Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-02

| SO.UuOd year, Is only aSSeSSeQ Al
| L. Il w. Neeb, owners OF the Freihett
| FTeund property are assessed at $40 600 on 2
| N60 foot lot on Smithfield street, 5000 OF
| building and $4,000 on machinery. Theil
appeal is SS5, coo on lot, S5 0G0 on building ant
5000 on machinery.
The Schenlcy Assessments.
Mrs. Mary E. Schenley is assessed as fol
| lows: Eighty-one thousand eight hundred
and twelve dollars on 95x77 feet at Seventh
avenue and Cherry alley and Grant street
and S55.0OO on seven-story warehouse
thereon; SIG, ,OG0 on l63x95 feet at New Grant
street and Oak alley, SIS 600 on five six-story
warehouse thereon and s., 500 on two smaller
buildings. kann. Cohen & Israel have q Is
year lease on l00x9j feet of the New Grant
street property. They, in an unsworn state
ment declare that they have erected
thereon the five warehouses which they say
only cost them S45,C0o. They say New Grant
str, ct is no business street and should not
be assessed at moro than 5000 per front foot.
No appeal is made to the assessment on the
remainder of the above property:
other Third ward appeals follow: Du-
quesne Land Company, lot 90Sls5, 500 500,
and four-story stone clubhouse, Sll300O,
being Duquesne Club ON Sixth avenue: ap-
peal, Sl65 500 on Ianu and S95 900 on building.
John Burns, 6JxSo feet, Grant street, 81, 600;
appeal, $4,000 A. V. Holmes, 5tXG0 feet.
Filth avenue. between Wood and Market
streets, sl4, 44o; appeal, sl24, 200. Same, 30x66
John w. Black, Axl2o feet. Smfthfield street
Snd Virgin alley; appeal, $l32, COO Mr.. Black
inserts 40S60 foot lot adjoining the above
which the Assessors had omitted entirely
and which he values at $4,000. Eliza j. Gal
lagher, 22NS6 feet Sixth avenue and Montour
way, S2I,720 on lot and s., 500 on building: aD-
peal, $4,000 on all. Nancy w. Wilson, 20x95
1eet, Diamond street, between Cherry alley
and Smithfield street. SIS 6OO appeal, s17, ,OCO j..
Z. Wilson, 20X95 feet, Diamond street and
Cherry alley, $l953o, appeal, $ls,5O0. Annie
d. Ramsey, a01l25 ieet, sixth avenue above
Smithfield street, $4,000 on lot and $4,000
on building; appeal 5000 Samuel Nc
Clurl>en, 24160 feet, Wood street. between
Diamond and Fifth avenue, $50, ,000 appeal
S4S.000. j. w. Arrott ct al, two lots, 251% x9O,
$67, ,S63 and 2O1%<x90 s55 sg3. on Wood street, be-
tween Virgin alley and Sixth avenue; appeal
Sll315O on both; appeal on building from
S54, 500 to $4,000. Matthias Schaedle 20x5o,
Grant street below Sixth avenue, $ll, 600; APP
peal $3.50. William Morrison, 1SxsO feet,
Wood street between Diamond street and
Fifth avenue, $50 400 on lot, and SIS, 600 on
building; appeal SlS,062 20 on building only:
Cherry alley, SS4, ,659 appeal $S2, 900; also asks
cut from $5 900 to s., 600 on building.
Protests From the East End.
In the Nineteenth ward Fl. 81. Negley sp-
peals as follows:
Two lots, 25xl45 feet each, Penn avenue.
between Beatty and Whitfield streets, as
Negley street. near Broad street, $40, ,494: ap-
peal, s., $40. For Catherine B. Negley he ap-
peals OH l225 acres on Highland avenue, be-
tween Hays and Black streets, assessed s2l4,
9i3 appeal. .ssl26 900. On IL acres on Highland
avenue and Hampton street, SIS, 900: appeal,
So 600. Five lots 30xll5 feet each, Rodman
street, 5000: appeal. $6,6O0 Four lots, l151
l05 feet in all, Highland avenue near Rod
man street, S37, ,440; appeal, sll, 500.
William Sprague gives good reasons for re-
l,1oE Ei,N,,a bod In fS
sed $4,000 on 20xlO0 feet on Frankstown
avenue between Broad and Station street
but his valuation is only $1,000 because this
street is too narrow and the street car tracks
fill it up and business men are all trying to get
out on Penn avenue. On 24XlS7 feet OH Broad
street assessed at g. l60 his valuation is 81 ,440
He says: "The city recently put in a sewer
which Is too small and is a great nuisance,
filling cellars with filth. The electric light
plant opposite is still worse for it is running
every night and jars the buildings so that l
have trouble in holding tenants"
II. E. Dubarry desires q cut from $9675 to
Sc $50 on his 621ax222 feet at Negley and
Broad streets because Broad street is impas-
sa BILE, not graded or paved, and is an injury
rather than u benefit.
Sarah J. Mccullough is assessed S6,036 on
36xl65 feet on Stanton and Euclid avenues.
and 3, ,765 on buildings. Her appeal is for
SIC, 600 on all.
John X. Gregg, 4Sxl6s feet at Negley and
Margaretta streets, is assessed at s. S35, but
appeals for Sc, 600 ana rural classification.
William Mcfarland, executor for James
Caldwell. is assessed at $50, $50 on IL acres at
Penn and Negley avenues and $25,Sl0 on 25x
IA feet on Penn avenue, between Highland
and st. Clair. His valuations are S23 S25 and
sl2 925 respectively, and he says that they
are really higher than the property would
bring.
Margaret McClanan, assessed So, $50 on 115x
$50 feet on Collins avenue, appeals for 1850
but accepts the assessors valuation on a
of other properties. j: w. Geyer,
assessed $l4, 100 44yl00 feet Frankstown
avenue and Station street: appeal $12, COO.
Same, 20xlG0 feet on Frannstown avenue, at
ward line, $4,000; appeal, $500. William NJ.
Denison, 4Oxl40 feet, Rippey and Euclid
streets, $l2 S4s on lot, and $1,000 on building;
appeal, Sl0, 500 on lot, and S5 coo on building
Daniel Bohannan, 4Sx1S7 feet, q Iots), Broad
Broat street. sa.9s7; appeal, $500 William
81, ,ssi; appeal, $1,000 per acre. Nancy
Brown, I7x57 Frankstown avenue,
between Collins and Broad street, $1l ,900
appeal, $1,000. Andrew Young, 3lx145 feet,
Penn avenue near st. Clair street, Il, $50; ap-
peal, $3.50. Susan Murdoch, All acres,
avenue, s2o550; appeal, sS,22O
nues, $l0,040 appeal, $4,000. S. j. VAIN
wright, l95x2S7 feet. Highland avenue, s39, ,000
appeal, s29, 80. E. L. Wainwright, 81 acres,
Same, 81 acres, Winebiddle estate, $40, rs;
appeal, Sc 900. Same, acres Winebiddle
estate, s26 S92; appeal, s4,500. Peter Schusler,
l0xll2 feet, Frankstown near Penn ave-
nue., 5000; appeal, $1,000. John Schusler,
3O1il9 feet, Frankstown, near Penn avenue.
S22 500; appeal, SIC, 500. F. w. Saivert, 25xl45
Penn avenue, near Broad street, $1,000;
appeal, s., $50. F. w. sawert Co., two lots
15Il45 each, Penn avenue, near Broad, ,sl7 500;
appeal, $4,000. f. W. & J. H. Sawert, s5xl45
adjoining above, $3.50; appeal, 5000.
Wants an Agricultural Classification.
WI. A. Kennedy, in the Twenty-second
ward, is assessed s63OOO on s0OxsOl feet,
fronting Forbes street, from Murdoch to
W ightman streets. He thinks s32 900 high
valuation and insists on 'agricultural''
because there is no light, fire |
2r GoIce projection in that vicinity AbSut
nan and Irwin streets is assessed to MFR. |
Kennedy, but he says it is not his.
George l. Whitney has lOs4 acres on For |
ward avenue which he says he bought for |
s, 800 at public sale and which rents for Sl0O |
year. The assessors valuation is $26 944 a
figure, Mr.. Whitney declares, |
IS the. property is inaccessible. except by
Talue of S. coo on the land.
Mrs. N. l. Hays is assessed at 6,9SS for
ia acres on Nine-Mile run. She fixes its
yaiue at Sl2 9Sl, and demands Agricultural
classification, as the land is used as farm
It small rental.
Lottic 5. Iaurer has little over four acres
IN Four Mile Run, assessed at $6,s42, and
louse at s., COO. In her appeal she declares
hat the property is not for sale because it is
Ter home, that it should be classed agricul-
ural because she is q gardener and makes
Ter living from it, and that it is located a
ong way from any public street or road and
las no city conveniences or safeguards. Her
is 81 900 an acre for the land.
Mrs. Margaret |. Hays has about 80 acres,
divided into lots by the assessors, bounded
" Irwin, Hays and Valley streets assessed
{ Sl3 S92. She protests against the assessors
aging her ground out in 40-foot lots for pur-
'oses of taxation, as she has never thought
ii laying it out in lots on account of its mac