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?