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Cortland Evening Standard, Monday,
October 1, 1894.
LETTER
FROM TROY.
The
Marathon Correspondent has an Eventful
Trip.
Mrs. A. C. Robacher, the STANDARD'S Marathon
correspondent, is on a visit with relatives at Troy and sends back from that
city the following letter to her home friends:
A delightful trip to Montreal leaving home
at 5:33 A. M., and after spending a few hours in Syracuse, we took the Limited
for Troy only stopping at Utica. From Troy our cousin took us in their carriage
for a drive to West Troy and Cohoes where we saw the great woolen mills, the
Henning mills, which are owned by two sisters who are now in Europe, also the
Standard mills and some half dozen more. The mills are situated on the Mohawk
river near the Mohawk Falls which are next to Niagara Falls in size and
grandeur.
The trip to Montreal by the D. & H. R.
R. up through Saratoga, Whitehall and Plattsburg is very delightful, passing up
by Lake Champlain where snow can be seen from the top of the Green and
Adirondack mountains. In summer many leave the cars at Fort Edward and go to
Lake George where they take the steamer up Lake Champlain to Plattsburg where
they embark on the D. & H. R. R. for Montreal. At Rouse's Point the
passengers are interviewed by the custom officers. A large stone and iron
bridge over a mile long spans the St. Lawrence river, which it takes fifteen
minutes to cross. We noticed fruit trees loaded with fruit all along our
journey and in Montreal the fruit is of large size and immense apples retail at
1 cent apiece, chickens at 15 and 20 cents apiece, doves 23 cents a pair, ducks
60 cents a pair. The buildings of Montreal are mostly built of stone and brick
and many new styles of buildings are seen. The hotels range from $2 to $7 per
day and great courtesy is shown to the guests from the states.
Private residences and grounds of the wealthy
are elegant. Among the places of note that we visited were the Notre Dame cathedral,
St. Gabriel's church, the first Presbyterian church ever built, and Bosco church
built in 1657, Notre Dame Louvres cathedral where the water for incurables is
brought in pipes from a spring in Quebec; Jesuit's church and Royal Victoria hospital, which were built by the two
brothers, Sir Donald and Sir George Smith, who gave three quarters of a million
dollars apiece. Queen Victoria gave them their title. The French cathedral on
Dominion Square is like St. Peter's at Rome but is only one eighth as large
They have been twenty years in building it and it is not yet completed and have
already expended four million dollars. Then took a cab for a six-mile ride up
Mt. Royal, which is 800 [feet] above the level of the city and 900 above the
river St. Lawrence. The drive is perfectly delightful in the pure mountain air.
On reaching the summit we dismounted to view the wonderful city. On our return drive
we visited the Protestant cemetery, which is very beautiful and also the Catholic
cemetery.
At this time of the year many from the states
were in Montreal. On our return trip at Saratoga our train was taken by storm,
it being at the close of the season, some 90 or more of the colored waiters of
the hotels took their departure for their home in New York City. These filled
the cars to overflowing. At the next station a church delegation were awaiting
the train and finally a bridal party entered amid a shower of rice and old
slippers.
THE
CORNELL DROWNING.
A Clairvoyant
May Try to Locate the Bodies.
ITHACA, N. Y., Oct. l.—The bodies of the two
Cornell students who were drowned in Cayuga lake last Wednesday have not as yet
been recovered, although a number of men have been at work dragging for the
bodies since Saturday morning. The location where the boat upset has been fixed
upon, but it is not known whether the boys swam for the shore after the boat
upset or stayed by the boat.
A clue is being followed up this morning,
but the result is not known yet. A farmer tells the story that he saw the boat
upset, and that the boys righted it and got in it again, but it upset for the
second time, and one of the boys started to swim for the shore, the other
holding on to the bow of the boat. The boy clinging to the boat lost his hold
and went down, his companion going back to rescue him, diving down at the place
the other sank and that was the last seen of either of them.
A clairvoyant here claims she can locate the
bodies exactly and she may be given a chance to do so.
QUITE A
SCHEME.
Chinese
Want Their Expenses Home to be Paid.
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 1.—A large number of
Chinese are said to have come from Mexico into Arizona since the passage of the Geary law with the intention of securing transportation to their native land at
the expense of the United States government. The exclusion law provides that,
in the discretion of the court, Chinese found unlawfully in the United States
may be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than one year and then deported.
It is likely that hereafter those convicted of this charge will be given the
full benefit of the law to stop the wholesale immigration of Mongolians from
the South.
China
Ratifies the Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. — Notification has been
given to this government in an informal way of the ratification by the Chinese government
of the new treaty between the United States and China which was negotiated by
Secretary of State Gresham and the Chinese minister, Yang Yu, and ratified by
the senate on the part of the United States. Only the form of exchange of
ratifications between the department of state and the minister is to be transacted
to make the treaty the law governing the relations of the two powers and this
ceremony will doubtless take place within a month.
Time
Schedule of the New Electric Railroad Outlined.
Mr. H. Bergholtz of the new electric railroad
has planned the schedule of time for the cars on the new electric railroad and
this afternoon gave it to a STANDARD man. The plan calls for the running of two
cars between Cortland and Homer which shall leave the E., C. & N. station
and the northern terminus of the road every twenty minutes. Two cars will leave
the E., C. & N. station for Port Watson bridge and the Tioughnioga park
every ten minutes. One car will leave the E., C. & N. station to go up
Groton-ave. to Homer-ave. to North Main-st. and around the belt line to
the E., C & N. station again every seven minutes; and one car
will leave the E., C. & N. station for McGrawville every hour.
These cars will begin running at 6 A. M. and
will continue until 11 or 12 o'clock P. M.
As all three cars must go through Main-st.,
the builders and operators of the road will find themselves seriously
embarrassed unless they can have a long turn-out which shall extend from the
Messenger House to the Cortland House. Mr. Bergholtz and President W. D. Tisdale
of the village are this afternoon calling upon all the property-holders between
those points to secure consents for the building of the double track through
the street.
At the
Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium.
The Y. M. C. A. gymnasium will be open
to-night with L. E. Edgcomb as instructor. All members of the association are
requested to be present at 8:30 to-night
and help start classes in physical culture. Dr. S. C. Jaques of Harlem, N. Y. has
come to Cortland to take up the practice of Dr. Bolles and will be present
to-night to meet the boys. He is a member of the association, and qualified to
give instruction in the gymnasium or make medical examinations. Let there be a
general rally at the Y. M. C. A. rooms to-night at 8:30.
HOMER
DEPARTMENT.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
Mr.
Davis, a former resident of this village and for the past thirty years a
missionary in Japan, occupied the pulpit of the Congregational church yesterday
morning. Mr. and Mrs. Davis and two children were the guests of Mrs. Loami
Kinney during their stay in this village.
The Homer lodge, R. A. M., No. 29, will meet
in the lodge rooms this evening at the usual hour.
Y. P. S. C. E. prayer-meetings at the First
Baptist and Congregational churches at 7:30 P. M.
Epworth league prayer-meeting at the
Methodist church this evening at the same hour.
Messrs. P. C. Atwater and L. P. Merrill are
arranging for a party to be given in Brockway hall on Thursday evening. This
will be the first large party of the season. Valentine's orchestra of Rochester
will furnish the music.
Mrs. W. H. Kellogg, Miss Kellogg, Mr. E. L.
Kellogg and Master William Kellogg left town for New York City last evening
where they will spend the winter.
Mrs. J. J. Murray and Miss Hattie Green left
town this morning for New York where they will spend a week in shopping.
A large audience assembled in the Baptist
church last evening to listen to the annual sermon to the Homer fire
department. The congregations of the Methodist and Congregational churches
which were closed for the evening were largely represented and the beautiful
church was nearly filled when the department in uniform marched to the seats
reserved for them. The sermon was preached by the pastor, Rev. Jesse Hungate,
who took for his text the first clause of Hebrews xi:34, "Quenched the
violence of fire."
The remains of the late Samuel Woolworth
were brought to this village and interred on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Woolworth
was sixty-eight years of age and was a resident of New York City where he died.
He was the eldest son of the late Prof. Samuel Woolworth who was at one time
the principal of the old Cortland academy in this village. The remains were
accompanied to their final resting place by the wife and son of the deceased
and his two brothers, Mr. Chas. Woolworth of Chicago and Mr. Calvin Woolworth
and wife of New York.
Rev. W. D. Fox and wife returned to their
home in Preble this morning.
Saturday witnessed another baseball contest
between the school boys and a pickup nine which is now better known as Mr.
Foster's team. The game was called at 3 o'clock. Mr. Fred Ford acted as field
umpire and Mr. Asa White performed the same office behind the home plate until
the 5th inning when they exchanged places. For seven innings the Foster nine
played low and allowed their opponents to run up 13 scores. But this was not
wholly intentional as several errors greatly added to the opportunities for
scoring. In the two remaining innings the Foster team were unable to bring up
the score. They made 8 runs and the school boys 4 giving the latter an easy victory
of 17 to 9. The game was an exciting one for the friends of both teams who will
perhaps be willing to raise a purse to be played for by these nines—a suggestion
which was offered by a defeated player at the conclusion of Saturday's game.
EXCITING
FOOTBALL.
The
Normals Do Up the Binghamton Team 6 to 4.
The first football of the Normal school team
for the present season was played on
Saturday at the fair grounds with the Binghamton team. The men lined up at 3:15
o'clock as follows:
BINGHAMTON.
[POSITION.] NORMALS.
Wilber……………….Centre………..Welch
Turner…………….Right
Guard……Wilcox
Smith……………..Right
Tackle……Harkness
Sheridan………….Right
End………Lusk
Norton…………….Left
Guard……..Glezen
Lewis……………...Left
Tackle……..DeCoudres
Clifford…………….Left
End………..Burlingame
Myrick…………….Right
Half Back..Oday, Captain
Fleming……………Left
Half Back…Mills
Rogers…………….Full
Back……….Kinzie
Weed,
Captain…...Quarter Back…..Campion
Cortland won the toss and took the east
goal, Binghamton taking the ball. The ball was put in play by a place kick and
sent twenty yards into Cortland's territory. Cortland secured the ball, but
after failing to advance it five yards in three downs, the ball was given to Binghamton.
A series of charges on the centre by Binghamton advanced the ball steadily
until it was carried over the line in a little less than nine minutes from the
time of starting. The try at goal was not successful, leaving the score,
Binghamton 4, Cortland 0.
The ball was again started from the center,
this time by Oday for the Cortlands. A punt sent it well into the Binghamtons'
territory, but by a series of brilliant rushes by the Binghamton lads it was
soon returned to the centre. Up to this
time the Cortland team had played without much snap, but now took a sudden
start, and good runs by Oday, Mills and Kinzie soon brought the ball to
Binghamton's twenty-five yard line when time was called without changing the
score.
After a rest of ten minutes the teams lined
up for the second half. Oday took Wilcox' place as guard, Wilcox retiring and
Landpher took Oday's place at half back.
The ball was put in play by Cortland, Kinzie
punting. Binghamton soon had the ball but was unable to advance it, Oday's
accession to the line having so strengthened it that it held the charges
without yielding. By a series of charges on Binghamton's line by Kinzie,
Landpher and Mills with good work in blocking by the line the ball was steadily
carried over Binghamton's fifteen yard line. Binghamton secured the ball, but a
poor pass and fumble resulted. This was quickly taken advantage of by Lusk, Campion
and Burlingame, and the ball was squarely behind Binghamton's goal posts, with
the score tied. The try at goal resulted in a goal with two points added to
Cortland's score, Oday sending the ball squarely between the posts. Time of
play, eleven minutes.
Binghamton put the ball in play at the
centre by a punt which yielded Binghamton twenty-five yards. Brilliant playing
on the part of both teams kept the ball about Cortland's twenty-five yard line
for ten minutes. Here Mills was
thrown heavily and Givens took his place. The next few minutes' play was in
Cortland's favor, and with one minute to play Landpher secured the ball and
after the finest run of the game was forced out of bounds when well in
Binghamton's territory. Time was called before the ball was brought in, with score
Cortland 6, Binghamton 4. Binghamton furnished the linesman, Eisenhart, and the
umpire, Hammond; Cortland, the referee, Prof. J. E. Banta.
If the weather is favorable a return game
will be played in Binghamton Saturday, Oct. 6.
BREVITIES.
—The regular monthly meeting of the board of
trustees occurs this evening.
—The Alpha social club give a private party
in Empire hall Friday evening, Oct. 19.
—The Y. M. C. A. athletic men are to-night
to consider the expediency of organizing a football team.
—The Alpha C. L. S. C. will meet with Mrs.
A. M. Graves, 35 Madison-st., Saturday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 P. M.
—Four more carloads of iron have arrived for
the electric railroad and the work is again being pushed hard.
—The population of Auburn prison is the
lowest it has been for a couple of years. There are but 1,177 convicts.
—Clement Bainbridge's "Alabama" company
arrived in town this morning and are registered at the Cortland House.
—Lincoln lodge, I. O. G. T., will hold a
social this evening at the home of Mr. Edward Mellon, 8 Cleveland-st. All are
invited.
—A rumpus occurred in the Squires block at
about 1 o'clock Sunday morning. The police went down and quieted the offenders
and there was peace.
—The STANDARD is under obligation to Mr. C.
F. Thompson for some very toothsome slices of the Hamilton county deer which he
cut up on Saturday last.
—William Houck, who was before Justice Bull
Saturday night on the charge of public intoxication, was discharged with a
reprimand. John Doyle was taken care of this morning in the same manner.
—Mrs. Lucy Crain died at 3 o'clock yesterday
morning of gangrene, aged 84 years. The funeral will be held from her late residence
on Venette-st. at 10:30 o'clock to-morrow morning. The burial will be at
Truxton.
—The crusade against the wearing of hats by women
in the theaters, waged by puny men, has up to this time been resultless.
Fashion, however, has at last decreed that women should bare their heads, and
the reform will be realized.—Syracuse Times.
—On Saturday afternoon, while near the
second railroad bridge, Robbie Sager,
Frank Turner and Arthur Moore captured a monstrous snapping turtle. The boys
procured a cart and brought their capture down street, where he was weighed,
tipping the scales at 18 ½ pounds.
—All men, old or young, who have any desire
to take up mechanical drawing, will meet in the Y. M. C. A. parlor Wednesday
evening at 8:15 o'clock. Prof. Cleaves, the instructor of the class, is
expected to be present at that time to arrange with the data for material needed
and also decide upon the evening to be set apart for class work.
—Today the Hebrews throughout the whole
country celebrate the birth of their new year. In the Hebrew calendar the year
of 5,655 begins. The day is called "Rosh Hoshannah," which means "a
new year," The orthodox have laid in stocks of provisions and will not
visit a store until the holidays are over. On Monday and Tuesday "Rosh
Hoshannah."
Pioneer
Resident Dead.
Bernard Dowd, who for years has conducted
the Farmers' hotel on Port Watson-st., died at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon of
catarrh of the stomach and liver complaint, aged 62 years.
The deceased was born in Ireland and came to
Cortland forty-two years ago. He was one of the pioneer Catholics of this
section. He was in the grocery and shoe business till 1868, when he became proprietor
of the Farmers' hotel, which he conducted until the time of his death.
Mr. Dowd was a highly respected citizen,
charitable and a friend to his friends. He was a member of St. Mary's church.
In politics be was an ardent Republican. He leaves four sons and four daughters
to mourn his demise.
The funeral will be held at 9 o'clock to-morrow
morning at his late home and at 9:30 o'clock at St. Mary's church.
THE POWER HOUSE.
To Be Built
by J. S. Bull Before November 1.
Mr. H.
Bergholtz of Ithaca, one of the directors of the new electric railroad, was in
town to-day and in company with other local directors settled several important
matters relating to the new railroad.
The contract for building the new power
house was let to J. S. Bull, and work will begin to-morrow morning. The
railroad company has purchased of Messrs. Stringham & Alexander one and one-half acres of land upon the rear of the Thomas Congdon place and adjoining the
D., L. & W. R. R. and the Tioughnioga river, at the upper railroad bridge.
It will be reached by the street which leads off from Homer-ave. opposite the
Park hotel. The object of such a location is to get beside the river, so as to
have an abundance of water—for much is needed—and also to get beside the
railroad to save the carting of coal. The D., L. and W. will put a switch in at
once.
The new building, which is to be within fifty
feet of the railroad bridge, will be of brick, 50 by 80 feet in size, with a wing
40 by 60 feet in size and with walls 16 feet high. It will have an iron truss and
slate roof.
The power will be furnished by four 150
horse power Watertown engines of the compound condensing type and steam will be
supplied by four 150-horse power Watertown boilers.
The contract calls for the completion of the
new building by Nov. 1.
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