The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-25
$4,000 T A X
PAID BY THE
p. S.
Five Per Cent. Assessment
Shows Increase Of $4,000
Over Last Years Total.

General Auditor Matthew r. Boylan. Of
the North Jersey Street Railroad Com
pany, a subsidiary OF the Public Service
Corporation and which controls all street
car lines In the city, today gave City
Comptroller ]. II. Bachelor check for
$4,000 as representing per cent. of the
gross receipts within the city limits of the
street car lines of his company for the
business year ending April 80 last. within
the city limits The check was signed by
James p. Dusenberry, treasurer of the
Public Service Corporation.
The check shows an increase of more
than IS, coo over last year and about $4,000
over 1906
Accompanying the check was tabu-
lated statement of receipts. the mileage
of lines the total mileage within the city
limits that is subject to the per cent.
tax and the proportion of the receipts
Obased on the mileage in the city, subject
to the per cent tax imposed by the city
on the gross receipts of the company.
In the statements of the trolley lines
with trackage outside the city limits, such
as the Newark and Jersey City line, the
percentage Of receipts in Newark proper
tionately to the total of the receipts Of
the entire line. as set forth in the state
ment of the company, are believed not
any larger than they should be- II as large
considering the trackage in this city.
According to the statement of the gem
eral auditor of the company, the total
receipts this year on the lines was about
S4, 300. 900, of which about s2,350,000 repre-
sented the receipts from mileage in the
city limits. chartered cars and mail-carry-
Ing cars.
According to last years statement the
earnings Of the company were Ss.s35s15.3o
OF that $2.1666i5.10 was earned within
the city limits.
Last year the city received a check for
$1OS 332 25 on the per cent. tax and in
1905 received s96.024.65.
A. f. Dickson, chief clerk In the office
of General Auditor Boylan, has been figur-
ing out the sum due the city since early
In May, and 1t was a tedious job AS
City Auditor George Forman and City Ex-
pert William c. Stainsby learned last
year, when the latter and his assistants
worked on the task in Mr.. B0ylan's Of
fee for three months, to ascertain II the
city was getting all that was due from the
per cent tax on the gross receipts
Treasurer James p. Dusenberry, OF Pub
lie Service. said today that the corpora
ton pays a total of AZ per cent on it's
annual receipts to the State and different
municipalities, while holders of gilt-edged
bonds got only per cent interest on
the bonds AS Newarks population in
croases. and that of the county also, the
sum the city will get from the Public
Service for the 5 per cent. tax will In
crease. The annual check from the COM
pany helps to keep down the city tax rate.
A newspaper man now on the staff of
THE EVENING STAR caused the Com
mon Council to pass the ordinance which
required the payment by the trolley COM
panies Of the per cent on receipts He
could not have succeeded but for the ap-
proval and vigorous assistance OF former
United States Senator James Smith, jr.,
the late Moses Bigelow and the late Mon
signor George II. Doane. The fight was
made when the Rapid Transit Traction
Company applied to the Common Council
for a franchise
When the late Bernard NJ Stanley, who
was general manager Of the North Jer-
sey Street Railway Company, told Ran
dali Morgan, vice-president of the United
Gas Improvement Company, Of Philadel-
phia, which they controlled In trolley
lines here, how the companies were made
to pay the per cent. tax, and who did
it. Mr.. Morgan said:
That's all right. We are willing to
pay the tax to Newark and other munich
palities, If they will not saddle on us un-
expected and unjust taxes. The per
cent. is a fxed charge, like interest on
banks and we prepare for IT,