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| Wickwire factory with new buildings, right rear. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday,
April 19, 1893.
ANOTHER BIG
FACTORY.
WICKWIRE BROS. TO PUT UP A NEW WIRE DRAWING MILL.
Three
Acres of Ground Purchased for the Purpose—One Hundred Men to be Employed in the
New Plant.
Messrs. Wickwire Brothers have purchased of
Mr. W. B. Randall two and eight-tenths acres of land just south of their
present buildings for the erection of an immense new wire-drawing plant, and
yesterday let to Beers & Warfield, the contract for the brick work of
the new buildings. The foundations of the buildings will be staked out tomorrow
and work will be begun Friday.
The lot is the same size with that on which
their present buildings stand. The main building of the new plant will be 90x212
feet, two stories high. In addition to this there will be an engine house 36x60
feet, a boiler house 24x50, a circular annealing house, and a circular cleaning
house, each 60 ft. in diameter. All the buildings will be of brick.
A steam crane will be placed between the annealing
and cleaning houses, which will handle all the pots in which the wire is
placed, even when red hot. The building, it is expected, will be completed by
Sept. 1.
The boiler house will have room for six
100-horse-power boilers, four of which will be placed in it as soon as it is
completed. The engine will develop from 500 to 600 horse power. The wire-drawing machines are
already ordered, and will be ready when the buildings are finished.
The annealers will be fired with crude oil and
a separate engine for compressing air to burn this oil will be put in, the size
of which has not yet been fully determined on.
The new plant will give steady employment to
100 men most of whom will be high priced, skilled mechanics.
With the opening of the new Central school
this week several changes had to be made in the locations of teachers and grades.
Five of the eight rooms in the new building are now occupied and a sixth will
be in a few days. The other two will probably remain unoccupied until the end
of the year. With the beginning of the new school year it is the intention of
the board of education to quite materially reorganize the school system of the
village. The idea is to gather into the new building the more advanced grades
of all the ward schools, and in lower grades, such children as live in the
centre of the village and who can go to this school easier than to any of the
others.
Miss McGowan with her first and second grades
from the white school house on Church-st. has been transferred to the new
building, and is alone in her glory on the first floor, occupying the northeast
room. Miss Wallace, with the seventh grade and Miss Hunt with the eighth and
ninth grades have been transferred from the old cobblestone school house on
Church-st. to the southwest and southeast rooms respectively on the second
floor. Miss Knapp with her fifth grade has been transferred from the
Schermerhorn-st. [Grace Street] school to the northeast room on the second floor. Miss
Williams with the sixth grade from the Pomeroy-st. school has been transferred
to north-west room on the second floor. Miss Ellis has been transferred from
the Owego-st, to the Schermerhorn-st. school. This relieves Miss Galusha at the
Homer-ave. school, for about thirty of her children are transferred to the Schermerhorn-st.
school, and new children who heretofore have been unable to enter either the Schermerhorn-st.
or Homer-ave. schools can now be admitted to both. Miss Van Bergen is
transferred from the. Port Watson-st. school to the Pomeroy-st. school.
The New
Chimes.
We are pleased to notice, and presume the
good town's people who have contributed towards the object will be glad to
learn, that the set of chimes for Grace
Episcopal church is in transit and will be placed in the tower of the church edifice
about the first week of May next. The set comprises fifteen tubular bells upon
which can be executed nearly all the tunes and hymns usually played upon a
common house instrument. It will be a pleasing and valuable acquisition to our
enterprising and progressive village—an addition and benefit in which all will
delight and rejoice.
The subscriptions towards this object are now
due and the committee would regard it a favor if the same could be paid as soon
as possible to the treasurer of the chime fund, Mr. G. J. Mager. There is yet a
small balance to be raised which it is hoped will be made up at once by further
voluntary contributions. These can be handed to the rector, Rev. Mr. Clarke,
Messrs. H. B. Hubbard, G. J. Mager, or any member of the vestry.
PAGE
FOUR—EDITIORIALS.
HAWAII.
The absolute change of policy in the administration
of this government is nowhere more marked than in the hauling down of the
American flag from over Hawaii.
From Jan. 17 to April 1 it floated there in triumph and glory. Had Harrison
remained president, Hawaii, for better or for worse, might now have been United
States territory. Commissioner Blount has proved that he could keep a secret at
any rate, for nobody knew he had orders from President Cleveland to order down
the American flag.
Commissioner Blount appears to be President
Cleveland's political Satolli, not an apostolic legate precisely, but a presidential
legate. President Cleveland writes of Mr. Blount:
"I have made choice of James H. Blount,
one of our distinguished citizens, as my special commissioner to visit the
Hawaiian Islands to make a report to me concerning the present status of
affairs in that country. He is well informed of our sincere desire to cultivate
and maintain to the fullest extent the friendship which has so long existed
between the two countries, and in all matters affecting relations with the
government of the Hawaiian Islands his authority is paramount."
We have the assurance of Mr. Blount that no
other nation will be permitted to take possession of the islands. But it will
be now more difficult to prevent this than it was before. Blaine, then secretary
of state, wrote Dec. 1, 1881, that the possession of the Hawaiian Islands was
in the range of questions of a purely American policy, and that if ever there
came a time when Hawaii would no longer be able to maintain her own neutrality
"this government would then unhesitatingly meet the altered situation by seeking
an avowedly American solution for the grave issues presented."
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| SS Naronic. |
The disappearance of the great White Star
twin-screw freight steamer Naronic will probably remain as the ocean mystery of
1893. She is at last given up entirely, and the insurance companies are paying
their policies on her cargo. Not in years has a large ocean steamer dropped
from human knowledge like that—never before a steamer so powerful and perfectly
fitted to endure all weathers, as was supposed.
The Naronic was one of the strongest
steamers ever built. She was of steel, with three decks, and two engines
working independently, so that if one was disabled the other could alone bring
her into port. Passenger steamers are not so stanch in build as the Naronic
was, for she was constructed especially to bear a great weight of freight, and it was not necessary
to sacrifice any considerations of safety to speed. She was fitted for the live
stock trade especially and carried 1,050 head of cattle. These she took across
the water to England, returning with a load of 4,000 tons of freight.
At the time she disappeared she was on her
way to this aide with 70 men on board. She could easily have held five such
vessels as those in which Columbus and his men crossed the ocean, yet this mighty
ship has disappeared as utterly as if she had been a phantom ship existing only
in imagination. It is not likely now that any trace of her will ever be
found beyond the two lifeboats floating bottom upward, telling in that simple fact
a story seldom equaled in tragedy and pathos. Did the Naronic strike an iceberg
and go down? Did she founder in the heavy waves? Did she come in collision with
another vessel, and did both sink with all on board? When shall we know?
Hebrews
to be Expelled.
LONDON, April 19.—The Russian-Hebrew
committee in this city has advices from St. Petersburg that the minister of the
interior has ordered the governors of Livonia and Courland to expel all Hebrews
from these two provinces before Nov. 1. More than 60,000 Hebrews will be
expelled under this order and will be driven into the overcrowded towns within
the pale.
Bogus
Chinese Certificates.
TACOMA, Wash., April 19.—Collector Wesson
has commenced the examination of the 2,700 Chinese held on the steamer Mogul
since Thursday. At a late hour last night only about half of them had been
examined, and on an average only one in five was admitted. It is apparent that
many of them are bogus.
Gas and
Oil Excitement.
GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., April 19.—The natural
gas and oil excitement has broken out in this section again. The common council
of this place and the board of trustees of Johnstown were asked to grant a
franchise for the piping of the two places for natural gas. The petitioners
were S. H. Kennedy, who has been making explorations here for three years and
many others. The franchise was granted at Johnstown but was laid over a week in
this city.
Barbers
Form a Trust.
The barbers of Cortland met in Mr. D. J.
Chadwick's barber shop Monday evening and organized a "trust.'' Jacob
Grossman was chosen chairman and D. W. English secretary of the meeting. It was
unanimously decided to close the shops Sundays to take effect April 28. It was
decided to have cards printed to that effect and that the curtains to the shops
be left open Sundays. A committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and
by-laws.
The following schedule of prices was decided
upon: Hair cut and whiskers trimmed, thirty cents; whiskers trimmed, fifteen
cents; dry shampoo, ten cents; regular shampoo, twenty-five cents; shave and
neck trimmed with shears, fifteen cents; hot packs for "bigheads,"
fifteen cents extra; hair cutting, twenty-five cents.
All motions will take effect April 23, 1893.
All prices will be seen on cards in all barber shops.
On motion, it was decided to close the shops
every night, except Saturday evenings, at 8 o'clock to take effect from Monday,
April 24.
The meeting was then adjourned till Thursday
evening of this week.
Obituary.
Alfred Frisbie, Jr., died Sunday in
Philadelphia of congestion of the liver and heart failure, aged 24 years. The
remains were brought to Cortland yesterday morning and were placed in the
receiving vault. Mrs. Laura Frisbie and the deceased's mother, Mrs. Alfred
Frisbie, accompanied the remains. The deceased is the nephew of Mr. James M.
Repnolds [sic] of The STANDARD office and was an assistant of his father,
Alfred Frisbie, Sr., who has charge of the spectacular part of Forepaugh's [circus]
show.
New
Stenographers and Typewriters.
Miss Augusta Brown, who has been conducting
a school of stenography and typewriting for some months past in the Standard
building, at the close of last week's work conferred diplomas for having completed
a five months' course on the following young ladies: Miss Cora Cleveland of
Cortland; Miss Clara Gardner of Callicoon Depot; and Miss Mary G. Wolf of Tunkhannock,
Pa. The young ladies have been apt and faithful students, and Miss Brown
regards them as proficient in the theory of their work, and as being as well up
in practice as the time devoted to it would permit, and ready to take dictation
of ordinary business correspondence at fair speed.
Miss Brown herself is an accomplished stenographer
and typewriter, as well as a successful instructor, having graduated from the
well known Scott-Brown school in New York City four year ago, and since that
time and until coming to Cortland occupied responsible places in and about the
metropolis. A school such as she has conducted here is a valuable addition to
any village, inasmuch as it affords an opportunity for those desiring to become
thorough typewriters and stenographers to do so without the expense and
inconvenience of leaving home and taking instruction in some city. Not only
those who have been under Miss Brown's tuition, but all who will take the pains
to examine her work and the work of her pupils, will, we think, unite in
endorsing her qualifications both as an expert in her line and as a competent
teacher. Her school is entitled to general public favor and a liberal
patronage, and in view of the steadily growing demand for experts in the arts
which she teaches, it ought to secure a large attendance.
HOMER
DEPARTMENT.
Mr. C. E, Ercanbrack went angling Monday for
the speckled beauties in Dry creek and returned with a string of ten fine trout,
ranging from six to ten and one-half inches in length.
Messrs. Michael Sweeney and John Meade
visited the latter's parents in Groton Sunday.
Mrs. Joseph Palmer and son Byron left for
Syracuse yesterday. They went with the intention of having another operation
performed on Byron's eyes.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Walker Sunday.
The smokestack of the Homer Mfg. Co. was
blown down yesterday morning.
One of the attractions that can frequently be
seen on South Main-st. almost any evening is Charlie Antisdel "exercising"
on a pneumatic safety [wheel.] Reserved seats on the curbstones.
BREVITIES.
—O'Leary & McEvoy's furniture store has
been connected with the Telephone Exchange.
—The funeral of Mrs. Beaudry was held at St.
Mary's church at 10 o'clock this morning.
—Mr. R. H. Beard has a horse which is
suffering from lockjaw caused by a nail in the hoof.
—Edward Welch paid a fine of $5 for public
intoxication in police court yesterday morning.
—An open circuit was the cause of thirty-three
arc lamps going out Monday evening, leaving the streets in almost total darkness.
—The sheriff's sale of the Cortland Top &
Rail Co's. plant, which was to have been held to-day, was again adjourned to
the 25th inst.
— General Manager of the D., L. & W., W.
F. Hallstead's "Comet," was to pass through town this afternoon on
his regular business trip from Scranton to Utica, to Syracuse and Cortland.
—The sale of seats for the Lotus Glee club
and Miss Minnie Marshall at the Opera
House on Friday evening opened at Wallace's this morning. A goodly number have
been taken and they are going all the time.
—The STANDARD is indebted to Dr. David
Eugene Smith of Ypsilanti for a copy of the Detroit Evening News containing a
full account of the cyclone in Ypsilanti with profuse illustrations of wrecked
buildings.
—A dispatch was received in Cortland yesterday
afternoon by Mrs. A. S. Burgess announcing the death of Mrs. R. M. Smith of
that city. Her husband was formerly the proprietor of the Messenger House in
Cortland, and is now conducting the St. James [hotel] of Utica.
—The gold medal and diploma awarded the
Cortland Howe Ventilating Stove Co. at the
Triennial fair of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association at Boston last
fall, are on exhibition in D. F. Wallace A Co.'s show window for a short time,
before being sent to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago with the company's
exhibit.
—Hon. L. J. Fitzgerald has sold his handsome
pair of chestnut carriage horses to his brother, Mr. William Fitzgerald of
Chicago. The horses were shipped this afternoon and left at 2:30 on a through
coal train on the D., L. & W. R. R. Mr. R. G. Watkins went with them.
—About a dozen of the most prominent business
men of Cortland, most of whom do not new ride a wheel, have organized a new
bicycle club. The non-riders are expecting soon to procure wheels and they will
quickly join the procession. It is only a question of time before every one in
town will be mounted. The bicycle craze is no respector of persons and is not
governed by age, size or color.
—A mass meeting will be held for men only
next Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Baptist church in the interests of
the Citizens' Law Enforcement association [No License] of Cortlandville which
is being organized. Rev. W. H. Pound will address the meeting, representing the
pastors. Addresses will be given also by representative business men. A male
quartet composed of the following named gentlemen: Messrs. G. B. Farley, J. B. Hunt,
Frank Nowlan and Edward L. Moran, will be present and sing. Every man in
Cortland interested in home, and in the welfare of humanity should attend, until
the church is filled at least.
A CLOSE
SHAVE.
Mr. F.
W. Beach Saves a Human Life.
Richard Decker had a very narrow escape from
being ground to pieces under the wheels of a passenger train. Yesterday morning,
just as the 10 o'clock vestibuled train on the D., L. & W. was pulling into
the station at a good rate of speed, Decker walked right in front of the train.
He did not see the passenger train, but was looking at a freight train which
was just pulling out of the station north. Every member of the crowd, which
stood on the platform, stood for what seemed ages to them fairly petrified with
terror, The engineer applied the air brakes, but it was too late, the train
could not be stopped in time to save the man. Just as every one who witnessed
the spectacle had nerved themselves to see the man struck by the locomotive, Mr.
F. W. Beach seized the imperiled man by the coat and jerked him from in front
of the train just in time to save his life and the train sped by like a whirl
wind, nearly grazing the buttons on Decker's coat. Had it not been for the
quick, brave work of Mr. Beach, nothing would have saved Decker from being
taken off the tracks on the installment plan.
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