HOWE VS. RED CROSS

Red Cross stove.

Howe Ventilating stove, 1890 pattern.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, October 21, 1887.

The Howe vs. the Red Cross.

   MESSRS. HUBBARD AND BUCK.

   Gents: —Our attention has been called to an advertisement in the Cortland Standard of Oct. 13, inserted by the agents of the Red Cross Stove manufactured by the Co-operative Foundry Co., of Rochester, in which they claim that their stove can do all that can be done by the Howe Ventilating Stove in bringing in fresh air from out of doors, heating it and passing it into the room and at the same time taking foul air out and equalizing the temperature of the room. The advertisement also charges us with trying to bulldoze the people of Cortland with our stoves by threats of suit if they attempt to use stoves of any other make. In reply to these statements and charges we simply have to say,

   1st. That our patents cover clearly and distinctly the combination of a fresh air flue and foul air flue in the same stove and that any one selling or using any other stove with this combination infringes our patents and makes themselves liable to prosecution.

   2d. The Red Cross Stove Co., do not undertake to do this, but sell their stove with a detached false bottom, leaving the purchaser to put it on and attach fresh air pipe at his risk and not theirs.

   3d. We are intending to bulldoze no one and if any citizen of Cortland compels us in order to protect our rights, to commence a suit for infringement of our patents, we wish it distinctly understood that it is not for the purpose of prosecuting them but because it is our only way of reaching the manufacturers of the Red Cross Stove. If the Red Cross Stove Co. wish to act the manly part, let them send a representative here and put up a stove with outside cold air connections, and thus give us an opportunity to accept their challenge by bringing an action against them direct, instead of trying to make a cat's paw of a third party.

   4th. The Red Cross Stove Co. have not set up or put in operation in Cortland, a single stove with the fresh air pipes attached. We cannot commence an action until this is done and they know it.

   5th. The Red Cross stove never has and never can produce the results which countless voluntary testimonials show that the Howe is doing every day. We do not seek to sell our stove on its nickle plate and bronze ornaments, but on its merits. What these merits are every one who has used the stove knows and nothing which manufacturers of imitation and inferior articles may say can affect them. The bitterness with which the Howe stove is attacked simply shows that the effect of its competition with old style stoves is being keenly felt.

   Yours &c,

   CORTLAND HOWE VENT. STOVE CO.

   Cortland, Oct. 1, 1887.

GUIDE BOARD.

   There is no law on the statute books so utterly disregarded as the act requiring commissioners and overseers of highways to place and keep in order at every junction of the highways, outside of our cities and villages, a sign or guide board indicating where the respective roads lead to. These guide boards, if put up, are of great importance to those who travel, and should not only tell to what places the roads lead, but also the distance to the several places. The law referred to may be found in article 1, title 1 of chapter 16 of the Revised Statutes.

The County Ticket.

   The ticket placed in nomination last Tuesday by the Democratic County Convention is a most excellent one in all its parts, and is entitled to and will undoubtedly receive the support of every Democrat in the county. In fact we believe it will commend itself to those republicans who are of the opinion, that honest and capable men only should be placed in positions of trust and we shall be disappointed if the candidates fail to receive a large number of republican votes.
   Dr. Jerome Angel, the candidate for Member of Assembly, is one of the leading physicians in the county residing in the town of Taylor, where he enjoys a large practice. He is the present Supervisor of the town and has once before been elected to that office, although the town has a safe republican majority. He discharged the duties of that office so well upon the former occasion, that his constituents, irrespective of party, recognizing his merits joined heartily in electing him a second time. Dr. Angel is in the prime of life and his intellectual faculties are at their best. He will, if elected, make a creditable record for himself as well as his constituents. With the proper effort he can be elected.
   Charles S. Bull, Esq., of this village, is one of the most popular young men in the county. Three years ago he was a candidate for the same office [county treasurer—CC editor] and was only defeated by 299 votes, although running against a strong republican candidate. He is an excellent business man and his integrity cannot be questioned. Should he be elected, he is entirely competent to discharge the duties of the office to the satisfaction of all without assistance. The prospects for his election look exceedingly bright and if Democrats do their duty, as we confidently expect they will, he will win.
   Dr. Weidman, the candidate for Coroner, is a practicing physician residing at Cuyler. He is in every way qualified for the office and should be elected.
   James R. Schermerhorn, Esq., the candidate for School Commissioner in the First District is a son of the late James A. Schermerhorn and has always resided in this village. Mr. Schermerhorn is about 34 years of age and would seem to be thoroughly equipped with all the qualifications desirable in a candidate for this important office. His early education was obtained at the Cortland Academy until that institution was supplanted by the Normal School. He attended the Normal one term, when his parents placed him in the Military School at Sing Sing where he remained for two years, when he was sent to the school at East Hampton, Mass., for a like period. The school at East Hampton has the reputation of being the best preparatory school in the State and it undoubtedly has no superior anywhere. Returning home he embraced the opportunity of studying for some time under the careful training of his brother-in-law, Prof. J. M. Milne of the Normal School. Better training and facilities for obtaining the education required for a School Commissioner could hardly be asked for.
   Mr. Schermerhorn does not seek the office for its emoluments as he is a taxpayer and in comfortable circumstances. If elected he would give his entire time to the discharge of its duties and take pride in filling every requirement of the office. Mr. Schermerhorn is an excellent business man and possesses the confidence of all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. He can and should be elected.
   Dr. Hermon D. Hunt, the candidate for School Commissioner in District No. 2, is a resident of Preble, where he has acquired a large practice by reason of his ability and learning as a physician and his probity as a citizen. He takes great interest in our common school system and would make a model officer. The voters of the district will make no mistake should they select Dr. Hunt to fill this most important office.
   There is not a candidate on the entire ticket that is not worthy the support of the voters of this County and the ticket should win. Let every Democrat do a little and the result will not be in doubt.

Karl Marx and Henry George.

(From the New York Star, Oct. 15)

   Karl Marx, the father of modern temporary socialism, whose ideas George has endeavored to adapt to American conditions, was a cold, clever, insidious and selfish fanatic. Mr. George is, in many characteristics, not unlike him. German socialism had in the beginning two currents— one began in the ideas of Lassalle, who recognized and invoked the aid of the state; the other in the ideas of Marx, Liebknecht and Bebel, who resolved to destroy the state. After Lassalle's death in 1864, his rivals and enemies came to the front, headed by the three last named. They demanded: The abolition of private property in land, the concentration of means of communication in the hands of the state, and the establishment of national workshops.

   Bebel was elected to the German Parliament in 1871, and the Marx agitators became dominant in the Social Democracy. In 1874 Marx greeted the Paris Commune "as the first glow of the dawning terrible revolution." Marx published in 1871 a defense and laudation of the Paris Commune. The Marx Socialists, driven out of France into Germany, became Nihilists, and the European cabinets were compelled to concoct measures to suppress them, in which England refused to join.

   The Communistic Party of Revolution went, nevertheless, on its way unhindered, till it assailed the life of the German Emperor in 1878, when the leaders, having been expelled from Germany and France, began socialistic clubs in our America. It is the agitation in New York of the ideas of Marx, banished from Europe, that the Republican State committee is promoting by the candidacy of George.

HERE AND THERE.

   A dime museum is exhibiting curiosities in Firemen's Hall.
   J. J. Gillett has purchased a one-third interest in the Cortland Bottling Works.
   Hubbard & Buck have sold 50 of the Howe Ventilating Stoves since Sept. 1st.
   In a few days the telephone line between this place and Syracuse will be ready for business.
   The passenger depot at the D. L. & W. station in this place is soon to be thoroughly overhauled and repaired.
   Parties are endeavoring to organize a Fork and Tool Company in this place. If successful, it will run on the co-operative plan.
   Last week, Tuesday night, dogs killed three fine sheep [of] Thos. Scott, who resides on the road between this place and Homer.

   If you want to spend an hour pleasantly and profitably, drop in at the praise meeting some Sunday afternoon, at half-past 4 o'clock, in the W. C. T. U. reading room.

   W. N. Brockway, Esq., has purchased the Adams lot near the corner of Main and Pine streets, in Homer, and will build a new brick block on the site in the spring.

   An exchange says: Oil of cinnamon will cause the disappearance of warts, however hard, large or dense they may be. The application gives rise neither to pain or suppuration.

   We notice in the Wichita (Kansas) Eagle, of October 4th, the sale of a number of building lots in that booming city to Geo. J. Mager, of Cortland. The purchase was made through the real estate agency of S. E. Hubbard, a former resident of this village.

   In the dime museum now in Firemen's Hall is Mr. John H. Craig, undoubtedly the heaviest man in the world weighing nearly 800 lbs. Also Miss Alice E. Hogaboom, aged 18 years who weighs 600 lbs. With her is Miss Zula Ayers, the Circassian girl and a snake charmer. These living curiosities are well worth seeing.

   John Sager, superintendent of the Electric Light Company in this place, is in Erie, Pa., for the purpose of buying three 100 horse-power engines to run the works. Nearly 800 lights have been subscribed for, and are now being put in the stores and business places. The connections have been shut off until the work is finished, which will probably be by to-morrow.

   When a man comes into the office and planks down the cash, and says "send me your paper for a year" that means business. When one says, "I want your paper but haven't got the money now," that's all right. When he takes it out of the post office for several months and sends it back "refused," that's meanness. When a man spends from ten cents to a dollar for cigars or beer every week, and says he can't afford to take his home paper, that's a—no such thing. When a man borrows his neighbor's paper to read every week, that's cheek. – Exchange.

 

 

Recommended:

Howe Ventilating stove catalog: https://archive.org/details/CatalogueAndPriceListOfTheImprovedHoweVentilatingStoves

Red Cross stove: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cross_stove

Howe Ventilating Stove Company, Grip’s, page 189: http://tcpl.org/local-history/documents/county-history-CNY/Grips_of_Cortland/grips188-203.pdf