Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday,
October 30, 1894.
THE GREAT
PEDESTRIAN.
WESTON
AT CORTLAND LAST NIGHT AHEAD OF TIME.
Spoke at
Republican League Rooms to a Great Crowd—Details Regarding His Long Ramble.
Cortland was fairly alive last night when
people began to remember that Edward Payson Weston, the veteran pedestrian was
due here at 9 o'clock. The hotel corridors and offices were filled with people
who, as well as groups upon the streets, were busily engaged in discussing the
probability of his making the distance in the time allotted him.
As soon as word was received that he had
reached Homer a STANDARD reporter started out upon his wheel to meet him. He
met Mr. Weston and his party above the fair grounds and on the way back had a
very pleasant chat with the pedestrian, who appeared to be able to both talk
and walk at the same time. The wind which the reporter lost in trying to keep
up with Mr. Weston in both walking and conversation was almost sufficient to
have supplied him for another twelve days' ramble.
All the children upon the street began to
fall into line on his way down, so by the time Main-st. was reached there was
quite a procession formed. At the Cortland House a large crowd, who were
waiting for him gave him three hearty cheers of welcome, and the whole company
followed him to the Messenger House, where Mr. Gustavus Myers of the New York Tribune, one of the judges of the
contest, had already arrived. Mr. Weston was the lion of the hour and many
cheers were raised. He reached the hotel at 7:25, being one hour and thirty-five
minutes ahead of time.
Mr. Weston went directly to his room. He was
quite ill and had not eaten any food during the whole day. Dr. F. D. Reese was
called. Mr. Weston partook of a little nourishment after previously being
rubbed down by his colored servant.
The Republican league had previously made an arrangement with him to speak in the league rooms and a considerable crowd
waited for him there. A notice was sent to the rooms that Mr. Weston would
speak from the Messenger House balcony so the entire crowd rushed down Main-st.
and packed the office and reading room of the hotel. Many were unable to even
get inside the doors. The league drum corps also appeared.
It then developed that the announcement that
Mr. Weston was to speak at the hotel had been unauthorized and that he had no
idea of doing other than to speak in the league rooms But the crowd had made up
their minds to stick to the speaker and accordingly did not move from the hotel
till Mr. Weston came down stairs and accompanied by the committee was escorted
to the league headquarters where be was introduced by Chairman Howes of the county
committee.
Mr. Weston made a brief, witty, pointed
address. The rooms were crowded and several hundred people were unable to gain
admittance. Mr. Weston said that he was very glad to come to Cortland and had a
warm feeling of gratitude for his reception, which was one of the most
hearty in his whole public career, during which he had walked 62,000 miles. He
said it had been a great effort for him to get from Cardiff to Cortland on
account of his illness, but that the farmers all along the way had fairly
overwhelmed him with their offers of kindness and had cheered up his spirits in
a large degree. "Moreover," he added, "I found that nine out of ten of them are going to
vote for Morton and Saxton." He advised young men when they met with
disappointments not to be driven to drink, not to give up, but "take a
walk." He made many valuable suggestions and was frequently interrupted by
bursts of applause.
As soon as he had finished, he and Mr. Myers
were escorted to the hotel. Mr. Weston went to bed immediately. He arose
shortly before 5 o'clock this morning feeling in fine condition. He ate quite a
hearty breakfast of Brahma chicken broth, cold chicken, rolls, coffee and toast
and at 5:30 o'clock continued his journey. He reached Marathon at 9:45. His
walk to-day is to Binghamton which he is scheduled to reach at 7:45 o'clock
this evening.
…Mr. Weston and Mr. Myers gave a STANDARD
reporter some very interesting facts about their trip. Mr. Weston does the
walking, while Mr. Myers and Mr. Weston's servant, for the past twenty years,
Samuel Parker, ride in a buggy.
The trip is the result of a $1,000 wager
made at the St. James hotel in New York City, Oct. 15. The parties to the bet
waked Mr. Weston at midnight upon that date and made him acquainted with the
wager and he immediately began making preparations for the race, which was started
from Newburg at 1 P. M Monday, Oct. 22. He reached Syracuse Saturday night
ahead of time and started out yesterday morning for Cortland.
Owing to his stomach difficulty he was
unable to make any more than schedule yesterday when he only covered thirty-seven
miles. He averages about fifty miles a day. Mr. Weston stated to the reporter
that he took a short nap at Cardiff on his way to Cortland, as it was his
custom to sleep only four or five hours at night and sleep some in the daytime
to avoid getting stiff and to keep himself in good trim. Mr. Myers stated that
it was one scene of agony from Cardiff to Cortland, but that Mr. Weston's great
power of resolution kept him going. It was expected that he would make a n
extraordinary record to-day.
He is scheduled to reach Newburg at 8
o'clock Saturday night. The whole distance is 496 miles. When Mr. Weston
reached Cortland he had covered 273 miles of the tramp.
JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 30.—The Mississippi
supreme court has declined to grant a lawyer's license to John R. Lynch, the
colored ex-congressman and ex-fourth auditor of the treasury, because of his
inability to pass the examination required by law. He applied for authority to
practice in chancery court of Adams county, where he resides.
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| Thomas S. Byrnes. |
LEXOW
COMMITTEE WILL ASK HIM FOR AN EXPLANATION.
Commissioner
Sheehan Spends Another Uncomfortable Day Under Counsel Goff's
Inquisition—Lively Tilts Between Witness and Lawyer—Superintendent Byrnes'
Failure to Enforce the Law Will Be Looked Into.
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Commissioner Sheehan was
on the stand again and numerous and lively were the tilts which he had with
Lawyer Goff. The commissioner testified that he had been aware for 30 years
that corruption existed, but that it was impossible to secure evidence enough
to make a complaint or bring charges against officers to the grand jury.
It was shown by Mr. Goff from the rules of
the police department that the superintendent was under orders of the
commissioners at all times despite Mr. Sheehan's statements to the contrary.
The witness, however, objected to the interpretation of the rules, claiming
that it was the duty of the superintendent to suppress disorderly and gambling
houses without specific instructions from the commissioners.
"If you thought the superintendent was not
doing his duty, why did you not bring charges against him?" asked Mr.
Goff.
"I hadn't sufficient knowledge to
formulate charges," was the reply.
"I don't see how the commissioner can excuse
himself," said Senator Lexow, "for his allowing the superintendent to
take no action at all in these matters of which he says he had knowledge or at
least the suspicion that wrongdoing was going on."
Regarding pool selling, the commissioner said
that he was satisfied the sellers paid the police for "protection,"
but that he could not trace the money. He had heard that Superintendent Byrnes
got it but doubted the truth of this report.
After recess Mr. Goff resumed the case of
Dwyer, the "oppressionist."
He referred to a similar case, which Mr.
Sheehan explained away by saying that the complaining witness had not appeared.
He thought this had also occurred in a number of other cases.
The official reports of the trials of
Captains O'Connor and Slevin were taken up.
There was some question as to why a similar
endorsement did not appear on both the envelopes containing the reports of the
two cases, but the witness said the omission must have resulted from a clerical
error.
Mr. Goff asked the witness if he had ever
heard that Captain O'Connor had been complained against on March 20, 1891, for
assaulting a citizen and beating a prisoner.
The commissioner had not heard of the
charges.
"But you said that an officer's
previous record was always taken into consideration," said Mr. Goff.
"Well, when the board gets ready to
decide Captain O'Connor's case, they will examine his record."
"If all the commissioners entertain
your individual views, when do you think you will get together?"
The commissioner could not tell.
Then Mr. Goff went back to the question of
the superintendent's responsibility. He tried to prove by rule 26 of the department
that the superintendent was to blame for not discovering the shortcomings of
the force and that the commissioners should have seen that the superintendent did
this.
Here Senator O'Connor exclaimed, bringing
his fist down on the desk before him: "The superintendent must come here
before this committee and give some explanation of why he failed to do his duty."
Counsel Goff commenced a long series of
questions, but the commissioner skillfully parried his thrusts and he could elicit
nothing more than statements from him in substance as follows:
"Witness had heard rumors that
poolsellers were paying money for "protection;" he could not at first
understand this because he believed that pool-selling was legal at the time; he
had summoned poolsellers and others before him to ascertain whether the rumors
were true; he was convinced that money had been paid, but could not find where
it went.
He had heard Superintendent Byrnes mentioned
as the recipient of the money, but he had also heard the commissioners mentioned
as having received it, but believed neither report; he would not and had not committed
himself to an opinion. He had talked with Commissioner Martin on the subject,
but they had reached no conclusion. He thought it was just to Superintendent
Byrnes to send for pool-sellers without sending for Superintendent Byrnes. He
denied having said that Superintendent Byrnes was receiving money. He said he
could not give the name of a single person with whom he had consulted in regard
to the matter or tell the source of any of the rumors which he had heard.
The committee here adjourned.
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
Testifying
to Its Strength.
Among the most convincing testimony which
has yet been borne to the strength of the Republican county ticket is that
furnished by the columns of the Cortland Democrat.
That paper is compelled to admit that the only nominee on the ticket against
whose character it has dared to make even an insinuation, is one to whose
integrity it had itself borne witness before he became a Republican nominee and
when it was easy for the postmaster editor to tell the truth.
The
only charge which the Democrat can
find to bring against the ticket as a whole is that it is not made up almost
entirely—as county tickets too often are—from
Cortlandville and Homer, and on the strength of this it seeks to excite local
jealousy against the nominees. No claim is made that the candidates are not
competent and honest, or that their nominations were not fairly won, or that
they have not always supported the nominees of their party when those nominees
have been taken from Cortlandville and Homer. Were it the fact, under such
circumstances, that every Republican candidate was taken from outside of this
town and Homer, it would be the duty of the Republicans of these two towns to
give the ticket a solid and hearty support.
How can Cortlandville and Homer ask
Republicans of the other towns to support county tickets which nine times out
of ten have the bulk of their candidates taken from these two favored
localities, if, in a year like the present, when, for once, other towns have a
fair showing on the ticket, the two big Republican towns of the county kick
because they haven't everything? For even this year the most profitable
office in the county—one probably worth nearly all the others on the ticket
combined—that of county clerk, goes to Cortlandville, while three of the minor
offices also go to this town and Homer. When the Democrat says, therefore, as it does in [the] last issue, that
"the country towns combined this year and took all the nominations for
county officers, leaving Homer and Cortland to elect them and pay their
salaries," it is willfully and deliberately guilty of an unmitigated
falsehood, and one which every man who knows the residence of the Republican
candidates knows to be a falsehood.
To what desperate straits must a paper be
driven which will attempt to create prejudice and injure deserving men by such
reckless and foolish lying! The only person hurt by this method of attack,
however, will be the editor of the Democrat
himself. The Republicans of Homer and Cortlandville know that no cleaner,
stronger, abler or in any way better county ticket than the Republican ticket
of 1894 was ever put in the field in the county, and they will say so at the
polls.
OLD
RESIDENT DEAD.
And His
Companion for Fifty-three Years is Seriously Ill.
Gilbert Cooper died at 10 o'clock last night
of heart failure at the home of his son, Mr. Lester Cooper at 36 River-st., aged
81 years. Mr. Cooper was born in Guilford, Chenango county, N. Y., and came to
Cortland county January 2, 1860. He has lived on his farm about a mile
and a half from the village on the Truxton road until about three years ago
when, on account of the failing health of both himself and wife, he rented the
farm and moved to his son's home. He has always lived a quiet unpretentious life.
He suffered a shock of paralysis several weeks ago from which he has never
rallied and which was the indirect cause of his death.
He leaves a wife, who has been his constant
companion for fifty-three years. Mrs.
Cooper is now in a very critical condition from dropsy, with which she has been
suffering for a number of months. During the earlier part of Mr. Cooper's
illness they were both cared for in one room where they could converse and
sympathize with each other, but later Mr. Cooper has been delirious much of the
time and it was deemed better to remove Mrs. Cooper to another room. It is
believed that the separation of husband and wife can be but for a few days at
most, as the death of Mr. Cooper, though expected and looked for, has been a
great shock to his wife, and she is to-day much worse. For several days it has
been a question as to which would go first.
Besides the widow Mr. Cooper leaves two
sons, Lester and George Cooper of River-st, two brothers and one sister in Bainbridge,
N. Y., and two sisters in Hammonton,
N. J.
The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 P. M.
HOMER
DEPARTMENT.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
Edward Payson Weston passed through town
last evening at 6:40. He reports that he has been ill and was obliged to make
several stops for rest since leaving Syracuse that morning at 6:12. He was walking
very rapidly and carried a lantern in his hand. He was accompanied by two men
in a buggy. It was noticed that he had what seemed to be a limp. Closer
observation however, showed that it was simply a peculiarity in his gait. He
sent a man ahead to Cortland to get his room ready as he was in great need of
rest. He hoped to be all right to-day and is confident that he will win his
wager.
A number of Homer people attended Chas. T.
Ellis' entertainment last evening at Cortland.
Rev. Norman S. Bird of McGrawville was in
town yesterday calling on friends.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. H. Thorne and Mr. W. R.
Thorne, who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Schermerhorn on S.
Main-st., left this morning for their home in New York.
Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Guy, who have been the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. C.
Kingsbury
on Main-st., left this morning for their home in Hartford, Conn.
Miss Estelle Van Hoesen has returned from Rochester,
where she has been spending the past week.
Homer had a narrow escape last night from
another large fire. At about ten minutes after 9 o'clock two men were passing
the Homer Manufacturing Co.'s factory on James-st., when they saw a blaze in
one of the windows on the west side of the building near the James-st. end on
the first floor. They immediately broke in the door to the office and soon had
the fire extinguished. The damage was very slight, but in a few minutes more
the whole building would doubtless have been on fire. The fire started on a
bench used by one of the trimmers. It burned some patterns and ran along the
window casing nearly to the ceiling. There are two theories about the origin of
the fire, one being that a lamp which had been used by the trimmers until about
half past 8 o'clock had been left lighted, being very close to the window
casing, had ignited it. The men who discovered the fire, however, say that the
lamp was not lighted and was cold when found. The other and more plausible
theory is that it caught from the pipe of one of the trimmers, who is known to
make a practice of smoking his pipe while working over his bench. Last night
there was a quantity of excelsior upon and around the bench of this particular
workman. The fire alarm rang at about 9:15 and all of the companies responded
promptly. No hose was laid however.
Mr. Lewis R. Merrill, secretary of the department,
was holding the tongue on the Triumph Hose Co. cart when one of the wheels
struck a tree throwing Mr. Merrill to the ground. The cart ran over his legs.
No bones were broken, but Mr. Merrill is badly lamed up as a result.
Five cars will run to Cortland Saturday night
to the Republican mass meeting, when Hon. S. L. Milliken and Hon. H. J.
Coggeshall will speak. All Republicans are invited and urged to go to Cortland
that night. A drum corps will accompany the Homer contingent.
Mr. DeWitt Carpenter has rented the south
part of the Keef house on Main st., where he and his family will spend the winter.
Dr. Webb will reside with them.
Rev. E. W. Hitchcock returned to
Philadelphia this morning.
Cornelius Donohue left this morning for New
York. He sails to-morrow on the Majestic to Queenstown, Ireland. He will visit
his relatives who reside near Cork.
BREVITIES.
—Halloween to-morrow night.
—Members should not forget the C. M. B. A.
social to-night.
—The tickets for Fogg's Ferry went on sale
this morning.
—A poverty party will be held at the
Presbyterian chapel this evening.
—An important special meeting of the Young
Men's Republican club is called for Wednesday evening, Oct. 31.
—The pipe for the sewer on Main-st. has
arrived and is being distributed. It is expected that work will begin upon this
street in a short time.
—A chicken-pie supper will be held at the Homer-ave.
church from 5:30 until 9 o'clock on Wednesday evening, Oct. 31. A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
—Early last evening an unknown man with a
McGrawville livery rig drove his horse into the sewer ditch on Reynolds-ave. He
was able to get the animal out safely and no damage was reported.
—The sewer contractors are complaining that
their lanterns are being stolen, especially in the eastern part of town. If a
person is caught at if, the case will be pushed to the fullest extent of the
law.
—Attorney Harrison Hoyt of Syracuse is busy
preparing papers for an appeal in the case of Charles Wilson sentenced to death
for the murder of Detective Harvey and now awaiting execution in Auburn prison.
—All persons desirous of joining the Y. M C.
A. mechanical drawing class must do so at once, as the class has already
started and no other members will be taken in after tomorrow night. The class
now numbers eighteen members.
—Frank Simmons was in police court this
morning for public intoxication,
He said
that he had been working in Syracuse and was on his way to his home in Virgil.
He was allowed to choose between three dollars or three days.
—The V. P. S. C. E of the Baptist church
will hold a Halloween sociable this evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George
C. Hubbard, All matters pertaining to your future will here be settled. A most
cordial invitation in extended to all.
—The Normal Republican club purchased Morton
badges this morning and wore them to chapel for the first time. Not enough
badges had been ordered and, as it seemed that nearly every Normal young man
had need of one, a second order was sent in. They will be here to-morrow
morning and then others of the club will be supplied.
—Penny, the principal character in "Fogg's
Ferry," which is to be presented Friday evening of this week by the
Players' club, is not such a dreadfully bad Penny or a very good one either, but
she is just the kind to fascinate everybody. The little ferry waif is supported
by a cast believed to be superior to that of any amateur performance ever presented
to a Cortland audience.
—The Normal school has lately purchased new
singing books for chapel exercises. The chapel edition of Dr. Charles S.
Robinson's "Laudes Domini" is the book used. There are some inspiring
hymns in it. Every morning at the conclusion of the opening exercises the
school on a whole devotes from five to ten minutes to the practice of the newer
and more unfamiliar hymns under the direction and leadership of Miss Minnie M.
Alger, the music teacher. Particular attention is paid not only to correctness
in reading the notes, but to pronunciation, shading and expression. The singing of the school has improved fifty
per cent since the opening of the present term.
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