Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-17
JOHN D. Wants
ASSESSMENT ON
Home REDUCED
The Standard Oil Magnate
Fight Increase of Half
Million in Valuation.

New York, Aug IF it We're not
for the persstency of tax collectors
life for John D. Rockefeller would
come considerably nearer to being a
dream of eternal bliss. AS it rs, the
tax men seem determined to dig into
the Rockefeller Golfers and take out
such gobs of money as would relieve
MIR. Rockefeller considerably of the
burden of looking after hih wealth.
The richest man in America" how
ever, s. ems to have no desire to be
relived in such manner. That is
why he, Or his legal representative, is
going to appear before th2 board of
assessors at Tarrytown to protest
his Pocantico Hills estate.
The Standard Oil magnate admits
that he has very comfy little home
within the baliawick of the Tarrytown
tax collector but he is not ready to
confess that it is worth anything like
the value placed upon it by the as
SCISSOR. Three quarters of a million
dollars would be fair valuation. in
his opinion, and he might be willing
to boost it few notches higher in
order to avoid any controversy over
the matter. But when the assessor
places the valuation at 1924 800, an
! increase of nearly half million dol
lars over last year, Mr.. Rockefeller
! thinks it is time to utter vigorous
protest.
| And when protests are unavalling in
such matters Mr. Rockefeller has the
habit Of invoking the law in an effort
to prevent the collection of what he
declares to be eXorbitant taxes. Last
October he obtained an injunction in
the United States district court in
Cleveland preventing the enforcement
of tax collections on his Cuyahoga
county holdings, which the authorities
there rated at more than three hun
dred million dollars.
Cuyahoga county filed an appeal
against the injunction in the United
States circuit court and has since
been busily at work endeavoring to
obtain evidence to pr0ce that Mr..
Rockefeller is a legal resident OF
Clevc land.
Have Surprise for J. d.
1T is rumored that tie legal repre-
sentatives of Cuyahoga county are
preparing to spring a surprise when
the case comes up for hearing in the
circuit court this fall. In their pos
session, so it is said, is a duplicate of
balance sheet complied On the oc'
casion of Mr.. Rockefeller's nth birth
day, on July last, which is alleged
to show that his private fortune. en-
elusive of endowment funds and other
b nefactions, exceeds a billion dollars
which means that Mr.. Rockefeller's
wealth exceeds that of any other man
in the world, and, indeed, in the his
tory of the world.
OF the enormous total nearly $780,
100000 is said to represent Mr.. Rocke-
feller's holdings in the various Stan
dard Oil companies and their sub
salaries. He holds approximately
| 247,962 shares out of total of SS3.3S3
shares issued in all the companies
The stock is now quoted around ST.
| 700, about three timss what it was
before the federal courts issued an
order dissolvilg the great corpora
ton into independent companies.
The remainder of Nj. Rockefell-r's
! fortune. II is understood, is shown
to be in enormous holdings in various
railway and banking corporations, the
United States steel corporation, and
fin national, municipal, state and in
foreign bond issues. Among his hold
I ings, it is recorded, there are 100000
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