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| Bob Fitzsimmons. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, March
8, 1895.
SOME
SPORTING TOPICS.
Both
Sides of the Case of Glori vs. Fitz.
McAULIFFE
ISSUES A CHALLENGE.
The
Lightweight Champion Utters a Hold Deft to Those Who Class Him as a
Back
Number—George Dixon Meets an Unknown In New York—Prince of Wales' Yacht Beaten
at Cannes—Other Sporting News.
BALTIMORE, March 8.—Captain Glori gives his
side of the existing trouble with Fitzsimmons in about the following words:
"Fitzsimmons and I realized before the
company was organized, that if he could force Champion James J. Corbett to make
a match with him that it would coin money for a show with which he was
connected. When the time came for signing the articles of agreement and putting
up the first stake deposit of $2,500, we had cleared $1,500 with our show
already, $750 of which, of course, was mine according to our partnership
agreement. I then skirmished around and got a friend to advance us $1,000,
making the required sum for the first deposit. The show continued successful
and there was not much trouble in gathering in the second $2,500.
"After a while we reached St. Louis. Fitzsimmons
was throwing away all the money we made in the most reckless fashion. He was
spending from $60 to $90 a week for hotel bills alone. He bought a diamond ring
costing $350 and clothes worth $650. To aggravate matters he had himself
interviewed in several cities, and stated that all of the money on deposit with
Mr. Dwyer, the stakeholder for his match with Corbett, was his alone.
"I spoke to him about this time of his extravagance.
Then it was that he turned on me and used epithets that I could not afford to
notice. He wanted me to break the agreement with him. This I agreed to do if he
would only refund me the $750 which I had in the original stake. I got the
richest cursing I ever had for my pains.
"Now comes a statement from Fitzsimmons
that he has dissolved the company of which I am half owner and formed a new
one, known as the Martin Julian Specialty company.
"This, I take it, is in contempt of the
ruling of the Buffalo judge, and it is liable to make trouble for my ex-friend
from Australia.
"Fitzsimmons is acting the part of an
ingrate. For 14 months, when he was without a cent, I housed and fed him out of
pure pity for his condition, and after I advanced the money to start out on the
road again, he takes the earliest opportunity to throw me down. But that is not
of concern to the outside public."
Fitzsimmons said: "Captain Glori's
comments in reference to my engagement to meet Mr. Corbett are beneath contempt
and need no reply. In Buffalo a receiver was appointed, Captain Glori being
notified of my desire for a termination of our arrangement.
"The court declared that Captain Glori
could not prevent my playing for anyone else, and that he (Glori) would have to
look to his legal rights for damages if he suffered any by reason of the
contract not being carried out.
"The organization did make money each
week, with the exception of two, the proceeds being regularly divided. These
weeks when we were short, Mrs. Fitzsimmons, from her own personal funds, loaned
the concern money to meet the necessary expenses.
"There is $750 of the side bet which
belongs to Glori. Of this, $500 was borrowed, and this has been paid back. On
more than one occasion I have offered to repay Glori his $750, and if he will
call on my attorney in this city this matter can be very readily arranged.
"My contract with the Martin Julian
Specialty company is simply as a performer. If he pays me my salary weekly in
advance I will perform for him, but not otherwise.
"The articles which Glori says I
purchased for myself and wife from the proceeds of the show were paid for out
of my wife's income, and his statement is absolutely false and malicious."
McAuliffe's
Sweeping Challenge.
NEW YORK, March 8.—Jack McAuliffe has issued
the following challenge:
"Understanding
that several of the latter day self-styled pugilistic champions are pleased to
pretend to regard me as a 'back number' and in consideration of the fact that
one or two have expressed a determination to claim my title by default, I
hereby give notice that I still hold the lightweight championship and stand
ready to defend it against the world, and that I will fight to a finish the
best man on earth in the division who feels he has a right to dispute my claim
to the title."
A BIG
CONTRACT.
A Man
Well Known in Cortland Interested.
The Motor Cycle Co. of Cleveland, O., for
which the Hitchcock Manufacturing Co. have the contract to manufacture 50,000
motor cycles, have, through their enterprising president, Mr. E. J. Pennington,
completed another large contract. The agreement was entered into February 28,
1895, while Mr. Pennington was in Chicago, with Thomas Kane & Co. of Chicago, one of
the largest manufacturers of boats in the United States, to manufacture and use
for propelling boats Mr. Pennington's hot air engines, which are used on the
motor cycle. The Motor Cycle Co. receive, according to the contract which Mr.
Pennington has allowed us to read, one-third of the net profits of the engine
and boat business under a number of conditions, some of which are that Thomas
Kane & Co. will use exclusively the Pennington engine, that they will
furnish all needed capital to carry on and extend the business and will at once
proceed to the manufacture and sale of the engines and that the profits shall
include the entire profits accruing to Thomas Kane & Co. from the sale of the marine engines separately
and of boats containing the engines and of boats of all descriptions, whether
containing the engines or not and of all boat material and fittings.
The title of Kane's Pennington Hot-air
Engine has been adopted as the name of the engines to be used on the boats.
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| E. J. Pennington and his motorcycle. |
FALSE
REPORT.
The
Motor Cycle will be Manufactured in Cortland.
The report which has been recently
circulated that the Hitchcock company were not
to manufacture motor cycles for the Motor Cycle Co. was very emphatically
denied to a STANDARD reporter yesterday by E. J. Pennington, president of the
Motor Cycle Co. Mr. Pennington stated that there was no foundation whatever for
the report, that they now had on hand material for five thousand machines,
which will be built as rapidly as possible. Mr. Pennington said that the
Hitchcock company would begin immediately to push the matter along.
Left
Cortland.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bosley and son and Mr.
Frank J. Mowatt left on the 6 o'clock train this morning for Cleveland, O. Mr.
Bosley, the experimenting mechanic of the Motor Cycle Co., and Mr. Mowatt, his
assistant, go on to Chicago, where they will look after the interests of the
Motor company.
After spending a week in Cleveland Mrs.
Bosley and son leave for Memphis, Tenn.,
where it is hoped the health of latter will be improved.
During their stay in Cortland, Mr. and Mrs.
Bosley and son and Mr. Mowatt have made many friends, all of whom will regret
their departure.
VIRGIL.
VIRGIL, March 6.—Mr. George Wilcox attended
the Sunday-school convention at Blodgett Mills as a delegate from the M. E.
school in this place.
The school in the West Church district, Miss
Butts of Scott teacher, closed last Friday. The young lady has made a good
record as a teacher.
Mr. Elmer Thompson has rented the D. R.
Sweet place and taken possession.
Mr. Will Thompson will set up housekeeping
on his father's, Mr. Guy C. Thompson, farm and will run the farm.
Mr. Henry Curtis haft taken possession of
the old homestead formerly owned by his father, Salmon Curtis, and will run it as
a dairy farm.
Mr. Dell Dann has moved his family to
Cortland. We are sorry to have Mr. Dann move but have no doubt but that he will
be back again in time to teach some school in this town next winter.
Mr. Emery Bowdish has taken possession of
Mr. Daniel Barry's dairy farm and is at home to his friends there. Mr. Barry
will occupy a part of the farmhouse.
Mr. Ambrose Johnson will run the Samuel
Hutchings farm, both families occupying the house.
Mr. George Seamans is living in Mrs.
Ballou's farmhouse.
Mr. Lyman Gee has rented the David Vunk farm
at Frank's Corners and has taken possession.
Mr. Lyman Eisman and wife visited at Frank
Chrisman's last Saturday and Sunday and listened to Rev. Mr. Reeves on Sunday.
Mr. Mathew Davern visited his uncle, Patrick
Davern, at Hunts Corners last week.
Mr. John Bristol and wife visited at Elmer
Thompson's last week.
Mrs. W. A. Holton is improving nicely and
will soon be able to be around again.
Mr. Riley Hammond, who has been confined to
his room since Nov. 15, is now able to walk to the barn and hopes soon to be
able to be around again. In the complication of disease which has afflicted
him, Dr. A. H. Bruce has been his medical advisor.
Mr. Punderson West, proprietor of the Virgil
Spring Mills is in poor health this spring.
The proprietor of the Virgil cheese factory
is getting ready for business putting in some improvements. Mr. Stillman has in
this factory one of the best pieces of property in Cortland county, owning and
running it himself, the co-operation being in the patronage only, furnishing
all materials himself, making the butter and cheese for a given price. During
the time he has owned it the record of patronage has increased every year and
bids fair to largely exceed any former patronage for the coming year. In regard
to the goods manufactured the butter always brings the best quotations when
placed on city market. Of the kind of cheese made here a foreign buyer said to
us last year that there was only three factories in all his territory that the
exporting firm which he represented would allow him to pay the prices paid this
factory.
H.
A Novel
Sight.
Among the interesting topics under
discussion among the police court's regular attendants this morning was a very
vivid description by Justice Bull of the appearance of the fog this morning
from his home at the top of Prospect hill. The sun was shining brightly up
there, while the dense fog which hung over the town had the appearance of a
large lake. Nothing but fog was visible except the Baptist church spire which
towered through the fog.
Still
Another Republican.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—I am very glad to see that the Republicans
are standing by their own ticket and refusing to be led away after false gods.
The new fad of a "citizens' ticket" was started prematurely in this village,
fortunately for all concerned, and the Republicans are now seeing the foolishness
of it, and that its main purpose is to help disrupt the Republican party. The
noisiest of the bolters among those claiming to be Republicans were found to be
ambitious ones who think they have a grievance in disappointed ambitions. Those
who wished or failed to get some coveted office—some trusteeship, commissionership,
collectorship, or the like—became very active, either hoping in a new deal to
"catch on," or to punish the party which was good enough when it
would give them jobs and only very bad when it did not. These men are marked
and should be remembered. True Republicans are not to be used against their own
party to help the purposes or revenges of office seekers, who would help
themselves better by showing some regard and honor for the party they held to, while
they shared its honors.
The attempt to charge blame upon the present
village officers because the excise law is not obeyed is senseless. It is the
town that decides upon the question of license and elects excise commissioners
and not the village, and officers are provided by the town and county for the
punishment of all offences. A year ago Mr. Walrad was president of the village
and the board of trustees was in full accord with him. Yet during the preceding
year of the administration of Mr. Walrad and his friendly trustees the excise
law was said to have been broken just as much or more than since then. It was
during his administration that money was contributed and paid to Jones of
Rochester to prosecute alleged liquor sellers—all without benefit to any one
except Jones. If the present village officers are to be blamed, then Mr. Walrad
and his board should be blamed and censured, for they did no more—even
less—than the present board. No one then claimed that the board of trustees or
president could close drug stores or saloons on suspicion, or that they had any
duty in the matter, beyond what they performed and what the village officers
have since performed. It is a senseless and dishonest cry now used for partisan
purposes, and we do well not to be led away by it to our sorrow later on. The
STANDARD does well to stand by the Republican candidates, and all true
Republicans will do the same.
STILL ANOTHER REPUBLICAN.
A Brief
Rejoinder.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—Permit a brief rejoinder. I again thank
"Republican" for a word. I admit the charge; I am another
"kind" of a Republican from himself and all whom he represents in his
two communications. He believes in a straight party ticket in all our village
elections. I do not. I want what The STANDARD said yesterday it would have been
glad to see— "party tickets left out of the field entirely in this election
and the issue made solely on the enforcement of law." He believes that the
president ought not to "institute proceedings" (as the village
charter requires). I believe he ought to.
He believes that policemen ought not to be
placed where they could best watch a suspected saloon which the whole community
knows is openly violating the law. I believe with The STANDARD of yesterday
that "No possible legal objection could be raised to this." He
believes that no money should be appropriated to enforce the excise law. In the
language of The STANDARD of yesterday I am "in favor of a special
appropriation for this purpose." He believes that the Republicans should
make no special issue of the enforcement of the excise laws. I believe that as
a matter of principle and good government they should, and that for them not
to, at this time of public demand, is suicidal to their ticket and miserable
policy.
He believes that large numbers of good
citizens who want this law enforced are going to vote the ticket dictated by
the whiskey element of the Republican League. I do not, since a splendid ticket
is in the field, largely made up of true Republicans, who mean the law shall be
enforced.
Truly in kind, I am
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN.
BREVITIES.
—A rally will be held at Taylor hall at 8
o'clock this evening in support of the citizens' ticket.
—Mr. J. A. Butler of Syracuse is in town
instituting a branch of the Cosmopolitan Building and Loan association.
—Two loads of young people last night
enjoyed a ride upon two long coasting sleds, which were drawn by a horse.
—Constance S. Howard, daughter of Mrs. H. A.
Howard of 32 Grant-st., died at
6 o'clock this morning of acute heart trouble, aged 9 years and 5 months.
—Just before 3 o'clock this afternoon a
gentleman and lady were overturned in the slush on Main-st., the cutter runner
being caught in the street car rails. No
damage was done except a thorough wetting.
—The D., L. & W. paint shop at Scranton
is rushed with work. A new vestibule has just been turned out from the shops
for the Binghamton and Syracuse division. The car is an elegant one and is
fitted up with all the latest improvements.—Binghamton Republican.
—The ladies who had full editorial charge of
the Cortland Daily STANDARD on Washington's birthday turned out so entertaining
a paper that the entire edition of 7,000 copies was speedily exhausted. The
enterprise netted nearly $1,000, which will be devoted to charity.—DeRuyter Gleaner.
—Frederick
Smith, the seventeen-year-old son of Mr. Seneca Smith of Cortland,
died yesterday of pneumonia at Genoa. Undertaker R. B. Fletcher left today to
take charge of the remains, which will be brought to Cortland for burial,
immediately after the funeral, which occurs at 11 o'clock to-morrow.
—The coming summer the D., L. & W. will place fine
broken stones between their tracks along the entire line. The object
of this improvement is to keep the dust from flying while the train is
in motion. The company have the enterprise well under way as
nearly one-third of their roadbed is already covered with broken
stones.—Binghamton Republican.
Has a Political Prejudice.
We are informed by Mr. J. K.
Greenwood that the dog "Dick" belonging to his son, Mr. L. C.
Underwood, which was mentioned last night in The STANDARD as being such a
faithful paper-carrier, has very strong political prejudices on the subject of
papers. Dick often carries papers back and forth between the houses of father
and son, which are located about seventy rods apart. He carries The STANDARD faithfully,
either between the houses or from the stage to the house, and has never been
known to be remiss in duty, but a Democratic publication or a story paper he
seems to recognize at once and almost always tries to carry off and bury in the
snow.
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