The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November
18, 1892.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
FIRST DAY—NOV. 14, 1892.
The Board of Supervisors met at their rooms
in the county clerks office building in annual session at 1:30 P. M. last Monday, and was called
to order by R. Walworth Bourne, clerk of the last board. The following members
answered to their names:
Cincinnatus—Oliver Griswold.
Cortlandvllle—R. B. Smith.
Cuyler—Henry Howes.
Freetown—Oscar N. Gardner.
Harford—J. H. Brown.
Homer—W. H. Crane.
Lapeer—
Marathon—Walter A. Brink.
Preble—H. I. Hund, M. D.
Scott—E. W. Childs.
Solon—Henry Kelley.
Taylor—Oscar P. Minor.
Truxton—J. C. Nelson, M. D.
Virgil—W. A. Holton.
Wlllett—
Mr. Royal L. Johnson of Lapeer was detained
at home by reason of sickness in his family but was represented by Mr. S. B. Jameson.
Mr. Wilson Greene of Willett took his seat later.
Dr. Nelson was chosen temporary chairman.
After a half-hour recess the board reassembled and elected Henry Howes of
Cuyler for permanent chairman and John C. Barry of Cortland clerk. The vote on
clerk stood Barry 9, Mark Brownell, 4, a strict party vote.
On
motion of Mr. Crane the board proceeded to take an informal ballot for the election
of janitor.
The whole number of votes cast, 13.
L. D. Morse received 9.
Bert Widger received 2.
Blank, 2.
The ballot was made formal and Mr. Morse was
declared elected.
The members of the board proceeded to select
their seats and adjourned to 9 o'clock A. M. on the following day.
SECOND DAY—TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15.
After roll call, the chairman announced the
following standing committees:
On footing assessment rolls—Messrs. Brink,
Crane, Brown, Griswold, Miner, Hunt, Holton.
On erroneous assessments and refunding—Messrs.
Miner, Greene, Johnson.
On court house and jail—Messrs. Kelly, Griswold,
Gardner.
On settling with county treasurer—Messrs.
Smith, Crane, Kelly.
On settling with county clerk and sheriff—Messrs.
Childs, Brown, Nelson.
On settling with county judge and justices—Messrs.
Holton, Smith, Childs.
On settling with school and loan
commissioners—Messrs. Hunt, Gardner, Brink.
On auditing constables' bills—Messrs.
Gardner, Holton, Brown.
On miscellaneous bills—Messrs. Greene, Crane,
Brink.
On public printing—Messrs. Brown, Johnson,
Hunt.
On settling with superintendent of the
poor—Messrs. Nelson,Smith, Childs.
On coroners' bills—Messrs. Johnson, Kelly,
Hunt.
On settling with district attorney—Messrs.
Brink, Brown, Nelson.
On excise—Messrs. Kelly, Miner, Griswold.
On military affairs—Messrs. Griswold,
Gardner, Holton.
On equalization—Messrs. Childs, Crane,
Greene, Miner, Smith, Nelson, Brink.
On jurisprudence—Messrs. Miner, Kelly, Hunt.
On appropriations—Messrs. Crane, Greene,
Childs.
On settling with supervisors and clerk—Messrs,
Nelson, Johnson, Griswold.
Mr. Childs moved the following order of
business which was adopted:
1. Roll call.
2. Reading of previous day's journal.
3. Presenting petitions and communications.
4. Reports of standing committees.
5. Reports of special committees.
6. Motions, resolutions and notices.
7. Special order of the day.
8. General order of the day.
9. Unfinished business generally.
Mr. Childs then offered the following which
was also adopted:
Resolved, That the session of this board shall begin at 9 A. M. and continue till
12 M., and from 1:30 A. M.
to 4:30 P. M. [This resolution did not apply to the previous day,
when supervisors worked one-half day and submitted vouchers for a full day’s
pay, as noted by various reports in the Democrat—CC
editor.]
Mr. Nelson moved the following which was
adopted:
Resolved, That Smith B. Jennison be
accredited the proxy of Royal L. Johnson, supervisor of the town of Lapeer, who
is detained at home on account of sickness in his family. That he shall be
entitled to all the privileges of a sitting member of the board, except a vote.
Several petitions in relation to erroneous
assessments were read and referred to proper committee.
Mr. Greene offered the following, which was
adopted.
Resolved, That in the future all petitions in relation to taxes and erroneous
assessments be referred without reading.
On motion of Mr. Childs the board adjourned till
9 A. M. Wednesday.
They
Paid Their Bets.
Last Monday morning a crowd of people were
attracted to Railroad street to see Charles
Van Order wheel Chas. E. Townley in a railroad wiheelbarrow down Railroad-st.
from Main to Church and back again. The job was successfully accomplished and
was the result of an election bet. If Harrison had been elected, Van Order would
have rode in state and Townley would have had to take the exercise.
At noon, George Gleason, employed in Buck &
Lane's plumbing shop, started out to wheel Frank McCormick, a clerk in the
same establishment, from the store to the Cortland House and back, and succeeded.
The cobblestone pavement was anything but smooth, and it was a conundrum with
many as to which had the hardest part of the job. If Harrison had been elected,
George and grandpa's hat would have occupied the railway buggy.
Both processions were large and furnished
lots of amusement to the large crowds on the sidewalks.
SCOTT.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Babcock are both very
poorly and under the doctor’s care. So also is Mrs. Phebe Barber.
Miss Alice Babcock and Mrs. C. C. Clarke
start for Plainfield, N.J., this week Thursday for a week’s visit.
The Democrats are surprised also. They expected
New York, but when a solid south and almost a solid north sang peons, it nearly
dazed them and they claimed that even Canada had gone for Cleveland.
We hear christian people wonder why more do
not embrace christianity. Why the churches, many of them are weak; and why
God's cause does not prosper to a greater extent. Now we hear the world's people
also talk in this way. They say we read of resolutions passed time and time
again by the M. E. Conferences and other ecclesiastical bodies in which they antagonize
in word the rum business and declare against voting for any man or party that
in any way sustains the license system [tax on seller of alcoholic beverages—CC
editor], or fails to antagonize the saloons, and then a large number of the same
men (not all) vote for what they have declared against.
And then the world's people say, "We
don't want a religion of hypocrisy. They don't mean what they say in their ecclesiastical
bodies. And when these same men pray for the extermination of the rum curse and
get up in meeting and tell how they love God and humanity, we can't help
thinking whether they mean it or not, and are they any more honest than when
passing resolution."
It seems to us this is something worth
considering by professed christians. A
man that prays for God's kingdom to come and then walks off and votes for rum,
helps to establish the devil's kingdom rather than the other, and the world's
people see it too.
Well, the battle is over; the contest ended;
but still the people keep talking about it. Democrats are rejoicing but the
Republicans are not, while the Prohibitionists are not disappointed, but glad
to think they are not dead yet. There was one new feature on election day for this
town. A private room was hired in the hotel about 50 feet distant from the polls
by some of the leading republicans, where floating voters were piloted by some
of the faithful; and the returns indicate that there might have been boodle
stored there for use, and that it was used to quite an extent. As soon as it
was learned that such room was hired for suspicious purposes, another room was hired
and a man stationed in it and who with open door, could see every voter who was
led into the republican den. This was of course a little annoying and a little embarrassing
to those supposed to be for sale, and also to the cashier and his deputies. They
did not like the idea probably of having their names taken down. Now you cannot
prove by me that any boodle was distributed from that room, but it had a mighty
suspicious appearance and we think it was no credit to those engaged in it to
say the least; but thanks to a secret ballot they were not sure of delivering
the goods; so that some of the money was liable to go into the sinking fund.
An effort was made to draw votes to Harrison
from the prohibition ranks under the claim that several of them were going to
vote for Cleveland. Notwithstanding all this the prohibition vote increased 20
per cent over last year while the republicans increased only 3/4 of 1 per cent,
and the democrats decreased about 12 per cent. About a dozen men were
challenged; some swore, and some refused to swear. It took some one-half hour
to vote, and the polls closed while one man was in the booth, and he has not
voted yet, although he wants to bad [sic]. Some of republicans assign the
secret ballot law as the cause of the republican defeat. They say that a great
many made mistakes and voted the wrong ticket, but that can hardly be, since
the republican party contains the more intelligent citizens, and they could hardly
make more mistakes than their more ignorant brethren of the opposite faith.
Quite a number of former republicans declared they should vote for Cleveland,
but the bulk of the purchasable vote we think was raked in for Harrison.
One thing
we have not heard since election and that is this, prohibitionists have not
been accused by republicans of throwing away their votes on Bidwell. They are engaged
probably in figuring how many votes they have thrown away on Harrison.
Normal
School Notes.
Examinations closed on Tuesday, and although
the average standing is good, yet some students find that if they intend to do
good school work they must drop outside work.
The chemical and physical laboratories are
nearly finished and when completed will afford better facilities for laboratory
work than any other Normal in the state.
Both the gentlemen's societies are already preparing
for the public exercises at the end of the term.
The school library is once more in shape for
consultation and the magazines are found on the tables enclosed in a hard leather
cover which have the magazine neatly printed on the outside.
The students in the Primary and Intermediate
departments succeed in making it interesting for the new pupil teachers.
The floor in the gym has been planed and
oiled and at the west end of the gym, a platform has been built.
RAPID
TRANSIT FOR NEW YORK .
The
Plans for the Projected Underground Railway.
NEW YORK, NOV. 14. —The plans and specifications
of construction of the proposed Broadway and Fourth avenue tunnel, and the
terms of sale of the franchise will be advertised for the first time Wednesday.
The Commissioners think that they have prepared a plan of rapid transit which
will meet all requirements. John M. Bowers, attorney to the Board, said:
"The commissioners after two years
study have arranged for what they consider the only feasible plan of rapid
transit in New York. It is a four track, underground electric railway, the main
line running from the battery, through Broadway and the boulevard to Port
George and thence northward to Yonkers. The branch line will extend from
Broadway at Fourteenth street, through Fourth avenue to Forty-second street,
opposite the Grand Central Station, with a terminal yard in the block next west
of the Grand Central Station.
"The underground road will not be in any
sense a closed tunnel. It will not be narrow or dark and will not have foul
air. The road, including main line, branch line and loops, will be 44 feet wide
and 12 1/2 feet high. Traveling in it will be like running through a
very broad room, and the tunnels will be ventilated by a system which is
regarded by all experts in those matters as perfect. The road will be underground
all the way from the battery to One Hundred and Sixty-fifth street and beyond
that it will be continued by viaducts, bridges and depressed line."
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