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Show . BIO FiaUB-S. From the New York Tribune, he prodigious advance of near one and a half billion dollars Jrl the assessed valuation of the real estate of New York will undoubtedly cause a great deal of comment not only among our own taxpayers but among the principal owners of lands and buildings in other large cities in the Old World as weU as in the New. In this Borough of Manhattan there are so many great hotels and huge business busi-ness buildings which the tax department depart-ment now estimates as worth several millions of dollars apiece that London and Paris, Chicago and Philadelphia, St. Louis and Boston may rub their eyes ln wonder. This is an era of big things and big figures, big achievements and stupendous expansion ln this community. |