Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-30
WHERE THE CITIES
GET THEIR MONEY
Total Municipal Receipts Amount
To S1,228,635,496
For 1908.
PUBLIC SERVICE REVENUES
Census Figures Give Interesting In
sight Into Financial tdministra-
lion of the Big cities.

| Washington, ID. C.. July 80. 1910
The total municipal receipts in 1905
by the 1853 largest cities I'm the United
states, each having an estimated popu-
lation OF 10000 or more In 1905
amounted to s1,2sS.6S5.4s6, accord
ing to the census bureaus annual re-
| FORT on the statistics OF cities for the
year 1905, which is now In press
| or the 1853 largest cities in 1905, "a
We're 'no-license" or prohibition cities
or the Isl cities for which complete
returns were available for 1905, 1907,
| ana 1908, there were 10 "no-lioense"
| 1908
The number of places licensed for
| the sale OF Intoxicating liquors by the
| drink was 1896 in 1905, 67131 in
| 1917, and 1854 In 1908. This de-
| crease was not confined to any sec
| ton OF the country. but Ia apparent
In every group OF states except In cer-
tain OF the Rocky mountain states.
| The decrease has been most marked
In the cities OF the south Atlantic
states t. f...
The Increase In the number Of
places selling by the drink from 1907
TO 1905 was 100 per cent in Chelsea
and Fttchburg, Mass, as these cities
NnhHktu from no license TO license.
The only other cities showing an in
crease Of as much as 10 per cent
were Yonkers. 27.2 per cent: Will
mington. 25.7 per cent Newcastle
1871 per cent; and Spokane. 1916 per
cent
LIQUOR LICENSE RECEIPTS IN
CREASED.
Despite large decrease in the
number of licensed places. the receipts
from liquor licenses and taxes by the
l5l cities mentioned above increas-
ed from s30.s1O.Ss3 In 1905 10 s39.-
2S4,22S In 1907 and TO s4195O.1sS in
1905. The reason Is a general increase
In the amount of license fees,
The largest number OF places licens-
ed 10 sell by the drink In proportion
To population is shown for the cities
OF Texas, Wisconsin, and New York;
and the smallest number for the cities
Of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,. and
NEBRASKA. The smallest and largest
number of inhabitants to each place
selling by the drink in cities OF the
different groups were as follows:
Three hundred. thousand population
and over--Milwaukee 142, Philadel-
phia 1853; 100000 to 800 ,0O0-Paterson
PSI, Fall River 1.042: 10000 TO 100, 600
--Hoboken IFS. Lincoln 2.0ss; and
1900 to 50,00O-Galveston 1875, and
Chelsea 1884
To meet municipal payments the 1853
cities mentioned collected S6b2,334.-
$50 from taxes, licenses, special as
sessme nts and other revenues and
borrowed $500, 9Ob.4l4. The balance
Of the municipal receipts, amounting
to Sl35,395, 500. was made up OF
refunds. investments disposed OF by
city FUNDS, and general transfers
The total municipal receipts. therefore.
to $I,2SS,63b,4g6, and were |
af he q =
per cent from taxes and other gem |
eral revenues; I per cent from special |
assessments. 50 per cent from services |
performed by city department; $50
per cent from loans: and 1875 per
cent from refunds, general transfers.
and miscellaneous sources
REVENUES OF THE BIG CITIES.
Taxes and other general revenues, in
Guiding licenses and permits fines and
and subVentions, grants and
gifts, were the chief source OF revenue.
Tor nearly every city. Receipts from !
he general property tax formed the
'hief item of general revenue, and for
he cities Of Massachusetts, New York.
pennsylVania, Ohio Iowa, Louisiana,
virginia, and Georgia comprised more
nan 10 per cent OF the total
Liquor licenses and taxes formed 1874
Ter cent Of the general revenues In the
titles OF Ohio and 1912 per cent in the
tiles of California. New York City re-
eiyed t,92I.Sco Chicago. s7.252 6S7:
ma Philadelphia, 81 ees 45s from this
ource Che only other cities deriving
more than $1,000 900 from liquor H. |
enses were st. Louis Boston Cleve-
and, San Francisco and Cincinnati.
business licenses formed 2gs per cent |
4 the general revenues In the cities OF |
Ala hama, while general property taxes |
ormed only 53l per cent an unusual |
ondition among the cities OF the Unit
d States Business licenses also formed
large percentage, l45. of the general
evenues OF the cities OF Georgia
In most cities sewers pavements and
lmilar public Improvements are paid
Or IN the main from the general prop
fty tax, but there is marked varia-
on from this practise in several cities.
specially OF the west Oklahoma city
aceived more money from special as
than from taxes and other
eneral revenues. and New York city
,ceived NO.O2s. 1853 and Chicago s47sB-
% from the same source.
The proportion Of receipts from spec-
j assessments to receipts from taxes
nd other general revenues for speci-
ed cities vas as follows: Oklahoma
lily, l64i per cent; Seattle. TakomA,
nd Spokane, Wash. 75.s, SIS, and ss
'spectivelv: Oakland. 4s,s per cent; SUI
irlor' WIS. 4l-S per cent; Joplin. 1852
y cent and Kansas city. Mo. esT per
mt Comparatively low tax rates for
ost Of these cities are accounted for
Y large receipts from special assess
ents.
'uBILC-sERVICE ENTERPRISES
From revenues OF public-s service en- |