Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-07-10

r-o,ai ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. ~ lbo,UOO
This estimate Is a rough one. but IL IL
not far out of the way. In ADDITION "
the damage by FIRE, the various com
NAMES have suffered from the dIsapiinS
of engines and wreckins OF passenger
cars The loss in this connection - es'-
mated by railroad men at $o,V"
RAILROADS DEMAND INDEMNITY
The Public Service Committee of the
County Board at yesterdays meeting was
rotified by the Western Indiana and Bei,
Line Railway Company that the county
will be held responsible for three quarters
of the damage done by the strikers.
II is the intention OF every railroad suss
tanning losses to bring an action against
the city. Those which operate under IL
Iino.s charters Will file their suits In the
State courts; the companies Incorporated
in other States will sue in the Federal
Court. As all actions will be brought
Immediately IL Is said those begun IN
the United States Court viii reach final
ADJUDICATION inside of year. Those In the
State courts may take longer time. Kali
road attorneys believe that inside OF two
years at the outside all of the suits Will be
at the outside all Of the suits VIII De
ended. Ordinary judgments against the city
now are not settled for a long time after
say their attorneys, do not propose to sub
nit 10 a long delay. After they have se-
CURED judgments they will see to II that
the amounts OF the judgments are pro
vided for I'm the current Appropriation Dill.
Should the council fail 10 appropriate TIE
money. the railroads will apply Tor
mandanus directed to the proper per
sons compelling them to make an appr"
prIation The city, the representatives, W,
the railroads say, VIII not be perHi'''ei
to put the matter of.
The money will have to be PROVIDED py
the taxpayers, of course. That means u -.
every man or woman who owns properly
which the assessor can reach VIII hd'e y,
ray his or her share. The tax VIII IAN
heaviest on the poor, OF course because
they are the least able TO stand IL.
PRECEDENT AFFORDED IN PENN
SYLVANIA.
The experience Of the residents or Alle-
ghany county, Pa, Is Of interest IN TINS
connection. The people who live there are
still paying special taxes to meet the riol
claims Of 1877. The total loss OK these
riots. according to the official report
was $4,000 OF this amount the county,
which was held liable by the courts AFTER
suits had been entered, paid s2'OO,oo.
There was s.Oi4 claims allowed after
having been fought by the county COM
misssoners. The persons who agreed 10
compromise their clasius were paid about
tNyo-thirds OF the proved value OF tne
goods lost The Pullman Palace-Car Com
pany put In a claim OF $U,429. but set
tied for s55,2l7. The suits were tried In
Beaver county. Some of the claims are
still unsettled, the claimants refusing TO
accept the compromise basis. The coun-
" issued bonds to the amount OF N,s53 =
800 to pay the claims. A special tax was
levied and the property owners VIII not
be clear Of the debt until 1906. The main
tenance OF guards and the United States
soldiers fell upon the State and the Fed
eral Government. Their transportation
and maintenance cost several hundred
thousand dollars.
LOSS TO WORKINGMEN.