X-Rays in Baking and High Water in Cortland

Howe Ventilating Stove Co., corner Elm and Franklin Streets, Cortland, N.Y.

Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, March 31, 1896.
 

“X” RAYS IN BAKING.

QUICK AS LIGHTNING, BETTER THAN THE BEST.

Exhibition of the Workings of the Famous Cortland Range at Buck & Lane's Tomorrow.

   At Buck & Lane's hardware store, in the STANDARD building, there will be given tomorrow an exhibition of baking by the famous Cortland Range. This range, which was put on the market by the Cortland Howe Ventilating Stove Co. only last fall, has suddenly leaped into a popularity which promises to rival that of the celebrated Cortland Howe Ventilator. The STANDARD recently published an account of baking by this new range at Auburn and Elmira, where sixteen loaves of bread were beautifully baked—not burned outside and raw inside —in sixteen minutes, and tea biscuit baked equally well in 2 1/2 minutes. This range has features to be found in no other, and no one who thinks of buying a range should fail to give it careful examination.

   Every one is invited to call at Buck & Lane's and see what its manufacturers believe is the latest and most perfect development of scientific baking apparatus.

 

 

NOTHING IN IT.

                         Unauthorized Report of a Change in Local Hotel Property.

   A report was circulated last night of a prospective trade in hotel property between Ollie Ingraham, owner of the Messenger House, and Wickwire Brothers, owners of the Central hotel. A STANDARD man to-day called upon Mr. Ingraham and asked him to verify the report. Mr. Ingraham said there was nothing in it.

  
   Mr. T. H. Wickwire had at one time happened to meet him and asked "How will you trade hotels?" Mr. Ingraham had made no reply at the time. When next he saw Mr. Wickwire he had called out to him that he should want $35,000 to trade with him. That was some time ago and neither party had referred to the subject since. He did not expect to make any trade and did not know that Mr. Wickwire was at all serious in his thought of a trade when he asked the question.

  

   The STANDARD man also saw Mr. C. F. Wickwire and that gentleman laughed at the idea. He verified Mr. Ingraham's report of the circumstance and the conversation almost word for word, but, as Mr. Ingraham said, did not believe his brother was serious when he asked the question. It was probably the expression of a thought that happened to come into his mind at the time, and he didn't believe he had thought of it since. It isn't worth saying anything about, said Mr. Wickwire.

 

    We wouldn't refer to the matter, as there is so little to it, except that another paper had published the trade as a fact and some one might be deceived by it.

 

HIGH WATER.

Fills the Creek to Overflowing, Also Many Cellars.

   The warm weather of yesterday started the water from the melting snows on the hillsides with a rush. Yesterday afternoon and evening both Otter and "Dry" creeks were raging torrents. In the evening both overflowed their banks, filling cellars in their immediate vicinity to the windows.

   Otter creek rose eight inches in one hour, almost overflowing the bridges on Lincoln and Maple-aves. On Maple-ave, the barn floor of Liveryman E. M. Yager was covered with water over one foot in depth. Mr. Yager was compelled to remove his horses to another barn. The flats north of Madison-st. were one sheet of water. Residences in that part of the town were, in many instances, entirely surrounded, No damage is reported except that nearly every thing in the cellars affected was found floating around this morning and a few hens belonging to Mr. Grant Bugby of Madison-st. were drowned.

   The water is rising rapidly again in both streams this afternoon.

 

Ithacans Suffer Severely.

   ITHACA, N. Y., March 31.— Numerous freshets have caused a dangerous flood in the inlet at Cayuga lake at the lower part of Ithaca. The water is rising steadily, and many of the cellars of the residences and stores are flooded. Illstone's icehouse has already been washed away, and Dixon & Robinson's lumber yard is so badly flooded that most of the lumber is likely to be carried off. All trains in this vicinity are delayed. Much damage is reported, but it is thought that the worst is over, as the thermometer is falling.

 

Canisteo Badly Inundated.

   CANISTEO, N. Y., March 31.— The water is higher today than it has been since 1865 and considerable damage to farm property will be reported. The river is over its banks in many places. The whole lower end of the town is inundated and residents of Taylor, West Main, Corter, Walnut, Depot and Second streets, were unable to get to their work

Rome Shut Off From Mails.

   ROME, N. Y., March 31. — Owing to a blockade of ice and flood at Oriskany no trains have passed through here since 7 o'clock last night, and Rome has been shut off from mail communication. Trains have run from Utica to Canastota by way of the West Shore. The tracks are said to be several feet under water at Oriskany.

 

 

Reference:

Howe Ventilating Stove Co., Grip's, page 189: http://tcpl.org/local-history/books-counties-cny-grips.php