Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1918 — TREE-ROOF PERCHERS AID NEW BASEBALL TAX [ARTICLE]

TREE-ROOF PERCHERS AID NEW BASEBALL TAX

Persons who sell seats on any roof or structure overlooking a baseball park will be obliged to pay a war tax to the government, according to the bureau of internal revenue. The tax must be collected and paid by the enterprising owner or occupant of the building who receives payment for the seat occupied by “perchers.” The announcement says that in one city a woman whose yard adjoins the ball park has been selling seats In a tree, the price being five and ten cents, depending on how high the patrons have to climb. Recently the price has advanced to six and eleven cents, the extra cent being added to the war revenues.