Cortland
Evening Standard, Monday, May 10, 1897.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Nashville Airship.
A sure-enough airship took its flight from the
Tennessee centennial exposition grounds at Nashville on Thursday and remained
afloat for an hour and a half, covering during that time a distance of about
twenty-six miles. During the most of its flight it was under the control of its
operator, but the breaking of some attachment of the vessel and the partial
failure of the gas induced him to alight when four miles from his starting
point on the return trip.
This device is the invention of Professor Arthur
Barnard, physical director of the Y. M. C. A. at Nashville. It is a cylindrical
shaped balloon with a diameter of 10 feet and a length of 42 feet, with rounded
ends. Suspended beneath it is a bicycle saddle on which the operator sits and
works the pedals that operate the propeller, which has four blades, each about
4 feet in length, shaped like the blades of a windmill. The balloon was
inflated with hydrogen gas.
The inventor and his friends have not heralded
their work by preliminary advertising, preferring to test its efficiency before
taking the public into their confidence. While this airship does not meet the
essential conditions of ideal aerial navigation, apparently it has proved to be
a greater success in that line than any of its numerous predecessors. A perfect
airship, one that will be able successfully to make headway against wind of
considerable force, will not take the form of a balloon, and must be propelled
by some force stronger than man power. However, Professor Barnard deserves
great praise for his achievement. But he is engaged in a perilous
enterprise.
AN
ABSOLUTE BLUFF.
So I. H.
Palmer Characterizes the Traction Company's Talk.
When a STANDARD man inquired of Irving H. Palmer
if he had anything to say in reply to H. L. Bronson's statements in Saturday's
STANDARD on the railroad situation he first gave a great sniff, and then his
features relaxed into a smile. Why, it is the purest kind of nonsense, he said,
guaranty or no guaranty. The Traction company doesn't want to build that road
and if we should take them up in their offer would find some excuse for not
doing it. The very fact that they begin the matter by stating their proposition
through the newspapers labels it as a bluff, an absolute bluff. A business man
does not go to work in that way. He keeps out of the newspapers as far as
possible till his deal is completed. He goes to the other party quietly and
makes his proposition and tries to get the matter consummated before the papers
get hold of it.
That explanation and that nice distinction
on which Mr. Bronson draws between Judge Hand and Horace E. Hand is too thin.
Even if it is true that the father and son are not interested alike in name and
in title, they must in the nature of things be interested alike in fact. What
is of interest to the father cannot fail to be of interest to the son. At all
events the Traction company has always had a great pull with the D., L. &
W. R. R., and has openly boasted of it. They get whatever they want from the
D., L. & W.
I have been led to believe that the Traction
company would never have built its road to McGrawville if it had not been for
the D., L. & W. The Traction company at first wanted to build a road to Little
York to reach the lake for a summer resort and did not mention McGrawville at
all as a possible terminus. The D., L. & W. did not want a trolley line up
there to be its rival, it did not want us to build the Erie & Central New
York to McGrawville and then to Cincinnatus with the prospect of pushing it on
to a connection with New York where we would be its rival. You remember the
Traction company had trouble in securing its crossing over the D., L. & W.
and there was a long delay and then suddenly it was all made easy, and Little
York was given up and McGrawville was taken in.
Now what does that mean? I will tell you,
and I have good reason to believe I am right. The Traction company decided not
to be a rival of the D., L . & W. to Little York and decided to build to McGrawville
to knock out if it could a rival of the D., L. &
W. in exchange for the privilege of getting over the D., L. & W. tracks, and
ever since that the D., L. & W. has been an ardent supporter of the Traction
company and has backed it up in every respect.
That was the beginning of it, and then the
Traction company capitalized for more to the mile than the cost of building the
road, and now it cannot sell its bonds with the prospect ahead of our building
a rival. It built the road in the first place to head us off to help the D., L.
& W. and so secure its crossing, both between Cortland and Homer and
at the station so as to reach the east part of town, and now it wants to head
us off on its own account so as to sell its bonds. That is my theory. How is
that?
The STANDARD man hadn't a word to say. He will
leave that to Mr. Bronson to answer.
WOMAN WAS MURDERED.
Body of
a Squaw Washed Ashore Near Henderson.
HEAD CUT
IN MANY PLACES.
Bad Gash
Over the Eye, Probably Caused by a Bullet—Last Seen With Her Husband on May 3
at Sackett's Harbor in a Boat.
WATERTOWN, N. Y., May 10.—The finding of the
body of an Indian woman, which was washed ashore on Warner's island near Henderson,
a village on the shore of Ontario, has disclosed what is believed to be a
murder.
A special from Henderson says: Dr. O. F.
Buell, assisted by Coroner Sias, made a post mortem examination of the body of the
woman. No water was found in her lungs and all of the organs were normal. On
the top of her head were several small wounds and there was a wound over her
eye which, in their opinion, was made with a sharp instrument or a bullet,
causing an extravasation of blood.
This wound is the one which caused her death.
It is believed that she had been dead but a
few hours when found.
She was seen to leave Sackett's Harbor in a
boat with an Indian, who is said to have been her husband. The pair were in Henderson
last Monday, and those who saw the body identified her as the same person.
Coroner Sias will hold an inquest. District Attorney
Kellogg of Watertown has been notified and will come to Henderson.
The Indian and his squaw have been selling
baskets in this vicinity. Their names are unknown.
Independent
Refinery For Wellsville.
WELLSVILLE, N. Y., May 10.—The oil producers
of Wellsville met at the office of Scott & Fuller per adjournment. A very
interesting meeting was held. Committees on permanent organization and independent
refinery at Wellsville reported favorably. The operators of Allegany are very
much enthused over the advisability of building an independent refinery at this
point. They are assured of assistance from the United States Pipe line.
CHANGE
OF DEPOTS.
Lehigh
Valley to Consolidate Those at Spencer Village.
Heretofore the Geneva, Ithaca & Sayre
and the Elmira, Cortland & Northern roads, which have now become branch lines
of the Lehigh, have crossed at Van Etten, running parallel from that place to
the corporation limits of Spencer three miles further north. Near the
corporation line a sharp curve in the former road carried it in almost a square
angle to the other road and a half mile further a depot was maintained for each
road on opposite extreme edges of the village.
At a meeting of the directors on Thursday it
was decided to use but one track between Van Etten and Spencer
hereafter, and to consolidate the two
depots at the latter place, moving them to the western limit of the village,
where the two roads diverge.—Ithaca Journal.
BREVITIES.
—The wire shop nine defeated the car shop
nine Saturday by the score of 27 to 5.
—The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Butterfield
of 7 Harrington-ave. died last night at 12 o'clock.
—The Groton-ave. Jr. baseball team played a
game Saturday with the east end team resulting in a victory for the former 19
to 0.
—The Ladies' Aid society of the Universalist
church will hold its annual meeting at the church parlors Wednesday at 2:30
o'clock sharp. The election of officers will occur. Supper will be served from
5:30 to 8 o'clock.
—The
sociable, which was noticed at the morning service yesterday at the
Presbyterian
church to occur on Wednesday evening at the Presbyterian parlors, has been
postponed on account of the death of Mrs. Elvira Hyde.
—New display advertisements to-day
are--Toilettes Publishing Co., Toilettes, page 5; C. F. Brown, Paint, page 6; I.
Whiteson, Bargains: page 6; Palmer & Co., New Brands of Soap, page 4; Warren, Tanner & Co., Dress
Goods, page 4.
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| Homer Band on Main Street, Homer, N. Y. |
HOMER.
Gleanings
of News From Our Twin Village.
HOMER, May 10.—Dennis Crowe of Marathon was
the guest of Mr. Harry M. Pierce over Sunday.
Mr. John Bacon of Rochester spent Sunday at
the home of his mother on
James-st.
The Homer band gave a brief concert on Main-st.,
Saturday evening and
gained
much applause for their playing from the many gathered to listen.
The bright light of a fire on the East Hill
early in the evening yesterday caused many to fear that the building of John
Hall, near which the flames seemed to be located, was burning. Happily investigation
proved it to be merely a large brush heap.
The regular monthly meeting of the Homer Floricultural
association will be held to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock in the parlors of the
Baptist church. A cordial invitation is extended to all lovers of flowers
regardless of place of residence to be present at this and all other meetings
of the association. A pleasant hour is assured and often something of value
pertaining to flower culture can be gained. It is suggested that those who
attend the meeting of to-morrow evening come ready to give some hints upon the
best methods of caring for spring flowering bulbs after the season of blooming
has past.
In spite of the hard times croakers and the
bicycle fiends who think horses are quite a back number, the quadrupeds seem
still to be in demand. [With] two good liveries in the village and many private
owners willing to let their teams, there was not a horse to be had yesterday in
Homer.
While leading a horse to water on Saturday
the son of Milton Fairbanks of the Scott road
was kicked by the animal about the face. Young Fairbanks is a pupil at the
Homer academy.
Mr. George Haynes of Syracuse spent Sunday
at the home of his mother on River-st.
Thomas O'Brien and Horace Smith of Syracuse
were in town on business to-day.
Miss Anna Galvin is confined to her home on
Centre-st. by illness.
Frank Hazard of Scott is in town on business
this afternoon.
Mr. Charles Scudder, who has been ill for
some time, is again able to be out.
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