Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-11
TAXES AND POLITICS
Attracting the Attention of Citizens
in All Parts of the City.
ASSESSORS MAKING REDUCTIONS.
C. L. Nagee Addresses Fourteenth Ward
Meeting on the Subject.
LIVELY ORATORY ON THE S0UTHSIDE


now engaged in taking the valuation of tax.
able property in the Fourteenth ward.
Samuel Josephs, the regular ward assessor,
is in charge of the work, and with the data
he had in hand and the force of assistants
provided, the County Commissioners expect
to have the assessment completed by the 1st
of March. The city assessors clerks are
shaping up their work so that as soon as the
county books from the Fourteenth ward
come in they will be able to devote their en-
tire attention to them and will endeavor to
have the city assessment completed before
March 10.
City Assessors Case and Larkin were both
reported last evening to be much improved,
and it is probable Mr. Larkin will get down
to his office by next Monday. Mr.. Case
would have been down yesterday had his
physician permitted. While kept at home
by his ailment, he has books there and is
working on the assessment revision.
The intention of the assessors to practic-
ally eliminate the agricultural and rural
classifications from all but two or three
wards of the city has received a check. The
determined stand taken by a number of
property holders, and their expressed
avowal to test the matter in the courts if
the assessors pursued the plan proposed
has caused change of plans The City
Attorney has been asked for an opinion on
the subject, and the question will be allowed
to rest entirely until he has analyzed the law
relating to it.
Changed From the Rural Glass.
In the meantime the assessors are chang
ing all property on newly improved streets
from the rural to full value class and as
sessing it accordingly. In the Thirty
second ward for instance, the improved por-
tions of Grandview avenue, Bertha street,
Boggs and Wyoming avenues, Stanwix and
Shiloh streets, property on which has all
been classed as rural heretofore, are changed
to the full value class, and, if the attorney
decides they may, the board will change a
number of intervening streets not improved,
but which enjoy large share of the bene-
fits of the paved streets, into the same class.
The assessors have thus far revised the
assessments of the First, Seventh, Ninth,
Tenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Twenty-fourth
Twenty-ffth, Twenty sixth Twenty eighth,
Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-frst and
Thirty-second wards, leaving % wards yet
to be revised. The reductions they have
made have been published except in the
Fifteenth and Thirty-frst wards, which are
given herewith. A few appeals were filed
yesterday, but they are of no Importance.
But few reductions were made in the
Fifteenth ward, the following being the
list, except in few exceptional individual
cases. On Thirty-eighth street, from South
street to the Allegheny river. both sides of
the street, a reduction of Is per cent from
the original assessments on full depths.
Thirty-seventh. street, from Smallman to
Mulberry alley, S0-foot depths, right side,
reduced to $40 per foot front. Penn avenue,
from Thirty-second to Thirty-third streets,
reduced to S16O per front foot, left side.
Pretty General Reduction.
In the Thirty-frst ward the reduction was
general. Property on Washington avenue,
between Allen and Brownsville avenues
was reduced from S13O to $1O4 per front foot
for 150-foot depths, and smaller depths in
the same proportion. From Allen to Maple
avenues reduced from S1O0 to $50 per front
foot; from Maple to Beltzhoover avenues,
reduced from 500 to S72, full. depths;
Arlington avenue to Allen avenue from S130
to s1O4; Brownsville to Allen avenues, S130
to S104; Allen to Walter avenues from S120
to 500; Walter to Maple avenues from 800
to $50
Eureka street, from Allen to McClain
avenues, reduced from $50 to S26 IS per
front foot full depths, shorter depths in
same proportion; from Allen avenue to
Emerald street, $50 to S26 25; from McLain
avenue to Emerald street, Renwick street to
Maple avenue, $50 to $26 and S25 to 500
Excelsior street, from Allen to Maple
avenues, reduced from S2S to S22 so per
front foot; Maple to Beltzhoover avenues
from S2S to $50 so; Emerald to Allen ave-
nues from $25 to $40 on 125 foot depths and
from s2S to 500 80 on 150-foot depths.
On Freeland street, from Arlington to
Knox avenues, 125-foot depths, reduced
from $26 to 500 IS. On Climax street, half
depths from Knox to Allen avenues, re-
duced from S26 to SIC; other depths in the
same proportion. Industry street, from
to $12 60, full depths.