The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-21

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ters-in-law, Mrs. Bosley Crowther and Mrs.
Gwynn Crowther, and her nieces. Miss Helen
Crowther and Miss Eliza Hiss.
COMMISSIONER YELLOTT RESIGNS.
Gives Up His Seat in the Board Because
of Jrreconcilable Differences Over
County Tax Rate.
Mr.. George W. Yellott, who had been a
member of the Board of County Commissioners
for several years, and whose term would not
have expired until after the election in 1907 re-
signed his seat on Wednesday, thereby causing
much surprise and comment. The only reason
assigned for this action was that he and Mr..
Henry E. Mann, president of the Board, could
not agree upon questions of taxation. Mr..
Yellott said
81 have always opposed the unfair taxation
of corporations, simply because of their ability
to pay taxes but have believed that justice to
the people at large required that all corporate
and other property should De taxed as fairly
and fully as that of the small property holder.
OF late some corporate property has been added
to the taxs BILE basis of the county. though not
nearly, in my judgment, what should have
been, and 1 have found it impossible to keep
taxation in the county what it ought in justice
rate of assessment for the present year, know
ing as 1 do that, according to the past rate of
expenditures, there will be large deficit to be
made up next year.
''I believe in the county paying as It'll goes and
levying for each years expenses as closely as
they can be estimated. l do not wish to be
understood as criticising my colleagues in any
way or as finding any fault with them, but
circumstances are such that find it impossible
to give to the people such an administration as
/ believe them entitled to and am unwilling to
remain In an Office where l am powerless to
serve the people as have promised and think
ought to do"
Commissioners Mann and Slade gave out the
following statement:
Mr. Yellott and the other members of the
Board part officially as the best of friends, and
in making any statement in the matter OF his
resignation we have no desire to provoke any
controversy but feel that in justice to ourselves
and lest our silence should be misunderstood
we should define briefly our position in the
matter of corporate taxation. The taxable
basis of the county has been increased IS. 1877
600 during the last two years. More than 3d.
100000 or 70 per cent. of that amount. has
been made up of increases in the assessments
on the property of corporations.
''Three districts alone-the 18th, 14th and
15th-being the sites of the principal corpora.
tons in the county, pay taxes on real and
fixed personal property at an assessed valua.
ton of S21, 900, 900, this sum being Approximate
ly one-third of the taxable basis OF the real and
fixed personal property of the entire county.
In matters Of this kind there is always room
for differences of opinion, but the present basis
has been arrived at in the exercise of our best
Judgment and discretion. We feel that we
have treated all classes fairly and that the taxes
paid by the corporations in the county are as
nearly in proportion to their actual worth as
in the case of any other class of taxpayers.
Increased appropriations have been made
this year in many OF the departments, and
whenever we thought that increased appropria-
tions were necessary. We believe that with
an economical administration of the county's
affairs the levy of ~ cents will prove entirely
adequate"
The vacancy caused by Mr.. Yellott's resig-
nation will be filled by the Governor.
Among those who have been talked about
as possible successors to Mr.. Yellott are Messrs.
James Rittenhouse, Samuel M. Shoemaker,
Mays, John Ridgely of H., Melchor Hoshall
w. o. B. Wright and Norman James.
Action Against Stone Crushing Plant.
Members of the Woodlawn and Vicinity Inn
provement Association, including the Wood
lawn Cemetery Company, are preparing to
take legal steps toward the prohibition of an
alleged nuisance, caused by the operation of q
stone crusher belonging to the Maryland Stone
Company, Mr.. Hugh Gelston, president, on
the Franklin road, about 100 yards from the
city limits. At a meeting of the Improvement
Association, held at Woodlawn on April 9th,
a committee. composed of Gen. F. c. Latrobe
and Mr.. A. M. Bowling, of the Woodlawn
Cemetery Company, was appointed to take
stems to have the crusher removed from its
present position, and General Latrobe and Mr..
John E. Semmes are now looking into the
matter in order to have the county authorities
take some action.
General Latrobe, who is representing, among
others, Mr.. Gaun NJ. Hutton, says that the
noise of the crusher and its appearance along
the roadside frigbtens horses. He also said
the crusher was being operated without per-
NIT from the county authorities.
It was stated at Mr.. Geston's Office that no
frightening of horses has as yet come to the
notice of the men operating the crusher, and
it was denied that there was any cause for
complaint
"Dirring for Gold" On Loney's Lane
The ''gOld fever" has struck the residents in
the neighborhood of Loney' s lane and Madison
street. in the eastern limits of Baltimore city,
and every man who owns or can borrow q
spade is digging for buried treasure.
Some workmen in planting posts found
gold dollar, which many think is part of q
Store buried during the Civil War. The dol.
lar bears the date 1858 and was found about
three feet below the surface. Mr.. John Laverty,
of Homewood avenue, an engineer of the Bal.
timore Brick Company, who was near when It
was unearthed, purchased it at a premium.
Mr.. Laverty supposed the find was merely
a stray coin dropped by someone, but upon
inquiry among older residents he learned that
for wears there has been a rumor that large
amount of money in gold was buried in that
vicinity. He was also Uniformed that numerous
attempts had been made to find it, and that
only short while ago a stranger, who carried
a spade and a rough chart or map, dug several
holes near where the dollar was found.
Easter Monday Church Elections,-All
the Protestant Episcopal churches elected YES
trymen on Monday last. We have reports
Tr;nity Church. Towson.-John Ridgely OF
H Frank Ehlen, II. V. Walton, Arthur
Boehm, Charles w. Hof, David g. Mcintosh,
Jr., Alexander G. Nelson and George G. Ca
rev delegate to diocesan convention, Arthur
Boehm; alternate, John Ridgely, of Il.
81. Ttnaothgs Church. Catonsville. Charles
G.. w. Macgill, Frederick M. Colston, Theo.
dor G. Lurman. John Glenn, Jr., Blanchard
Randall, E. Stanley Gary. Gustav W. Lurman
and Norman James.
Counties Vestrymen, DR.. Walter b. Platt, ID.
Sterett Cuttings, Francis NJ. Gorsuch. Charles
B. Cain, Robert J. Dilworth. Edward Reynolds,
II. D. Day and Cabell Y. Peyton: wardens,
D. s. Cuttings and G. Y. Peyton registrar and
treasurer, D. S. Cuttings delegate to convex
ton. Ur. w d. IlhLt dltcIudtCf We
auditing committee, a. D. Day and q. y.
Peyton.
Work of the Orphans Court.-In the Bal
timore County Orphans Court this week letters
were granted on the following estates,
On the personal estate of Emily Jane Sipes
to MonzefI Sipes, administrator.
On the personal estate Of Lewis +. Chilcoat
to John P. Chilcoat, administrator.
On the personal estate of Conrad Bing to
Mary Bling, executrix.
On the personal estate of Charles Schweigert.
Jr, to w. Brown Hammond. administrator.
On the personal estate OF Frank link to
Anna NJ, link, administrative.
On the personal estate of Emma s. keidel to
Ferdinand L. Brauns, administrator.
On the personal estate of Samuel Chesney to
Alyerda ]. Chesney. executrix.
The will of Conrad Bling, who died thirty
five wears ago, was admitted to probate on
Tuesday. He bequeathed his entire estate 70
bis wife and after her death to their children.
Mrs. Bing died about two weeks ago.
Sale of Mortgaged Premises.-Pattison
a. Gahan, auctioneers, sold at the Court House
door on Tuesday, for Mr.. AlhertS Gill, assignee
of a mortgage from Samuel r. Ness and wife
to Caroline Ness, house and half acre of land
near the village OF Boring, 4th district puF.
chased by Caroline Ness for s429,