The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17
ESTIMATE OF REVENUE
MADE FOR ALEXANDRIA
Council Finance Committee Says City
Will Have Income of $4,000
for Two Years.

Alexandria, Va. April 16.-This
city's income for the years 1915 and
1916 will be approximately s176.OOO
according to 4 statement just pre-
pared by the finance committee of the
city council.
Estimate of revenue to be received
! follows: Taxes, 1927, 900; paving bill
notes. $3.50; licenses, $4,000; Police
Court fines. $4,000; sewer permits,
/ $4,000: electric light franchise, $4,000:
! Virginia Railway fran
chise, $3.50; State of Virginia capita
ton taxes, $1,000; rent public prop
erty. 5000; gas works, $4,000. Last
year the total amount received by
the city from taxes was s125,411
| The cost of annexation is discussed
!! in the report. This contains an item
of $4,000 paid to Fairfax County.
and $4,000 for legal expenses and
other expenses to follow 1t is esti-
mated that police protection and
schools will cost $4,000 a year as a
result of annexation
Regarding the segregation plan of
taxation, the report says segregation
VIII not be as great a revenue pro-
Queer as was claimed by many. Int
ava ana can be
cIassed as an equitable tax measure"
MemDers OF Acca Temple, Mystic
Shrine. Richmond. will come to Alexan-
drla at 40 O'Clock SATURDAY. afternoon
accompanied by their band. and will con-
Ter degree work in the evening. The
arm OF the Arab Patrol and band con-
cert VIII take place at 5 o'clock at King
and Washington streets. A banquet will
4 n in I,.,
the Elks' Home. and twenty noyices will
be initiated at o'clock. Members OF
the shrine here will take part In the
parade.
A delegation OF members of Old Do
minion Commandery, No. II. Knights
Ienpiar. at meeting tonight arranged
to go to fredericksburg Sunday. May 2.
and attend Ascension services, which will
be held in a church In that CITY at night,
1t Is expected that a large delegation
will attend
Mrs. Virginia Fl. Chauncey. 75 years
Did. died at 1l:3o o'clock today at her
home. 5l3 South Henry street. She was
the widow of John F. Chauncey, and Is
survived by Lucien E. Chauncey. of
Washington; Llewellyn Peyton Chaun-
cey, and Mrs. Leonora Fugitt, of AL
hion. Pa. The deceased was a native of
Orange County. Va.
Graham & Ogden, real estate dealers,
have sold for the estate of the late
James Patterson the farm known as
Ealusa, containing a dwelling and about
100 acres to Chester Gwinn.
The Peoples Line, Alexandria, has been
chartered by the State Corporation Com
mission, with q ma ximum capital stock
Of $4,000 and a minimum of $1,000. Par
value Of shares Is $50. The objects are to
operate a steamboat business Ohicers are
Stephen Davis. President and treasurer:
william L. Davis. vice president, both of
Alexandria. and A. w. Kelley, secretary.
Washington. ID. c.
The funeral Of Marshall Carr will take
place at $50 o'clock tomorrow morning
from st. Mary's Catholic Church.
A double funeral will be, held NJ n
O'Clock tomorrow morning at st. Mary's
Catholic Church for vincenzo di Sal
vestre and Donate Till. killed yesterday
In the Potomac Railroad yards. They win
be buried aide by side In st. Aary's Gem
etery.
The frame dwelling house ana contents
at Colonial Beach. belonging to Antony e.
Smoot: this city. was destroyed by IRE
Thursday.
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