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| Looking west at Cortland and Homer Traction Co. bridge over the Tioughnioga River at Elm Street. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, August 3,
1894.
CORTLAND TO
HAVE A PARK.
HANDSOME
PLEASURE GROUNDS FOR CORTLAND CITIZENS.
The
Cortland and Homer Traction Company Purchases Handsome Grounds
for a Park—Work Already Commenced on the New Road.
Last Friday afternoon the Cortland and Homer
Traction Company made a purchase of the Salisbury farm on the hill east of
Cortland containing 167 acres, and 22 1/2 acres immediately south of it from Mr.
George Conable. The land is situated along the east side of the Tioughnioga river
and extends from Port Watson bridge north to the Timothy Rose farm more than one
half the distance to the County Alms House. On the Salisbury farm is a very handsome
grove of maples and the river is skirted for some distance with timber land, mostly
of hemlock. The underbrush will be removed and handsome walks and drives made
through the timber and along the river banks. The river will be put in shape to
permit boating the whole length of the park and commodious bathing houses will
be constructed on the shores for the use of patrons. The company has also
purchased the Electric Light Company's plant which will be enlarged and lights
placed at intervals along the road on the bank of the stream.
This purchase insures the building of the
Electric road to McGrawville and the Little York enterprise has been abandoned
for the present but there is some likelihood of its being renewed later. The work
of changing the road from the old to the Electric road was to have been begun last
Monday but it has been delayed because of the non-arrival of the iron. It is expected
that work will be commenced in a day or two and according to contract the road
must be completed by November first next.
The building of this road and the park will
be a great improvement to Cortland and will undoubtedly result in attracting the
attention of many well to-do people, who desire to leave the large cities and
find a healthful place of residence that furnishes all the conveniences of the
great towns.
JUNE AND DECEMBER.
A Man of
More Than Mature Years Marries a Blushing Damsel and Purchases Real Estate With
Funds That are Said to be Beyond His Reach.
The old saying that there is "No fool like
an old fool," has been pretty well exemplified in this town during the
past week. A few days since one John E. Anewald of Homer, aged 72 years, accompanied
by Miss Sarah Henry, better known as "Sally Ruffles," of the same
place, aged 26 years, stopped at the Park hotel opposite the fairgrounds. They
registered as man and wife and very soon the lord and master entered into
negotiations for the purchase of the hotel, which is owned and run by Mr. Chas.
E. Rowe. The price was agreed upon and an inventory of the stock and furniture
was taken and all that remained to be done was to put up the cash, which Mr.
Anewald failed to do, owing as he says, to the fact that Mr. John Ham, Jr. of Syracuse
has his filthy lucre in his keeping and refuses to disgorge.
Mr. Ham, who is a nephew of Anewald, was
here Monday and Tuesday endeavoring to unravel the tangle his uncle is in, but did
not succeed very well. He says that Anewald had considerable property some
years ago but that he has squandered most of it. He does not take very kindly
to his uncle's matrimonial enterprise and does not seem to place much faith in his
story of the marriage, from the fact that Anewald has told many different yarns
about the place where the ceremony was performed and cannot give the name of the
officiating officer.
As a part of the agreement to purchase the
hotel Anewald placed $300 in the hands of D. G. Corwin, which was to be paid to
Rowe on a day set, provided he failed to complete the purchase. The day having
passed and he having failed to fulfill, he directed Corwin in writing to pay
the money to Rowe, which was done.
Anewald seems to be delighted with the situation
and lavishes all sort of devotion on the gay and festive partner of his choice.
JAPAN
VARNISH EXPLODES.
A Good
Start for a Big Fire —Sager & Jennings Drug Store Narrowly Escapes
Cremation.
At 11:30 o'clock last Friday morning Harry
Greenman, a clerk in Sager & Jennings' drug store, corner of Main-st. and Clinton-ave.,
went down stairs into the cellar under the store to draw some Japan varnish for
a customer. As he turned the faucet the can exploded and fire dashed in his face.
He shut off the faucet immediately after the explosion, which stopped the flow
of the varnish which caught fire as fast as it left the can. He called to Major
Sager who was at the top of the stairs to come down, but it immediately became
so hot from the burning varnish that he ran up stairs. Mr. W. H. Wood, who
stood with his wheel in front of the store, rode to Firemen's hall and Mr. F. E.
Bickford rang a general alarm and then pulled box 333.
The Orris Hose was first on the ground and
attached two lines of hose to the hydrant at the Cortland House. The other companies
soon followed and barrels of water was soon pouring into the cellar which was
all ablaze. Smoke was pouring from the windows in the building and some of it
worked through under the roof of the Dexter House adjoining and came out at the
windows. In less than twenty minutes the fire was over, and the members of the
department retired, after having done as slick a job as any department ever
done before. The proprietors of the store opened the soda fountain before the boys
left and they allayed their thirst with the cool beverage.
Greenman's hair was singed and his escape
from serious injury is considered almost wonderful. No one seems to be able to
give a satisfactory reason for the explosion. Greenman does not smoke nor had
there been any fire about the premises during the day. He did not even strike a
match or take a light with him.
The proprietors are taking an inventory to
determine the amount of their loss. The building was insured for $3,500 and there
was $3,000 on the stock which will more than cover the loss. For a few moments
it looked as if the Sager block and Dexter House block would both be burned.
JAPAN AND CHINA FIGHTING.
CHINESE VESSELS SUNK.
Japan Has Got the Better of the Scrap So Far—Official
Statement of the Fight.
LONDON, July 27.—A dispatch
received here at 11:20 A. M. to-day from Lyons agent at Shanghai confirms the
announcement, exclusively cabled to the Associated Press on Saturday last, that
war between Japan and China had been declared.
Telegraphic communication with
Korea is interrupted and the wildest rumors are in circulation. Fighting is
said to have taken place between the Japanese and Chinese war ships and
transports and a Chinese war ship has been sunk and a number of other Chinese
ships are reported disabled.
VIEWS OF A CHINESE
BANKER.
The manager of the Hong Kong
and Shanghai bank said: I have not received any confirmation of the report that
war had been declared between China and Japan, but I should not be surprised if
such were the case. One of the results of the war "will be to put a great
trade in the hands of England and Europe to the disadvantage of China and Japan.
But the end of the war will be the making of China everywhere and the opening
of China, for all time, to western civilization and trade. China will realize
through this war her great and yet undeveloped strength."
IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF
WAR.
The actual cause of
declaration of war, outside of the recently growing complications between China
and Japan, in regard to Korea, is said to be the fact that, as exclusively
announced by the Associated press on July 24th, the Japanese attacked the Chinese
transports conveying troops to Korea. In this engagement at least one Chinese
transport was sunk by a Japanese cruiser.
But it would now seem that the
fighting between the Japanese and Chinese war ships was much more serious than
at first announced, for it is rumored in Anglo-Chinese circles here that the
Chinese have already suffered heavy loss, and it is believed that a number of
Chinese ships have been sunk.
POLITICS BACK OF
JAPAN'S DESIRE FOR WAR.
SHANGHAI, July 29.—It is now
positively known that the steamer Tooman, owned by the Japanese Trading
company, which was being used to transport Chinese troops to Corea, was sunk by
a Japanese warship, as well as the Kow Shung, and all on board were drowned.
It is stated that there were
eleven hundred Chinese soldiers on board the steamer Kow Shung, which was sunk
by the Japanese batteries. Some of these are reported to have been saved, but
it is said that a large majority were drowned. The Japanese claim to have
captured a Chinese gunboat.
Other Chinese transports have
reached the Yaloo river, and landed their troops without mishap. These troops
have joined the Corean forces.
The activity of the Japanese
operations is supposed to have been incited by the desire of the government to
achieve some successes before the general elections, which take place in
August. After the elections it is assumed that Japan will readily arrange terms
of peace.
The Chinese government made
inquiries in London as to the price the market would give for a Chinese loan of
several million pounds. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank made an offer to the
government at Pekin to take the whole loan, but the government replied that
they were not in need of money.
All the Chinese Trading
Company's steamers here and all merchant steamers coming in were ordered this
morning to remain in this port until further orders from Tien Tsin.
YOKOHAMA, July 29—The
following official statement of the recent engagement between the Chinese and
Japanese warships has been issued by the Japanese government:
In consequence of severe
provocation three ships of the Japanese squadron were compelled to engage the
Chinese fleet off Fontao or Round Island. They captured the Chinese warship
Taso Kian and sunk a Chinese transport with soldiers on board. Unfortunately
one of the largest Chinese ironclads of the northern fleet, the Chen-Yuen,
escaped to China and the Chinese torpedo cruiser Huan Tie escaped to Fusan in
Corea. The three Japanese war ships engaged were the Akitsushima, the Makachiho
and the Hi-Yel. They escaped entirely without injury.
JAPAN AGAIN THE VICTOR.
A CHINESE MAN-OF-WAR SUNK AND TWO CRUISERS
CAPTURED.
Conflicting Statements as to the Flag Kow
Shine was Flying—Brutality Denied.
SHANGHAI, July 31.—Another
battle between the Chinese and Japanese fleets was fought yesterday, July 30.
After a serious fight the
Chinese ironclad man-of-war Chen Yuen, the largest and most recently built ship
in the Chinese navy, was sunk and two Chinese cruisers built by the Armstrongs
at Elswick were captured by the Japanese.
The two cruisers were the Chih
Yuen and Ching Yuen.
It is reported that another
cruiser, the Foo Tsching, was also destroyed.
The Chinese fleet carried
about 1,000 men, most of whom were drowned.
Among the killed were two
German officers attached to the Chen Yuen. The Chen Yuen was a battleship of
7,400 tons.
YOKOHAMA, July 31.—The
Japanese government has issued an official statement of the differences which
led to the rupture between Japan and China.
It says Japan and China were
approaching a settlement of their difficulties, when China suddenly requested
Japan to withdraw her fleet from Korea, and to give a formal compliance with
the Chinese demands by the 20th, otherwise the whole Chinese forces were to
land and a sea advance upon [that] part of China was to be made.
The Japanese regarded this as
an ultimatum but, acting under the advice of friendly powers, they agreed to
the proposals, in principle, in amended form, at the same time declaring that
if the threatened Chinese advance was made on the 20th they would retaliate.
The Japanese assert that the
claim that the Kow Shing was flying the British flag is unfounded.
They also deny the charges
that the officers and crew of the Japanese cruiser that sunk the Kow Shing were
brutal in their treatment of the Chinese struggling in the water.
LONDON, July 31.—The managers
of the Indo-Chinese Steam Navigation company, which owned the steamer Kow
Shing, stated to-day that there is no room for doubt that the vessel was in
every respect a British steamer, though she was in the Chinese government service.
She was manned by British
officers and carried the British flag. Besides the English captain, the Kow Shing had four English officers, three of them
engineers.
The Kow Shing was the fastest vessel in eastern waters, and the Japanese
were glad of the chance of depriving China of her services. The presence on board
of General Von Hanneken would also add an incentive to an attack upon the ship,
as that officer was supposed to be on his way to take command of the Chinese
army in Korea.
Lord Kimberley, Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, telegraphed to the British consul at Tien-Tsin for a detailed
report of the sinking of the Kow Shing. The British government will probably ask the French gunboat Lion to
report on the affair.
The officials of the Japanese
embassy here have telegraphed to Tokio for an explanation of the Chinese
charges that an unresisting transport was blown up.
Farmers and Milkmen.
At our new railroad elevator
at 37 Squires-st., we are prepared to furnish all kinds of oats, bran, feed,
middlings, etc., at car rates. We are sole agents for the Celebrated Gluten
feed. Main office, 39 Main st. Telephone call, 75.
(39tf) HOLDEN
& SAGER.
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