Arizona republican., 1899-01-25
GOSSIP OF
 NEW YORK

New York, Jan. 23.-Society has
 stepped out from under the ladies tail
 ors cooperative shop, which is plan
 Nea b uphold with many thousands of
 dollars in subscription and patronage,
 and the whole affair has has come
 scattering down. It had been intended
 by society to aid the ladies tailors m
 what it considered the most feasible
 way, by giving them plenty of work at
 good wages in wholesome shops The
 strike of the tailors and their appeal
 for help had brought it about, and so-
 ciety was for a time highly enthuslas-
 tic over the idea of a cooperative shop.
 It foresaw good tailoring at reasonable
 rates, and the helping Of numDer or
 deserving destitute men. But the La dies Tailor union presented resolutions
 stipulating that all those working in
 the new shop should be approved by
 the union; that the cutter should re-
 ceive wages Of $25 a week and the tail-
 ors $22 a week, and, lastly, that the
 cutter be not permitted to hold his place longer than one year When this
 plan was b-oached by the leaders Of the tailors the society managers of the cooperative shop would have none Of it. They did not wish to be dictated to in any way The ladies tailorS then retreated from their position and eX- pressed their willingness to concede everything. But this did not propitiate the fashionable stockholders in the en- terprise. They had subscribed D. 000 to make the shop success and aid the unemployed tailors,. but they became
 listrustful of the tailors when the de- mands had been made. Therefore the stockholders enthusiasm waned, and now it has gone out.
 Notwithstanding the increase of val nations of $307, 7,379,035 made this year on Manhattan island there will also be an increase in the tax rate from S201 per $1O0 to $2 per $1OO that is, 26 mills on the dollar. Just what the increased tax rate, piled up on top of elevated valuations, means is illus | trated by few examples. Taking six | teen of the big downtown office build ings, it is found that in 1898 their valu- at the $2.01 rate they paid $485, ,zU5 | taxes. This year the valuation of the | aggregates SPA ,5C0 900, and at | the $2.60 rate they will pay $9o 900 | taxes, an increase of $4O6, ,795. Ten of | the big hotels in the city had an as sessed valuation last yea of s11, ,100, | 900, on which at the $2.01 rate they | paid s223. 112 taxes. This year the val uation of these same hotels aggregates $15, ,655, ,000, and at the $2.60 rate they | will pay s406,95O in taxes, an increase of S1S3,S3S
 That real estate values have advanc- ed on Fifth avenue opposite the park as 9 result of the Carnegie purchases was generally admitted few days ago, when the south corner lot at Eighty aiOhf h Cfrpnt hTTa oY-1o Parsons for s73,000 and the adjoining | lot for S48,000. In this connection the | real estate agani. who sold Andrew Car negie the block on the avenue between Ninetieth and Ninety-first streets has prepared some remarkable figures. as follows: On the basis of the Parsons purchase, MT. Carnegie's four corners are worth $292,000, and hIs twelve in- side lots On the avenue $576, ,000, CT a total of $S68, 900. tie paid $89O,0O0 for he sixteen lots on Fifth avenue and fourteen lots on the side streets, so, at this new valuation, the fourteen lots Ire represented by but $22,000, when hey are proDa'Oly worth over S400, GOO If these figures give a true idea of the 5alue there has been remarkable ad- 7ance in upper Fifth avenue
 Former Governor Roswell P. Flower Richard Croker and John F. Carroll Ire, 1t is reported about to form con- 'any for the transporting of freight by rolley in Brooklyn. It is proposed t0 art away garbage and ashes, as well IS freight, boom real es.ate and do most of the carting for the sugar trust. t is expected that the ashes will make 'ood filling for lands around the sea- hore, which are at present almost without value and which will increase omething like 300 per cent under the reatment It is said that the men who ompose the synotcate have recently ecured options on Iowlands about Ca arsie and Bath Beach.
 The fire insurance companies have cen badly hit by t%e fire which gu ted he upper stories of the Home Life h. urance company building last month he damage has been appraised at l99 9,325.S2 on the basis that the build lg was worth $900, ,00O before the fire. nere had been an insurance Os S350.- UO, the companies taking the risk at i he rate of 10 cen:s on 5000, or cents n $10O. For the whole insurance the I omp3nies which assumed the risk got nly SIC a year. , Lawrence Roscoe Jerome, financier. owboy and snow shoveler, whose lother cast him off because he married cook in her employ, filed in the surro- ate's court a notice of contest of her . T1lL Mrs Jerome left an estate of r yer S1,OOO,OOO- In the will there is an F xpress stipulation disinheriting her r on flor unf1lial conduct 'Iarrv'' r sserts that his mother was of un- T ound mind and that the will was pro- T | ured by undue influence and fraud
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