The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-24
NR. L0GhH'y PROTEST.
Novel and Interesting Doeu-
ment Submitted to the Com
missioners Of Appeal.

missioners Of Appeal.
The Commissioners Of Appeal met last
night. The storm kept kickefs away APP
parently az not one appeared. An inter-
esting document, however. was received
from George A. Logan, an eI1tarprising
iatter carrier. Logan besides being some-
Spectator. TWO Il ltures have not turned
out as he desired. A. a consequence be
has been kicking about assessments lev;
led On his lands. In his protest 70 the
Appeal Commission he writes
On July 10. 1886. / purchased two houses
through Judge Douglass from the defunct
Bergen Land and Improvement Company,
located at Nos. IS Panarapo avenue and
Sc Wilkinson avenue"
Continuing, he writes:-'The aforesaid
properly was tied up in the courts for
nearly four years, and during hat time
no care was taken Of the houses, and they
are badly wrecked. They are only partly
tenaated,s, SO the protest says. and by
persons who belong to a poor and Hitter
ate class, and in this case who do not
seem to ave money to pay the small rent
asked,
Then the protest goes on to say:-"The'
Pamrapo avenue house in particular is
in poor condition. 1t seems that a con-
tractor employed by the city blasted right
at the very front door, breaking every
pane of glass and deInclishing the sky
light which allowed 9th rain and snow
to ruin the interior. He did not stop here,
but attached a water pipe from the street
to the corner of the house for steam pur-
poses. This ubiquitous act alone.' says
the remonstrance, h undermined the
foundation. There is no water IN the
house, while the WEN is without 9 sew
er. The same conditions exist with the
Wilkinson avenue house, excepting that
there is water. I win also state tina the
latter is without a cellar. having only q
few feet foundation, and the beams on the
first floor touch the ground" \
Logan at this point cites the fact that
he Is assessed $500 for the Pamrapo avenue
house. He paid $so5 for it. On the Wilkin-
son avenue house there is a valuation Of
81 1900. It cost Logan only S ,2o0.
On this subject the protest says.-sNow.
seems a gross injustice that these houses
should be assessed the same as if they
contained modern Improvements"
The protest then deals with the former
oWners in this way:-saThe doings of the
officers of the defunct Bergen Land and
improvement Company are still fresh in
the minds OF the people Of this city and
more SO with the unfortunate shareholders
of which I was one. Their sole motive
the parlance of builders as 'shells..v
Dropping the Improvement Company
officials, Logan says his houses are not
to BIZ compared With mere desirable ones
No one 6i%nallknS this Eroi-f ~
NJ houses, he continues, sin their
present conditicn ard at this season Of
the year, are simply u-ntenaatabIe. There
they stand. a burden, and TO employ con-
only mean my going deeper into debt
Relative to a s, 500 valuation on a house
at No. "a Woodward street, Logan has
this TO say
Three years ago the Lehigh Valley
Railroad erected coal chutes almost di-
rectly In front of my house, ind owing
to tho rattiing ncise of falling coal and
the arising of dust therefronl, the house
IS never fully occupied. NY house has de-
preefated 81 500 in value since the arrival
OF those aborninable chsites.v
Continuing. the protest shows that
dilapi8ated Stables have been erected Near
the chutes, which not MY serve for
horses hut a variety of domestic animals,
until now the neighborhcod does not look
the least bit inviting for a desirable class
Of tenants, with a labyrinth 81 OF goats
roaming at large, at times gathered IN the
stable doorways Gu basking in the sun on
the street. Then, too. the contractor who
is filing in the land for the Lehigh Val
ley has literally covered the street with
a variegated display of tin cans. waste
paper and other items. which formerly
occupied a place in the garbage barrel.
1.-THE sights | mention can be seen by
yourselves, either in the splendor of a
monday sun or under the silvery rays Of
an orbed moon. Moreover, while the eyes
are faasting on the spectacle Of this mod
ern Goatville, your sense of smell will be
touched to the quick with the dons aris1
ing from stagnant pools which are formed
from the rain and tide water that lie in
the hollows among the garbage heaps,
while a deeaying Get or dog finds a rest
ing place here and there, thus affording
a choice Of favor"
Concluding, the protestant writes Sin
cerely believing that the grounds upon
which base by appeal from o~vertaxation
are entitled to some consideration, / re-
main, etc., etc"
The Appeal Commissioners are going to
confer with the Tax Commissioners and
see if some relief cannot be given the IN
fortunate Logan.