The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-01-16
NO RELIEF
FOR H00s
State Board Stands by
the Fiddler's s Assess
ment Of the Ex-
Mayors Prop
erty.
A POLITICAL RAID
The Victims Angry Com
ment on the Dead Set
Made on Him by
His Enemies.
RENT AS A VALUE GAUGE
New Method of Appraisal of
City Real Estate-Minor
Gases Dscided.
New Method of Appraisal of
City Real Estate Minor
Gases Decided.

g A dead set has been made against me
by the politicians. That's all there is to
IT.
These remarks were made by former
Mayor Edward Hoos to the State Board
of Taxation at the City Hall this fore
noon, after the Commissioners had
heard his appeal from assessments of
$20.O00 levied. by the Board of Fiddlers
on Nes. 7I-73 Newark avenue, and $1,000
on a stable property in the rear at No. 6S
Gregory street.
Mr. Hoos was mad all the way through
and he meant exactly what he said. He
was more emphatic in his remarks later
on when the Board refused to grant re-
duction and confirmed the work of the
Fiddiers.
Commissioner Charles G.. Black of this
city, occupied the chair in the absence of
President West of Camden, who did not
reach the City Hall until the meeting was
over. Major Carl Ilentz, who had an
unpleasant experience in the hands of the
voters Of Essex county in November last
and Judge Thompson of Atlantic, were
on hand early with Thomas Usher, the
efficient and obliging clerk of the Board.
EX-MAYOR HOOS'S PROTEST.
Ex-Mayer Hoos' chief objection to the
assessment Of 1900 levied on his prop
crty was the fact that the Tax Board
mad boosted it within $625 of the price
he paid for it at public auction. He felt
that the Fiddlers had no legal or moral
right TO boost up the valuations on his
property particularly as no other assess
men of property on the block between
Henderson street and Cooper Place had
been increased this year.
Mr.. Hoos first described his property
to the board saying that No T1-73 New
ark avenue was 100x40 lot with old B.
story brick building standing on it. This
lot at No. 2S Gregory street was 100 feet
long and 25 feet wide. 1t has frame
stable ON it. He wanted the 1921 as
sessment ON both reduced to $4,000.
The commissioners were very anxious
to know what rent he received and he
replied: II get $1,000 year now but
used to receive 81. 800"
MENTAL ARITMETTCS.
Major LEM did a little mental arith-
metic and exclaimed:
You might as well stop right here.
Three thousaid dollars a year is ten
per cent. on a valuation of $50, 900. And
he wants reduction to 81, 3,000''
Mr.. Hoos expressed surprise that the
amounts of rent received should be ac-
Major Lentz said that the rental ele-
ment would be a guide and added:-"I
flr one will not vote to reduce TO $13, 900
81 the property brings $1,000 a year .
sFhe case is simply this" continued
the ex-Mayor. .The store is occupied
by a furniture dealer, who is willing to
pay that rent because there was an old
established furniture store there before
he rented It. OF course, the place is
more valuable to him for his purposes
than any other building would be"
Mr.. Hoos declared that if his property
was to be assessed on the basis of its
rental value the Tax Board should as
sess all other property throughout the
city in the same way.
Corporation Attorney Robert Carey,
who represented the city with the ASSIST
ance ol Assistant Corporation Attorney
l. Faerber Goldenhorn, took Mr.. Hoos
IN hand apa began TO ask him a lot of
questions concerning an appeal which
Lad beer made BY the Mayor through an
agent for reduction Of the assessment
levied IN 1890 A question relative TO the