The evening times., 1898-11-01
7HE ASSESSORS REPORT
Annual Statement Submitted
to the Commissioners.
TAXABLE REAL ESTATE
Total Taxes on Real and Personal
Property-Work of the Assistant
Asscsrors-Receipts From Licenses
During Fiscal Year-Deficit i'm
Revenue From Liquor Traffic.

Matthew Trimble. the District assessor.
today submitted his annual report to the
District Commissioners, together with
statement of the assessed value Of the
taxable real estate and personal property
in the District of Columbia. for the year
ending June %, 1899, as follows:
Taxable on land, $S7.e 1876: taxable on
improvements. 81, ST. i25: total, s159, $50 921.
Washington County-Taxable ON land at
Sl.5e. SO 695, TAI: taxable on improvements
at $I-5O 81. 500; total ST. S57,241 Taxable
on land at 81, $i.50S, ,609: taxable on inn
provements. at 81. sI,250,6e9; total, IS, 7ss,-
20s
Grand total assessed value of taxable
real estate. $lS3. 1881; personal property,
Washington city, sl2,SlO5 55I; Washington
County. s42.545: railroads. taxed on gross
receipts. $l.077, ,g76; total, 49, 43l, AS.
Grand total assessed value of taxable
real estate and personal property in the
District of Columbia. on July |, 1898, $780,
5S7. $40
Amount of tax-Washington city at
sl-50. 81. 1893 3SS.Sl Washington county at
Sl.50. 500. .s5S.b2; Washington county at ST.
s57$s2.G 90; total real estate tax 81, rs $40 %;
$9.T7 .4S4 personal property at 81 so s14s.-
62.26; s2,756,Ol5 capital stock street rail-
ways, less reality, at $50. S3S $40 %.
S,03l,5s4 gross receipts street railways,
at per cent. s4l. 30; SAG. 392 gross Ie-
ceipts street railways. at per C MT,
s927.s4 total tax on personal property.
1927, 1868; grand total tax on real and
personal property. $2,946. 1921.
The report states that the three MEM
bers of the board of assistant assessors
have been engaged since July. 1897, in
making the triennial assessment of real
estate. and will return the same on the
first Monday of January, 1899 when, un-
der the law, the board of equalization
and review will meet 10 receive and de-
termine appeals on the valuations, and
for this purpose will remain in session
until the first Monday in June following.
The good effects of the law of February
q. 1898, in relation TO taxes and tax sales,
the report states, are already observable
in the increased amount of revenue re-
ceiyed and the number of lots sold at the
tax sale of last April.
The report then enumera ties the receipts
from licenses during the fiscal year ended
June 30 last, as follows:
Apothecaries. s75769; auctioneers. 81. .926-
6S; banks and bankers. $276.27: barrooms
s22l, 1850. bill posters, 500: billiard pool
bagatelle tables, etc, S3,37036: cattle bro
( kers, $540.07; commission merchants 81 727 =
/ OF; dealers in ice merchandise, sI74: dealers
! in junk and secondhand personal prop
erty, S,52S.i 49, dealers in old barrels $50:
entertainments, circuses, balls and exhi-
/ bitions, sS,925: hacks. cabs and public We
! hicles. s2,533.6i; hotels So S64. 43: in
telligence offices, s267.54; insurance
companies. District of Columbia, 81. .6o6. 70;
| insurance agents OF outside companies,
| s., ,466.l6; insurance agents percentage
| tax, sl3,i0I.SS; insurance companies fra
| ternal, sS5; livery stables. S. I6i II:
| manufacturers of illuminating gas 81
o12.0O; peddlers. s2S1.49: pawnbrokers
| $4,000; produce dealers itinerant s. 2I674
| special 81, 0s; fruit stands Slsl 81: to-
| tai. $95l0.40; restaurants and eating
houses, S6S02,l9; real estate agents. 81
1888; theaters, $SS0.0O; wholesale liquor
dealers. S35. 3246O
The total receipts from licenses were
1883 olS.56, or a decrease of 50. .6s1 49,
Relative 10 the liquor traffic, the report
states:
| 1T viii be observed that the decrea 81
OF nearly $4,000 from last year received
from this source has been followed by &
still further reduction of over $4,000
Thirty-three barroom and eight whole
sale liquor licenses were rejected bv tn,
excise board during the present licens.
year. besides number of application.
for transfer. both of ownership and loca
tion. As stated in my report of last year
the representatives of outside brewerie
and distilleries are still allowed. unde
the law, TO traffic in the products of thei
manufactures in this District without II
cense. Uufair competition in business i
demoralizing, both in theory and prac
tice.''
The deficit in revenue from produc,
dealers, or itinerant hucksters, on ou
streets is very noticeable; quite numbe
enlisted. to fight their country's battles
the proximity of Camp Alger induced 9th
ers to transfer their business to that vi
cinity. The same condition of affairs ex
lists in reference to passenger traffic b,
licensed vehicles on our streets. The re
ceipts from other sources show marke,
increase.