The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-03-28
LENORE SHERWOOD
Talks About. Income Tax and Several
Other Subjects Of Interest
New York Letter.
KsPoNpENcE ro rHE NEws.
1lF FEVIAH VUHNFdF UN 0HNNF TO TIE NEW'F :
New York March 22.

i Will forebear pointing out the moral
Of the tale
The mans name was Henry s. Taylor,
an Englishman by birth, an American
by breeding and an Itaian In his tenden-
cies.
Forty years ago he made the first or
gan in little loft In the Bowery, u very
wbeezy little music box that fastened
around the neck with strap and played
two airs from old Italian operas.
| Since that he improved and enlarged the
organ scheme until he has perfected the
! fine piano organ that takes two 10 operate
1t; the man who pushes 1t and takes up
the collection and the man who grinds.
! Subject for debate; Which would you
raher be, the man who pushes the organ or
the man who grinds9
The name Taylor is a household word
in the italian quarters, the home of the or
gan grinder and fore ign organs have al
most been banished in favor of this mans
wares. Not only have new organs been
made but old ones exchanged and accepted
as part payment on the new.
His shop grew into u large, well regu
lated hospital for disabled organs which
were patched and retuned, exchanged and
sold. No organ was too bad to be acc
epted, because the worse the instrument
/ Ine RTthleF bne uc1ndIlu lOT lU.
Men without legs, blind, decrepit and
paralyzed old women and deformed chill
dren were supplied from this hospital, pay
ing for their organs in installments of
dimes and pennies.
1t was great industry great Ameri-
can monopoly, and now its founder is
dead but not forgotten not unmourned.
Mr. Taylor funeral was attended by all
of the leading grinders of the city, and for
one afternoon / did not hear the sound
of "Daisy Bell" and Two Little Girls
in Blue" II Is refreshingly pathetic
in this prosaic age to see so much rever-
ence shown the memory of anyone, as the
grinders bestowed upon their patron saint.
Many organs are adorned with bows of
black in mourning for their inventor,
which is the most touching, the most hui
man thing / have ever heard of in New
York. As long as organs grind, as long
as pennies rattle in tin cups, as long as
monkeys wear red caps and blue coats,
so long will the name of Henry Taylor
be remembered and his memory cher
ished.
THE INCOME TAX.
The income tax Is making life bowling
wilderness for the rich men of New York
They are closeted with their lawyers and
are scheming, plotting and maneuvering
to beat about the bush some way. / asked
the son of a very rich man the other day:
"Why don't your father buy you a house
and stop your renty"
o, the income tax has upset him so he
thinks he Is going straight to the poor
house, F" was the reply. Another man oc-
cupying n chair in theNew York college
and man with an enormous private fort
une, was discussing the dreaded tax at a
dinner the other night. II simply report
ed as my occupation school teacher, 1t
looked more humble and poor" he said
Another with no occupation, but pri-
vate labratory in his house reported plain
"chemist,
Men will never meet law honestly
AS soon as bill Is passed they commence
to plan how they are going to defraud the
government. / remember my first exper-
fence with tax assessor, before was ini-
tiated into the code l reported everything
at its full value and resurrected old family
jewelry and moth eaten books and relics.
The tax collector took my report and
burst into perfect roar of laughter an
nouncing that | had reported more than
the richest man In town, and adjusted
things according to his own idea of equ-
ity.
POTATO FARMS FOR THE POOR.
At recent meeting of the Charity CON
ference composed of the leading charitable
organizations of New York It was decid-
ed to adopt the scheme of Mayor Pingree
of Detroit, which worked so successfully
last summer. 1t Is to turn the unused
real estate in the city into potato farms
for the poor A large committee com
= posed of the most active workers in public
. charities has been appointed and the
, work has been commenced on n large
scale.
> A simple explanation of the plan is
, this. Idle tracts of land in the city are
! obtained and divided into one third of an
acre for each family. Potatoes and
. vegetables seeds are furnished and each
! man obtaining farm must work his
4 land and the products are his own.
Tho results from highly cultivated
, patches have been surprising and it has
! been satisfactorily demonstrated that one
third of an acre will supply living for
family of FIVE At the first meeting
of the committee over thousand acres
were offered and it is expected that thous-
ands of acres will be rendered when the
, plan Is well understood and tracts solic-
tied.
NtW ioIh uIONCuplti lhuu
than is supposed, the post office census
a taken through the letter carriers show
. II, 329 vacant lots between West One Hun
dred and Forty-flfth street and the Har
lem river alone; and many thousand acres
q in the annexed districts.
= The idea is also to teach the city pool
how good and healthy living can b,
I made in farming, hoping that wher
a they have once formed n taste for the sol
: that they will drift into country life.
Then it will give employment to tho un
!. employed and the idea of complete depen
4 dence will be taken away, and it will en-
able the poor to help themselves.
In Detroit the plan was furthered b,
Captain Cornelius Gardner, U. 5. l., VIII
: took entire charge of the work and mad
a study of its details The following /
# part Of his letter;
% 1.-THE land was given gratis by charit
II able people, and consisted largely of sub
d divisions held for speculative purposes il
the suburbs. But for the unusual ant
extreme drought of some nine weeks tn
success would have been phenomenal. A
d 1t was, it was good. After selecting tn
s. land, have 1t ploughed by contract AM
"a then narrowed and rolled. Assign you
'r poor people to staked off lots Get fence
y pieces If possible, although ours We're no
n fenced. Get their addresse; and inquir
4 before hand IL they are worthy and nee
~ helm Ramember Won are asgistinQ an