Daily Republican., 1889-01-30

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present opportunity and call before
the end Of this week.
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| The ASSESSOR Work.
The work of assessing persons who had
been omitted from the assessments and
correcting other uames went On quietly
and regularly all yesterday afternoon. At
no time was the u crowd present. The
most omissions have been In the III th
ward anon st the coior,d voters, ana
Assessor McCloskey In consequence was
! keps more busy than the other assessors
la putting on names. Amongst those
who had been omitted was Mr.. McClos-
keys bi other in the Tenth ward He came
forward with his voucher and ha his
name put on the lists yesterday afternoon.
As he was Democrat there could have
been no special design In leaving his
name OF, but the omission was merely an
oversight At 5 o'clock the assessors ad.
journed until clock this morning,
having duriug the day placed 70 names
upon the duplicates, OF which 25 were
from the First district, Asses or Hgg MS
81 from the SrcOnd district, Assessor Nc
Closkey and 81 from the Third strict
Assessor Dewees.
OF thes. in the First district IL were
whita and 8 eolorrd; 10 the Second II
were wkite aud ~ colored, and in tho
Ihird 10 we're white aud Ii colortd.
With two or three exceptions sll were
Republicans. One cnlor man wanted
to pay his taxes before he left
During the intervals OF assessments
yesterday the difficulties in the way of
making full aud comp etc Assessment
OF p II tax payers were talked over and
the assessor, had varied experiences to
relate. Many OF the difficulties aros-
through ignorance In regarl 10 the i'm
p rtance OF being assessed. Many places
where the assessors would call the rs
would be nobo1y at home hut the lady
OF The house, who looked upon the a-srs-
sors AS inthrlopsrs meddliug with bust
ness that did not belong to hem. The,
knew that assessments meant tax and
that tax meant that money should he
paid, aud how to save hat money seemed
TO be the leading object. II she could
beat the assessor out o. name OF two
about the house she thought she had
c,everly tIicked him.
In mary Instances the servant girl wac
sent To the do r 10 answer the call OF the
| assessor, who was just ne / be 70 blurt
out "Jim Smith" as "John smith" A
sharp shrill voice would bs heard coming
down the stairway from the qstairs par
Tors, You needn't give the wa ter's
name" he's not worth assessing, nor
grandpape lame, he's too d, and NO.
body about here cares about being
assessed snyhos."
As essor Devices went to prominent
boarding house 10 get the ma es OF the
boarders TO put on tue list. The board
ing house keeper declined to give the
names, fearful that her boaruers would
think she had no busin, So to d. 60, she.
however, told the as .essor where he crud
lind them himself and get their names.
| FIVE of them were clerks n prominent
/ business Office and tn tier the asse sor
bent his course. Going to the office he
saw the foreman, who very politely said
he would call upon the young men and
get their names. be did so but each and
every one OF them dsclioed giving Their
names as they "didn't wait 10 h.
assessed and didn't care about yot ny
anyhow" Several efforts were made 10
get the names Of those clerIs but with
out avail.
The assessor was very free In Speaking
his mind about this case, aud there seem
ed to be decided opinion that lit lie
! compulsory law would not be out of the
way in such casee.
"Coiored people," said Assessor Nc
Closkey, were always more ready aud
willing 10 give their names than white
people"
| Another mistake Is made by voters in
sisting that only the initials of their first
name shall be used. A case OF thi- kind
occurred yesterday. An intel igept gen
tleman who had been omitted had a fret
a middle and last name. Tic iii lals
of the two first were "a, c." and no
| of L. II
to have 1t enters. upon the bo, K in any
other way. He was told that the law re-
quire1 the frat name to be s elled in full
tor very good and substantial reas ns,
but he resolutely insisted that It should
be IA. e." or nothing, and SO it was en-
tered.
Now, whether the first name is Alfred,
Arthur, Allen, Alban, Alexander, Adrian.
Abel, Atwood Anthony, or Azar.ah
nobody knows, and When two with be
same initials GENE to pay their taxes how
is the collector to know which is VIII ch2
A. O. Smith, for instance, may in>ist ttat
he Is Arthur G. Smith, When The collec-
tor does not know that he is not al red
G. Smith. Another il ustrai ion of the
confusion that would occur is this: A..
q. Smith, perhaps Arthur, comts and
pays his taxes and takes his rece pt.
| t1tiG CuLlCb huOJutT n " Gu1 III ItE-
haps A iret) TO pay his taxes. The r"l-
, leCtor loots down his list and says; "Why
A. G. Smith has paid 1t might lie d
futile attempt 10 convince tn I co lsctnr
, that A G. Smith had not paid MS taxes.
. II is mooted subject whether an NJ
sessor in one district has not the right
4 to aesess persons In other districts The
7 affidavit of vouchers required TO be
: used by Law for applicants 10 ~ asse sed
requ Tres the ai1ant to know that the ap
I plicapt is resident OF Wilmington
/ Hundred, not of assessment stIict Of
, ward Wards and districts are but sub
divisions for the sake OF convenience
!. but the real qua liications for an appi
0 cant for assessment is to be reellen
! OF the hundred, and after his voucher /
I accepted his name can be transferred L
D the ward In which he lives. OF cours
' there are counter opini' Ms to this, yet q
:. the same time the opinion is sronges
q that an assessment by any one OF the as
a SEES Sors would be legal.
Voters Hho are not certain they a.
assessed should avail them elves OF tn
opportun ity ow offered. The sess r
!, will cit tomorrow, Friday aud Satul
J. day.
10 Thinks of Moving.
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