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| Trolley cars near the Cortland House at the intersection of Clinton Avenue and Main Street. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday,
January 23, 1895.
ELECTRIC
CARS START.
THE EXPERIMENT YESTERDAY WAS SUCCESSFUL.
Regular Cars Begin This Afternoon—Rapid Transit
Between Cortland and Homer Assured.
The electric
current for running the cars of the Cortland & Homer Traction Co. was turned on for the first time at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and shortly before 5 o'clock one of the cars was run out of the barn.
Quite a crowd had congregated and the car was quickly filled. The snow and ice
which had frozen to the rails, hindered the progress till the track was
cleared, when the car ran as smoothly as if it had been in actual use for
years. The car was run down to the lower end of the car barns and then returned
to the barn.
The other
elegant new car, which was built by the Cortland Omnibus and Cab Co. was then run out. This was a private trip, the
only passengers being Mr. Robert Dunston, Mr. L. D. Garrison, Motorman H. C.
Maxwell of Ithaca and Contractor S. M. Olaz, who managed the trolley rope, and
a STANDARD reporter. This car ran with the same ease as the first one.
Electrician
H. C. Maxwell, who wired the cars and H. L. Leet who put up the trolley wires,
were the recipients of many compliments from the electricians, who were
watching the test for their fine workmanship and the successful result.
The first
regular car will leave the barns at 4 o'clock this afternoon and will be run to
Cortland. It will carry the president of Cortland village and the board of
trustees, beside some of the officers of the road. It was the intention to
start a car each way from the D., L. & W. crossing at 4 o'clock, one to go
to Cortland and the other to Homer, each bearing the city fathers of the respective
places. But Mr. Maxwell is the only one on hand to-day to handle the motor and
as he cannot be in two places at the same time very well a car will have to go
to one place first and then to the other. However, the difference in time
between the two starts will not be very great in either case.
The
crossing has not yet been made over the D., L. & W. tracks, but a temporary
track will be laid across so that a car can be run over. It is likely that horses
are being used to-day for the last time. But until the crossing can be made a
transfer will be required.
Until the
crossing can be effected it is not likely that over two cars can be run each hour,
but that will be a decided improvement over the present hour schedule. As soon
as the crossing is made cars will be run on a twenty-five minute schedule. A
few weeks later the trips will be increased.
The
officials of the road and the builders are congratulating themselves very much
upon the successful way in which the cars started yesterday, and the people of
both villages are congratulating themselves upon the prospects for rapid and
convenient transit.
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| Hospital building on North Main Street, Cortland. |
List of Cash Subscriptions for the New
Place.
The following
is a complete list of the subscriptions to date that have been paid for the
purchase of the hospital:
C. F.
Wickwire, $250.00
T. H. Wickwire,
200.00
Wm.
Blair, Chicago, 100.00
Mrs. J.
M. Schermerhorn, Homer, 100.00
D. F.
Wallace, 100.00
E. H.
Brewer, 100.00
L. J.
Fitzgerald, 100.00
Robert
Purvis, 100.00
F. O.
Hyatt, 100.00
O. U.
Kellogg, 50.00
C. P.
Walrad, 50.00
R. B.
Smith, 50.00
W. H.
Newton, 50.00
W. H.
Clark, 50.00
Cooper
Bros., 50.00
Maxon &
Starin, 50.00
Holden
& Sager, 50.00
Ernest M.
Hulbert, 50.00
G. F.
Beaudry, 25.00
A friend,
25.00
Mrs. M.
E. Doud, 25.00
Beard
& Peck, 25.00
Davis,
Jenkins & Hakes, 25.00
J. E.
Eggleston, 20.00
R. C. Cleaves,
10.00
D. W. Van Hoesen,
10.00
T.
Dougherty, 10.00
Buck
& Lane, 10.00
Mrs.
Sarah Sturtevant, 10.00
I.
Whiteson, 10.00
E. C.
Palmer, 10.00
G. L.
Warren, 10.00
H. B.
Hubbard, 10.00
F. B.
Nourse, 5.00
A. B.
Frazier, 5.00
A. D.
Wallace, 5.00
Wallace
& McKean, 5.00
Mrs. C.
O. Newton, Homer, 5.00
Mrs. Geo.
Brockway, 5.00
Mrs.
Green, Homer, 5.00
Mrs.
Emily Randall, Homer, 5.00
Mrs. S.
Cloyes, 5.00
B. P.
Winchell, 5.00
Misses
Stephens, 4.00
L. T.
White, 2.00
Mrs. Mary
Duell, 1.00
Mrs.
Wadsworth, 1.00
A friend,
1.00
Cash, 1.00
Wm.
Pearson, 1.00
A.
Goddard, 1.00
Mrs. A.
Goddard, 1.00
Mr.
Arnold, .50
For the Benefit of the Hospital.
A number
of interesting specialties are in preparation for the play "Zarah's Sacrifice," Among them are negro melodies,
songs and dances, the latest parodies of the day and the wonderful Houkoo
Boukoo dance especially arranged for this occasion.
BREVITIES.
—The
price of gas has been reduced to $1 a thousand feet in Geneva.
—Binghamton
policemen have arrested several boys for violation of the truant school law.
—A drunk
claiming to hail from Rochester is serving a three days' sentence in the county
jail.
— A
meeting for the purpose of forming a camera club will be held in the Y. M. C.
A. parlors this evening at 8 o'clock.
—Shortly after
2 o'clock this afternoon G. N. Grouse and Robert E. Bentley, a Syracuse grocery
firm, filed a judgment of $192.51 and costs of $2.35 against the firm of
Forrest & Tenney.
—The case
of The People vs. Howard Meacham, who was arrested yesterday afternoon charged
with cruelty to animals in beating his horse Saturday night till it died, was
adjourned till Thursday, Jan. 31 at 10 A M.
—For
several nights part of the elective lights have not been running owing to the
burning out of an armature in one of the dynamos at the electric light station.
Repairs were completed to-day and the lights will all be turned on to-night.
—Dr.
Wilder of Cornell university is strongly opposed to intercollegiate football and
has been urging the passing of an solution in the Cornell faculty prohibiting
the Cornell team from playing with other colleges, The Ithaca Journal says: Yesterday morning Dr.
Wilder's dog ran away. When he returned at night there was found attached to
his collar a tag with the legend "Football Forever." This is one of
the "humors of the campaign" and no one appreciates them more than
the doctor.
MORE WOMAN
EDITORS.
ADDITIONS MADE IN SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS.
Enthusiasm Grows for the Woman's Paper—Work
Being Laid Out—All Are Hustling.
Enthusiasm continues to grow for the woman's edition of the daily
STANDARD to be issued on Washington's birthday. The work is being laid out and
all the editors are hard at work in dead earnest to make the whole thing a
grand success. Several additions have been made to the editorial and the
business departments since yesterday and the whole staff is now as follows:
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Editor-in-chief—Mrs.
Chester C. Darby.
Managing
Editor—Mrs. J. W. Keese.
Assistant
Editor—Mrs. M. C. Eastman.
Telegraph
Editor—Mrs. Wm. H. Clark.
Assistant—Mrs.
M. A. Case.
Current
Events—Mrs. J. L. Robertson.
Religious
Editor—Mrs. L. H. Pearce.
Philanthropy—Mrs.
F. J. Cheney.
Education—Mrs. D. L. Bardwell.
Finance—Mrs.
C. P. Walrad.
Kindergarten—Mrs.
W. H. Pound.
Music—Miss
Carrie D. Halbert.
Art—Mrs.
B. L. Webb.
Medicine—Mrs.
E. B. Nash.
Children's
Department—Mrs. E. P. Halbert.
Travel—Miss
Sarah H. Hubbard.
Correspondence—Mrs. T. H. Wickwire.
Men's
Department—Mrs. S. M. Ballard.
Assistant—Mrs.
E. D. Blodgett.
Athletics—Mrs. W. A. Stockwell.
Literature—Miss M. F. Hendrick.
Book
Reviews—Miss Clara E. Booth
Assistant—Mrs.
J. E. Banta.
Household—Mrs.
C. F. Brown.
Political
Equality—Mrs. P. H. Patterson.
Temperance—Mrs.
James S. Squires.
City
Editor—Mrs. Geo. C. Hubbard.
Assistants—Mrs. W. D. Tisdale, Miss Marion L. Weatherwax, Miss Lillie E.
Dunn.
Society
Events—Mrs. W. R. Cole.
Court
Reporters—Miss Helen E. Kirby, Miss Adda F. Gillett.
G. A. R.
and Woman's Relief Corps—Mrs. Mark Brownell.
Police
Court and Amusements—Mrs. W. J. Perkins.
Personals—Mrs.
C. Fred Thompson.
Schools—Mrs.
H. A. Cordo.
Secret
Societies—Mrs. E. M. Santee.
Catholic
Societies—Mrs. DeWitt Howard.
School
Fraternities —Miss Cora Darby.
Manufacturing—Mrs.
George C. Hubbard.
Y. M. C.
A.—Mrs. J. H. Osterhout.
Church
Reporter—Miss Libbie Robertson.
BUSINESS
DEPARTMENT.
Managing
Editor—Mrs. J. W. Reese.
Assistants—Mrs.
M. C. Eastman, Mrs. F. Daehler, Mrs. B. A. Benedict, Mrs. E. B. Nash, Mrs. A.
Sager, Mrs. C. F. Brown, Mrs. T. H. Wickwire, Mrs. B. M. Ballard, Mrs. C. P.
Walrad, Mrs. R. C. Tillinghast, Mrs. W. R Hill, Mrs. Esther Johnson, Mrs. J.
L. Robertson, Mrs. F. J. Peck, Mrs.
Ernest M. Hulbert, Mrs. H. M. Lane.
Manager
of Circulation—Mrs. Esther Johnson.
The ladies
of the business department will solicit advertisements of the business firms of Cortland and Homer and hope all will respond
liberally.
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