The evening world., 1908-11-28
SUBURBS WANT
REPRESENTATION
IN BIG CONGRESS
Taxpayers in Outlying Home
Sections Are Uniting to
Join Movement.

Now that the big Tax.Payers' Con-
gross Is being organized, suburban
realty leaders are waiting to join the
| movement.
| outlying districts need the protection
and cooperation of such central body
even more than does Manhattan. And
the suburbs suffer more than Manhat-
tan, when millions of city money are
| wasted or misspent. because there is
just so much less to pay for improve
ments needed 10y the outside home sec
| tions.
| Only In Manhattan has the temporary
organization Of the TaX-Papers' Con-
gress been formed
The work of forming local divisions
| of the congress in forty-one districts
| into which Manhattan has been divided.
! is progressing rapidly. Charmen of
/ the various divisions are cnlsting the
most influential taxpayers in their
districts to form the nucleus of each
| local body. When those large interests
[ have established the local organization
on a firm basis the smaller owners Will
/ he enrolled.
All Eager to Enroll.
N
eager to enroll in the Congress. accord
/ ing to reports from every division of
the Real Estate Board of Brokers. at
/ No. 1856 Broadway, which is supporting
the movement. Suburban owners and
realty leaders are insisting that the or
ganization shall be extended at once
to the outlying boroughs. instead of
waiting for the work to be completed
in Manhattan. Some Of the largest in
terests in each borough have volun-
teered to take charge OF the enrolment
in their own districts.
Governors of the Board OF Brokers
have general plans for extending the
divisional organizations into the sub
urbs, and the work may be started
/ within two or three months. The other
boroughs Will be represented by dele
gates in the congress on the same basis
as is Manhattan-that is, one delegate
! for each 200 Individual owners and one
delegate for each s40Oo00OO of assessed
value.
May Have 700 Delegates.
AS there are 100000 available indvid
ual owners of real estate in the greater
city. they would be represented in the
completed congress by $50 delegates
greater city is s6.T22 ,4l5,7s9 which
would add nearly I70 more delegates
making the full congress to consist OF
100 delegates.
Manhattan, with its 10000 owners
would have 100 delegates, and its 81.
5A,536.iSl assessed valuation would give
it 1lo more, making a total of 2l0.
Brooklyn. with 5000 owners. woult
have % delegates, and its sl.3Sl i.S3
assessed valuation would give "a more
the total being 80.
for its 10000 owners, and II for Its SAL
22S,.lS assessed valuation, or III in all
Queens would send % delegates for Its
Loco taxpayers, and eight more for IL
s296, 45S.9S0 assessed valuation, making So
Richmond would have 30 delegates for
Its 5000 taxpayers, and two for Its $780,
S25 assessed valuation, or 80 in all.
These figures are regarded as tenta-
tive. They could be readiusted by the
delegates to the Taxpayers, Congress
he II ene ed sh9ua
plete. Although the actual number OF
separate individual taxpayers is taken
at ios,9OO the Tax Department, j., g, figures
counted several times when he owns
property in as many districts.
The total number OF separate real es-
Is 4Sl ,95S There are IS 657 in Manhatta n,
j lol in the Bronx, 1SsS S2S in Brookyn,
lO6,54 in Queens; gllo in Richmond,
for individual representation after the
congress began its regular sessions. The
main ,considerauop at the start Is to
| orSanlze cen tTd VluN "HlcH SildIl coH-
sentative associations in every district.
AS many owners Individually would
not enroll in the divisional. oreaniza-
tions. the representation from that
source would be below the maximum
always while those who Joined the divs-
ion could vote for delegates to represent
the full total assessed valuation Of
their division. thus maintaining the full
number of assessed value delegates.
Excursion to Jersey Lots.
w. C. Reeves & Co. will take an ex-
cursion crowd tomorrow 10 Jersey
Manor, Stelton, n. j., where they are
offering 1000 lots. 1t is twenty-nine
miles out on the Pennsylvania Railroad,