ORRIS HOSE COMPANY AT ITHACA

Steamer T. D. Wilcox

The Cortland democrat, Friday, August 22, 1890.

Orris Hose Company at Ithaca.

   Having been previously invited to participate in a day's outing and feasting given by Tornado Hook & Ladder company, number three, of the Ithaca Fire department, Orris Hose Number 1 of this village departed on an early train last Friday morning.

   Upon arrival in Ithaca, our boys were met by the Tornado committee and shown to carriages in waiting to convey the visitors through the University grounds and Campus and other points of interest around Cornell. The party next repaired to the home company's rooms where a general and royal welcome was extended to both Orris Hose and Defiance Hook & Ladder of Owego, also guests of the Tornado company. A most liberal and elegant array of refreshments was then partaken of by the company assembled, while an excellent orchestra caused inspiring notes to vibrate in harmony with the glistening ivories of the feasters.

   It now dawned upon the minds of the visitors that the old axiom: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" was to be portrayed in a never to be forgotten manner. A brief march brought the outers to the dock where the steamer Wilcox was in readiness to make a trip down the lake. Refreshments, music and games were aboard the boat, like the air we breathe. It was a genuine "eat, drink and be merry," occasion from A to Z.

   Dinner was partaken of at Atwaters Landing. A series of land sports followed by a trip to Tunkhannock Falls Hotel and the homeward march was begun. The boat reached her dock at 9:30 and the Orris boys were conveyed to the E. C. & N. station, the Defiance to the D. L. & W. and they left the town at 10:30 fully convinced that the company name was equally applicable whether fighting fire or entertaining.

   Orris Hose latch string is out to the Ithacas and Owego will not be obliged to knock twice to gain admittance.

A Card.

   As I have heard rumors that the rope walk at the Emerald Hose picnic was a "fake" and that I had no intention of walking the rope, and that I could not have walked it if it had been taught, and that others will bet I can not walk a rope, I propose to prove they are mistaken by giving an exhibition in the public streets shortly from house to house, thereby exonerating the Emerald Hose Co. from any part in the "fake" and by proving our intentions were honest.

   PROF. CHAS. LUANDO.

PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.

   Hon. R. T. Peck and Andrew S. Brown, of this village, are said to be hunting in couples. The former wants to be renominated for member of Assembly and the latter thinks he ought to be renominated for County Treasurer. Leading republican politicians say that these two gentlemen have pooled their issues and have agreed to stand or fall together whatever else betides. They undoubtedly believe the combination thus formed to be invincible and they have gone in to win. Other candidates must take care of themselves and will not be expected to count for much.

   A few weeks since it was understood that Treasurer Brown refused to combine with anybody and proposed to go it alone. Then it was said that Mr. Peck encouraged Mr. S. K. Jones, of Virgil, to become a candidate for treasurer and agreed to join forces with him. It was also charged that Mr. Peck had held out similar inducements to and made like arrangements with Mr. Lee Johnson, of Lapeer. What is to be done with these two gentlemen, now that a combination with Brown has been effected has not yet transpired, but of course Mr. Peck will be as honorable as it is possible for the average republican politician to be, and will undoubtedly do the fair thing by all of them. This course may not be entirely satisfactory to each individual candidate for County Treasurer, but how can he keep his word and do otherwise?

   Of course both Peck and Brown are residents of Cortland and both emigrated from Solon.  They expect to secure the delegates from both towns without an effort and may possibly succeed, although there are some wise politicians who shake their heads and intimate that such a result is by no means certain. Jones thinks he is pretty sure to carry Virgil, and Johnson thinks he can take care of Lapeer and has strong hopes of Marathon.

   James H. Tripp, Esq., of Marathon, has long had a desire to air his eloquence in the legislative halls of the state, but the nomination has steadfastly refused to come his way. His own party opponents say he is not over particular what party he represents, but that he is mighty anxious to pick his teeth on the front porch of one of the leading hotels in Albany, for one winter at least. Mr. Tripp would make a very respectable member and the party might go farther and fare much worse. He will probably try to have something to say about the choice of delegates from his town and Johnson may not be able to turn the delegates of that town over to Peck.

   Some of the labor organizations are finding considerable fault with Peck's votes in the Assembly last winter, and he has been kept pretty busy for the past few weeks in trying to make his record clear and entirely satisfactory to the walking bosses, who are supposed to have the delivery of the laboring men’s votes in their keeping. Whether he has succeeded in mollifying these gentlemen we have not yet been informed.

   The political situation in this county looks quite promising from the democratic standpoint and the fun will soon begin.

Is the Tariff a Tax?

   Ever since the controversy over the present tariff began, the republicans have insisted that the tariff was not a tax, while the democrats have invariably and correctly argued that it was. The New York Tribune has published many ponderous and laborious articles in attempting to prove that the republican view of the question was the correct one. It is with some little surprise that we find the following leading article in that journal under date of Aug. 3:

   "For, although the German has, until now, escaped the tyranny of direct taxation by the Imperial government, yet taxes of the indirect order face him at every moment of the day. On waking in the morning the German artisan drinks a cup of coffee on which the Imperial treasury has levied a duty of 20 pfennige, or about 5 cents a pound. The sugar with which he sweetens it has been taxed at 10 pfennige. On leaving home for work his wife provides him with a crust of bread (on which the duty is 3 pfennige a pound), spreads it with a layer of lard (duty 8 cents a pound), sprinkles it with salt (duty 9 pfennige a pound). During the course of his morning's work the man will probably take a small glass of brandy (duty 26 pfenniges per quart). At noon he will return home to dine with his family off a soup made of flour (duty 5 pfennige a pound), with a slice of bacon (duty 10 pfennige a pound), or a piece of beef (duty 10 pfennige a pound), or perhaps a herring (duty 1 pfennige a piece). In the evening after his work is over, he will probably refresh himself with a glass of beer (duty one pfennige per quart), accompanied by a piece of cheese (duty 10 pfennige a pound), a little butter 10 pfennige a pound), and a slice of bread (duty 3 pfennige a pound). Afterward by light of his lamp, on the oil of which a duty of 6 pfennige has been paid, he will smoke his pipeful of tobacco, taxed at the rate of 25 pfennige a pound, and will then retire to sleep, which is apparently the only thing that the Imperial government has omitted to tax."

   If the tariff is a tax in Germany we should like to have the Tribune explain why the same sort of tariff is not a tax in the United States. It is impossible that there should be a particle of difference. While arguing that a tariff was not a tax the editor of the Tribune was on his guard, but when he undertakes to explain the operation and the result of the tariff in a foreign country he unwittingly tells the truth, which is always uppermost in everyone's mind and is only suppressed with some effort.

SHE STOLE A HORSE.

Career of a 15 Year-Old Girl—Sentenced to an Industrial School.

   PORT BYRON, Aug. 15—A case of early depravity was developed here Thursday when Amelia Sears was arraigned before Justice Converse on the charge of horse stealing. On the day before she had taken a horse and buggy belonging to Mr. Paddock which she found hitched by the roadside, and going to Weedsport treated a number of young men to rides, keeping up the lark till 9 o'clock in the evening when she was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Newcomb.

   Amelia's parents were unfit to care for their children, and their three daughters were placed in the orphan asylum at Auburn from which they were afterwards placed in families. One of the sisters is already in the Reformatory.

   Amelia was placed in the family of E. Hunting of Cato, where she remained for about nine years. She was fond of horses and was permitted to be much about the farm barn assisting the men in the care of the stock. She could ride the wildest colt bare-backed about the premises and could handle a team as skillfully as an expert horseman. On one occasion Amelia stole from the house, and bridling a fleet horse, went to Weedsport, and dashing up and down the streets and raced on the sidewalks defying all attempts to capture her by presenting an old pistol which she had surreptitiously taken from Mr. Hunting's.

   A few months ago Mr. Hunting took occasion to punish the girl with a strap, after which she left the family. The tales she told about the "strapping" excited sympathy in the neighborhood, and Mr. Thayer was appointed her guardian to have custody of $50 which was to have been paid as the outcome of the trouble with Mr. Hunting. About two months ago she left the family of her new guardian, being angry because of being accused of taking a ring, and told him there would be a bright light around his house before many nights. At another place where she worked a few days a ten dollar bill was stolen. Since then she has found employment in a number of places for a few days at a time and has had the companionship of dissolute characters about Cato and Weedsport.

   She was sentenced to the State Industrial school at Rochester.

Messenger House was located at corner of Port Watson  and South Main.

Improvements at the Messenger House.

   The new proprietors of this popular hotel have been making some striking improvements in the interior of the same. The walls and ceiling of the dining room have been decorated in very artistic manner, handsome sideboards have been put in, elegant new silverware has been purchased, and the latest style of high-back antique oak chairs are at the tables. A billiard room, containing two carom and one pocket pool table of the best manufacture, with all the latest appurtenances, has been added. The house is also provided with new, neat and the most approved water closet arrangements. In fact the hand of improvement seems to have touched every part and parcel of the premises. The new proprietors are deserving the fine patronage they enjoy.

FROM EVERYWHERE.

   According to the Cherry Valley Gazette, it snowed in that town July 19, 1890.

   Canada is imposing the tax of $6 a barrel on importations of American pork.

   Reports from Manitoba indicate the largest yield of wheat ever raised there.

   The Auburn Morning Dispatch, including the Sunday issue, has suspended publication.

   So much snow has fallen in Switzerland this summer that it has put a stop to mountain climbing.

   Thursday morning Harris, Wolf & Davis drilled an oil well just north of Findlay, O., which flowed over 1.000 barrels the first hour, and up to six o'clock in the evening the production was 6,340 barrels, the first flow beginning at 11 o'clock.

   George Nellis, editor and proprietor of the Herkimer County Record, has been arrested, charged with criminal libel by Dr C. W. Hamlin of Middleville. He gave bail in the sum of $250 to appear before the Grand Jury. The publication was about the treatment of diphtheria.

   September 17, the second day of the Northern Tioga county fair at Newark

Valley, the managers announce as a drawing card of interest that Chief Silverheels and a band of warriors will camp upon the grounds and perform many rites and ceremonies as did the Iroquois six nation a century ago.

   A Hudson paper says: "Some ladies were walking in a cemetery in Columbia county and glancing to an adjacent lot they saw a sight which has only been seen in savage and half-civilized lands. The sight referred to was that of a young girl hitched to a cultivator, like a horse, and driven by an apology for a man, who, when the poor girl faltered in her work, would urge her on by threats and curses. The facts in this case are in the possession of certain gentlemen who will make it warm for the old scoundrel who uses his help like animals."

  

A Successful Bid.

   The contract for building the new water works plant in Gouverneur, N. Y., has been awarded to Mr. L. J. Richardson, superintendent of the Cortland Water Works Company. His bid was $51,000. The town appropriated [$80,000] to cover the entire cost of the system. The water tower is to be 30 feet in diameter and 40 feet high. The contract calls for the completion of the work by December 15.