The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-23
TO PAY FOR THE PARKS
ASSESSMENT ROLLS ADOPTED BY
THE BOARD OF WORKS.
Council Has Patriotic StrealK-Ordi-
nance to Pay Salaries of Emu
pIOyes Who Enlist.

Assessment rolls showing benefits and
damages on the proposed park system were
adopted by the Board of Works yesterday,
and clerks began at once notifying prop
erty owners whose land is to be taken what
they will be paid and those who are all
legged to be benefited how much they are to
be taxed for the improvements. The rolls
are in two sections, the lower section ex-
tending from Washington street to Penn
sylvania and the upper from Pennsylvania
to the vicinage of the fair grounds The
benefits and damages of each section are in
separate rolls arranged alphabetically AS
yet the total footings have not been made
either on the damages or benefits, but it is
said the damages the city will pay for the
lands taken will approximate $780, 600, while
property owners holding lands benefcially
affected are to be taxed about $l22, 000 These
figures were compiled before the rolls were
modified recently. The documents show
where some changes We're made, the erasure
Of old figures being rather imperfect. 1t
appears that most of the changes were in
the benefit rolls, some Of the assessments
Of which were doubled and others decreased
to less than half what they were.
On May II the board will begin hearing
circumstances from those property owners
W1lO OpJSCI " IIlS AlS uISS tunI nave bCCh
fixed. This work will probably consume ten
days or two weeks. When the notices have
all been delivered to resident property own
ers who can be found the board will publish
notices to those who are nonresidents or
cannot be found, This will occasion further
delay. The board expects to devote most of
it's time to the assessments from May II
until the acquisition of lands actually be-
gins. Property owners have from May l to
May 10 to file their circumstances. The
board anticipates that there will be wall
go up from good many persons when they
begin receiving notices of benefits assessed
against them. Whether or not the Barrett
law applies will make a good deal of differ
ence TO some of those VINO nave heavy as
SeSSmentS to pay The prices assessed
against single lots run from 81 or 80 to as
many hundred. Some of the heaviest
amounts taxed for benefits to lands abutting
the parks on account of the increased value
the BOARD believes will accrue to them fol-
low: j. E. Boswell ct al, $6lOS3; ). A. d
Company, 1895; S. +. Harris, $971; w j.
& j. 3. Hasselman, $500; James B. Hey
wood, trustee, 81, 34l; Elisha j. HoWland,
S494.5O and 1852 Limited Gun Club, M,9S5;
LoSey & Sutherland, $3,375; b. +. H. M.
McCready, 1904; Joseph Sears, $l,155, etc.
These. are benefits on the upper section.
The damages assessed against the same
parties on account of their lands that are to
be taken have not been footed up.
In all cases ia assessing damages 10 De
paid the property owners the board has
taken into account street and sewer assess
ments that have been paid. These are
added to the value of the land.
Among those assessed pretty high for
benefits on account of the lower section are
the Terre Haute Brewing Company, owner
of Fair Bank Park. $1,770 for that portion
of the grounds which is not included in the
park system, for which $2,089. AZ is to be paid.
The owners of this ground say that instead
of the portion remaining to them being
benefited it will be intellectually damaged,
as to take part of the ground will ruin their
beer garden business. Magdalena MauS~is
assessed S., 225; f. A. Maus ct al, 1905; f.
A. Maus, jr, $500, and Alexander Metz
ger, 81 595. The Mauses are to be paid ST.
S24 as for 245O acres of their land which is
to be included in the system, and Alexander
Metzger $1,S29 The Mauses are among the
demonstrators.
There is a total of 615 tracts of land as
sessed for benefits in the upper section and
LIB in the lower, 23O damaged by con-
domination in the upper and $40 in the lower
making in all a total of 2,798 tracts that are
affected. Mayor Taggart said yesterday
that the board had tried to be fair in as
sessfng benefits and fixing the price to be
paid for lands condemned. He said that he
| thought the figures fixed were about as near
| correct as it was possible to make them
| when there is no arbitrary rule by which
| they could be determined.