The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1922, Page 12

0 COLLECT MANY ANCIENT TAX LIENS Comptrotier Gr Craig Going to Court for a Decision on Old Assessments. Can the city collect ancient debts, some of them eighty-cirht years old? Comptroller Craig thinks it should and has ineluded them jn notice of sule to be held Nov. 9 of a large number of entate, Courts have taken a contrary holding that debts more ean and a tax liens on real view, than twenty Years old are outlawed. ‘The city's Appeal will probably come up before the Appellate Division of the Su- Preme Court this month Owners of some properties in and Village indeed the sbout Greenwich forgot, if present ever knew of, unpatd ass a Sixth Avenue Similarly, certain property owners on South and Front Streets little dreamed that assessments for exca- vating mud from Hast River plers in 1842 would ever turn up against their holdings. There are also as- Sessment claiins against real estate in various parts of the city for sewers built, street openings, regulating and long since owners sments for built in 1834 sewer SMa HOT With Their Fi Were entered has greatly increased the sums, A case whether Raymond Wilson of No. 2705 Staten Island. involving the hon @ successive the city question of collech on day had writ-¢ could ten what was considered the best con these old debts camo up last year be-| tribution from a reader-reporter on fore Justice Wasservogel in the Su-}the “What Did You See To-Day? preme Court, page, and in each instance but one The city contended that it had an unpaid assessment claim against the premises No. 217 Sixth Avenue for a “sewer built in 1834, ‘The original amount of $83.89 had swelled, ut 7 per cent. interest, to $508.94, Comptroller Craig's position regard- ing these old debts was stated in his affidavit. He said that for a genera- tion or more numerous opinions had the prize-winning item was the first penned by the contributor. Mrs, Looram come over to Manhat- tan with Mrs. Delia Gal vin, widow of the late Capt. Michael J. Galvin of the Police: Department, to get possession of her prize, and she was an elated woman, especially after she got sight of the machine, her sister, been given by different Corporation} “1 wish I could drive it right Counsels. “It appears from the rec-}home,’ she suid as she ran a land ords of the Department of \Iinance,"}on the shining new door. “I'm really his affidavit read, ‘that from time to time one Comptroller or anpther has caused the items to be inserted In the catalogues of tax lien sales in pur- guance of. the statutory provisions ap- vlicable to stich cases but, at the sug- «estion of the Corporation Counsel, has withdrawn the items from the «ale, hoping that they would be paid voluntarily by the property owners without necessity of litigation. Comptroller Craig asserted that neither he nor any other city official had power to discharge these assess- € ments of record, or relieve the prop- erty owners from their obligation tc pey up. Only a final court decisior, he contended, could do that. a The city claims that a law dealing with taxes and assessments passed in 1871 and now embodied in section 1017 of the Greater New York Charter was retroactive. At the hearing before Justice Wasservoge! the attorney con- testing the city's claims cited previous court decisions that after twenty years assessments were presumed to } have been paid, and if not paid were ‘f barred by the Statute of Limitations, . Justice Wasservogel, in deciding against the city, held that the act of 1871 «was not retroactive and that through the lapse of time the lien of the assessment had been discharged many years prior to the passage of this law under the general presump- tion of payment after twenty years. It is this case the city is appealing. It is said there will be a considerable number of tax lien claims dating back to the times when the present Bor oughs of Queens and Richmond were an aggregation of separate villages. ‘The great preponderance of tax { Mens, however, deals with claims dating back only a few years, They * affect various properties In all parts of the city. —_—_—— TOO FEW GRAND JURYMEN ‘ PRESENT FOR SESSION Queens Court Has Unusual Expert- ence} Iiness the Cause. Yor the first time in many yoars, there were not sufficient Grand Jury- men present in the Queens County Courthouse, in Long Island City to-da to hold @ legal session. Illness and other causes kept the missing Jury- men from attending the session. The Jewish holidays had nothing to do with it. District Attornney Wallace had r panel drawn, and the new lury was to be selected to-day. meet on Thursday, when rey will swear them in, jealous of having any one drive it be fore I do, but''—there was a note of mock mourning in her voice-~"T have to learn to drive first." So far ev contestant who has won a Ford hus said the winning of the prize is the best bit of luck that hax ever come to her, and Mrs. Looram was no exception, “TL really didn't expect it,’ When I wrote my piece I have been happy just to have small p but when I learned won a Ford I was too happy for words. We'd been wanting one, It was the luckiest thing that ever hap- pened to me, and I'll think of The Evening World every time I think of the car."" Mrs. her jubilation over She bubbled with it. ve been so excited I could hardly sleep,” she announced — excitedly. “Have I really won it? Really? Oh, when can I see it?" She got to sec it almost immedt- ately with her husband Sam, who is an electrician, and their two-year-old daughter, Amy. “We can go Just everywhere now!"" she exclaimed when she saw it. ‘‘How nice it is of The Evening World to give it to us!" After that Mrs. Bimon was really too full for utterance. She sat and smiled happily while. the transfer papers were being arranged. “Oh, she exclaimed to her hus- band after a long pause, “it's good not to be rich to be able to have u thrill like I'm having!"" And her husband patted her hand. Mrs, Huthwaite herself gave tho re- porter a ‘What Did You See To-day?” item when she was being taken up- town for her car. “This is the first time I've ever been in this part of New York," she announced as the taxi weaved from Lafayette Street in Fourth Avenue and thence into Park Avenue with its towering white apartment housea. ‘ve lived in Brooklyn all my life, and while I go about a good deal I never come over into New York." She peered out of the cab window at the tall buildings at 46th Street and Park Avenue where apartments rent as high as $30,000 a year, “Give me Madison Street, Brook- lyn,’ she said. “I wouldn't live here at all.’ But she said she'd travel a lot over Kings, Queens and Nassau Counties with her Ford, “I want it as soon as I can get it,” she said. “All my neighbors seem to be as happy over my winning it as I am, and I want to take them riding. They all think The Evening World is the best ever to give away a car a day, and you ought to hear what my five children have to say about it! I think that little old Ford is coming in for a lot of travel.” Raymond Wilson, who 1s a dredger, she said, would won # Vd Simon made no effort to hide her good luck, was the last person of the day to $m effect to-day and none of) the eight} receive his car. He is a quiet, blond- \ plants making small ware wi haired man, with the fair, tanned face of one who works on the water. I'm afloat almost all the time and won't have much time to run it,” ne said, ‘but it sure will come in fine for Mrs, Wilson, “I've written several Items for the page, but none had been printed until the one on which I won the Ford, 1 saw the incident from the G@. H. Breymann Company's dredger Toledo, More than 600 workers struc! proximately a thousand othe were forced to quit. ‘The potteries tied up, according to Vice President George H. Carlidge of the National Brotherhood, are Lenox, Inc., the two Greenwoofl Potteries, ©ook's, the Anchor, Maddgck's Pottery tompany, the Merger and the Interna- tional, ‘The men demand « 7 per cent, increase, and ap- workers Three Out of the Four Successful Cont paving during the Tweed regime from Four more Fords delivered to-d 1867 to 1871 and after that, Evening World's “What Did You Se The original amounts in assess- Tae four to recetye them were Ments, judged by present figures, Mrs, Margaret Looram of No. were small, but tho city’s claim of 7 Mrs. Laura Gilder Simon of N Per cent, a year since the assessments Mrs. May Huthwaite of No. 989 WAIT E t Contribution. y to happy prize winners in To-day?" contest! 55th Street, Brooklyn 4 15th Street, Brooklyn Madison Street, Brook Richmond ‘Terrace, Mariner's Harbor, and when I wrote ft T never expected to win a Ford on It, Hyen it Thad got but a dollar I'd have been satis- fled. This is the best plece of luck I ever had. You sure can thank The Evening World for me."! This is Mrs. Looram’s prize-win- ning stor: OLD HAND AT THE BUSINESS. The closing hour at Gimbel having almost arrived [ 1 to abandon my shop ping and I left by way of aid t in time to see the driver of # taxicab bouncing and cooing to 4 year-old baby girl. Having two of my own at home I Was Interested and I withstand the and see what might happen. After ten minutes o the baby began to fuss and cry and I approached the man and asked if I could be any help, "No, thank you, mi‘an he said, “I'm all right, We're all right! Sure, I'm used to it, T have a houseful."” He did seem to be doing pretty well under the cir cumstances, so I walked on but did not leave the vicinity, It was about ten minutes later that the mother, a stout woman, made her appearance, her arms filled with bundles, ‘The taxi-driver shifted the baby to his left arm, opened the door, helped the woman in, passed her the baby, closed the door, took his seat and drove away. The llcense number of the car Is 088.366 N. Y. Here ts Mrs. Simon's story: INVITED GUESTS. T was about to enter an ice cream shop, in Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, when I noticed the boy and girl who had their faces pressed against the window look- ing at the cakes and candies piled high on tho other side of the glass. I entered the store, but when I was seated and conslder- ing my order I found I could not forget those two wistful faces. Barely tasting the tee cream sod I told the clerk I would bo baci directly and, stepping into tho street, saw that my two friends were two doors away. “Little boy! little girl!" I called, “don't you want a soda?” and to my astonishment they ran as if frightened. Well, my conscience in clear, I thought, and I returned to my soda, * * 1 searcely had tasted it when tn walked that boy and that girl at the head of ® procession of about a dozen children, ‘Now, we'll have a soda, lady," the boy sald. I was never*so embarrassed in miy life, for my purse contained only « half dollar and a dime The clerk looked from me to the gang and back again, Hastily and con- fusedly I explained the Invitation and my plight and promptly he ordered the mob to depart. They were a disgusted and indignant lot, and when the last of them had passed out the Captain turned and fired a parting shot at me, “Whaja ask us in fer if ya didn't mean it?" he demanded, * © © TI remained in that store no longer than was absolutely necessary. This ts the {tem which won for Mrs. Huthwatte: TONY'S BIRTHDAY. On Atlantic Avenue I saw to- day a large ice truck with a baby carriage in it and a luncheon table and eight chairs. The ce truck belongs to Tony Alsprino, and he had his whole family in it, I guess, and they were going on a picnic somewhere, and on the back of {t was written “TONY BIRTHDAY," and the truck was decorated with red, white and blue, And this {s the one written by Mr. Wilson: DIRTY WORK AT SEA, I learned to-day a way to beat the high cost of laundry, work. not temptation to wait could ants Won; THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, _ MRS. NMIARG SRET LOORAM 1922, MR AND MRS SAMUEL SINION amin 7 N.Y. Realty Values Increased $642,626,807 For 1923 Taxes; |: Personalty Up $128,569,450 (Continued from Fir Department assessed at $ Tax »,000 1 incre: for 1923. August Belmont from $50,000 to $500,000, J. Plerpout Morgan's of $1,000,000 remains unchanged. A. Barton Hepburn was personally taxed 1922 1 prop- $1,000,000 of Cordelia S. Otto Kahn, who millien doll will , has been is raised assdssment of $10,000 for Hepburn's perse at on a valuation Emily BE. vluation is fixed that 10,000. 3 and Hepburn at § was assessed on & worth of property in 1 to pay on only $50,000 in 1 . Wm. Vincent Astor's yaluation 1s} reduced from $1,000,000 t 00,000, "The assessed yaluation of Charles W. Morse's personal property; which wis fixed at $750,000 in 1922, will remain at that figure in 1923 unless there 1s an appeal. Allan A. Ryan will bo ¢ on personal property val 000; Daniel G. Reid's v mains at $100,000. Amos R chot’s 1923 personal valuatio’ at ),000, Anna Kk. Vanderbilt's valuation, which was set at 00 on the 1922 tax rolls is reduced to $200,000 for 1923. That of Irederick W. Vanderbilt remains the sam $100,000. ‘The same figure app alongside the names of Harold S. and Loutse A. Vanderbilt, Rachel 1. Vanderbilt 1s assessed on « $500,000 valuation and the ions of Wm i. and Wm. K. j fixed at $100,- 000 each for 1923. Gertrude V. Whitney's personal property hero {s valued at $500,000; Harry Payne Whitney's $250,000; Helen Hay Whitn $200,000, and Payne Whitney's, $500,000—all the same as tho last valuation, BIG WHALES AND SMALL FRY IN VALUATION LIST. Other personal property valuations follow: have ked to pay $210,000 100.000 100,000, 100,000 Baker., "Baker Jr. Baker Baruch. leano weit Me Bate ©. Bedford ‘ard J. Berwind.. sbianop. 0. Courtlandt Cornell Jeannette T Lizzie P, BI 100,00) 50,000 0,000 100/000 0,000 or Trulion Cutting Mieanor De G. Cuyler.. du Gama. Chauncey Madeline ‘T. bo!000 William 50,000 Charles By 100,000 Benjamin N. 200,000, Sarah A. Di 100/000 Herman B, Edith H, Abraba: Bruce MoL. Falcone 100,000 Margaret ©. Fale 100,000 Marshall Field As the J. B. King steam lghter passed our boat at Mariners’ Har bor I saw a deckhand pin his laundry line and throw it over the stern into the water. As the boat steamed along the churn- ing of the propeller cleansed the clothes, the principle being the same as that of a washing ma- chine, By the time the lighter reached the Statue of Liberty the clothes should have been ‘white ws foam.’ -R, Wilson, No. 270 Richmond ‘Terrace, Mariners Harbor, 8, L t Page.) statement, to be 75,000 each for 1928. On the other hand, Solomon K. Gu heim, who was assessed at $100,000 in | Warburg aawren bur 1x 000 Riahard. Wilson. 110,000 Jennie Woolworth 109,000 NON-R James =. Duke. 00,000 Wilttam A. 400.000 F qoheeb J. Duy In the list of assessed valuations on real estate the Equitable Building comes at the head, the city fixing its value at $30,000,000, which is the same set for the current year. The American ‘Telephone and Telegraph Building, the enlargement of which was recently completed, has been in creased for 1923 taxation purposes to $17,800,000, as against $12,500,000 for the present year. ‘The Stock Ex- change, which has also been enlarged, has been jacked up to $13,800,000 from $10,800,000, which was the 192: figure. The Woolworth and the Met- ropolitan Life Insurance buildings are valued at the same figures as in 1922, namely $12,500,000 and $13,260,000 re- spectively, Among the hotels, the Waldorf Ieads with an assessed valuation of $12, 000, Chief among other hotel luations ure the Pennsylvania, $11, y 000,000; the McAlpin, 50,000; As $7,130,000; Ritz-Carlton, $5,850,- $11,500,000; Belmont, $5,000,000, and the Ansonid at $4,500, 000. ‘The highest theatre valuation is that of Loew's State, which ts $4,200,- 000; the Strand at $2,950,000, Cohun’s at $2,700,000 and the Capitol at $2, 0,000. Among apartment houses the most ble is No. 800 Park Avenue at 000, ‘The Betnord is valued at $4, The Metropolitan Club {s valued at 2,200,000, the University Club at ,500,000, Union at $1,800,000, Rac- quet and Tennis at $1,750,000, Yale at $1,400,000 and Harvard at $1,300,000. Altman's is the highest valued of the department stores. Its new as- sessed valuation is the samo as that of 19 $13,800,000. Macy's comes next with an assessed uation of $7,950,000. Lord & Taylor's is valued at Wanamaker’s two stores are valued at $7,100,000, In Manhattan, the largest district, known as the Grand Cental Zone, and extending from 40th Street to 79th Street and from Fifth Avenue to the Kast River, shows an tnerease in property yaluations of $2: 450. ‘The smallest district, bounded by James Street, the Bowery and Grand and Hssex Streets, north to 14th and to the East River, shows an increase f of $2,014,500. lest district in Queens is District In the Bronx, the largest district, known the South Jamaica see bounged by 149th and 169th Streets,|tion. The increase in that district hird Avenue and Hast River over last year is $2,265,545 increase In that district is $ total valuation in Queens is he smallest district in the Bronx is id Aneroise Lor the put District 11, hounded by Westchester te taxation of $124,775,075 reek and Avenue, Morris Park Ave on new build amount nue, Ifuntington Creek to e City 1,638,710, leaving for local taxa The increase in that district} (ion $714,092,300, an increase $99,- aver last ye $4,865,620. 142,255. In Ins there were erected Mies Ais In Brooklyn the district is] 14,644 new buildings, 7. of which nro Je. citmibels bounded by the Kast River, Mlatbush|were in Jamaica, 4 in Newtown i and Atlantic Avenues. The increase]and Corona, and the rest scattering }{in that district over last year is $11,-]‘The valuation of all the corporations $06,150. ‘The smallest district in|in Queens was increased $1 jinn | Brooklyn is Section bounded by Richmond, the: largest district wou] Utica Avenue, East Sist Stree Ave- triet 1, running along New York Mra. 8. He Hartinan 00.00 nue FB, New Lots Road, Queens Bor- The ment in that district ough Line and Jamaica Buy, The in-]o last year ts $10,551,840, The crease in that district over last year| smallest district in Richmond is Dis- is -$ trict 6, running alony Staten Island In Queens, the largest district is]and Raritan Bays. ‘The increase in known as the Long Island City that district over last year'is $5,117,- tion. The in that district | 500 i over last The The net increase over 1% All Stores Open Saturday Evenings. Seamless Axminster Rugs 9x12 ft. $2.7-50 8.3x10.6 ft. $34.75 nishing. € ec NN il sn om , Consisting of Dremer, Bow-End Full Size Bed, Vanity Toilet Table, DOWN TowNM GAVE. Corner 15% STREET Open Pp Saturday Evening Saturday Evenings. “Jower h Do Not Confuse Our Stores With Others of Similar Name The Power of Big Buying Did you ever stop to think that in buying for three immense stores we are in a position to demand special consideration from manufac- turers, which in turn we pass on to our cus- tomers in the form of low prices? This tre- mendous-power is reflected also in the variety of our stock, the high standards of quality, and the service of our whole organization, which invites tasteful and economical home fur- Credit—generously, if desired 3-Piece All-Mohair Period Upholstered Suite of Wing Chair, Long Sofa and Arm als with $3] 9: 50 4-Piece Queen Anne Ament can Walnut Bedroom Suite _ Monday and Saturday Eves. naseneed valuations of real estate fn Manhattan for 1923 taxation purs according to the Department poses, of Taxes and Assessment, — k $166,972,360. The net increase for the Bronx js $120,797,960. The nét increase for Brooklyn, which is the greatest, exceeding that of even Manhattan, fs $198.746,772. Quean's net increase is $126,124,726. Rioh- mond’s is $29,975,010 In Manhattan 361 new buildings: are added to tho tax list. In the Bronx 2,897; in Brooklyn, 9,078; im Queens, which leads all by a wide margin, 14,644 and Richmond, 2,884. ‘The total number of new bulldings tn the five boroughs Is 29,859 The following table shows real es- tate Increases in Manhattan by sec~ tions. Section 1 runs from the Battery to Grand Street the entire) width of the Island; Section 2 from Grand to 14th Street from river to river; Section 3 from 14th to 4@ St from river to river; Section from 40th Street and west of Bt: Avenue; Section 5, from 40th to @ Street and east of Sixtlr Avenue; Bee. tion 6, 96th Street to borough bow dary and east of Lenox Avenue; Se: tion 7, ‘96th to boundary west of Lenox Avenue, Sesto 155th Street to north end of Manhial tan Str Valuation fo 1928. 968,753,789 Section milena LITTLE TOWN ELECTION TO-DAY IN CONNECTI Over 200 Women Are Expected n jected. to The Evening World.) Conn., Oct, 2,—To-day town election In all parts of Conn cut except four big cities. It 1s what known as “Little Town’ election di from all parts of Mastern Ci the Dem 6 work polling an enormous vd ure away ahead in towns wh been Republican for years, Of 200 women will be elected to the vi lous offices as, owing to the Minorfl Representation Law, they have so fixed the tickets that’ many of the womed cannot be defeated. Advice necticut show hard and They have NATURALLY ; (erom the Richmond Times-Dispatch.) Grubbs—They tell me Mrs. Closet careful in money matters as husband. Stubbs to proserv her any thee. don’t see how she mana her skill. He never gt erial with which to py! aur Store Open Monday and Saturday Evenings Chifforobe; $1 89- 50 Bronx Store