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E. &. C. N. Y. R. R. NOTES.
Work Has Begun—Bridges Contracted For—More
Land Needed.
Foreman
Charles Benson with a gang of men began work Friday morning at the junction of
the D., L. & W. R. R. and the E., C. & N. R. R. grading for the new E.
& C. N. Y. R. R. He increased his force of men on Monday. So far as is
possible Cortland men will be employed. It is expected that more land will be
needed in the vicinity of the junction to make the proper connections with the
other roads. This will be attended to very soon,
A
contract was Thursday made with the Groton Bridge Co. to furnish the iron
bridge to be used at Trout brook, just this side of McGrawville. A temporary bridge
of piles is to be erected at once over the Tioughnioga river, as the contractor
cannot wait for the iron for a permanent structure for this. The Groton Bridge
Co. is now figuring on a single span and a double span iron bridge for this
place and a contract will be made for it in a few days. This will replace the
temporary wooden bridge. Figures are also being made upon other bridges along
the line.
WORKING ON THE ROAD.
Prospects for the Speedy Completion of the
E. & C. N. Y. R. R.
A Standard
reporter went down to the junction Friday afternoon and saw Foreman Charles
Benson and a gang of ten men hard at work on the grading on the new Erie and
Cortland [Central] New York railroad. There is really very little grading to be
done this side of the Tioughnioga river, as the old road bed, graded over
twenty years ago, is in good condition. The work which is being done just now,
however, is changing the curve somewhat where the new road comes in upon the
E., C. & N. near the Floral Trout park, As it was originally graded, the
union between these two roads brought the switch not over ten or fifteen feet
from the D., L. & W. crossing. The curve is now being thrown over a few
degrees toward the north and begins two hundred feet or more further east, so
that the switch to the E., C. & N. R. R. will be several hundred feet east of
the D., L. & W. crossing.
The men
have made a crossing over the E., C. & N. R. R. for teams at the south end
of Owen-ave. so, that material can be drawn down there. It is not, however, the
intention to make much use of teams at present. They are not needed for grading
and a construction train will be used which will carry the material almost to
the place where it will be needed. Foreman Benson told The Standard man that the ties were
promised to arrive in Cortland June 6, and the rails on June 10. The timbers and
piles for the bridge over the Tioughnioga have all been ordered and will be on
hand by the time the rails are laid down to the river. It is estimated that it
will take about three weeks to put up the bridge and get it ready for use. The work
of laying rails and ties on the east side by the river will then be pushed with
the utmost speed.
Sewer Work Progressing.
The
sewers are progressing rapidly. Four gangs of Italians are at work in as many
different parts of the village. The work on James-st. is necessarily slow owing
to the fact that rock has to be blasted out for the laying of the pipe. The
pipe is laid on Railroad-st. nearly to Church-st. and on Elm-st, to Hubbard-st.
Crandall-st. is completed from Railroad-st. to-Elm-st. Another gang will be set
at work in a few days as soon as more pipe arrives which is on the way. It is
thought that work will be begun on Main-st. in two or three weeks.
LOCAL PERSONALS.
MR. S. A.
MOTT, who was at one time an employee of this office, but who is now in charge
of the printing plant of Bell, the seedsman in Binghamton, called at The Standard
office Saturday. Mr. Mott was on his way to Scott to visit his people.
The many
friends of Mr. Lucius Davis, who had his left limb amputated at Ithaca some
weeks since, will be pleased to know that he is doing well and is expected home
in a few days. He has been suffering from pneumonia also, but is nearly
recovered.
Dr. F. J.
CHENEY went to Norwich this morning to attend a teachers’ institute. He
conducts exercises this afternoon and lectures in the evening. On Wednesday he
returns to Cazenovia and that evening makes an address before the Cazenovia
district Epworth league.
PROF. E. DAY
CLARK, who for two years has been in charge of the preparatory department of
Homer academy has been elected to the principalship of Dryden academy for the
coming year. Mrs. Clark has also been elected to a position in the same school.
They had both been elected to positions in the Homer school but have resigned.
MR. ISRAEL
RICKARD, 95 years old, told a Standard reporter the other day that he was the
second oldest man in the county, Hosea Sprague of Homer being the oldest. There
is no one to dispute honors with Mr. Sprague for first place, but McGrawville
people have put forward a claim for second place, their candidate being a
resident of that place, “Uncle” Daniel A. Thompson, aged 99 years. Mr. Thompson
is hale and hearty and in full possession of all his faculties. It looks as
though Mr. Rickard would have to yield the palm to his older friend.
PROF. H.
P. GALLINGER, after having served two years as principal of Oxford academy, in
connection with a faculty which has been eminently successful, has tendered his
resignation to the board of trustees. Mr. Gallinger is to leave for Europe in
July to follow a line of study in Germany.—Oxford Times. It is understood that
Mr. Gallinger is not to go alone to Germany but that a very important event
will occur early in July over in the Lake region in which he will play a prominent
part, and will be assisted in the performance by an attractive young lady
formerly a student of the Cortland Normal, later of the Oneonta Normal.
Instead of Dehorning Cattle.
There
seems to be a rage at present among dairymen for dehorning cattle. A Cortland man who has had much experience with
cattle says that he has a better way than dehorning and it answers the same
purpose. When the calf is about a week old the incipient horns are then just
visible and are soft and tender. At that time he rubs them for a minute or two
with crystalized potash and the horns never grow any more. The calf is not hurt
in the least. He has practiced this for years and always with success. He
thinks it far better than the dehorning process when the animal and the horns
have come to maturity
TROLLEY CAR ACCIDENT.
Went Over a Fifteen-Foot Embankment Turned
Bottom Side Up.
A trolley
car on the North Salina-st. division of the Syracuse street railway with a load
of eighteen passengers, while running rapidly Sunday jumped the track, went
over a fifteen-foot embankment and landed bottom side upward in a quaggy
depression covered with water two feet deep. Strange to say there was no loss
of life or limb, though all were more or less bruised and there were some
broken bones. The cause of the accident is not known. The car was almost a new
one and the wheels are all right. The road bed was in good order,
Dissolution.
The
partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned under the firm name of
Holden & Seager is this day dissolved by mutual consent. It is desired that
all accounts to May 1 due the firm be paid within thirty days at the office, 39
Main-st.
S. N. Holden,
J. C. Seager,
Dated May
22, 1895.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Girls,
You Will Have to Come to It.
If half
the girls and women who are riding about Cortland to-day on bicycles had been
told three years ago that they would ever appear on the public streets mounted
on a wheel, they would either have fainted away or been as “mad as hoptoads.” Yet our village is swarming with female
bicyclists, and no one knows how many more are practicing in back yards and
lanes and other concealed places, ready to swarm as soon as they can do so
without making spectacles of themselves.
Some of
the same girls and women who would have been stricken with madness or
unconsciousness a few years since at the prophecy of their ever becoming
bicyclists, would go into just as dead a faint or just as towering a passion
now if we, or any one else, should predict that in another year or so they will
be bicycling in bloomers. But they will don the bloomers just the same. The
step from pedestrianism to a “bike” is a great deal longer than from the saddle
of the aforesaid “bike” into bloomers. And riding isn’t nearly so far ahead of
walking as bloomers are ahead of a dangling, twisting, inconvenient and dangerous
skirt. The catching of skirts in bicycle pedals and the unceremonious dumping
of the wearers of the skirts upon the sidewalk or into the dust of the road are altogether too common and
disagreeable to be at all funny.
No female bicyclist who has ever tried bloomers
will want to go back to skirts, though just now in some rural regions Mrs. Grundy
may compel such a return. But the
bloomers are on their bright way to the country wardrobes, for they already adorn
the shapely anatomies of many of the feminine representatives of New York
City’s aristocracy. Paris female bicyclists wear bloomers by a large majority
and ride diamond-framed wheels like any man, and one of the large New England
bicycle factories advertises that it exports for women’s use only
diamond-framed wheels.
Bloomers are getting to be more in evidence
in our metropolis every day. Girls in
other cities are casting wistful eyes at them, and soon will be in to them. What
years of preaching in behalf of health and convenience couldn’t bring about,
the all-conquering wheel is doing in less than a decade.
So our Cortland girls, if they are to be in
it, from the bicyclists point of view, next year may as well be getting posted
on the latest cut in bloomers and leggings. This is
the toggery that is going to go, and the girl who is not ripe for it will not
be an up-to-date or end-of-the century damsel. Pa may be shocked and Ma
horrified and Aunt Tabitha have a stroke of paralysis at the suggestion, but
the Cortland girl of flying heels will soon be the Cortland girl of bloomers
and leggings. And when she is, she will be all the freer, happier, healthier and
handsomer. The sooner, therefore, she gets them the better—and the few Cortland
girls who are already wearing bloomers when they mount their wheels for a spin
after dusk may just as well do it in broad day light, and lead the grand procession which their sisters are bound to
join.
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