The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-02
NEW YORK'S FILTH,
Startling Stories of
Degeneracy Are
Told.
HOW RICH MEN EVADE TAXES.
Capt. Price Tells OF Saving
Frank Moss
Life.
HOW RICH MEN EVADE TAXES.

New York, June 1.-The sessions of
the Mazet committee today were no.
ticeable chiefly because of two points;
one, the turning at bay of Mr.. Morse,
and the other, the introduction of evil
dence regarding the existence in this
city Of the most nauseating form of
degeneracy and depravity. Neither in
cident took up much time, by far the
greater part of the sessions being de-
voted to the examination of President
Feitner and Commissioner Sheehy,
both of the tax board Their evidence
merely went to show the long estab-
lished inefficiency of the system of
personal taxation, and revealed moth
ing sensational.
Mr.. Moss opened the session with
an outburst of Indignation against the
way in which witnesses had treated
him. He demanded the protection of
the committee, and announced his in
tention of bringing Police Captain
Price before the committee to make
him prove the charges he made yes
terday against Mr.. Moss. During this
heated appeal from the committees
counsel, DIR. O'Sullivan, who appears
for the city departments frequently
interrupted, and in intense anger, Mr..
Moss demanded that DR.. OSullivan be
denied the privilege of participating
in the proceedings. Mr. Mazet upheld
Mr.. Moss and Dr. O'Sullivan was re-
buked but allowed to remain.
The evidence regarding the fragrant
existence of the worst forms of de-
generacy was given by two of Mr..
Moss agents. Their testimony to a
great extent, was unpublshable. but it
established the fact that under the
eyes of the police there was openly
running, up to last night on the Bow
cry. a resort which rivalled in filth and
putridity that sink in Cleveland street.
London, which was unearthed and
gained international notoriety several
years ago.
Mr.. Moss went into the assessments
of John d. Rockefeller Cornelius Van
derbilt, J. Pierpont Morgan, Russell
Sage and George Gould In the case of
Messrs. Rockefeller, Sage and Wander
bilt, the record merely showed that
they were assessed in 1898 and 1899 after
making no appearance. In the case of
Mr.. Morgan 1t showed that he was as
sessed on 1000, 900, and that he con-
scented to an assessment on 100000, af-
ter stating that he had no property up
on which he could be assessed
do you mean to say" said Mr.,
Moss, that Mr.. Morgan swore that he
was not taxable and then volunteered
to pay on $400,000?"
THAT is what I mean to say" said
Mr. Feitner.
An evening paper prints the follow
ing: Captain Price today, for the first
time told the story of how he saved the
life of Frank Moss, at which he limited
on the witness stand in the Mazet in
quiry yesterday.
1T was in the early eighties" said
Price, while Moss was counsel for the
notorious Business Mems Association,
in Twenty-seventh street Moss perse-
euted an old man so that he died. That
mans son held Frank Moss responsible
for what he called his fathers murder,
and he started out to kill Moss.
Il stopped him, took a revolver from
his hand and saved Moss life. The
mamie was youth then-is reputa-
BILE business man in this city today.
Moss knows this, but if he denies it
will produce the man, the gun and the
absolute proof"