Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-26
THE OTHER SIDE.
Democratic Members of the Board of
Relief Give Figures to Show That
They Did Not Discriminate.

Democratic Members of the Board of
Relief Give Figures to Show That
They Did Not Discriminate.
When the attention of the democratic
members of the beard of relief was called
to the list of owners of property IN
the eastern section, published in a Satur-
dav paper, from whose tax lists deductions
had been made, from political motives, or
through friendship, it is alleged, they be-
came indignant and produced the follow
ing list, showing that relief had been
given to taxpayers from all parts of the
town: Mrs Sarah Nettleton, Exchange
place, 81 900; Lorin r. Carter Waterville
road, 81 800; estate of L. NJ. Abbott, Pine
A. Burritt, South Main street, $500; 2.
Holohan, South Main street, $1,000; Il.
X. Brown, West Main street, $500; John
and Joseph McAulitf, Bank street, $1,000;
S. J. and Il. A. Prtchard, Bank street,
$500; Joseph Corr, South Main street, $500;
Ct. L. Lilley, Central avenue, $500; Ter
renee G. O'Brien. Bank street, $500; G. II.
Bronson, South Main street, $500; Peter
Brooks, Central avenue, 5000; John Ryan,
North Main street, $500; f. B. Field, South
Main street 81 900; James HOrgan, South
Leonard street 800; S. Greenberg, Central
avenue $500; John Bergin, South Main
street, $500; Ruth c. Clark, Charles street,
S2UV; Fruin, McGrath & Guilfoile, South
Main street $500; Steele & johnson, South
Main street, $4,000; Edward ,McGrath,
West Main street, $500: Mis- John Dreher
5000; Albert Mother, Cooke street, 5000;
Matthew's 81 Willard, North Elm street, So,
900; j. kendrlg An, Abbott avenue, $500.
Said one of the members: These are
but few of many property owners who
might be cited who appeared before the
board of relief and claimed that they had
been taxed too high and after a thorough
investigation the board found that they
were entitled to some reduction. The re-
publican member of the board calls atten-
ton to So property owners on whose prop
erty reductions have been made, varying
in sums from $50 to $500, the aggregate
being about $4,000. This reduction of
S13. 900 has been held up before the pub
lie as proof that we have acted in the in
terest of our neighbors and friends. We
mention the names of few property
owners whose deductions amount to over
sd ,OU0 not one of whom lives in the
eastern section of the city.
"SOme of the newspapers, or persons re-
ported as having been interviewed on this
subject, must be in error. We have made
reductions for some people for which We
are being unduly scored and yet the names
of these same people appear In the public
press as not receiving any consideration
because they do not live out east. Every
property owner who appeared before US
received fair and impartial hearing and
in making deductions the question of pol
tiles or friendship was not thought Of
The board of assessors, who are in a
position to know more about our work
than some people who are doing n good
1p11 IF f11 nd claim, that
have acted from personal motives in this
matter, and are free to admit that if they
could have foreseen the present crisis
they should not have meddled with the tax
lists for the present.
1T is an easy matter to select list of
names from any section of the city and by
cunningly emitting some who might not
look well on the list and inserting others
whose names sound all right, but who do
not live in the eastern section of the city,
as has been DONE make it appear that we
acted only in the interests of few peo-
pie. We have no reason to believe that we
have more friends in the eastern section
of the town than the republican member
of the board. The gentleman himself is
a resident of this section of the city; is as
we'll known as we and has derived much
more substantial benefit from his friends
and neighbors than we have. If the cry
of favoritism had not been raised and the
people were allowed to wait until the work
Of the board of relief had been published
in full instead of receiving it piecemeal
the taxpayers would be able to Judge the
work of the board with better knowledge
of their doings than they can do under the
present condition of affairs. As it is we
are satisfied that majority of the people
will approve of our work when they come
into possession of the full facts and learn
the motives by which We We're actuated."