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Show EAGER TO PAY TAXES New York People Had to Be Kept in Line bj Police. NEW YORK, Oct 4. All records for the amount of taxes paid to the city in one day have Just been surpassed. " Those who went to the tax receiver's office In person were so eager that officials offi-cials applied to the police to hold them and their money In line. The city treasury treas-ury was nearly J15.000.000 wealthier when office hours were over than it had been in the morning. It is thought that including the piles of checks and currency which there was not time to enter, the total receipts were not far from $20,000,000. The earliest taxpayer appeared at 4 o'clock In the morning and inside of a few hours more than 2000 persons were in line. The largest amounts received came from the New York City Railroad company and from the Vanderbllt family. fam-ily. These amounted to $400,000 each. |