New-York tribune., 1897-08-31
FEW REDUCTIONS IN TAXES.
ASSESSMENT ROLLS STILL sho" ID"
INCREASES OVER LAST YEAR
-ur ROCKS IN MANY wEsTCHEsTER io"->'
CLOSED - LITIGATION LIKELY one"

,,,, hooks IN MANY wEsTCHEsTEh io">"
CLOSED - LITIGATION LIKELY OVER
THE IsELIN PROPERTY.
,,,,r, Town Assessors held the first
,,,r ~ their closing series of meetings III uc
Tov, Clerks Office in Tarrytown !es'e'""s'
,rhorc are stn about one hundred ana hi'E com
-,,narts to be heard. and the Board VIII not COM
n,ete its WORK this week ., J.,
samucI Emerson. protested against his assess
-, of Sd o,o for real estate. which he paid SS'"o
"or a short time ago. He did not protest against
Ne rersonal asses ment of $500
Mrs Lucy Il. Watts. a nonresident pro'es'ed
inst hcr assessment of $4,000 on her real prop
"s en- 7,,rrv,own. She asked to have it reduced
10 5000 a., a.. .
. go 40 on real estate. and wanted it decreased
- ssnNn He also asked to have his 5000 personal
assessment Strc6en OIL
Iohn W Timpson. of tho Elmsford Improvement
comnanv asked to have the r~ol estate assessment
:, sTi coo reduced 20 $1,000. There are about ia
- ~ land divided up into lots. The company
=, o,so assessed S7soO0 for other property, which
he wanted reduced one-half.
cherries H. Rockwell asked TO have his $4,000 as
rrent c. real estate reduced 10 $1,000. He
asLod 20 have his personal property assessment OF
$500 stricken off the roll
uonry Dole asked TO have his real estate assess
mon, Of s. go reduced 10 $4,000.
charles c. Worthngton asked to have his real
,s,ate assessment Of 5000 reduced 10 %o"p ana
- have the $1,000 personal cancelled.
rohn T. Harmon asked 10 have his real estate as
sassment OF $1,000 reduced to $1,000.
1osonh Eastman assessed for $500. asked TO
have i, reduced TO $4,000 on his real estate
Iucv p Eastman. assessed on several parcels OF
,.n5 for s2is 500 asked 70 have it reduced to SotWo
pohor. = Hopkins assessed for $4,000 real.
asked 10 have slsooO taken off, and s5cVV personal
uronortv. which he asked TO have stricken off
robn d Rockefeller. assessed for tract of land
rbo Kingsland property for $4,000. wanted it re-
ducod 10 $500 and another tract of hfty-hVe acres
8, SIS no TO S9oo instead Of 5000. per acre.
speaking of the appraisement of Abram hyatt
of Sing Sing a real estate broker, on the WIlliahi
Rockefeller property, in North Tarrytown' VINO
said that lockwood Hall was worth SN0"o anu
the whole property about $5o,e", William H. Hoy''
a real estate dealer Of Tarrytown, who SOFA much
property to William Rockefeller, said YESTERDAY
that the contract price for erecting lockwood nan
was S3el.eo and that he would pay 10 Mr. RocKe-
Teller $1,000 cash if he would authorize him to sell
his property for $StO.er and The sale would De
completed within week. =,
The assessors OF Yonkers have competed their Ia
bors and tomorrow the books VIII be tu;hcu 1fJs ,hi
70 the CITY Clerk. There were fewer protests tilis
wear than last. When the assessors opentI tntil
books there was pp0n them persona HAT this
amount would be cut down, and Yesterday tlty an
ihan s2oGd6o against sSsi 235 last year There was
lille grumhling in this city compared with other
parts of the county and the work OF the assessotS
seems 10 be satisfactory. a., ,o
The assessors of Pelham held their iinal mee'ins
Yesterday and closed the books. me Town ut1
rived no income from personal taxes last year M anu
only ahou, saNM1 from real estate NaIuatons,
With alj the reductions hat have been mace tnei Z
g now 500 Goa assessed on personal and S00@V -
assessed real property, making an lhcIeaSc n U1
about 100000. Only reduction WAS iiitue Tit J
real estate and that to NJ. X. HuntSIj VINO VINO
was assessed g. 200 for property which shouu nav
hon on the rolls in NCw-Rochele. Among s-loSc
who secured personal reductions We're tne iH HeW
York New Haven and Hartford River faipodll' a ui
$4,000: Mrs NJ G. W Black. $4,000; Leopold % coS:
5000: Mrs J. C. Hazen $1,000 Henry 81 5den. zen. - fI'V q
.,nna NJ Secor $4,000: John Tatlock. SSo"V; ~. - ~,
= Heath 81 900; g. +. Arozena, NJv; Ilhcoih
Pierce 81 COO and other smaller amounts oo,,,
In New Rochelle the lseln assessneIl's oi V. e.
8 OON 90 are the only which are hahgihs II, e,
These will probably be taken into htigattlon' s as
he Board seems determined TO hold theIn az
residents The assessment of &s3~V on the 'UIie n,
estate which was the largest IN the 'V"n, i'nI f
heen reduced to Sl6o00 asked for IN peilall 81
the executor Martin J. keOgh. but all lots sUIu
from The estate this year will be assessed 10 the
rurchasers The assessors will also exempt tme
Isolin Gvmnasu now owned by 81. Eapiiv, >
Roman Catholic Church. as religious epropSi! f;
d"d reduce the persoaal assessment OF Colonel
Henry Uenneherger from $4,000 20 apou' sfHV'
The books before grievance day showed an IN,
crease In reai-estatc valuations from $t'w Ia !,
wear 20 s1iOO0ON and in personal property. "hlCh
was less than %O00l in 1896. 10 St"l"p ~ o. a.,
SCISSORS announce that the aggregate OF s.2"''" o
Tins attained will be reduced TO aDout St'pJ%o
when they finish their work. or. IN olh'r WIZ
the lax roll will have been increased more 'hai
$50 0OVDO over that OF last year.