Cortland Evening Standard, Monday,
October 21, 1895.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBANS.
Rochester
People to Hold a Massmeeting.
ASSEMBLYMAN
TUMULTY TALKS.
Has
Large Interests In the Island and Should Know Whereof He Speaks. An Ardent
Supporter of the Cuban and Hater of the Spaniard.
ROCHESTER, Oct. 21.—Rochester sympathizers
with the Cuban patriots in the fight for freedom which they are now waging, are
planning to hold a public meeting for the purpose of creating more interest in
the cause of the Cubans. They have been offered the use of the City hall for
their massmeeting.
Ex-Assemblyman James P. Tumulty of this city
is one of the foremost sympathizers of the Cubans. He has large financial
interests in the troublous little island and is well acquainted with the
country, its people and its woes.
To a reporter who called on Mr. Tumulty to
inquire about the proposed massmeeting, the ex-assemblyman said that there were
many Cuban sympathizers in Rochester and that if need be a regiment of
volunteers could undoubtedly be raised in this city to go to the aid of the
people who are fighting for their liberty.
"What is needed," said Mr.
Tumulty, "to arouse enthusiasm in the breasts of the patriotic citizens of
Rochester is a speech from some one who has been through the struggle.
"The natives of the island are more
oppressed than were our forefathers under the tyranny of Great Britain. Why,
even in times of peace, the collectors, who are sent from Spain to extort
additional taxes from the already overburdened people, take possession of a
Cuban's house and make it their headquarters during their stay.
"Even the wives and daughters of these
so-called insurgents are not safe from the presence of these Spanish nobles and
hidalgos. In Cuba there is absolutely no punishment for a Spaniard. He may do what
he likes.
"Here almost within a stone's throw of us,
figuratively speaking, are weak people, downtrodden under the heel of a rotten,
tottering monarchy, few in numbers, it is true, but brave as lions for all
that."
"The other day," continued Mr.
Tumulty, "every piece of cane on our plantation was burned, to prevent the
Spaniards' utilizing the crop. I would rather see them burned a thousand times
than furnish an ounce of food for a Spaniard's stomach."
According to Mr. Tumulty, a movement has
been started to form a stock company to have for its object the fitting out of
merchantmen as privateers to cruise in Cuban waters. Another object of this
company will be to furnish the Cuban patriots with arms and ammunition. Mr.
Tumulty thinks congress will take some action in the Cuban matter when it meets
again. Already, he says, members in the Western states are being instructed to
secure the passage of measures of relief for the patriots.
"Reports from Cuba," he says,
"are all doctored by the Spaniards, so that it is impossible to judge
correctly of the exact condition of affairs." In his opinion, however, the
patriots are making headway.
Spain
Would Not Arbitrate.
MADRID, Oct. 21.—Senor Canovas del Castillo,
minister of foreign affairs, is quoted as saying that it is impossible that
Spain should come to terms with the Cuban insurgents. Advices received here
from Cuba say that General Oliver's column defeated 600 insurgents in the district
of Los Remedios and 30 of the insurgents were killed.
GARMENT
WORKERS DEPART.
General
Exodus or the Strikers and Their Families From Rochester.
ROCHESTER, Oct. 21.—A peculiar spectacle was
witnessed in the streets today. It was that of several hundred skilled workmen
marching through the streets with banners and flags on their way to the railway
stations. From there several of them with their families left the city to go to
New York or Chicago to secure employment.
The procession was made up of the striking
garment workers who, not being able to secure the concessions they demanded
from the bosses, decided upon this step in order to bring their employers to
terms.
There are over 100 shops in the city where
clothing is made and the amount of money invested will aggregate $10,000,000.
Notwithstanding this, the men and women
decided to break their home ties and go to other cities where the union is
recognized and where they will be guaranteed payment of wages earned.
The first detachment left the city via the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad. About 100 persons, including 20 girls
went this morning.
On Wednesday more of them will go, and by
Saturday, the strike leaders say, there will be but few garment workers left in
the city.
General Secretary Reichers said that
positions had been secured for all who leave the city.
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| John Sherman. |
SHERMAN'S
BOOK CRITICISED.
Denial
That Harrison's Nomination Was the Result of a Bargain.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 21. —M. H. De Young,
vice chairman of the Republican national committee, makes several criticisms of
Senator Sherman's new book.
"If I had a political enemy," said
Mr. De Young, "I should have him write a book. Senator Sherman errs when
he says that one man controlled the New York delegation to the Republican
convention in 1888 and that a corrupt bargain was made in the interest of
Harrison during an interval between the adjournment of the convention Sunday
night and the time it assembled next Monday morning.
"In the first place the New York
delegation was controlled by Warner Miller, Frank Hiscock, Chauncey M. Depew
and Thomas Platt. It was well known when the convention assembled that the New
York delegation was for Depew first and Harrison second.
"I was working for Blaine, so when
Depew withdrew from the fight on Friday, I moved to adjourn until the next day
in order to avoid a stampede to Harrison.
"The New York delegates were firm for
Harrison as a second choice for president and he received their support with a
corrupt bargain having been made as Senator Sherman alleges."
To the
Editor of the Standard:
SIR:—Permit me to add to the discussion of
the subject of franchises for street surface railways in Cortland a few pertinent
suggestions in reply to Mr. R. E.
Dunston's letters published in The STANDARD.
The town of Cortlandville owns a majority of
the stock of the Erie & Central New York railway, hence it is
"our road" and for that reason the interests of Cortland are
identified with the steam road as it is not with those of the Traction company.
The steam road will bring hither business and
wealth which now goes elsewhere, while the electric road carries us about and
amuses us at its park in exchange for our nickles. It produces nothing and adds
nothing to our wealth, aside from the taxes which it pays, while it occupies
our streets to the partial exclusion of other vehicles and disfigures them with
poles and wires, and is in some respects a detriment to us, as we have already
realized.
If in consequence of the competition between
the electric road and the steam road, freights and rents are rendered cheaper
in McGrawville than in Cortland, the retailers in the former will be enabled to
undersell those in the latter, to the detriment of business men in Cortland,
which is by no means an impossible result.
The money contributed by the town towards
the construction of the steam road was expended for labor and materials among
the people of the county of Cortland, where some of the town bonds issued in
aid of its construction are now held.
The steam road was projected and work had
been commenced on its construction, by the Otselic Construction company before
the electric road was conceived. The attempt therefore to make it appear that
the steam road is an interloper or was second in the field for popular favor,
is preposterous and without foundation.
No obstacles have been put in the way of the
electric road by any one connected with the steam road, while the electric road
and its partisans have neglected no opportunity to place impediments in the way
of the completion of the steam road.
Mr. Dunston's letter of the 12th inst. contains
an implied threat that unless the franchise was granted to use Elm-st. from
Church to Pendleton-st., freight cars would be hauled through all the streets
of the village,
This was followed on Monday, the 14th, by
the circulation of a petition praying the board of trustees to grant the
franchise sought by the Traction company, and thereby avoid the execution of this
threat, which appears to have been an idle menace in view of the facts that the
curves in the Traction company road rendered this practically impossible, and
that the right to cross the S., B. &
N. R. R. [D. L. & W. R. R.] was granted on condition that no
freight should be carried by the Traction company, and the further insuperable
objection that street surface railroads have no right to haul freight cars
through streets which were never intended for that purpose, to which there are
obvious objections based on public policy.
In view of these facts it is safe to say that
no one outside of the councils of the Traction
company anticipated that the franchises heretofore granted to that company
included the right to haul freight cars loaded with squealing swine and
bleating calves, or any other freight, through our streets.
Does not this show that those who signed
this petition, under the circumstances, have been misled?
As to the contracts for hauling freight from
McGrawville, it was understood that they were procured mainly as a means of
discouraging and hindering the construction of the steam road, not one of which
contracts will ever be enforced, or could be, if an attempt were made to
enforce them, of which there is probably no serious intention.
That people on their way to and from the
park should be delayed, may provoke impatience but can do no serious injury.
That this franchise is sought for greater
safety to passengers is unfounded and insincere. The Elm-st. crossing is obviously
more dangerous than that at Railroad-st.
No one but those residing on Elm-st. appears
seriously to object to the granting of a franchise to carry passengers only,
and they object on the ground that during the park season their quiet will be
disturbed by persons in all stages of inebriety and hilarity passing to and
from the park, at all hours of the day and night.
In the "Sweet by and by" when
intoxicants are no longer used and all shall have become virtuous, this
objection may be removed or give way to other considerations.
If then, the real object of the Traction
company is to avoid danger and delay, it will accept the franchise to carry
passengers offered to it by the board of trustees. But if, on the contrary,
they are bound to go the "whole hog" and gobble the freight and
passenger traffic between Cortland and McGrawville, the Traction company should
be accorded no further franchises for that purpose; and those already granted
should be promptly rescinded or modified, as the board of trustees seemed about
to do when the Traction company interfered with the construction of the sewers.
Such action would bring them off their perch in a hurry.
The board of trustees are masters of the
situation. "What will they do with it?"
It requires some firmness to deal with
franchise hunters of the present. Do the board of trustees possess the
requisite amount of it? We shall see.
Yours respectfully,
IRVING H. PALMER,
Oct. 21, 1895.
[Irving H. Palmer was past president of the
village of Cortland, attorney for the village, and attorney and
shareholder of the Erie & Central New York Railroad—CC editor.]
PAGE
TWO—EDITORIALS.
The
Farmer's Good Investment.
At the New York produce exchange, before the
canal committee the other day, Erastus Wiman made the statement that "two
pounds of butter from each farmer in the state would pay his share of the cost
of the proposed canal enlargment to be voted on at the coming election."
This is what Mr. Wiman said:
"The nine millions to be voted for
canal enlargment requires, under the act of the legislature, for the
liquidation of principal and interest in 17 years, a rate of taxation equal
only to 13 cents on every $1,000 of assessed valuation. The average assessment
on farms throughout the state is below $3,000, and hence the total increase of
taxation to the farmer will be only three times 18 cents, or in all, 80 cents
per annum. This is about the price of two pounds of butter, or less than can be
got for a barrel of potatoes. In return for this annual expenditure of less
than 40 cents, the farmer will get for all time, low railroad freights, which,
if the canals are not improved, will be permanently high. If the railroads get
the upper hand in this election and defeat the canal appropriation, they are likely
to increase their rates 5 cents for every 100 pounds, and as the disuse of the
canal increases, advance their rates still further, say up to 20 cents.
"The average farmer ships at least 400
bushels of grain, peas, beans, etc., which even at 5 cents per hundred would
increase his outlay $12 per year. If he ships 1,000 bushels, as many do, and
the freight rate was put up 10 cts. higher, the increase expenditure to market
his crop would be $100 per annum!
"Is there, therefore, in the whole
range of the farmers annual expenses any investment that would pay so handsomely
at this 40 cents a year, contributed to the revenues of the state, to pay for
the contemplated canal enlargement. Once these facts are realized by the farmer,
you may bet your bottom dollar he will not doom to disuse the greatest artificial
waterway in the world.
"Already having earned enough to pay
for its entire construction, and more than that, accumulated a fund, the
interest on which is sufficient to maintain it, is now so far disused that not
a single barrel of flour was freighted upon it last year, though the shipments from
Buffalo reached over ten millions of barrels, all by rail! The great mission of
usefulness of the canals will be increased and made permanent by the proposed
enlargment and it will thus be made, forever, right across the Empire state,
the great "freight-rate regulator," to benefit all classes both
producers and consumers. This, too, against the combination of railroad
companies, a hard and fast compact between whom is just now receiving its
finishing touches. But the farmer, if he's willing to sacrifice the proceeds of
his two pounds of butter protects himself and all others against such
contemplated monopoly."
Obituary.
Colonel William Pitt Wainwright of the
Seventy-sixth Regt. N. Y. Infantry in the late war, died at his residence, 23
East 28th-st., New York City, on Thursday, Oct, 17, 1895.
Col. Wainwright was born in New York City,
June 10, 1818, and was therefore 77 years old at the time of his death. He
received a liberal education and was a graduate of the University of the City of
New York. He studied medicine, but never cared to enter upon the practice of
that profession. From a young man he was much interested in military science
and made it a study in this country and also in Germany, where he spent several
years in and about Berlin before the war, but his actual military experience
was limited to militia service in Dutchess county, where he had a country
residence near Rhinebeck.
At the beginning of the war he was
commissioned as major of the Twenty-ninth N. Y. Infantry, a German regiment, mainly
officered by Germans of some military training or experience. He served with
that regiment until after the battle of Cross Keys, Va., when in June, 1862, he
was promoted and commissioned as colonel of the Seventy-sixth N. Y. Infantry,
then stationed at Fredericksburg, Va., and he immediately joined his new
command. His first work was to bring his regiment up to a high degree or perfection
in drill and discipline, for he believed the efficiency of soldiers to depend
largely on their discipline, and the efficiency of their officers both
commissioned and non-commissioned.
He was also a man with a high standard of
modesty and of strong religious views and as the regiment then had no chaplain
he officiated in that capacity himself. While he was a rigid disciplinarian, he
was a kindly man and looked closely to the best interest of the men of his
command, so that with all of his strictness they learned to love and respect him.
During the active service of the Pope campaign they learned that their drill
and discipline was of great service and the soldiers of the Seventy-sixth took
pride in their name of "Col. Wainwright's Regulars," which was given
to the Seventy-sixth by the other troops, by reason of their drill and
discipline. In battle Col. Wainwright was cool and brave and his conduct on
such occasions was reassuring to the men of his command.
At the battle of South Mountain, Sept. 14, 1862,
Col. Wainwright was severely wounded in the arm and his horse was killed under
him, but he rejoined the regiment and was in command at Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville. He was frail physically and in June, 1863, his health became
so impaired that he was compelled to resign, but he had given to the
Seventy-sixth a drill and discipline that made it one of the best fighting
regiments of the war.
After the war Col. Wainwright resided at
Rhinebeck and Cazenovia, but for the last few years has remained entirely in
New York City. On account of his frail health he has not been engaged in
business, but has devoted his time to literary pursuits and the writing of some
books on military science and history. He has occasionally attended the reunions
of the Seventy-sixth—always when his health permitted—and the comrades have
always welcomed him as children would a father. A few years ago at a reunion
held at Cortland he was presented with a gold-headed cane as a mark of the high
regard of his soldiers for him and his letter regularly received each year at
the reunions, which he could not attend, have been listened to with interest
and received with cheers.
CORTLAND
COUNTY NEWS.
Things
Seen and Heard in Villages and Hamlets About Us, and Items From all Over the County.
EAST
HOMER.
EAST HOMER, Oct. 16.—On Wednesday, Oct. 9,
at high noon, there was a very pleasant occasion at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
William Gutches, East Homer, when their eldest daughter, Miss Lizzie E. Gutches,
was united in marriage with Mr. John W. DeBarr of the same place. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. J. J. Cowles, pastor of the Presbyterian church at McGrawvllle.
A large number of relatives and friends were present. The rooms were trimmed by
Mrs. D, McNish of South Cortland in a most tasteful manner. The young couple
were married under an archway of clematis with festoons of daisies. From the
center of the archway a white dove and horseshoe were suspended, appropriate
for the occasion. The silting room was also tastefully trimmed with clematis
with festoons of mountain ash berries. The bride was becomingly attired in a
dark blue dress with white silk and pearl trimmings, and looked charming as all
young and lovely brides do. Miss Jessie Gutches acted as bridesmaid and D.
Wilson of Homer as groomsman.
The ceremony being over, congratulations
were then in order, after which they all repaired to the dining room, which was
trimmed with autumn leaves and flowers, where they seated themselves at the
invitingly spread tables and partook of a delicious dinner, prepared by Mrs. R.
Kenfield of Cortland. The bride and groom then left for Cortland, when amidst
showers of rice and the good byes of the merry bridal party they tock the 7
o'clock train for Pennsylvania, where they will stop at several places during
their trip.
The presents were numerous and costly, and
are as follows: Bedroom suit, Mr. and Mrs. C. Aldrich; set silver teaspoons,
Mrs. R. Kenfield; tablespread, Ed Henry and Maggie Kirkup; chamber set, Mr. and
Mrs. McNish; piano lamp, Mr. and Mrs. T. Gutches and Mr. and Mrs. Vera Rose; cream
set, Mr. and Mrs. C. DeBarr; dozen napkins, Miss Libbie Briggs; large family Bible,
Mr. and Mrs. William Gutches; Bible stand, Miss Jessie Gutches; clock, Mr. and
Mrs. A. Russell; water set, Mr. L. Isbell; silver and gold lined meat fork, Mr.
and Mrs. Dell Preston; china celery tray, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hill; set of silver teaspoons
and batter knife, Mr. and Mrs. A. Atkins; souvenir silver and gold lined teaspoon,
Fannie M. Galusha; silver pie fork, Mr. and Mrs. E. Russell; silver pickle
caster, Mrs. E. DeBarr and Mrs. Newton; pair of towels, Mrs. John Beattie;
nickel plated coffeepot and teapot, G. Wilson and lady; doz. china fruit plates
and fruit dish, Mr. and Mrs. B. Russell; cream set, D. Wilson; Christy knives,
C. Moss; nickel teapot, Mrs. M. Gutches; pair towels, Clara Smith; nickel teakettle,
F. Cook; bed spread, Misses Mate and Grace Haight; $1, Mr. and Mrs. M. Gutches;
rug, Mr. and Mrs. A. Holmes; silver fruit knives, Mr. and Mrs. W. Russell:
tidy, Leon and Roy Newton; china toothpick holder, A. McNish; nickel teapot, C.
Moss; bed spread, Mrs. H. Stafford and daughter; large rocking chair, Mr. and
Mrs. C. Knapp, Vernon Knapp, Raymond Knapp, Bertha Rowe, Earl Gutches and Neva
Seacord.
Mr. and Mrs. DeBarr will make it their
future home in East Homer.
HOMER
DEPARTMENT.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
Ray Kibbee spent Sunday in town.
Miss Marker of Auburn is the guest of Rev.
and Mrs. F. A. S. Storer.
G. R. Howe of East Orange and C. E. Barber
of New York were the guests of Mr. E. B. Hinton on Clinton-st.
yesterday.
Earl Fowler spent Sunday at the home of his
parents in Moravia.
A car load of twenty-one horses arrived here
last night consigned to Charles Antisdale. They are now for sale at the Hotel Windsor.
Mrs. L. H. Heberd aud Miss Cora Heberd spent
Sunday with friends in Syracuse.
Miss Alice Kellogg of Syracuse spent Sunday
at the home of her parents on Clinton-st.
Milo McDiarmid of Ithaca visited his former
home in this village recently.
Mr. and Mrs. H. James Starin arrived home
from a five days' trip to New York City yesterday morning.
The adjourned hearing in the case of Herbert
Callery was held in Justice Kingsbury's court this morning. Callery was charged
with stoning Lee San, the Chinese laundryman, and was sentenced to ten days in
the county jail.
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Bell of Cortland were
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller on Grove-st. yesterday.
Invitations have been issued for a
progressive whist party to be given by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Schermerhorn at their
home on South Main-st. to-morrow evening.
The wedding of Miss Mamie Samson of this
village and Mr. S. B. Nichols of Lima will occur at the home of the bride's
parents on South Main-st. in this village next Wednesday evening. The affair
will be a very quiet one only the immediate friends and relatives of the
contracting parties being present.
Y. P. S. C. E. prayer-meetings at the Congregational
and First Baptist churches this evening at 7:30 P. M. All are invited to
attend.
The first football game of the season was
played at the academy grounds here on Saturday afternoon between teams from the
Central High school of Cortland and the Homer academy. The referees were Earl Newton of Cortland and Prof. L. H.
Tuthill of this village. The game resulted in a tie, the score standing 4-4. As
it was the first game of the season, both teams showed lack of practice and of
team work, but give promise of furnishing some entertaining sport before the
season ends. The Central school has a gritty young team who play very well
together. They made some excellent runs. The weight of the home team was
somewhat in excess of the opposition. The Homer boys tackled splendidly, did
good running, but their interference will bear considerable improvement. With
more practice there is no reason why they should not have as successful a
football season as they have had baseball season.
BREVITIES.
—The Anna Bates excise case has again been
adjourned to Nov. 8.
—The remains of John Perrigo, who died at Groton
Friday, were interred in Cortland Rural cemetery yesterday.
—The case against John H. Howard, charged
with violation of the excise laws, has been set down for trial Nov. 11.
—Miss Sarah B. Hotchkiss of Homer has added
her name to the list of those who will pay $5 each year for five years for the
hospital.
—There were thirty-three children present
Saturday afternoon at the W. C. T. U. rooms at the first meeting of the sewing
school.
—There will be a meeting of the Republican league
at the league rooms this evening at 8 o'clock. All Republicans are requested to
be present,
—A meeting of the sewer board will be held
at the office of the village clerk to-morrow evening, instead of this evening
as was the former arrangement.
—Mail Clerk C. C. Darby who went south on
the vestibule train at 10 o'clock this morning on his regular run told a STANDARD
reporter that snow fell at Oswego last night to the depth of eight or nine
inches, and was still falling when the vestibule train left at 7:45 o'clock. By
the time the train had reached Baldwinsville not a trace of the snow was to be
seen and the sun was shining brightly.
ROW
AMONG THE ITALIANS.
Monteleone
Carmine Knifed Saturday Evening at the Italian Quarters.
Shortly before 6 o'clock Saturday evening an
Italian giving his name as Monteleone
Carmine appeared at police headquarters and claimed that he had been stabbed
with a knife by one of the men at the Italian quarters on Port Watson-st. near
the river. The man was bleeding profusely from what appeared to be a knife
wound near the pit of the stomach. Drs. Angel and Didama were summoned and
found that while the man was bleeding considerably the wound was not deep and
that he was not very seriously injured. They dressed the wound and the patient
was made comfortable in one of the bunks of the lockup.
The Italian could speak hardly a word of
English and it was difficult to learn from him the facts in the case. He says
that he had some difficulty with the storekeeper who has charge of the affairs at
the quarters and who demanded from him pay for his lodgings up to Saturday night.
Carmine refused to pay, claiming that his week would not be up until Tuesday
and that he would pay then. This was not satisfactory and a scuffle ensued
during which Carmine was knifed, but by whom he is not able to state with any
degree of certainty.
A warrant was issued by Justice Bull for the
arrest of Vingenzo Lauro and Dominico Lauro, and Chief Linderman, accompanied by
Officers Parker and Brower,
went to the Italian quarters, but failed to find the men.
The man who is claimed to have done the cutting
was not to be found this morning and the Italians say that he has left town.
At 10:30 this morning an examination was
held before Justice Bull at which Michael
Del Papa, who had just arrived from Elmira, acted as interpreter. No further
information was obtained and the case was dismissed.
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