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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
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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
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Last Exenrslon to Atlantic City
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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.
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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.
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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
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