Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-17

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arnount to be collected. according to
the tav levy of 1904. is $S6,661, ,32o. OF
which tho borough of Manhattan is as
sessed se3, ,63S3l5. Here are some OF the
| amounts which were recelFeo'
Elbridge T. Gerry ....-..........'''' sgo'% ~" ~"
| New York Central .......-............ !3o'oVl
| ~" Ip.h ,, r. ,,iJv ,........... 4O0, ,st
| Mary Pinckney estate ........--..... 2 a2'".
| IiSSils Hetor .............. 81. .tW
| Joii.i Ji E;nmins .............. IS 0U
% ,,aon .................. 11J. .(0J
| ,:r;,,;, - %ESrroration ................. 1lJ. .WN
| T-i'SY - e. 70 ................. S5GN
| Ean,., t,,o ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 800 600
| August Belmont ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iooWo dO
| City Railroad OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES fVVVo
The c;tv's expenditures increased
over Sc OOO 600 for the current year, and
an increase of s15, 900 900 is asked for by
the denartment heads for the next
year.
While all the principal figures in
Nawport society are dispOsing of their
real estate in that famous center, new
movements are in progress to establish
colonies on the Hudson within an
hours ride Of New YORK city. and
along the north shore of Long Island.
The Goulds, Mackays. Whitneys, Pratts
and other wealthy families have pur-
chased every foot of water front for
miles along the sound, and it is doubt
full if these great ducal estates will
ever find their way again into the
market. over $42, 600 were the sales for
the last six days, and the aggregate of
the summer has exceeded 5000, 900. The
corpora ton is now engaged i'm laying
flower beds parking the entire tract. so
that il will become a Veritabe garden
spot. Along the Hudson the Morgans,
the Harrimans. the Havemeyers, the
Rockefellers and the Fishes have al
ready secured large tracts with the in
tentiOn of establishing estates on the
English plan.
The New York CentraPS improve
ments under Park avenue are begin
ming to rival the subway as a scene of
upheavals, and there is further
aptitude in a distinguished foreign
visitors remarks that New York will
be very nice city when it is finished"
The Central's plan is to run eight
tracks under Park avenue, instead of
four, and the additional four are to
drop sixty feet below the surface of
the street tunneling under the present
four tracks at Forty-ninth street.
There the new yards begin, which
means eight surface tracks and four
more forty feet below, which will be
connected with the subway, in order
that suburban New York Central trains
may use the subway to the city hall.
The construction company in charge of
this work now has at work on Park
avenue neaMy 600 men; there are also
nine locomotives, 200 fat cars three
steam shovels and fifty air drills. The
result is that the avenue is in an up
roar with noise of all varieties. Every
home on the West Side has been in
vaded by workmen, sewers have been
opened, filing the air with obnoxious
odors, and the incessant din from the
air drills has driven many away into
the country. The worst Of il is that it
will require two years to complete this
work.
Before he sailed for his English home
the other day William Waldorf Astor put
his name to a check for s475.0OO. which
represented the taxes on the assessed
valuation of Mr. Astors real estate
holdings in New York for the current
year. At the rate of 1ig per cent. as a
basis it would appear that the assessed
valuation of Mr.. Astors realty Is some
thing more than s31,OOO.0OO. Assuming
that he derives per cent. therefrom his
| must be about s2.SSO.OOO. With the sum
paid by his cousin, the total tax of these
two branches of the Astor family is $685.
600, and if the amounts paid by still
! n H. mol y-a n ho tl
easily would reach 100000.
A "get-rich-quick'' concern was nipped
in the bud by expedition of the police.
The outfit was found to consist of a
young man in the hall bedroom of a
boarding house, pile of envelopes and
a return of per week for each slO invest
ed in a discretionary grain pool.
The young man could not be held. as he
had not yet received a penny from his
the far West. But the court held him on
the charge of doing business under the
name of an Incorporated company that
had never been incorporated.
Dispensaries and clinics where the poor
receive free treatment, relates the Even
ing Post. are often taken advantage of by
well-to-do persons, from various motives
usually, no doubt. the old desire to get
something for nothing. These impostures
have been annoying. but with every pre-
CdutloH tntS 10TH Oh CHARITY continues TO
be abused. One surgeon, head of a large
institution of this sort. tells with much
satisfaction of his success in dealing with
a case.
One day not long ago" he says. IAN
elderly man presented himself for treat
. ment He was shabbily dressed and did
! not for an instant suspect the worthiness
of the case. He had a tumor on the skull
growth with some rather unique feat
ures. which interested me. and when the
man asked to be operated on I consented
readily. I told him l would like to lee
ture on his case to my students; he con-
sented readily and the operation was per-
formed and the patient placed in one OF
the free beds.
"'Do you know that man you lust oper-
ated on?' one of my assistants asked me
later.
NO
Why. he is -. who is worth at
least a half million
THE next day l stopped at the mans
cot and asked him if he was the rich bust
ness man referred to. He admitted it
shamefacedly and pleaded that everybody
did it
We'll. told him. you are an impos