Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-28
NAY ASK THE COURTS
To Make a Rural Classification if
Assessors Knock 1t Out.
THE BOARDS COURSE NOT DECIDED.
Fun Is Expected Over Assessments in the
Nineteenth Ward.
HOW THE APPEALS CANE IN YESTERDAY


been received by the City Assessors from
owners of large East End DSsperties has APP
peared the sentence: "We demand that
this property be classified as usual (or agri-
culturaD as provided by law"
In view of the statement that the ''rural'
classification was to be entirely wiped ont
by the Assessors, and that the agricultural
classification would only be allowed in a
limited few localities, the reason for this
formal demand was not understood until
yesterday when it was stated that the
Aiken heirs, who own considerable prop
erty in the vicinity of Aiken avenue,
Shadyside, were preparing to go TO court if
certain properties of theirs are not given
their rural classification. Rural prop
erty is only assessed on two-thirds of its
real value. All the appeals of the
Aiken heirs filed yesterday bore the signif-
cant sentence mentioned, and the presump-
ton is that if they propose to go TO court
on the matter, others who have made SIM
liar demands intend to do likewise.
Chief Assessor Case when asked what
might be the result if the matter were taken
TO court said the law was TOO plain for any
question. The assessors were authorized to
classify all property according to their own
Judgment and If they chose to wipe out the
usual class they could do so. However,
the matter is not definitely settled he cor
tlnued, land will not be until the board gets
together and decides it.
There was falling of in the number of
appeals filed yesterday, and until some of
the other wards begin to come in, it is not
expected that the rush of last week will be
repeated. The books of the Third and
Nineteenth wards were sent in by the Coun-
ty Commissioners yesterday and clerks are
now at work sending out the notices for them.
Values have been considerably increased in
the Nineteenth ward, and an avalanche of
appeals is expected from the property own
ers there.
The Seventeenth ward turned in the
greatest number of appeals yesterday, the
cuts asked for as a rule being small COM
pared with other wards Three transcripts
came in marked perfectly satisfied" One
of these was from Mary Meik, assessed
g, $40, 50XS0 feet on Forty-fourth street;
another from Thomas Perry, assessed s., 760
on 23x100 feet at Forty-ffth street and
Penn avenue: the third was John d.
Hughes, assessed Sc, ,120 on 2512x153 feet at
Butler and Forty-ttth streets.
Many Appeals From Lawrenceviiie.
E. and j. X. Dawson ask the following
cuts: Lot S0x 100, Calvin. near Forty-second
street, from sI,545 10 81, ,23o: l22xlSO at Forty
second and Dawson, from sS5T 10 $3.50.
W. S. Williams, assessed $l9. .332 on 32lN96
feet at Fisk and Dawson streets, asks a cut
of SIS per front foot, because that amount
would be required to grade it to the street
level, and says the county assessors made
sdch a reduction.
John Gieb, assessed $3.50 on 9OxIOO on
Butler street asks cut to 5000, ami says
lots of the same size can be bought Tor s., 200
on the same block.
C. i. Klopier, assessed s., $40 on 2sxlss feet
on Main street, asks a cut to 81, 800; OF 47xl2s
1eet he wants q cut from So 760 to S3,29a
Martin Streib, assessed sll, $40 6lIl5S feet
on Forty-third street with tour dwellings
thereon, asks cut to $4,000.
Nancy McShaffney, assessed 81 400 on two
story frame house and 25xl3l-foot lot on
Forty-frst street, asks a eurto 81, coo, saying:
'forty-frst street is the oldest in the Seven
teenth ward and the poorest in buildings of
modern style anywhere. The house has only
three rooms and was built over so years ago,
and is only an incumbrance to the lot"
More Demands for Reduced Values.
Among other Seventeenth ward assess
fnents were the following: John Hullisan,
33xl64 feet on Butler street, near Forty
eighth, assessed SC COS; appeal 81 765. Timothy
Maloney, 30xl2S feet, Forty-third street. 81
Forty-third street, s3,Os0 appeal, g, $50. Iron
City Manufacturing Company, 320xlOO feet,
Home and Hatfield streets, SIG $50; appeal,
1000. Adam Rote 20x96 feet, Penn avenue,
$1,000; appeal, 81, 5OO Sarah Havis, 24xl27
feet, Fortv-fou tn street, 81 $40; appeal 81 go
sixth streets. 81, coo: appeal. Sl,500. Catharine
kesting, 40xl00 feet, sherman street, s. 400:
appeal, 81 500. Mary Walsh. 201l00 feet,
sherman street, sl.2O0: appeal, $780, Eliza
II kfaaT= =1.a-Nd ia D-,.11
Forty-ninth s. 600; appeal, 81 600. Laura AL
Under, 20Nl00 Butler street, near Forty-fifh.
$1,000; appeal, $1,000 j. j. Cowling, 25xI27
Eorty-secoud street, Sl625: appeal, 81 500.
Francis Scnilling, 20xi5S feet. Forty-third
street, s., 80; appeal, $3.50. Henry FucHs,
201S7 feet, Penn avenue, near Forty-second
street, 5000: appeal, 1850. A. C. Parker,
35xi00, Forfy-filth and Hatfield Streets s., ,6G0;
appeal, 5000.
Mary Soell, 2Ox1Oo feet, Forty-fifth street,
sl,440 appeal, $1,000. Mary Evans. 26xlOO
peal, $780, L. Betz, 2ONlOo, Butler street,
$1,000; appeal, 5000. Thomas Barrett, 64xlO0
feet, Butler street, Sl4.GS0; appeal, ST., 500.
Robert Stadelman, 20x 100 Butler street,
81 500: appeal. 81. CO., Kate Berg 45x1OO Bus
Ter street. $40 $50; appeal. =, ,0O0 James Kerr,
20XloO, Butler street, $i 500: appeal "A, coo.
ID. sweeney, 2axl0l Msin street, $3.50: ap-
peal, s. o00. johanna McGrath, 2Ox loa sntr-
man street. sI,20O; appeal, 500. H.
Woelker. 25yloO, Main Street, ST $50; ap.
peal. Sls259. Z. c. Richards 63xlO6, But
Kinsey, 50xl46 feet, Butler. 5000: appeal,
$1,000. Warren F SIX heirs. l25xl22 feet Main
street Sl0.tO0; appeal, IS 600. George Blair,
2Oxs2, Main anu Geneva streets, 81 265: APP
peal, 5000. a. Streih, axl5S, Foriy-third
street, $780, appeal, So 022; also 3Sx 100 Forty
fourth street. SO 055: appeal, S2470 Rev j.
q. Brown, l25x245, Fortieth street, $l9,64O on
house and lot: appeal, S7,2SO; also a2xI39
Fisk street, So, ,6l0: appeal 81 900 p NJ Cush-
ing, 64Sl2s feet, Forty-third street, 81 so: an
peal, 6 go; also lQ9lSO, Main street. So 200;
appeal, 81 go. A. ii. Leslie, xl50 feet But
Ter street Sl1S00; appeal, 5000. r. S Mai
loch, 2lEl50 Butler and Forty fourth streets,
with dwelling, Sll59T; appeal, So OCO: also e5X
1bO, with dwelling Butler street, $3.50; re-
Gently sold for 81, 800 amount of appeal
Ellsworth Property at Sky Prices.
Among the Twentieth ward appeals was
one from oliver McClintock, now in Chi
cago, who is assessed $50 900 on I2a acres at
the corner OF Ellsworth and Anderson ave
nues. He fixes no definite amount in his
appeal, but says: Il consider it excessive
and beyond what ] think it is worth or
would sell for, and at higher rate than any
property has been sold tor on Anderson or
Ellsworth avenues
Thomas Aikens heirs appeal on a number
OI properties as follows: One acre and 81
perches, Ellsworth and Aiken ayarues 49,
sessed S4s,l appeal, $4,000. Lot lsoyl;3
ELLSWORTH ani Lilac, assessed S37 000 appeal
$4,000. Two acres and IL perches nahli:t
street, between Lilac and Pitcairn, s4I I375;
appeal Sl5,C03 Lot 94Xll5, DahIiz street as
sessed SlG.6SS appeal, $4 230 Lot i2sxI7a
Dahlia street, Sl34a0; appeal 81 $50 Lot !JX
$50 rect, Aiken avenue. Sc $50: appeal IS 600
feet on Pennsylvania Railroad near Colie-,
avenue, and offer to sci! the tract for $500
Mary Meik, assessed s26,,3s on 2s2xa45 :eet
on Liberty, near o 'Hara street, appeais fora
cut to SIS 90.
Among others from the Twentieth ward
were Joseph W Noodwell, Sr.. assessed SIS PIG