New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-12
PEEKSKILL IN A FERMENT.
AN INCREASE OF ALMOST S3,5OO0OO IN
PERSONAL. VALUATIONS.


SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS ARE MADE
REAL ESTATE FIGURES SHOW
PROBABLE INCREASE
OF s7,cooooo
Almost every other village and town In the
County Of Westchester has growled about its
assessment books this year. but Peekskin has
net been heard from until now Figures from
the home OF Chauncey NJ. Depew show an In
crease In twelve months OF $3.473.S51 in per-
sonsl property. Last year. in the town or Cort-
lardt outside Of the village OF Peekskill. there
was one personal assessment. that oe George F.
Pierce. 5000 This year there In the town
Of Cortlandt. outside Of the corporation limits.
1886 personal assessments. Last year in the
village there were ;wenty-four personal assess
nnents. This year ther. are 1886 increase OF
Sl2. In the entire town last year there were
twenty-five people assessed for personal prop
erty This year there ore 472. an increase Of
AZ
This personal property assessed in the village
last year amounted to S173.J00. This year 1t
amounts TO $2623, ,656. an increase Of $3.50
lJ6. Last year in the town the assessment Of
personal property was $1,000. This year 1t is
Sl.026695. This is an increase Of Sl.O23,G9o'
The total in the entire town last year was Sl'o'-
500 This year 1t is S3.650351. an increase as
stated before of S3473S51.
Here is the roll that graced the personal assess
ment book last year 1t is short ard has never oe-
fore been printed outside 'he viilage-George r.
Pierce $1,000 Inside-Chloe Beach, $4,000: 5.
r. Knap, executor $500 Norman Cole. 5000;
Stephen Croft, $1,000; Rachel Crane, SlO,Wo;
Ely Ramsay $4,000: Bertha Fuller. $1,000;
James Hart. $1,000; estate Of Phoebe Horton.
$500; Stephen D. Horton. $l5o0, 5. r. Knapp,
Nicols. $sO 900; Peekskin Stove Works. $4,000:
Mrs. Harriet Pollock. $1,000 Mary Purdy'
$1,000: Amos Requa. $1,000; Amos Requa. ex-
ecutor, $1,000; A. NJ. 9. Smith estate, 5000;
Southland Robertson & Co, $1,000; John Simp-
son estate 5000 Sarah L. and Harriet strang'
$4,000; Union Stove Works. $4,000; Westchester
County National Bank. $4,000
How some of these figures have changed this
year, For instance. Westchester County Ma
tonal Bank $12S00O an increase of s92,oU;
Rachel Crane. $4,000, an increase Of S4otto;
Union Stove Works $4,000. increase Of
$4,000 Peekskin Stove Works. $4,000. an in
crease Of $4,000; Norman Cole, $4,000, an in
crease Of $4,000: Stephen Croft. $4,000. an
increase of $4,000.
NEW NAMES on THE LIST.
And there are so many the list this year
whose names have never appeared upon per-
sonal assessment roll before. The largest per-
sonal assessment in the town is that of G.
Keusens who owns the beautiful home on the
sSxdson at Oscawana, seen and admired every
Jay by many people passing il on the cars
u, Is put at 100000 Next TO his house is the
homestead OF Henry P DeGraff. who recently
died and was the president of the Bowery Ma
ticnal Bank This is assessed at Sll3ooo The
surplus Of the Peekskl Savings Bank is as
sAssed al s1sl. 900 and the Westchester County
National Bank is assessed S12s,@v.
y l. Ely Of the stove firm Of Ely & Ramsay
vrbo lives in one Of Peekskills handsome places
called The Knoll is down for 100000 Next
- him comes Reuben r. Finch, of the Union
Stove Works whose personal wealth the asses
sors have estimated at 10000. There are as
sessed for $4,000 Mrs. Rachel Crar ID. ;.
Herrick in trust, and his wife. Sarah r Her
rick for herself: Sarah A. Hobby, widow Of
John Hobby one Of the surface railway mag
mates of New-YorR a score Of years ago; Cor
nelius c. Lent. president of the Peeksklil Stove
Works: the Union Stove Works, and Harvey +.
harrington. Of Croton on Hudson. Just above
that figure is the estate Of the late Calvin Frost
put down at So 494 Mrs. Jennie |. Briggs is
assessed for $4,000, Alexander Armstrong
Peekskilrs octogenarian, for $1,000 Emily .
Hutchinson, $4,000; Mrs Richard Jordan, OF
Croton So, 600; Mayor William d. Southard
and ex-senator George w Robertson. together,
$4,000. and the Peekskl Gas Works, S32.0O
At the S25 600 mark are put down the follow
ing persons: Ex-Surrogate owen T. CONN.,
Peekskill Electric Light and Power Company
Edward F. Young Annie F. Young. Maria L.
Young Young Sparrow, Jacob r. Decatur
president OF the Board of Trade Sarah Ann Fer
ris Urah Hill. jr president Of the Union stove
Works; Elizabeth Johnson, Grove P. Mitchell
Peekskil Stove Works. Southland & Robertson
Howard " Simpson Colonel Charles j. Wright
CYRUS Frost president of the Westchester
County National Bank Orrn Frost. George f.
Pierce and James #. Sutton.
Those who are assessed lower than S2ooo
and at $1,000 more are as follows: George
W Bagley, $1,000; Joseph Beale, S23,oOo; Viola
Beach. $4,000; Chloe Beach. $4,000; Mrs. w. r.
Button. $4,000; Mrs. Emma f. Beale. Sloooo;
as trustee for Irene Montross, $4,000; William
+. Button, $1,000; Elizabeth Cook. Slo"oo;
Norman Cole $4,000; Stephen Croft. $1,000;
Griffin Drug and Paint Company Sloooo;
Peekskill and Buffalo Land Company. Slo0oo;
jay r. Decatur $4,000; Moses H. Dean.
$4,000; Durrin Brothers. $1,000; n. Dain Sons,
$4,000; Rebecca Dyckman. S1lS3I; Ely q
RAMSAY $4,000; Mary A. Frost, SlO,12o; Cath
crime Flagler $1,000: oscar Griffin SlO,OV;
Herbert Griffin $16,Sj0 Colonel Thomas d.
Hustled. $4,000; James H. Haight, SIo'oW'
Dwight S. Herrick $1,000; Mrs Helen NJ.
Hustled. $4,000; $. Bedon Hyatt $1,000; Heieh
s. Hustled, administrator. SlOOOo; Milton JOr-
dan. $1,000; Alanson Jordan. Sll.UW Dr'
Charles c. Knight. $4,000 Harriet kissam'
$4,000 Frederick Lent. $1,000; Matthew =.
LeFevre. $1,000; George w. Lockwood Slo,o~'
Mary A. Lounsbury, $1,000; William Lawson
* Co. $1,000; Captain George Morton, S20.ooD;
Mrs. Harriet Pollock $4,000: Amos c. Requa.
$4,000; Mrs. Rachel A. SnOwden. S2O,oO;
John l. Storm. $1,000; Mrs Clara n. Shay.
$4,000: Mrs. Thomas n Stewart. $4,000; John
Simpson estate $4,000. George w. Seck and
James W. Silleck. jr., each. $1,000: Harriet n.