The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-22

on the former property Do reduced 10
The estate Of Robert Crangle submit.
mitted that an increase ofT7 per cent on
one lot and 2S on another, neither hay
ing received any improvement, but
having, on the contrary, deteriorated,
was not Just. Wheat & Speidel object
ed to an assessment of S, 800 for the
shell OF the old court house. 3. I.
Caldwell objected to 5000 on his Main
street store room.
The German Insurance company
thought raise from $3S,95O to sos, 800
was out OF all reasonable proportion,
the property being the Opera House
block, which has received no improve
ments.
The Central Glass works was raised
from So, 200 to sos, 100, an increase oil
nearly $4,000, which was stated to he
excessive.
Mary A: Brunots property at Main
and Eleventh streets was nut up from
SIS, 600 to $4,000. She thou ght 500, 800
would be equitable.
John McLuro said he wonld sell the
McLurc house property for $4,000, but
it Is assessed at 500, 800, as against
So, 1000 last year. The property is out
OF repair, and never paid 2 per cent till
the present lease.
Mrs. A. |. Borcman thought 81, zoo
for her property on Fourteenth and
Chapline streets was excessive.
The Wheeling Title and Trust Com
pany, assessed at $26, 425 by the county,
was put down at $4,000 by the city,
which was complained of as excessive.
These were merely samples. Among
the other complainants were Fred I'M
run, G. 0. Smith, L. w. Bachman, w.
q. Mason, Henry Somehow, j. B. Nc
Kee, q. o. Updcgraf, DR.. Cunningham,
Henry Bieberson, the Rodgers estate, J..
Pollock. Louis Huseman, w. Schempf
and G.. w Eckhardt jr. The COM
plants piled up pretty high OF the
clerks desk.
John Howell was swelled from $3.50
to S., 400, while the adjoining lot was
reduced from 81, 300 to 81 1900 He did
not understand this.
Henry Jacobs house at 1871 Main
street was put up from $500 to $4,000.
He was willing to accept $4,000.
Several petitions have come in from
South Side wards already.
A number OF cases have been found
in which complaints arose through a
misunderstanding. One man added the
valuation of his lot and that Of the
house, and TO this added the total. 1t
only took q minute to detect his error.
The Fourth ward will be considered
to-day.
The following new petitions were filed
with City Clerk Thoner yesterday alter
noon:
FIRST WARD
Amanda Phillips, assessed this year
ut $1,000; entirely too high; last years
assessment of s., 900 proper
Five or six more OF no public interest
were also filed with the committee.
SECOND WARD.
All. G. Stoke, 1913 Chapline street;
last year $4,000; this year $4,000; $500
enough.
wilhelmina Laue, 1920 Chapline
street; 81, 500 in '0l; s, 900 in '92i $1,000
enough.
Nine other small ones were also filed.
THIRD WARD.
Henry Was, assessed at $1,000;
$500 stated as entirely fair.
The Masonic Temple Association, in
its petition said:
"The property, SO feet on the west
side of Market street, adjoining Pollock
Bros flour mill, is assessed in the
name OF j. NJ. Charnock at $1,000.
This property now belongs to the Ma
sonic Temple Association, an organiza-
ton formed for the purpose OF building
a temple or place of meeting for the
different Masonic bodies OF the city OF
Wheeling. The property is not wholly
paid for and the buildings now occupy
ing the ground are, as you no doubt
know, old, dilapidated structures that
it is impossible to rent for sufficient
money 10 pay the interest on the bal
ance Of the purchase money We yet owe.
Our effort is struggle in which we
trust we are not TO be thwarted by ex-
cessive taxation. We therefore pray
your honorable body that you reduce
the amount of the assessment to $1,000.
The assessed valuation Of last year was
SG,600."
FOURTH WARD.
Joe Webb, corner Sixteenth and Mar
ket streets, increased troms5, 900 to s1O,-
500; repairs necessary.
Mrs. Joseph schuler, $500 is ex-
cessive.
q. II. Loefiler, assessed at $4,000; last
year $4,000; $4,000 is high enough.
One lot assessed at 49, 900 has been offer
ed for sale at 81, 500, and no buyers.
William Garlic, administrator, lot 1893,
Fourth ward, raised from $4,000 to
$G,4O0; $4,000 about right,
Joseph speidel, raised from $4,000 to
S42,500; not just
John E. Clator, 1923 and 1926 Market
street, raised from $500 to $17,90O.
Mrs. J. w. Boring, raised from $4,000
to $500.
West Virginia Tobacco Company, as
sessed at S41, 500; $4,000 would be just.
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