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| Daniel Sickles. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Thursday, September 3, 1896.
VETERANS ON
PARADE.
Turnout of the Grand Army of the Republic.
A GREAT DAY AT ST. PAUL.
Thousands
Viewed the Imposing Spectacle From Along the Line of March.
Notable
War Generals and Other Officers in Line.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 3.—Nearly 40,000 veterans
tramped the streets of St. Paul for several hours, renewing the associations of
their youth and feeling in their veins the martial spirit that animated them in
the old days. The day was an ideal one for marching, the warm rays of the sun being
behind the clouds nearly all day and a slight breeze making the tramp much
easier for those in line.
Seldom has so large a parade come so near moving
on time. Departments were directed to form at 9:30 o'clock and to be prepared
to move one hour later. Not to exceed 15 minutes later the commander-in-chief
and staff moved south on Western avenue and the various divisions fell into
line rapidly. It was 11:30 when the head of the parade reached the grand
reviewing stand at Smith park and General Walker
took his place on the platform and the first division, headed by the Veterans' corps,
passed in review.
It was 2:25 when the last post in the big
eighth division, containing Minnesota's veterans, had passed, and there was scarcely
a noticeable break in the line, post following post and department coming after
department in almost endless succession. The enlivening music and the stirring
martial sound of the veteran drum corps signaled the approach of each new
department and the crowds shouted prompt appreciation of the appearance of
various favorites. Waves of applause went up and down the crowded streets, and
at times veterans themselves took up the refrain, one of the favorite shouts:
"What is the matter with St. Paul? She's
all right."
Nothing was thought too good for the
marching men. As they were lined up on the side streets awaiting the signal to start,
the residents served ice water and otherwise looked after their comfort.
Taken altogether the parade was an unqualified success and the leading features
of it have touched the soldier heart as it has seldom been touched before.
Down through the white columns that lines
Lower Sixth street, the marching thousands kept on till they reached Smith park
at the lower end of the street, where the grand reviewing stand had been erected;
and here General Walker and staff mounted the stand and the various departments
passed in formal review, dipped colors and rolling drums saluting, the commander-in-chief
responding with a bow.
On the stand were a number of past commanders-in-chief
and others of national reputation, many of whom were recognized and applauded
by the veterans as they passed.
The broad sweep of Summit avenue gave many
chances for the marching qualities of the veterans to show, and many a post
drew cheer after cheer as it turned a corner in perfect alignment and with
soldierly step moved on down the wide avenue.
After Minnesota, Wisconsin represented the
most men in line. Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, the Dakotas, Missouri, Kansas
and Indiana had about the largest outside representation.
General Sickles of New York and Department Commander
William Shakespeare of Michigan were allowed to appear in carriages, and both
were cheered as they were recognized. General Russell A. Alger, past
commander-in-chief, and many other individuals who marched with the rank and
file were singled out for applause.
Altogether the parade was a grand success.
It has been in the thoughts of old soldiers to such an extent that the politics
of the encampment must take a back seat and wait for the business sessions to
open today.
The candidates are still being urged by
their friends, the leaders being Rear Admiral Meade, Major F. S. Clarkson and New
Hampshire's candidate, Comrade Linehan.
It seems to be dividing between the East and
the West and the fact that Buffalo will surely get the next encampment may
affect the result, as the sections are somewhat jealous of the honors. There
are other candidates who will have strong support, but those mentioned are the leaders.
The other officers will depend to a considerable
extent on the result for commander-in-chief, so that while the electioneering is
going on at a fairly lively rate, it is a minor affair to most of the
delegates.
Social
Scientists Elect Officers.
SARATOGA, Sept. 3.—The American Social Science
association held a protracted debate on "Immigration and Quarantine,"
which was opened by Dr. Stephen Smith of New York city. The following officers
were elected for the year: President, James B. Engel of Ann Arbor, Mich.; first
vice president, F. J. Kingsbury of Waterbury, Conn.; secretary, T. B. Sanborn
of Concord, Mass.; treasurer, Anson Phelps Stokes of New York. Directors and
department officers were also elected.
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| Cortland Courthouse and Jail on corner of Church Street and Court Street. |
CORTLAND
COUNTY JAIL.
Official
Report of State Prison Commissioner W. J. Mantanye Regarding It.
Every one in Cortland county will be
interested in the following extract regarding the Cortland county jail from the
report of the state commissioner of prisons for the Sixth judicial district,
Wm. J. Mantanye, just made to the prison commission. Mr. Mantanye has lately
inspected the jails in Broome, Chenango,
Madison and Cortland counties as required by the commission and by law, and has
given an account of what he found. Regarding our jail he says:
The Cortland county jail at Cortland, N. Y.,
was inspected Aug. 28, in company with the sheriff of the county, Mr. Adam
Hilsinger, who is also the jailor, and Mr. Miles E. Burlingame, the district
attorney.
This jail was built about forty-five years
ago of heavy blocks of limestone. It requires some changes and improvements,
but it is in the best condition of any jail in use in the district. The lower
floor is the criminal jail proper, entered directly from the main hall of the
courthouse adjoining it on the front. It is quadrilateral in form, with a large
jailor's corridor running across the front end with heavily barred windows at
each end. On each side and on the outside is a wide corridor running from the
jailor's corridor to the back end of the building, with two double steel barred
windows in each corridor.
There are five cells opening out upon each
of these jail corridors. The cells are of large size and fair height, much
better in all particulars than the cells at Norwich or Morrisville. There is
water and flush closets in each corridor which perhaps is sufficient for the
lower floor as no women are confined there. The closets connect with a covered
cess pool outside, instead of with the village sewers as they should. There is
no bath room and no ventilation except by the windows.
Some years ago pipes for heating by steam
were put in and connected with the court house heating system, but they do not
work properly and stoves are used for heating. Putting in a proper heating,
lighting and sewerage system would make much improvement and save money to the
county in the end.
The second floor is entirely separated from
the lower floor, and is also entered directly from the main hall of the
courthouse. There are six comfortable and rather pleasant rooms opening upon a central
corridor—three on each side—besides a closet and a storeroom. There is a barred
outside window in each room. This floor is reserved for female prisoners, for
juveniles and for debtors, and occasionally when not otherwise occupied, and the
lower jail is crowded, some of the misdemeanants occupy some of the upper rooms
during the night. There is but one closet for this floor, which is in a closed
room, but must be used by both men and women. There should be approved flush
closets in each room and they can be easily put in as the connection is already
made with the city water system. There is no bath room on this floor—none in
the jail.
The steam heating arrangement for this floor
is also a failure and stoves are used. The lighting is by oil lamps. The electric
lighting system should be extended into the jail as it already is in the courthouse,
the water system improved, new closets put in the upper rooms, better
ventilation provided for, connection with the village sewers and a bathroom put
in on each floor. With these changes which should be ordered at once, this jail
would be an excellent one and sufficient for the needs of the county.
The average number of inmates is not to
exceed ten, and the jail is ample and well arranged for the proper
classification and separation of the different grades of inmates. By reason of
a recent unusual influx of vagrants or tramps in the county the number of
inmates at the date of inspection was larger than before in many years, there
being in all sixteen, as follows:
Awaiting action of grand jury, male 4,
female 2. Under sentence for short terms, as vagrants, disorderly persons,
etc., of from three to fifteen days, 9; awaiting examination, 1.
The cots in the cells and rooms were in good
order. Straw mattresses are used and frequently changed, and the bedding is
kept in good order and well supplied. Everything looked cleanly and in good condition.
The difference between this jail and the others reported, except in Broome
county, is very marked, as there were no mattresses, merely burlaps or blankets
spread on the hard bunks to lie on in the others.
As the upper rooms are never fully occupied,
one of them can at any time be used for hospital purposes, and no other
hospital rooms are needed, as these upper rooms are well adapted for such
purpose.
At a meeting of the state commission of
prisons held at the capitol, Albany, Sept. 1, 1896, it was ordered that
extracts from the foregoing report be furnished to the board of supervisors of
each county interested with request that the changes and improvements
recommended be made.
At the meeting of the commission on Tuesday
at Albany the annual meeting for election of officers for the ensuing year was
held and the following officers were elected and appointed:
President—Hon. Lispenard Stewart of New
York.
Vice-President-—Wm. J. Mantanye of Cortland.
Secretary—Augustus Sherman of New Baltimore.
Stenographer—H. B. Franklin of Albany.
General Assistant—Charles G. Straat of
Cortland.
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| Wieting Opera House. |
Wieting
Opera House for the Third Time Destroyed by Fire.
The splendid Wieting opera house in
Syracuse, owned by the estate of the late Mr. J. M. Wieting, was totally
destroyed by fire last night. The night watchman made his round at 1 o'clock as usual and
found all right. Very shortly afterward flames were discovered in the rear of
the building. A general alarm was sent in, the fire department responded
promptly and did good work.
At first it seemed as though the whole block
would go, but the flames were finally brought under control and only the
theatre was wholly destroyed, though the Weiting business block and other
adjoining property was badly damaged. The value of the opera house was about
$125,000 and there was an insurance of $75,000. The loss upon adjoining
property and upon the contents will bring the total loss close up to $200,000.
The central telephone office was in the top
floor of the building and when the cables fell the entire telephone service of
the city was crippled.
This is the third fire that has occurred on
that site since the property came into the possession of Dr. Wieting. The first
one was on Jan. 5, 1856. The block was immediately rebuilt and was burned again
July 19, 1881. When erected again it was upon a much larger and more elegant
scale than before. In 1895 the theatre was elaborately redecorated at great
cost, and it was one of the finest play houses in the country.
A Test
Case.
The Elmira Gazette is authority for the
statement that among the cases to be submitted to the next grand jury in
Chemung county is one instituted by Dr. Amos S. Sellen, a wine manufacturer,
against two of the Elmira churches for alleged violation of the Raines excise law in the use of fermented wines at the communion service. The district
attorney says that he has no alternative than to present the case to the grand
jury.
The action arises over a portion of Section
31 of the Raines liquor law, which states that "It shall not be lawful for
any corporation, association, co-partnership or person, whether having paid
such tax or not, to sell, offer or expose for sale, or give away any liquor, on
Sunday, or before 5 o'clock A. M. on Monday."
The result of the action will be awaited
with interest by all churches throughout the state.
JOINERS'
BUSINESS COLLEGE.
In New
Quarters. Better Accommodations. Large School.
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Joiner have fully
demonstrated that a business college can be successfully conducted in Cortland.
They have heretofore occupied rooms in the Wickwire building on Main-st., but
the school has increased to such an extent that the rooms were too small and
recently the proprietors took possession of the entire third floor in the
Democrat building on Railroad-st., where the school was reopened Monday with a
largely increased attendance. The office is very pleasantly located opposite
the hall and at the front of the building. At the left of the hall is the large
business and penmanship department which are in charge of Mr. Joiner. Mrs.
Joiner has charge of the shorthand and typewriting department which is located
in the large room at the right side of the hall. Mr. and Mrs. Joiner have the
respect and confidence of all their pupils and are meeting with deserved
success.
Obituary.
Miss Emma Jane Cline passed out of the
shadows of mortality into the infinite glories of immortality at her adopted home
the late residence of Stephen Klock, Esq., East Homer, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1896.
Lyons, N. Y., was her birthplace sometime in
the sixties. Peter and Lucy
Drew-Cline,
her father and mother, were highly respected citizens of that place, members of
the First Presbyterian church, hence Miss Emma had all the advantages of a
religious training in the home and Sunday-school, besides those in the secular
schools of Lyons.
But here she was called to pass through the
severest trial of her life, her mother sickened and died. Being the oldest girl
the duties of the household naturally fell to her lot. And again only a few
years had elapsed ere the father too, was called away by death, when she came
to live with Stephen Klock, her father's cousin. This was in the spring of
1882.
Five years subsequently, on Feb. 8, 1887,
Mrs. Klock passed to her heavenly rest, and then, three years later Mr. Klock
followed the wife and mother to the heavenly home. Since this time, Miss Cline,
true and faithful to her trust, kept the home, doing the work of the household,
preserving its integrity and honor with grace and womanly fidelity.
Her Christian activities were not wholly
confined to home. She identified herself and was an active member of the Good
Templars' society in East Homer, N. Y. for years, also with the M. E. church,
where she honored her profession and subsequently with the grange, shedding an
influence, not only for personal, but for the public good.
The trials and afflictions she had passed through,
the responsibilities she had assumed, and the constitutional weakness she had
inherited, together from slight exposure brought her to a condition of nervous
prostration and subsequently developed into disease of the spine. All that
could be done for her was studiously and faithfully done, but to no avail. The
best medical skill was sought and employed, the most experienced nursing was
secured, all that could give promise of relief was eagerly seized upon, but her
disease baffled the skill of many physicians, it mocked at the efforts of the
best nursing, it laughed to scorn the devotion and love and prayers of her
kindred and friends and for sixteen months it held sway over all that was
mortal, claiming it as its own. Miss Cline was a great sufferer. Such was the
nature of the disease and so slow its progress, no wonder she thought at times
and said: "I am so unworthy the angels will not come for me."
Notwithstanding her severe pain, which had
paralyzed the lower extremities, drawing them out of shape, and the disease
which had mutilated the body, she retained her mind and judgment up to within
twenty-four hours before she breathed her last. To her sister, who had watched
over and with her with a devotion unparalleled, she said I have prayed for one
of two things: "When I go away I want to be able, as mother was, to
communicate to you, if I see her, if not permitted this I want to quietly go to
sleep." Only the last request was granted.
Her
end was calm.
No
painful strife
Chased
the departing soul away;
But
gently closed the gates of life,
And
peaceful seemed the slumbering clay.
For twenty-four hours she lay apparently unconscious,
having become so about 6 or 7 A. M. on Aug. 24, in which condition she remained
until about 6 o'clock A. M., Aug. 25, 1896. As the sun rose bright and clear
and its rays fell upon the emaciated form, scattering darkness from the room,
her spirit plumed its wings and took its flight to the land of no darkness and
no storm.
She leaves behind her to mourn her loss one
sister and two brothers. The oldest, William Cline, resides at Lyons, N. Y.,
the youngest Benjamin Cline living at Oneida, N. Y., and a younger sister, Florence,
lives at East Homer, N. Y., besides many friends and acquaintances here.
Her funeral was attended at the home where
she lives, the residence of Geo. Klock, by a large and appreciative concourse of
relatives and friends.
According to a promise made by her sister
before her departure, she being passionately fond of flowers, the deceased and
casket were profusely decorated with choice and beautiful flowers, and many
other pieces, choice and beautiful were presented by friends.
Whenever she spoke of herself to her sister
she never spoke of dying, it was ''I am going away," "When I go
away." The singing and sermon was very applicable and appropriate to the
occasion.
The chapters read were Psa. xxxix: Eccles. xii
and xiv of St. John. The text,
Rev. vii: 13-17.
The lessons were read and the sermon was pronounced by the Rev. F. M.
Harvey which was very interesting and pronounced by many "the best I ever
heard."
Relatives from Lyons and from Utica, N. Y.,
were present. Afterward the bearers, William Cline, Benjamin Cline, brothers of
the deceased, and George Klock and Edgar Klock, cousins, bore the casket to the
hearse and thence to the cemetery where it was deposited amid a profusion of
flowers and evergreens sealed in brick and mortar to await the final summons.
East Homer, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1896.
S. H.
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