The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-04
CAN NOT PAY
 PERSONAL TAX
Many of Those Liable Unable to
 Live On Wages Paid
Stories of Privati0n Told by
 Many at Claims Meeting

The Claims committee of the Com
 mon council had a busy time of it
 last night. Most of the business had to do with tax rebates. There was an
 unusual number that appeared for the abatement of their personal tax. unique story was that told by David Mackay, who said he had been prosperous business man until the Johnstown flood swept his business away. He has been an iron moulder since then and sickness has followed him. He is now a .canvasser.
 Many were the stories that wages were too small to allow for the pay ment of the personal tax of $2. John Calhoun gets $9 a week when he works and has a Is year old boy who does not work. John Rogers makes
 but SITS to $2 day when he works.
 He cannot always get work. He has children. One daughter works at Warner Bros. factory and gets S4.50 a week. Frederick Naylor, carpen- ter, hasn't earned S7O since last fall His oldest son cannot get work. Both
 live together and are behind in their rent. James H. Murray now gets S8
 week at the Bridgeport Brass Co. The most he ever got was SIP a week at the Wheeler & Wilson Co.,, where
 he worked IA years. He has wife and three children.
 uOIIldS MdlOnoy gets DO 0 week
 and has a wife and three children to support. Robert R. Boulden is 61 , years old and is unable to get work
 c. F. Carlson lost 8 leg 25 years ago and can earn only a few dollars a week now.
 St. Augustine's Roman Catholic church wants an unpaid sewer as- sessment abated because thu church has no use for the sewer since it's only property on Grove street where
 the sewer is, comprises a cemetery. President Wallace G. Taylor of the Fire board was at the meeting to tell , what he knew about damage claims
 as the result of collisions with fire apparatus when responding to fires. There were three such claims. He | considered them all just. Fire ap- paratus hereafter will not exceed Is | miles an hour.
 Other petitions were as follows: The Connecticut Baptist Conven- tion, per. Attorney E.. K. Nicholsoc, for the abatement of the taxes On tn e lists of 1910 on property of the afore- said society Gn Silliman and Fairfield avenue.
 Russell and Maria Driver, for the return of the sum of $3.60 paid in
 excess for the taxes on the list of 1910 on property located in the first
 taxable district.
 William T. Blunt, for the abate-
 ment of the 10 per cent penalty for failure to file list of property on Sept.
 |, 1911, in the name of the Mary Blunt estate.
 William A. Garter, for the abate-
 ment of the interest and expense of the unpaid sewer assessment levied for the Charles street sewer.
 Frank M. Hungerford, per Attor- neys Beers sId Foster, for the re-
 lease of liens and the abatement of the taxes on the property of the De- titioner located on Cleveland aven1e. J. s. Wooster, for reimbursement for loss owing to damage done by the fire apparatus.
 James Mulligan, for reimburse
 ment for loss suffered by a collision
 with the fire apparatus.
 James A. Mooney, for the abate-
 ment of the taxes on the list of 1910
 in the name of Mary Mooney. Arthur A. Linley, for reimburse ment for loss suffered by collision
 with the fire apparatus.
 A. M. Garfield asked for $135 as
 recompense for injuries due to fall
 on Elm street on Feb. 13.