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| D. L. & W. R. R. station at Cortland, N. Y. |
PROBING THE WITNESS.
Investigation
of Two Affidavits Made by Joseph Rose.
The Chaffee examination was adjourned at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon till 10 o'clock this morning when Joseph Rose was
put on the stand. The district attorney examined him and he said that "I
know engine No. 7 and have seen the defendant on several occasions. On two
occasions I was left in charge of the engine from one-half an hour to one hour while
Chaffee went to supper. Each time was on Sunday afternoon and about the same time
of the day. I have seen the defendant on several occasions wipe and coal up the
engine. He was always there when I was at the yard except the two occasions I
have mentioned. I saw the defendant perform his duties two or three weeks
before the accident.
In the cross-examination the defendant's
attorney, Mr. John Courtney, examined the witness about two affidavits he made
after the accident, one in the office of the Wire Fabric Co. at Homer and
another one in Attorney Jenney's office in Syracuse. In describing the latter
he said: "Detective Sevenoakes came down to the shop about 3 o'clock one
afternoon a week or ten days after the other affidavit was made and told me that
he wanted me to go to Syracuse with him and said that I would lose no time at
the shop. I got on the cars and went to Syracuse. Did not pay any fare, but
rode in the baggage car with Sevenoakes. After I got up to Syracuse, Sevenoakes, Kistler and Jenney said they were
going to supper. The former gave me fifty cents to buy my supper. I came home
that night and did not pay my fare. They passed me down but gave me no money
except the fifty cents with which to purchase my supper. The affidavit was
written in Col. Jenney's office. Kistler and Sevenoakes were present.
Sevenoakes said he wanted to take me up to Col. Jenney's office. He said that
my other affidavit—the one made previously in the office of the Wire Fabric
Co.—was a little damaging to the railroad company and to Chaffee. He said that
Master Mechanic Kistler would be there and explain to me how some things about
the engine that I did not understand were operated. Master Mechanic Kistler did
not speak a word to me while I was there. He did not talk about it in my
presence.
"Can you give the contents of either
one of the affidavits, which you made relative to the question, at the instance
of the railroad company's attorneys?" asked Mr. Courtney.
"I can't answer by yes or no,"
replied the witness. "I can go on and state what I swore to, but don't know
whether it would be the contents of the affidavit or not. I cannot give a
single word that was used in either one of them. I can read and write, but
cannot read writing. Neither affidavit was prepared till after I visited the two
offices. I signed both by writing my name. I did not have any talk with
Sevenoakes about a place on the railroad. I have not applied to the railroad
company for a place since the accident. I never worked for the company. I was
left in charge on the two Sundays when Chaffee went to supper. I have talked
with District Attorney Squires about the testimony I was to give to-day. I have
not talked with Jenney since the examination began. I did not have time to read
the affidavit I made in Jenney's office and I could not have read it anyway. I
did not have time to get any one else to read it to me before the train left.
It was read to me all at once by Col. Jenney and was in his hand writing. I
have never seen either one of the affidavits since the time they were made and
do not know where they are now. I never, except on this one occasion, rode to
Syracuse and back on a pass."
As the fire bell struck for noon the examination
was adjourned till Tuesday at 10 A. M.
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| Chauncey M. Depew. |
BREVITIES.
—Those in the vicinity of the East Side
reading-room will remember the Sunday service at 4 o'clock P. M.
—The Little Tycoon comic opera company has
arrived in town and will show at the Opera House to-night.
—The conductors and brakemen on the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad were measured for their winter uniforms
yesterday.
—D. E. Kinney's stallion, Nickel Plate,
lowered his record of 2:27 1/4 to 2: 24 3/4 yesterday, over a heavy track, and
in a hard race at Cumberland, Md.
—A Preble bicycle rider is said to have got
the fashionable and senseless "hump" on to such a degree that he has
knocked out several teeth with his knees.
—We publish in our sixth page to-day the
splendid address of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew at the twenty-fifth anniversary exercises
of Cornell university. It should be read by every one.
—Mr. F. M. Quick, the Grand Union Tea man,
is the happy father of a boy baby. His friends found a choice selection of
cigars in the store this morning and Mr. Quick was passing them out by the
handful.
—There's nothing small about Peddler White.
While driving past a house in Taylor the
other day where a wedding knot had just been tied, he stopped his cart and sent
in a present to the groom. It was a rattle box.—DeRuyter Gleaner.
—S. M. Benjamin erected in the new Catholic
cemetery yesterday a very large and fine cottage monument for the Conway family.
The monument is of dark Barre granite. He also set up in the same cemetery one
for the late Anthony Ready. This is of the celebrated Sutherland Falls marble.
—The private car of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew
passed through Cortland last night on its way from Syracuse, where Mr. Depew
had attended the Republican state convention, to Ithaca, where he was to attend
the anniversary exercises of Cornell university. The car came in on the 6:32
train, and a special engine on the E., C. & N. R. R. met it and proceeded at
once to Ithaca. The "genial Chauncey" was just seated at the tea table
in his pleasant dining-room when the car was in Cortland.
— Last week we mentioned the intelligent dog
that accompanies the mail-carrier on the West Hill route. A carrier calls at our
office to add further testimony of the usefulness of the canine to the
government. It appears that a new carrier substituted on the route the other
day, and became confused in regard to the proper direction to take in a cross
path. He knew that the dog usually went over the route and he decided the best
way was to follow him. The dog led him safely over the way to the full
satisfaction of the United States mail department.—Ithaca Democrat.
—A Cazenovia gentleman, whose name we will
not mention "out of respect for his family," says the Cazenovia Republican, came near being
run over by the early southbound train on the E., C. N. Monday morning. He was
walking south on the track just south of the Albany-st. crossing as the train
came through. The bell rang for the crossing, as usual, and the whistle was also
blown, but our friend paid no attention to it. Engineer Joe. Reidy of Canastota
was at the throttle, and when he saw that the pedestrian was apparently
unconscious of danger, he reversed the engine, set the air brakes and made a
remark or two that will not do to print, all in the same breath. The train came
to a standstill with a jerk that nearly threw the passengers out of their
seats, and with the pilot of the engine almost on its untended victim, who
nimbly skipped out of the way—after the danger was over.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
THE
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CLEBRATION NOW IN PROGRESS.
Annual
Statement of President Schurman—Increase of Students—Double the Endowment
Needed.
ITHACA, Oct. 7.—The three day celebration of
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of Cornell university began to-day.
President Schurman's first annual statement to the trustees this afternoon
contains much condensed information not only regarding the present condition
but also regarding the growth of the university during the quarter century of
its existence. The productive capital of the university has increased from $735,000
in 1868 to $6,100,000 in 1893; and the buildings (of which there are 28),
equipment, and grounds are worth about $2,500,000 more. The income in 1892-3
was $502,000. The library, which is housed in a splendid fireproof building,
now has 150,000 bound volumes and 27,000 pamphlets,—about 30,000 volumes having
been received as gifts and 10,000 purchased during the last year.
Beginning
in 1868 with 26 professors and instructors, the university now has over 150. In
1892-3 there were just 1,700 students, the increase over 1891-2 being 163. Of
special departments the most rapid growth has been in the College of Mechanical
and Electrical Engineering, the Law school, and the Graduate school, though the
number of students in Arts and Science has doubled in the last eight years. As
an illustration of the hold which Cornell has taken on the country as a whole,
it is significant that during the past seven years it has received in the
undergraduate department 435 advanced students from 174 other universities, and
in the graduate department 454 graduates from 101 other universities. From 10
to 13 per cent of the students are women. Besides the 1,700 regular students,
there were in 1892-3 170 persons, most of them teachers, enrolled in the summer
school, and 48 in the winter school of agriculture; making in all 1,918 in the
university.
President Schurman shows how greatly the
requirements for admission have been raised since 1868, the most important single
advance having been made during the present year. Special attention has been
given to English, and largely through the influence of the university, the Regents
have lengthened the course in English in all Regents' schools in New York.
During the 25 years of its existence the
state of New York has never given the university a cent. It is now, however, spending
$50,000 for a new building for the College of Agriculture—Governor Flower
having recommended the centralization of all scientific work in agriculture at
Cornell, which is the Land Grant college of the state. But the university as a
whole trusts to private beneficence for its support. Henry W. Sage has in the
past invested $1,250,000 in gifts to it, Hiram Sibley endowed in it the college
that bears his name, and John McGraw and others have made donations of
considerable amounts. Several gifts, some of them amounting to $50,000, have
been received during the past year. President Schurman shows that a university
as broad in its scope and as democratic in its spirit as Cornell needs a
greatly enlarged income, and he makes an appeal for doubling the endowment, and
particularizes the objects for which $3,000,000 are needed immediately. As the
university gives free tuition to about 600 students from New York—including
four from each of the 128 assembly districts—the appeal he thinks should
receive special consideration from New Yorkers.
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| Photo copied from Grip's Historical Souvenir of Cortland. |
MR. DUFFEY RETURNS.
HE IS
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR STATE TREASURER.
But Party
Lines were not Drawn in the Reception which was Tendered to Him by His Friends.
At about 9 o'clock last evening the Cortland
City band met in front of the Democratic
headquarters on Railroad-st. and rendered a few selections. The Democrats
gradually assembled till at 10:30 o'clock, when the band marched to the D., L. &
W. station, and fully five hundred citizens formed in line for the purpose
of tendering a reception to Mr. Hugh Duffey, who was expected on that train.
The Democrats of course formed the greater part of the procession, but there
was also a representation of Republicans and quite a number of Prohibitionists,
all of whom appreciated the honor conferred upon the town by the Democrats in
the nomination of a Cortland man for state treasurer. The Woman's Suffrage and
People's party did not seem to be represented. The station and platform were
crowded and fire crackers, red fire, the Forty-fifth Separate Co.'s cannon,
Roman candles and the band each did their part in letting Mr. Duffey know that
he was warmly received, while a cheer, which might have been heard miles, went
up from the large crowd as Mr. Duffey and the delegates stepped from the train.
The committee who had the reception in
charge sent fireworks to Homer and as the train passed through that place there
was a large crowd at the station to congratulate him. All that could get on boarded
the train and came to Cortland. These together with the large crowd already assembled
formed themselves into a procession which did honor to the Democratic nominee
for state treasurer. Mr. Duffey and the delegates were escorted by the band up
Railroad-st. to Greenbush-st. and from Greenbush to Mr. Duffey's home on Port
Watson-st. The air was filled with colored balls of fire from the Roman
candles, while pounds upon pounds of red fire illuminated the streets so
brilliantly that the electric lights were cast in the shade. Messrs. A. E.
Hitchcock and Frank E. Plumb marshaled the procession.
When Mr. Duffey reached home he ran up the
steps, kissed his wife and family, and another cheer was heard. Mr. D. W. Van
Hoesen stepped to the front of the porch and made a brief and hearty speech of
welcome. At the close of his speech three rousing cheers were given for Mr.
Duffey and three more for "Dave."
Mr. Duffey replied in a few words in which
he told how he had been taken completely by surprise by the demonstration, which
he heartily appreciated. He spoke of his misgivings as to his being nominated,
but when he saw the work that his friends had done for him all over the state,
friends that he had not seen for from fifteen to thirty years, he was proud of
his friends and the honor which they had given him and felt heartily grateful
to them for their efforts and if his nomination was ratified at the polls he
said that he would do his best to properly perform his duties. He said in
closing, "I thank you, heartily, Republicans and Democrats. This demonstration
was a great surprise to me, but I will remember it always. I thank you, my
friends, I thank you."
The cannon boomed and at the close of the
speech-making a tumultuous cheer arose from the crowd and this was followed by
cries of "Ed!" "Ed!" "Ed Duffey!" Mr. Edwin
Duffey stepped to the front of the porch and made a brief but pointed address.
After he had been given three cheers, Delegates E. W. Hyatt and James Dougherty
were called for and they in turn each said a few words and were cheered.
Mr. Duffey invited all into the house, but
the crowd was so great that the house would not begin to hold them all and so
Mr. Duffey stood in the hall while in single file the crowd marched into the
house, shook hands with the nominee and passed out the side door. Mr. Duffey
treated the boys to cigars and the eighteenth shot of the cannon boomed out,
the band played, and after one more cheer the crowd dispersed to their homes.
A great deal of credit is due the committee,
consisting of Messrs. John F. Dowd, John
Morris, A. J. McSweeny, F. C. Straat, James McDonald, Benjamin F. Taylor and
Charles Reilly, who, considering the short time in which they had to arrange
for the reception, made it such a success. Messrs. P. J. Calahan, R. McMahon, R.
Dwyer and Adam Harkness kept Forty-fifth's cannon going, and this added not a
little to the effect of the occasion.
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