Thursday, February 27, 2014

Old Syracuse-Cortland Plank Road Uncovered



The Cortland News, Friday, August 4, 1882.
CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
   Street commissioner Davern has been doing some extensive grading on Mill [Clinton Avenue] street.
   Farmers are paying two dollars per day for a good hand through haying and harvesting.
   Mr. A. B. Chamberlain, of Elmira, has been appointed receiver for the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira railroad.
   The next meeting of the social circle of the Universalist society will be held at the residence of Lewis Davis this Friday evening.
   Messrs. D. F. Wallace and O. C. Smith are in New York for the purpose of obtaining goods, principally wall papers, for the fall and winter trade.
   The building now being erected on Port Watson street by Mr. A. Schermerhorn, for a wagon factory, will be a three-story brick. Mr. D. G. Corwin is the builder.
   Messrs. Day & Bangs are making a specialty in the manufacture of a strong, substantial, yet easy and fine-looking chair at their factory. It is the embodiment of Mr. Bangs' ideas, and a great demand has already been created for them.
    Miss Julia B. Slafter, daughter of E. P. Slafter, and a graduate from the Normal, class of June, '82, has accepted a position in the primary department of the new high school in Ithaca—a position which she is excellently adapted to fill
   Proprietor of store in village on line of N. Y. Central R. R., on seeing a gentleman enter with samples of wall papers: "There comes the good-looking man with the good-looking patterns." O. C. Smith was the man referred to; but we wish it distinctly understood that Otis did not give us the above story.
   The Japanese wedding at Hitchcock's new wagon and cutter factory last Friday evening drew together quite a large audience, the whole affair passing off in a decidedly smooth and pleasant manner. The bell …did well, the wedding was a novel ceremony, the orchestra afforded excellent music, while Miss C. E. Hillman, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who is visiting in town, sang a couple of songs in a manner that greatly delighted her hearers.
   We have received the first number of a weekly paper entitled Justice, published in New York city, and devoted to anti-monopoly principles. It advocates and will support and defend the rights of the many as against privileges for the few. It claims that corporations, the creation of the State, shall be controlled by the State. It says that labor and capital see allies, not enemies, and will work for justice for both…
   Mr. John Ryan is laying a flagstone walk in front of his saloon.
   B. F. Taylor has laid a new plank walk in front of Smith & Kingsbury's store.
   Mr. Caleb Hitchcock has purchased and will soon put in his new cutter and wagon factory a fifty-horse power engine.
   The net profits of the entertainment [Japanese wedding] at C. B. Hitchcock's factory for the benefit of the Women's Auxiliary amounted to $68.
   W. H. Wild will hold a grove meeting at Hoxieville, Sunday, Aug. 6, at 11 o'clock A. M. Subject, "Origin, Nature and Destiny of Spiritualism."
   Henry Gleason, Esq., manager of the Hitchcock wagon and cutter factory, is gaining health so rapidly that he intends soon to go west on a business tour.
   Rev. J. L. Robertson has accepted the call of the Presbyterian church to become its pastor, and it is expected will enter upon his duties Sunday, Aug. 13, inst.
   Mr. Andrew H. Day has sold his interest in the chair factory to a brother of Mr. Elmer Bangs, and the business will hereafter be conducted by the firm of Bangs Brothers.
   Mr. Geo. W. Roe has been doing some good work in house painting, as the houses of B. A. Benedict, H. Wallace, Harrison Wells and others, lately painted by him, fully show.
   O. U. Kellogg, Esq., has sold his house on Elm street, which was partially destroyed by fire a short time ago, to Mr. Woodard, foreman of the Wagon Co.'s blacksmith shop, for $2,000.
   The agent of the Syracuse Morning Standard has located an office at the Cortland Wagon Company's office for the convenience of the many employees of that company who are taking that paper.
   The [Cortland] trustees have decided to run the sluice across Main street near the post office corner under the cross-walk, instead of as now, so that by removing the flagstones the gutter can be cleaned in case it becomes clogged.
   Jumbo was in Albany last Saturday, and The Argus says that in the street parade of over half a mile in length, the three elephants, Jumbo, Queen and Bridgeport (the baby) do not appear. The great show is in Rutland, Vt., on the 8th inst.
   The National Bank of Cortland has declared a dividend of three and a half per cent, besides passing four and a half to surplus. Charlie Selover, the Moravia boy, had something to do with that record. He is one of the most reliable and popular cashiers in the State.—Moravia Rep.
   Wednesday morning a little son of John C. Seamans, three years old, partook of his breakfast as usual, though appearing somewhat stupid. Becoming seriously ill at once, Dr. Nash was sent for and he pronounced the attack one of diptherial croup. No relief could be afforded, and at half-past one P. M. the little sufferer died.
   The digging of the trenches for the ties of the horse railway brings to light much of the old plank constituting the road formerly in use between Cortland and Syracuse previous to the opening of the S. & B. railroad. Some of it is as sound as when in use.
   The Cortland Steam Mill Company, on Port Watson street, are making an extensive addition to their mill. On the west ten bins or elevators are being constructed to a height equivalent to a three-story building, each about ten feet square, and with a capacity in all of 15,000 bushels. On the east side an addition of equal height will be erected, the roof of sheet iron to be raised and to cover the entire building, and the sides to be protected by corrugated sheet iron. When completed, the building will be 49 feet front by 64 feet deep, and will have a capacity for storing 30,000 bushels of wheat.
   Pahtay, the Burmese student from the State Normal school at Cortland, delivered a very entertaining and certainly a most instructive lecture on the life and habits, customs and history of Burmah, in the Baptist church here, last Monday evening. It was not as largely attended as it should have been, but the speaker had the close attention of his audience throughout the entire lecture. He appeared in his native dress, exhibited specimens of Burman industries and utensils, and his audience were certainly more intelligent upon this comparatively unknown country, its people and manners, than when they assembled. Mr. Pahtay spoke in Auburn on Tuesday evening.—Moravia Rep.

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