The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-22
More About tho Tn, Bill.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier
| 1t gives me great pleasure to correct
any Misunderstanding with regard to
the figures showing my assessment at
| 400 Edgewood avenue, When the new
! figures We're thrown open to the public
last April at once availed myself Of
| the opportunity and expressed myself
as perfectly satisfied which caused such
panic in the office at that time as to
| render 1t necessary to secure medical
aid. /, however, made the stipulation
| that expected to be treated on a par
| with my neighbors. and if dscrimin-
ated against they would hear from me-
| was assured this would be the case
After the board of relief got through I
once more looked up the matter and
found my neighbor had secured re-
duction on his land of $3.50 because he
appealed, On referring this matter to
the assessors they said "All land in
your vicinity is to be reduced to $35'
per foot, but our hands are tied this
year" l accepted this explanation,
which seems to me just and fair, and
therefore used the lower figure in my
illustration for the express purpose of
getting an opportunity to explain the
above, which is a splendid Illustration
of our claim that any errors there are
will be corrected in due time.
Eight years ago Mr. Rowe paid $4,000
for his whole property and as New
Haven is progressive city and Orange
street desirable part of it, we have
no doubt it has increased in value and
in addition to this we believe Mr.. Rowe
has improved it. AS his idea of taxa
ton is that all improvements should be
taxed, our desire is to show him the
beauties of his system which he appar-
emily Is far from appreciating at their
full value. Now, this property for
which Mr. Rowe paid $4,000 eight years
ago, and has since been improved, is as
sessed as follows: Land, $9,375; i'm
provements, Sl0,S00; total, $40, 455. And
as Mr. Rowe went before the Board of
Relief in April and swore that the full
value was not over $4,000, all we have
to do is to deduct the value of the land
from the $4,000 and we have the sum
of S4,625 for splendid house, barn and
all other fixings include in the term
real estate OF course, we do not ad-
NOSdte III LdhlllS lHeSG tllllSS anu Sill
ply desire to point but the difference be-
tween our position and his, which is
this: He desires taxes levied on land
improvements and personal property
but when we carry his theory into ac-
tual practice as we have done above, we
find that his improvements bear very
small amount of the burden as COM
pared with the smaller property. We,
on the other hand. desire all improve
ments and personality exempt, and the
whole burden placed on the land where
it belongs, and we stand by our guns to
the last ditch. We respectfully COM |
mend the above to the consideration of |
any reasonable man, as containing quite |
an argument. ,
Our reasons for Directing to the Rowe |
bill are the same as Professor Far
MANS, but never having had the chance |
of going to school or college, being in |
fact graduate of the Humdrum Grind |
cry. we should be excused if our state |
ments are pointed and penetrating, |
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