rii --12s PITTSBUBG)- DI$PATGBL:vtlBDNBSDAY,' VW -- A IT 2UBW JLU T J.T lUJUU 1, , .if.-.. 1 SJSjfr f EXEMPTFROM.TAXES Property That Pays Nothing Toward tlio Expenses of City Government YAIUED AT $31,301,070. Difficulty in Securing Valuations of Municipal Eealty. UNCLE SAU'S LARGE HOLDINGS. Eight Million Dollars' Worth Owned bj ' Church Bodies. ITEMIZED STATEMENT OP EXEMPTIONS For the first time in the history of this city the Board of Assessors have made up a list with the cash value of all properties ex empted from municipal taxation. The list was given out lor publication by Chief As sessor Case last evening. It shows that the actual cash value of exempted property within the city, as nearly as the assessors could determine, is ?32,991,776. The taxa ble value, making allowance for that which is rated as rural at two-thirds its value and that which is agricultural at half its value, amounts to $31,301,070. The preparation of such a list was sug gested and attempted a year ago, but proved such a formidable task that it was abandoned. When the triennial assessment was made up there were so many appeals for exemption on properties of various kinds which the assessors thought should not be exempted, that they decided to have a list prepared to show why no more ex emptions should be allowed. The total, large as it is, is somewhat of a disappoint ment to thera. They expected it to be larger. Difficulty in rixlDg Valuations. They say it is as complete as they could possibly make it. If any property has been omitted it is because they know nothing about it The only item tbey knowingly omitted was the city wharves. They found it exceedingly difficult to estimate a value for wharf property and it was a question whether they could properly be figured as city property. In hunting up the valnation of the High land reservoir and Brilliant pumping sta tion, it was found that the city had little, if any, record to show of their cost Superin tendent Wilrox, of the "Water Bureau, has been vainly endeavoring to get some ac curate figures on this point lor some time. There seems to be no record anywhere as to the cost of the land in bulk or by the acre, though the Controller thinks, that by mat ing a long search through the records in his office the figures might be obtained. The figures placed upon that property are esti mated irom the recent sales as shown in the city deed registry. One item which appears as exempt from city tax is the property of the Allegheny County Light Company. It is valued at 91,980. The company claims exemption because its capital stock is taxed lor State purposes and since it has been exempted other corporations have demanded the same privilege on the same grounds. The Controller Will Look It tip. Controller' Morrow says the light com pany is not entitled to exemption. All cor porations paying a State tax are, he says, exempt from city business tax, butno other, and if there is any law that could be twisted around to exempt them he knowanothmg about it. The Controller intimates that he will investigate the matter and if he finds that he is richt will insist on the light company paying city tar on its property the same as "the traction and railroad and other corporations. The total valuation of property belonging to the municipality, including the parks,, market houses, City Hall, the fire and po lice stations, etc., but not including public schools, amounts to 57,209,880. Ot this 55,800,619 is rated as lull taxable; 5003,267 j as rural, and fbOO.UOO as agricultural, reter riag to the parks. The aggregate value of the public schools is put down at 53,113,629, of whica 52.338,492 is marked lull taxable, 5704,056 real and 511,081 agricultural. The aggregate of municipal property, including public scnools, is 510,383,515, which, reck oned as an asset of the city, is over a halt million dollars in excess oi r the actual bonded debt. The property of the National Government, Including the" old and new postoffices in this city, is valued at 54.101,480, all of which is rated lull taxable. Allegheny's i property within the city consists only ol the old and new court houses and the jail, giving a total of $, 447,384. Held by Religions Bodies. The church properties of all denomina tions are valued at 58,070.767. Of this 57,732,707 is rated as fall, f 295,060 rural, and 513,000 agricultural. The total valne of convents, monasteries, seminaries and libraries exempted is 5683,700. of which 5525.230 is rated full, and 5163,470 rural. The aggregate valne of chari table institutions is 5651,890, of which 5628,565 is rated full, and 523,325 rural Hospitals aggregate 5805,650 in value, 5633,270 being full and the balance rural. The -value of cemeteries aggregates 51,964,19a The bulk of this sura is repre sented by the Allegheny Cemetery. A rural valuation is given to 5998,000 of ceme tery property, agricultural 5303,300 and lull taxable 5662,89a The assessors estimated the value of the rights of way of the various steam railroads in the city at 51,748,323. This is divided up ia the appended list in the various wards. Of the total 51,438,679 is rated as full taxable, 5307,544 as rural and 52,100 as agricultural ' property. The rights of way of the Inclined plane roads are estimated at 537,991. of which 532,211 is rated full and 55,780 rural. The rights of way of the two above classes of railways are included in the exempted list because the other real estate' of such cor porations pay city taxes. TJ.t of the Properties Exempted. The itemized list, showing the value of each exempted property, is appended: VIEST WARD. Public school. Second avenue $ 71,765 St. Mary or Mercy Catholic, Church, Ttnrdavenue 29,500 Catholic Church, Short street 5,863 Engine Company So. 1, Fourth ave. S6.350 .uiaxnona jiarjcec, uiamona Bquare.. i,juu,bvu St. Mary or Meroy Parochial School, Penn avenue 17,800 City or Pittsburg, 3 lots and build ings. Second av. and Chancery lane 80,000 8EC0SD WARD. Fourth Av. Ba'ptist Church, Ros9 st. 185.600 Welsh'Methodlst Church,Seoond av. 26,900 Methodist church, Boss street and Fourth avenue, 18,500 TJ. Jt church. Diamond street- 97,000 Second ward school, Ross street.... 63,500 Knglne Co. No. 2, Smithfiela strret.-. 15,400 United States Govt., postofflce 2,181,000 Homeopathic Hospital, Second av. 233,200 P., C & St. L. E. K. Co., Fourth avo- , nue and Try street 6,100 Allegheny Co., two lots, Diamond street and George alley 17,520 Second Avenue Park 230,600 THTBD WAItD. St Paul's Cathedral, Grant street... 822,000 Third PretbyterUn Church, Sixth avenue 316,000 German Evangelical Church, Smith field st 291,200 First Be formed PresbyterianCburcli Grant st 61,813 St. Peter's P. E. Church, Grant St.. 217,000 Second TJ. P. Chui on. Sixth av 110.300 Smithfleld Street 1L E. Church 166.000 First TJ. P. Church, Seventh av 118,800 Third ward tmblto school, Grant St. 222,500 MuniclDal Hall. Smtttifield st 1.153.700 United States Government, old post offlce 681,100 Trinity Episcopal Churoh, Sixth av. 656.800 First Presbyterian Churoh, Wood St. 712,000 Engine Co. No. 8, Seventh av 66,800 Central Ipollce station. Oak alley.... HO.uOO Pittsburg Free Dispensary, Sixth av. 63,000 First Ev. Lutheran Church, Grant stieet ." 181,560 VOUBTH WAItD. U. S. Government, Penn avenue...- 255,000 Liberty Street M. E. Church, Liberty street 86,500 Synagogue, Eighth street 60,600 Befonned Presbyterian Church, Eighth street S5.600 Pgh. B. A. and Seaman's Associa tion, Duquesne way - 61,175 St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ninth street 136.500 Second Presbyterian Church, Penn avenue 131,175 Mercantile Library Assoc't'n, Penn avenue. 138,500 P., Ft. W. & C. K. B. Co., Duquesne way and Tenth street 193,000 Y. M. C. "A., Penn avenue ....- 61,800 Fourth ward public school, Du quesne way 80,900 fifth wabd. P., C. & St. L. K. W. Co , Seventh avenue and Fountain street. 112,560 Grace Reformed Church. Webster avenue 87,100 Zlon Ev. Assoc't'n. nigh street is,vao First German Ev. Lutheran Church, High Btreet 7. 135,970 Welsh Baptist Church, Chatham St.. 16,720 St. Mary's Convent, Webster av..... 70,000 Filth ward school, Webster av 17,511 Allegheny county court House ana Jail 4.12W64 Sisters of Mercy, Webster av 61,100 SIXTH WARD. First Congregational Welsh Cnurob, Firth av 27,600 Sixth ward school, Forbes st 130,550 Eighth U. P. Chut ch, Van Braam at, 17,600 Second M. P. Church, Firth av 21,875 German-English Lutheran Church, Pride st 23.360 Meroy Hospital, Stevenson sj 110.800 Engine Company No. i, Firth av 20,720 Lot on muff st 1,592 Lots on Maria St. and Vickroy St., leased by city 6,710 Lot on Watson line - 1,000 City or Pittsburg, lot on Hill st. 100 B. and O. K. B. Co., Try St. to Four teenth ward line 13,600 Fort Pitt Incline, Second av... ...... 1,000 8EVESTH WARD. Citv or Pittsburg, Wylie avenue, near Elm 7.6C0 Pittsburg Association Imp. of Poor, Washington street 6,230 Asbury M. E. Church, Firth avenue- 27,280 Colored M. E. Cburch.Wylle avenuo 21,250 Filth U. P. Church, Webster av.. 13,550 Franklin Public School. 152,120 Cumberland Pres. Church, Wylie av. 85,795 City or Pittsburg, water basin, Bed lord av 10,075 XTOHTB WARD. St. Andrews English Ev. Church, .Col well street 20,620 Sixth Pres. Cnuroh, Franklin st 22,710 St. Panl'a Orpnan Asylum, Tanne- btll st 188,608 Trinity German Catholic Church, Center av 18,800 Mt Olivet Church, Fulton St. 83,160 Central Christian Church, Pride st,, 12,100 City or Pittsburg, Bedford av. basin. Including High School bnlldlngB.. 230,000 Bethesda Home, Colwell st 7,125 Bosella Foundling Asylum, Cliff Bt. . 36,820 Wanen M. E. Churoh, Fulton street 13 800 KISTH WAJtD. Ralston School', Penn avenue........ 92 875 St. Phllomena's. Churoh, Penn av. . . 180,925 P. R. R. Co., Washington to Fif teenth streets ......v., 121,150 A. V. R.W. Co., Liberty street.. .. i 2,100 City or Pittsburg, Adams market .. S3 490 Engine Co. No. 15, Penn 'avenue.... 18.600 Allegheny Co. Light Co., Etna street 91,930 v tektu Ward. Wesley Chapel, Penn avenuo 13,250 FourthUnltcd Presbyterian Church, Penn avenue 21,000 St. Patrick's Church, Seventeenth street 63800 St. James' Episcopal Church, Penn avenue ... 62,100 Wesley M. E. Church, Liberty street, JOs 1(3QU P. R. B. Co 62.6R8 Penn incline, Ridge street 8,036 A. V. H. W. r.n.. frnm Ninth! to Twelfth, used lines 83,203 ELEVEHTH WABD. Rev. John Tnlgg, in trust, Wylie avenue "2,520 Central Park (old basin) Bedford avenue 75 000 St Bridget's Churoh, Enoch street. 60,000 Eureka Hall, Arthur street 6,830 Colored Pies. Chnrcb, Arthurstreet 11,080 Institution of Protestant Deacon- Jesses, Rood street. 28,000' Police Station, Center avenuo 9,900 Enslne Co. No. 6, Center avenue 11,500 Pittsburg Infirmary, lteed street.... 29,150 St. Paul's Epis. Churoh, Roberts St.. 6 800 Normal School. Miller street. 16,500 Tenth U. P. Church, Wylie avenue. . 22,800 Moorbead public school, Granvillo street. .. 69,000 Wesley A. Jtf. E. Zloft Church, Ar thur street ,'j 18,510 Colored school, Penn alley 1500 Ebenezer Baptist Churoh, Miller st. 1,800 Bethany Home, Centeravenne 83,730 Firth Av. Baptist Church, Firth av.. 11,560 TWELFTH WABD. Trinity M. E. Church, Twehty-flfth street 21.900 O'Hara Public School, Smallman st. 11,320 Engine Co. No. 7 Penn avenue 27.8.12 U. S. A, Twenty-second street 11600 West Penn Hospital - 183.650 P.R.K. Co 133810 A.V, B.W. Co 28,992 Springfield Public Scbool,Smallman street 66,120 Rev. Jqhn Tuigg. in trust. Liberty avenne 9,612 City of Pittsburg, Snyder Square.... 63,080 Antioch Baptist Church, Liberty St. 2,120 THIRTEENTH ..WARD. Home for Aged Infirm Colored Women, Center avenue. 8,200 City of Pittsburg, Water Station, Herron Hill 47,500 Mlnersvllle Pnbllo Sohoo's (three - buildings) - 8120 Pest House, Bidge street . 11,380 Presbyterian Cnuroh, Herron av.... 11,300 Centenary M. E. Church, Klrkpat- rlck street. 21,000 Home ror Aged Colored Women, Linden street , 2,225 Mlnersvllle Cemetery, Herron ave.. 81,710 xjrsi, uermaa Avangeucai unurcn, burial ground, Morgan street 22,000 Lincoln Cemetery, Bedford avenue. 10,000 Thirty-third Stieet U. P. Church ... . 2,150 Pittsburg and Allegheny Baptist Union, Wylie avenue. 1,100 rOCBTEEJtTH WABD. Church, Forbes and Seneca streets.. 8,075 City or Pittsburg, patrol station,, Forbes street 100,110 St. John's Evangelical Church, Forbes street.. .. 80,700 Soho Publio School, Brady street. .. . 66,180 Bellefield Public School, Fifth ave.. 76,000 Police station, Second avenue 1920 Sylvan Avenue School 10,500 St. Agnes R. a Church, Fifth ave... 83,000 episcopal cnurcn, Henry street..... 't 13,500 M. E. Church, Forbes street. 95,100 Firth Methodist Church, Second avenue 4,700 Ursuline Academy, Firth avenue.., 230,000 Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Firth avenne 21,300 M. E. Chnrch, Antoinette street 110 Engine Co. No. 11, Neville street.... 29,860 Monongahela U.P.Presbytery.Firth avenue 11,100 Pittsburg Hospital for Children, Forbes street 23,000 B.10.E.K., lrom Sixth to Twenty third ward lines 18,000 Pittsburg Junction R. B. Co 2,500 Oakland sub-district school. Ward street 16668 City of Pittsburg, Sohenley Park.... 881,172 Blind Asylum, Bellefield avenue.... 68,850 ITJTEEjrrK WABD. Thirty-ninth street Presbyterian Chnrch 20,150 Institution or Protestant Deacon esses, Thlrty-ninth street 6,100 Third German E. 'L. Church, Thirty-seventh street 15,475 St. Augustine's Church, Thirty seventh street 68.500 A.V. B. W. Co 61.110 rittsbarg Junction R.R 83 000 St. Augustine's Parochial School, Thirty-seventh atreot 69,035 Thirty-seventh st Baptist Church.. 9 600 Lawrence Pnblio School, Charlotte street 54,625 U. A A arsenal, Butler street 800,000 SIXTEENTH WABD. Howard Public School, Ella street.. 63,330 St. John's Baptist Church. Liberty avenue 23 000 St. Joseph's Church, Liberty ave.... 48.625 P.E.R. Co 3i;O00 Pitburg Junction R. R 7,000 St Paul's M. E. Church, Cedar ave.. 4,700 Denny M.E. Church. Legonier St.. . 7,020 First Colored Presbyterian Church, Penn avenne 16,520 SEVENTEENTH WABD. Forty-Third Street Pres. Chnrch.... 16,000 St. John's Episcopal Church, Butler street 13,700 Jtutler Street M. E, Church.,... Washington Publio School, Mala st Church Home Association, Fortieth street -.... V. 8. A, Forty-rourth street St. Franeiions Hospital, Forty fourth street German U. P. Congregational Church. Fortieth street Second German M. E. Church, Fortieth street Rev. Bishop Sulgg. in trust, Forty firth street Seventh V. P. church, Forty-rourth street ,, 1 St. Mary's cemetery, Penn avenue.. Allegbenv cemetery, Penn avenue.. -A- V.Jl. U, to - City or Pittsburg, lot on Allegheny river ., Police station. Forty-third street.... Engine Ca, No. 6, Forty-fourth street , Western Pennsylvania Institution for Blind, Forty-second street XJGBTZESTH WABD, Mt Albion public schools (three schools) A V. R. W. Co Protestant Home for IncuraDles, Butler street...., N ' M. E. church, Carnegie avenne Halem churoh, Carnegie avenue Engine Co., No. 9, Butler street Presbyterjr or Pittsburg. Butler street KIHETEEHTH WARD. St James A M. E, churoh, Harvard , street ., ) Highland school, lotsandbnildlnas. English Lutheran church, Sheridan street Collins Avenue U. P. Church German Lutheran Church, Collins avenue St. Peter and St Paul's Church, Lari mer ave TJ. P. Church, Flavel st Penn Avenue Methodist Church.... Calvary Episcopal Church, Penn ave Engine Co. No. 8, Highland ave...... Nineteenth ward police station, Frankstown ave Highland reservoir, -land and Im provements City or Pittsburg, 30 lots Butler St. City of Pittsburg, lots on Negley and Highland aves Toung Women's Christian Associa tion, Collins ave... Bethany Lutheran Evangelical Church. Highland ave East Liberty Presbyterian Church, ot. ui&irBE St Mark's Church, Highland ave.... A, V. K. R. CO.,. - Jr. " Wi,,,, t TWENTIETH WABD. Elmer Street Presbyterian Church. East Liberty Presbyterian Church.. St Luke's Episcopal Church Little Sisters of the Poor, Penn av.. Cnmber'd Pres. Church, Shady lane Baptist Church, Shady Lane Llbeity School, Shakespeare street Sacred Heart Chnrcb, Center ave... City of Pittsburg, Emerson avenue. P. R. B. Co German Evan. Chnrch, 8ciota St.... Liberty School. Oscola street Fourth Pres. Church, Evallne st.,., Shadyslde Pres. Ch., Amberson av.. Liberty School. Ellsworth avenue.. E.E.Cliristian Church.Hlghland av. Chnrch or Ascension (Episcopal), Ellsworth avenne Little Sisters or the Poor, Atlan tic avenue Siloam Bapt. Chnrch, Carron.st Shadyslde U. P. Church, Baum st... TWEItTT-FlBST WABD. Lincoln School, Leamington av....." Park Avenue Presbyterian Church. Fourth M. P. Cliurcb.Park avenne.. German M. E. Church, Carver St.... Brilliant Pumping station StPeter's Lutheran Ce me tery.Leam lngton avenue Homewood Publio School, Grazier street Point Breeze Presbyterian Church, Penn avenue Homewood Methodist Church, Homewood avenuo Colored churoh, Tioga stieet. Presbytery or Pittsburg, Home wood avenue A V. R. R. Co I P. R. R. Co Engine Co. No. 16, Penn avenne Presbytery of Pittsburg, Home- niruu nvuiiue. .. Homewood School, Grazier street, two lots TWEHTT-SECOIfD WABD. Colfax Public School (four schools) Citv of .Pittsburg, Schenley Park.... B. & O. B. R Col I ax School, two lots, Whipple st. . Sterrett School, Homewood avenue and Linden street German Evangelical Protestant Church, Forbes street Homewood Cemetery, Forbes street TWEWTT-THIBD WABD. Mission Churoh, Bristol street Baptist Church, Hazelwood avonue. Methodist Church, Second avenne.. Peebles Public School, Second ave.. Presbyterian Church, Lytle street.. Calvary Cemetery .. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Peebles Publio School, Greenfield av St. Stephen's Church, Second av Church or the Good Shepherd, Sec ond avenue Catholic School, Isabella street Engine Company No. 13, Second av. TWEHTY-POUBTH WABD. St Peter's Church, Sarah stieet Church ot the Holy Cross, Carson st. P., T.4C.K. R - P.. McK. & Y. R. R Wickersham Public Sch'l, Carson st. TWISTY JTPTH WABD. P., McK. & Y. R. R , P.&L.E.R.R P., V.4C.B. B Morse Pnbllo Sohool, Sarah st Walton M. E. Churoh, Sarah st Engine Co. No. 12, Carson st Trinity Eng. Ev. L. Ch. Sidney st... 14.600 113,670 81,800 4,030 86,350 6,600 68,110 .12,000 260,700 1,832 150 60,000 19,760 15,500 16,025 10,800 65,Fi0 62,600 225,000 6,015 8,705 11,800 3,fK)0 119,100 10,800 23,100 83,850 12,100 27,600 81,000 61620 18,630 82,200 644,000 5,027 12,883 . 8,010 6,100 a,507 40,180 7,500 83,000 4,700 171,000 10.100 103,775 "15,700 SO 150 83.687 13.900 1.023 113.000 10,100 12,150 16,111 137,761 85,200 16,020 19,628 7,180 2,660 6,120 88,750 21,660 8,600 6,160 2,000,975 13,600 68,850 41,210 18,600 1,660 4,360 1,660 120,000 18,250 950 2,650 $31,161 800,000 2,100 1,100 19,610 43,00o 175,000 German M, E. Church, Jane st First V, P. Church, South 18th St.... J.W. Patterson PostG, AR.,Carson. P. &L.E. R.B. Co... P., McK. tT.B.a Co Pittsburg and Whitehall R. R. Co... TWEHTY-SIVE1TTH WABD. St Clair School, 8ierra st , $ St Paul's Monastery, Monastery.. Bishop Tuigg, In trust, Pius st StMlcbael's Orphan Asylum.Piusst St Mlobael'e Churoh, Pius st. St Clair publio school. Monastery st German Catholic Cemetery Secbnd Primitive Methodist Church Berg st... t Mt Oliver Inoline Plane...... St Clair Incline Plane TWEWTTVEIQHTH WABD. Brmtngbam Sohool, South Fif teenth st St. John's Church, South Four teenth st. Slsteis' residence, St. John's School U. P. Church, South Fourteenth st. Center Street M. E. Chnrcb, Bing ham st First German M. E. Church, South Sixteenth st Polish B. a Church, South Six teenth st A Police station, South Fourteenth st. Market House. Southslde Dlnmnml. Bishop Tnlgg, In trust, S. 16th st Bishop Fhelan, in trust, S. nth and 15th st .j. v Pg.. Knoxvllle St Clair R. R. Co.. Pittsburg Tmd Lake Erie E. R. Co.,. Pittsburg and Whitehall B. B. Co... Twmrrr-jriBTH wabd. Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad., Pittsburg and Whitehall R. R. Co... Pittsburg Incline Plane Company., Mt Oliver Inoline Plane Bedford School, Blngbam street.... M. . Chnrcb, Carson street St John's Church, Carson street.... Engine Co. No. 11, Bingham street.. TRTBTIETH WABD. Knox School, Brownsville av Police Station, Carson street Monongahela Bridge Co., Carson st. P. and L. E. R. B, Co.. .v.- P., V. and C. R. R P., C., C and St L. Ry. Co 30 000 20,700 12,720 15,000 1133 9,580 23.700 60,320 68,150 21,100 69.200 23,770 4,800 4,100 8,261 8,100 68,200 18,120 1,500 13,500 26,000 19,030 26,360 9,000 66,250 3,300 17,700 1,340 3,600 1,111 15 000 4,310 8,800 1,095 29.600 21.210 11,610 15,9:0 31,290 5,100 6,100 61,193 19.760 26,256 TWENTY-SIXTH WABD. German Bap. Chnrch, S. 19th st Humboldt Sohool, Sarah st Presbyterian Church, Sarah st German Luth. Church, S. 18th St.... Episcopal Churoh, South 18th St.... Welsh Congregational Ch, Sidney st Baptist Church, South 19th st 2,600 6,250 13.150 66,120 8,360 110,000 13,600 26,180 15,600 17,330 1.250 21,925 60,620 86,100 10,000 7,894 73,760 12,500 8.750 5,000 65,960 22.810 21,200 11,900 29.590 78,000 14,000 52,960 21,100 6,200 81,720 THIBTY-JflBST WABD. M. E. Churoh, Excelsior St...- 2,625 Allen School, Washington av 73,6dl German Catholic Church Society, Climax st 21,916 Allentown Mission Chnrcb, Maple avenue 3,900 Thirteenth U. P. Church, Lillian st 1,500 South Street M. E. Churoh, Washing ton aV 17,000 United Evangelical German Ceme tery... 1,000 Pittsburg Inclined Plane Co . 7,900 THIRTY-SECOND WABD. Catbollo Churoh, Belonda st. 7.610 Mt, Washington School, Prospect st 43,201 Mt Washington Congregational Churob, Erospect st 3,200 Baptist Churob, Sycamore st 7,100 Mt Washington Sohool, Bertha St.. 22,900 Episcopal Church, Bertha street.... 6,200 Mt Washington Presbyterian Churoh, Grandview avenue (gp 6,500 'Engine Companv No. 17, Bailey av. . 17,250 Elrst German Evangelical Chnrch, Boggs avenue 2,114 City Pittsburg, lot, Virginia av 1,500 Mt. Washington M. E. Churoh, Syc amore street 2,624 Mt. Washington Library and Read ing Association 10,700 First German Evangelical United Church. FrosDect street 4.960 Mt Washington M. P. Cburch, Big- lam stieet ; 900 Methodist Chnrch, Rush street 'SOO Castle Shannon Incline Plane.' 2,516 THIBTY-THIED WABD. P. &L.li. B.R.CO.... 19,467 Monongahela Inoline Plane Co.... 2,000 Publio School, Carson street....'.... 20,000 St. Malochi's ll.C.Church, Carson St. 10.600 P., C. & St. L. R. R 13,180 TBIBTY-rOCBTn WABD P. & L. E. R. R. Co 60,000 Publio, school, Carson street 51,000 P. C. & St L. R. R. Co 67,000 Duquesne Incline Plane Co 4,080 TH1BTY-FIFTH WABD. Luckey school, Sweet Briar street.. 4,144 U. P. Sabbath school Mission, Sweet Briar street 1,396 Haven Methodist church, Sweet Briar street 5 900 Luckey school. Walnut street 25,800 City of Pittsburg lot, Grandview av. 2,070 THIRTY-SIXTH WABD. St James church Steuben street...'.. 8,800 German Lutheran church, Steuben street 6,800 St James church. Main street 110,000 Tbad Stevens' school, Main street.. 21,690 M. E. church. Main st 65.510 V. P. church. Main st .9,320. Preabvterlan church. Warden st S.SOOil Police Station, Main st 16.500 Engine Co., No. 10, Steuben st 17,000 Emmanuel Ark church, Steuben st. 4,460 Bishop Tnlgg, In trust, Steuben St.. 43,570 Little Sawmill Bun R. R. 8,600 P. C. & St L. Ry., Carson st 8,600 P. & L. E. Si. R. Cp., riverfront 7,500 A Statement From the Assessors. In connection with the above list, the Board of Assessors makes the following statement: The record of exempted property, as shown by the bookB of; this office, has been carefully compiled by John Lytle, and has required six weeks of laborious work. The list Is as complete and exact as it Is possible to make It The land valuations are made up according to the schedule upon which the last triennial assessment was made. The valuations placed upon improvements, suoh as machinery, buildings, etc., were obtained from the parties having control and authori ty to fix the value. Controller Morrow.Chiefs Brown and Bigelow and officers of every church in the city were asked for the mini mum value of the property In their charge. We fixed the land valne. They submitted tne value of Improvements, The question or the cost of the Brilliant water works was a difficult one to solve. 1N0 accurate figures were obtainable. The building of the water works occupied many years. Mr. Morrow was not Controller when they were begun nor completed, but stated that there was an issue of bonds to oover their cost or $4,800,000. This included the ex pense oriayin? water mains and otherwise extending the plant From year to year since the bond issue thous ands have been expended ror im provements and other extension. As a result of our investigation we have es timated the value of the new water works at 18,000,000. Good authorities have put the estimate up to (10,000,000, We find that the total of exempted prop erty amounts to nearly $33,000,000. The total taxable valuation of the city by the last triennial assessment was abont $270,000,000. Adding exempted property, gives the aggre gate valuation of the city over $300,000,000. Many More Claims for .Exemptions. There are before ns claims for exemptions from numerous corporations, among them the Allegheny Light Company, Pittsburg Gas Company, Consolidated Gaa Company, East End Gas Company, the West End Gas Company and the Monongahela Water Com pany. These and other like corporations claim exemption for their property because the State collects a tax on their capital stock. The attorney of the Monongahela Water Company, for Instance, claims that all or the property used in the pumping and distribu tion or water Is exempt from local tax. The same claim is being made by the other com panies. The latest claim for exemption, appar ently sustained by State and Supreme Court decisions, is that or the Shady Side Academy. We have pre-emptorily declined to allow the claim and tne. city attorneys have been instruoted to resist it in the courts If necessary. A tuition fee or at least $1 a day is charged for each pupil at that sohool and the institntion does not come under what we consider properly exempted property. We are determined to get a court decision on this point before allowing It The aggregate of exempted property may astonish taxpayers, bat It will be foand less than In other large cities of tbe country. The city, county, public sohool, United States Government, church and cemetery properties aggregate $30,753,553 in cash valne, leaving a balance covering eleemosynary in stitutions or $2,239,220: This is a less sum for that clasi than we bad anticipated. Nearly every household uses a stimulant or some kind. None better known or mor highly reoommended than Klein's "Silver Age" and Duquesne iiye wmskies. rnysi clans or high standing have vouched for tbe 'truth ol this over their signatures. These testimonials are shown In Max Klein's win dow, Federal street Allegheny. Send to him lor catalogue and price list of all kinds of liquors. nw What Is Tonr Life Worth? ir you are earning $1,000 a year, that's Just what your life is worth to your wife and children. Have you protected them against your death? If not, do so at once by assur ing in the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Edward A Woods, Manager, 516 Market street Pittsburg. Last Exenrslon to Atlantic City Via the B. & O. R. R., Thursday, August 25 at the poDular rate of $10 tbe round trip, and tickets good for 12 days, and good to stop at Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington returning. Trains leave Pittsburg at S a. v. and 9:20 r. v. Are Tort" Aware This Is the time to advertise yonr vacant rooms in tbe cent-a-word to let columns of The Dispatch? TRY SKIN FOOD. For your wrinkles and become youthful, fresh and lovely. It feeds tbe shrunken or Im poverished skin as cream and beef feed and renew tbe Impoverished stomaoh and body. 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TRY IT IN YOUR NEXT HOUSE-CLEANING. v apS-63ocwy OUT OF THE RUNNING. BY A. CONAN- DOYLE. Concluded From Yesterday. , "Whatever is that Bill doing there?" she ilied. Dolly looked, and saw for the first time that thr nameless farm laborer was crouch ing under the beech, bis browns and yellows blending with the dark behind him. "You eo out o' that, Bill," screamed the larmer's wife. "What be I to do?" be asked humbly, slouching iorward. "Go, cut chaff in the barn." He nodded and strolled away, a comical figure in his mud-crusted boots, bis strap-tied corduroys and his almond-colored skin. "Well, then, you've taken Elias," said the mother, passing her arm round the daughter's waist "I seed him a-kissing your flower. Well, I'm sorry for Adam, lor he is a well-grown young man, a proper young man, blue ribbon, with money in tbe postoffice. Still, someone must snfier, else how could we be purified? If tbe milk's left alone it won't ever turn into butter. It wanls troubling and stirring and churning. That's what we want, too, belore we can turn angels. It's just the same as butter." Dolly laughed. '-'I have not taken Elias yet," said she. "Xo? What about Adam, then? ", "2for him either." "Oh, Dolly girl, can you not take advice from them 'that is older? I tell you again that you'll lose them both." "No, no, mother. Don't you fret your self. It's all right But you can see how hard it is. I like Elias, for he can speak so well, and is so sure and masterful. And I like Adam because well, because I know very well that Adam lovts me." "Well, bless my heart you can't marry them both. You d like all the pears in the basket" "2fo, mother, bnt I know how to choose. You see this bit of flower, dear?" "It's a common dog rose." "Well, where d'you think I found it?" "In the hedge likely." "Ko, but on mv window ledge." "Oh, but when?" "This morning. It was C when I got up, and there it lay fresh and sweet and newly plucked. Twas the same yesterday and the day before. Every morning there It lies. It's a common flower, as you say, mother, bat it is not so oommon to find a man who'll break short bis sleep day alter day just to show a girl that the thought of her is in his heart" "And which was it?" "Ah, ii I knew. I think it's Elias. He's a poet, you know, and poets do nice things like that" "And how will you be sure?" "I'll know before morning. He will come again, whichever it is. And whichever it is he's the man lor me. Did father ever do that for you before you married?" "I can't say he did, dear. But father was always a powerful heavy sleeper." "Well, then, mother, you needn't fret any more about me, for as sure as I stand here, I'll tell you to-morrow which of them it is to be." That evening the farmer's daughter set herself to clearing off all those odd jobs which accumulate in a large household. She polished the dark, old-fashioned furni ture in the sitting room, she cleared out the cellar, rearranged the bins, counted up the cider, made a great cauldron full of raspberry jam, potted, papered, and labeled it Long after the whole house hold was in bed she pushed on with her self-imposed tasks until the night was far gone, and she very spent and weary. Then 'she stirred up thesSmouldering kitchen fire, maae nerseu a cup ot tea, ana, carrying It up to her room, she sat sipping 'it and glancing over an old bound number of the "Leisure Hour." Her seat was behind the little dimity window curtains, where she coma see without oeing seen. The morning had broken, and' a .brisk wind had sprung up with the dawn. The sky was of the lightest, palest blue, with a scud of flying white clouds shredded out over the face of it,- dividihg, coalescing, overtaking one another; but sweeping ever lrom the pink of the East to the still shadowy West The high, eager voice of the wind whistled and sang outside, rising from moan t shriek, and then sinking again to a dull mutter and grumble. Dolly rose to wrap her shawl around her, and as she sat down again in an instant her doubts were resolved, and she had seen that for which she had waited. Her window faced the inner yard, and was some eight feet from the ground. A man standing beneath it could not be seen from above. But she, saw enough to tell her all that she -wished to know. Silently, suddenly, a hand had appeared from below, had laid a sprig of flower upon her ledge, and had disappeared. It did not take two seconds: she .saw no lace, she heard no sound, but she haa seen the hand and she ! f- wanted nothing more. With a smile she threw herself on the bed, drew a rug over her, and dropped into a heavy slumber. She was roused by her mother plucking at her shoulder. "It's breakfast time, Dolly, but I thought you would be weary, so I brought you up some bread and coffee. Sit up like a dearie and take it" "All right, mother. Thank you. I'm all dressed, so I'll be ready to come down soon." "Bless the girl, she's never had her things offi And, dearie me, here's the flower out side the window, sure enough. Well, and did you see who put it there?" "Yes, I did." ."Who was it, then?" "It was Adam." "Was it now? Well, I shouldn't have thought that he had it in him. Then Adam it's to be. Weil, he's steady, and that's better than being clever, yea, seven-and-seventy fold. Did he come across the yard?" "No, along by the wall." "How did you see Mm, then?" "Ididn'tseehim." "Then how can you tell?" 1 saw his hand." . "But d'you tell me you know Adam's hand?" "It would be a blind man that couldn't tell it from Elias' hand. Why, the one is as brown as that coffee, and the other as white as the cup, with great blue veins all over it" "Well, now, I shouldn't have, thought of it, but so it is. Well, it'll be a busy day, Dolly. Just hark to the wind. " It had, indeed, increased during the few hours since dawn to a very violent tem pest The panes oi the window rattled and shook. Glancing out Dolly saw cab bage leaves and straw whirling up past the casement "The great hayrick is giving. They're all trying to prop it up. My, but it do blow." It did, indeed. When Dolly came down stairs itiwas all that she could do to push herway through the porch. All along Jhe horizon the sky was brassy-yellow, but above the wind screamed and Btormed, and the torn, hurrying clouds now huddled to gether, and now irayed off in countless tat tered streamers. In the field near the house her father and three or four laborers were working with poles and ropes, hatless, their hair ana beards, flying, staving up a great bulging hayrick. Dolly watched them for a moment, and. then, stooping her head and rounding her shoulders, with one hand tip to her little black straw hat, she staggered off across the fields. Adam Wilson was at wort always on a particular part of the hillside, and hitherl t was that she bent her steps.' He saw the trim, danner figure, with its flvinir klrU and ribbons, and he.eam forward ,to inset her with a great white crowbar in his band. He walked slowly, however, and his eyes were downcast, with the air of a man who still treasures a grievance. - , "Good morning, Miss Foster." "Good morning, Mr. Wilson. Oh, if you are going to be cross with me, I'd best be home again." "I'm not cross, Miss Foster. I take it very kind that you should come out this way on such a day." ' 'I wanted to, say to" you I want to say that I was sorry if I had made you angry yesterday. I didn't mean to make fun. I didn't, indeed. It is only my way of talk ing. It was so good of you, so noble of you, to let it make no difference." "None at all, Dolly." He was quite radiant again. "If I didn't love yon so, I wouldn't mind what that chap from Peters field said or did. And if I could only think that you cared more for me than for him " . "I do, Adam." "God bless you for saying so. You've lightened my heart Dolly. I have to go to Portsmouth for the firm to-day. , To-morrow night I'll call and see you." "Very well, Adam, I Oh, my God, what's that?" A rending, breaking noise in the distance, a dull rumble and a burst of shouts and cries. "The rick's down. There's been an acci dent" They both started running down the bill. "Father," panted the girl, "father." "He's all right," shouted her companion, "I can see him. But there's someone down. They're lifting him now. And here's one running like mad for the doctor." A farm laborer came rushing up. "Don't go, Missey," he cried. "A man's hurt" lWho?" "It's Bill -The, rick came down and the ridgepole caught him across the back. He's dead, I think. Leastwise, there's not much life in him. I'm off for Dr. Strong." He bent his shoulder to the wind, and lum bered off down the road. "Poor Bill, I'm glad it -wasn't father." They were at the edge of the field now in which the accident had taken plaoe. The rick lay a shapeless mound upon the earth, with a long thick pole protruding from it, which had formerly supported the tarpaulin drawn across it in case of rain. Four men were walking slowly away, one shoul der humped, one hanging, and be twixt them they bore a formless clay colored bundle. He might have been a clod of the earth that he tilled,so passive, so silent, still brown lor earth itself could not have taken the burn from his skin but with patient bovine eyes looking heavily from under half-closed eyelids. He breathed jerkily, but he neither oritd out nor groaned. Share was sobs thing almost , brutal and inhuman in his absolute stolidity; He bad no sympathy, for his life had been without it It was a broken tool rather than an injured man. "Can I do anything, father?" "No lass, no. This is no place for you. I sent for the doctor. He'll be here soon." "But where are they taking him?" "To the loft where he sleeps." "I'm sure he's welcome to my room father." "No, no, lass. Better leave it alone." t But the little group were passing as they spoke, and tbe injured lad had heard the girl's words. "Thank ye kindly, Missey," he mur mured with a little flicker of life, and then sank,back again into his stolidity and his silence. Well, a farm hand is a useful thing, but what is a man to do with one who has an in jured spine and halt his ribs smashed? Farmer Foster shook his head and scratched his chin as he listened to the doctor's re port "He can't get better." "No." "Then we had best move him." "Where to?" "To the work'us hospital. He came from there just this time eleven'years. It'll be 15 going home to him." "I fear that he is going home," said the doctor gravely. "But it's out of the ques tion to move him now. He must lie where be is for better or for worse." .And it certainly lotSked for worse rather than for better. In a little loft above tbe stable he was stretched upon a tiny blue pallet which lay upon the planks. Above were the gaunt rafters, hung with saddles, harness, old scytbe blades the hundred other things which droop like bats, from Inside such buildings. Beneath them upon two pegs hung his own pitiable wardrobe, the blue shirt and the gray, the stained trousers and the muddy coat A giant ohaff-cutting machine stood at his head and a great bin of chaff behind it He lay very7 quiet; still dumb, still uncom plaining, his eyes fixed upon the small square' window looking out at thedrifting sky, and at this strange world which God had made so aueerly so very queerly. t An old woman, the wife of a laborer, had been set to nurse him, for the doctor had said that he was not to be left She moved about the room, arranging and ordering, grum bling to herself from time to time at this lohelv task which had been assigned to her. There were some flowers in broken jars upon a cross-beam, and these, with a touch of tenderness, she carried and arranged upqn a deal packing-case beside the pa tient's head. He lay motionless, and as he breathed there came a gritty, rubbing sound from somewhere in his side, out he followed . hii companion about with his eyes, and even , smiled as once she grouped the flowers round him. " ' He smiled again when he heard that Mrs. Foster and her daughter had been to ask after him that evening. They had been down to the postoffice together, where Dolly had sent off a letter which she had very carefully drawn up, addressed to Elias Mason, Esq., and explaining to that gentleman that she had formed her plans for life, and that he need spare himself the pain of coming for his answer upon the Saturday. As they came back they stopped In the stable, and inquired through the loft door as to the sufferer. From where they stood they could hear that horrible grating sound in his breathing. Dolly hurried away with her face quite pale under her freckles. She was too young to f&ce the horrid details of suffering, and yet she was a year older than this waif, who lay in silence, lacing death' itself. All night he lay very auiet--so quiet that were it not for that one sinister sonnd his nurse might have doubted whether life was still in him. She had watched him and tended him as well as she might, but she was herself feeble and old, and just as the morning lightbegan to steal palely through the small loft window, she sank back in her chair in a- dreamless sleep. Two hours passed, and the first voices of the men as they gathered for their work aroused her. She sprang to her feet Great heaven, the pallet was empty. She rushed down into the stables, distracted, wringing her hands. There was no sign of him. But the stable door was open. He must have walked but how could he walk? he must have crawled have writhed that way. Out she rushed,' and as they heard her tale, the newly-risen laborers run with her until the farmer with his wife and daughter were called from their breakfast by the bustle, and joined also in this strange chase. A whoop, a cry, and they were drawn round to tbe corner of the yard on which Miss Dolly's widow opened. There he lay within a few yards of the window, his face npon the stones hi3 feet thrusting out from his tattered night gown, and his track marked by the -blood from his wounded knees. Qne hand was thrown out belore him, and in it he held a little sprig of the pink dog rose. . They carried him back, cold and stiff, to the pallet in the loft, and the old nurse drew the sheet over him and left him, for there was no need to watch him now. The girl had gone to her room and her mother followed her thither, all unnerved by this glimpse of death. "And to think," said she, "that it was only him, after all." . But Dolly sat at the side of her bed, and sobbed bitterly in her apron. tTHiBra Men's Neglige Shirts 1-3 Fries. Scotch Madras :$1 60. reduced from S3f $1, reduced from $2. Entire stock to be closed out . A 6. Camtbeu, & Boss, 27 Fifth avenue. Decorate for the Knights! Bunting, silk and muslin flags. R. S. Davis & Co., 96 Fifth av. Cais's comfortably fitting shoes. 603 Mar ket street. A Bridal Tour, at an American Summer Resort. Human ingenuity has made it pos sible that American pleasure resorts can carry with them the health -giving properties of Europe's First Health Spring. We refer to Carlsbad. It will pay you to read up on th3 historical spot. For 500 years it has performed its beneficent mission. Emperors, poets, statesmen, all men of wealth and station have sought and found health here. Quite an expensive trip. But you need not go. Every drug store will deliver you the Carlsbad treatment in a bottle, in the shape of the world-renowned Sprudel Salts or the imported Waters. Take no substitute. The following on the bottle proves its genuineness: "Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole Agents, New York," Write for pamphlets. ' w K 3
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