without ball A reporter for The Evening World automobile accident — whe he wa 4 said that Amar, a Moroccan, so Knead down byt car at Tosth thant | felt bitterly toward Mra’ Herr because | Who Visited three Brooklyn yards was Nd Broadivay last ‘Tucstay night. din | of financial matters. Recently to wet- | told by members of the clerical staffs . |hip was dislocated and he received lac-| te & $1,500 debt, he turned over tol ia the strike was little more than ‘ : leeatiage: OF thevia her a small drygoods store that he| that the sI ‘ nore ‘The uppers of Boots att in new importance with the jerations of the Js owned" She employed him ax man-|a ripple, He found numbers of men d er of the store fo ‘ popularity of the short skirt. Among the many new | cotton ted at 10,090,000 aficharged nim. ra time and then! a ooiving for jobs atid, a block or two boots at the Queen Quality Shop there are novel RK RS Quit |away from each plant, met groups . WASIHIID Oct, 2—The condi-} CITY WO ERS QUIT UNION. lof strik and pickets. treatments of uppere in cloth, suede end kid, developed ign ef the anton chop on apt, oh was! At the cMfice of Capt. Frank Ferris, 1.4 per ormal. forecasting 0! Munietpal ployeen’ Ansoctation | Director of the Port of New York, 1xtotet ‘of about 10,500,000 In Formally Disbanded. for the U. 8. Shipping Board, it was stated that the plants with which tue Board has o mtracts are but slightly affected by Vie strike, The heads of fourteen metal crafts, of which John Mulholland, of the |patternmakers is chairman, it was | stated, Would have a conference to- day with representatives of the Shipping Board. At Capt. Ferris's office nothing was knowp of euch a conference, work of radicals who sought to force | the commission to meet their de- pa pe aie Eat SEEK DEAD MAN’S | IDENTITY. 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