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Show MRS. SAGE TO PAY $810,000 TAXES Personal Fortune Left by Her Husband $50,000,-000; $50,000,-000; Largest Ever Re-corded Re-corded in New Yorh. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. The tax list, made jiublic today, has several interesting interest-ing features. Chief of these is the fact that the tax assessors have written down the personal fortune left bv Russell Sage at j5O.0O0.iO0. Thi fs easily the oiggest individual personal tax ever recorded on the city's books. Sage, in his life time, was assessed at 2.000,oO"'. Mrs. Sage, to whom he left practically all of the Sage fortune, is assessed at 000,000 in her own name. If thpsc two statements stand. Mrs. Sage will have to draw her check for the 'it v Treasurer for something like $U0.00O. , Sagp "s fortune was different from that of almost any other rii h man in New York City, consisting chiefly of cash, notes and other property which is taiable under the head of personalty, fortunes like those of Rockefeller, the Yanderbilt. the Goulds and others are largely in stocks and other property which is taxed in another form, and consequently does not appear in the of ri ial rating of their personnl fortunes. Only about half a dozen other New Yorkers pay taxes on . 1 .' mo.ooo or mi're of personal property. Andrew Carnegie heads this list with a.S.noo.oiirt and .fohn V. Rockefeller comes next at $2. "oo,ooo. |