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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-09
STATE TAI REPoRE



ALBANY, Feb. 8-The annual report Of the
| State Board Of Tax Commissioner for last year,
submitted to tho Legislature today, shows an
increase Of over $500. 900. QUO in the assessment
of real estate and over siO5. 900 900 in personal
property in the year 1897 over ss6 making .
total increase Of over 9to0,0 100000.
It 10 said that q comparatively small portion
of this increase represents an actual addition to
the taxable wealth Of the State, but that far the
larger proportion Is attributable to q compliance
with the requirements Of the statute regarding
the methods of taxation, and this almost alto
Gethor owing to Instructions given By tho State
Board to local assessors that all property must
be assessed at Its full value.
Even with these figures. the total personal as
essmen il only about one-sevonth the assess-
ment of the real property Of the State, indicat.
ing that only Q small proportion OF the personal
property 10 reached, and that that proportion In
p rarrsiyt Sf i Of 3 1 Y tSnEibio Character open
added injustice 70 these communltios.
The report also recommends. that q method DO
devised for the assessment of all railroads Of
the same class at q uniform rate per mile.
personal assessments BY persons appearing be-
fore tho assessors at the time appointed for hear
Ing complaints. making afidavit that they are
assessed. Legislation Is advised for the purpose
of remedying It 70 the effect that the name OF
~ poEbOh buuuld nob w v AShOh ifutu 10 -
sessment roll unless he shows that he 10
assessed, for personal pr,operty ct the place
which he claims as his residence. An
other recommendation 10 that the assess
ment of tangible. visible personal property
should DO made At the place whore 1t 10. In some
Instances, rather than necessarily at the domi-
Gle of the owner. A very Considerable portion
of the report 10 devoted to urging tho repeal of
the law allowing the deduction OF debts from
personal assessment.
The report o small uniform tax
TO DO paid by savings banks upon all deposits
liable thereto. directly to the State COMPTROLLER.
The report defends at great length the In
crease Of the assessments on New York county,
which is an annual proceeding OF the State
Board Of Equalization.
A city official, familiar with the working of the
Tax Department., smiled whom he road tho above
report His smile broadenei into q grin when
he came to that part in which tho State Board
OF Equalization Is defended for the manner In
which It increased the assessments in Now York
in 1897. 49,
State Board of Equalization plays It every year.
It M Gets In solemn session and hears arguments
for the reduction of assessments in the sixty
ways the same. The reductions asked for in the
counties outside Of Now York are for the most
part granted. the total of the decreases IL footed
up and the whole amount 10 slapped on the as
sessed valuation of New York. It's q great
game, and its too old now to need any defence
from the State Tax Commission"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-09
THE D0LEs IN CLEVELAND.
Hawairs President Confident That Anncxatieu
Will Come.

CLEVELAND. Feb. s.-President Dole Of tho
Hawaiian republic and party arrived in this city
early this morning. where they remained until
evening the guests Of Charles Cate and family.
Mr.. Cate is n brother of Mrs. Dole. The party
left for st. Louis this evening.
Il regard my trip as extremely satisfactory"
said President Dole, land feel confident that
the Hawaiian possessions will ultimately be an.
nexed to the United States. At Washington I
had q long consultation with President McKin.
ley. It was q most satisfactory one. 1 think
that the Presidents previous expressions show
that he favors annexation"
When a despatch in q morning newspaper, in
which 1t was limited that the Hawaiian annexa-
tion bill, was shown to him. Pres lent Dole said
that this view ofthe matter had arisen since he
loft Washington and he know nothing Of 1t.
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rernlnm Alumni, pinner.

The Alumni Association of st. Johns College.
Fordham. had its annual dinner last night al
the Hotel San Reno. DIR. James n. Butler. "a.
President OF the college. was POSTMASTER. and
made the opening address OF welcome. The other
tonsts OF the evening were ALMA Mater" by the
Rey; Thomas s: Campbell Greater New York"
Attorney; THE Clergy" by tho Rev. Edward
+. Slattery, IT,; Our Colleges" by Richard II.
Clarke; " Historian" by Thomas Gafrney TaafTo,
80. and THE Class OF 'o7," by Robert r. Mo
Donnell, '07.
The Rev. Joseph F. Mooney. vicarGsneral.
also spoke,
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Republicans Lose Town Elections ThreaEh
Division In Their Ranks.

Division In Their Ranks.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Feb. s.-Through the vim.
dictiveness of q number Of disgruntled Repub-
licans, tho Democrats made substantial gains
In the town elections In Onondaga, though not
sufficient to give them control of the Board OF
Supervisors. The number of splits in the larger
towns of SkaneateleS and Onondaga was so
great that at 1870 A. NJ tho inspectors were
still counting.
In tho town Of Geddes four counts were neces.
gary. and at 80 tho head Of tho ticket was still
Democrats made a gain Of four members in the
Board Of Supervisors. nine Republican, and
seven Democrats and Fusiontsts being
elected last fall twelve are Republicans,
30 the Republicans arc assured o working ma
jority of the board. Republican majorities
throughout the county are reduced In many In
stanoes., which was not remarkable. owing. to
Leaeue against tho regular Republican candf-
dates.
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Returned on Being Deserted by Her Husband.
who VIA Already Married.

Kate Smith. a 17-yearold girl of 400 East
15oth street, disappeared from her home on Jan.
81. She returned yesterday afternoon and told
of a runaway marriage. followed by her hus-
bands desertion. She WAS. up to the day on
which she disappeared. q saleswoman at tho
Louvre. a dry goods store at 145th street and
Third avenue. Two months ago . man called
Fred Faulconer was engaged as a clerk. Kate
and Fred fell In love and determined to get
married. They accordingly journeyed to the
home Of the Rev. DR.. W. Fl. Barton at 264
Willis avenue. and were made man and wife.
street and Morris avenue in a house owned By
a Mrs. Levy. Up to Monday night all went
well; then Fred qunrreIled with his young wife
avenue yesterday Kate encountered a fellow
clerk. To him she related her tale of woe and
and two children. On hearing this Kate re.
turned TO her parents. Detective Kearnan Of
the Morrisania police station 10 Investigating
her story,
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TO ABOLISH GRADE CROSSINGS.

The State Railroad Commission About to Bsgin
tho Work.
ALBANY. Feb. s.-The work of gradually abol-
fishing tho 5000 grade crossings in the
State will DO begun in q few weeks by the
State Railroad Commission. The cost Is to be-
borne, so per cent. by the railroad company and
% per cent. each by the state and the munich
pality.
The Senate Finance Committee to-day do
cided to report favorably Senator Flsworth's
bill appropriating Sl00,O 600 To pay the States
share OF the expense of commencing the work.
The commission has no defined plans for the
commencement OF the work. but will lay out a
scheme az soon as this preliminary appropria-
ton of 800, 900 IL made available.
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The Grand Trunk Abapaons Its Rate Wa

TORONTO. Feb. GA few days ago the Grand
Trunk Railroad began a rate war with tho
Canadian Pacific by abolishing the dinerentials.
amounting TO S6 on passengers from this city to
Winnipeg via Chicago and the Great Northern
Railroad. The trouble arose over tho Q. /. X.
refusing TO forward business over q branch OF
the Grand Trunk to connect with the Q. +. r.
at Sudbury.
rates as formerly. This looks like an uncondi-
tional surrender on the part OF the Grand
its business over the Grand Trunk branch to
Sudbury.
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TO CANVASS HARrs 9 Votes.
Tho Secretary OF State Calls n Special Meeting
or the state Beard.

ALBANY, N. Y. Feb. ga call was sent out
by the Secretary OF State to-day for a meeting
Of the State Board Of Canvassers to be held In
this city on Feb. is to canvass an amended re-
turn from Westchester county. nled pursuant
10 a court order. pertaining to the election OF a
judicial district. The State cAnyassers are
called together on account OF the effort making
on the bench OF the court. At the election last
fall Hart receives eight votes as a candidate for
Supreme Court Justice 70 MI an alleged vacancy
the previous year. An election to I'LL the vacancy
was held. however, In 1895. Harts contention
fall instead of the previous year. and that there
was a vacancy 10 be filled for which no other
candidate WAS voted for at the proper time
except himself.
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BOSTON IND MArNE AFFAIRS.
Recomnsaaatisn That the Railroad No AIIswsa
to Buy Up Leased Lines-

Reconnaissance That the Railroad No AllswsA
e buy Up Leased Linss-
BOSTON. Mass. Feb. Slate this afternoon.
after Q long session, the Legislative Committee
on Railroads voted unanimously to report
favorably the bin giving permission to tho Bos-
ton and Maine Railroad Company 70 purchase
the stock OF it's leased lines, subject to the ap-
this Endorsement By tho committee. of nfteon
members, four from the Senate and eleven from
the House, 1t seems very probable that tho bill
will become a law.
A similar measure, though moro general.in
its nature. was defeated last year. but 1t is as
II was too broad. Tho friends of this bill say
that its passage will mean . great deal to New
OF leases and fixed charges . bad business year
might force the Boston and MAino to give MP
some Of its leased lines.
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Tho weather.

warm wave is passing over the country. 1t is in
the nature OF a january shaw Not a place In the
United states reported q zero temperature the lowest
WA IL above at Albany.
In this city the day was generally fair. except for
fog. due to tho warmer weather; highest onicial tenn
persture 49,. lowest So; average humidity 81 per
cent. wind southsrly; average velocity six miles an
hour; barometer. corrected to read to sea level. at 8
A. NJ. so. A, 8 p. n. 3u.ss.
Tho thermometer at the United States Weather Blu.
resu registered the temperature yesterday Us follows;
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-09
Vow tho Monster uua. Will nssia.

ALBANY. Feb. Snow that Senator Lexow.
Chairman Of the Judiciary Committee, has got
back to Albany. the annual monster hunt will
begin. 1t was arranged to-day that the com.
mittee should give a hearing a week fror, to-
morrow on Senator CantOrs anti-monster bill.
considers defects in last years anti-monster
law. As the Appellate Division now hGs these
points under confederation, the bill IL not likely
TO DO considered seriously in advance OF It's
decision,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-09
Candidate. fer Rb,nslanaer Medal wanted.

Chief MoCullagh called upon the precinct
commanders yesterday to report to him any
man in their command who had earned tho
right by any decd OF bravery during the past
year to be considered for the Rhinelander medal
OF yalor. They are to report with full particu-
lars by Feb. Is, and the board will then pick
the man. The medal is or gold. and this 10 tho
first time IL Ia to bD bestowed,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-09
STOLE $4,000 oRr OF JEWE1RY.
A Sc. Louis Burglar Robs Mrs. james O. west
or This city.

or This City.
ST. LOUIS. Feb. s.-Mrs. James o. West Of
New York was robbed of diamonds and other
jewelry valued 4 at $1,000 last night. She and
her husband. who live at the Waldorf Astoria.
in Now York. arc visiting Mrs. Vests aunt,
Mrs. W. w. Norton. at 1850 Laclode avenue.
Mrs. West brought to st. Louis $50, 600 worth
of diamonds. Mr.. and Mrs. W est occupy a
front room at the Norton home.
The burglar scaled the front porch to the sec
ond story, and gained entrance by prying open
q window with a Jimmy. He riied the dresser,
but in his, haste overlooked the remainder OF
the Same room. The most valuable pieces
stolen were three pairs of diamond earrings
and a crescent containing twenty-five stones; a
dozen diamond stickpins were also taken.
Mr.. and Mrs. West collected the jewelry in
Europe and the Orient. Tho robbery was not
discovered until this morning, and the entire
detective force In looking Ior the thief. Two
other diamond robbories In the west end last
night are attributed to tho samo culprit.
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Henry Nous. builder and manufacturer Of AZ
tiicial stone, Of asa East 10th street, mad an
assignment yesterday to Frank Kuhn without
preference. The liabilities are about $4,000
Lie King & Co. lewis @. King and George G.
D. Todd, importers OF shellacs. chemicals, and
East India products at III Front street, made
an assignment yesterday to Samuel Victor Con-
slant, giving preferences TO Brown Bros. & 90.
for money advanced and merchandise delivered
advanced,
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NEW TAX LIST FOR ROCKEFELLER
his Protest to suDerintendsnt skinner UpheId
Newt List Ordered.

New List 0Fdereds
ALBANY. Feb. s.-Superintendent Charles r.
Skinner of the State Department OF Pub
Ito Instruction to-day gave a decision
sustaining an appeal by John D. Rookie
fellor. William @. Church. and others
against James r. Delaney. Joseph II. Acker.
Free school district No. o. town Of Mount Pleas
ant, Westchester county.
Mr.. Rockefeller protested against a tax list
which the school trustees had prepared appor.
tioning tho school district taxes. He contended
that his real estate was assessed on the basis of
too great q valuation.
Superintendent skinner finds that the tax list
contained many errors. Certain real estate I'm
tho district was omitted from the list, and an
appraisement WAS mado on other property not
situated in the district.
On tho main ground OF these Irregularities
therefore, the Superintendent orders the assess.
ment vacated and a new tax list made.
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An Old woman A.phy,,at.d by Gas.

When John Miller of ] Booraem place. Jersey
City. returned homo from a masquerade ball at
"A. NJ. yesterday he found that his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Louise Henselman, had been asphyxi-
ated by gas. Mrs. HenseimAn was 81 years old.
The gas had been turned on accidentally.
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Dr.rr,.,. Ara,u., the shorter Hour. n,n.

Sevonty-hve druggists met in the Kings
County Pharmaceutical College on Franklin
avenue, Brooklyn. yesterday. and discussed the
bill that Is to be presented In tho Legislature
calling for shorter hours OF labor for drug clerKs.
Whom the question was put TO a vote as to
whether the bill should be Endorsed the vote
was ~ to 8 against indorsing 1t.
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wAsHsuroS yoREcA'T POE "WEDNESDAY.
For Nsp0 England and eastern Neo York. generally
fair. JOiIoBed bH Increasing cIoG illness at nI0At;
southeast iVinds.
.For the DLstFIct OF Columbia. eastern Pennsylvania.
New Jersey. DelAwara. haTyl and, and Virginia.
partly cloudy. pO.sibly with rain ~ AightI slightly
warmer.
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Twenty members of the Cortelyou Club Of
vanderveer Park, Brooklyn. have organized q
volunteer cavalry troop. 1t is purposed to have
q membership Of fifty and to adopt an attrac-
Of Troop G will assist in the work of organiza-
ton and will drill the members, most Of whom
own horses.
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SEATTLE. Wash, Feb. 8.-The Great Northern
and Northern Pacific announce that they will
each run two daily trAnsoontinontal trains, be-
ginning ON Monday next reducing the time nVS
hours between Seattle and 81. Paul
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-09
H'ef"'Io" AEaIn.. BrooLIyn RI.,.,,s.

yestsrIsS sheriff Radley received an execution
road Com against the Brooklyn Elevated Rail.
eric r. 0Icoit i'G ~ ,Sl2t 1870, In favor of Fred
|organisStit;oas hd Leonard LewisOhn 81 ~ re-.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-09

A south-bound Broadway cable car ran into .
crosstown horse oar ut 8 80 o'clock last evening
at broadway and Spring street. Tho horse car
was knocked on the track, but no one was hurt,
After q short delAyit was lifted b8ek again and
trafdc was resumed.
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ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. s.-Goy. Black to-day
signed AssemblymSn Wallaceis bill legaIizinE
the proceedings OF a meeting In School District
WAS Appropriated for o now scho0lhouse.
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ALBANY Feb. s.-The Borough of Manhattan
Democratic Club of New York City was inoorpO-
rated to-day. The directors are Aaron JRcobs,
Henry Levy, Frederick Streams, Frederick
Wilson, Julius 6lmons, Monroe MichAels, HO.
Brt9os and Joseph Meyers of Manhattan.
The herald., 1898-01-02

ing has increased during the last twenty
years from $50, 900 annually to nearly S.
900, 900, and strange to say, the success
that has attended it has been the result
of young woman's cogitation. Previous
to the days of artificial incubation the
percentage of loss of eggs by the natural
process of Matching was so large. and
the death of young chicks by exposure
during the first few days from the shell
was so common that good plume-pro-
ducing birds We're each worth about
$500. Since the introduction of artificial
incubation the losses of ostrich farmers
have been reduced to about so per cent,
and it came about in this way:
A young lady Ga niece, by the way, of
ex-president Cleveland) was spending
the winter of 1SSS-S9 in Southern Cali
fornia, and being in Indifferent health
used to spend hours in the sunshine at
the Santa Monica ostrich farm. She
was quick to notice the loss there was
in eggs during the Matching process un-
der the hens and males, and, being
quick witted, and having plenty of time
at her disposal, she devised an expert
mental incubator for ostrich eggs on the
plan of those she had seen in the poultry
yards at her old home in Western New
York 1t took many months to perfect
the crude apparatus so that good results
followed, and q thousand facts about the
temperature of the incubator and the
time to turn the eggs had to be learned
but success finally crowned the effort
and a young woman's idea revolutions
lied an industry.
The first birds were brought to South
ern California by L. ]. Johnson. His
flock of twenty three birds was brought
from the Cape of Good Hope in 1883 al
cost of s2S,00O Many difficulties had
to be overcome in pioneering this new
industry, and many thousands Of dol
lars were sunk in gaining experience
how to grow healthy birds that would
The herald., 1898-01-02

sence Of the root put into much con-
densed form, which in itself is proper
tionately more valuable.
The verdict of those interested in tan
ming materials is unanimous that the
canaigre grown in Southern California
Is the best in every respect, and that
point alone makes the industry one that
should be fostered here and so keep uI
the reputation; and much can be done
in the way of improving the quality by
careful cultivation, as is the case In
many other well established industries
in this section.
The public would be very much as
tonished if they could know the large
sums of money hundreds of thousands
of dollars) that have been and are be-
ing expended in this southern country
by those who have studied, and who, in
consequence, believe thoroughly in the
success of the canaigre industry, con-
Quoted on legitimate lines and as pure
ly commercial business.
The herald., 1898-01-02
IS per cent of sugar will be

containing IS per cent of sugar will be
paid for at the rate of IS per ton.
One obstacle looms up on the financial
horizon which threatens the full de-
velopment of the beet sugar industry
of California, and that is the proposal
to annex the Hawaiian islands, with its
nondescript population, to this country
over the heads of the native population
and in obedience to the solicitations of
a few hundreds of people of alien race
who have financially exploited the is
lands and desire to find an open market
for their wares-particularly sugar. In
1896 Hawaii stood fourth in the list of
foreign countries supplying the United
States with sugar, the islands shipping
S52,175,269 pounds. All of this sugar was
grown with coolie labor, these Chinese
and Japanese laborers being paid s12 per
month and finding themselves in every
thing. How the American workmen,
earning 50 per day, will be affected in
the event of the islands being annexed
it is for the American workmen to say.
The moralities involved in the question
of annexation appear to have been alto
gether ignored by its advocates, and at
tention riveted on the utilities. Viewing
this question Of sugar production, then,
from Il mere commercial standpoint it
does not seem as if the California grower
or the California factory could have
their opportunities extended much if the
islands should be annexed 1t is to be
remembered, too, that the Hawaiian
product is capable of indefinite expan-
sion by means of irrigation, and the
menace to California industry thereby
rendered all the more acute. T. C.
The herald., 1898-01-02
Wool

In the infancy of it's statehood the
foundation of the sheep and wool in
dustry was laid in California, which,
since 1850, has grown until California is
nearly the largest ol-producing state
in the union.
In 1855 there were produced in the state
$4,000 pounds of wool, and from that
time it went on increasing until the
high-water mark was reached twenty
years later, in 1876, when the California
clip amounted to about Sc, 900, 900 pounds.
From that date up to the present time
there has been a gradual but steady
shrinkage, the clip of 1896 being only
about 900 pounds. This shrinkage
is primarily due to the fact that the fer
tility of our lands is so great for cereals
and fruits that the free range that was
accessible to the grower of 1876 is today
utilized to more profitable advantage by
the farmer and the orchardist. This is
especially true of Southern California
where the exceeding mildness of the
climate and the productivity of the soil
throughout it's entire expanse are very
quickly causing the ranges to be more
circumscribed in extent year by year.
Then, again, the sheep and wool in
dustries have, during the past four years
been crippled by an unusual decline in
value, and, as consequence, many grow
ers have gone out of the business. With
the protective tariff of II cents on creased
wool, now in vogue, growers are taking
heart, but it is not probable that the
f1ocks will be increased in Southern Cali
fornia. In Colorado, as in this portion of
the state, there has been rapid decrease
in the clip, there having been a falling
off in that state from 100000 to 5000, 0OC
pounds in five years, and for the same
reason as here-the pressure of agri-
cultural interests. Growers are, on the
other hand, increasing their flocks in
New Mexico and Arizona, where the free
ranges are yet plentiful.
The clip>of Southern California was
in 1897, in round numbers, 5000, OOC
pounds, a decline of nearly 100000
pounds from the clip of 1896. AS large
| quantities of both raw wool and manu-
| featured woods were imported previous
to the passage of the tariff act, prices
still continue low, a better tone to the
market being expected, however, in the
opening months of the new year.
When it Is remembered that the rails.
ing of live stock Of all kinds. particular.
ly sheep, is, by reason of the mild and
equable climate of the south, very profit.
able, and that there are ample means tt
duplicate the number which the southern
counties had during the most prosperous