RECLASSIFICATION NEEDED

Levi P. Morton.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, August 5, 1896.

RECLASSIFICATION NEEDED.

Governor Morton Writes a Letter to the Civil Service Commission.

   ALBANY, Aug. 5.—Governor Morton has sent a letter to the civil service commission in which he calls attention to the fact that the construction of the courts of civil service sections of the constitution brings all the civil divisions of the state within its care and he therefore believes that there should be a complete new classification.

   He says: "The time seems to have arrived when such classification should be made and new rules and regulations established better adapted to existing conditions and conducive to a more satisfactory administration. The duty of providing for such administration still rests upon the commission and the governor.

   "I think the constitution clearly provides for three classes of appointments, namely, exempt, noncompetitive and competitive, and the duty seems to rest upon the commission to determine in what cases applicants should be subjected to examination and in what cases, by reason of the peculiar responsibilities and the functions of the office, an examination is not 'practicable.'

   "You are respectfully requested to prepare and submit at your early convenience, for executive consideration, such a revision of the rules and regulations concerning the administration of the civil service as you may deem proper, together with a new classification of such offices of the state and the civil divisions thereof as may be within the present jurisdiction of the commission."

IGNORANT OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Upon That Ground Two Italians Are Refused Citizenship.

   WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—In refusing to grant naturalization papers to two young Italians, Judge Cole of the District supreme court held that no one who is in ignorance of the constitution of the United States is competent or entitled to become admitted to citizenship.

   The young men explained that they had come to this country before reaching their majority and that they had ever since resided here, but when questioned by the judge they admitted that they did not understand the constitution and were even doubtful as to the form of this government.

   Judge Cole thereupon decided them to be ineligible to citizenship and refused to naturalize them, on the ground that they could not swear to support something they do not understand.

Cortland Park.

AT THE PARK.

Standard People Forget Newspaper-Making and Enjoy Themselves.

   A party of sixteen to one, or seventeen, employees of The STANDARD office, seeking a "period" of recreation after the "press" of business for the day was over, laid aside the "rules" of printing, left familiar "forms'' behind them, and took supper at the park last evening. The evening was a delightful one. "Caps and small caps" could be laid aside, the existence of brevier, bourgeois, nonpareil, pica and italics was forgotten and the only "typos" which played any part in the program of the evening were the tintypes furnished by Photographer Burnham.

   The bountiful supper which was furnished by the ladies of the party was ample "proof" that they are quite as familiar with the rules of cooking as with the rules of type-setting and the ''dispatch" with which the good things disappeared showed that the boys were as much at home at the picnic table as when standing before the table of a Huber press or at the lever of a Cox Duplex press. A noticeable feature of the supper was the lack of "pie," but even the office "devil" who had labored diligently to remove the ink stains from his face and hands expressly for the occasion was in no way put out by the omission. After supper the party went to the [dance] hall where an hour or more was pleasantly spent with music and song before returning to town.

   The "make-up" and "composition" of the party was as follows: Misses Emma A. Waldo, Minnie A. Losee, Lizzie Haben, Tessie E. Dwyer, Anna L. Burns, Florence V. Rood, Alice G. Sheridan, Lulu Potts, Mrs. Hattie Edwards, Mrs. W. J. Moore and Messrs. Frank D. Bugby, B. C. Hollister, M. C. Edwards, Gray Joy, Jr., Frank J. Donegan, Reno Hoag and C. H. White.

Charged With Larceny.

   Lewis Rood of "Brewery Hill" in Homer appeared before Justice Dowd this morning and swore out a warrant for the arrest of Fred Johnson of Homer on the charge of larceny in taking the former's horse. Johnson pleaded not guilty to the charge and the case was adjourned to Friday at 10 A. M.

Lehigh Valley R. R. depot at Cortland, N. Y.

He Must Be a Sprinter.

   A prominent Cortland grocer whose wife started this morning for a trip to

Pennsylvania has developed propensities in the sprinting line that have astonished all of his friends and are almost a revelation to the runner himself. In a sudden burst of speed this morning he outran a Lehigh Valley passenger train. That does not indicate that the train was slow, but it speaks volumes for the way in  which he made his legs fly.

   He had put his wife on board the train and retained her mileage book to use in checking her trunk, and then forgot to take it to her, until she called to him from the rear door of the rapidly receding train. Then he undertook to deliver the book. His friends on the platform concluded that the idea of a separation from his better half for a few days was too much for him and that he had concluded to go along with her.

   It was a long run and a hard run, but the grocer won. He caught the train and passed over the mileage book and then he came back complaining of the hot weather. Those who have been unable to find him to-day have concluded that he is either rusticating in the cooler of his market or else that he is looking up [Cortland’s professional sprinter] Matthewson to challenge him for a 200-yard race for a diamond trophy.

Teaching in Elmira Reformatory.

   Mr. Arthur D. Call of Cortland, who was graduated from the Normal in the class of '92 and from Brown university in the class of '96, has been appointed superintendent of the school of letters of Elmira reformatory at a salary of $1,500. At present the institution is divided into manufacturing department, (including trades), the military department, and the school of letters. Under the new constitutional amendment it will be necessary to crowd out the manufacturing department of the institution and it is the plan to supplant it by more efficient work in the school of letters. This will give wider scope to Mr. Call's department.

   At present the school of letters is divided into twenty different grades, ranging everywhere from kindergarten to work in ethics, nature studies and languages. The position of superintendent of all this work is a responsible one, but it is safe to prophesy that Mr. Call is fully equal to it and will perform his duties to the satisfaction of all.

Stevenson Insurance and Ament & Brazie.

BREVITIES.

   —New advertisements to-day are— Ament & Brazie, Not Too Late Yet, page 6.

   —About 600 excursionists of the M. E. church societies between Cazenovia and East Homer went to Ithaca yesterday.

   —A regular meeting of the board of directors of the Tioughnioga club will be held in the club parlors this evening at 7:30 o'clock.

  —A telephone message from Glen Haven this afternoon at 3 o'clock reports Col. Alfred Green as much improved in health. He is up and dressed and was able to walk about the hotel.

   —The Y. P. S. C. E. of the Congregational church will hold a social in the church parlor this evening. Ice cream and cake will be served free. All members and friends of the society are invited to attend.

   —Band concert and dance at the park to-night. New music will be played by the Cortland City band. Dancing at the pavilion with music by McDcrmott's orchestra. Reduced rate [trolley] tickets from Homer and McGrawville.

   —Mr. Samuel Parsons has finished delivering the new directory of Cortland, Homer, Marathon and McGrawville and returned to his home near Syracuse this afternoon. Copies of the directory have been left on sale and may be obtained at McKinney & Doubleday's and Ament & Brazie's.

   —Horace Howland of Lisle, aged about 60 years, committed suicide yesterday in a glen near his home by blowing the top of his head off with a shotgun. No cause for the deed is known, but he has shown signs of insanity upon various occasions during the past year. He leaves an invalid wife and two children.

   —A note received at this office from Cuyler says that all the party differences of opinion were amicably settled at the Republican caucus Monday night and that the delegates elected were instructed to support Frank P. Gleason for school commissioner in the Second district and W. E. Yager for member of the county committee,

   —A young man named Watkins, while fooling with another young man in the yard of Liveryman M. H. Kingman on South Main-st. yesterday, threw a large stone across the street at his fleeing companion. The stone crashed through a window in Marks' bakery and the young man at once left an order with H. F. Benton to have the glass replaced.

   —Orris Hose running team left this afternoon at 1:42 over the Lehigh Valley for Waterloo, where to-morrow they contest in the hose and hub and hub races at the Central New York Firemen's convention. Excelsior Hook and Ladder company are entered in the hook and ladder contest. The majority of the firemen go on the special train over the Lehigh Valley at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning.

A NOTED FEMALE POPULIST.

Mrs. Haskell, the Wife of Montana's Attorney General, a Fine Speaker.

   The most notable woman in the entire Populist convention, by reason of owning an unusually clever head and being a political speaker of ability and with a magnificent education, was Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell, assistant attorney general of Montana and wife of General Haskell, attorney general of the state. It will be remembered that she ran on the Populist ticket of 1892 in opposition to Haskell of the Republican party and came very close to winning the prize. She had only a bowing acquaintance with the general at the time. As she is an exceptionally successful lawyer she met him frequently after his election, and the friendship drifted into love, and a year ago they were married.

   Mrs. Haskell is a graduate of Bates college in Maine, having received the degree of A. B. and A. M. She is the first woman ever elected to a state or national convention and one of the best all around speakers on the silver question in the country. During the big mining suit a short while since in which James B. Higgins was plaintiff—one of San Francisco's millionaires—Mrs. Haskell won the suit against him, for which she received a $10,000 fee, the largest ever given a woman.—Philadelphia Times.