SUNDAY WAS DRY

Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, May 3, 1897.

SUNDAY WAS DRY.

New York Saloon Keepers Strictly Observe the Raines Law.

   NEW YORK, May 3.—Yesterday was the first Sunday under the new amendments of the Raines law, the provisions of which were rigidly enforced by the police, according to the instructions promulgated by Chief of Police Conlin on Saturday.

   All day long saloon keepers called at the various station houses and propounded questions of all sorts to the sergeants in charge, as to certain phases of the law which they did not understand. The disposition of the saloon keepers appeared to be to obey the laws and not to evade it in any particular.

   The most noticeable difference between the condition Sunday and those who had obtained during the past 12 months was that all of the so-called Raines law hotels on the Bowery and elsewhere were closed, and the familiar legend, "Hotel dining room now open," has disappeared from its prominent place in the windows. Bonafide hotels were open and serving liquor to guests as usual.

UNDER THE RAINES LAW.

Forty-six Certificates Issued So Far This Year in the County.

   Country Treasurer Foster has already issued forty-six certificates under the

Raines law as follows:

SUBDIVISION 1—HOTELS AND SALOONS.

Name.                              Place.                 Amount.

Marion Mathewson       Cortland            $300

Dorr C. Smith                Cortland             300     

John F. Dowd                Cortland             300

Wallace & McKean       Cortland             300

Hugh Corcoran              Cortland             300

Cassius M. Smith          Cortland             300

A. D. Wallace                Cortland             300

Elizabeth Noonan          Cortland             300

Charles H. Warren        Cortland              300

Michael H. Ray             Cortland             300

Charles Mosher             Cortland             300

Arthur J. Goddard         Cortland             300

Lowell & Nix                Cortland            300

C. M. Ingraham            Cortland             300

E. B. Linderman           Cortland             300

Riley & Son                  Cortland            300

William Rogers         Cortlandville      100

William R. Jones       Cortlandville      100

Clayton Phillips         Cortlandville      100

Daniel Kernan           Cortlandville      100

John Andrews              Homer             200

Michael Murphy          Homer             200

Mrs. George I. Crane   Homer             200

Daniel Donohue           Homer            200

William Fitzgerald       Homer            100

Alvin Gay                    Homer            100

Patrick Comerfort       Marathon        100

Lynde Brothers           Marathon        100

Freeman A. Allen       Marathon        100

Charles C. Brown       Marathon        100

Albertus Tarble           Marathon        100

E. Clark Ercanbrack    Marathon       100

Mary G. Roche           Scott               100

Earl C. Johnson          Truxton           100

John O'Connor           Truxton           100

Charles R. Ingalls       Willet             100

SUBDIVISION 2—STOREKEEPERS.

John C. Wiegand.       Truxton          $50

SUBDIVISION 3—PHARMACISTS.

Charles F. Brown       Cortland         $5

Q. W. Bradford          Cortland           5

Sager & Jennings      Cortland           5

W. J. Perkins & Co.   Cortland          5

George I. Watson       Cortland          5

F. E. Brogden             Cortland          5

C. A. Skinner & Co.  Homer             5

G. L. Swift & Son     Marathon         5

Wooster & Ayers      Marathon          5  

BIG FIRE IN LINCKLAEN.

Store, House and Barn of E. N. Andrews Consumed Saturday Night.

   The village of Lincklaen, which is situated in Chenango county just outside the eastern line of Cortland county about four miles from Cuyler, was visited by fire Saturday night which, in proportion to the population is nearly as disastrous as was the fire at Whitney Point, which wiped out the business portion of that place.

   Soon after 11 o'clock Saturday night fire was discovered in the wallpaper room of the large store of E. N. Andrews. The village has no fire apparatus, and in a short time the entire store was ablaze. Mr. Andrews' house and barn, both of which were close by the store, also went up in flames, only a portion of the contents of the store and house being saved. The flames spread to the blacksmith shop of A. O. Poole across the street, and this, too, was burned. By desperate efforts of the large crowd of men who had assembled, Mr. Poole's house was saved, though badly scorched. A string of popcorn that hung on the side of the house was popped nicely during the fire.

   The insurance firm of Davis, Jenkins & Hakes received a telegram this morning from Mr. Andrews stating that his loss was almost total. Mr. Andrews carried an insurance of $12,150, of which $3,500 was placed with DeRuyter agents and the remainder with Davis, Jenkins & Hakes.

   The fire is a bad one for Lincklaen and the country for miles around. The store was the only one in the place, and the stock included everything from a needle to a mowing machine. He also carried all kinds of feed, and in fact anything that the people in that section need.

   A later report says that the origin of the fire is thought to have been an explosion of a quantity of gun powder which was stored in the second story and was too near a chimney.

Vital Statistics for April.

   Health Officer W. J. Moore submits the following report of vital statistics for the month of April:

   Total deaths 13—males 7, females 6; social condition—single 4, married 4, widowed 5; nativity—United States 10, England 1; ages—under five years 3, between twenty and thirty 2, between forty and fifty 1, between fifty and sixty 1, between sixty and seventy 2, between seventy and eighty 2, between eighty and ninety, 2; causes of death—apoplexy 1, consumption 1, convulsions 1, heart disease 5, pneumonia 2, lack of development 1, old age 1, railroad accident 1; births 15, males 7, females 8; marriages 4.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Forty-One New York Cities.

   Three new cities were created in this state by acts of the legislature of 1897. They are Geneva, North Tonawanda and Rensselaer. The first named is the well known seat of Hobart college in Ontario county. The second is a thriving lumber town on the Niagara river in Niagara county, with a population of 20,000. Adjacent to it in Erie county is the village of Tonawanda. Rensselaer was formerly the village of Greenbush in Ransselaer county.

   There are now in the state of New York forty-one cities, as follows: Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn, Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Cohoes, Corning, Dunkirk, Elmira, Geneva, Gloversville, Hornellsville, Hudson, Ithaca, Jamestown, Johnstown, Kingston, Little Falls, Lockport, Long Island City, Middletown, Mount Vernon, Newburg, New York, Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Ogdensburg, Olean, Oswego, Poughkeepsie, Rensselaer, Rochester, Rome, Schenectady, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, Watertown, Watervliet and Yonkers.

   There are thirty counties in the state, which contain no cities. Of the other thirty there are two which contain three cities each. These are Albany county, in which are the cities of Albany, Cohoes and Watervliet, and Niagara county, in which are the cities of Lockport, Niagara Falls and North Tonawanda. There are seven counties which have two cities each. They are Chautauqua, containing Jamestown and Dunkirk; Fulton, containing Gloversville and Johnstown; Oneida, containing Rome and Utica; Orange, containing Middletown and Newburg; Rensselaer, containing Rensselaer and Troy; Steuben, containing Corning and Hornellsville; and Westchester, containing Mount Vernon and Yonkers. The single city counties and their cities are: Broome, Binghamton; Cayuga, Auburn; Cattaraugus, Olean; Chemung, Elmira; Columbia, Hudson; Dutchess, Poughkeepsie; Erie, Buffalo; Herkimer, Little Falls; Jefferson, Watertown; Kings, Brooklyn; Monroe, Rochester; Montgomery, Amsterdam; Onondaga, Syracuse; Ontario, Geneva; Oswego, Oswego; New York, New York; Queens, Long Island City; St. Lawrence, Ogdensburg; Schenectady, Schenectady; Tompkins, Ithaca; Ulster, Kingston.

   With the advent of Greater New York, Brooklyn and Long Island City will drop from the list, so the number of cities in the state will be reduced to thirty-nine.

BREVITIES.

   —The first May meeting of the Woman's Relief corps will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.

   —The Normals defeated a team from McLean at baseball Saturday afternoon by the score of 23 to 17.

   —In Justice Dowd's court this morning the case of Pratt against Kinney was adjourned for one week.

   —The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Chorley of 18 Garfield-st. died last night. The funeral was held this afternoon.

   —Mr. George E. Larrabee expects the latter part of the week to move his family to Willimantic, Ct., which place will be his future home.

   —The weather proved to be too bad for the party of wheelmen to come from Ithaca to Cortland yesterday. Their ride is postponed till later.

   —The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cortland Opera House company will be held at the First National bank tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.

   —Hon. James H. Tripp of Marathon will address the Young Men's club at the Baptist church Wednesday evening. The address will be on the work of the state legislature.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; F. Daehler, Clothing, page 6; I. Whiteson, Winding Up Sale, page 6; W. J. Perkins, Paint, page 7.

   —The Ellis Omnibus & Cab Co. are to-day shipping a fine coach to Chas. H. Comstock of Oneida, N. Y., to be used by Hotel Comstock, a new hotel which is to be opened May 15.

   —Beard & Peck Saturday put on the streets a new furniture wagon made by the Cortland Wagon company. The body is of black with red stripes, and the gear is yellow,

   —The net receipts from the recent Charity ball were $169.03, and that sum was to-day turned over to the Cortland Hospital association by Treasurer Hubert R. Maine.

   —There will be a regular meeting of Victory lodge, Degree of Honor, at the lodgeroom to-morrow night. A large attendance is desired as important business will be presented for action.

   —Mr. Elbrldge G. Cushing died at his residence in Little York on Sunday afternoon. May 2, of pneumonia, aged 69 years. Funeral services at his late home on Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock.

   —One of the very best entertainments of the season was that given by the Roland Reed company in "The Wrong Mr. Wright" at the Opera House Saturday night. The play is an excellent one and the company is strong. The audience was greatly pleased.

   —A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held on Tuesday, May 4, at 2:45 P. M. Consecration service will be conducted by Mrs. Mary Benjamin which will be followed by the usual business meeting and a program conducted by the superintendent of temperance literature.

   —Princeton defeated Cornell at Ithaca Saturday by a score of 6 to 2. Each team scored in the first inning and again in the fourth inning. In the fifth inning Princeton got in four runs which settled the result as neither team scored after that. About 3,500 people witnessed the game.

   —Binghamton has held a public meeting to consider the matter of helping

Whitney Point in rebuilding and a committee of fifteen from Binghamton comes to Whitney Point this afternoon to meet a similar committee to look over the ground and talk the matter over and see what is best to be done.

   —Mr. I. Vosburgh, a dealer in carriages and Mr. T. Latour, a large liveryman of Saranac Lake, N. Y., were in town Saturday last in search of fine carriages and an omnibus. They placed their order with the Cortland Wagon Co. for some of their fine carriages and bought one of the Ellis Omnibus & Cab Co.'s largest and finest omnibuses.

McGRAWVILLE.

Crisp local Happenings at the Corset City.

   Rev. J. J. Cowles delivered the sermon at the Congregational church in Cortland Sunday evening.

   Miss Edna Letts of Cortland was the guest of Miss Lula Morse Sunday.

   P. W. Hoag spent Saturday and Sunday in South Otselic.

   Floyd Smith of Cortland wan the guest of friends in town Sunday.

   Among the improvements that are much appreciated are new walks built by L. Lakin on Church-st., George Stone on Elm-st. and A. P. McGraw on Bennett-st. Next!

   William Lord is improving his premises and contemplates the erection of a new barn.

   The operetta of the "Merry Milkmaids" was repeated on Saturday evening in the opera house to a good sized audience. The [local] company again did credit to themselves and their instructor, Miss Winifred A. Smith. Photographer White photographed them after the performance.

   The Ponies [baseball team] will meet this (Monday) evening at 8 o'clock at this office.

   The pedestrians of the Men's league will meet at the Corset factory at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning, May 4, to take an appetizer. H. A. Masten will act as leader and the Camera corps will be present.

   The Woman's Missionary society will give a ten-cent social in the league rooms on Thursday evening, May 6. All are invited.

   The meeting at the Men's league on Sunday was led by P. W. Chaffee and was full of interest.

   The union services were held on Sunday evening in the Presbyterian church. Rev. W. H. Pound of the Congregational church, Cortland, delivered a forcible and interesting sermon. Mrs. W. J. Buchanan and Mrs. J. R. Rowe deserved especial mention for the fine singing of a duet.

   Bruce Johnson tripped over the street car rails and performed some unexpected acrobatic feats on Main-st., Sunday afternoon. The only damage was a broken umbrella handle.

   L. D. Gross has purchased of A. P. McGraw, two lots in the rear of his residence and extending to Main-st., and has enclosed the same for a henyard.

   Page Benjamin of Cortland called on friends in town Sunday.

   Miss Jennie Currie of Tully, Miss Jessie Beattie of Cortland and Mr. and Mrs. John Beattie of East Homer were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Waters on Sunday.

   Arthur French of Cortland was in town Sunday.

Alphronus Phillips.

   Another of McGrawville's oldest and most respected citizens has passed away, Alphronus Phillips having quietly fallen asleep as the church bells were ringing on Sunday morning, at the ripe age of 87 years, 2 months and 21 days.

   Mr. Phillips was born in Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y., Feb. 11, 1810, from whence he moved to Onondaga Co. in 1846. He came to McGrawville in 1853 where he spent the last forty-four years of his life. Up to a few years ago he conducted a blacksmith shop, being a first class workman himself. About four weeks ago while busy about his premises, corner of Clinton and Centre-sts., he fell and fractured his hip, since which time he has been confined to his bed and despite all that medical skill and care could do has steadily failed.

   The deceased leaves besides the widow two sons, Delos and Clayton T., both of this village. The funeral services will be at the residence Tuesday at 2 P. M. and will be conducted by Rev. J. J. Cowles, pastor of the Presbyterian church of which deceased had been a member for many years. Mrs. Phillips, who has been sick for a longtime, is able to sit up only for a short time. She and the family have the sincere sympathy of many friends.