New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-02
RICH CITIZENS DEALT
WITH EASILY ON TAXES
Iobn D. Rockefeller Heads 1914
! ist of Personal Assessments,
with $1,000, 900.
clRNEGIE'S NAME MISSING!
D., III Be There Later, No
Doubt, and May Top Oil
Man's-Waldorf Still
Costliest Hotel.

~. tax hooks. which were opened yes
d. 20 the public. with the detained
..ossr,ents or real estate and PERSONA
a'sr ro-,v showed slight increases over
90 on property improved at that
49, and a material falling on N mo
.soral assessments Of some rlch Gil
"a While the tentative assessments
- ,o,4-the grand total in all hVe Dor
..,nhs-show an increase OF little more
.s.r SSSC000 90. practically all OF the IN
-. Was due 10 the assessments on
r.v buildings. This increase was about
.hs same as Il was this year over ls4Z'
r.. borrowing capacity Of the city was
,,crsased By 100000.
1obn d. Rockefeller. who was assessed
~ 100000 personality. the same as last
-..- was the highest on the lists opened
..,,erdsy. The personality OF Andrew
c.-,sqie which was assessed at a higher
azure last year, was not rated on the
hooks Yesterday The new Woolworth
p,udine was assessed al 100000, the
.,,,as, figure levied on any OF the new
buildings
as follows.
1obn i. Rockefeller. 5000 William
7,sgle- ir.. 81 10000, Cornelius Wander
IN, $4,000. Herman sielcken, 10000
Gertrude 2 Whitney. $4,000. Margaret
q Sage. S4ea.Ooo. Herbert L. Satterlee.
cnno Jacob II. Schi6. 10000; William
vincent Astor, $4,000; Madeleine Force
,s,o- $4,000. Daniel NJ. Boden $500 COO:
r,,,es Gordon Bennett. 1928. 90; John d.
pockeferer. ir.. 1894. 500; William Rookie
fsusr $4,000: Henry .. Babcock, $500 zoo.
william 2 Clyde. 100000; Felix NJ. War
hurg $4,000: Florence a. V. Twombly'
Sgon00. Alice g. Vanderbilt, $4,000.
Among those assessed on personality OF
,en0m were Thomas +. Ryan. Gustav
s,bwab. James Speyer Marie l. A.
Amend Louise ". Carnegie. Robert
Baoon. Frederick F. Aver. Ellen Gray.
Emily A. Watson. Grace ". Thomas,
Belmont Tiffany. Elizabeth 3. Valentine
and Henry Phipps.
Isaac y. Sehgman was assessed for
$4,000: August Belmont. $4,000; John l..
Cadwalader. $4,000 Harry Payne Whit
ney. James Stillman, Ebert II. Gary
paul NJ. Warburg. Grace G. Vanderbilt.
Frederick ". Vanderbilt. Charles L. Tiff
fsny. Annie c. Phipps. Joseph NJ. Ullman
and jay Gould all were assessed for
10000 personality; Alfred G. Vanderbilt.
Samuel Untermyer and ". Gould Brokaw
were assessed for $4,000 each.
There was a slight increase in the valu-
alton placed on the large Office buildings
IN Broadway. Wall street and Fifth ave
nue. but generally they remained about
the same as las: year. There were q
Isrge number % buildings OF this ol'~s
assessed at between s. coco and s2.clog,]
The Singer Building was assessed for
10000. and the City Investing Building,
AZ No l65 Broadway. for $3.50 Some
d the other well known buildings, which
we're among the highest valuations on the
LIST, we're:
Fifth Avenue Building $4,000; 10.
rs Broadway. $4,000: New York Stock
Exchange. $500 coo. No % Broad street.
$500; Mills Building. A175,0oo; No. 4
Broadway $4,000; No Q Battery Place,
$4,000: Drexel Building q. p. Morgan
Coz. $4,000: Manhattan Life 1nsur-
srce Company Building, 100000; Stand
Nd Oh Building, $4,000; siegel-Cooper
Co. Building. Sc, go 600; Commercial
Cable Building. $1,000 90.
The assessed valuation of theatres
headed bv the Herald Square, Knicker-
hooker, Madison Square. Days and Fffth
Avenue. which were assessed for more
than 10000 each. were practically the
same as last year. The metropolitan
Opera House was assessed at $1,000.
The tentative hotel valuations for 1914
we're not materially increased over Last
year The Hotel McAlpln was assessed
for 1880 the highest, with the excep-
ton ~ the Waldorf storia.