WOMEN WHO WOULD NOT VOTE

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, October 7, 1895.

WOMEN WHO WOULD NOT VOTE.

Address to Voters by the Anti-Woman Suffrage Society.

   ALBANY, Oct. 7.—The special state committee of anti-woman suffragists, headed by Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn of this city, has issued the following address to the electors of the state of New York:

   "The committee of women organized in the state of New York to oppose the amendment to the constitution striking out the word 'male' in the qualification of voters, address this appeal to the electors of the state. The members of the committee are perfectly aware that it is unconstitutional and wrong to ask of any person seeking nomination or election to the legislature any pledge as to his discharge of the responsibility of his position. They are anxious, therefore, to urge upon the voters of the state that they should take pains to secure the nomination and election to the legislature of men opposed to the imposition upon women of the unwelcome and unsuitable responsibility of the ballot. It is not thought wise or necessary to enter into any argument in this appeal against so radical and fundamental a revolution in the system of elections."

Ladies of the Wheel.

WHEEL NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.

   Two ladles on a tandem was a Baltimore institution as long ago as 1888.

   A woman's toilet case for cyclists is the latest thing imported from Paris.

   How bloomer balls can be popular with women is a mystery, when love of dress is taken into consideration.

   The new woman is participating in races—tandem affairs at that—in Leeds and elsewhere in the tight little island.

   Mrs. Mary Gibbs, 75 years old of Oneonta, N. Y., challenges any lady of her age in the state to a bicycle race of one mile.

   Mrs. R. J. Macredy, the pioneer woman cyclist in Ireland, and wife of the editor of The Irish Cyclist, is riding in rational costume.

   Some women in Cincinnati have organized a woman cycle club to encourage cycling among the fair sex. The club name is Avolante.

   The bicycle has been a great factor in making a new woman of the one who has all along insisted upon wearing her husband's pants, says Turf, Field and Farm.

   The fair Parisian revels in a costume that resembles nothing so nearly as it does the outfit of the decorous page who, in sack coat and tights, trumpets the approach of tinsel royalty on the stage.

ARMENIAN TROUBLES.

Foreign Ambassadors Urge the Sultan to Release the Prisoners.

   CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 7.—On Saturday, Sir Phillip Currie, the British ambassador, had an interview with Kiamel Pasha, the grand vizier, in which he made strong representations and forcibly urged upon him to cease making arrests of Armenians.

   Kiamel Pasha in reply expressed his anxiety to improve the situation. It is expected that he will advise the sultan to grant amnesty to all the Armenians who have been arrested in connection with the riots [in Constantinople] since Monday.

   The ambassadors of the powers held a conference and drew up a collective note which will be presented to the porte today. Afterwards they went to the porte personally and made verbal representations on the subject of Armenia.

   The foreign men-of-war which are acting as guard ships have been ordered to moor in the harbor for the winter in order to protect foreigners in case of need.

   Sir Phillip Currie has asked leave of the government to visit the Armenians now in prison in order to draw up a report. Up to Friday 80 bodies had been registered as victims of the disorders, all of which had been terribly wounded. Some of them contained over 20 gashes beside bullet wounds, and others had been battered with bludgeons so as to be unrecognizable.

   All accounts concur that the number of victims thrown into the sea was only three. The gendarmes killed a few of the wounded.

   Said Pasha has been reappointed minister of foreign affairs to succeed Turkhan Pasha, who was appointed to that office to succeed Said Pasha when the latter was made grand vizier.

USS MONOCACY.

Our Warships in China.

   WASHINGTON, Oct. 7—Among the naval movements reported to the navy department were the arrival of the Monocacy at Shanghai and the departure of the Machias from Hannow for Shanghai and the treaty ports. While no reason is assigned by the commanding officers of these vessels for the movements, it is assumed to be a desire of the admiral commanding the Asiatic station to have them in southern China where they may be readily available in the event of trouble.

Register in Person.

   Every voter in the village of Cortland must register in person. The first and second days in Cortland are October 11th and 12th; the third and fourth days, October 18th and 19th. Remember, if you wish to vote the inspectors cannot, as formerly, register your name, but you must personally appear at your polling place.

New Cigar Store.

   Messrs. Fred B. Lampman and W. G. Lanning have rented the south store in the new Graham building on Main-st., and, under the firm name of Lampman & Lanning, will to-morrow open a cigar and tobacco store with a full line of goods. A little later they expect to put in nuts and confectionery. They are enterprising young men and will no doubt receive their share of patronage.

Homer Trolley Party.

   The Cortland & Homer Traction Co. has decided to give a trolley party on Wednesday afternoon of this week, if the day be fair, if not on

Thursday, for the benefit of the Old Ladies' Home in Homer, instead of giving the proceeds of certain cars on the Homer line, as was first proposed. A car and trailer will be placed at the disposal of the committee, and will leave Homer at 2:15 P. M., and will take a trip to McGrawville and to the park, and in fact over the whole line of the road. Tickets can be obtained of Mrs. W. H. Crane. Further particulars later.

Commissioners Appointed.

   The matter of the injunction of  W. R. Randall and others vs. the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. came up before Judge Walter Lloyd Smith at Elmira Saturday. The injunction was further modified to permit the railroad company to spike and line up the track. J. E. Eggleston, A. A. Carley and A. H. Van Hoesen were appointed commissioners to appraise damages and the first hearing was set down for October 16 at the office of Judge Eggleston. John Courtney, Jr., of Cortland and Fred Collin appeared for the plaintiff and I. H. Palmer for the defendant.

FRANCHISE HEARING.

Shall the Traction Company Build a Short Cut on Elm-st.?

   The hearing occurs to-night at the office of Clerk Hatch on the application of the Cortland & Homer Traction Co. for a franchise to build a line of the road from Church st. through Elm-st. to Pendleton-st. It would not seem that any opposition should be made to granting this franchise. It is but a short bit of Street, but it cuts off three sides of a square.

   The Traction company has found that the cars are so hindered by trains at certain times at the D., L. & W. station when trying to cross the tracks upon Railroad-st. that there is no possibility of arranging a time schedule which can be rigidly adhered to and there is no certainty of getting McGrawville passengers to the E., C. & N. station to connect with trains. Elm-st. is rarely blockaded with trains more than a couple of minutes or so at a time and this difficulty will be obviated by crossing at this point. The Traction company can handle the heavy park traffic with ease if the cars can run straight through.

BREVITIES.

   —The Prohibition county convention held its session this afternoon in Collins' hall. A full account of it will be given to-morrow.

   —A special communication of Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. and A. M., will be held this evening. The E. A. degree will be worked.

   —The funeral of Mrs. Eleanor Hammond, who died Thursday, aged 54 years, was held from her late residence, on Homer-ave., yesterday afternoon. Burial in Cortland Rural cemetery.

   —This morning Charles Altmark, a cigarmaker, appeared before Justice Bull and swore out a warrant for the arrest of one Huguenin, a cigarmaker, on the charge of assault in the third degree.

   —A train on the Lackawanna made a new record on Saturday. The run from Buffalo to Binghamton a distance of 199 miles, was made in 175 minutes, or a fraction over 52 seconds per mile.—Binghamton Republican.

   —Invitations are out for the wedding of Mr. Maurice Saunders of Buffalo, formerly of Cortland and son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Saunders, and Miss Jessie H. Batchelor of Buffalo, which will occur in that city on Tuesday evening, Oct. 22 at 7 o'clock.

   —The boys are now condoling with the young man who attended a dance in a neighboring town last Friday night and found when he went after his horse that some one had borrowed the animal. His young lady had to go home with another gentleman and he made use of a road cart.

   —The guessing contest that was held in Joiners' booth at Dryden fair has been awarded to John Knapp of Etna, his guess was 3,840; the correct number being 3,675. The smallest number guessed was 1,450 by F. E. Thomas, Dryden; the largest, 53,493, by N. W. Wakefield, Homer,

   —At the M. E. conference at Newark Saturday, Rev. H. C. Moyer, chairman of the select committee of fifteen appointed to investigate the charges of prevarication against Rev. P. J. Reeves of Virgil, reported that the committee found that all of the charges were sustained. Mr. Reeves was expelled from the church.

   —An effort is being made by the congregation of the First Methodist church to secure for their pulpit Dr. Pierce of Cortland. Dr. Pierce is a very able preacher and would like to come to Ithaca, as he has two sons in the university. The Cortland people are loth to part with his valued services.—Ithaca Journal.

   —One of the most beautiful of souvenir numbers has just been issued by the Auburn Daily Advertiser in honor of its 50th anniversary. Cuts, typography, presswork, paper and makeup are beyond criticism, and it is a credit to Auburn as well as The Advertiser. The illustrations and descriptive matter give the city one of the best advertisements it has ever enjoyed.

   —A union session of the dentists of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth districts will be held in Binghamton Oct. 29, 30 and 31. The Sixth district comprises the counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Tompkins, Tioga, Chenango and Madison. The delegates from the Seventh and Eighth districts will be the guests of the Sixth district.

CAPTURED A MAN EATER.

E. S. Dalton Had a Tussel with a Shark in Pensacola Bay.

   The Pensacola, (Fla.,) daily Times of Oct. 2, says: "Last evening about 9 o'clock Messrs. E. S. Dalton of Cortland, N. Y., F. W. Smartt of Nashville, Tenn., J. C. Rhodes of Oakford, Ind., and W. C. Walker of Pensacola had a rare old time at the foot of Palafox-st. wharf with a 12 foot, 8-inch leopard shark—a regular man eater. It required the united efforts of the four gentlemen named above and reinforcements, to the number of ten men—making fourteen in all—to manage this monster, which weighed 625 pounds and whose capacious jaws measured 18 inches.

   The hook which 'did the business' was made to order yesterday for these gentlemen by a cunning iron worker of this city, T. D. Brooks, and was of half-inch steel, and had two feet of heavy chain attached to it. The line used was of manilla, half an inch in diameter and two hundred feet long, and the bait which fooled his fishship was two large red fish heads, and the boys do say that it was altogether the biggest fight they ever had a hand in.

   The editor of The Times has been promised the backbone of this fellow and if he ever gets it, and if any of you skeptics doubt the entire accuracy of this 'fish story,' just walk around to the office, bring a tape line with you and…."

 

TRUST

Joe Bakewell.

TRUST

Recently, a few items in the news have caught my interest for reasons that have little to do with the news. They are first, the objections to Amazon’s sale of facial recognition technology to police departments in the U.S.; and second, congressional concern for national security in the matter of forgiving ZTE, a Chinese cell phone manufacturer, for violating sanctions on Iran and thereby allowing them to import chips from the U.S. and to sell phones here.

I have no special insight or information regarding either of these issues. The first caused me to think that many, possibly most, citizens don’t trust their elected officials to maintain control over the ethics of their police. My initial reaction to the ZTE matter was to wonder what special interests were being served. Might this be a protectionist move?

Taken together, I realized that I don’t trust our government. I haven’t always been this way. Certainly, when I joined the army and when I participated in a tiny way in our moon landing, I was a proud American.

Today, the self-serving, self-enriching members of our House and Senate, and their ‘fellow travelers’ disgust me, and I feel for all the patriotic public servants who are forced to compromise their values while doing their duty.

But, as I’ve heard so often, “There’s nothing we can do about it.”

Joe Bakewell

https://joebakewell.wordpress.com/

 

CORTLAND LAND PARK CO.

The Elm Street trolley bridge over the river was removed and sold for scrap in the late 1950's.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, October 5, 1895.

CORTLAND LAND PARK CO.

ORGANIZED WITH A CAPITAL OF $30,000.

New Scheme to Boom Cortland—Building Lots on the Park Hill—Electric Lights and City Water.

   A new organization, the result and efforts of which will be a great boom to Cortland in the near future, is the Cortland Park Land company which has recently been organized with the following directors for the first year: H. Bergholtz and D. F. Van Vleet of Ithaca, C. D. Simpson, P. S. Page and Horace E. Hand of Scranton, Pa. and Hugh Duffey and Edward Keator of Cortland. The capital stock of the new company is $30,000 and the directors will meet in Cortland in a few days for the election of officers.

   Mr. B. B. Cunningham of Rochester, who is also connected with the McKee Land Co. of Rochester and is experienced in his line of work is in town in the interests of the company as manager, and is busy laying out lots in the park between the McGrawville highway and the woods. Each lot is 50 by 100 feet in size and will be sold at a reasonable price. There will be a wide boulevard between the electric car tracks and the river and cross streets will extend east and west to the wagon road east of the park. Electric lights will be put in at the intersections of the streets, and city water will also be put in.

   The lots will be sold on what is known as the homestead plan, thus making the payments easy.

WHITESON'S OPENING.

A Mammoth Clothing House Crowded with Bargains.

   An event which is looked forward to with a great deal of interest in Cortland is the annual fall opening at Whiteson's clothing house. This year's opening occurs to-day and eclipses by far anything which he has ever tried before.

   Yesterday afternoon Mr. S. P. Bloomfield, one of the most genial clerks in the state, was busy in dressing the windows for the occasion, in which work he was ably assisted by Mr. Max Baerncopf.  The north window is tastily trimmed with smilax and contains a display of shirts, neckwear, gloves and hats of such beauty and quality as are sure to attract the admiration of all the gentlemen, their sweethearts and wives together with their quarrelsome neighbors next door. In the south window are displayed as fine a line of foreign and domestic cloths as were ever shown in Cortland. This window also is daintily trimmed with smilax and in the center is a palm of a rare and valuable variety.

   Upon entering this mammoth store the first thing that meets one's gaze is the large and varied display of children's caps upon the counter at the left. Upon the right are three large show cases filled with neckwear which cannot fail to please the taste of the most fastidious. As one passes farther into the store the eyes feast upon a great labyrinth of clothing such as for quality and workmanship is not excelled in Central New York.

   After passing the clothing department and the cashier's desk one passes to the left into the large annex, the counters of which are heavily laden with the very best productions of overcoats and children's clothing.

   But this immense establishment is not confined to the first floor alone, the entire second floor is occupied by Mr. Whiteson for the manufacture of clothing in which for perfect fit and workmanship he takes a high rank.

   The fine display in the windows is offset by beautiful Japanese souvenirs which are given away to all visitors. To each souvenir is attached by a pretty ribbon a neat little card bearing the compliments of this enterprising firm. Those most polite clerks, S. P. Bloomfield, J. G. Barnes and Max Baerncropf, play no little part in sustaining the reputation of this mammoth clothing house which is of the very highest. The public are most politely invited to attend this grand fall opening and gaze upon the facetious smiles of Mr. Whiteson who is conceded by all to be the best-natured clothing man in New York state.

Ladies' Garments.

   A sale at Shepard's next week, Tuesday, Oct. 8. A representive from one of the largest manufacturers of cloth, velvet and fur garments will be at Shepard's store, Homer. Showing a full line of samples of all the latest novelties in winter garments. This is a rare chance to select from large assortment at moderate prices. Street car fare paid both ways when you buy a garment or trade to the amount of $3 in any department. Store open evenings.

F. L. Harris studio, 79 Main Street, Cortland, N. Y.

It Costs You Nothing

To call at our studio and examine our carbonettes and aristo's. We shall be pleased to have you call whether you wish to sit for pictures or not. Don't fail to ask about our large portraits. It is to your interest to call on us before sitting for pictures.

   HARRIS, the Photographer.

Handicap Roadrace.

   Yesterday afternoon a ten-mile handicap road race with eight starters was run from Homer to Little York and return. L. H. Tucker started scratch and finished third and made the best time, 30m., 21s. Brownell Bulkley finished first and Robert Carpenter second. Each had a four-minute handicap.

   The next road race will occur Monday afternoon and will be a six-mile open handicap race. The start will be made from the corner of Main and Tompkins sts. at 4 o'clock P. M, and the course will be to South Cortland and return, A large field of riders will start.

BREVITIES.

   —The Normal faculty were this morning photographed by Harris.

   —The iron front is being rapidly placed upon the new Wickwire building on Railroad-st.

   —Rev. J. A. Robinson will hereafter until farther notice conduct services at Calvary Episcopal church at Homer.

   —Mr. W. E. Doughty preaches at the First M. E. church to-morrow morning and Mr. J. N. Meaker in the evening.

   —There will be a regular meeting of the C. A. A. Monday evening, Sept. 7, at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to be present.

   —Miss Cornelia A. White is this afternoon entertaining her class in the Presbyterian Sunday-school at her home, 58 Port Watson-st.

   —Reports of the Y. M. C. A. delegates to the district convention held at Binghamton will be given at the 4 o'clock meeting to-morrow.

   —To-morrow night is the first Sunday evening in October and the regular date for changing the hour of evening service from 7:30 to 7 o'clock.

   —The tenth annual state convention of the Y. P. S. C. E. will be held in the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 8 and 9.

   —The Syracuse university football team passed through town at 10 o'clock this morning for Scranton, Pa., where they play the Scranton Athletic association this afternoon.

   —High license in Rochester has during the past year decreased the number of saloons from 1,005 to 860, and increased the receipts from $49,448 to $97,960.50.—Ithaca Journal.

   —There are forty-one candidates taking the teachers' examination at the Normal conducted by School Commissioner N. L. Miller, Eighteen are trying for second grade certificates and twenty-three for third grade certificates.

   —Invitations are out for the wedding of Mr. John W. DeBarr and Miss Lizzie E. Gutcheus, which will occur at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gutcheus at East Homer on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 9, at 1 o'clock.

   —A chorus of feminine voices was heard on the street at about 9 o'clock last night giving utterance at frequent intervals to a cry which sounded very much like this: "Rah, rah, rah; Zip, rah, boom; Corloner fraternity; Give her room."

   —It must have been very embarrassing last night for the young man who had secreted the cake at the St. Vitus' club party and invited a select company of friends to help him eat it, to find at the appointed time only the plate remaining, and nothing to serve his friends with. Others had already found and made way with the cake.

   —The St. Vitus' dancing club gave the first of a series of parties in Vesta lodge rooms last evening and every one in attendance reports having a most enjoyable time. Thirty couples were in attendance and there were twenty regular dances besides two extras. McDermott's orchestra furnished the best of music and the party broke up at 1 o'clock.

   —We are still further increasing the number of cuts for our Industrial Edition, among recent additions being the present Normal faculty, the late Rev. Father Bartholomew Francis McLoghlin and Rev. Father John McLoghlin. Delay in receipt of paper ordered some time since promises to delay somewhat the issuing of the edition, but we hope not greatly.

   —The work of changing the roadbed on the west side of the river south of Port Watson-st. on the Kellogg flat will be begun Monday under the direction of Highway Commissioner E. C. Rindge.  The road will hereafter cross the Erie & Central railroad tracks at the end of the old grade instead of on the river bank and will meet Port Watson-st. at the old schoolhouse, near the south end of River-st.

   —Rev. and Mrs. Geo. H. Brigham yesterday shipped an organ which was for twenty years a fondly cherished memento of their deceased adopted daughter, Carrie Thestella, to Mrs. Melissa Aldrich Tribolet of Bossein, Burma, for their new chapel in that place, thus donating it to the cause of Christian missions for the advancement of which so large a portion of their life work has been devoted.

   —The grangers of Madison county at a recent meeting appointed a representative from each town in the county to secure the requisite number of signatures to petitions to their respective highway commissioners requesting them to erect signboards at each road corner and fork in the county in accordance with the provisions of the law passed by the last [state] legislature. Why don't the Cortland county grangers take similar action and receive the thanks of all travelers?