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Brooklyn?Babies, Lions and All?In Lead bv 200.000 _j * Census Taker Finds Borough Across River Far Ahratl of Manliattaii, Counting In Mules, Goats, Sheep The baby carriage and the rubber ;ilant are about to be revenged. The vensus maii has unearthed the secret source of strength within the Hrook lyn heart which enabled the tlat dwell er of that borough to smile so plaeidly under the jibes of the Manhattan joke- j sters all these years. At least the census man thinks he has. He always had a hunch that Brooklyn had more men, more women and more babies than Manhattan,and the census llgures, for the first week, bear him out, hc says. "The government forbids our giving out any figuros until the end of the j oensus-taking," announced Census Su pervisor Dore yesterday, a triumphant chuckle sounding u prelude to his cli- i max, "but I don't mind telling you j that so far Brooklyn is leading Man- j hattan by 200,000." ! This was the great outstanding de ! velopment in the first week of the j oensus-taking, which came to an cnd I yesterday, and the Brooklyn politicians ] i had a little impromptu jubilee about it. But it is not only in mere citi ! zens that the borough of homes is in j i the lead. It has more horses, sheep, I j poats and mules than the skyseraper | j borough to say nothing of lions. "Show us the man in Manhattan that ; owns two lions," said Superviaor Dore j pompously. "One of our enumerators ; came in much agitated yesterday, and , said she had found a house where two j ! lions were living. The census blank | | provides only for the enumeration of : : horses. sheep, goats and mules. What i 1 should she do? 1 wasn't going to allow I ; this borough to be cheated out of the j j glory of possessing two lions, so 1 told | ! her to set them down as mules, with i i an explanatory footnote." None To Be Left Out The census supervisors of all other boroughs reported yesterday that they were well satisfied with the progress of their task, but on the part of many individuals there was noticed a grow ing fear lest they should be left out. "N'o one need *orry about beinp left out, said Manhattan Supcrvisor Foley. "People who are not at honie when the enumerator calls will be visited a second time, or a blank will be left for them to fill out and mail. If any on% has been left out at the end of the census-taking he should notify this office." Federal Reserve Banks WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.?The condition of the twelve Federal Reserve banks at the close of business January 9 was as follows: RESOURCES _,... *. Januany 9. Januarv 2. Gold com and certificates......... $220,301,000 $2:59,609000 Gold st-ttlenient fnnd (F. R. Board). H80,263,000 363 cs'ooo Gold with foreign agencies. 123,322,000 13l'32o'ooo Total gold held by banks. $723,886,000 $734 652 000 -,J -;"' h"A"r"} '""'"?"" "?"""'- - ,209,508,000 1,206 596 000 107,977,000 122,367,000 Gold with Federal Reserve agents. 1,209,508,000 1,205 596000 Gold redemption fund. 107,977.000 T>?'3fi7'm>n r ??4Ul/t,dn,??.erV?iS '???:. $2,041,371,000 $2,062,615,000 Legal tender notes, silver, etc. 60,728,000 583571000 Total reserves. $2,122,099,000 $2,121 272 000 Bills discounted: Secured by U. S. war obli- *-a-i,-(4,uoo ... J?*ionS . $1,352,085,000 $1,484,262,000 All otner .?. 727.670 000 74fi <v><i'nnn Bills bought "a open market. 574,722,000 674,681 JJS rr JfSl ^illS 0T> Mnd......... $2,654,477,000 $7,805,818,000 United States g.wernment bor.ds. 26,836.000 '-"O 836 000 United States Vicfory notes. 264,000 '64*000 U. S. certificales cf indebtedness. 302,406,000 349,OOo',000 Total earning assets. $2,983,983,000 $11,181,808,000 Bank premtses. 10,410,000 10,369,000 Uncollected items t.jd other deductions from gross doposits . 1.021,696,000 1,171,778 600 Five per cent redemption fund against Fed? eral Reserve Bank notes. 13,254,000 13 130 000 All other resources .,. 5,241,000 5,733,0.00 Total resources . $6,136,083,000 $6,504,090,000 LIABILITIES Capital paid in. $87,451,000 $87,433 000 surpius - . 120,120,000 120,120,000 Uovernment deposits . 27,798,000 38,920 000 Due to member banks?Res. account. 1,850,219,000 1,922 800000 Deferred availability items. 763,146,000 944'884'oOO Other dep., including for. gov. credits*. 96,425,000 116,307^000 Total gross deposits. $2,737,588,000 $3,022,911,000 Fed. Res. note3 in actual circulation. 2,914,368,000 2,998 092 000 Federal Reserve Bank notes in circulation, .? "J* "t?1"*'.. $259,099,000 258,561,000 All other habihties . 18,057,000 16,073|000 Total liabilities ..'. $6,136,683,000 $6,504,090,000 Ratio of total reserves to net deposit and Federal Reserve note liabili? ties combined, 45.4 per cent, against 43.7 per cent the week before. Ratio of gold reserves to Federal Reserve notes in actual circulation after setting aside 35 per cent against net deposit liabilities, 51.5 per cent against 49.u per cent the week before. ' Federal Income Tax Questions (Ansicered for The Tribune by Morris F. Frey, Assistant Treas urer of the Guaran ly Trust Company) (?.?B. M. II.: Tn Oclober. 1919. / received $2,000 from my employer "in recognition of past services," covering at that time a preiod of nine years 9 montiis. The gift or bonus was made lo enable me to buy a home at a time when houscs to rent were scarce and rents exorbitant. Is there any provision in income tax law <>y which income used for such a purpvse n> ?not taxable? If this inconie is taxable, ran it be as sntrned that it covers the period of service, and only such part <n is repreiented by the year 1919, or one-tenth, be taxable income for that ye.ar1} My employer intends to chstrgc the entirc amount off as expenses paid during 1919. , A.? Since the $2,000 to which you refcr was paid you in recognition of services ren derd, it constitutes taxable income to you and must be reported as 1919 income, since it was received during that year. Q.? M. D.: I have been married for sev eral months during 1919 (from September). tl) Am I rntitled to exemption up to $2,000 as a married man: (2) I have also had a loss of eonsiderable property by fire, not covered by insurance; CA) I have paid for the support of an immediaie member of my famUy ivho was ill for several months. Can I make deduction for this amount as a chari table contribution or as a dependenft A.?(1) You are entitled to an exemption of $2,000 if living with- your wife on De cember 31, 1919. (2) Losses by fire, not compensated_ for by insurance, constitute allowable deductio.is. Ci) lf the member of your family to whom you refer was a person other than your wife and was under eighteen years of age, or incapable of self-support because mentally or physically defective and received his chief support from you during the taxable year, you are entilled to an additional exemption of $200 on hia account. Such amount ih not an allowable deduction under the head of charitable contributions. <?.-?/. C.: / should like to know what tax I have to pay on my salanj. I am a non resident livinq in New Jersey and working in New York. Are there any exemptions allowed to a married manl A./-A non-resident is Riibject to the' New York State pcrsonal income tax on salary earned in New York State. No personal ex? emption is allowed under the law to a nor resident. The law provides, however, that a return must be filed. only in the followinB cases: (1) By a married person living with hus band or wife, if his net income equala or exceeds $2,000, and (2) By a singlo person, or a married per? son not living with husband or wife, if his net; income equals or exceeds $1,000. Under the law, however, your employer is required to withhold 1 per cent of your en tire salary and pay over th" same to the State Comptrcller, if such salary paid is in excess of V.,000. Q.?J. /?/'. B.: 1. Is the penaion of a Civil War reteran subject to taxationl 2. Is the interest on United States gov? ernment bonds subject to taxation under the aforcsaid law? A.? 1. Pensions paid by the United States Government to Civil War veterans are Bub ject both to normal tax and to surtax. 2. Interest received from United States Government bonds, issued prior to the sec ond Liberfy Loan. and interest on 3% per cent Victory notes is wholly exempt from tax. Interest received on other i.ssues of LiBerty bonds is wholly exempt from normal tax, but from surtax only to the following extent: Exempt for life of bonds, 4s and 4'/4s? Aggregate holdings of $5,000. Exempt for five years after declaration of peace, 4s ana 4%s?Aggregate holdings of $30,000. Ex? empt for two years after declaration of peace, 1st 4%s (issue of.October 24, 1918 only), $30,000: 4th 4%e. $30,000. Condi tional exemption, 4s, 2d 4*4s and 3d 4*4s? Aggregate holdings of ?$45,000; 4s and 4Iis, additional -$20,000. 'For two years aftev declaration of peace, provided original suhscription was made to ,$30,009 Fourth Loan and still ovvned at. the date of the taxpayer's inconie tax return. If le.ss than this amount, then the exemption is equivalent to one and one-half times the amount so subscribed and held. -Provided original subscription is made for $6,700 Victory Liberty Loan of 1923 and the notes are still owned at the date of the taxpayer'B income tax return. If lesB than this amount is subscribed for. then the ex hahmw^tS *_ Feature Announcement of Dining am/Bed-Room Suites THE suites now shown on the floors devoted to our Bedroom and ?* Dining Room Furniture are a more extensive and complete collection than at any former time. For many months past we have anticipated the requirements of our patrons, and have been ahle to augment our Bedroom and Dinine huites by numerous recent additions. h The Illustrated Suite ?a most dcsinible Colonial pal !rrn in Mahogany?10 pieces_ is now priced at '695 00 Selected Features o/'Importance iS?8??Z?^Jh???Zg& T^T^r ""'"?,wi" "r""' '"?-? $s'-?? Wts. $395 00 \olomal Mahogany Dining Room Suite, 10 '* pieces . SUoc nn Qneen Arme Chest t.f Drawers?\laho(?a'iv? l.-.i;,, d ? U"-.?*v?.uu 4 ?.?, a?a, m,? ???:;;:..: u,-^m saji *? ^ **-&& & Dresaer . $925 nn ci . ?? ?.?40?.uu r ,. .. , D J .?W5.00 Sheraton Dining Room Suite in brown Ma i.rotcn Ma&ogany Bedroom Suite with ebon- hogany, 10 pieces. $590 00 ized decorations. 7 pieces.$675.00 Queen Anne Dining Room Suite, Antique Mahogany Pour Post Beds (twin si/.e only), a Ma,,,'?a">. 10 pieces.'.$690.00 strikingly unufnaJ ralue at....(each) $39.50 Colonial Dining Room Suite, beautifut Crotch Grey Knarnel Bedroom Suite with Mue-grev Mahogany ., ?;.$1900.00 line decoration, 5 piecea.$585 00 v,? pendale Dining Room Suite, Antique - ? . ' Mahogany, with carving on cdecs and rahrili. Antique Jvory or <Jrry Enanwl B.droom Suite, legs, 10 pieces. .. g $885 nn including Twin Bcda and Vanity Dreawr, 7 Colonial Sideboard of Mahoiianv'wiih ??. f"efeS .$7?5-00 '?''??'?? ^d tcroll feet, 72 inches long! $S W. A. HATHAWAY COMPANY 62 West 45th Street, NEW YORK , emption is equivalent to three times the arrwiunt bo subscribed and held. Total possible exemptions on all loans, $100,000. Q.?S. E. H.: A. is the father of a. family, inclv-ding wife and six children living at home, all of trhom are over nineteen years of age and only one of whom in at j)resen t selj-supporting. B., the elde-si son, is self-supporting and renders his own income tax return. He con tributes weekly a certain suvi Urtvard the household expenses, on which sum, considered an board. there is no profit to the head of the household. C, the second son, who v:as in the anny servioe until the early part of last August and who has only obtained employment with? in the last week, has eontributcd. orensionally small sums toward the household expenses? so small that they would not pay (or his food .4nj/ money he had during the last year was obtamed from. his salary as an offirrr in-th* army and was used to pay for clothing and personal expenses and debts cont.racted in cidental to his anny traivivg. r>.. the youngest son, who is -'n his twenty. ticth year, i? employed at a emall salary, out of which he, pays for his own elothing and ' iiersonal cxpensee and also ronlributes a very small sum weekly (*> the household ex penses?barely suffioient to pay the cost of his fond. 1. What, if anyihing, should A. return as income on aceount of moneys received by or j from his said sons? 2. If he must. rnaRe a return of any such moneys, may he claim crcdit for the said sons' respective shares of the househoUl ex penses, ivhich household of its present char acter and size is maintained largely for and account of said sons? 3. In October, 1H1S, A. sold, at a loss, shares of stock, which he had held for a vumber of yeara. He made no claim for this loss on his income return for li'18 because there was not mtfficient net income from which to deduct. it, May he deduct this loss from this or xvbsequent years' income? 4. Are dividends on life insurance return able as taxable income? A.?I and 2. A. will not be required to include in his taxable income :my of the amounts received from B., C. and D., nor is he permitted to take any deduction for his sons' share of the household expenses. I .".. Losses are deductible only from the net income of the taxable year in which they are I sustained. The only exception to this rule j exiats in the ease of "net losses" sustained during a taxable year fallinfr hetween Oc tober 31, IfilS, and January 1. 1920, result intr from either <1> the operation of any business reprularly carried on by the tax payer, or (2) the bona fide nale by the tax payer of plant, buildinKs. machinery, equip ment or other facillties construeted, in .stalled or acquired by the taxpayer on or after April 6, 1917, for the production of articles contributinR to the piosecution of the war. Such "net losses" shall be tieducted from the net income of the taxpayer for the precedins taxable year, and if in excess of Buch net income may be deducted' from the net income for the Bucceeding taxable year. 4. Sc-ealled "dividends" paid by a life in surance company to its bondholders, which represent a return of ,*-xcesa premiums col lected, are exempt from income tax Tarpaulins Save Furs Worth $200,000 at Downtown Fire Members of the Fire Patrol got their tarpaulinst over fura in the basement of 25 East Ninth Street last night just as a deluge poured into the building by engines responding to two alarms began to descend. Furs valued at $200, 000 were saved. The fire started on the third floor of the six-story building which is occu pied by the Columbia Dye Works. It ftfrorded an intcresting spectacle to diners at the Hotel Lafayette, across the street. The damage was estimated at $50,000. Swann Demands Inquiry Into Rothstein Case Wants Assistant Prosecutor For mally Exonerated From Any Taint of Graft District Attorney Swann said yes? terday that he would demand a thor ough inquiry into the Arnold Roth stein graft allegations, in connection with which the name of James E. Smith, Assistant District Attorney and official vice crusader of the District Attorney's office, has been mentioned. Mr. Swann announced that he had written to Police Commissioner En fight and Police Inspector Dominick Henry, calling on these officials to pro duce "every scinrtilla of evidence" they may have on the report that $32,000 was split between an Assistant District Attorney, a newspaper man and a for? mer city magistrate to bring about the dismissal last July of the indictment against Rothstein, a gambler well known along Broadway, who was charged with shooting two detectives. Commissioner Enright, according to Mr. Swann, already has informed him j that an inquiry directed bv him has dl. proved the graft allegations $&*t Attorney Swann explained, ??{??" that he would insist upon formal *??' dieation of the Assistant D?8?ct At' I torney referred to in the report. ?_ JEnvoy Is Accused of Libel Brazilian Vice-Consul Here Su?l for $10,000 Damages , J.oao Carlos Muniz, vice-consul 0f j Brazil in this city, was sued in th* iSupreme Court yesterday for $10000 damages on allegations of slander knd ! libel. Elias Bahouth, the plaintiff j? j employed by the Herbert B. Lede'r*. | Company, exporters, at 91 Fifth A?. nue. "'"" ! ? lt .j? alle*ed *?>' Bahouth that th? j Brazihan official on December 10 .* , the consulate at 17 Battcrv Place'ar , cused him of dishonesty. Bahouth al j leged that Muniz caused a notice to h posted on the door of the consulat! saymg that Bahouth "is strictly t,? j htbited from entering this office duV 1 to his dishonesty." ' | Bahouth says that the charge of Muniz was without foundation and made maliciously. JSIH6 &Co. 5th Avenue Second Floor 35th Street NOTE: Yesterday our January Clearance Sale of Suits came to a close. Ordinarily we would make no mention of a selling event that has passed into store history, but the savings afforded to our customers in that sale were so decisive and the selling so enormous that we are impelled to congratulate those who were lucky enough to benefit. And for anuary Clearance Sale Large Ulsters Town Ulsters Ulsterettes Slip-Ons Chesterfields Form-fitting Models TAKE NOTICE THAT SOME S COME MIGHTY CLOSE TO !* PRICE Formerly priced $125. $110. $95. Formerly priced $80. $75. $65. REDUCED TO REDUCED TO Formerly priced $60. $55. $50. $45. REDUCED TO %**n so We're "all set" for the biggest week's business in our history! We are determined to clean out in the short space of one week what ha, been the bulwark of our stock this season. If we virtuaUy "gave suils away? last week, as so many of our customers admitted, then what we are about to do th,s week in Overcoats is even more important. It is simply a s.ock-reducing necessay ,n which we take our .oss and also our gain in ,he friends we make Exfra Tai.ors, Fitter. and SaJesmen. No C. O. D.V No Returns. No Ap^vals.