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| William H. Clark, editor and publisher of the Cortland Standard. |
Coming to Their Senses.
An article headed like the above appeared in
the Cortland Standard of last week, and followed by an extract from the
Wayne Democratic Press, in the
celebrated peppermint district of this State, and better known as the former
abiding place of W. H. Clark, from whence it was heralded over the country and
into the sanctum of the editor of the Standard.
It fell in fertile soil. The inspiration was
caught and the application was made to the management of affairs of like nature
in the village of Cortland. It is very doubtful whether Mr. Clark's mind would
ever have grasped the idea that there is such a distressed situation of affairs
in Cortland, had he not drawn the milk from the cocoanut [sic] of the Wayne Democratic
Press relative to the village of
Lyons.
This extract was followed by the opinion of
Mr. Clark as to what the Board of Trustees of the village of Cortland should
do, based upon the same theory and coupled with an insinuation or statement
which is an insult to the intelligence of the members of the present Board of
Trustees and to all their predecessors in office, in characterizing their acts
as idiotic and extravagant.
The first proposition reads as follows:
"Cortland hasn't yet got out of the
time dishonored way of dumping gravel in the road one year and hauling it away
the next."
It is true that gravel has been used to quite
an extent in this village, for the building and maintaining of streets for a number
of years, and, as strange as it may seem, most people prefer to have it on the street
rather than travel in the mud. Knowing, as they have known, that as a matter of
economy in the youth and in fancy of our business prosperity, it would be far better
to have a good gravel road than to carry the burden of taxation incident to paving
our principal streets and macadamizing
the others. It is true also that streets made of gravel have to be cleaned and
the much worn portion or mud has to be removed.
The same is true of the pavement we have
already on Main street. It has to be cleaned and the mud drawn away,
notwithstanding it is pavement. But it is not true as has been inferred from
the article in the Standard, that a street like Railroad street, which
has been "graveled for the thousand and first time" will only last
one year and then have to be scraped out and filled up again." This can be
substantiated by good citizens of our village who draw their conclusions from
observations and facts and not from the effusions of the organ of Wayne county,
"Thousands of dollars are wasted every
year," &c., &c.
If I am correctly informed there are 60
miles or upwards of streets in this corporation, and with the limited appropriation
for highway purposes, I submit to the tax payers [sic] and to all others who live in
and are interested in this beautiful village during the past 10 years,
comparing our streets with the streets of other towns of its size, do you think
that "thousands of dollars have been wasted every year" by the
idiotic extravagance of the many worthy citizens who have constituted our village
Board of Trustees in the past?
"The appropriation for street purposes should
first be expended on Main and Railroad Streets, till those thoroughfares are
substantially paved," &c.
What do the people of this corporation say
to this proposition? Are you willing that the appropriation for maintaining the
streets in this village this year, shall all be applied to two streets in this
village? Are you ready to sacrifice everything that may be done and that should
be done upon our streets throughout the village to enable the editor of the Standard
to say, that the people are indebted to him for having a few hundred feet
of pavement on one of our principal streets, as the full appropriation if used
for that purpose solely would make but a feeble show in paving these streets?
The answers to these questions have been
made daily and hourly to the Board of Trustees, by parties making reasonable claims
to repairs on their respective streets, and the best efforts that the board
have ever been able to make, necessarily comes far short of the demand for
street improvement.
The Board of Trustees last year put in the
budget a resolution to raise money to buy a stone crusher. It was promptly voted
down at our last charter election by the voters present. This would not indicate
that the people were clamoring for a crushed stone road, and the board had no other
material at their command better than gravel; neither did they have the needed
amount of funds to do any considerable amount of paving and do justice to other
streets. And it will take something more potent than the opinion of the Standard to enable the
board to show that "nerve and good sense" to pave and macadamize all
the streets of the village of Cortland without money and a stone crusher.
TAXPAYER.
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TWO/EDITORIALS.
Through an oversight the Standard neglected
last week to note the signing of the Cortland charter bill by Governor
Hill.— Cortland Standard, June 13.
The bill amending the charter of this
village was signed June 1st, 1889, on which day it became a law. Two weeks
later the Standard gravely announced the fact. We submit that "this
is another shining example of how editor Clark waits till the procession is
several blocks past before he "catches on." The DEMOCRAT begs leave to
suggest, in the interest of the readers of the Standard,
that the editor of that sheet "awake from his Rip Van Winkle sleep"
and publish the news not less than one week after it transpires.
It is with sorrow we are compelled to
announce that the great state of Pennsylvania, with a republican majority of
from 40,000 to 80,000 voted last Tuesday against prohibition. The amendment was
beaten by nearly 200,000. All the morality, &c. If they had only had
Clark's Anti-Saloon party there, the vote might have resulted differently.
Gov. Bulkeley of Connecticut has vetoed the
electoral reform bill, so called, recently passed by the legislature of that state.
The bill was almost precisely the same as the one passed by the legislature of
this state and vetoed by Gov. Hill. Bulkeley gives substantially the same
reasons for his veto as those given by the executive of this state. The
Governor of Connecticut is a republican which will account for the silence of
all the prominent republican journals, which soundly berated Governor Hill for
his veto. It makes considerable difference whether the culprit is a Democrat or
a Republican.
Republican journals of this as well as of
other states particularly dislike Governor Hill. They have such a strong hatred
for him that they are at great pains to go out of their way to abuse him, and what
has he done to merit their ill will? He has done nothing, except to refuse to be
pocketed by the Republican legislature. Ever since Governor Hill took his seat,
the Republican legislature has been contriving and planning to put him in a
hole but have signally failed. He has been altogether too astute for all the
wire pullers and jobbers in the Senate and Assembly and now the entire gang of
penny-a-liners on the republican papers are getting some satisfaction over the
discomfiture of the monitors of the legislature by making up mouths at him.
Johnstown
Dead.
Latest Estimate
of the Number of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the Flood.
JOHNSTOWN, June 17.—Col. Rogers, who is in
charge of the registration, reports to Gen. Hastings that the aggregate
registration is 15,569 names; 2,500 survivors have left the locality without registering.
Col. Rogers estimates the survivors at
25,000 and says: "Those figures are presumably approximately correct.
Deducting these 25,000 survivors from the sum total population leaves 4,125 lives lost. This estimate is as positive as it will ever be possible to
estimate it."
About 5,500 men were at work here today and
good progress made. Seventeen more bodies were recovered.
Notes on
the Flood.
The flood at Corning was the greatest ever
known.
The damage in Elmira from the flood will
exceed $400,000.
Forty lives were lost at Bellefonte, Pa., and
$1,500,000 of property.
Kernsville has only a house or two as a monument
to its former respectable proportions.
It is estimated that the loss to property in
the Genesee valley by the flood will amount to $100,000.
Cambria City is not even a ghost of its former
self, while all along the line of the torrent the isolated houses of hundreds are
without occupants.
The tidal wave struck Bolivar just after dark,
and in five minutes the Conemaugh [River]
rose from six to forty feet and the waters spread out all over the whole country.
It is believed that $1,000,000 will not cover
the loss of the Fall Brook Company, and the worst is not known regarding the
loss of life on the Pine Creek division.
Besides the human beings whose bodies lie in
the waters of the Conemaugh, it is estimated that the carcases of at least 10,000
horses and other animals are festering in the streams.
The
Legislature of the State of New Hampshire appropriated $10,000 for Pennsylvania
relief; Philadelphia raises $600,000; Pittsburg, $300,000; Providence, R. I.,
$20,000; Boston, $68,000.
Almost all the country from Hornellsville to
Corning was under water. The loss in Steuben county will probably exceed $1,000,000.
The Fall Brook Coal Company is one of the heaviest losers.
The Pennsylvania railroad's loss will be about
$10,000,000, making the total loss, as near as can now be figured, over 9,000 lives
and more than $34,000,000 of property. The loss of life at Johnstown proper is
but little more than a guess.
MARATHON.
Ross M. Lovell, of this place, secured the
free scholarship at Cornell University at the late examination of candidates. This
is the fourth time that Marathon has got there during consecutive years.
We learn that Willie Shaver and Miss Cora
Talbot were married at Sylvan Lake one day last week.
Duane Burgess went to Brooklyn, N. Y., last
week, on business.
T. L. Corwin had a large company picnic on
his extensive grounds last Thursday afternoon, mostly composed of the same parties
[White Caps—CC editor] that "interviewed" Moses Rogers a short time
ago.
Mrs. Ed. H. Barnes is visiting friends in Rochester.
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FROM
EVERYWHERE.
France has three new Cardinals.
France has thirty-six armor-clads.
We export 25,000,000 bushels of wheat.
Barnum's show will go to Germany next winter.
The treasury surplus is now about $54,000,000.
June 1st, there were 1,253 prisoners in Auburn
prison.
David Van Dusen of Fabius has received
information that his daughter and her family were carried away by the flood at Johnstown.
The great Inter-State Fair opens at Elmira,
N. Y., September 17th and continues ten days. The managers promise the greatest
exposition ever inaugurated in New York State.
The trial of the Rev. Charles O. Hammer, pastor
of the Presbytery of Cayuga, upon the charges of falsehood and slander, took
place at Genoa on Tuesday and Wednesday. While Mr. Hummer was not found guilty of
the charges of falsehood and slander preferred against him, the Presbytery found
"evidence of such a degree of infirmity and inconsiderateness of utterance
as need correction," and, therefore, seriously enjoined Brother Hammer to
the use of the greatest caution in both public and private speech and conduct.
A party of four of the Homer excursionists, two
ladies with their male escorts, entered M. Gill's First street restaurant last
evening and ordered a supper. When they had completed the repast, the two gentlemen
hurriedly departed, retaining the napkins and leaving the ladies still seated
at the table. The authorities at Homer were wired to apprehend them. Chief
Doyle received a telegram from Homer this afternoon stating that the young men,
whose names are McDonald and Crouch, had been arrested there.—Oswego
Palladium.
In the section of the country south of Fulton
the storm Sunday afternoon was very severe. It is said that seventy-five trees
were prostrated in the immediate vicinity of Hinmanville. Between Fulton and
Ingalls' Crossing trees were blown down across the Midland Railroad track and
it became necessary to send a force to clear the road. All the apple trees but two
in an orchard at Ingalls' Crossing were blown down. Some of the hall stones
were as large as small hen's eggs. George Ingamel's large barn was blown to
pieces. R. Hotchkiss's corn barn was blown down. N. Salisbury's cow barn was demolished.
Great damage was done to straw berries and all other crops.
Dedication
at Cornell.
ITHACA, June 1 6— Barnes hall, the new Christian
association building at Cornell university, the gift of the late A. S. Barnes
of Brooklyn, was dedicated this evening. The building cost over $60,000.
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