MOVING TO GEORGIA.
The Hitchcock Manufacturing Company Talk
of Moving Their Wood Shops
to Georgia.
For several days past there has been street
rumors to the effect that the Hitchcock Manufacturing Company were contemplating the removal of their plant to another locality. A
representative of the DEMOCRAT called at the business office of the company
early this week, and was informed by one of the officers of the company that a
contract had been drawn up by the terms of which citizens of Tallapoosa, Haralson
county, Georgia, granted a ten-acre plot of ground and other inducements to the
local company, upon which it is contemplated to erect a large factory, the foundation
of which is to be 800x70 feet. Mr. C. B. Hitchcock, president of the company,
it is stated, will leave Cortland to-morrow (Saturday) for an inspection of the
proffered site and surroundings upon which, if satisfactory, the work of
erecting the new plant will be commenced immediately, and the entire wood
working department of the Cortland plant removed to the southern factory. There
are upwards of one hundred men employed in this department. Should this project
materialize the head office of this house will be located at Tallapoosa and an
eastern branch be conducted in Cortland in case the plant at the latter place
is not sold or leased.
During the past five years the Hitchcock Manufacturing
Company have paid out in wages to residents of Cortland upwards of $750,000,
the company during that time having also suffered materially from two misfortunes
over which they had no control; one the explosion of a boiler which resulted in
a legal controversy in which they were mulcted for damage, judgment and costs,
and the cyclone destruction of last August, necessitate the adherence to the
business theory as advanced at the present day, that "of looking to one's
own welfare."
The proposition of the southern capital and
location is positively asserted to be decidedly worthy of entertainment and the
contemplated change is no spectral hallucination but a pure business move. The
southern plant is to be ready for occupancy within eight months from the final
consummation of the contract. The above are the unvarnished facts of the situation
as related to the reporter.
A
Revolting Charge.
An individual giving the name of John Root,
apparently about forty years of age, was before police Justice Bull yesterday morning
charged with indecent exposure of his person before some little girls on South
Main street Wednesday afternoon. The father
of the girls, Mr. J. Whitmarsh, an employee of the Cortland Chair & Cabinet
Company, promptly and rightly took measures to apprehend the perpetrator of the
act and the police speedily gathered him in early in the evening, the children
identifying him. He was lodged in jail and brought up the following morning when
an adjournment of the case was had until 10:00 A. M., Friday, that the prisoner
might obtain counsel. This case is of a nature which the public are justly incensed
over and corporation attorney, Mr. F. Hatch, will look to the prosecution of
the prisoner in the interests of both justice and the future security and
safety of young girls upon the streets of Cortland.
Arbor
Day Notes.
Each of the ward schools of the village of
Cortland will observe Arbor Day with appropriate exercises on Friday, the 8th inst.,
at one o'clock P. M. The
public generally are invited to be present.
A meeting of the Board of Education of district
No. 1 was held on Monday evening, to consider the matter of attending the
exercises of the several ward schools, invitations having been extended from each
school. It was decided that a representative from the Board should be present at
each school, thus showing no partiality or favoritism.
At the Normal school the regular Friday afternoon
rhetorical exercises will be of a character to harmonize with Arbor Day anniversary,
and will be interesting and instructive alike to scholars and public.
Cortland
Opera House.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Cortland Opera House was held at the office of Alex Mahan last Tuesday evening. Subsequently
the directors elected the following officers:
Mr. Randolph Beard was chosen a director in
place of the late Hon. R. H. Duell. The
directors the ensuing year are: Thomas F. Brayton, H. M. Kellogg, Charles W. Collins,
Alex Mahan, F. Cyrus Straat, Caleb B. Hitchcock and Randolph Beard.
President—Thomas F. Brayton.
Vice-President—Alex Mahan.
Secretary—Charles W. Collins.
Treasurer—Henry M. Kellogg.
Item.
Peter D. Muller, of Truxton, was elected a director
of the National Bank of Cortland at a special meeting held Friday last, in place
of Robert Bushby; and H. M. Kellogg in place of D. F. Wallace. The latter named
gentlemen in both couplets having disposed of their stock.
The Lake
Gives Up Its Dead.
AUBURN, N. Y., May 4.—Edward Hoff and Thomas
Murphy were drowned in Cayuga
lake, off Union Springs, 72 days ago. The body of Hoff was recovered yesterday.
Two boys who have been missing from Auburn since a week ago last Sunday are
supposed to be at the bottom of Owasco lake.
Assemblyman
Peck's Claims.
If Hon. R. T. Peck hasn't yet claimed credit
for being the man who struck the lamented William Patterson, it is
undoubtedly because the idea hasn't yet occurred to him to file his caveat.
"If you do not see what you want
ask for it," may be a good motto enough to hang up in a variety store, and
it some times works well enough in politics but not always. To modest people
the idea of claiming credit for everything is never thought of, and to the average
man it becomes, after a time disgusting.
An Albany correspondent has sent out the
claim that Mr. Peck is entitled to the credit of passing the bill appropriating
$71,800 for additions and repairs to the Cortland Normal school. This claim
ought to deceive no one here because we believe most of our citizens know to
the contrary. Most any member can purchase these press reports. They are in the
market and cost usually from 10 to 20 cents per line. The correspondent never
vouches for their accuracy and they are oftener inaccurate than otherwise.
The DEMOCRAT has no desire to take from Mr.
Peck any credit that is due him, and it freely accords to him the exercise of
good judgment as a rule, and great energy in prosecuting his legislative duties,
and if he were not now making claims personally, for accomplishing work that he
was powerless to perform, we should not say a word in opposition to his
statements. Mr. Peck's labors and influence in passing the bill under
consideration can be summed up in a few words.
He introduced the bill in the Assembly and
it was referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means of which Mr. McClelland was chairman, and here his influence ended. A
majority of the committee was opposed to making the appropriation, and the bill
was put to sleep without the slightest idea of ever awakening it. In this
dilemma Mr. Hugh Duffey, Chairman of the Democratic County Committee of this
county and a Normal School trustee, was appealed to and he responded. By hard
work and with the assistance of influential friends he managed after a hard
struggle to get the bill favorably reported from Committee and it finally
passed the house and went to the Senate. The Senate passed the bill and it went
to the Governor, who it was well known was opposed to this as well as every other
bill making large appropriations.
The bill was sure to receive the Governor's veto
and Mr. Peck was powerless to prevent it. Again Mr. Duffey was appealed to and
his arguments prevailed and the bill was allowed to become a law without the Governor's
signature. The bill became a jaw in spite of Mr. Peck. He stood in the way of
its passage and it would have died in the hands of the Committee had it not been
for Mr. Duffey, and again it would have been vetoed had it not been for him, and
the friends whom he called to his aid.
The Cortland Standard of this week publishes
the Albany correspondent's gush and also an editorial giving credit to
Mr. Peck and Senator Hendricks for making the bill a law, and then insultingly
adds that others interested in the bill did what they could in its favor. There
is no man in this community who knows better than William H.
Clark, the name of the man who, above all others, is entitled to the credit of
pulling the bill through, and he simply outrages every spirit of decency and
common fairness when he attempts to give the credit to the parties who are not entitled
to it, while he ignores the man who saved the bill from every peril after it
was introduced.
If Mr. Peck had so much influence in Albany,
why did he allow the bill legalizing the bonding of this village for $30,000 to
die in the Senate? This is one of the bills that never meets any opposition.
Such bills are passed as a matter of course and it ought not to have taken more
than five days to land this bill in the hands of the Governor after it was
introduced in the Assembly. Mr. Peck introduced this bill nearly six weeks
since and still allowed it to die on his hands.
Mr. Peck would do better to file claims for
such services as he is clearly entitled to instead of those to which he has no
right, remembering "that he can't fool all the people all the
time."
Lyman P.
Rogers Seriously Ill.
About 7 o'clock Wednesday evening Mr. Lyman
P. Rogers, the genial landlord of the Cortland House, was attacked with rheumatic
pains in his left shoulder and retired to the family apartments, passing a very
comfortable night. Between 8 and 8:15
o'clock yesterday morning he experienced a second and alarming attack, speedily
rendering him unconscious, and from which condition constant medical attendance
and every effort failed to arouse him.
Up to 7 P. M., his condition was reported as
no better. Drs. Jewett, Dana and Angel have been in constant attendance, and they
give very little hope of his recovery.
The cause of illness is pronounced a shock
of apoplexy. He has been unconscious from the first attack Thursday morning, and
circulation has been almost, if not quite, suspended.
Licenses
Granted.
The following licenses have been granted by
the Board of Excise Commissioners of Cortland since the opening of the present license
year:
HOTELS— Daniel Kernan, Half-Way House;
Charles Rowe, Park Hotel; E. B. Linderman, Hotel Burns; Ray & Noonan, Exchange
Hotel; L. P. Rogers, Cortland House; J.
R. Arnold, Arnold Hotel; O'Leary & Dowd, American House; Wallace
Bros., Hotel Brunswick; John Dowd, St. Charles Hotel; Kane Bros., No. 11 Orchard
street; A. J. Goddard, Globe Hotel; A. G. Newton, National Hotel; Bauder &
Ingraham, Messenger House; C. H. Warren, Dexter House; Miller & Stevens,
Central Hotel; B. Eowd [Dowd?], Farmers' Hotel; M. H. Ray, Arlington House; W.
M. Donnegan, Owego House; J. J. Updyke, East Cortland House; Samuel Hammond, McGrawville.
STORE—Grady & Corcoran, 7 Railroad road
street; G. W. Bradford, 107 South Main street; Fitz Boynton & Co.,
54 Main street; E. E. Reynolds, 17 Railroad street; Sager& Jennings, 1 Main
street; E. Dodge, 102 Main street; Brown & Maybury (two stores), 51 and 112
Main street; William B. Madden, 14 Port Watson street.
ALE AND BEER—George Gardner, McGrawville;
Henry Corcoran, 31 Railroad street; Peter Johnston, 130 South Main street; Alex
Gerrard, 35 Railroad street.
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