Evening star., 1933-08-27
NEW YORK STUDIES USE OF LEISURE UNDER N r. A. CODI
AXREDUCTION
FOR MARYLAND
SEEN AS RECORD
ActiOn Remarkable,
as No CurtaiInents
Are Necessitated.
BY ]. c. DEPONAI.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, August 26.-Maryland
this year established a record in tax
reduction, which is probably unequaled
by any other State, when the tax rate
in all % counties was reduced from
Is to as high as 65 cents in some.
Baltimore City, which is a corporation
of it's own and not within any county,
however, showed an increase, the rate
increase of 20 cents. The State tax
remained stationary at 25 cents per
$100, due to drastic cuts in operation
of State functions by Gov. Albert G.
Ritchie and a reduction of 3 cents per
S100 will be effective in 1884.
This record is all the more remark
able in view of the fact that there was
no curtailment of any State depart
ment. The salary of no State en-
ploye was cut more than 10 per cent.
Rate in 20 Counties.
The tax rate for the years 1882 and
1888 in the % counties of the State
follows:
AIlegany, 1882, s1.5O; 1888, s12o;
the IL districts of Anne Arundel, each
with a different tax rate. showed an
average tax of $3.05 in 1882 compared
with an average of S2.79 this year.
Baltimore County showed a reduction
of Is cents, dropping from S175 to
$150. Montgomery County showed an
average reduction of 35 cents in all l0
districts as well at Battery Park, the
average rate in 1882 being s14O COM
pared with S1.05 this year, while
Prince, Georges showed a decrease OF
Al cents, the rate last year being $1.49
compared with $1.08 in 1888.
The 1888 and 1882 tax rates in the
rest of the counties follow: Calvert,
S150 and So; Caroline, 73 cents and
S130; Carroll. 81 and S1.60; Cecil, 95
cents and S120: Charles, 81 and SIPS;
Dorchester, S105 and S1.70; Frederick
(for six months, Al cents and $1.20:
Garrett, S1O6 and S160: Hartford, s1.20
and S130; Howard, 81 and S1.49; Kent,
SO cents and STAT; Queen Ann, 88
cents and S1.37; st. Marys, "a cents
and S149; Somerset, 81 and Sl60; Tai
bot, 78 cents and S1.35; Washington,
IS cents and S1.20; Wicomico, 95 cents
and S145, and Worcester, 81 and s145.
In the meanwhile Baltimore City is
having considerable trouble in collect
ing taxes, only S31, ,227,916 having been
collected up to August, leaving S1O,-
674,793 to be collected in order to avoid
a deficit in the fiscal year, which Is
nearly 100000 less than had been
collected up to the same time last year
Repeal Campaign Begun.
While Maryland votes on the repeal
of the prohibition law on September
IL. little has been done so far by the
i-prohibitionists toward making a
campaign in Baltimore as we'll as
throughout the State. 1t was just dur
ing the past week that any concerted
action has been taken with the forma-
ton of the Non-Partisan Campaign
Committee for Repeal, with Gov
Ritchie as chairman and headquarters
opened at the Rennert Hotel.
Alexander Armstrong, a Republican,
who, as attorney general in Gov.
Ritchie's first administration, and j.
Enos Ray of Prince Georges County.
newly appointed collector of internal
revenue for the Maryland district, are
vice chairmen; Robert B. Ennis, ex-
ecutive secretary and treasurer, and
c. L. Shamberger, secretary.
The opening gun of the campaign
for repeal was fired tonight at local
amusement park, at which the speak
ers we're Gov. Ritchie, Senator Mlllard
E. Tydings, Mayor Howard w. Jack
son, former Mayor William F. Broenlng,
Capt. W. H. Stayton, Judge Oscar Lesser,
]. Craig McLanahan and Representa-
tives william P. Cole, Vincent l.. Palml-
sano, Ambrose J. Kennedy, Stephen w.
Gambril and David j. Lewis.
Passenger traffic, which has Deen
considered as lost to the railroads, mas
taken a new lease on life, according
to officials of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad, and figures now being COM
piled show striking gain IN passenger
traffic, starting with June.