BROCKWAY RECEPTION AND PARTY

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, November 23, 1895.

THE BROCKWAY RECEPTION AND PARTY.

   The beautifully appointed residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Brockway on South Main-st. was thronged with guests between the hours of 3 and 6 P. M. yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Brockway gave a large "at home." Over two hundred invitations were issued to ladies in this village and in Cortland and a continuous stream of callers arrived at the house during the appointed hours.

   Mrs. Brockway received alone in the drawing room which like the south parlor was decorated with chrysanthemums. The hostess wore a very pretty gown of Persian taffeta of an olive green hue with white lace. Mrs. Dunbar and Mrs. Keator of Cortland and Mrs. F. E. Williams and Miss Henry of this village assisted in entertaining the callers.

   Soon after 3 o'clock the guests filled the parlors and the library, where a profusion of red and white carnations were tastefully arranged about the mantel and bookcases. During the reception, Adams orchestra which was stationed in the upper hall, discoursed music. The diningroom was arranged with roses and smilax. As the guests entered they were received by Mrs. Edward Keator, Mrs. P. J. Rice, Mrs. Edward Alley, Mrs. L. H. Tuthill, and Miss Dunbar who assisted in serving refreshments. The table was resplendent with cut glass and silver and the light from the candles which burned under pink silk shades in the silver candelabra threw a beautifully soft glow upon the pretty scene. Mrs. A. P. Schermerhorn poured coffee at one end of the table and Mrs. G. J. Maycumber at the other. A delicious repast consisting of coffee and sandwiches, salad, olives, salted almonds, wafers, and ice cream and cake were served there.

   Among the many guests present were noticed, Mrs. A. Mahan, Mrs. E. A. Didama, Mrs. W. F. Chadbourne, Mrs. T. H. Wickwire, Mrs. W. H. Clark, Mrs. E. M. Hulbert, Mrs. A. C. Walrad, Mrs. E. D. Blodgett,  Mrs. Chester F. Wickwire, Mrs. F. E. Plumb, Miss Shay, the Misses Fitzgerald, Miss Allen, and Mrs. Stilson and others from Cortland and Mrs. A. H. Bennett, Mrs. J. H. Starin, Mrs. C. H. Danes, Mrs. J. C. Atwater, Mrs. F . B. Maxson, Mrs. W. H. Crane, Mrs. O. Porter, Mrs. P. C. Kingsbury, Miss Green, Mrs. Green, Mrs. J. J. Arnold and others of this village.

   In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Brockway entertained a few of their intimate friends who were invited to arrive at 8 o'clock. Informal dancing and card playing were enjoyed by the following guests who were present: Mr. and Mrs. Chadbourne, Mr. and Mrs. Alley, Mr. and Mrs. Maycumber, Mr. and Mrs. Hollenbeck, Mr. and Mrs. Waters, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Tisdale. Mr. and Mrs. Case, Miss Shay, the Misses Fitzgerald, Miss Dunbar and Mr. Chas. Dunbar of Cortland and Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Schermerhorn, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Merill, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Tuthill, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Forter, Mrs. F. B. Maxson, Mrs. P. J. Rice, Miss Henry and Messrs. Al Smith, F. C. Atwater, L. P. Merrill, F. H. Thompson and H. J. Barber.

AN OLD PAPER.

CORTLAND PEOPLE PROMINENTLY NAMED IN IT.

Bits of Early History of the Cortland Normal School—Its Board, Faculty and Organizations.

   Mr. W. E. Powers has shown to us a copy of Vol. 1, No. 1, of the Normal News, which was published in July, 1869. It was a two column, eight page publication, and it contains the names of a large number of Cortland people. The editors were Joseph E. Eggleston, William P. Robinson and M. Stanley Bierce.

   The school statistics therein published showed that 566 pupils were enrolled in the entire school that term. They were classified as follows: Normal department 66 (males 30, females 36); academic department 87 (males 41, females 46); intermediate department 203 (males 103, females 100); primary department 210 (males 90, females 120.)

   The local board then consisted of Hon. Henry S. Randall, LL. D., president; Hon. R. H. Duell, secretary; Charles C. Taylor, treasurer; Hon. Horatio Ballard, Dr. F. Hyde, Henry Brewer, Norman Chamberlain, Arnold Stafford and William H. Newkirk—not one of the number now being alive.

   The faculty then consisted of ten members, with four places unfilled. It is recorded as follows: James H. Hoose, A. M., principal, moral philosophy and didactics; N. F. Wright, A. M., ancient languages; Frank S. Capen, A. B., mathematics; T. B. Stowell, A. M., natural sciences; [unfilled], preceptress, intellectual philosophy and English literature; Miss Martha Roe, superintendent of intermediate and primary departments, methods and their application to objects; Mrs. Helen E. M. Babcock, modern languages and history; Miss Helen K. Hubbard, principal of intermediate department; Miss Margaret Hunter, principal of primary department; Mrs. H. G. Kendall, critic in primary department; [unfilled], critic in intermediate department, geography and English; Miss M. F. Hendrick, reading, elocution and gymnastics; [unfilled], English language, rhetoric and composition.

   There were two societies in the school at the time: the Young Men's Debating club, and a secret society described in the school paper as "Lofty Thunderers, descendants of Jupiter." The officers of the former were as follows:

   President—Joseph E. Eggleston.

   Vice President—William P. Robinson.

   Secretary—George E. Ryan.

   Treasurer—James H. Shults.

   Librarian—Edward D. Carr.

   The members of this society were Harlow B. Andrews, M. Stanley Bierce, Wilkins Bridgeford, Horace L. Bronson, Charles Castle, Charles A. Fowler, Clinton P. Hale, Frederic Hatch, Fred H. Kennedy, Stratton S. Knox, Alton B. Parker, Charles T. Peck, Thomas J. Potter. Richard Price. Michael J. Robinson, George S. Sands, David Smith, James Steele, Jr., Frek A. Vanderburgh, George L. Waters and Frank L. Wilkins.

   The "Lofty Thunderers" seem to have had the following officers:

   Anax Zeus—S. S. Knox.

   Calchas Mantis—M. S. Bierce.

   Hecatongcheiros Briareos—F. A. Vanderburgh.

   Olympios Asteropetes—J. E. Eggleston.

   Tachupons Achilleus—C. A. Fowler.

   Smintheus Argurotoxos—Fred Hatch.

   Hephaestus Amphiguaes —W. P. Robinson.

   Katalambangslamka—G. S. Sands.

   The further note is added to the record of this society, "Following the illustrious example of ancient Jupiter, we allow no ox-eyed, golden-thorned, fair-armed revered Junos at our councils. The goat for the society is furnished at the expense of the state."

   The Normal Baseball club had the following officers:

   President—Chas. A. Fowler.

   Vice President—E. Kinney,

   Secretary—F. L. Wilkins.

   Treasurer—S. S. Knox.

   Directors—E. H. Brewer, M. S. Bierce, S. S. Knox.

   The first nine was composed as follows: E. H. Brewer, c., captain; C. S. Strowbridge, p.; E. Kinney, 1b; G. Kinney, 2b.; F. L. Wilkins, 3b.; M. Conable, l. f.; T. H. Wickwire, c.f.; S. S Knox, r. f.; D. Marsh, s. s.

   The Normal quartet consisted of T. B. Stowell, soprano; M. D. Murphey, tenor; Charles A. Fowler, alto; F. A. Vanderburgh, bass.

   As there were no graduates at the end of the first term in July 1869, the closing exercises were given by the Young Men's Debating club. The ushers were Alton B. Parker and Horace L. Bronson. The executive committee was F. A. Vanderburg, J. E. Eggleston and George S. Sands. The program was as follows:

   Prayer.

   Music.

   Oration, J. H. Shults.

   Declamation, F. A. Vanderburgh.

   Music—Quartet.

   Oration, W. P. Robinson.

   Declamation, H. B. Andrews.

   Oration, F. H. Kennedy.

   Music—Quartet.

   Discussion—What ought to be the basis of suffrage?—George S. Sands, S. S. Knox.

   Music—Quartet.

   Discussion continued, Charles T. Peck, Charles A. Fowler,

   Music—Quartet.

   President's Address.

   Benediction.

   Mr. Powers cherishes the old paper as one of the choicest possessions, and the facts in it are indeed a matter of general interest to all who [are] in any way interested in the school and in the people named.

Eugene Debs.

DEBS WELCOMED HOME.

Cheered, Embraced and Borne Aloft In Triumph.

HUGE LABOR DEMONSTRATION.

Thousands Flocked to Hear the Words of the liberated Leader—Denounced

Money Power and Asserted the Injustice of His Recent Treatment.

   CHICAGO, Nov, 23.—Eugene V. Debs spoke in Central Music hall to an audience that taxed the seating and standing capacity of the hall. Most of the leading labor organizations were represented and the reception accorded to the leader of the American Railway union was enthusiastic in the extreme.

   Eight carloads of Debs' friends went down to Woodstock to greet him on his release from jail, and several thousand men were at the station of the Northwestern road when the train bearing Debs and his friends arrived.

   The reception given Debs as he stepped from the train bordered on the frantic. Hundreds of men pushed and struggled to get a grasp of his hand, many of them hugged him and some went to the extent of kissing him. Finally he was tossed upon the shoulders of four men and followed by a dense throng that never for an instant stopped its shouting; he was escorted to the hall, about one mile distant.

   The warmth of the reception at the depot was repeated when he entered the hall, with the exception that the men were unable to get close to him and contented themselves with cheering and waving their hats.

   The speech delivered by Mr. Debs, which was received with great applause by his audience, was in substance as follows:

   He commenced by saying that in the light of recent judicial proceedings he stood stripped of his constitutional rights as a free man and shorn of the most sacred prerogative of American citizenship, and what was true of himself was true of every other citizen who had the temerity to protest against corporation rule or question the absolute sway of the money power.

   It was not the law or the administration of the law of which he complained. It was the flagrant violation of the constitution, the total abrogation of law and the usurpation of judicial and despotic power by virtue of which he and his colleagues were committed to jail against which he entered his protest, and any honest analysis of the proceedings must sustain the haggard truth of the indictment.

   He had been denied a trial. He was charged now with conspiracy and if guilty should go to the penitentiary. He wanted to be tried by a jury of his peers, and all he asked was a fair trial and no favor (the conspiracy case is still undisposed of in the United States court.)

   He then spoke at great length of personal liberty and in defense of the American Railway union, saying it would have triumphed but for the interference of the federal authorities, which he characterized as "an exhibition of the debauching power of money."

   The present demonstration, he said, meant that the American lovers of liberty were setting in operation forces to rescue their constitutional liberty from the grasp of monopoly and its mercenary hirelings; that the people were aroused in view of impending perils and that agitation, organization and unification were to be the future battle cries of men who would not part with their birthright, and who, like Patrick Henry, had the courage to exclaim, "Give me liberty or give me death."

   Were he a criminal, guilty of crimes meriting a prison cell; had he ever lifted his hand against the life or liberty of his fellowmen; had he ever sought to filch their good name, he would not be on the platform. He would have fled from the haunts of civilization and lived in a cave where the voice of his kindred was never heard.

   But he was standing before his hearers without a self-accusation of crime or criminal intent festering in his conscience, in the sunlight once more, contributing as best he could to make this "Liberation Day" a memorial day, realizing that, as Lowell sang:

   He's true to God who's true to man, wherever wrong is done,

   To the humblest and weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun.

   That wrong is also done to us and they are slaves most base

   Whose love of right is for themselves and not for all their race.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

For Good Roads.

   The season is drawing on for the meeting of state legislatures. Such bodies are in general very well disposed toward their constituents, very willing to do what these desire.

   In every state in this Union there are some hundreds of idle convicts lying in the jails and penitentiaries. The state feeds and clothes them. They are dead expense, with nothing to do but twirl their thumbs. At the same time thousands of them would welcome some kind of work, just to break the dreary monotony.

   In every state in the Union there are thousands of execrable roads—execrable is the word. Farmers, manufacturers and commercial men lose hundreds of thousands of dollars through these disgraceful roads every year. They could be made better, but there is no money to repair them or build better ones. The roads in America are the worst of any country in civilization.

   Now, put all these propositions together. Where there is not adequate provision already for employing convicts on road building and repairing, start a movement which will induce the legislature at its first assembling to give such authority. The securing of good roads through convict labor is entirely practicable and not attended with any great difficulty in executing the plan.

   Thus every state can get excellent roads at little cost, and the labor of the convicts will not come into competition with that of any man outside the prisons. Regular labor may reform permanently numbers of the prisoners and make them respectable members of community after their terms of servitude are over. It is a fine plan all around.

   ◘ The American Express company has equipped its messengers with revolvers and Winchester rifles. It requests them likewise to spend a good part of their spare time in shooting at a mark and learning how to split an apple upon a gatepost. That's the right kind of talk.

   ◘ Since the $1,000,000 blaze in New York city the association of fire insurance companies have raised their rates on "fireproof" buildings. The fact appears to be that there is no such thing as a really fireproof house known. There are fireproof safes, but not buildings. Whether there can be later, remains yet to be proved by the architects. It is doubtful. In the case of intense heat iron and steel themselves become redhot and warp so as to be useless and dangerous.

   ◘ The lands of the Nez Perce reservation, near Lewiston, Ida., opened to settlement Nov. 18 by proclamation of the president, contain 546,000 acres of land. That would give a quarter section to 3,412 families. Yet there were enough people waiting in camp on the border to take up every acre of desirable land before it was open.

BREVITIES.

   —The graduating class at the Normal was photographed this morning by Hyatt & Tooke.

   —Mrs. Kate Seaman is making the costumes to be used in the production of the opera, "Mikado."

   —Mrs. Flora M. Long of Cazenovia, a returned missionary, will speak in the First M. E. church Sunday evening at 7 o'clock.

   —Frank Leavering of Syracuse, one of E. P. Bates' foremen, was in Cortland Friday overhauling the steam heating boilers of the Messenger House.

   —Mr. John Day has rented the whole west half of the new Wickwire block on Railroad-st. and as soon as it is completed will fit it up as a first class and modern restaurant. The location is a most desirable one and Mr. Day will no doubt command a large patronage.

   —The north window of C. W. Stoker's grocery to-day appears in Thanksgiving dress. The scene is that of a negro farm house on Thanksgiving morning and represents the capture of the turkey for dinner. The whole scene is set off with quite a depth of "snow" and with numerous evergreen trees.

  

Police Court.

   The case of The People against Michael McSweeney and John Greeley charged with violating the excise laws were each this morning adjourned to Dec 2.

   Dennis Cronin was this morning arrested on the same charge and the case set down for trial Dec 3.

   James Nash and Grove Stevens have each been arrested on the charge of selling liquor without a license. Their cases were adjourned to Dec. 3.

   Civil actions have been instituted in behalf of the village against William Nash and James Riley. It is alleged that they have each sold liquor without a license and the village sues to recover the $100 penalty in accordance with the village ordinance passed last spring. Both cases are set down for Nov. 29.

"Wang" Next Wednesday Night.

   On Wednesday evening, Nov. 27, D. W. Truss & Co. will for the first time present in Cortland "Wang," the popular comic opera, which has by its wholesome merriment, bright melodies and its series of elaborate stage pictures already gained the favor of theatre goers. "Wang," always one of the most sumptuously mounted spectacular operas, has had a richer and an entirely new outfit provided for the coming reason. Not an inch of scenery, not a scrap of the properties and not a costume used in previous seasons has been retained. Not only is everything new, but it is also more elaborate, more costly and more perfectly Siamese than ever before. Indeed it is said that the most sumptuous production of the "Mikado" never represented Japanese dress and life as will "Wang" represent those of Siam. The local management has been requested to remove from the stage every inch of scenery ordinarily stored there in order to make room for the large amount carried by this season's "Wang" company. This attraction numbers sixty people in all and carries its own musicians.

The Remenyi Concert.

   The concert by the Remenyi company at the Opera House last night in the Normal entertainment course was one of the [best] musical events of the year. The size of the audience which filled almost every seat in the parquette and a large share of the gallery gave evidence that this fact was appreciated. It was a rare privilege for a Cortland audience to be able to hear the one who is probably the greatest living violinist and the enthusiasm with which Remenyi was greeted at his every appearance was intense. Very truly has some one said, "There is no opportunity for criticizing such a player; he sweeps criticism and every sort of objection away." He was recalled again and again and it seemed as though his hearers could not have enough. There is a majesty and grandeur about his playing, especially when coupled with the man himself, which defies description.

   Mile. Roman is a pianist of rare ability and brilliance and her solos and her most excellent accompaniments added much to the enjoyment of the concert.