Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-01-11

1uuS are ssOZ,SSf, as lOfi0WS. new orleans,
242 .os9; San Antonio. a7.673; Mobile. 81
Os6: WMmiagton. n: G. 20.O56; Key West,
1880; yisisrhurG, 1ay373.
1.-THE twelve municipalities of Georgia ex-
ceeding 1903 IN stipulation, including At
lanta, Savaanas Augusta, etc. have COM
bined assessed graduation of $Sf,S71, $50.
The ten municipalities of Alabama exceed
ing 1000 appropriation. including Birming-
have Combined assessed valuation of $43.
6V,f 46 Ge6rgia and Alabama municipali-
ties combined aggregate 131 .569. COS. Thus
the assessemd half Of Washington is valued
at only 5000. 000e less than the combined
valuation of all the cities and towns G22 II
number) fnsthe great states OF Georgia and
Kansas City, Mo-, has 20 per cent of
Washingtonss population and only 40 per
cent Of its assessed valuation. Omitting St.
Louis. the twenty-eight Missouri cities ex-
ceeding 1000 in population have COM
Dined population of 349. 799 and a Combined
TAX assessment valuation Of $1O3, So, sol.
Thus these twenty-eight cities, with pop
ulatton nearly double that of Washington,
are valued. by the assessors at S20,OOo,ooo
less than the assessed half of Washington
Changing the form of the statement, the
assessed half of Washington is valued OF
SLo.OOo,OOO more than all of the twenty eight
missouri cities. emitting st. Louis, but in
ciudlng Kansas City.
Compared with Chicago.
1T has already been shown that Chicago
mas more than five times the population of
washington, while the assessed valuation
OF the capital is more than two-thirds of
mat OF the great western metropolis The
forty-four cities Of Illinois exceeding 4,eo0
In population, emitting Chicago, have
companed population of 496,S46 and a COM
bined tax assessment of $51 ,902,2 OF. Thus
these cities have more than two and one
nan times the population of Washington,
"nlle the assessed half Of Washington has
q n6- hale ftr,,nS 10 orc a n
assessed valuation as these aggregated
cltfes. In other words, the assessed half of
w ashlngton Is valued at more than Sf0an,-
gVo IN excess of the combined values of the
lilnols Cities forty-four in number, omit
ing Chicago. Peoria, the nearest Illinois
city TO Washington in population has more
than one-ffth Of Washington's population
ana only about one twenty-fourth of Wash
Assessed value
h P9pas ass Ct real Ne tat
Peoria. ........ Il '024 5337' 40
chicago. ............ 1,O89,s5O 170, 54,1E
compared With Commercial Cities.
In comparing the assessed valuation of
Washington with that Of the commercial
and manufacturing cities like Cleveland,
Chicago. Milwaukee, New Orleans and De-
troft, for instance, it is to be remembered
that Washington lacks the millions of tax
able property which are found in the
American business city in the twenty STORY
skyscrapers, In the solid blocks of business
establishments, and in the warehouses ana
factories. Washington's greatest and al
most only conspicuous and notable fac
tories are the government workshops, such
as the bureau of engraving and printing
a he
ington's greatest business establishments
are the government departments. with their
thousands of employees. These factories
and these business establishments cut no
figure in W.ashingtons assessed valuation,
for they are within the exempted half of
the capital, which belongs to the nation.
How ridiculously low would be the as
sessed valuation of any of these CONNER
cial and manufactur cities IL it's list of
taxable property were similarly treated ana
there were stricken therefrom it's principal
factories and business establishments. How
quickly would the people of any of these
cities perceive ana complain that their as
sessment valuation was excessive if. after
was greater than that Of some equally
populous neighbor, whose tax list had
not been thus @curtailed. Washington's
population in 1880 was less than that of
any of the cities above enumerated; less
than one-ffth as large as that of Chicago.
Its assessed half lacked the indicated inn
portant factors of business city's valua-
ton, which cut so large a figure in the
assessment of these other cities, yet the
valuation of the assessed half of Wash
ington was, as has been said, more than
two-thirds of that of the whole of rich
Chicago, 116 per cent Of that of Detroit,
40 per cent of that Of New Orleans. LAB
per cent of that of Milwaukee and i69 per
cent of that Of prosperous and busy Cleve-