ened street. Supervisor McCafferty said that the
committee would do all in its power to have the assessment reduced,
and also remarked that it was a positive outrage to assess such a
small house at so high a figure. Mrs. Louisa St. John, who is
reputed to be worth $2,000,000, complained because three lots on
Fifth avenue, near Eighty-sixth street, and five lots on the
last-named street, have been assessed at much higher figures than
other lots in the neighborhood. Mrs. St. John addressed the
committee with much eloquence and force. Said she: "I do not
complain of the assessments that have been laid on my property. I
complain of the inequalities practiced by the assessors, and I
should like to see them set right." Supervisor McCafferty assured
Mrs. St. John that everything in the power of the committee would
be done to equalize assessments in future. Mrs. St. John is a heavy
speculator in real estate. She attends sales and has property
"knocked down" to her. She makes all her own searches in the
register's office, and is known, in fact, among property-owners as
a very thorough real-estate lawyer. Many years ago she was the
proprietor of the Globe Hotel, now Frankfort House, corner of
Frankfort and William streets.

[227] The Albany _Evening Journal_ of January 22 said: A hearing
was granted by the Judiciary Committee to-night, on the petition of
the Woman's Tax-payers Association of the City of Rochester, for
either representation or relief from taxation. The petitioners were
heard in the assembly chamber, and in addition to members of the
committee, a large audience of ladies and gentlemen were drawn
together, including the president of the Senate, speaker of the
House, and nearly all the leading members of both branches of the
legislature. The first speaker was Mrs. Blake, the youngest of the
trio, who occupied about twenty minutes and was well received. She
was followed by Miss Anthony, who made a telling speech, frequently
eliciting applause. She recounted her long service in the woman's
rights cause, and gave a brief history of the different enactments
and repeals on the question for the last thirty years. She related
her experience in voting, and said she was fined $100 and costs,
one cent of which she had never paid and never meant to. She
claimed Judge Waite was in favor of woman suffrage, and believed
the present speaker of the Assembly of New York was also in favor
of the movement. Calls being made for Genera