National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-21


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w y ~. ss,.s,.., a. sm6uut Of
E1so 1911 - - 4 cssicristion. and
10. .,t ~ - sr,f.fso, a thr1 n Il hid
X 49, "a cnt ~ TooS nsyeuaeut, h would
49, o..t - 49, ,,.vsd ftom buildinr-lins to
ha,,ld,oss H. .,ts ~ood nsvement. 81 81 Der
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Nr. Bass. do not understand him 90.
~ R.ss I No. he has taken ths Aggregate
sIns1ss= - yosI saefestsa, and dtFtdsd IT hr
n 80 number az lneal feet. and A. n All these
,IimnroEements cot 20 many doIIsfs per 'Iinsal
lfeot, 49, H. -L ~ I. - =.
Il By the Chairman %. You reduce every
Il thing 70 square yards, ~ i understand youi
AL reduce HE lsngth Of tie sfreef nom Penn
h syiyania avenue 70 NE middle Of IL street, de-
ducting the fntsrsections Allowed bY the board
to the nertn sids Of Indiana avenue 1 which Z
not improsed at sil-she crossing, then, put
II into yards fron brfidtuv inc 20 building line;
nov hi had put i into yards rom che Inner
hsye dsduessd sts f.es EN-, rom sbs street,
! leaving siTty-f6ur feet, e1d when you come to
,lput ID twentysix fseS o. this unimproyed q
Il a "a and add It 70 the other you WI ind Il
/ VIII come TO ! GOOD deal more monsy--about
1e7,o sHtssa 49, ,ae Dad g'. 80 -.sisal. l'sss
Idea; You took that means of sscsrtaimug The
] eua1tity within those ilmitsl A. Yes, cir. 10
1SQs Thenyop took from the Board of Public
\ WORKS thu report of money expended upon that
4 portion Of the street, "A. sFes, Ga 4 4
Q. In aseertsining that you took the amount
paid on account OF wood pavement, did youi
i Was that portion of the amount a. Yes,
4 SIR It was all in.- 81. u sts. ,zss rs sal
1 %. You took everything in-that for curb
ine4 5A1sY Yea, sir.vEI rEs to cl..arz=; - 81, /.
l. q. That for sidewalksis A. Yes, cir. - Z, !
- g. That for seweragel A. Yes, sir. D.. ?
4 That for gas-pipesi A. Yes, sir III
4 q. That for Watsr-pipesi A. Yea, sir. Oh!
They did not lay gas-pipes. .gri - -. /
.ts @. Well, you included all the items OF ex-
Ependiturs upon that portion Of the street, A.
! @. And then you divided that by the num-
Der Of square yards within these lmitsi A.
Yes, sir. - =. -. 81
i o. And from that you asceftained the amount
per square yard which had been spent BY the
boarii A. Yes, SIR. -. go
|, @. That's your mode Of ascertaining. A.
Yes, SIR. ~, - -.--..
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] wood psyementi A. I do not. Yes, 1t was
i IS 50 yard. They give the number Of yards
Of wood pavement. s'l.fs, 90 i5gt.'' "a
Q. You have made no calculation different
/ from that made by the board In It's report A.
There 9@l ID s52E'..z D 7rs-li-a7'hHi re =
q. You havetnot taken any prices other than
those given By the board 4 None at all.
@. You have put them all togetheri A. Put
them all together. news al Gat7E 30. 81 5-..s. .
\ q. And, then, from that statement, you give
% what it cost per square yari7 A. Whist It
1 would have cost all over the street. i -s
4 @. Had the improvement covered the entire
street, A. Yes, sir; which IL did not do. Now,
the object of my estimate on Seventh street Is
| simply this: IHanted TO arrive at what 1t cost
to pave the city, at the cost on Seventh street,
and arrived at it. thought had 1t some
/ where. ,..r- --.-...--.-. - .r.5..-- .-
/ Witness searches among document. L
I. BY Mr. Jswett: O. It Is said that you have
| not paid your taxes. Is that trueI A. That
Is false, SIR. paid my general tax on all my
property except one piece. That I negotiated
10 sell, on which parties were to paw the taxes.
And paid my taxes in money, not in certid-
Gates, which I could have bought for eighty
/ cents on the dollar went and gave them the
money. / paid my special assessments as far
as they were due, every dollar Of them, and
paid them In money, and there never was q
rrosser libel perpetrated against man In the
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my taxes, because It could not help being
known. 90 80, a'-7i.. II -71e u ~.
O. Did you sell the old material from the
| front OF your property. A. did, lust for an
experiment, IN one case. :sal a.'7ar q u
7 Q. What was the result Of that experiment.
\ A. On z street have o frontage of sixty feet
| four inches and -seventeeu-foos sidewalk. I
went to Mr.. Jones, who was one Of the con-
tractors of the board-I believe he vas q brick
layer and builder asked him to 90 and take
the bricks. The bricks had been down on the
sidewalk ffteen or eighteen years. I asked
him to take them out Of the yard and count
them himself, and allow me what he thought
they were WORTH Ny object was 10 ascertain
| as near as possible what the old material was
worth, and what was being got for IL, Mr..
Jones had the bricks taken. counted them him
SELF, or sent somebody to count them, and he
returned me 1000 bricks. I asked him what
he was going to allow me for them. He said
$40 thousand. Now mark you: he took the
bricks himself; counted them himself; hauled
them away himself, and allowed me $40 q
thousand. ---- ...-..-----. .,--.5 Il 2. -7 !
| Q. Ten dollars thousand for bricks seven
teen years oldt A. Yes, sir; and paid me the
money. r.-..-..s..r So,
| Q. With regard to the material In front Of
the buildings Of your neighbors, what became
| OF that; do you knowi A. do not. I sup
pose It was taken by the Board Of Public
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| those that did not take It up. They took my
curling from there. :,
@. Have you made an estimate Of the value
Of the old material taken by the board from
the frontage of the property Of your neighborsl
A. have spproximated an estimate Of the
smount Of material that the board has taken
from the citizens, and cannot make Il under
two and q half millions. That needs little
explanation now. H E-z
Q. Explain that, II you pleased A. want
TO explain 1t by their own figures, sir, not minei
New, gentleman, these figures here estimated
seem 70 startle some people.
Y. Give us the result, II you pleased A., /
want TO give you the full result now from their
own figures. a.L
Q. Cannot you answer my question as to the
amount Of old material belonging to citizens
taken py the board, you have made any cal
eu1atoni A. nave, sir:
TTe me tne resuis OF tnat caicuiation.
a; wen, SAD before tnet could not make
ISss u vnsn TWO ana nan mnnons.
WIZ you state, now, precisely, now you
arrived AZ tnai a. Wen, sir, l arrived Of II
y making an estimate. by the streets, the nag
glng, tne STONE, ana everything appertainng TO
~. .ne Improvement Oh streets, even the SAND on
inc e sI 1,s
". Inen you nave taken the street, A. Yes,
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