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| Trolley in McGrawville. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday,
November 21, 1894.
A NEW HIGHWAY.
Prospects
of its Being Laid out Around McGrawville Hill.
Some parties have been making the statement
that the Cortland and Homer Traction
Co. was trying to secure a right of way through private property around the
base of the hill on the McGrawville road and were not willing to pay for it. A
STANDARD reporter called upon Attorney Horace L. Bronson, representing the
railroad company, and inquired into the facts of the case. Mr. Bronson denied
the assertion most emphatically and explained the circumstances. He prefaced
his remarks by the statement of what everybody knows, that it has always been a
cause of wonder that a road which is traveled as much as the one between
Cortland and McGrawville should go over such a steep hill when it might just as
well go around the base of it, and the distance around the base would be
scarcely greater than over the top.
Mr. Bronson said that the railroad company
concluded at once that it did not want to build a road over that hill if it
could by any means go round. There is a road around the hill, but it goes down
through Polkville and is a goodly distance from the foot of the hill and very
round-about. Representatives of the company conferred with the property owners
at the foot of the hill and made proposals for the purchase of a strip of land
wide enough for railroad purposes around the hill. All the parties with one
exception were favorable to the project and signified their willingness to
sell. This one
was a lady and she would under no circumstances consider the idea at all. She
didn't care anything about the railroad or the advantages of a road between
Cortland and McGrawville. She didn't care anything about the money she could
get for her land. She simply wanted the railroad company and all others to keep
off her premises.
Unless something could be done this
opposition would put an end to the railroad. It would be a lengthy process to
appeal to the courts and get the land condemned. At this juncture the people of
McGrawville and of Cortland took a hand in the matter. A petition was started
in each place and was numerously signed for the opening of a highway around the
hill. W. J. Buchanan, president of the village of McGrawville, took action as
the representative of the petitioners. He made application to Judge J. E.
Eggleston for the appointment of a committee to investigate the needs of the
case and report. Judge Eggleston has appointed as such committee Messrs. G. P.
Squires of Marathon, Nelson Skinner of Taylor and Walter Chaplin of Virgil.
This committee will look into the matter and if its report is favorable the
land will be condemned and the highway commissioner will open a new road. This
method, however, would not have been resorted to if the property owners had
been willing to sell a strip of land for the railroad.
It is to be hoped for the interests of not
only Cortland and McGrawville, but for the entire east part of the county that
the new highway will be opened. This hill has always been a serious hindrance
to the residents of that section to the convenient drawing of loads of produce
to Cortland and the drawing of coal and heavy matter homeward.
BIRTHDAY
SURPRISE.
A Merry
Company Entertained by Miss Bertha Smith.
Yesterday was the nineteenth birthday of
Miss Bertha Smith. A number of her friends thought that it should be
celebrated, and accordingly while she was away from her home on Tompkins-st.
last evening they entered and took possession. She was greatly surprised on her
return to find the condition of things, but quickly recovered from her surprise
and all were soon greatly enjoying themselves with music, dancing and games.
Delicious refreshments were served at 10 o'clock, after which dancing was
continued till 12:30 o'clock.
Mr. M. B. Howes in behalf of those present
in a very neat speech presented Miss Smith with the two volumes of Monte
Christo as a souvenir of the pleasant occasion.
Those present were Misses Grace Coville,
Grace Stoker, Eugenia Williams, Jennie
Middaugh, Elizabeth E. Baker, Hattie Alexander, Carrie Kellogg and Miss Twist,
and Messrs. M. B. Howes, F. D. Squires, June Coville, Walker Milliard,
Floyd Stoker, Charles and Harry Wickwire, J. P. Gray, Earl Newton, Thomas H.
DeCoudres, Roscoe Smith, Fred Harrington, A. E. Parsons and Mr. Wilson.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 21.—The Mercury publishes a telegram stating that the Japanese renewed on
Monday the attack on the Chinese forces 20 miles from Port Arthur, at the same
place where they were repulsed Sunday, with a reported loss of 800 men. The
Chinese made an obstinate resistance, but the Japanese ultimately succeeded in
driving them from their entrenchments. The losses on both sides were severe.
The Chinese force fled to Port Arthur.
Captain McClure, the English officer who was
appointed Vice Admiral of the Chinese fleet, has arrived at Wei-Hai-Wei and
assumed command of the naval forces.
Monument
to Confederate Dead.
BOYDTON, Va., Nov. 21.—The corner stone of
the monument to be erected here to commemorate the valor of the private
soldiers of the "Lost Cause" from this section was laid today with
appropriate ceremonies.
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| Santiago Salador Franch. |
ONE LIFE FOR MANY.
ANARCHIST
SALVADOR FRANCH DIES IN BARCELONA.
Executed
for the Murder of More Than a Score of People by the Explosion of a Bomb In the
Liceo Theater a Year
Ago—Remained Defiant to too Last and Shouting for Anarchy.
BARCELONA, Nov. 21.—Jose Salvador Franch,
the anarchist, was executed shortly before 8 o'clock this morning, He preserved
to the last that same defiant attitude which has characterized all his actions
since his arrest, and died with the cry of anarchy on his lips.
Franch was probably the most desperate anarchist
in Europe; possessed of no religious belief apparently, with affection for
none, a total disregard for human life and a fierce antagonism to all forms of
government, he was a man well calculated to perform the appalling deed for
which he today paid the penalty with his life.
Just a little more than a year ago, on Nov.
7, 1893, Franch, armed with a bomb loaded with a deadly explosive and with a
lighted fuse attached, made his way into the second gallery of the Liceo
theater in this city. The house was crowded with several thousand people, the
performance being a gala one and many distinguished persons being present,
among them a number of prominent officials.
Franch awaited an opportune moment for
carrying out his design and, rising to his feet, hurled his deadly missile into
the air, aimed at the crowd seated on the floor below. The terrible effect of
the infernal machine as it exploded in the midst of the thickly packed crowd,
is too well remembered to need rehearsing.
Scores of persons were carried from the
building wounded and bleeding, and more than a score were killed outright. A
number of others died from their injuries.
Franch was captured and his guilt quickly
proven and the sentence of death pronounced, which today was executed.
Franch yesterday morning was taken to the
prison chapel, there to pass the last 24 hours of his life. The chapel was
heavily draped with black and lighted yellow candles were displayed on the
altar, producing a gruesome effect.
Franch refused to sign his death warrant, as
the law requires, exclaiming: "Long live anarchy."
Upon entering the chapel Franch refused to
receive the priests, and to a Jesuit father, who sought to administer religious
consolation, the anarchist exclaimed fiercely: "Get out! I was only
acting, only pretending to be religious, in order to live well and hoping to
get a pardon. The crime I committed was an expiation due from the
bourgeois."
Franch's daughter is to be re-baptised and
christened Libertad.
Those
Stickless Stamps.
There
is a great deal of complaint over the lack of mucilage upon the new issue of
two-cent stamps. None of them have yet been placed upon sale at the Cortland
postoffice, as the supply of the old issue has not yet been exhausted here. But
many of the local business men have received a few of them from their
correspondents in the cities who have enclosed a stamp for reply or have paid
small bills in stamps, and all are disgusted with them. The Rochester Post-Express makes the following pointed
comment upon them:
The postage stamps now on sale—the
red-headed ones, we mean—are a disgrace to the government. They produce
profanity, encourage bad temper and result in delays in business, for they do
not stick always, and doubtless many important letters on which stamps were
affixed appeared stampless when they reached the clerks, and were bundled off
to the dead letter office. The ink used on these stamps is abominable, the
paper is thin and the mucilage is desperately weak. The stamps are printed by
the United States of America, and the government itself, and not a private
corporation like the American bank note company, that used to print the stamps,
must receive the anathemas of a bothered and swindled people. We want a stamp
that is handsome, strong and stickable. We can worry along under the foreign
policy of this administration, but we can't stand its postage stamps.
Something
of a Gale.
Many people in Cortland were aroused at
about 1 o'clock last night by the terrific gale which was blowing. Windows rattled
and blinds shook. From reports, however, which come from other parts of the
state it would appear that Cortland fared better than some other places.
At Syracuse the wind was so strong that the
tin roof of a big brick tenement block was taken off with a report like a
cannon. The tin in its fall demolished a row of summer kitchens at the rear of
the block. There were twenty persons asleep in the second story, directly
beneath the ill-fated block. Every one of them was instantly awakened and in a
few minutes they were crowding into the streets in scanty attire.
At the end of the same block a chimney was
blown over and some of the bricks went through the exposed ceiling landing in
the bed where people were just aroused by the noise. In other parts of the city
windows were blown in and chimneys were overthrown.
Great Blow
at Dunkirk.
DUNKIRK, N. Y., NOV. 21.—The most terrific
and destructive wind storm known here in twenty years prevailed all last night,
doing great damage throughout the entire section. The damage in this city is
heavy, but insignificant as compared with the loss sustained in the country
south of here. So far as can be learned no lives were lost, but the damage to
property is heavy.
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| Rev. Luther Hoyt Peck, Jr. |
Rev.
Luther Peck.
My brother, Rev. Luther Peck, an honored
superannuate of the Wyoming conference, closed his long and useful career of
Christian work at his residence in Hornbrook, Bradford Co., Pa., Wednesday
morning, Oct. 31, 1894, aged 67 years and 7 months.
The late Rev. Luther H. Peck, father of the
deceased, settled in the town of Pitcher, Chenango county, as early as the year
1820 on what is now known as the Brackle. He was the oldest of five brothers,
all ministers of the M. E. church. Among them was George Peck, D. D., late of
Scranton, Pa., and Jesse T., of Syracuse, late bishop of the same church. These
five brothers, all deceased, preached all through this section of country when
it meant very much hard labor and exposure to be a Methodist minister. Among
the bishop's earliest circuits was Dryden. Many of the old residents of that
town remember him still. He was largely influential in the establishment of
Syracuse university, was one of the first trustees, and bequeathed his estate
of the institution.
Andrew, also one of the five brothers, and
who is still remembered and honored by the people of this village, died a few
years ago at his residence on Clinton-ave.
My father's old homestead was situated four
miles east of Cincinnatus on the Brackle road, and in sight of the old Brackle church,
which stands near where his body reposes. He was among the first members of
that class. He helped score and hew the first timber of that church. Being a
blacksmith he studied his sermons while at work over the forge and anvil.
In the old homestead referred to, my brother
Luther, the subject of this notice, was born March 9, 1827. His early years
were spent largely on the farm, and in helping in the shop and attending the
district school in winter. He knew
what it was to work out by the month to support himself and his younger
brothers, often doing chores for his board while attending school.
Soon after he become of age, he went to the
Wyoming Valley and engaged to work for his brother on a farm, working a year or
more, during which time he was converted. He then entered Wyoming seminary and
for several terms paid his way by teaching, doing work about the seminary,
etc., thereby laying the foundation for his future life work, which as revealed
to him by the Holy Spirit, was to be the work of the ministry. After leaving
the seminary he joined the Wyoming conference, and for thirty-four years took
his work where the bishop sent him, making no complaint. He served the
following charges, Lehman, Springville, Wyalusing, Gibson, Great Bend and New Milford,
Plains, Dunmore, Tunkhannock, Montrose, Meshoppen, Leraysville, Hornbrook in
Pa., and Candor and Barton in this state. He also was presiding elder of Wyalusing
district four years. He never had large salaries, but managed to lay aside
something every year. Being naturally a business man, he had the confidence of
the business men of the church.
In 1867 he married Lucy Lyman of Lymanville,
who with three grown up children mourn their great loss. They were always a
happy family. It could be truly said of my brother, that he had the confidence
and friendship of all who knew him. He had a great interest in the success of
his brother ministers, and was always ready to sympathize with them, and lend
them a helping hand. He lived for others, and was anxious to see everybody
happy. The end of such a life was what might be expected, peaceful. In the
words of another, and words he loved to repeat, he died as "one who wraps
the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."
Memorial services were held in the Hornbrook
church, Nov. 2. The house was filled to overflowing. Rev. W. Treible, P. E.,
had charge of the services. A score or more of ministers were present, and many
of them spoke of the deceased, some of them being led to Christ by him. Rev.
Sumner sang a solo, "Go to Thy Rest," and the choir sang the closing
hymn, "Servant of God Well Done." We laid him to rest in the Hornbrook cemetery in sight of the church, and in sight of the Susquehanna
river, surrounded on all sides by loving friends, who will always cherish and
hold sacred his memory.
I close with this simple tribute, dearly
beloved brother, we who knew you best, loved you most. No one could know you as
long as we have, without being the better for it. We know not how to spare you,
but you are not lost to us. Brother, beloved by us all, farewell.
A. E. PECK.
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| Austin Corbin. |
Inspecting
the E., C. & N. R. R.
Austin Corbin, the great railroad magnate,
is to-day making one of his periodical inspections of the E., C. & N. R. R
of which he is the owner. Superintendent Albert Allen went to Elmira last night
to meet him and came up with Mr. Corbin to-day in his private car
"Oriental." The train was run as a special and the road was carefully
inspected. The train reached Cortland at about noon. The elegant car attracted
much attention at the station as the men came from the neighboring factories.
The car was sidetracked near the junction to permit the two gentlemen to take
dinner, which was served in the diningroom of the car. At about 1 o'clock the
train went on to Canastota and the inspection of the road was continued. Mr.
Corbin's car is expected back at about dark and will go to New York to-night
over the Erie railroad.
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