The Cortland News, Friday, May 4, 1883.
REMOVAL OF THE POST OFFICE.
Business Men Seeking Relief.
The committee of five elected at the meeting
of the people on the evening of the 14th ult. to appoint persons to go to
Washington, and seek from the P. O. Department for relief from the
inconvenience arising from the removal of the postoffice, chose Hon. A. P.
Smith and Irving H. Palmer, Esq., as such committee.
The following petition was afterward printed
and circulated:
To the Postmaster-General of the United States, Washington, D. C:
Whereas,
the recent removal of the Postoffice at Cortland, N. Y., to the extreme verge of the business portion of the village
of Cortland greatly incommodes a large majority of the persons who receive
their mail at said Postoffice; therefore, we, the subscribers, officials and
citizens of said village and of the county of Cortland, residing in the village
of Cortland, respectfully pray you to grant us the following relief, viz:
1st.
That letter-boxes or receptacles for the deposit of mail matter, similar to those
in use in cities, be located—one at the intersection of Court street and Main
street, another at the intersection of Groton avenue and North Main street, in
the village of Cortland, and that the Postmaster at Cortland be required by order
to collect the mail matter from these receptacles before the close of each
departing mail, and properly distribute and dispatch the same in all respects
as if such mail matter had been deposited in the Postoffice at Cortland.
2d.
That a similar box be placed at the Syracuse, Binghamton and New York railroad
depot, and that the mail agents on the several mail trains be instructed to
collect the matter therefrom and distribute the same.
3d.
That the employment of a mail-carrier be authorized, to whom the Postmaster at
Cortland shall be required to deliver the mails of any person requesting the
same, such mails to be deposited in a bag or sack provided for the purpose, and
the sack and contents delivered to such carrier at the risk and expense of
those making the request.
This
petition was signed by about three hundred of our business men, and Messrs.
Smith and Palmer, armed with this document, with diagrams and lithographs of
the village showing the exact location of the streets, business places and
factories and shape of the village, together with an affidavit by Mr. I. W.
Brown, who took the corporation census last fall, left on the 3 P. M. train Monday
following for Washington.
These gentlemen waited on Mr. Frank Hatton,
first-assistant Post-Master General, and Mr. R. A. Elmer, second assistant, the interviews with whom it is unnecessary to
give in detail. But the result was the granting by these officials of all that
the petition asked, and it is expected that arrangements tor carrying these
privileges into effect will soon be made.
The
committee returned on Saturday greatly pleased with the courteousness and
cordiality of their reception by Messrs. Hatton and Elmer.
Y. M. C. A. Anniversary.
The
fifteenth anniversary of the Young Men's Christian Association was held at the
M. E. church Sunday evening, and as is usual on such occasions the house was
full of people who were grandly repaid by the sermon which was preached by Rev.
J. L. Robertson, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and which displayed [his speaking] ability. It has
received the warmest encomiums as one of the best of this gentleman's many excellent addresses.
The
treasurer of the Association presented his report, which showed anything but a
satisfactory condition of the Association's finances, its indebtedness amounting
to over $600, as will be seen by the report which was brought down to April 28,
1883, and is as follows:
RECEIPTS.
from former treasurer April 17, ’82 $14.80
Lecture course………………………...2.98
Anniversary collection………………17.52
Collected on subscription made at
dedication of rooms in 1882………..311.09
Subscription, 1883…………………… 2.50
Sale of old papers……………………..3.74
Rent of rooms………………………. 19.80
From entertainments………………. 109.14
From
new members…………………30.00
Annual dues……………………….. 128.01
Amount of note Oct. 2, '82, per Board
of Managers……………………….. 400.00
Total: $1,039.35.
EXPENDITURES.
Janitor's salary……………………... 117.00
Gas bills……………………………. 124.63
General secretary…………………....192.56
A. Mahan, books and rent of piano…. 71.00
Rent of rooms……………………… 182.13
Printing ………………………………69.00
Miscellaneous bills—furnishing new
rooms, etc………………………….. 280.04
Balance in treasurer's hand……………2.25
Total: $1,039.35
OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS.
Uncollected dues ………………….. 13.00
Bank note, due June 20, 1883……. 400.00
D.F.Wallace………………………... 62.36
Smith &
Kingsbury…………………25.68
Rent due April 1, 1883……………...51.50
A. Mahan, rent of piano…………… 15.00
Fish & Walrad………………………50.00
H. F. Benton………………………….4.67
Total: $609.26 [It doesn't add up. Item printing error of $12.95 assumed—CC editor]
Rev.W.
H. Annable made a strong appeal for contributions, and $112 was pledged, and a
collection which followed amounted to $21.10.
The
Association desire to raise $1,200 to pay indebtedness and expenses for the ensuing
year. For the purpose of raising this sum a committee had previous to the
meeting secured contributions amounting to $480, which, however, was pledged
with the understanding that it was not to be paid unless the whole sum of $1,200
was raised.
The
Association now numbers about eighty members, fifteen having been added during
the past year.
CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
Marathon will be a money-order [post] office after July 1, 1883.
Mr. L. D. C. Hopkins is putting into market the tenderest of lettuce.
Mr.
Bauder has put a couple of billiard tables in one of the first floor rooms of
his new block.
Mr.
Jacob Grassman has opened a barber-shop in the basement of the new Cortland
House block.
John
D. Benton, Esq., of Fargo, Dakota, arrived on Tuesday and will remain in
Cortland for some time.
Forepaugh billed this village last week for his great show. Some of the pictures
are magnificent specimens of attractive printing.
Prof.
M. J. Griffin, teacher of Latin and German in the High school at Syracuse, is
passing a portion of this week in Cortland as a guest of Dr. Hoose.
Messrs. Samuel Morris and Day Baker are putting up each a house for
himself on Schermerhorn [Grace] street, and Luther T. White and D. C. Johnson
are doing the same on Madison street.
The
spring meeting of the Cortland Union Bee-Keepers Association will be held in
Cortland, N. Y., on Tuesday, May 8, 1883, at 10 o'clock A. M., in the rooms of
the Y. M. C. A.
Mr.
Ignatius Miller, who for two or three months past has been carrying on the
business of a ready-made clothing house, in the Cortland House addition, on
Wednesday took his departure for parts unknown, leaving some indebtedness unsettled,
but to what extent we are not informed.
A
children's operetta, "The Rebellion of the Daisies," will be rendered
at Taylor Hall this (Friday) evening, May 4, by members
of the Congregational Sabbath-school. Ice-cream, cake, coffee and crullers
will be served from 6 o'clock during the evening. This promises to be one of
the most enjoyable entertainments given by this society. In addition to the
operetta choice selections of instrumental and vocal music will be given by
home talent. Concert at 8 o'clock.
Dr.
H. B. Wilbur, superintendent of the State Idiot Asylum at Syracuse, died suddenly
in that city on Tuesday last, in the 63d year of his age. Dr. Wilbur made the
treatment of the insane his life-long study. He was placed in charge of a
school for that purpose established at Albany over thirty years ago, and when
the State Asylum was built at Syracuse he was made superintendent. He was an
able, courteous, kind-hearted gentleman, whose place can not easily be filled.
The
parlors, restaurant and billiard saloon which Mr. Henry D. Freer has had in
course of preparation for some time past, were thrown open to the public
Tuesday evening last and were visited by a large number of people— the rooms
being constantly thronged throughout the evening. The bar and restaurant are on
the first floor and parlors and billiard room on the second. They are
conveniently arranged, provided with necessary accessories, and are all in all
the most elegant suite of rooms for the purpose in Central New York, and are
surpassed by very few city ones.
Mr.
C. J. Mager and family are now settled in their new home, No. 32 Lincoln avenue.
A
plank sidewalk has been laid this week on the north side of the Messenger House
block.
Mr.
E. P. Halbert is laying a flagstone walk in front of his residence on North
Main street.
Messrs.
Benjamin F. Taylor and James Shermerhorn, of Cortland, have purchased the old
Miller block, on North Main street, this village, for $2,400.— Homer Rep.
Messrs. A. R. & Jay Peck will open their
Shoe Parlor in the Squires block next week. The store presents a fine appearance.
Watch for their advertisement in THE NEWS.
A Good Joke.
Wm. H. Clark issuing a supplement to blow his own horn and satisfy the people
that notwithstanding his persistent efforts to turn this town upside down, the
people continue to patronize him. And then those repeated assertions of his
loyalty to the Republican party, when he hasn't voted a straight Republican
ticket since the sale for forgery of the Dixon and Smith tickets in 1877 to
1882 when he openly for value received (or promised) bolted the whole Republican
ticket. This last bundle of lies might be swallowed if the people had no
memories.
The fact is there isn't a
postoffice in Cortland county where there is not a pile of the Cortland Standards
which the people have refused to take and wouldn't read if they were laid
before them, and they are only sent out to enable the editor with some show of
truth to make just such an affidavit as he did this week. We happen to know
whereof we assert.
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| Henrietta Vinton Davis, stage photo. |
A Colored Lady Elocutionist.
Quite a sensation was produced
last week in Washington, D. C., by the appearance before a large and
intelligent audience, of Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, a beautiful young colored
lady, as a public reader. She is the first of her race to venture before the
public as a reader and elocutionist, and her appearance was closely watched by
the literary world. All the accounts speak in the highest terms of her literary
talents.
The National Republican of
Washington in a long article among many other good things said of her: "Her
recitals showed evidence of high talent, hard labor, and careful and
intelligent instruction. She is the first of our colored people to show decided
dramatic ability. Frederick Douglass made an appropriate address, closing by
introducing Miss Davis. The latter recited Brier
Rose with true dramatic power and grace;" and then follows very
flattering comments upon all her other readings and recitations.
The Washington Critic also
had much to say of her effort, including the following: "Miss Davis
deserves recognition as one of the most talented ladies of her race and she reflects
credit not only upon herself but upon Miss Marguerite Saxton, her instruct-ress."
The Washington Evening Star said:
"Miss Henrietta V. Davis, a young colored girl, a native of this
city, who for some time has been preparing for the stage, made her
debut before a select audience at Marini's Hall last evening. She
was introduced by Mr. F. Douglas, and read several selections in
a manner which won for her great praise. She has persevered in her
studies and under great difficulties, having been compelled to support
herself and her widowed mother by working as a copyist."
The Washington correspondent
of the Hartford Times in quite a long article says of her: “Tonight we
start out on a new venture in introducing to the world the first colored
tragedienne, Henrietta Vinton Davis, who it is said shows special
talent for the stage. She is very fine looking, a mulatto and has
a good voice," etc.
Several gentlemen from
Cortland, including Judge Smith and Messrs. Burr and Fuller, heard Miss Davis
and all are loud in their praise of her as an elocutionist. She recites in New
London, Norwich and other places in Connecticut in May, and has promised to
visit Cortland where she will doubtless receive a cordial welcome. The fact
that she is a protégé of Frederick Douglas will inspire our people with
confidence in her character and ability.
Henrietta V. Davis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Vinton_Davis
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