New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-09
QUEENS AND SUFFOLK.
LONG ISLAND CITY.
KICKING OVER THE INCREASED RATE OF
TAXATION.
ABSENTEE oFFICEHoLDERs WHO DRAW THEIR
SALARIES PROPERTY OWNERS

Ap'-N EE oFFlCEHOLDEKS WHO DRAW ihr-iN
SALARIES y-PROPERTY-owNERs
WHO MAY LEAVE THE TOWN.
The taxpayers Of Long Island City are up In
arms against the increased rate OF taxation TINS
year and are vehement in their denuncation OF the
reform" administration now in power. which has
gwen them only sinecure offices, wastefu ana UNI
necessary Improvements and large Increase IN the
salarled list Of all public officials. These abuses con-
stiuie the complaints made by the long line Of tax
payers in daily attendance al the city Treasurers
Once IN regard 10 their taNbs They are especial
iy Indignant at the absentee otficehoders. who draw
fot salaries from the city while rustcating IN fiorl-
ia or In New-A1exico.
Conspicuous among this latter class IS Mike
Cllven. Improvement commissioner eN-Oiriender'
cx-A.dernan and financial agent ana manpulator
OF various underground bonanza schemes tlaVen
IL in receipt Of 500 every month, drawn upon pow
er OF attorney, vested In OF his political crohles
He spent last summer at East Wyndhdm' III Inc
Catskll.s. AMI rarely. If ever, attended meeting
OF the s1-caled Improvement Commission. After
returning from thu mountains he hung around his
barropm FOR a few weeks until the eleculc Hshl
deal cOnsummated. Then NJ mysteIlouSN
left town ana latest alvices report him IN the noun
tairs surrounding Albuquerque in New-MeNco IFS
salary Is sent there every week with unefrihs reg
uarty while M does nothing to earn II, or give any
compensation to the city whatever - far as the gen
cral public can SOC.
Another and perhaps the most peculiar oil al
absentee suecurists OF reform origin Is Johh T.
Clancy Street Cleaning Commissioner, eN-detectNe
and gentleman Of leisure" clancy Is az present
enjoying the honor pertaining l., me ui ~, vi
man-ln-waltirg 10 BOSS Cldven Among ms 49,.
claics hc j. known a. the Berry Wall oi Monitor
square" lie j. also in receipt OF the piohtS oi
som. Npy "a month derived from idt contracts anu
letting ihc streets Of the city take care OF theih-
selves. This money Is regularly drawn upon
ppwer-of-atiorncy conferred upon his pal; lily
woodruff an eX-butcher. whose Local dIstlhctiph
ana honors nave been gained IN amaielr de'.cuNv
work ~ already stated IN The Tribune. 1idh,y
also spent the summer In the Catskills WIN iaN.h
and is now with him Ia New Mexico. Nhle 'ne
streets are a rocking mass OF hlth anu gLibise.
Il have ma la up my mind 10 dispose OF my prop
.rtv AMI turn ms back upon Long Island 'liy lof-
ever" said % Large prOpcrty-owuer TO me Writer
few days ago. Il have no improvements m NY
r.lphi,,rlooi. although / have been assessed fpr
ONE besides a large Increase In my general thh'S
Nv ,-op.rt, Is little better than the unprodJcilFe
farm land which 10 when bought ~ Ior'y
Years axe. Between IN" politicians the clty mas
gone % the dogs anl there seems 70 be no Ieiress
fnr iha DOOR dcuiei taxpayers. Mine j. NOT an
iso,t.l a. e- hy any means There are scores yes;
hundreds a. Other, much worse on man am, ana
max. bold ~ say that unless some radical chanse
ttk.- place soon. Long Island '!iy VIII IoS" many
- m. small prlp"rtv-owuers who looked forward
=, a pr1-p~rufis nom" within its conln"-