Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-08
NEWPORT IN A REVOLT
MILLIONAIRE COLONY TO DE.
MAND SEPARATION FROM
CITY.
Camera Fiends, Curious peopie and
Heavy Taxes Now Make Life
There a Burden

Newport, Z. l.. Sept. s. Newport
that is, fashionable Newport
started revolution a2ainst the so.
Clety reporter. the camera tiend and
The unrestricted curiosity of the com.
mon people. The summer colonists
des1fe 20 be even more exclusive than
they are at present. and for that pur-
pose they have started a movement to
retire into sequestered town of their
own. At the next session of the Rhode
Island legislature they will demand
that their section of the city be grant
ed legal separation from the remain
der of the town. and that the Citv of
South Newport be Incorporated as a
free and Independent municipality. A
petition to be presented to the leeisla-
ture was started today.
Expensive for MiIIionaires.
Moreover, the millionaire colonists
declare they are burdened grievouslv
IN Inc matter Of taxes. They protest
that the city authorities compel them
to pay the lions share of the revenues
while they get but little in return.
AT present we have no protection
or seclusion,' the petition reads
cameras photograph us on our own
grounds. Our servants are bribed to
relate the petty private affairs of
our household, which are published in
cheap newspapers. NniSances are per
mltted everywhere. No laws are en-
forced except the laws that NAV tax
and impose on us. and an appeal tc
city official brings no results"
Copies of the petition were sent to
every summer resident owning prom
efty and residing within the section
which 1t is proposed to SET off. The
attorney for those who have the now
ment On foot is Braddin Hamilton.
Get Little But Tax Receipts.
Ihe petition says further:
'"iii' e'I Z pau III taxes Gff
Ii other ways by the summer rnst
cents, and very scant privileges are
received in return. Little or no ee,.
Sioefdt1on Is shown our wants, y
though we are now and have been for
many years literally carrying the f
n&ncial burdens of the city. The gen
eral management of the city is wholly
t. our disadvantage, and is tending to
appreciate the value of our property
where We have spent large sums of
money in establishing comfortable
homes. Therefore we have deemed if
wise. hefore our property is practi-
callN taken from us by unjust and alb
surd taxation by the selfish greed Of
an uhpflnclpled city administration
fc bring the facts before the Jeeisia.
ture"
Regarding taxes, it is claimed that
residents in the section which it is
proposed to set off pay 65 per cent
O. the taxes of the Who'll ecity, or S437.
o65 i'll 1905, out of total of $679.52O
and received in return by way of the
police. fire, health and street cleaning
departments salaries, stationery
street lighting, water supply, records
etc. $56,O24.
I'm other Words" says the petition
we are paying $362,035 annually to
the city of Newport above what we
cost the city, and for which we receive
no benefit whatever These, startling
figures show us at glance what even
in the first year of incorporation W"
could reduce our taxation 30 per cent:
that we could pay our expenses, our
state tax, our share of the city's bond
cd Indebtedness and still have a bal
ance on hand each year of s194,696;
or the taxation at the present rate
would leave us a balance at the end
OF each year of s326,061 on which bal
ance we certainly could have a model
town."