The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-21
HE DOES NOT SPLURGE
Ramsey Resents the Imputation
of an Equalizer.
MopESTLY DENIES HIS WEALTH..
The Hop Buyers Colloquy With the
Board-List of Reductions Grant,
ed and Refused.

II is we'll enough that the board of
equalization finds something now and then
10 relieve the drudgery of the tread-mlH
grind through which that body is Just
now called to pass. Yesterday Samuel
Ramsey, the well-known hop buyer. came
before the board in answer TO a notice to
appear and show cause why his personal
assessment should not be raised from 500
to $4,000. A running colloquy took place
between him and MIR. elise, in which the
reference to 1.-The Four Hundred came
in right frequently.
Don't You belong TO the Four Hun
dred?" asked Mr.. elise.
mo" replied Mr.. Ramsey; Il am not
one of the splurge kind."
Have you not carpets in your house so
mellow that when you step on them you
sink out of sight?'
NO: my furniture is old. My clock and
piano were bought twenty-three years
ago.
"Then your furniture is becoming vaiua-
BILE on account of its antiquity, reJoined
Mr.. elise.
Il think not" replied Mr.. Ramsey.
How about your bank account" asked
Mr. elise.
Il have no personal bank account in
this state: that is kept in Wisconsin"
said Mr.. Ramsey, concluding his state
n1ent before the board a moment later by
saying that he had never suffered for
want of meal. and that he had never
owed anything in his life: but that he was
not the possessor of the wealth which
some men seemed inclined to attribute to
him.
James ID. Hoge jr.. manager of the
Post-Intelligencer, addressed the board in
relation to it's assessment. He explained
that the assessment was correct as IT.
now stands and opposed the proposed in
crease to $4,000 After n general discus
sion it was raised from si6.S40 TO $1,000
The board did large mass of business.
OF which the following is summary:
Personal Assessments Raised.
Henry Adams. $40 TO $1,000; A. G.
Thompson. $3.50 to $3.50. c. +. Devine, 1920
to $5,eoo; Lacy & Sons, $4,000 TO 5000. Hoff
d Johnson. $3.50 to 800; Murphy 4 Connor.
$3.50 TO 800: Simison Bros, $1,000 10 5000;
Seattle Hardware Company. $4,000 TO $50
900; Lotch. Augustine < Co. $40. $50 TO ST.
500. Gus Brown. 5000 to $1,000 A. J. Pra-
ger & Son. 5000 to $4,000; T. L. jacobson.
5000 to 5000: Schwafowich Bros, s. 500
10 $1,000 NJ. Sellers & Co. 5000 10 si0.0o0'
NJ. l.. Greenbaum. 5000 10 $1,000. Seattle
Transfer Company. 81. $50 10 $1,000; Sunset
Telephone & Telegraph Company, Sl3 800
10 $4,000; American Bell Telephone Com
pany, $4,000 to 5000: Western Union Tel
egraph Company. sl3,s9o 10 $1,000; Post
lntelilgencer Company, Sl6,S40 TO ST.. 900.
The board voted not TO raise the assess
ment of \. w. Engle from $3.50 10 500. and
also not 10 raise the personal assessment
of McDougall. Jackson d Veaze from
$500 to $1,000.
Petitions for Reduction Rejected.
II. X. Hall, lot 9 block Is, Maynard's
addition, $500 10 5000: lot 3, block IS,
800 TO $500: lot 4. block Is, $500 to &c.
COO
Humphrey Jones. lot ?. block a. from
SLIGO; lot g. block a, from ST. 400. lot 4.
block n, from 81 200, lot 5. block "a, from
S,%oo; lot 6. block A, from 81 .000.
r j. Fisher, lot J. block Z, Union Lake
supplemental, $500 10 500: lots ! and 2.
block ., Dodge & Dodges addition, 500
to $500: lot ,. block .. Crown Second sup
Elemental. 800 to $50, LOT 8, block q, $3.50
10 $50: lot 19i, block 10, plat of Columbia,
500 70 $3.50; lots l.517. ISIS, 1919 and 1870,
block -, Columbia supplemental, si,01D 10
S190: a29x35o feet in section O. township
.. range 4. $500 TO $500; nwi. of nwit sec
%, tp %. 8. $40 TO $500: swl. OF nwll sec
q. tp Is. &. $3.50 10 $40: nei4 of ne14 sec
q. tp g. r 5. 500 to $500; nwi. Of nei< sec
n. 70 70. s. $3.50 TO $500; swl4 of neA sec