Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-22
There are yet six wards on which the ward
assessors have not reported
Appeals From All Sections.

There are yet six wards on which the ward
assessors have not reported.
Appeals From All Sections.
The maiorityof Yesterdays appeals came
from the Fourth, Eleventh, Sixteenth.
Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-third and
Twenty-ninth wards, though many came
from others James McKay's appeal was
to have the assessment on his 40x100-foot
lot on Liberty between Tenth, and
Eleventh streets, reduced from $64 900
to s., 600 He said: "I consider $1,000
per front foot, the full cash value. This
property rents for 60 per cent less thaa it
would if below Tenth street." Joshua
Lloyd. on his appeal, says they would be
glad to sell for 5000 12x58 foot lot in
Scott alley that the Board had assessed at
So, 500.
Thomas D. Messler has four 20-foot and
one 25-foot lots on Penn avenue, between
Ninth street and Garrison alley, all being
ITO feet deep. The Board assessed the
lots between Garrison alley and Tenth street
at 81, 100 per front foot, and those below
the alley at S1,29S. In his appeal
he SAYS 81, 900 per foot above the alley and
81, 200 below is enough ''Yhe values set are
beyond selling values" he continues, "as
gauged by recent bona fide sales. My
values are fully up to the price the lots
would bring at auction, as contemplated by
law"
Dilworth Brothers were assessed S122, 450
on their 75x160 lot at Penn avenue and
Tenth street, but they want it cut down to
S112, 500, or 81 500 per foot front. They
also ask that their three-story building be
reduced from $4,000 to $4,000, stating
that, although it has been assessed 81, 900
for three years past, it is not worth over
S15, GOO, being too weak to stand additional
stories
In the Sixth ward Henry Rea, Jr, is as
Sessed at $232 per front foot on lot 119x
419, fronting Second avenue, but he says the
Pittsburg Gas Company's property adjoin-
ing is only s15o per foot, and he objects. to
paving on any higher valuation than theirs
He also asks for a reduction from $50 to
$40, ,275 on the 6Sx1O9-foot lot at Second ave-
nue. and Try street.
David Hutchinson, owner of many Sixth
ward properties, asks for a reduction from
the Assessors figures on nearly all of them
On his 233x64 foot lot on Vickroy street,
assessed at s10,575, he fixes the assessable
value at 81, 500, and on his other properties
about the same proportion of decrease.
Object to an Excessive Tax.
The John Lang heirs protest against the
valuation of SIS, 26S on their 28X115 foot lot
at Fifth avenue and Marion street, claiming
it is excessive and fixing $500 as its real
value.
In the Eleventh ward appeals are coming
in numerously, and show that valuations
have been heavily increased. On Cliff
street the board had evidently placed foot
frontage at from SIS to S100, but nearly all
the appellants fix the value at $50. Thomas
Mcclure, lot 18x6S, Cliff street, is assessed
h,,f hof f,va Of
sessments in that ward follow, the assessors
figures being first and the appeal figures
second:
lou a4x5O $40; $500. Jacob Glaser, lot 4Sx140,
GIoster street. $l6sO: $3.50. Robert Fitzpat-
rick. lot Sx95. Davis street. $54s6; sS.45o
s4 200; $1,000. Mary a. Little. lot 9oxlll.
Porter street, 81 200: $780, U. P. Woman's
Association OF North America, Center ave-
nue, sl4, 1856: So, 100. W. NJ. Brown, lot 2ox79,
Webster avenue. 81 500; $1,000.
Herman Straub, in the Sixteenth ward, is
assessed SAT- for 2401S5 feet in rear of
Liberty and Ella streets. He appeals to
have them fixed at 81, 900 and $4,000. re-
spectively. The Iron City Brewing Com
pany accept an assessment of S44, S44
on the IL acres they occupy at
Thirty-fourth and Liberty streets, but
on the icehouse and storage build
ings thereon ask for reduction from
S43, 500 to 100000. They also ask for S., 900
off the S25, 900 on the. brewery. c. Upper
man, lot 2411O0, Penn avenue near Ligonier
street, asks for a reduction from $3.50 to
s., ,000 Bishop Phelan, assessed 800 on
S0x125 feet on Pearl street, wants it reduced
to So, 600, and this rate of reduction asked is
continued all over the ward.
Almost Treble The Old One.
NJ r. Moorhead, on Ellsworth ave., Twen.
tieth ward, has sc acres assessed at S154,-
500, which was formerly assessed at S56, 600,
including buildings. He wants it reduced to
S51 900 on ground alone. Police Magistrate
Hyndman has 37x100 feet on Penn
avenue, assessed at S34, 400, but SAYS
he bought it last March at $500
per front foot, and wants it so
assessed. J. B. Bayard, three acres, Shady
Lane and Walnut street, s74, ,6S7; appeals
for S55, 900. Also two acres at Emerson
and Alder, $40, 600; appeals for $50, 900
Dollar Savings Bank, Olx2oO
feet, Penn avenue, S17,675; appeals for S1O,-
100 assessed.
In the Twenty-third ward, Thomas Wei
far, nine acres on Squirrel Hill railroad,
assessed st sos, 500, but wants it placed at
S13, 500, giving as reasons that it has Eeen
for coal and is unfit for build
ing, has no outlet on the south side and
powder magazine on adjoining property
makes it unstable.