AN UNRULY WITNESS.
COUNSEL
GOFF'S HANDS FULL WITH MR. SHEEHAN.
Lively
Exchange of Compliments and Some Exhibitions of Temper Relieve the Monotony at
the Lexow Inquiry. The Commissioner Refuses Point Blank to Submit His Bank
Books—The Day's Developments.
NEW YORK. Oct. 31.—Commissioner Sheehan
was on the stand again before the Lexow committee and as usual a good deal of
hot talk passed between the witness and Mr. Goff.
Mr.
Goff drew the commissioner out in reference to his idea of the duties of the
police board. First and foremost, the witness claimed the duty of the police
board was to see that the $5,000,000 annual appropriation was properly
expended. The board must also see that the officers on the force did their
duty.
Mr. Goff endeavored to make a telling point
by getting the witness to admit that the board considered the proper
enforcement of the rules among the officers as secondary to the expenditure of
the $5,000,000 appropriation.
The commissioner, however, would not admit
the truth of such an inference.
After the recess Commissioner Sheehan
resumed the witness stand.
Counsel Goff held a conference with his
associates, Mr. Moss, Otto Kemper, Dr. Parkhurst, Charles Stewart Smith and
Detective Whitney.
"Why did you vote against a recent
motion made by Commissioner Murray to have policemen assigned to polling places
other than the precinct in which they live?" finally asked Mr. Goff.
"Because the assignments are in the hands
of Superintendent Byrnes."
"Did you read the newspaper accounts of
this investigation?"
"Oh, at first."
"Commissioner," sternly said
Chairman Lexow, "you say you have not read of the mass of corruption
exposed here and you, a police commissioner?"
"I've read some of the cases."
"Did you read of Policeman Hussey's case?"
"Hussey! Hussey!" repeated the
commissioner, trying to remember the case, which is familiar in the minds of
the reading public.
"Answer my question and don't attempt to
bulldoze your answer on the record."
"If I'm a bulldozer, we're two of a
kind," snapped the irate witness.
Mr. Goff said an evening paper claimed that
the police department collected $15,000,000 in blackmail.
"Does it lie or do you not care for the
hostility of a newspaper?"
"It is mistaken; I don't care for
newspapers."
"How about the liquor dealers paying
tribute to the police?"
"They didn't have to lie. They knew
there were two Tammany commissioners on the board who would not allow it,"
said the commissioner indignantly.
"Ah, Tammany and the liquor
dealers," said Mr. Goff.
"Did you know President Martin and
Richard Croker met a delegation of liquor dealers in the parlor of the Hoffman
House and agreed to have the money heretofore given to the police paid into the
treasury of Tammany Hall?"
The witness professed not to have heard it.
Mr. Goff then made the commissioner
uncomfortable by showing he had copied the language of the circular of the
Municipal Signal company of Boston in making a report to the police board on
the necessity for electric signals for the police.
"He has been guilty of literary
piracy," commented Senator O'Connor.
"Bring your private and public bank
books tomorrow," said Mr. Goff.
"I will not," said the witness
positively.
Mr. Goff did not take the commissioner to
task for his refusal, but had the next witness called. This was Herman Spitz,
an ignorant Austrian. He did not want to testify. It was said he had been
intimidated. Mr. Moss at least dragged from him a story to the effect that he
had been stabbed twice because he incurred the hostility of Israel Wemstock; a
man known as Dutchy had tried to prevent the witness from prosecuting Wemstock.
Dutchy, it appeared, was an agent of Silver
Dollar Smith. The story had been only partly developed when the investigation
was adjourned for the day.
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| Thomas E. Byrnes. |
NEW YORK, Oct. 31. — Superintendent Byrnes
was directed by the police commissioners to make charges against all those
policemen connected with the assault on the striking cloakmakers at Rutger's
square on Oct. 18.
The commissioners issued this order in the
face of Inspector Williams' report to the effect that he had investigated the
affair and found that the police had committed no assaults.
These charges will involve Captain Grant of
the Madison street station and several patrolmen.
At the time the alleged assaults were
committed the strikers were forming a parade for which they had secured a permit.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
More
Democratic Mendacity.
When Levi P. Morton, the Republican
candidate for governor, returned from Europe recently, he brought John James
Howard from England with him to act as second coachman. This was in direct
defiance of the law and Morton was not ignorant of the fact. Secretary Carlisle
says the law must be upheld no matter who suffers by its action and Howard will
be sent back to England. All of Morton's employees at his country
home are foreigners and yet he asks American laboring men to vote for him
for governor. Probably he would import men from abroad to fill all his
appointments if he should be elected—Levi is quite "Hinglish, ye
know."—Cortland Democrat.
Does the Democrat
consider all its subscribers fools, or does it tell such whoppers as the above
for fun—or is there no one about the office who knows anything or reads
anything? Judge Lacombe, before whom John James Howard was
brought, held that he was a domestic servant and therefore did not come within
the provisions of the contract labor law, but be also held that it was the
province of the secretary of the treasury and not of the court to direct his
release. Yet with this judicial record staring him in the face Secretary
Carlisle declines to release the man, and all because the smallest kind of
peanut political politics suggests that to hold him may injure Mr. Morton. What
a spectacle for a cabinet minister to present!
"All of Morton's employees at his
country home are foreigners." says the Democrat, when it knows better. More than a week before it published this
statement, the STANDARD published a list of the number and nationalities of all
of Mr. Morton's employees at his country home, which had previously appeared in
the New York papers, and the correctness of which has never been disputed. That
statement showed that of the 44 men employed on the 900 acres composing Elierslie,
Mr. Morton's estate, thirty-two are Americans, nine are Irish, two Scotch and
one English. Yet the Democrat coolly
insults the intelligence of its readers with such stuff as the paragraph which
we have quoted above from its columns. The local organ of the Democracy is
plainly a frightful example of the prevailing demoralization in its party. Its
editorials read like the testimony of a Tammany police man under charges—and
bear about the same relation to the facts.
Incapables.
Thousands of people are out of work just
now. Some of them have been discharged for what seems to them no reason at all,
and others have been employed in their places. The discharged ones would
"fly up" in a minute if they were told that they had been discharged
because they did not understand their trade, yet such would be the exact fact.
A business house advertises for a stenographer.
Fifty probably apply. The best
is selected, tried, found wanting, discharged and another taken on probation,
then another and another. Half a dozen may be tested before one is found that
will even half way do. One could not spell. That one did not know grammar. A
third was uncleanly and unpleasant in personal habits. Another did not know the
commonest business terms. A fifth took two hours to do work that a really
capable work woman would have done in half an hour. Yet another knew no more
than a baby concerning current events. The rest showed so little interest in
their work that they were the merest timeservers waiting for the clock to point
to the hour of their release to prepare for frivolous amusement in the evening.
So through the whole list.
The stenographer is merely a sample. The
plumber is just as incompetent. The
workmen who spoiled the Carnegie armor plate and caused the firm to be fined
$140,000 may have done so through dishonesty or carelessness. It has not been
ascertained which. But at any rate it was incompetency—moral incompetency in
the one case, incapacity as workmen in the other. If one wishes to get a simple
job of carpentering or painting done, the result is so unsatisfactory that the
disgusted man who pays the bills is often tempted to say workmen ought to go
hungry, at least till the incapable and the conscienceless ones are starved out
of the trades they disgrace.
It is safe to say no more than one in ten of
the pretended masters of trades and occupations really understands his business
and will work at it as he should. There is another point to take note of. Amid
a world full of incapables and slumpers the really competent, enthusiastic
person who takes a pride in doing his work well is rarely out of employment
long at a time. The world wants him and will make place for him.
BUDDHISM
CONSIDERED.
At
Cornell University by Prof. Rhys-Davids of London.
A course of lectures on Buddhism to be given
in Sage chapel, Ithaca, N. Y., by Prof. T. W. Rhys-Davids, Ph.D., LLD., of
London, will begin Nov. 1 and continue until Nov. 8. As this is the only
appearance of Prof. Davids outside the seaboard cities, the coming of so
distinguished a scholar makes the occasion one of unusual interest.
A general view of the range covered by Prof.
Davids' course may be obtained from the titles of the lectures, which are as
follows:
"Religious Teachers and their Teaching
in India and in the West."
"Buddhist Books and Their
History."
"The Life of the Buddha."
"The Buddha's Secret, Part I; the
Cradle of Life; the Four-Tenths and the Noble Eight-fold path."
"The Buddha's Secret, Part II; the
Mystic Trance and Arahtaship."
"The Ideal of the Later Buddhism. The
Great Vehicle and What it Means."
The lectures all occur at 5 o'clock P. M.
and this hour would afford a fine opportunity for Cortland people who might be
interested to go over at 3:17 and return upon the late train. Tickets may be
obtained of Secretary A. F. Weber, secretary for [Cornell] President Schurman,
Ithaca, N. Y.
INFORMATION
FOR VOTERS.
Facts
that Should be Clearly Understood upon Election Day.
The following hints to voters have been
clipped from an exchange and has been submitted to County Clerk Jones for
verification. He pronounces all the points correct. Voters will do well to read
it over carefully.
The polls on Election day open at sunrise
and close at sunset.
The paster cannot be used over the
constitutional ballots. If so used the ballot cannot be counted.
There will be seventeen ballots used, and
six ballot boxes, also one box for the unused ballots and one for the stubs.
Voters will fold the ballots from the bottom
to the dotted line at the top, covering over the printed matter, and fold the
ballots again inward across the middle, showing the endorsement on the outside.
The voter will fold all the ballots given him, He will first hand the ballots
he intends to vote to the inspector and afterwards the ballots which he does
not vote.
Voters who are deaf and dumb or who can
neither read nor write are not thereby physically disabled.
Inspectors are not judges of the kind or
extent of the disability.
Physical disability is total blindness, or
loss of both hands, or such total inability in both hands that the voter cannot
use either hand for ordinary purposes, or such physical disability by reason of
crippled condition or disease that he is unable to enter the booth alone, whereby
he is unable to receive or prepare his ballots alone without assistance. This
disability the voter must declare under oath to the inspectors, whereupon he
may select a person who shall be allowed to pass within the guard-rail, receive
the ballots, enter the booth with such voter and assist him in preparing his
ballots and presenting them to the inspector for voting.
One ballot box should be prepared for each
constitutional amendment proposition, and as many other boxes as may be
required by law, namely: One box for all voted candidate ballots, one barrel
for all rejected ballots of every description, and one barrel for all stubs torn
off.
There
shall be at each polling place at least one booth for every fifty voters
in the election district. This provision should be strictly
observed.
Voters' qualifications are: Residence of a
year in the state, four months in the county, thirty days in the election district.
Read the instruction cards posted at the
polling places.
The county clerk is charged with the duty of
providing the ballots.
Each voter may enter within the rail and
booth at two different times, and be may have a complete set of ballots at each
time.
One full set of all ballots, 17 in number, must
be delivered to each voter. He must
fold properly all the ballots given.
Neither inspectors nor ballot clerks can
fold the ballots.
Taking the "general" oath
qualifies the person to vote and taking the physical disability oath entitles
the voter to assistance.
Inspectors cannot require a foreign born
voter to show his naturalization papers.
It is the duty of the inspectors to challenge,
and they shall not disclose the name of the person requesting the challenge.
Each party is also entitled to at least one challenger, who shall stand outside
the rail, but in plain view of the inspectors.
Watchers shall show their appointment before
they can be admitted within the guard-rail.
Sewer
Gossip.
Mr. Doe, senior member of the firm of sewer
contractors, says that he wants to complete the work on Tompkins-st., and the
work on Port Watson-st,, which will take about five days, and then he will be
ready to bring to Main-st. all four gangs of men which are now working in four
different places in the village. With this large force he thinks he can tear up
Main-st. from the Messenger House to the Cortland House, lay the sewers and put
the street back in good condition again all in a week.
All of Port Watson-st. is now laid except a
section between Pendleton-st. and Hyatt-st. Work has been delayed in this place
because the pipe sent for it was not perfect and was not accepted by the
contractors. Consequently they had to wait for the new pipe which has now
arrived.
City
Band at "Fogg's Ferry."
One of the features of the performance of
"Fogg's Ferry" on Friday evening of this week will be the rendition
of the grand overture "Poet and Peasant" by the Cortland City band. This fine
overture was the selection that the Robert A. Packer band of Sayre won [in] the
band contest at the Firemen's convention at Ithaca the past fall and is one of
the finest of musical selections. The full orchestra will also be present and
every piece that they render will be new.
Closed
on Executions.
Sheriff Miller levied on the stock of E. B.
Richardson's Cycle house yesterday on three executions amounting to $2,883.06,
from the Syracuse Cycle Co. of $277.07, William Spaulding and Colin A.
Spaulding of Syracuse for $1,645.59 and the Eclipse Bicycle Co. for $960.40.
Mr. Richardson has been a stirring young business man of Cortland, and his
present financial embarrassment is due solely to the hard times and to his
inability to make collections.
Police
Court.
William Coleman, who lives in Onondaga
county and has been at work here, was sentenced to three days or three dollars.
A young woman too full to give her name was
arrested yesterday afternoon by Chief Sager. After being incarcerated all night
in the "cooler" she was very contrite. She said that her name was
"Bertie" or Bertha Applegait. She had a marriage certificate with the
names of Charles Knapp Applegait to Bertha Murray. The story went that her
husband had got full and sympathetically she did likewise. She was unfortunate
enough on the street and get pulled. "Three dollars or three days" was
what Judge Bull sentenced her and when last seen Mr. Applegait was traveling
faster than his usual gait endeavoring to scrape up money enough to keep her from
serving her time.
New
Jewelry Firm.
H. P. Gray has sold his jewelry store at 79
Main-st. to Messrs. G. L Henson and J. A. Crisp of Jefferson, O., who will
continue the business under the firm name of Henson & Crisp. The former has
had fifteen years and the latter twenty-one years of experience in the jewelry
business. Possession was given to-day.
Mr. Henson, who is a brother-in-law of Mr. H. F. Bingham of the firm of Bingham & Miller, has moved to Cortland and
will be in charge of the store here, while Mr. Crisp will continue in charge of
another store owned by the same firm in Jefferson. Both the gentlemen had the
reputation of being hustlers and honorable business men in their old home, and
they will run a first-class store here. Mr. H. P. Gray, who retires, will remain
with them for a time as an
assistant.
BREVITIES.
—The great Powell and his company of ten
people are stopping at the Messenger House.
—There will be a meeting of the Universalist
church members to-morrow night at 7 o'clock.
—The mothers' meeting will be held at the
East Side reading rooms, Thursday, Nov. 1, at 3 o'clock P. M. An invitation is
extended to all.
—The 6 o'clock train on the D., L. & W.
R. R. did not arrive until 8:30 this morning owing to an accident on the main
line at Foster, Pa. Details of the accident appear in the news dispatches on the
first page.
—The STANDARD is indebted to Mr. W. J.
Mantanye for a pamphlet copy of the debates upon the report of the suffrage
committee of the constitutional convention in regard to woman suffrage. The
report occupies 197 closely printed pages.
— Pedestrian Weston reached Binghamton last
night at 8:05 o'clock, fifteen minutes behind time. He was in splendid
condition. At Marathon he made a speech for the Republican ticket. He left Binghamton
at 2 o'clock this morning for Deposit.
A HUNGRY
MAN FROM THE GRAVE.
Jules
Carle Kicked Out of His Coffin and Sat Down to [Supper].
While Jules Carle sat in a restaurant awaiting
his ordered breakfast at Westminster, B. C., he suddenly died—at least there
was every physical evidence of death. A competent physician examined him and pronounced
him dead, a victim of heart disease. He was laid out for burial, and his
friends kept the usual vigil over his body.
All the time he was keenly conscious of what
went on about him and could realize the fate in store for him and yet was as helpless
as if he had been really dead. In the afternoon of the next day his friends bore
him in sadness to the graveyard. He suffered untold agonies lying in the
coffin, with the lid fastened down. He tried in vain to move or make a noise to
indicate that he was alive. The trance held him a deathlike prisoner. Finally
he could feel himself being lowered into the grave. As the first clod of earth
struck the lid of his coffin he began feeling warm blood pulsating from his
heart. All at once he could move his hands. He struck the coffin lid and called
out for help. The alarmed pallbearers stopped shoveling dirt into the grave. He
called again. The majority of those present beat a hasty retreat, alarmed over
the fact that the dead had come to life.
One courageous friend unscrewed the lid of
the coffin and helped him out. He never felt better in his life and ran about, exercising
his benumbed limbs. The people believed they had witnessed a miracle. He
returned to town and entered the restaurant, hungry for supper, and when the cook
and servants saw him come in, wrapped in his shroud, they rushed out through windows
and doors, shaking with fright.
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