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Show mm, - People of the Large Lily Obtain Many Benefits Chicago, Aug. lu supiirt of his contention that a family can live in Chicago at a smaller public-expense 1 than in auy other large city of Anieri- ca, City Comptroller Wilson yesterday yester-day Issued many columns of flcures, ! snowing that the average property, owner In Chicago gets sen Ices com-lng com-lng more than 300 per cent of th. ounual taxes paid by him. For his average property owner he selected a man owning a $3,00u iesidence and having a wife and three children. He estimated the real estate tax nt $46.10 and the water tax at $7,135. C total of $53.75. adding a possible peisonal property tax of $7.37, giving a total of SGI. 12, (For this, be held, the family "would receive services costlug $172 02, and. If the county, ttnte and similar services b? included includ-ed he estimated the total benefits at m.25. In his basis (or calculation, Mr. Wilson considered the population ot the city as 2,500,000, and U3cd the as srusspd valuation of the property aud 1 lie total product from taxatiou as the basis for fixing the tax rate at $4.tSl per $100, upon which he reach f-d the total taxation in his hvnotheti- cal case. His estimate of the cost of services furnished was based on the property prop-erty owners share in the various iornis of governmental operation, itemized lu part as follows: Police protection, $11.80: fire protection pro-tection $fi.o0; health protection $1.10-removal $1.10-removal of garbage. $2 85; cleaning I and repairing streets, etc.. $1.25: maintenance of house of correction, municipal courts, etc.. $2 15; opera tion and improvements of waterworks, water-works, $10.10, public library 70 cents; schools, each child ($37.39 $112.17; benefit of parks and boulevards $9.25. |