The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-22
ZIMMERMAN ONLY
CANDIDATE MAKING
MORE THAN $4,000
Eleven Who Aspire to Ad-
ministrative Board DO
Not Receive $1,000
AT LEAST THEY DO
NOT PAY THE TAX
Richmond's City Officials
Are Also Poorly Paid, Ac-
cording to State Aud
itor's Books

Whoever may be the lucky five who
are destined to draw five thousand
dollars per annum from the city as
members OF the new administrative
board they will pay more income tak
after than before election.
Unless w H. Zimmerman be one
OF the 1--WE. they will pay more than
now. even though ali other sources
of their income be dried up while
they are sacrificing their private for
the public business.
With one exception none Of the
candidates for the administrative
board has declared in his sworn
statement to the city commissioners
Of revenue that his income Is over
and above $1,000. Eleven OF the
seventeen do not receive as much as
two thousand dollars per year, ae-
cording to the figures on the books Ia
the office Of State Auditor Moore
where they were died by Commss-
sloner Tresnon.
Six thousand Highest,
six thousand dollars fs the largest
income of any of the candidates FOR
Office and he has reached the stage
Of retirement when any man of ordi
nary business ability is supposed -
tsaee- accumulated certainly that rntteh
after-vears of experience in the Oh
duct of great and growing business
VI a progressive city.
Next to Mr.. Zimmerman comes G. e.
Richards, another retired bus'ness
man. with an annual income of $4,000.
f. H. Ferguson, Of the firm OF
J. W Ferguson d Sons. printers, II
third on the honor roll with m an
Yfue& income IT $500.
MIR. Ferguson liz the only candi
date. conducting his own bustne
who receives more than $4,000 an
nuaily.
Marx Gunst and Graham Hohscn
have passed the charmed line with
respective incomes of s2,6o0 and S.
20o annually.
OF the State and city officials who
are candidates for the board. Carton
Mccarthy is the only one who has Il
Job paying more than $4,000 an
nually. Captain Met&rthy's income
totals $4,000 per annHm.
or tbs others. H. =. Beck. city
engineer: William +. knowles su-
perintcndent If city water worf". =
w. Bennett. kphn Y. Don LeANy.
John Hirschherg. John w. Moore ana
Robert Whlttet. Jr., souncilmen; 4 {.
Folkes. State senator from Richm onG :,
and Charles r, Taylor. fire G 1m11'a
sion. make less than $4,000. which
one must make to be cisssed with the
piutecrats who pay an Incomes N 20
the Stale.
The complete list 81 the admin =
trative board and the incomes theF
pay, or do not pay, to the StRfe Is
~ follows:
II p. Beck. A w. Bennett George
"A Davis. John f. Don Leavy, f &.
Folkes, Jno. uirschberg. W. r. Knowles
John W. Moore, George Paul, Charles
r TAYLOR. Robert Whittet, lr.~-Nofh-
ing
". Fl. zimmerman, se,0oo, Z. +.
Richards, $4,000. r, II FERGUSON,
a.soo: Carlton Mccarthy. $4,000; Mara
t;unsr. s2sae. Graham T. Hobson,
$4,000
While no one Is disposed TO vote
against or for any candidate on &C
count OF the size OF his income, MANI
who have heard the arguments OF bus
mess success advanced by some OF the
candidates have expressed surprise
that none of them seem TO have made
any great financial success
Ton City Officials Were Paid.
Richmond city officials probably
serve their municipality for less in
come than in any other city OF its
size in the country. OF the officials but
ten receive more. than two thousand
dollars a year for their ardous labors
IN behalf OF better government The
others are paid somewhere between
nothing a year and $4,000.
The ten who make something like
q fair living from the city are;
~H,ilce. city collector 81, 400 !
Judge r. Carter Scott. Of the circuit
court. $4,000: Judge Daniel Grinnan.
OF the Chancery court. s45oa. Judge
Ernest H. Wells. Of the Hastings
court. part H. $4,000: j. ]. Crutch-
field. police justice, $4,000: DIR. Il. >.
WiIliarng. health officer. $4,000: c. p.
Walford. clerk school board, $2ioo;
Charles E. Boiling. city engineer, So
500: d. c. Richardson. mayor, $500;
" RI, Wyatt city constable. $4,000.
Moore Believes There Are Others.
State Auditor c. Lee Moore said
Yesterday that he was sure that there
are n number of citizens of Richmond
who receive a larger income than they
have declared, large number OF mer-
chants, real estate men. professional
men ana others who are credited with
being comparatively wealthy are
either not on the books at all or have
sworn TO incomes which are much
smaller than popularity conceived. OF
course. the popular conception OF a
mans wealth Is usually wrong, the
figure being placed too high, but the
difference between the incomes sworn
to and those many are supposed TO re-
ceive is so large that Auditor Moore
= feels called upon to direct the attention
Of the courts especially to the income
tax list when they meet 10 scan the
tax reports
II must be borne In mind that a
number or men, whose income Is
known TO be larger than sworn to are
not necessarily liable TO prosecution
should the court act, as moneys lost
In stocks or other speculations and in
yestments are allowed 10 be deducted,
and other exemptions are made. Never
fheless II Ii believed that there VIII
Re some Interesting developments
should the court decide TO go into q
more than perfunctory investigation