New Britain herald., 1915-03-01
PlalnVille News RELIEF BOARD CUTS
 $9,6O0 OFF TAX LIST Takes Favorable Action on 0nt-
 haIf Of jh5 Appeals Made. FEATHER IN ASSESSORS CAPS
'ha'rnian Condcli Expects to File IIrport Late TOday-J. J. Murphy Back From the West. Refuses to Disclose Purpose of His Trip.


 Less than 0,000' Was sliced of the grand list by the board of relief, ;lr- cordlnG to Chairman A. H. Conden, Wh" was at work today preparing the report which is to be filed with Town Clerk R. C. Usher late this after noon. The board finished it's cx- ctn'lNN sessions Saturday, but so much tune had to be given up to the t"hN'dcfat"n of the complaints that tue members had to put eff the com pilihg of the report until today.
 The reductions in the aggregate will amount to about $9.6O0. which is nearly on"-half of what the taxpay- CTS had asked for Favorable action was taken, it was said. on the com plaints of about twenty property owners, an equal number failing to get the relief pctitioncd for. Tho itcmiZcd report of the board will not he made puhli" until tomorrow.
 The action of tho relicr board is big kcHthcr in the caps of tho assess 0rS, as ii is practically an admission that their report was satisfactory. de- spite tho fact that the lists of nearly three hundred taxpayers were in- creased this year. The aSScssors had raised tho grand list $241,527, bring ing the total up to S2.256.922. The revised list will total about S2245,- 900. and the rcvcnuc which the. town receives from taxes will be materially increased
 During the sessions of tho relief board, Assessor F. A. Freeman was q most interested spectator and hr kept close tabs on the taxpayers who appeared to protest against the re- rort for which he was partly respon- Sible There were but forty formal complaints, the taxpayers responsible asking for reductions tOtalling $2O,- 900.
 Had every complaint been conSid- cred iustifiable by the board of re lief, the assessors would have been satisfied. and such action would have made them feel that it was the con SenSus of opinion that their report was Hs nearly correct as could be eN- peCtCd. They claimed to have made an honest effort to equalizc the Valua- ton Of the various properties in town and they now point to the report of the relief board as evidence of how well they succeeded.
 -N CondcII and his aSsociatcs. F. C. Ds- borne and W. J. Simpson disagreed on the merits to some of tho appeals and tho vote for reductions in ScV- rral cases was not unanimous The grand list as revised will now be turned over to Tax Collector w. J. Hemingway, who will at once begin work on the bills to be sent to prop cyty owners TaxnS arc 6Ip April 1 and by that date the collector expects to have all his bills dis tributed.
 Murphy HomC-NNon't Talk.
 Great secrecy concerning his visit to Cincinnati and other western cities is being maintained by James J. Mur- phy. who returned to town Saturday after an absence of several days. Mir. Murphy declines to discuss his trip. He also continues to affirm or deny various rumors concerning his prob able connection with the Eastern Baseball association this summer. That there is a strong likelihood of TO professional baseball in tOnnCcti- cut this season, Mr Murphy believes. He admits that his brother-in-law, George M. Cameron. who is in a hos pital in Chicago is una lteraDly op- posed to a six club league and If the league directors insist on dropping two cities New Haven will not be rep resented According to MT. Murphy MT. Cameron believes that a six club league would prove d big drain on the DOcketboolls of the team owners and as he has no special desire to carry on a Irritation with Miss Bankruptcy he will quit. Managers Carey and Clarkin are of the same opinion, he contends, and consequently it must be an eaght club league or none at all. Cameron intends to return to New Haven about April st. He has been undergoing treatment in Chicago for