New Britain herald., 1925-03-07

In this age of specialization 1t is unusual to find a situation such as confronts man who wishes to erect a gasoline station in this city. There is so much red tape, part Of it justified, that the prospective station owner becomes dazed.
 Before Installing q gasoline sta ton, man must have the ap- proyal of tho police department fire department, building depart ment and board of public works in this city and the state commits sioner of motor vehicles in Hart fofd. There is good reason why every precautlon should be taken but it seems to be duplication Of effort to call In all these depart ments for consultation. One com mittee Of the common council could do the work, or the authority To- cally could be vested in the board of public works, which could study the fire hazard and take into con- sderation all other points worthy Of being considered. It might be necessary to amend the charter to do this but 1t would be worth while.
 This is the age of the motor The gasoline station is a necessity or life. There should be plenty Of sta lions to supply the public demand but no more. They should be limit ed to the needs of the community Regulation Is essential. But It should not be wrapped around with so much red tape that an applicant passes from childhood to dotage before learning whether he is Go- ing into the gasoline business or will have to remain in the ranks Of the honest toilerS.
 Appraisal Engineer Edward A Mccarthy, former chairman Of the New Britain board of assessors, opened the eyes of Middletown's tax payers last week when, he made an nounccment of few of his findings after a years work on a new as- scssment system which he Is pre- pairing for the River City.
 The system Engineer Mccarthy is developing in Middletown is identl- cal with the one now in use In New Britain. In it's thoroughness, the assessment plan never fails 10 dis close valuable properties that had . not found their way onto the grand lists through the channels of the old, antiquated assessment ideas stll 1 in vogue in many Connecticut cities Middletown, having observed the ef' l fccts of the system inaugurated IT New Britain by it's founder, Alp praisal Engineer Thomas Iinder was prepared for a few startling an nouncements. but when McCarth! | announced that out of PAS pieces O Main street real estate, 49 do no l appear on the tax lists in any man ncr or form, the taxpayers were dumbfoundcd. All eyes were cas 1 in the direction of the assessors of flee in City hall, but Mccarthy followed up his statement with on that lifted some of the burden o responsibility from their shoulders declaring that the old assessmcn ideas made 1t difficult and in som cases almost impossible to pro ducc a true grand list. A state ment equally as startling came late with McCartAy's finding that 1.S9 pieces of property are not taxes More than 900 dwellings were foun 10 be omitted from the lists. If wa found that out of 2S1 stores. shop and garages, only III were bein taxed and of 19N mills and factorie' only 5G appeared on the assessors books.
 As a Aesult Of NcCarthy's persona visits 10 mercantile establislpent voluntary increases in invcntoric ranging from 50 10 zoo per cer
 over those Of the previous yea , were made.
 The former local assessor he
 not yet completed his work in Mic , dlctown. His figures will not ar 2 pear in the grand list until no' year, but a majority of the citizcr and taxpayers of the River City al completely "sold" on the new al
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 not sympathetic with the now idet
 has sprung up and threatens to 0
 fer some opposition. the arparcl
 benefits of the plan are counte upon 10 cement it into tho municip
 system Of the city Of Middlctown
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