Cortland
Semi-Weekly Standard, Tuesday,
February 18, 1896.
ANOTHER EXCISE BILL
SOON
TO BE INTRODUCED BY SENATOR FORD.
Comparison
between This and the Raines Bill—Modeled after Massachusetts Law.
Albany,
Feb. 17, (Special.)—The announcement on Friday that Senator Ford of New York
intended to introduce on Monday night in the upper house the New York chamber
of commerce bill to amend the excise law has caused a great deal of comment. It
is known that there is considerable power behind this bill, and that an earnest
effort will be made to have it adopted instead of the Raines bill.
Senator
Ford said that he had not intended to put in his bill until the Raines bill
was reported out of committee, but that the latter bill had been delayed so long
and there was so much secrecy about it that he thought it was time that the
senate got to work on the excise question. His bill, if introduced on Monday
night, will be referred to the committee on taxation and retrenchment, and will
in all probability be held there till the Raines bill is reported out.
Senator
Ford has enumerated some of the differences between the Raines bill and the
chamber of commerce bill, and has endeavored to show that the provisions of the
latter are the better. The Raines bill follows largely the Ohio plan of
regulating the sale of liquor, while the Ford bill is more after the plan
observed in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
The Raines
bill abolishes the boards of excise and centralizes the power of issuing
licenses and collecting the tax in the comptroller of the state and his agents.
The Ford bill abolishes the boards of excise, but provides for an excise
collector in every city, village and town, to be appointed or chosen as excise
commissioners are now chosen. The rates of liquor taxes in the Ford bill are
higher than in the Raines bill, being $1,000 for New York, Brooklyn and
Buffalo; $750 for second class cities; $500 for third class cities and $300 for
other places.
Hotels are rated
as saloons, Druggists’ licenses are $20, and they may have no other license.
The Raines bill permits them to have a storekeeper’s license. Restaurants are not permitted to have a bar. Clubs
must pay a license in the Ford bill from $500 in New York City down. In the
Raines bill the clubs are classed with the saloons and must pay the same tax.
The Ford bill permits restaurants and hotels to sell liquor with meals on
Sunday. The Raines bill permits the hotels only to make such Sunday sales. The
Ford bill exempts hotels, clubs and restaurants from the clause prohibiting the
sale of liquor within 200 feet of a school or church. Hotels only are exempted
under the Raines bill. The Ford bill provides that a saloon can not be started against
the protest of the owners of the adjoining property. Under the Raines bill a
person wishing to start a saloon must obtain the consent of two-thirds of all
the owners of buildings used exclusively for dwellings within 200 feet of the
proposed saloon.
Both bills
have local option provisions, but under the Raines bill hotels may sell liquor
in localities where the people have voted against having saloons. The most
important section of both bills is that which states what shall become of the
money collected as a tax from the sellers of liquor. The Raines bill provides
that one-half shall go to the state at large. The Ford bill provides that the money
collected shall stay in the city, town &
village where collected. It is over this provision that the fight
will occur. The Republicans as a whole have been in favor of such changes in
the law as will lessen the number of saloons and increase the license or tax.
The only difference between them is to the distribution of the tax collected.
The city members want it to remain in the place where collected, and the
country members want half of it to go to support the state.
What will
become of the Ford bill is still a matter of conjecture.
She Will Be Much Missed.
The Norwich
Sun of Saturday says: “Mrs. D. S. Jones, who left yesterday for Mohawk, where
her husband recently purchased a newspaper, will be much regretted by a large circle of friends, especially
among church and temperance workers. For nearly a year and a half she has been
secretary of the W. C. T.
U. With that talent for giving tangible expression to their appreciation which
is characteristic of white ribbon women, the organization presented her with a
beautiful piece of silverware, suitably inscribed, and also adopted the
following resolution:
“Resolved,
That we as members of the Norwich W. C. T. U. desire to put on record our
sense of the profound loss which we sustain in parting with our secretary, Mrs.
D. S. Jones, whose faithfulness and efficiency are only equaled by the love we
bear her.”
Prohibitionists Getting Under Way.
Lincoln,
Neb., Feb. 1 5.—The state Prohibition convention yesterday gave the first
Prohibition boom for the presidency to the country for the campaign of 1896 by
instructing the delegates to the National convention to vote for C. E. Bentley,
of this city, for the presidential nomination.
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| Hoke Smith. |
HOKE WOULD A-SKATING GO.
Thought the Trick Was Inherited,
Not Acquired.
A special
from Washington to the New York World says: “Several sharp
shocks, separated by intervals of about six minutes,
were recorded by the seismograph at the Naval Observatory this evening.
Inquiries developed the fact that the quake was purely local in its character.
“There is a
big skating rink in Washington, recently opened, and patronized largely by
fashionable people. Mr. Cleveland’s Secretary of the Interior, Hoke Smith of
Georgia, has been pining for a good skate for three weeks. He can’t go duck
hunting. He was born in North Carolina, where they only see ice in mixed drinks
ordered by Northerners, but his father was born in New Hampshire, and had fired
Hoke's youthful imagination with tales of his prowess on the ice.
“Now Mr.
Smith believed that ability to skate was inherited and not acquired. So this
evening he not only ventured forth to skate but invited a lot of sweet girl
cousins to see him cut curleycues and write their names in the ice.
“The
attendants strapped the skates on Secretary Smith, and he stood up.
Somehow it didn’t seem just right, but with all
those Georgia girls looking at him and beginning to giggle there was only one
thing to do and that was to skate. He struck out. One skate started for Georgia
and the other for Canada. Two attendants pulled them together. Then both skates
left for Chicago and took Secretary Smith’s feet with them, while the rest of
the interior department clung to the District of Columbia. He fell like a
landslide and the Georgia cousins shrieked in chorus. Four assistants helped
him up. In the course of the next half hour Secretary Smith had hit the ice
with 315 pounds of eminent legal talent no less than six times and had damaged
the rink to an amount not yet estimated.”
A New Enterprise in Cortland.
Mr. Joseph
R. Ingalls, who for a number of years was the very capable and efficient
superintendent of the Excelsior Top Co. for Mr. W. H. Newton, and who resigned
his position there on account of ill health, has so far recovered as to be able
to resume business. He is now going to branch out for himself and will start
the manufacture of carriage tops and trimmings at the foundry and machine shop
of the McKee & Webb Mfg. Co. on Crawford-st. Mr. Ingalls is fitting up an
office on the first floor and has rented the greater part of the second floor
and all of the third floor. He will get under way in the course of a few
weeks. It is impossible to tell yet how many men will be employed, but Mr.
Ingalls will start in a way in which he will have room to grow. He will
doubtless work up a fine trade.
BREVITIES.
—The net
receipts of the chicken pie supper at the Y. M. C. A. rooms Friday night were
$46.05.
—Bishop
Huntington confirmed a class of forty-one at Elmira reformatory Friday
afternoon,
—Mr. F. E.
Whitmore has presented another book to the Y. M. C. A. library. Its title is
“The Secret of Success.”
—The first
robin of the season is reported by Mr. E. F. Jennings who saw one on Homer-ave
Friday.
—A regular
meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. will be
held in the Y. M, C. A. parlor Feb. 20 at 3:30 P. M.
—Rev. P. J.
McEvoy of Syracuse officiated at St. Mary’s church Sunday in place of Rev. J.
J. McLoghlin, who has been ill and confined to the house for the past week.
—Charles H.
Fenner has been elected to represent James H. Kellogg Camp,
No. 48, S. O. V., at the Five County Association of
Sons of Veterans at Owego, Feb. 25 and 26.
—Two of Ol
Dalevan’s teams drew two sleighloads of people to McLean Saturday night where
supper was served at the Elm Tree house and an hour was enjoyably spent in
dancing.
—Mr. E. A.
McGraw Monday placed a neat sign at the front of his
wagon shop on South Main-st. He also hung out as a
sign three buggy wheels painted red, white and blue respectively.
—There
promises to be something of a contest in the Republican village convention for
the nomination for police justice for which the friends of Mr. C. S. Bull and
Mr. E. E. Mellon are pushing
them with considerable earnestness.
—Druggist
C. F. Brown has just purchased a Torsion balance which will weigh from 1/8 grains
to 8 grains, The whole is enclosed in a glass case and is a very fine
instrument. It is on exhibition in the south window of his store.
—Sheriff
Hilsinger on Friday posted notices of the sale by the sheriff on Tuesday, Feb.
25, at 10 A. M., of all of the personal property, including both finished and
unfinished stock of the Hitchcock Mfg. Co. The sale is promised to occur at the
Elm-st. factory.
—News was
Friday received in Cortland of the death at Washington, D.
C., at 1 o’clock that morning of Mr. A. W. Ogden,
formerly of Cortland. Mr.
Ogden used to be county clerk here, and was at one
time associated with Mr. L. D. Garrison in the candy manufacture.
—The
Franklin Hatch Library association has recently been presented with a valuable
work of art by Mrs. Julia Hyatt. It is a full length portrait of Victor Hugo
painted by the late Dr. F. O. Hyatt, and is an excellent example of Dr. Hyatt’s
work and is greatly appreciated by the recipients.
—A new axle
and pair of wheels was shipped Saturday to take the place of the broken one on
car No. 17 of the electric road. The break in the other axle was caused by a
bad flaw in the material. No. 16 will run to McGrawville and No. 7 will be on
the crosstown line until No. 17 is out again.
—Some new
developments of which we are not yet permitted to speak in detail occurred
Saturday in the matter of the possible absorption of the E., C. & N. R. R. by the Lehigh Valley
R. R. and the present indications point very strongly to such a move
being brought about very soon, possibly this week.
—The
village board of trustees held a meeting Tuesday night at which routine
business was transacted. They confirmed the election of officers of the fire
department and also the appointment of F. A. Bickford as superintendent of the
fire alarm system. They talked informally about the budget for next year and
will soon have it made up. The next meeting is Monday night.
—A company
of twenty people including members of the Normal faculty with wives and
husbands of some of the members Saturday evening accepted Miss Duffey’s
invitation to a sleighride to Little York. They were comfortably accommodated
in one of Ol Delavan’s big sleighs and enjoyed the ride in the highest degree.
A sumptuous supper was awaiting them at the Raymond House to which all did full
justice. The return trip was made in good season.
—Among the
visitors to the wardrooms of Decker Bros. this week was
Miss Sara Hubbard, a prominent pianist of Cortland,
N. Y. She came with an
order from Mr. A. Mahan, the hustling Decker agent of Cortland, to pick out a Decker piano for her own use. She selected a style
eighteen cabinet grand, and was loud in her praise of the instrument. This is a
great compliment to to the house of Decker bros. and a tall feather in the cap
of Mr. Mahan, who for many years has held the agency for the Decker, and has
always pushed it forward to the position it so richly deserves.—New York Music
Trades, Feb. 15, 1896.
Catharine J. Sessions.
Mrs.
Catharine J. Sessions died at 6:30 o’clock Monday morning at the home of her son, W. J. Perkins, 14 Reynolds-ave. Mrs.
Sessions was 77 years of age and was born in Otsego county, where she lived
until seven years of age when with her parents she removed to Virgil, which
place had been her home up to seven years ago, when she came to Cortland to
live with her son.
She had
been in poor health for a few years and during the past month had
been confined to her bed. She leaves one sister and
one brother, Mrs. Hannah
J. Robinson and Mr. Jacob Price, both of Cortland.
Also one daughter and two sons, Mrs. John J, Stillman and Messrs. W. J. and
Horace Perkins, all of Cortland, The funeral will be held from the residence of
her son Wednesday. Burial in Virgil.
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| Misprinted "Jan. 18, 1896." Should read "February 18, 1896." |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Vitrified Brick.
The interesting
communication from Mr. C. G. Maybury of Winona, Minn.,
concerning vitrified brick for paving in Friday’s
Standard, has attracted considerable attention. The testimony in favor of this
material seems very strong. Whether freight rates from Galesburg [Illinois] to
Cortland would not make this style of paving almost as expensive for us as
asphalt is, however, a question to be considered, That it stands at least next
to asphalt in wearing qualities, and ahead of granite, and that it has points
in its favor which neither of these materials has, there is certainly strong
evidence.
◘ The X-ray of Professor Roentgen, which he calls such because it is an
unknown quantity, like the x in algebra, was noted long ago,
as so many scientists claim. For generations it has been known that when a
ray of pure white light was separated into its seven component rainbow colors
by a prism, there were certain dark rays always along with the other seven. The
nature of these has never been ascertained. It was left for Professor Roentgen
to ascertain that they would penetrate solids and photograph, for instance,
coins inside a leather pocketbook. Give Roentgen credit for this discovery and
for making it public.
◘ It always has been a wonder why so many people are still in doubt as to
the reality of a link between man and monkey when so
many evidences of it are at hand daily and hourly. Quite apart from that,
however, there is in the Central park (New York) menagerie a large female
chimpanzee that manifests decided artistic talent. She, moreover, studies her
own face in a mirror as carefully as a Fifth avenue belle could do and with as
much interest. More than that, this almost human creature draws with a lead
pencil upon a paper pad. Her keeper one day made a rough picture of her head
and showed it to her. She examined it carefully, then took the paper and pencil
and made a sketch of herself with her arms over her head. The resemblance was so plain as to make
it unmistakable what the picture was intended for, and that is more than can be said
of the paintings of some of the most famous artists. This chimpanzee pursues
her art for reward, too, for when she has made a particularly good hit, she
expects and gets half a dozen eggs and two bowls of hot coffee.
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