The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-29

Mayor Gaynor the tolls on the four
bridges spanning the East River have
been abolished. To the city this will
mean a loss in tolls of about $3.50. 900
a year. but as there will be a saving
in salaries of about $4,000. the actual
loss will not be more than $500, 0oo a
year The Board of Aldermen passed
the ordinance abolishing the tolls up
on the request of the Mayor without
much opposition. Vice Chairman Fran
els p. Bent was practically the only
member who opposed the measure. He
said he strongly favored free bath
houses and similar institutions that
would benefit the poor, but he did not
believing in abolishing tolls which. for
the most part, were paid by the veal
thy owners of vehicles drawn by hors-
es and automobiles, who did not care
whether they had to pay toll or not
His protest, however. did not prevent
the aldermen from passing the ordi.
nance.
The tax rate for the various Dor
oughs of Greater New York has been
fixed by the Board of Aldermen for the
year 1911. 1t varies between $1.72 in
Manhattan and the Bronx and $1.S1 in
Richmond The assessed value of the
real estate in the city for 1911 is 81.
S5S. 1874, an advance of $s14,647, $40 ov.
er the valuation in 1910. The personal
assessme are $357,923.123. de-
crease of S14,721,7 04 from 1910. On its
face the tax rate for Greater New York
is lower than it was last year, but
this decrease will not mean a reduc
ton of tax receipts, as the tax valua
ton in all the boroughs has been ma
terially increase.
Little decency is wasted in this
country where dollars and cents are
concerned. A short time ago several
actors were engaged at Brady's Pond
Staten Island, to enact for a moving
picture concern a melodrama, in which
the hero plunges from a cliff into the
water to rescue the heroine battling
with the william in boat. The actor
who played the part of the hero, was
a good swimmer and made the dive
beautifully, but was caught in the
Iuc UOtlOHl VI Tue pun
and was drowned. All the time the film
of the camera was reeled OFF and the
scenes of the only too realistic drama
were thus perpetuated on the strip
Now the concern in whose service the
actor lost his life, is widely advertis
ing the alm which depicts the death
leap of the victim of sensationalism.
Even the old Romans appreciated
the advantage of having "a friend il
| court" The large business interest,
and particularly the bad" trusts IL
this country, recognizing this advan
tage, have always aimed at having
| their friends elected to the state legis
latures and to Congress and the pla,
| worked admirably for them. The PEG
pie may be grateful, however, tina
there are few isolated cases in which
"a friend in court" does not avail thu
evildoer. The other day certain New
York Congressman went out in a rev
enue cutter to meet one of the incom
! ing German liners. He went aboar,
the liner and when the ship arrived a
Hoboken, he tried his best to help !;
young woman, the buyer of a depart
ment store in Philadelphia, through
the ordeal of the customs examina
ton. The inspectors came to the con
clusion that some laces had been I'm
dervalued in the woman's declaration
and refused to pass her trunks. Thel
the Congressman introduced himseI
to the inspectors, hoping that his pres
| tige would help Strengthening natter
in way satisfactory to the younl
woman. But the inspectors did no
seem to have much respect for the ex
allied position of the woman's cham
pion and had her trunks sent to tn,
Public Storehouse for examination. 1t
ter it was found that the same woman
had been caught three years ago in al