The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-08
WANT TO PAY LESS
Property Owners Press the
State Board of Taxation
for Reductions.
DOWN TOWN PROPERTY DEPRECATED
Pleas Advanced Would Show Local
Real Estate 10 Be In
Bad Way.

Carl Lentz of the State Board of Taxa
ton sat in the Assembly Chamber at the
City Hall this morning to listen to ap-
peals from taxes.
Corporation Counsel Blair and City Tax
Commissioners James H. Love, J. C.
Clark and John b. Macarthur were pres
ent 10 uphold the valuations as placed
by the city's assessors.
There were at least one hundred per-
sons gathered in the Assembly Chamber
during the session. Some of these, were
from Bayonne, North Hudson and a few
from Bergen county.
Robert Phillips appealed from the valu-
alton of s21, 900 upon his four-story tene-
ment house, No. 157 Newark avenue. He
paid SIS, 400 for it in 1884. 1t was then
assessed at $4,000. He wanted the valu-
alton reduced to those figures. City Tax
Commissioner Love declared the building
was located on the south side of Newark
avenue in one of the best business blocks
in the city and that property in that sec
ton was instantly increasing in value at
the rate of twenty per cent year.
Phillips claimed the house was forty-one
years old. He would sell the house and
lot at SIG. 900. He was obliged to remain in
it on account eff his business. He said
he would sell the building. which was old
fashioned. for s5,e0o to anyone who would
move it away Mr. Love valued the house
at about $4,000. Mr.. Phillips admitted the
property brought him in So ,22s q year in
rents. Decision reserved.
James Sheeran appealed from the valu-
alton of three frame houses in the vicin
ity of Pine and Maple streets, occupying
two full city lots. John Childers of the
Provident Institution fer Savings testi-
FED that a mortgage was recently fore
clesed on the property. and that it
brought $500. bid in. but admitted that
nreyieus to the sale a private offer of
S 600 had been made. The property is
assessed at 81 200 The valuation was re
ducea TO 81 200
lanes cronin of No. 5ee Henderson
st,ee+ anneo,ed fran, a valuatinn an two
Iots ~ % eao and wanted tho amount re-
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ne 'aunors nas oesn Saoan. sue .ns
ehinsse Ielr Inc same owner also ASK "a
lor reaucpon OF assessment on ie"r-
story brick tenement at NO. ~ Henoer-
son street OF $1,000 reduced 10 $o.oo0. fns
house ne said. would not bring 1880 IN
the market. The house. said.