The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-28
Personal ROLLS CHECKED
Assessors are Hopeful That Even More
Money May be Added to the Rolls
as Result of Close Inspection of Rolls
Finance Committee Hopeful.

The city of Kenosha had a lucky day
on Wednesday and as a result OF the
break in favor of the city members of
the finance committee had something
like a twenty thousand dollar burden
lifted off their shoulders in the work
of making the tax levy through the
discovery of two errors. One was In the
department of assessment which re-
suited in an even million dollars
worth of personal property being add
ed to the tax roll and the other was
in the books of the county which re-
suited in an even ten thousand dollars,
Lalf mill tax nearly, being deducted
from the roll AS a result Of the find
ing of the first error the board Of as
SCISSORS will get busy on Friday and
check every assessment returned to-
gether with the assessment made this
year and it is probable that some more
money will be added to the TX roll
before it is turned over to the com
mittee on finance for the making OF
the levy.
When the personal property roll was
turned over to the officials two days
ago they marveled at the fact that not
withstanding large increases in some
kinds of personal property the report
showed smaller assessment than last
year after the deduction of the
amount which had been assessed year
ago on personal property removed from
taxation by the working Of the in
come tax. Assessors and their clerks
defended their figures to such vigor-
Gus extent that the return was made
to the county clerk. But the assessors
were also little in doubt and they
kept at work. They found Yesterday
afternoon that one of the largest in
dustrial plants in the city had not
been assessed for personal property nd
the assessment when made added the
million to the roll. This card had been
filed out some time ago, but IN some
manner it had been mislaid and the
large amount never reached the tax roll
formally. This increased the total as
sessment of the city to more than
$25, $4,000.
The other error was Of the laughable
kind and John T. Yule, the president
of the Park Avenue Kickers Club, was
the principal actor in the near fnan-
cial tragedy. The error was found in
the levy of the school tax. When the
tax levy was made a few days ago the
assessment returned against the city
was $25, 1858. Protest was made by
members of the finance committee of
the city on the boost of ten thousand
dollars, but it was held that this was
only one dollar more than the state
apportionment The books Of the
schools were searched to find why the
increase should be made, but nothing
was found. Then the finance commit
tee began looking into the records of
the county board and it was found that
the supervisor of the county board had
made the levy for the city on the
basis of the entire amount apportioned
for the county instead of the amount
apportioned for the city. This was a
difference Of little over ten thous-
and dollars.
Assurance has been given that al
though the levy has been made it will
be corrected and the $4,000 left in
the hands of the finance committee for
use in other lines of work for The city.
The finding of these errors will ma
terially affect the work of the com
mittee in the making of the coming
tax levy