The
Cortland Democrat, July
22, 1887.
HERE AND THERE.
Horace Seaman has opened a barber shop on Orchard street.
Was She taken from Thomas Moore's Epicurian? Both books are in the library.
The firm of Kent & Hoar,
barbers, has been dissolved. Mr. W. W. Seaman takes the interest of Mr. Kent.
Complaints have been entered
against the small boys who go in bathing near the Crandall bridge. They will be
collared by officers if they do not desist.
Arthur Thompson, the little boy
who fell from the fourth story window of the Keator block last week, is improving,
and there are strong hopes of his entire recovery.
The
Cortland Wagon Company, with a capital stock of $300,000, located at Hammond,
Ind., has been organized. C. B. Hitchcock, Esq., of this place, is President of
the company.
On Monday last, twenty-six large mail boxes arrived at the post-office in
this place, which are to be put up on the streets of this village for the
accommodation of the citizens.
The steps at
the Courthouse have been torn down and new ones are being put up. We have seen the plans, and when finished the steps will be a great
improvement over the old ones. A handsome porch is to be erected over them.
Editor Clark, of the Cortland Standard,
celebrated the twentieth
anniversary of the birth of his paper last week Thursday, and in response to an invitation to everybody
to call, the editor of the DEMOCRAT went over to join the crowd, which
he says he failed to find. Brother Jones fails to understand that
"three are a crowd," and then, he is quite a crowd in and of
himself.—Moravia Register.
An exchange says by the terms
of a law recently approved by the Governor, only persons who have studied for
three years with a physician of established reputation, graduates of medical
schools in this State, or of recognized schools in other States or countries,
shall be allowed to practice medicine. All such must be registered in a county
clerk’s office. The penalty for the first offense of practicing without a
license is a $50 fine; second offense, $100 fine or one hundred days imprisonment,
or both. County medical societies are empowered to prosecute violations of the
law. The aim of the new law is to crush out quacks, clairvoyants and other
ignorant practitioners of the healing art.
Messrs. O'Leary & Dowd have
complied with the new law by placing fire escapes in all of the sleeping rooms
in their hotel.
Nines from the Hitchcock works
and Wickwire works will play a game of base ball on the fair grounds, Saturday,
for a purse of $25.
George Parker, of South
Cortland, challenges Dick Kerwin, of this place, to a boxing match with gloves.
John L. Sullivan rules to govern, the winner to take a quarter of the gate
receipts.
Last Monday afternoon, Oliver
Riley, the fourteen-year old son of Charles Riley, had the index finger of his
right hand taken off by the cogs of a drilling machine while at work in the
shops of the Cortland Wagon Company.
The Marathon Independent copies
an article on the Howe Stove Company from last week's DEMOCRAT, and gives the
Cortland Standard credit for the same. Mistakes will happen in some of
the best regulated institutions.
Three
burglars affected an entrance to the back hall of Dr. G. W. Hull's house on Monroe
Heights, at about 3 o'clock, Wednesday morning. Dr. Hull heard them and at once
commenced to make a disturbance by arousing Mr. J. D. Bliss, who lives in a part of the
house, and by yelling like mad. The burglars beat a hasty retreat, much to the doctor's
personal comfort.
Excursion to Pleasant Beach.
The Methodist Church and Sunday
school of this place, will hold a Basket Picnic at Pleasant Beach on Wednesday,
July 27, 1887. A special train will leave the D. L. & W. depot in Cortland,
at 8 A. M., Homer, 8:10 A. M., and run direct to the picnic grounds. Returning
the train will leave the lake at 7 P. M. This delightful place to spend the day
is situated on the west side of Onondaga lake, five miles from Syracuse.
Steamers make frequent trips to many points of interest during the day. Boats
and trains also run often to Syracuse and the cost of any of these round trips
is only 25 cents. Tickets for the round trip from Cortland or Homer, $1.00. Children 5-12 years of age, half-price. Tickets
on sale at Sager & Jennings and Tanner Bros. store, or Atwater & Sons,
Homer.
Hotel Fire Escapes.
On the 1st inst., the new law
which provides that "every owner, lessee, proprietor, or manager of a
hotel two stories high in this state, shall cause to be placed a rope or better
appliance to be used as a fire escape in every room used as a lodging-room
except on the ground floor, the end of the rope to be fastened and coiled up
and kept in plain view at all times and to be long enough to reach from the
room to the ground. The rope must lie capable of holding a weight of 400
pounds, and a printed notice must be posted in each room and hall explaining
how to use the ropes. It is the duty of the chief engineer of the fire
department or the person performing such duties, in every city and village in the
state in the months of July and January of each and every year to inspect every
room of every hotel in the city or village in which he is performing the duties
of such engineer, and ascertain if the above provisions are complied with.
"Any owner, lessee, proprietor,
manager or other person who shall obstruct or prevent the officer from making
such inspection is liable to a penalty of fifty dollars. The inspector must
file his written report on or before the 15th day of August and February in
each year, with the mayor, president or other executive officer of said
village, showing what hotels have been inspected and specifying such as have complied
with the law. The mayor, president or other executive officer, shall within ten
days thereafter procure a warrant for the arrest of every person so reported as
violating this act. Violators of this act are punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary
or county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than one
thousand dollars or by both."
Chief Engineer Jno. F. Dowd,
has received instructions to make an inspection of the hotels in this place
which will be done at once. Hotel keepers should therefore put their houses in
readiness to receive him.
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