A NEW PROPOSITION AND E. G. SPAULDING

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, May 6, 1897.

A NEW PROPOSITION.

TRACTION COMPANY OFFERS TO ASSIST THE E. & C. N. Y. R. R.

It Stands Ready to Construct a Railroad From McGrawville to Cincinnatus and Will Begin Work Immediately If Right of Way is Granted—Communication From the Traction Company's Attorney, H. L. Bronson.

   The following communication which explains itself was this morning given to the Cortland papers and to the local representatives of the Syracuse papers for publication by Attorney H. L. Bronson representing the Cortland & Homer Traction Co.:

   My attention has been called to a new proposition among the many which have been advanced heretofore, for the construction of the Erie & Central New York railroad, from Cortland to Cincinnatus. The latest project which has come to my notice is this:

   The Otselic Construction company must obtain and turn over to its subcontracting company a complete and undisputed right of way, and must also secure $25,000 of bonds in the road. This latter feature is not merely to secure money, for the contracting company has money enough of its own to finish the work at once, but it is to show the faith of the residents of this section in the road. The contracting company assumes that if the people up here who know the location and the circumstances best, have no faith in the road, there is no need for it to come up here to sink any money, but it believes that if the people here have faith in the road they will put up that money. $25,000 is not a large sum of money to raise in the whole of this county.

   I think that the radical defect in this proposition lies in the fact that the people of Cortland county are to be called upon again to raise a large amount of money for building this road, after they have already once before raised the money for building this same road. The town of Cortlandville alone was bonded years ago for $150,000, Solon for $44,800, Cincinnatus $44,500, Taylor $20,000 for the construction of this railroad. The taxpayers have paid interest on this money ever since, except such portions of the principal as have been paid. To come forward now and ask the people of Cortland, or of Cortland county, to raise $25,000 in addition for the construction of this road, would seem to impose an uncalled for burden upon the people. It is noticeable that no statement is made as to how many bonds are to be issued upon the road, so that the people are left entirely in the dark upon that subject.

   Many propositions of this nature have heretofore been made to the people of Cortland county, and so far these efforts have been abortive. In this time of financial depression it would seem hardly probable that the people would now come forward and raise even this sum. There is no question but that Cortland would be benefited by the construction and operation of this road by responsible parties, but as to whether the road will pay or not is extremely doubtful.

   However the Traction Co. having already constructed a road to McGrawville is in a better position to carry forward this work than any other company. One thing I consider certain, a parallel line between Cortland and McGrawville cannot be made to pay. I know that it is not necessary to call for a contribution to aid this enterprise.

   I am authorized to say that the Cortland & Homer Traction company stand ready to build this road at its own expense and that they will not call upon the people of Cortland county to raise one dollar. This company will simply ask for the right of way, and when that is obtained and transferred to it in a legal way they will immediately commence the construction of the road, and will finish it at the earliest opportunity. I do not mean by this that we will talk about building the road this year and postpone it indefinitely, but we will commence operations immediately, as soon as the rights of way are obtained and the property secured. I understand that some local parties along the line of the proposed road have advanced some money in their endeavors to have this road built to perpetuate its charter. With reference to those parties we would say that in order to have this road constructed, there shall be no hardship worked upon any persons by the failure of other parties to construct this road, and the Traction company will make an equitable adjustment of all those claims.

   The manner in which the Traction company treated the stockholders of the Cortland & Homer Horse Railroad company will be a guarantee that the rights of all parties concerned will be amply protected. When the Traction company purchased the Cortland & Homer Horse Railroad company, they made an especial effort to, and did buy all the stock of the old company, so that a shareholder of one or two hundred dollars obtained the same consideration, and his interests were as carefully looked after as the heaviest stockholder in the company.

   If this proposition is to be accepted at all, it should be at once so that work upon the road can be commenced immediately, as the season is rapidly advancing.

   H. L. BRONSON.

Elbridge G. Spaulding.

E. G. SPAULDING.

"Father of the Greenback" Passes Quietly Away.

   BUFFALO, May 6.—Hon. E. G. Spaulding died at his home in this city.

   Mr. Spaulding was born Feb. 24, 1809, at Summer Hill, Cayuga county, N. Y. He was a descendant of Edward Spaulding, who settled in Massachusetts in 1630. He studied law until 1850, when he retired from the profession and entered the banking business.

   Mr. Spaulding's public career began in 1836, when he was elected city clerk of Buffalo.

   In 1847, as the Whig candidate he was elected mayor. Buffalo then sent him to the assembly.

   The following year he was elected to the Thirty-first congress and served on the committee on foreign relations.

   In 1853 he was elected state treasurer. He was a member of the Republican state committee, and in 1860 conducted the local campaign for President Lincoln.

   He was elected to congress in 1858 and again in 1860, and served on the committee on ways and means for four years. It was then he earned the title of "Father of the Greenback." He drew up the greenback, or legal tender act, and the national currency bank bill, both of which were passed and helped to save the country from financial disaster.

   Mr. Spaulding issued a book in 1863 called "History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued During the Great Rebellion."

   At the Centennial exposition he was chosen to deliver the principal address on ''One Hundred Years of Progress In the Era of Banking.''

   Mr. Spaulding died worth $12,000,000 to $14,000,000.

Six Nations' Election.

   SALAMANCA, N. Y., May 6.—The annual election of the Seneca nation of Indians resulted in a complete victory for the Hoag party. The vote was one of the largest ever known, 332 ballots being cast on the Cattaraugus reservation and 247 on the Allegany reservation. The successful candidates won by 54 majority. T. F. Jameson, Jr., was elected president; King Tall Chief, clerk, and W. C. Hoag, treasurer. The officers elected are favorable to the Seneca oil lease.

STUDIED ANATOMY.

Medical Students Said to Have Snatched Bodies Twenty Years Ago.

   ROCHESTER, May 6.—Intense excitement prevails in the northern part of the city on account of the finding of human skeletons buried in the garden back of an old mansion, once the homestead of the aristocratic Moulson family. Coroner Kleindienst has already exhumed one skeleton and search will be begun at once for the scores of others that are reported to have been buried in the cellar and garden of the old place.

   A statement was made public to-day to the effect that about eighteen or twenty years ago a half dozen medical students, one of whom lived at the old house, formed a society for the study of human anatomy. Bodies were snatched by the score from the old Hooker cemetery north of the city, it is stated, and several well-known doctors are said to have been implicated.

TURKS TAKE PHARSALOS.

Greeks Retire in Good Order—Powers to Propose Mediation.

   LARISSA, May 6, 3:20 P. M.—The Turks have captured Pharsalos.

   ATHENS. May 6.—A dispatch from the front says that Prince Constantine's army has retired in perfect order upon Domokos, thirteen miles south of Pharsalos, where it will await the attack of the Turks.

   The ministers of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy have been instructed to propose mediation, and similar instructions to German and Austrian ministers are momentarily expected.

Great Britain is Bitter.

   LONDON, May 6.—The afternoon newspapers are bitter at the rejection of the arbitration treaty by the United States Senate.

Adjourned to May 11.

   Nellie Martin, whose arrest was noted yesterday ["Serious Charges"], was in police court this afternoon for examination. She was accompanied by E. C. Alger as counsel, who asked for her discharge on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction of the court or magistrate, and that the information was insufficient. The motion was denied and the defendant demanded a jury trial, which was denied by the court with the right to change his decision, and the case was adjourned until Tuesday, May 11, at 10 o'clock A. M.

MET AT THE CORNER.

Attorney and Druggist Collide While Riding Their Wheels.

   Attorney Edwin Duffey and Druggist C. F. Brown were each last evening taking a quiet ride on their bicycles, when they met at the corner of Church and Court-sts. by the courthouse. Report says the two wheels had that affinity for each other that the greatest efforts of the riders availed nothing in preventing a collision, and that both the attorney and druggist were hurled into the gutter.

   It is further stated that when they were picking themselves up, Attorney H. A. Dickinson appeared on the scene and reminded them, especially Mr. Duffey, that his time for revenge had come in return for Mr. Duffey's alleged description to friends of his adventures in learning to manage a bicycle some weeks since. Neither of the gentlemen was injured, and the wheels were but slightly damaged.

FOR THE RACE MEET.

Committees Appointed for the Circuit Bicycle Races June 17.

   Last night the C. A. A. made preliminary arrangements for the state circuit bicycle races to be held here June 17. The executive committee who will have full charge of the meet will consist of the board of governors, who are A. D. Wallace, A. S. Brown, A. C. Kinney, C. E. Mudge, A. M. Williamson, G. F. Beaudry, W. A. Wallace, William Grady, A. K. Weatherwax, Fred Pierce, J. H. Cowan.

   The following committees were appointed:

   Grounds—W. A. Wallace, C. E. Mudge, C. W. Barker.

   Prizes—William Grady, A. C. Kinney, F. J. Tooke, M. E. Sarvay.

   Advertising—A. C. Kinney, J. J. Murphy, John Monigan.

   Track—William Grady, F. W. Melvin, J. F. Costello, George Gleason, Robert Mills.

   The events so far as decided on will be a one-mile open and two-mile handicap for professionals, and for amateurs a one-mile open, a two-mile handicap and a one-mile Cortland county championship.

   Official Handicapper A. G. Batchelder writes that the prospects for all the riders who are following the circuit races being here is bright. Mr. Batchelder will act as referee, and W. W. Wilson of New York, a member of the racing board, will be the clerk of the course.

   There will be a meeting of the whole membership of the C. A. A. to-night at 8:30 to talk over matters connected with the meet.

ACTION FOR ALLEGED SLANDER.

Mrs. Elma Glish Sues Charles A. Lowell to Recover $1,000.

   Mrs. Elma Glish of 44 Hubbard-st., through her attorney B. A. Benedict, has brought an action against Charles A. Lowell of 45 Homer-ave., to recover $1,000 for an alleged slander. Mr. Lowell has retained W. J. Mantanye to defend the case. It is claimed that the words complained of were uttered by the defendant to the plaintiff in the Free Methodist church in the presence of others at the close of service upon a recent occasion.

   The defendant does not deny having had a conversation with the plaintiff, but he denies using some of the language alleged and claims that he can prove the truth of other statements which he made.

   It has been reported that this difficulty has caused a disturbance and dissension in the church, but Presiding Elder H. W. Fish and Pastor W. J. Riker desire us to state that this is not a fact; that the church has never been more thoroughly united and harmonious in sentiment and in work.

BREVITIES.

      —The grocery and market of Angell & McFall has been connected with the telephone exchange.

   —Beard & Peck are fitting up fifteen bedrooms with nice furniture in the hotel of A. J. Goddard on Railroad-st.

   —At the regular meeting of Lincoln lodge, I. O. G. T., to-morrow night the recently elected officers will be installed.

   —To-morrow is Arbor day and it will be appropriately observed at some of the schools. Others have no special exercises.

   —A regular meeting of Co. A., L. T. L., will be held at the W. C. T. U. rooms on Friday afternoon, May 7, at 3:30 o'clock. It is important that every member be present.

   —Rev. James E. Mason, D. D., presiding elder of the Zion A. M. E. church of eastern New York will occupy the pulpit in the First M. E. church next Sunday morning.

   —Fred I. Graham has taken out a pharmacist's tax certificate and this is the only one so far added to the list as recently published. This makes forty-seven certificates in the county,

   —The motors have been transferred to one of the open cars for summer use and it was run over the road this afternoon to test it. The car will not be put in service till the season is suitable.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—Kellogg & Curtis, Special Sale, page 6; Case & Ruggles, Ten-Day Specials, page 4; Bingham Bros. & Miller, Custom Made Suits, page 8; H. W. Gazlay, Milk Coolers, page 7.

   —Drayman Richard Morris this morning conveyed the two cannon and forty shells from a car at the D., L. & W. station to the soldiers' monument on Church-st., where they will soon be placed in position.

   —The Binghamton Leader says: The council of the Salvation Army officers in charge of the posts in the Binghamton district, including the captains at Elmira, Corning, Ithaca, Homer, Cortland and Norwich will be held in that city Monday.

   —Edward Brown and J. E. Dillon were arrested on Port Watson-st. at about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon by Constable Ira Crandall on the charge of public intoxication. They were lodged in the cooler and will be brought before Police Justice Mellon at 7:30 o'clock this evening. When the officer approached, one of the pair started off at a lively pace down Tompkins-st., but Officer Crandall proved to be a sprinter of rare excellence and soon captured his man.