New Britain herald., 1915-03-04

Airs His Views on Report of the
 Asscssors-Busincss Mems Directors
 to Mcet-Pullano Goes to Jail.
 Claiming that all properties in town were not placed on the grand list by the assessors for their full valuation, Frank G. Osborne, dem ocratic mem- Der of the board of relief, today de- clared that he will refuse to sign the report that is to be submitted by that body to the state board of equaliza- tlon. MT. Osborne states that he can- not conscientiously affix his signature to the document as he believes some of the property has not been figured on hundred per cent basis.
 MT. Osborne's action will cause something of a surprise, as it was gen crally believed that the relief board practically approved of the assessors report. While it granted reductions of over $1o,000, it was apparently very sparlng in its use of the pruning knife, as the assessors had raised the grand list over S241,OOo. -
 While claiming that some of the taxpayers were not put on the list for the full valuation of their holdings, MT. Osborne does not contend that the total is too low. In fact he expresses the opinion that in many cases the as- sessors rubbed it in" to the property owners. There were but forty com plaints filed with the relief board, although the lists of nearly three hum dred had been raised. This condition, MT. Osborne seems to believe, was due to conviction on the part of many of those affected that the prospects of relief were too remote to warrant their appearing before the board
 Many of taxpayers who were includ- ed in raised list, complained in person to members of the board, MT. Osborne declares, but they failed to show up at regular meeting to formally reg ister a protest. Consequently no action was taken in their cases From sew eral who appeared, the democratic mem Der declares, there was criticism made concerning the presence of As sessor E. A. Freeman at the hear ings. MT. Freeman attended all the open meetings of the board and was greatly interested in the protests that were filed. Some of the complainants declared that his presence was un- called for and served to intimidate property owners who thought they had a grievance.
 Asked why the relief board did not raise the lists of taxpayers whose property he figured had not been valued on a hundred per cent basis, MT. Osborne said the members had taken the advice of Chairman CondeII,' who explained that it was out of tn cir Jurisdiction, they simply having the legal right to equalze valuations. Otherwise the democratic representa- tive on the board thought there were to be some substantial increases noted in the report.
 To illustrate his point MT. Osborne | today cited one case that had been l brought to the attention of members or the board. certain piece of prop erty was valued by the assessors at 1.400. figure which Mr Osborne l thought was too low Yesterday the ! owner refused an offer of $2,60O for the place and declared he would not sell it for less than $3,OOO, more than twice as much as the assessors had figured it. MT. Osborne states that such cases as the once cited impressed him with the conviction that the as- sessors figured some property entirely too high while in other instances they were far below hundred per cent basis in their method of calculating For that reason he intends to decline signing report in which the relief board must declare to the state board Of equalization that property in Pla1nvllle is on the grand list for it's full valuation, one hundred per cent
 The other two members of the board are republicans. They are A. H. Condell and w J. Simpson. Whether or not their signatures will be on the report, MT. Osborne pro- fessed ignorance this morning.
 Directors to Meet.
 Tie board of directors of the Bus mess and Improvement association will meet this evening in the club rooms in the Odd Fellows block. There are a number of matters of routine character to be consid cred.
 Interest in the meeting centers in the report of the committee recently appointed to make arrangements for the eighth annual banquet of the as- sociation. It is understood that a date for the affair has not as vet been selected, although the commit tee has made fair progress in the preliminary work. An outline of it's actions will be given to the direc- tors tonight. The committee con- slsts of J. II. Trumbull, H. A. Castle | $. $. Gwillim and E. H. Hills
 PuIlano Goes to Jail
 A sentence of two months in jail 1 Was given in the superior court yes | terday to Felix Paullane, charged with 1 indecent assault on Patsy Rubin, an | eight-y years-old Plainville boy. Pull 1