The Cortland Democrat, July 3, 1891.
CHEEKY ADVERTISERS.
The
Georgia-Alabama Investment & Development Co. Called Down.
The Georgia-Alabama Investment &
Development Company, which is at present booming a small town called Tallipoosa
in Georgia, is a Boston Institution and Gen. Benj. F. Butler is the president.
The company have recently placed mammoth advertisements
in nearly all the northern daily papers, announcing that the C. B. Hitchcock
Manufacturing Co., of Cortland, was located in Tallipoosa, and last week it was
announced that the Hayes Chair company and the Wm. Howe Ventilating stove company,
both from Cortland, had located in that thriving centre.
The facts are about as follows: The
Hitchcock Manufacturing company are making arrangements to open up an extensive
wood shop at that place for the purpose of manufacturing their cutter and wagon
woods, which will be shipped here to be put together and finished. This work
will be done there because of the fact that fine timber is plenty in that
neighborhood and is becoming scarce here.
There is no such institution here as
"The Hayes Chair Company." Some time since Mr. Lewis S. Hayes, who is
interested in the Cortland Chair & Cabinet Company, purchased an extensive
plant and machinery in Canasteo, N. Y., and is moving the same to Tallipoosa,
where "The Hayes Chair Company" has been formed for the manufacture
of a line of work that is not made at the Cortland Chair & Cabinet Company's
works. No part of the last named institution is to leave Cortland and the
company will continue in business here.
The Wm. Howe Ventilating Stove Company advertised
as from Cortland is not the Howe Ventilating Stove Company from this place. Mr.
Wm. Howe has not been connected with the industry here for some years past, and
the works in this place are to be continued here and will not be moved to
Tallipoosa. If Mr. Wm. Howe is a whole stove company in himself, then only one
of the Howe Ventilating Stove Company of this place, (the one not manufacturing)
has moved to Tallipoosa.
The advertisements carry the impression that
three of the largest manufacturing industries of this place have moved to
Tallipoosa, when in fact neither of them intend to do so. The advertisements
should be modified to conform with the facts instead of carrying an entirely erroneous
impression calculated to injure Cortland and her business interests.
Italian
Immigrants.
The heavy increase in immigration from Italy,
and the alarming revelations made in New Orleans regarding the general
character of certain elements of such immigration, renders particularly
interesting the investigation made on the subject by the New York Sun, the
results of which appeared in its columns yesterday.
Italian immigration at the port of New York
has already reached the high figure of 13,000 a month. The fact that the
proportion of females is less than twenty per cent of the entire Italian
immigration at New York is regarded as an argument to show that the greater
number of Italians come here without any intention to settle permanently in
this country, but with the purpose of returning to their native land after
accumulating enough money to enable them to live there. Superintendent Weber,
at New York, expresses a very unfavorable opinion of the general class of
Italian immigrants landed at that port. There is no doubt, however, of their
willingness to work at the most undesirable employment, and of their ability to
subsist on what no other workmen could stand. Hence, like the Chinese, they are
able to save a great deal of their wages, however small they may be.
Enquiries made in some of the large cities
in this country, where regular colonies of Italians are established, show that
in Philadelphia and St. Louis, the lower classes bear an unsavory record, while
in New Orleans, despite the Mafia terror, they are generally considered
industrious, thrifty citizens. There is no question as to the industry of those
people, and it may be that with some well defined and practical system of
education which should be attempted and encouraged by their wealthy and more
fortunate countrymen on this side of the Atlantic, much may be done to convert
them into useful American citizens. The first lesson to be taught them is that
the too ready use of murderous weapons is incompatible with the duties of
American citizenship, and that practices which may be regarded with a lenient
eye in Sicily and the Abruzzi will not be tolerated here.—Albany Argus, June 27.
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FOUR/EDITORIALS.
Gov. Hill has come in for a good deal of
censure from republican organs for refusing to countenance the extravagant bills
of legislative investigating committees. The Pennsylvania legislature has
received a similar lesson from Gov. Pattison, who vetoed appropriations to the
amount of $24,550 for the expenses of legislative committees. It takes a
democratic governor to save the taxpayers from legislative robbery.—Bath
Advocate.
Long ago this paper expressed
a choice for Mr. Flower. With such a candidate, the democracy will surely win.
He is a man upon whom all factions can and will unite, and we do not believe
that even our good friend Jones of Binghamton will care to oppose him in the
convention. Mr. Flower's popularity in the strong republican counties of
Northern New York, and his ability to solidify the great democratic strength of
New York and Brooklyn will leave decidedly poor picking for the republican
candidate, whoever he may be.—Oswego Palladium.
ALBANY June 29.—Gov. Hill has
denied the petition for a pardon for Mary Druse, who was sent to the Onondaga
County Penitentiary for life, at the time her mother, Mrs. Roxalana Druse, was
sentenced to death for the murder of William Druse, the husband and father.
Those who fail to hear Mrs.
Mary Lathrop at the Trout Park, July 4th, will miss a great treat. Miss Lily
Runals, who will also be present, believes that the spirit of song moves the souls of men to higher and better things, and that the
voice which has been given her may be of service in the great moral cause of
the century. The Hartford, Conn., correspondent of the N. Y. Journal furnishes
the following:
"Lily Runals' rendition
of "The Mother's Prayer,'' introducing "Nearer My God to Thee,"
is a marvelous piece of work. It is doubtful whether anything so touching and
pathetic has ever been heard on any public platform. Her voice has a magnetic
quality. It is a voice with tears in it. When she sings her soul becomes one
with the soul of her listener."
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