Cortland
Evening Standard, Friday,
January 24, 1896.
FIGHT OVER GAS.
AN ATTEMPT TO CUT DOWN THE COST
IN CITIES.
Shall Milk, Ice and Soda Water be Sold
on Sunday—Legislative Work Going Very Slow.
ALBANY,
Jan. 24, (Special)—The bill that appears regularly with every session to cut
down the price of gas in cities has been introduced this year by Assemblyman
Forester, a new man from the city of Brooklyn. The bill is about the same as
those that have preceded it and were killed, but there is a chance that this
one may go through. It provides that in cities whose inhabitants according to
the last census were over one hundred and less than five hundred thousand in
number shall not be charged more than two dollars per thousand feet. In cities
which according to the last census had a population of over five hundred
thousand, the companies furnishing illuminating gas shall not charge more than
a dollar and a quarter a thousand feet.
Yesterday
afternoon the cities committee considered this bill and knowing that other
bills bearing on the same subject had been introduced in the senate they
decided to have the matter thoroughly discussed. Accordingly the cities
committee decided to give a public hearing on the Forrester bill on the
afternoon of Thursday, Feb. 6. The members generally are in favor of the measure
and of cutting down the prices of illuminating gas in the cities of the state,
but usually these bills have been smothered in the committee. This year it is
determined to either pass some one of the many bills that have been and will be
introduced on the subject or else have them killed openly by a vote of the
members in the houses. The gas companies have usually had to fight these bills
through the lobbyists, the same tactics that may be tried this year, but it is
a sure thing that some bill bearing on the subject will be reported out of
committee and will be voted upon in the open house.
Some time
ago Assemblyman Malone of New York introduced a bill by which necessities could
be sold on Sunday and also milk, ice and soda water. This bill was referred to
the committee on codes. J. R. Fisher, secretary of the
Sabbath society of New York City, has written to Mr.
Armstrong that he and other members of the society would like a hearing on the
bill. Accordingly a hearing before the assembly codes committee will be given
at 2 o'clock next Tuesday afternoon. The sentiment among the legislators is
that some bill should be passed this winter so that necessities can be sold on
Sunday.
The sympathizers
of the liquor dealers are going to try to use this bill to further their
schemes for Sunday saloon opening. They will appear before the committee and
argue that if liquor cannot be sold on Sunday other things such as soda water
and so forth should not. The Sabbath association people and delegates from
other religious societies in New York, it is understood, are going to fight the
bill and try and prevent anything except medicines from being sold on Sunday.
This question has not caused much discussion as yet but is likely to
within a short time.
The work of
the past week has been a little more business-like in the assembly than so far
this winter. The leaders appreciate the fact that on account of the printer and
the inactivity of the committees work has not progressed as it should have
been. On Wednesday Leader O'Grady made a speech on the floor of the assembly in
which he called the attention of the members generally and the chairmen of the
committees in particular to the fact that if the present state of things was
kept up the session of 1896 would not be over till about the time that 1897
began. He said that the printer was op with his work now and that the committees
should make an effort to do something. In consequence the committees did considerable
business that afternoon and there was a calendar of fair length on Thursday and
another to-day. Yesterday the senate wanted a concurrent resolution passed for both
houses to adjourn till Monday. Neither Speaker Fish nor Leader O'Grady would
consent to this and in consequence the lower holds a session to-day although
the senate does not. This is an unusual procedure and the first time it has
occurred in many years.
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| Prof. W. Roentgen |
RADIANT HEAT.
Bones Can be Seen in the Body by
the Strong Light.
(From the Springfield
Republican.)
The
discovery of a new light which enables the photographing of the bones of the
human body through the clothes and flesh, the contents of a wooden box through
that envelope, or of a leather wallet, or even objects hidden by one metal—aluminium—this
is now announced from Germany. It is the newest and one of the most astounding
marvels of the advance of scientific discovery, and it is wholly credited by
men of so great authority as Edison, while others think the accounts of the
present state of the discovery may be exaggerated, but regard the achievement
as quite possible. The results of this new process are likely to be of the
utmost value in medicine and surgery, while one can easily imagine that in
malicious hands it might be applied to mischief.
The story
is this: that for several years Prof. Roentgen of the Bavarian university of Wurzburg
has been experimenting with a light derived from radiant heat by means of
Crook's tubes. The Crook tube is a vacuum glass through which an electric induction
current passes, whose rays, the product of intense heat, are thrown upon the
object which it is desired to photograph. Edison says, as quoted in the New
York Journal:
The
cardinal factor of the whole matter is this radiant heat, but I am satisfied
the Wurzburg inventor has special rays thereof and special chemical plates.
Radiant heat is the energy of heat transferred to the luminiferous ether which
fills all space and also pervades all bodies. The hot body sets the ether particles
in vibration, and this vibratory motion in the form of waves, travels in all
directions and with a velocity of about 180,000 miles a second. There is no
essential difference between radiant heat and light, both being forms of
radiant energy, the ether waves differing intrinsically among themselves in
wave length only and thus producing different effects, heating, luminous and
chemical, in the bodies on which they impinge, according to the nature of these
bodies. The waves whose heating effect is generally the greatest are of
greater wave length than those which most effect the eye—light rays—and have
longer periods of vibration. The quantity of heat of a body or the amount of
heat energy which a body gains or losses in passing through a different range
of temperature is measured by the quantity of water it would raise at one
degree Fahrenheit.
Results
obtained by Prof. Roentgen are described in The Journal's article. He
photographed a man's ankle in which a bullet was embedded, showing the bullet
just where it was lodged. He photographed a leather purse, showing the money in
it with perfect distinctness. A human hard was subjected to the rays, and the
result was a picture of its bones, with the envelope of flesh only a shadowy
form around them. The most startling experiment was the photograph of a young
man beside a young woman, which showed nothing but a skeleton form. It is also
said that an iron weight was photographed through a box, the box disappearing in
the picture. These experiments show, if they are correctly described, that the
less close the contact of the molecules of a body, the more penetrative this
light from radiant heat, so that clothing, flesh, leather, wood and other
substances of comparative freedom of movement among molecules offer no
impediment to the process of this new light, while bone, mineral, metal, and
other close packed substances remain opaque and are pictured. The picture,
however, is not a negative, but a positive. This radiant heat cannot be described
in terms of light, because in fact it invisible to human eyes. ''Invisible
light'' is a curious concatenation, but that is all which one can say
about it.
One can
easily see in that the discovery, if it be confirmed, must be of great
importance. Edison says it will put an end to vivisection, for there will be no
further excuse for it. The use of the radiant heat, when it shall have become
manageable, will reveal the presence of diseases, and will locate without error
a bullet which has entered the body. At once we remember the terrible mistake
of the surgeons in the case of President Garfield, and realize that with this
method the exact place of Guiteau's ball would have been discovered at once,
and Garfield's life probably saved. It is by no means sure that all that is
claimed for the new discovery can be borne out by facts, but there are further
reports coming in. For example, a professor of the university of Pesth has even
penetrated one metal, aluminum, by means of radiant heat.
THE FRIENDLY SONS
Of St. Patrick Hold Their Annual Meeting
and Election.
The annual
meeting of their Friendly Sons of St. Patrick was held in the C. M. B. A. rooms
last night and was called to order by President Duffey. After the reading of
the minutes and the transacting of some business the society proceeded to the
election of officers for next year which resulted as follows:
President—E. S. Burrows.
Vice-President—E. E. Mellon.
Secretary—T. E. Fitzgerald.
Treasurer—Charles Corcoran.
Toastraaster—Edwin Duffey.
Marshall—W.
T. Nix.
The appointment
of committees to arrange for the annual banquet was referred to the officers
who will meet next Monday evening and select the same.
Mr. M. F.
Cleary, in behalf of Wm. H. Clark, presented to the society a fine picture of
General Washington. This was a pleasant surprise to the society and a vote of
thanks for the same was tendered to Mr. Clark.
An
adjournment was then taken until Thursday evening, Jan. 30, when it is hoped
that there will be a large attendance, as some important changes in management
are to be considered.
CLOSED BY SHERIFF.
J. N. Dean, the Grocer, in
Financial Embarrassment.
At 9
o'clock this morning Deputy Sheriff James Edwards took possession of the
grocery store of Jarvis N. Dean at 103 Main-st. and closed its doors. This was
the result of four judgments which were filed at the county clerk's office at 9
and 9:45 o'clock this morning. The judgments were as follows:
In favor of
F. H. Cobb & Co. of Cortland $246, with costs of $16.38, amounting to
$262.38.
In favor of
Wickwire Roller Mills Co. of Cortland, $176, with costs of $16.28, amounting
to $198.28.
In favor of
G. N. Crouse & Co. of Syracuse, $842.73 with costs of $16.23, amounting to
$858.96.
In favor of
Frank A. Walrath and Eva A. Walrath, doing business under the firm name of
Walrath & Co. of Syracuse, $225.35 with costs of $16.38, amounting to
$241.73--a [grand] total of $1,561.83.
Cobb & Co. and the Wickwire
Roller Mill Co. are represented in the action by Kellogg & Van Hoesen. G.
N. Crouse & Co. is represented by Gill, Stillwell & White of Syracuse, and Walrath & Co. is represented by Mr. Frank B. Gill of the
above mentioned firm.
Mr. Dean
will have the sympathy of many friends in this time of financial embarrassment.
For many years he was the bookkeeper for Squires & Co. and later for James
S. Squires. When Mr. Squires retired from business about seven months ago Mr.
Dean bought him out and has since continued the grocery business at the same
old stand. The hard times, difficulty of collections and sharp competition have
brought about the results of this morning. It is to be hoped that when affairs
are straightened out they will not prove as bad as they might be, and that Mr.
Dean will be able to resume business.
On Account of Ice.
On account
of the ice storm this morning the electric cars were late in completing their
first trips. Three cars made their way to the E., C. & N. station one
behind the other on the top of each of which there were two men with sticks
knocking the ice from the trolley wire. The ice on the tracks also hindered
very much. The McGrawville car made its first trip one hour behind time.
BREVITIES.
"VERY
UNJUST."
Upon
the unjust and the just
Alike
the rain doth fall;
But the
unjust frequently purloin the good
umbrellas of the
just,
And don't
get wet at all.—Philadelphia Record.
—The
Cortland Savings bank was to-day connected with the telephone exchange.
—The Alpha
C. L. S. C. meets at Mrs. F. J. Doubleday's, 44 Port Watson-st. on Monday
evening, Jan. 27.
—The
twenty-third annual meeting of the New York state grange will be held in
Binghamton commencing Tuesday, Feb. 4. The grange has about 40.000 members.
—The
Republican caucuses of Cortlandville occur to-morrow night from 7 to 8 o'clock.
For the places where the several caucuses will be held see the call in the
first column of the second page of to-day's issue.
—The
southbound express on the D., L & W. due in Cortland at 10 o'clock was one
hour late this morning on account of telegraph poles being down and across the track
on the Oswego division north of Syracuse.
—Mrs. Minor
Howland of Upper Lisle, mother of Dr. F. P. Howland of Cortland, died Tuesday
night, Jan. 21, aged 80 years, 6 months and 10 days.
The funeral will be Sunday at 1 o'clock, and Dr. and
Mrs. Howland will attend it.
—The third
annual public exercises of Alpha Delta sorority of the Normal school will be
held in Normal hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The program promises to be
an attractive one and the public is cordially invited to be present.
—Tuesday,
the Groton Bridge & M'f'g
Co. delivered to the
Wickwire Bros., of Cortland, a large oil tank. It it twenty-six feet long,
eight feet in diameter and weighs six tons. Three teams were required to haul it to Cortland.—Groton
Journal.
—Mr. A. Moore
of Cincinnatus and Miss Iva Rogers were married at the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Z Rogers on Port Watson-st. last evening. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. J. L Robertson, pastor of the
Presbyterian church in the presence of several
invited guests.
—Frank
Wilson is on trial at Hollidaysburg, Pa., for the murder of an old man. Wilson
it a brother of Lucius R. Wilson and Charles F. Wilson, who about two years ago
murdered Detective Harvey in Syracuse and for which crime the former was
electrocuted and the latter imprisoned for life. It seems to run in the family.
—Elmira has
at present forty cases of typhoid fever. The board of health discussed
Wednesday night various plans to check the disease and decided to warn all
people not to use any water for drinking or domestic purposes until it had been
boiled. The water supply in the city schools will be shut off and only boiled
water will be furnished for the pupils. The prevalence of the disease in the
city will be reported to the state board of health and their assistance will be
solicited.
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