The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-10-16
SHOW INCREASE
IN VALUATIONS
Jersey City Leads in Tax Rate
Reduction-Second in Rat
able Jumps.
SOUTH AMBoY NET DECREASE
Novel Procedure Followed to Combat
Rum Running on coast-U. S. Et-
torney Whine, Invoking Mari
time Laws, Files Libel.

Trenton. - Sixty-four municipalities
| in Jersey this year increased their net
valuations of ratables over the figures
for 1923, according to compilation by
/ the State League of Municipalities.
South Amboy is listed as the only
city showing a decrease in net valua-
ton. The increases in valuation were
accompanied by a jump in the tax
rates in 40 of the municipalities. In
| % other cities and towns when the
valuations went up the tax rate came
! down. Clifton, Passaic county, is the
only city having a stationary tax rate,
$304 in 1924 and the same in 1928.
! Clifton, however, made a substantial
boost in it's ratables.
Some of the larger cities increasing
! their tax rates follow:
Newark, 1923, 1915; 1924, s3.7S;
Paterson, 1928, s2s9; 1924, $3.11;
Camden, 1923. $2.75; 1924, $3.50; Bay
onne, 1923, 1929; 1924, $4.01; Passaic,
1928, 1919; 1924, 1855; Atlantic City,
1928, s2.96; 1924, So; Perth Amboy,
1928, $4.56; 1924, $4.65.
New Brunswick, 1923, $4.54; 1924,
| $4sV4S I 1870 YfOtg 4VH1S
$313; Garfield, 1928, 1886; 1924, $409;
Long Branch, 1923, $463; 1924, $3.50;
Asbury Park, 1923, 1899; 1924, $4.27;
| Gloucester, 1923, 1855; 1924, 1896;
Railway, 1928, $296; 1924, 1916;
South Amboy, 1928, $500; 1924, $3.50.
Cities showing decrease in their
1924 tax rate as compared with 1928:
Jersey City, 1923, $3758; 1924,
$36O5; Elizabeth, 1923. 5000; 1924,
$3O8; Millville, 1928, $4.3S5; 1924.
$4O4S; Ocean City, 1928, $4.2O; 1924,
$3.50; Ventnor City, 1923, $3.796; 1924,
$3.02S; Hammonton, 1928, $4.626; 1924,
$3.44
Among the more important munich
| palities rejecting an increase in rata
bles this year over 1928:
Newark, 1928, $578,971, JOB; 1924,
$624,659,451; Jersey City, 1923, $476,-
| 99S,411; 1924, $5OO,O64,526; Paterson,
1928, $159,714,121; 1924. $177,S74, 222;
Camden, 1923, $144,753, 1903; 1924. $751;
401,543; Elizabeth, 1923, $107, 1924, Sal;
1924, $118, 5O0,821; Bayonne, 1923,
| $126,SO9,345; 1924, $3.50, 565,S51; Pas
sale, 1923, $79,024, sos; 1924, $685.
| 23S; East Orange, 1923, $82,927, 446;
1924, S88,331,6S7.
Combat Rum Running
Invoking provisions of the maritime
laws, novel in this district as a means
of combating rum running along the
New Jersey coast, United States At
torney Walter G.. Whine has filed a
| libel in federal court against the pow
er boat Bic & Shiott, which was seized
by the revenue cutter Kickapoo 10
miles off Cold Spring Inlet.
The Bic & Shiott is alleged to have
had on board 519 cases of liquor taken
from the British vessel A. j. Balfour
| of Nova Scotia. The charge on which
the libel is based is that the Bic &
Shiott, rated as a coastwise vessel,
went on foreign voyage without reg
istry and was operated for a purpose
not stated in her license.
The crew of the vessel, consisting of
her captain, George Jackson, Charles
Nelson, Frank T. Thompson and John
Oleson, were released in Atlantic City,
but the vessel and her cargo were
held. The procedure followed sug-
gests method for reaching rum run
ners even though they operate beyond
the IL mile limit, now the accepted
distance within which vessels may be
searched for contraband.
Judge Rellstab imposed a fine of
500 in federal court upon Holden o.
Bassit of Vineland, charged with vio-
lating the Mann act by taking a sew
enteen-year-old girl to Virginia. Bas-
sit was fined $500 in the Cumberland
by the payment Of $500. In view OF
these facts Judge Rellstab said he re-
garded fine of 500 as sufficient fur
Their punishment.
Ten defendants who had pleaded
guilty to violating the national pro-.
hibition act were sentenced by Judge
Rellstab to pay fines ranging from
800 to $500. A fine of $500 was i'm;
posed upon Thomas Schill, proprietor
of the cafe at 1856 Market street, New
ark, widely known in former days as
the site of "Murray's." Fines of 500
each were imposed upon George Sell
reck and Arono Peumer, bartenders in
the same cafe.
Other fines were: Barney Beck,
Trenton. $500; Steve Stefanick. Cam
den, $500; Owen A. Doyle, Jersey City,
$500; Patrick Campbell, Bayonne,
| $500; William Campbell, Bayonne,
$500; George Fenning. West Hobo
ken, 5000; William Penman, Atlantic
| City, $500.
| Refuses Plea for Auto
Reappointment by Commissioner of
Education Enright Of five county
superintenGents of education was
confirmed by the State Board of
! Education. The superintendent, re-
named for three-year terms, are
Charles 8. Robertson of Camden;
Henry M. Crissman, Atlantic; Joseph
M. Arnold, Mercer; Brewster H.
Willis, Middlesex, and, B. C. Wooster,
Bergen.
Visitors to the Industrial School for