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| Northwestern Elevated train northbound in the year 1900. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, March
2, 1894.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
An Electric Railway Scheme.
What the
east bank of the Hudson river is to New Yorkers the shore of Lake Michigan north of their city is to Chicagoans. There
are built the summer villas of the millionaires, and there are laid out the
parks and the sites for schools and public buildings of various kinds. The
empty wastes all along the shore between Chicago and Milwaukee are being rapidly
reclaimed from sand and barrenness and planted in grass and trees preparatory
to selling them out in building lots. Property is rapidly rising in value on
the north shore, as it is called in Chicago.
Appreciating
these facts, a company a few years ago obtained a charter for what was called
the Northwestern Elevated railway of Chicago. The road was to run through the
streets in the northwestern portion of the city. But that was only one end of
it. The other end, it has been discovered, is to stretch out till it covers
with a four-track iron girdle all the north shore as far as Milwaukee. The road
will be only partially elevated after it leaves the city. At crossings it will
be sufficiently elevated for wagons to pass under. The point of interest to the
general public is that its trains are to be propelled by electric motors, and
that they will run a mile a minute.
◘ The
solution of two problems at one time seems to have been reached when penitentiary
convicts began to be employed at street and road making. The contract system of
letting them out was a wrong to the honest laborers with whom their unpaid
labor came into competition. The system of keeping them idle and feeding them
at state expense was worse yet. In road and street making they cannot come in
competition with outside labor, for counties and cities usually have not money
enough to pay for this work.
At the
same time the crying need of the country is for better roads. In New York state
it is agreeable to know that this kind of road building has been successful.
Seventy-eight convicts at Clinton last year constructed nearly a mile of macadamized
road, and a first class road too. The expense to the state was slightly
additional. But this need not be. The inhabitants of a district thus favored by
having a road built for it would doubtless be glad to defray all the additional
expense. If also a sum were added, so as to pay the prisoners themselves a small
wage, to be sent to their families or to be saved for them when their time was
out, the plan would be well nigh
perfect.
◘ Timbuctoo
is the latest country of Africa to be aimed at by the white man. French
soldiers marched to Timbuctoo. Timbuctoo negroes killed 80 French soldiers. The
next thing will be that in the interests of civilization France will say she
feels herself forced to take possession of the land of the missionary and
cassowary. So it goes. The people who have the inestimable privilege of living
in 1994 will see probably not a patch of land large enough to make one county belonging to the original negroes.
◘ Elihu
Thompson, the mechanician, discourages the hope that we shall soon have ships speeding over the ocean propelled by electricity.
He says it would necessitate the carrying of such enormous storage batteries
that their weight would sink a ship. But Mr. Thompson does not make sufficient
allowance for the power of inventive genius in the latter half of the nineteenth
century. It has wrestled with and overcome difficulties apparently greater than
that. Mr. Thompson does well to add to his negative prediction this: "It
should, however, be borne in mind that a new discovery might at any time change
the aspect of every prophecy based on present knowledge and conditions."
A French Lesson.
Why is it
that financial panics are scarcely ever heard of in France? The copper
syndicate failure and the Panama canal swindle, both of which within the last
five years robbed the poor of France of millions of their savings, would have
convulsed, almost wrecked, any other country. In France they cause a commotion
in financial centers, a burst of rage and disappointment from those whose
savings have been swallowed up. Then in two months' time everything settles
down again. Seasons of long continued monetary stringency, such as we are now undergoing
in America, are practically unknown in France. The careful, industrious people
go to work earning and saving again when a financial bubble bursts and wrecks
their hopes. In an almost incredibly short time they have some more money
saved, some more investments made.
The
French are the ablest economists in the world, from the humblest peasant woman
to the minister of finance. It is born and bred in the bone with the whole
nation that they are to put by money. The French private citizen does not run
into debt as the American does. Consequently as a nation France does not have
panics. When the individual American learns to live within his means, saving in
any event a portion of his income and investing only the money he has actually
in his possession, then the United States, too, will be spared financial panics.
If the present one shall teach us as a people this lesson, it will be worth all
it has cost. The only way to become permanently prosperous is to come square
down to hard pan and a cash basis.
A law
permitting divorce was passed in France in 1884, chiefly through the efforts of
Senator Naquet, who himself wanted a divorce in order that he might marry
again. Before this law was enacted there was only legal separation in France. Under the divorce law the petitions for
mere separation have fallen off considerably, discontented married couples
evidently preferring divorce out and out. In 1890 the proportion of divorces to
marriages was 24 to 1,000. Cruelty and desertion were the causes assigned for
divorce in a majority of cases, the greater number of petitioners being wives.
The largest number of petitions was lodged by the class of ordinary working
people.
Postmaster
at Cortland.
One of the most gratifying appointments made
by President Cleveland last week was that of Benton B. Jones for postmaster at
Cortland. Mr. Jones has for some thirty years past ably conducted The Democrat, the organ of the party in
Cortland county, and has worked early and late for the success of Democratic principles.
He was for years chairman of the Democratic county committee, and is an acknowledged
leader among his political friends. He is popular with all, irrespective of
party, and his appointment gives very general satisfaction. "Bent"
has many friends in Norwich and vicinity, who unite with The Union in extending congratulations.—Chenango Union.
Notice
of Election.
Notice is hereby given that the following is
an estimate of the moneys deemed necessary by the board of trustees of the
village of Cortland to be raised by tax the coming year and at the next charter
election of the village of Cortland on the 18th day of March, 1894, and the
several purposes and amounts required by each.
ORDINARY EXPENSES.
For
interest on bonds (Union and Normal school), $1,697.50
For
principal Union school bonds, $3,000.00
For fire
department, $2,500, itemized as follows:
Services
of engineer and janitor, $600
Fuel, $300
Fire alarm,
supplies and repairs, $300
Ordinary
repairs, $300
Seven
companies, C. F. D., $700
Salary
chief engineer, $100
Emerald
Hose Co. for bunkers, $75
Hitchcock
Hose Co. for bunkers, $75
Orris Hose
Co. for fuel, $25
Protective
Police Co. for fuel, $25
For
salaries for village officers, $3,500.00
For
contingent purposes, $2,000.00
For lights
for streets, $5,000.00
For
highway fund, $4,800.00
For water,
hydrant rental, $4,200.00
Total
Ordinary Expenses, $26,697.50
The foregoing ordinary expenses are raised
by tax upon the taxable property and inhabitants of the village of Cortland for
the coming year pursuant to the resolution and direction of the board of
trustees of said village as authorized by law.
PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES.
Resolution,
No. 1.
Resolved, That the sum of $11,000 be raised by tax, for the purpose of defraying
the current expenses of the Union schools of the village of Cortland for the
coming year, itemized as follows:
For teachers'
wages, $6,500.00
For
janitors, $1,100.00
For fuel,
$1,300.00
For
repairs, $600
For
supplies and incidentals, $1,000.00
For
library, $100.00
For supervision,
$400.00
[Total]
$11,000.00
Resolution,
No. 2.
Resolved, That the sum of $700 be raised by tax for the purpose of purchasing new
fire hose for the fire department of the village of Cortland: $700.00.
Resolution,
No. 3.
Resolved, That the sum of $1,500 be raised by tax for the purpose of purchasing a new
hook and ladder truck for the fire department of the village of Cortland: $1,600.00
Total
special purposes $13,200.00
Total
ordinary expenses $26,697.50
[Total]
$39,897.50
The three resolutions (above set forth) to
raise taxes for special purposes will be submitted to vote by ballot at the next
annual election pursuant to the requirements of the charter of said village.
CALVIN P. WALRAD, Pres.
THOMAS C. SCUDDER, Jr.,
HARRY SWAN,
JOHN HODGSON,
ROE A. SMITH, Trustees.
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| Firemen's Hall next to First National Bank on west side of Main Street. |
Notice is hereby given that the annual
election of officers of the Village of Cortland will be held on the 13th day of
March, 1894. The polls will be open from 9 o'clock A. M., to 4 o'clock P. M.,
of that day.
The following polling places fixed and
provided by the Board of Trustees in the respective wards of the Village are as
follows:
First Ward.—The south store of the
Squires Block on the west side of South Main-st..
formerly occupied by J. O. Reid for a meat market.
Second Ward.—Firemen's Hall, Main-st.
Third Ward.—The office and store of Harrison Wells on
Clinton Avenue.
Fourth Ward.—Nottingham's shop on South Main-st.
The officers to be elected are:
A President, in place of Calvin P. Walrad.
A Trustee in the second ward, in place of
Roe A. Smith, (to be elected by the electors of the second ward only.)
A Trustee in the fourth ward, in place of
John Hodgson, (to be elected by the electors of the fourth ward only.)
An Assessor, in place of Beman S. Conger.
A Collector, in place of George T. Latimer.
A Treasurer, in place of Frank J. Peck.
Three Commissioners of Cortland Union Free
School, District No. 1, for the term of three years each, In place of H. A.
Dickinson, C. F. Brown and A. S. Brown.
Three Inspectors of Election for the first ward,
(who shall be elected by the electors of the first ward only.)
Three Inspectors of Election for the second
ward, (who shall be elected by the electors of the second ward only.)
Three Inspectors of Election for the third
ward, (who shall be elected by the electors of the third ward only.)
Three Inspectors of Election for the fourth
ward, (who shall be elected by the electors of the fourth ward only.
CALVIN P. WALRAD, President.
THOMAS C. SCUDDER, JR.,
HARRY SWAN,
JOHN HODGSON,
ROE A. SMITH, Trustees.
BREVITIES.
—The senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination of B. B. Jones to be postmaster at Cortland.
—The Democratic caucus to nominate village
officers will be held to-night in the Democratic club rooms in the Democrat
building at 7:30 o'clock.
—At a regular meeting of the Independent
Order of Forresters [sic] Mr. D. F. Waters was
re-elected financial secretary of Court 1,077 [sic] for the year 1894.
—Four Cornell students were placed under
arrest yesterday for refusing to answer questions at the coroner's inquest in
the chlorine poisoning case.
—The little five-year-old boy of C. O'Brien
of Lansing-ave. has been very sick with the croup.
—Senator Coggeshall on Wednesday introduced
a bill appropriating $100,000 for rebuilding and furnishing the Oneonta Normal
school, recently destroyed by fire.
—The Old Homestead quartet and Miss Alice
Girardeau close the Y. M. C. A. course for this season with a grand concert at
the Opera House to-night. They are said to be very fine and a rare treat is
anticipated.
—No Sunday-school superintendent,
Sunday-school teacher or person interested in Sunday-school work should fail to
read the very excellent paper in another column [page 4] upon primary work read
by Miss Cornelia L. Brown of Cortland at the recent meeting of the Cortland
County Sunday-school association.
—The number of notaries public to which
Cortland county is entitled is not full, and any person desiring the office and
who is ready to pay the required fee to the county clerk on swearing in should
send his name to Hon. B. F. Lee, Assembly Chamber, Albany, N. Y., with the
request that it be added to the list to be acted upon.
—Cortlandville has given Ithaca city an
example for loyalty and persistence, in a good cause. For the third consecutive
time the town has elected its no-license candidates, and will try again to
prohibit the sale of intoxicants in its borders. The members of the excise
board are: Alonzo W. Gates, John W. Keese and John H. Phelps.—Ithacan.
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