The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-27
Order From Washington Ad-
vances Final Date for Filing
Until Next Monday.
LIKE A JAM IN SUBWAY.
One Batch Of Reports by Mail
Makes a Pile of Twelve
Cubic Feet.

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to $1,000 for hardness. Commissioners
Of Internal Revenue w. H Osborn
at Warrington notified all collectors
to-day that statements Of income
were to be received on Monday
March .. until o'clock in the even
ing.
Persons who do business In Man
haitian below Q limo stretched across
the city at about Twenty hrst street
report to Charles w. Anderson. Col
iector for tho Second District at the
Custom House. Tho upper part Of
Manhattan. above this line. 10 under
the charge OF Collector r. L. Marshall
Of the Third District at No. 1877
Third avenue. corner Of Sixteenth
street. The First District, Of which
William J. Maxwell IL collector. Ct
tho Brooklyn Post Once Building.
includes all Long Island and Rich
mond County. Tho Bronx II In
charge Of Deputy Collector Howard
y. Davis Of the Fourtssnth District
NJ W.. oo1 w iiiu uN0uuos
LAST MINUTE Rueta FOR FILING
THE RETURNs.
There wcro applicants for blanks
and filars Of afidavits waiting 1t the
doors Of all thsss o6icss 81 o'clock
this morning. Government ofices
here open ordinarily At .. but the
rush anticipated under the lately
aroused anxiety Of citisens 10 comply
with this first Income TAI law. With
al ~ brand aaw complsxitiss.
brought collectors. and thsir clerks
to their desks from half an hour to
an hour earlier voluntarily.
The busiest once Of all waS that st
the Custom HOUSE. to which b ~.
ported the returns from the ricAsst
tax district in the United States
the lower half Of! Manhattan. inelud-
ing the wealth Of Wall stnast. III
banks and trust companies and rail-
road Offices. the Thousands Of manu-
facturi.,g. businsssss. the Wholesale
and jobbins and commission con-
Germs and the Immense aSGrsgAts
incomes Of the Thousands who live In
tencments. but have bank balances
running into four and nve hgurea.
| The Arst man to-day In the Inter-
nal Revenue temporary ofz,css ON the
third floor Of ths Custom House was
Deputy Collector Edward ]. Faith.
Collector Anderson was only one sls-
vator behind him on hts way to thu
regular oncss on the Afth nosr.
RGPoNTs ~ MAIL PILED HIoh
IN MS OFFICE.
The Collector himself and I'VE clerka
under his Immediate char4s takes
care Of the mailed applications, for
blanks and the afIidavits which come
through the Post- once. Piled on q
table outside the door Of his private
office to-day under charge Of let
ter carrier were twelve cubic feet Of
registered letters In tight packages.
This meant that about 10000 reg.
istry receipts must DO signed In trip
licate. for tho return acknowisdg.
ment. the Post once voucher and
the carriers receipt:
Twenty sacks Of unregistered mail
lay In the cellar ct the loot % the
elevator shaff. These were brsuvht
up one by one % that the 0fllcs might
not b. unduly cluttSred. Thrss hush-
81 wsatsbasksts along the walls held
tho snvSlDpss from which yestsrday's
communications had been huslssd
and arranged for classification to.
day. .'.
About 10000 blanks have been DIS.
tributed from the Custom House in
tho last four weeks. BY far TIE
greater number arc for the state
mnnts Of individual. Thsrs Are other
blanks for VARIOUS ciasses Of c0rpors-
lions. Twenty thousand declarations
have come back.
An Evening World reporter asked
Deputy Collector Faith how much tax
money was represented by these 90
800 returns. The young official throw
up his handa. He said that the De-
partment had all II could DO To re-
celye and classify tho lncoming am.
davits without attempting to look In.
to the amounts they represented.
Collector Anderson reorgAnisod hts
Office star TO meet the nav Income
tax emergency. He prepared himssli
by six weeks OF study OF income ta1
law and practice. Four weeks wers
spent In study Vt the German and
French systems at the AAtor Library
The Collector IL familiar with both
languages. The other two weeks were
spent at Washington with oficials oi
the Treasury Department and thu
Department OF Justice, who havs
made g study Of the law,
The Collector took ton OF hts ~cxu.
lar deputies and clerks AID obtAjus Cd
the permission Of the depar sment r
appoint six extra clerks to meet thS
income tax enlargement Of ths worl
OF his once. The burden of exp!.ia.
ing the complications Of the law fall,
on six persons under the direct cha, n
Of Mr.. Faith. though the CClisctal
drops into the third door room syss5
little while 70 help ont.
They ere Niis Ade nasassta1t
Mtsses IDA and HANNAH Platt No