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| Lawrence J. Fitzgerald |
HON.
L. J. FITZGERALD.
What
the Papers Say of the Candidate for State Treasurer.
From the Albany Times.
Hon. L. J. Fitzgerald, the present treasurer, unanimously renominated,
is also well known. He has proved a safe, honest treasurer. In manners he if
one of the most agreeable of the State officers, and his personal popularity is
unbounded.
From the Wayne
County Press.
In recognition of faithful and
efficient services Lawrence J. Fitzgerald, of Cortland, was renominated. He in
an honest and upright official, and deserves to be reelected, as he surely will
be. He is largely interested in manufacturing interests, being at the head of
one of the largest wagon factories in the State, and is very popular with the
working men.
From the Kingston
Argus.
Mr. Fitzgerald, of Cortland, is
a carriage builder by trade, and is the principal owner in the Cortland Wagon
Company. He is also a farmer and owns s great deal of real estate in his
county. He has proved an honest, good State Treasurer, and has been prominent
in resisting the payment of the excessive bills of Legislative Investigating Committees.
From the Kingston
Leader.
Lawrence J. Fitzgerald, of
Cortland, is renominated for State Treasurer. Mr. Fitzgerald is a striking
example of the possibilities of American life. He was originally a journeyman
carriage-trimmer. He is now the head of one of the most extensive wagon factories
of the world. The Cortland Wagon Company is known wherever wagons are used, and
Mr. Fitzgerald is the chief stockholder and the president of that company. He is
also a farmer, owning two of the finest farms in one of the best agricultural
districts of the State. Both Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Cook [candidate for Secretary of State--CC editor] have won renominations
by their excellent management of the offices now held by them.
From the Rochester Union.
Lawrence J. Fitzgerald, who was
elected State Treasurer over Charles F. Ulrich, Republican, two years ago, and
who has been placed in nomination for re-election, is forty-four years old, married,
and the father of four children. When fourteen years of age, he entered the employ
of Oilman & Stacey, carriage manufacturers, at Skaneateles, Onondaga
county, N. Y., and remained in their employment for four years, as an
apprentice in their trimming department. After completing his apprenticeship he
removed to Cortland county, and, in the year 1862, began business for himself,
in a small way, by taking contracts to do the trimming for carriage
manufacturers in that vicinity. After eight years of hard work, he had
accumulated a small capital, and, in 1870, went into partnership with one Gee,
under the title of Fitzgerald & Gee, which firm, after two years, dissolved,
and Mr. Fitzgerald then formed a co-partnership with C. W. Kinne, under the
style of Kinne & Fitzgerald. They continued together as carriage
manufacturers until 1877, when Mr. Kinne died.
Mr. Fitzgerald was made
administrator of his deceased partner's interest, and continued alone through
the panic, until 1879, when Mr. Kinne's heirs received their share of his
interest, and Mr. Fitzgerald organized the present Cortland Wagon Company. Being
the principal stockholder, he was elected President of the company, which position
he has held ever since. Through his judicious management, admirable executive ability
and sound judgment, the concern has steadily grown in size, importance and
popularity, until it is now one of the largest and most prosperous institutions
of its kind in this country.
Mr. Fitzgerald has found time,
meanwhile, to take a leading part in various other enterprises, and his shrewd
foresight and careful business management have led him to be uniformly successful
in his undertakings. He is well known as a patron of husbandry, and owns and
manages two of the finest farms in Cortland county, consisting of about one thousand
acres, one being devoted almost exclusively to dairy produce and stock raising,
and the other to general agriculture. He was President of the Cortland County Agricultural
Society for two years, and is now a member of the Local Board of the Cortland State
Normal School. He is also a heavy stockholder in the National Bank of Cortland,
and the Second National Bank, and is Vice-President of the latter institution.
He is also the owner of
considerable real estate in the form of dwelling houses and factories. He is a
good citizen, always ready to undertake any enterprise that promises to promote
the prosperity of Cortland; and although he has never held political office,
other than President of the Board of Village Trustees, he has shown himself possessed
of those qualities of integrity, energy, business tact, and powers of organizing
and directing others, which have proven valuable in the responsible position he
has so capably filled during the past two years.
[Electric Lights.]
It is now a settled fact that Cortland and possibly Homer are to have
incandescent lights. This enterprise will fill the want long felt by the
citizens of Cortland and will add very much to the appearance of our town and
business places. This project has been talked of for some time by many of our business
men, but no one seemed willing to take bold of it on account of the great
outlay and expense necessary to establish an electric light system, but the Hitchcock
Mfg. Co. have been looking up the matter in view of putting these lights through
their factories and they have decided to put in a complete outfit of the new improved
alternating system of the Thompson & Hason [Houston?] patent and to be run especially for
commercial purpose, and they are now erecting a brick building in the rear of
their foundry on Port Watson St. to be used especially for electric machinery
and it will require two boilers, three engines of about 100 horse power each to
furnish the necessary power to develop the lights already engaged by the
following citizens:
D. F.
Wallace, E. B. Kenfield, O'Leary & Dowd, H. C. Beebe, Smith & Bates, Hubbard & Buck, H. B. Hubbard, Williams &
Lane, D. C. Bliss, Frank Place, Monitor Printing Co., Thomas F. Grady, Jayne
& Glann, shoe store, Dowd & McSweeny, S. F. Right, C. W. Sheever, I.
Whiteson & Co., Cobb & Perkins, Geo. P. Hollenbeck, G. W.
Lansing, L. D. Garrison, Howard & Co., Warren & Tanner, J. C. Gray, W.
B. Stoppard, H. M. Kellogg, Price & Co., Geo. H. Smith, L. D.
Meacham, Hitchcock Mfg. Co. factory, Hitchcock Mfg. Co. office, Floyd Hitchcock
residence, Cortland Foundry and Machine Co., A. M. Schermerhorn, Burnett
Miller, Cortland Box Loop Co., E. Dodge, W. W. Seaman, J. F. Maybury, F. N.
Harrington, G. F. Beaudry, A. G. Newton, W. F. Chadbourne, John H. Mills, H. C.
Harrington, G. Bligh. R. G. Lewis, M. L. Decker, Squires & Co., G. W.
Bradford, F. N. Chapin & Co., Brown & Maybury, Geo. W. Nelson, Burgess
& Bingham, Sager & Jennings, D. Bauder, Hollister
Bros., H. H. Pudney&Co., J. C. Reid, Jacob Grassman, C. F. Thompson, F. A.
Bickford, S. Hodge, Wallace & Linderman, Henry St. Peter, A. J. Goddard, Geo.
Tanner, Olie Ingraham, C. B. Hitchcock, residence, B. Doud, Collins &
Daehler, Sherwood Bros., H. T. Hollister, E. Stevens, J. B. Morris, Peck Bros.,
A. R. Peck, Edgcomb & Ballard, Watkins Bros., H. W. Post & Co., A.
Mahan, H. M. Brownell, John Liddane, Clark Lathrop, M. Michelson, Perry &
Smith, J. & T. E. Courtney, Myron DuBois, D. E. Kinney, Jerome
Squires, Dr. Jewett, Robert Southworth,
Eccleston & Millard, D. E. Call, G. T. Lodge, Boston Variety Store,
J. F. Whiston, Day & Forrest, Reilly & Felkel.
SCALE OF PRICES.
Business
places closing on or before 9 o'clock P. M., 80 cents per month per light.
Business
places closing on or before 12 P. M., $1 per month per light.
Three
lights or less $1 per month per light.
All
orders received on or before Nov. 1 will be entitled to 1 set lamps and free wiring.
After that date there will be a charge of $2.50 per lamp, including the wire.
The
size of lamps commonly used in other places are 16 candle power; the lights that
are to be used here are 30 C. P. and as soon as the demand will warrant of
lighting later than 12 P. M. the Hitchcock Mfg. Co., propose to run their
electric light machinery night and day. The above rates are lower than in many
other places and it seems that nearly everyone would be willing to accept the
lights it being within the reach of all. For further particulars inquire of
John C. Sager.
HERE AND THERE.
About
Nov. 1st, Wickwire Brothers will employ ladies in their spooling department.
The
Homer Knights of Labor will give its second annual ball in Keator Opera House,
October 21st.
According to the laws of the State of New York, no election district can
have over 500 voters residing therein.
The
additional mains for the Water Works Company have been put in and the company expect
to give the new system a trial sometime next week.
S. W.
Cately and W. D. Tisdale, of this place, have taken out letters patent on a wagon
jack, and Sylvanus M. Gillett, of Homer, has taken out letters on a vehicle brake.
Prof.
Seelye, of the Homer Academy, was severely burned about the hands, last Saturday afternoon, while experimenting in the
laboratory, by the premature ignition of some phosphorus.
The new
advertisement of the Cayuga, Cortland and Tompkins Co-operative Fire Insurance
Company in our columns, this week, gives an interesting idea of the cost of
that system in a variety of property.
The
Kate Bensberg Opera Troupe called out a large audience which nearly filled the Opera
House, last Tuesday evening. Those who attended, so far as we have been able to
learn, think they were very handsomely done out of a dollar note.
Mourin
Brothers will commence the erection of a new building to be used as a furniture
store, in a few days. It will be of wood, 30x60 feet, and two stories high, and
will be located a few feet from the building that was destroyed by fire last winter.
The
Syracuse Standard has just moved into a new building erected on purpose
for its use, and is now printed on a perfecting press built by Hoe & Co.,
of New York. The Standard is a newsy sheet, and is prospering in
everything but its politics [Republican—CC editor], and we are pleased to note
the fact.
A somewhat
novel match or tournament took place at Hunt's Corners, last Saturday evening.
It was an egg-sucking contest, on a wager, between Melvin Freize and Harvey
Witty, as to which one could suck the greatest number of eggs in ten minutes. Freize
was suck-cessful getting outside of 60 to Witty’s 56. —Marathon
Independent.
The officers of the Empire State Telephone Company
were in town last week, and announced their intention of coming to
this place with their line, which was then built from Syracuse to Apulia, and
is coming this way at the rate of two miles per day. They are laying a copper
wire, and are putting in the improved long-distance telephones. The N. Y. and
Pa. company are to connect at the Broome County line with a copper wire.—Marathon
Independent.
The
Corset Company Organized.
The Cortland Corset Company was organized last
Saturday by the election of the following trustees who are to serve one year:
Webster Young, S. E. Welsh, B. A. Benedict, Frank C. Welch, Edwin C. Gould, D.
N. Bierce, Jas. B. Kellogg. The trustees selected the following officers:
President, Webster Young; Vice-President, F. C. Welch; Secretary, E. G. Gould;
Treasurer, J. B. Kellogg.
The
company have purchased the lot on which the overall building stands on North
Main street and will soon commence the erection of a large building on the east
side of the same. The company have purchased the stock, tools and fixtures of
the Scranton Corset Company, which will be removed here as soon as their buildings
are in readiness for them. The officers of the new company are now in Scranton
taking an inventory of the stock and tools.
The
new company is composed of live business men with ample capital who will push
the business and there can be no doubt of their success.
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