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| Cortland Normal School. |
The New Trustees.
Last week
Superintendent of Public Instruction Andrew S. Draper appointed Messrs. Theodore H. Wickwire and John W. Suggett
to be trustees of the State Normal school in this village, to fill the
vacancies caused by the death of Messrs. J. C. Carmichael and N. Chamberlain. It was generally
understood that other names had been urged for the places by "Boss" Clark
of the Standard, and the appointment of the above named gentlemen was something
of a surprise to all but those who are in the confidence of his majesty. It
seems that it had been made to appear to politician Draper, that the
appointment of any person supposed to be particularly in the interest of boss
Clark, would not be tolerated by the people of this village who have the best
interests of the school at heart, and consequently the programme had to be
changed much to our neighbor's disappointment and chagrin.
While the
appointments are entirely satisfactory to the citizens of this place, the action
of Superintendent Draper is deservedly criticised. The first trustees of the
school were appointed by Superintendent Weaver, a Democrat, and the board was
made up of five Democrats and four Republicans. This was considered a fair apportionment
and so long as the Democrats were in power this apportionment was continued. It
was expected that when the Republicans came into power they would make the
board stand five to four in their favor, at the first opportunity and these
expectations were soon realized. It was not believed, however, that
Superintendent Draper could be prevailed on to attempt to steal
the entire board. No one doubted for a moment that boss Clark would take all
that lay within his reach, but our people had a right to expect something
better of his superior. What this gang of small politicians expect to gain by
this last exhibition of their grasping proclivities we are unable to learn, but
that they think they have some very clever scheme on foot there can be no doubt.
The board now stands, Republicans 6, Democrats 3.
Laying
aside any questions of a political nature, the appointments are most commendable.
Mr. Wickwire is a member of the firm of Wickwire Brothers, engaged in the
manufacture of wire goods, and is a first-class business man, an enterprising and
highly respected citizen who, it is confidently believed, will act entirely
upon his own judgment in all matters connected with the management of the
school. He is a pretty strong Republican but is not the kind of man likely to
introduce politics into business or school management.
Mr.
Suggett is one of our ablest young lawyers, possesses mature judgment, and while
he is a Republican in politics, he won't act as such in the board. He is well fitted
in all respects for the place and will make a valuable trustee and his
appointment as well as that of Mr. Wickwire gives the very best satisfaction to
the people.
The Syracuse Standard has published
several articles since the appointments were made calculated to create an
erroneous impression as to the situation here. One would think to read the Standard
that a large portion of our people were opposed to Dr. Hoose, the principal
of the school. We do not understand this to be the case.
Some
years since there was a big fight here growing out of the attempt of one
Gilmour, then Superintendent of Public Instruction, to remove Dr. Hoose. The
latter very properly refused to go and the Court of Appeals decided that he
could remain. Of course both sides had adherents and the fight waxed warm until
the decision was made, soon after which the excitement died out and there is
very little of it left. With the exception of the editor of the Cortland Standard
and a half dozen followers, the people are perfectly satisfied with Dr. House's
management of the school and do not ask for, nor would they tolerate a change.
While the two new appointees were never supporters of Dr. Hoose, and one of
them we believe has not been on intimate terms with him for some years, both of
them will do what they can to advance the interests of the school and will
avoid any unpleasantness that the chief malcontent in the board may endeavor to
bring about. Had the latter been allowed to dictate the appointments as he
hoped, neither Mr. Wickwire or Mr. Suggett would have been members and there
would have been a repetition of the disturbance of a few years since.
The
appointments are very satisfactory, but no thanks are due the editor of the Standard
or Superintendent Draper. They would have done differently had they dared.
PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.
Congressman
Flood, of Elmira, has introduced a bill in Congress asking for an appropriation
of $100,000 for a public building in Ithaca. While all the principal towns in
the surrounding counties are asking for appropriations for public buildings, the
citizens of Cortland are either too modest or too lazy to ask for anything.
Will some one start a petition to be presented to Representative Belden, asking
Congress to appropriate $100,000 for a public building in Cortland?
In 1888
the Cortland Standard, the Rochester Democrat, the Troy Times and the New York Tribune, republican
papers, and each and every of them insisted that potatoes were "bulbous
roots" and that as the Mills bill admitted the latter free of duty, the tariff
was thereby taken off potatoes, and if the bill was passed foreign potatoes
would be brought here as ballast and be sold in the markets at a much lower figure
than they could be raised by American farmers. The McKinley bill, which passed
the House last week, puts "bulbous roots" on the free list. Isn't it
about time these same papers commenced to howl about it? Those Cortland county farmers
who were deceived by these journals in 1888, ought to call for an explanation
from the Cortland Standard.
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editor’s note: With few exceptions we copy exactly the style of printing found
in a newspaper. Reducing a very long paragraph into two or more paragraphs and
eliminating a coma or two, are the most employed modifications. Note also that the rules for capitalization were different in 1890.]
Chicago
Physicians Called Down.
CHICAGO, May 26.—The doctors in here are
indignant because the health officer has refused to accept "heart
failure" as a cause of death.
"The expression 'heart failure' is a
delusion," said Dr. Tomlinson, registrar of vital statistics. "We won’t
accept it any longer on a death certificate. I think we have already sent back
over 150 such certificates since Commissioner Wickersham and Dr. Rauch of the
State Board of Health, came to the conclusion that the term indicated that the
physician sending it in as a cause of death either did not know what the malady
really was or wished to cover up the true cause. A doctor might as well certify
that a man died from want of breath as to say he died from heart failure. The
number of illiterate and ignorant physicians practicing in Chicago is astonishing."
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| Austin Corbin. |
President
Austin Corbin’s Recent Visit to Elmira.
(From the Elmira Advertiser, May 22,
1890.)
Austin Corbin, president of the Philadelphia,
Reading, Elmira, Cortland & Northern and several other railroads, arrived
in this city on Tuesday evening in his private car via the Lehigh Valley
railroad and went north by special train on the Elmira, Cortland & Northern
yesterday morning, en route for Watertown, where he has arranged to meet and
confer with prominent citizens in relation to extending the E. C. & N. road
from Camden to Ogdensburg via Watertown and Clayton.
If the Watertown people take hold of the
matter and give proper encouragement, and everything indicates that they will,
the road will certainly be built. The Philadelphia & Reading and the
Erie railroads are also jointly interested in the line to be built from Williamsport
to a point on the Tioga railroad, which will give the Philadelphia & Reading
an independent line into Elmira. Surveys have been completed and construction
is expected to be commenced at an early date. This line with the northern outlet
from Camden to Ogdensburg will give the Philadelphia & Reading an
independent line from Philadelphia to the St. Lawrence
river—and as the Central Vermont and the Camden Pacific railroads are largely
interested in this project and will give it all possible assistance, the
Philadelphia & Reading will be able to place thousands of tons of
its coal in northern New York, Vermont and Canada, at all points reached by its
own line as well as those of the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain railroad,
Central Vermont railroad and Canadian Pacific railway. It will also enable the
Philadelphia & Reading to open up a through and quick line for
passenger business from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington and points south
to the Thousand Islands and the popular summer resorts in Canada and northern
Vermont. Mr. Corbin is thoroughly in earnest in the matter, and the prospects
are very favorable that Elmira will have this trunk line in the near future.
THE E. C. & N. RAILROAD SCHEME.
WATERTOWN, N. Y., May 28.—At a large meeting
of citizens here last evening, $1,400 was subscribed in a few minutes for the
purpose of paying one-half the expense of a survey of a railroad from Camden, Oneida
county, to Watertown, Austin Corbin, of the Reading and the Elmira, Cortland
and Northern (the latter road's northern terminus being at Camden) agreeing to
pay the other half. The survey will be made during June and is covering several
possible routes through the wilderness which lies between the city and Camden,
a distance of about forty miles by an air line.
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