Saturday, August 23, 2014

N. Y. S. LEGISLATURE PASSES LAWS COVERING MEDICAL PRACTICE AND FIRE ESCAPES


The Cortland Democrat, July 22, 1887.

HERE AND THERE.

   Horace Seaman has opened a barber shop on Orchard street.

   Was She taken from Thomas Moore's Epicurian?  Both books are in the library.

   The firm of Kent & Hoar, barbers, has been dissolved. Mr. W. W. Seaman takes the interest of Mr. Kent.

   Complaints have been entered against the small boys who go in bathing near the Crandall bridge. They will be collared by officers if they do not desist.

   Arthur Thompson, the little boy who fell from the fourth story window of the Keator block last week, is improving, and there are strong hopes of his entire recovery.

   The Cortland Wagon Company, with a capital stock of $300,000, located at Hammond, Ind., has been organized. C. B. Hitchcock, Esq., of this place, is President of the company.

   On Monday last, twenty-six large mail boxes arrived at the post-office in this place, which are to be put up on the streets of this village for the accommodation of the citizens.

   The steps at the Courthouse have been torn down and new ones are being put up. We have seen the plans, and when finished the steps will be a great improvement over the old ones. A handsome porch is to be erected over them.

   Editor Clark, of the Cortland Standard, celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the birth of his paper last week Thursday, and in response to an invitation to everybody to call, the editor of the DEMOCRAT went over to join the crowd, which he says he failed to find. Brother Jones fails to understand that "three are a crowd," and then, he is quite a crowd in and of himself.—Moravia Register.

   An exchange says by the terms of a law recently approved by the Governor, only persons who have studied for three years with a physician of established reputation, graduates of medical schools in this State, or of recognized schools in other States or countries, shall be allowed to practice medicine. All such must be registered in a county clerk’s office. The penalty for the first offense of practicing without a license is a $50 fine; second offense, $100 fine or one hundred days imprisonment, or both. County medical societies are empowered to prosecute violations of the law. The aim of the new law is to crush out quacks, clairvoyants and other ignorant practitioners of the healing art.

   Messrs. O'Leary & Dowd have complied with the new law by placing fire escapes in all of the sleeping rooms in their hotel.

   Nines from the Hitchcock works and Wickwire works will play a game of base ball on the fair grounds, Saturday, for a purse of $25.

   George Parker, of South Cortland, challenges Dick Kerwin, of this place, to a boxing match with gloves. John L. Sullivan rules to govern, the winner to take a quarter of the gate receipts.

   Last Monday afternoon, Oliver Riley, the fourteen-year old son of Charles Riley, had the index finger of his right hand taken off by the cogs of a drilling machine while at work in the shops of the Cortland Wagon Company.

   The Marathon Independent copies an article on the Howe Stove Company from last week's DEMOCRAT, and gives the Cortland Standard credit for the same. Mistakes will happen in some of the best regulated institutions.

   Three burglars affected an entrance to the back hall of Dr. G. W. Hull's house on Monroe Heights, at about 3 o'clock, Wednesday morning. Dr. Hull heard them and at once commenced to make a disturbance by arousing Mr. J. D. Bliss, who lives in a part of the house, and by yelling like mad. The burglars beat a hasty retreat, much to the doctor's personal comfort.

  

Excursion to Pleasant Beach.

   The Methodist Church and Sunday school of this place, will hold a Basket Picnic at Pleasant Beach on Wednesday, July 27, 1887. A special train will leave the D. L. & W. depot in Cortland, at 8 A. M., Homer, 8:10 A. M., and run direct to the picnic grounds. Returning the train will leave the lake at 7 P. M. This delightful place to spend the day is situated on the west side of Onondaga lake, five miles from Syracuse. Steamers make frequent trips to many points of interest during the day. Boats and trains also run often to Syracuse and the cost of any of these round trips is only 25 cents. Tickets for the round trip from Cortland or Homer, $1.00.  Children 5-12 years of age, half-price. Tickets on sale at Sager & Jennings and Tanner Bros. store, or Atwater & Sons, Homer.


Hotel Fire Escapes.

   On the 1st inst., the new law which provides that "every owner, lessee, proprietor, or manager of a hotel two stories high in this state, shall cause to be placed a rope or better appliance to be used as a fire escape in every room used as a lodging-room except on the ground floor, the end of the rope to be fastened and coiled up and kept in plain view at all times and to be long enough to reach from the room to the ground. The rope must lie capable of holding a weight of 400 pounds, and a printed notice must be posted in each room and hall explaining how to use the ropes. It is the duty of the chief engineer of the fire department or the person performing such duties, in every city and village in the state in the months of July and January of each and every year to inspect every room of every hotel in the city or village in which he is performing the duties of such engineer, and ascertain if the above provisions are complied with.

   "Any owner, lessee, proprietor, manager or other person who shall obstruct or prevent the officer from making such inspection is liable to a penalty of fifty dollars. The inspector must file his written report on or before the 15th day of August and February in each year, with the mayor, president or other executive officer of said village, showing what hotels have been inspected and specifying such as have complied with the law. The mayor, president or other executive officer, shall within ten days thereafter procure a warrant for the arrest of every person so reported as violating this act. Violators of this act are punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by both."

   Chief Engineer Jno. F. Dowd, has received instructions to make an inspection of the hotels in this place which will be done at once. Hotel keepers should therefore put their houses in readiness to receive him.

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