Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-09
ALLOvER THE STATE.

ALL OVER THE STATE.
 Accidents, Crimes, Law Suits and
 Notes in General-Waterbury to
 Wrestle With the Taxation Ques-
 tiOn-Taxes Too High.
 Mayor Baldwin of Waterbury in re- port made by him to the common council of that city this week, earnestly calls upon that body to tackle the taxation question and devise some way to have lower taxes there. He says: -
 refer to our high rate of taxation which is often spoken of as so excessive as to al most prevent new industries from spring ing up in our midst and certainly is bur den on all men who list their property honestly. I take the liberty to suggest g remedy and to ask your hearty and earnest cooperation in applying it. The grand list of Waterbury in 1877 was $6,835, ,s16; the grand list of 1890, $9,203, ,S59, an in- crease of only ss,s7O,541 and yet our pop ulation has more than doubled as we'll as our rate of taxation. These years have been the most prosperous in our history and yet the grand list has only increased &, ,370, ,541. New Haven has list of $50,- GOO, 1000; so has Hartford. Bridgeport has $25, 1000, ,000, and even Norwich has $14,- 000,0 ,000, while we do not reach SIG, ,0O0, ,000. Does anyone think that this ought not to be changed ? When we paid a state tax l there was some excuse, possibly, to keep down our list and to conceal our wealth, but that is now a thing of the past and | the time is come for us to make an inven- | tory. We are not 8 close corporation; we | are large concern with necessary ex- penses every year of over $500, ,OO0, and each man ought to pay as nearly as possi- ble his proportion, no more, no less, of these necessary expenses. To get at his share common fairness ought to urge us to find out just what proportion each taxpayer has got and to do this a reassessment of the property is of vital importance. I know this whole question is complicated one. I do not pretend to any expert knowledge of it, but do know that our rate is too high; that great deal of property is not listed at all; that there are many inequalities that are very difficult to smooth over and
 
 men elected each year who only have a few days in which to do their work and hand in their report. To overcome this I suggest that you appoint a committee from both boards to act with the board of selectmen giving them power to appoint competent men to make new inventory of the property of the city and town and l to hand this to the board of assessors duly elected next October and to ask them to 4l,io Ho,, 41o ec i. | list. Of course it will be optional with | that board of assessors whether or not to adopt this list thus handed them, but if the work is we'll and intelligently done it will be of great aid to them, and no man l likely to be elected would care to disre- gard the action of the committee, but will l gladly accept it. I promise if you will ap- 1 point such committee that our grand list | will be raised several hundreds of thous- ands of dollars and our rate of taxation 1 lowered to raise the same amount of money. Only few years ago it cost us only 1000 yearly to light our streets, now it costs over $2O, 1000. Our police expenses have doubled up and so with every de- city with all the wants that come to { full-fedged city. Our expenses are much heavier necessarily, because we have more people to care for, to protect from fire anc theft and to provide with water and ligh l and clean pavements, etc.
 Crop reports as brought in by the farmers in dicate that the Connecticut hay crop will b. quite light-about half. Other crops, as oats corn, rye, etc. are very promising and probabl! will be good. The inevitable potato bug has mad his appearance, but somewhat late to injure tn | early crops while the farmer has got the Pari green business down to fine point to aid in put ting down his bugship's ravages.
 ' In several respects the c. N. G. encampment a | Mantle mi hQ a Tn first place it will be the first ono including Sun l day; in the second, it will be under command o by the senate, and in the third place it will b. l conducted under more stringent regulation | concerning use of liquor than any preceding l one.
 Monday evening the Rev. Dr. L. w. Bacon o
 Norwich entertained a small party of friends a | his house, whom he had invited to meet Geners ! Jordan the father of Mrs. Bacon General Jol
 dan is a resident of Philadelphia, and during tn
 fatigues of his i march % to the sea As % the ggest st | of Dr. Bacon Monday evening were all soldiers | the "reminiscences brought up made the occasio ! a pleasant one and one enjoyed by all in the con | pany.
 Daniel Wyatt aged 24, employed in Crocker' | ship yard at New London, fell from the mast ! head of a schooner Tuesday afternoon, strikin | on his head. Death was instantaneous
 William Jameson of Middletown has been pro ! noted from commissary on colonels staff t | assistant commissary general on staff of Genera c. R. Foster of the patriarch militant I. o. o. F young rufnans who tried to assault a youn ! woman the other night The girl was unharmed save from fright. Her screams frightened tn
 Miss Abbott, the stratfeld school teache whose salary was withheld wi M E, for tin time bsca9s l missed from the school
 Stiles Judson, jr., of Stratford, chairman of tn ! judiciary committee of the house of representa- ! tives, left yesterday with his family for vaca tion of week or ten days in the White noun I tainS
 ! Mrs. Atkins of Willimantic has recently re
 bs se wed b En- & that es she
 Atkins is not in the best of circumstances.
 John Collins and wife, a Mystic couple, i'll treated their six-year-oId daughter. An aun complained and Justice Tingley decided to plac the little one where she would be moro humanel.
 Seymour Steele lives in West Hartford. Unti ] lately he kept dog, which went mad and bi l two cows and several other canines. For thi Mir; Steele has been called upon to pay 1875, ant ! he has agreed
 Cyrass; Priest, junior vice commander Q died suddenly s' Monday i night fifty years He was veteran of Company B, Fourteenth reg iment of Connecticut Volunteers. He leaves | widow and three children.
 The Middletown Union depot cat, which occa ! sonally took trips to New Haven and Williman tic. will do so no more having been run over ane popular with railroad men.
 George Curtis escaped from Constable Keefe ! while being taken to the Danbury jail iron Ridgefeld Monday. He jumped from a window ] of his boarding house, where he had been al | lowed to go to change his clothes.
 ! Stephen Daley, who shot and killed John Nc ! Carthy on the Trinity college campus, made ap | McConyille be reduced. Judge Fenn fixed the bail at $3OO0. Daley's friends think that bali l to that amount can be obtained in few days. | who was believed to have been cured of con | sumption by the of Koch's lymph, is nov hopelessly gone. One lung is completely gone | and the other is not in much better condition l high board fence has agitated two Willi ! mantle residents Messrs. Bugbee and Murphy | Murphy built the fence and Bugbee sued. Now Judge Fenn decides that Bugbee can recover ' costs, and if Murphy does not remove the fence ! in a specified time he is to pay Bugbee $1 ,00O
 OLD LYME'S SUMMER SCHOOL.