The
Cortland Democrat, Friday, May 14, 1897.
TRACTION CO.
OFFER
TO BUILD A TROLLEY ROAD TO CINCINNATUS.
E. &
C. N. Y. R. R. Oppose the Idea and Wish to Complete Their
Line—Two Roads Would Not Pay—Interview with Attorneys Bronson and Palmer.
The discussion
which has been going on in the local press, and in the Cortland items in the
Syracuse papers in regard to the E. &
C. N. Y. R. R., was called out by the article published in the
DEMOCRAT two weeks ago. Since then the Traction Company have made a published proposition to
extend their line from McGrawville to Cincinnatus, providing the E. & C. N.
Y. R. R. Company would transfer their rights and privileges to them, and guarantee
them an unobstructed right of way, and that in doing this they would not ask the
people of Cortland or those living along the line of the proposed road to pay
one cent.
In view
of this proposition on the part of the Traction Company, the DEMOCRAT has
interviewed both Mr. Bronson and Mr. Palmer in regard to the matter and desires
to state the position of both of those gentlemen on the question, as we believe
that both really have the interests of Cortland at heart and desire that which
would result in the greatest gain to all.
Mr.
Palmer said: "Our original plan was not to build a road to Cincinnatus
only, but to continue the road to Deposit where we would connect with the Erie
R. R., making direct connection for New York. It was also our purpose to build
a line from Syracuse to Deposit, which would connect with the D. & H. R. R. at Ninevah
giving direct connection with the coal fields of Pennsylvania. The right of way
having been obtained over more or less of the distance with this understanding of
our intentions, it would be an act of bad faith on our part to transfer our
rights and privileges to the Traction Company, which in return would only give
to the people of Cortland and the towns through which the road would pass, very
limited benefits as compared with our original plans, and what the people had a
right to expect if the Traction Company had been acting in good faith, this
proposition would have been made direct to us, not through the medium of the
press.
No
proposition has been made direct, nor any suggestion that they would or were willing
to compensate those interested in the E & C. N. Y. R. R in any amount for
the transfer of a valuable franchise and the money already expended. In no
event, however, would the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. Co. be willing to make any such
transfer while they feel hopeful of being able to carry out the original plans.
Mr.
Bronson received the representative of the DEMOCRAT very pleasantly and gave us
the following statement:
It is not
true that the Traction Company desire to cripple the E. & C. N. Y.
R. R in their efforts to build their proposed road,
as anything which would really benefit Cortland would benefit the Traction
Company and their property here.
The
Traction Company has been misrepresented in many things, for a year or two, and
an attempt made to build up a sentiment hostile to the road in the community.
It was for this reason, and this reason alone, that our proposition was made
through the press, as we wanted the people of Cortland to know just what our
proposition was, and that there might be no opportunity for the position of the
Traction Company to be misrepresented in the matter. In our original
proposition we stated that where parties along the line of the road had
advanced money in the interest of the E. &
C. N. Y. R. R. or to perpetuate its charter, with such parties an
equitable adjustment would be made. The Traction Company having given to
Cortland the benefits of a line to McGrawville, and expended their money for that purpose,
feel that they are the ones really entitled to the privilege of extending this
line, in view of the fact that two lines cannot possibly be made to pay between
Cortland and McGrawville and also for the reason that in making the proposition
the people of the county are not asked or compelled to pay $25,000 or any other
sum in order to get the benefits and advantages of this road, as demanded by
other parties.
Fire on the Parochial Premises.
The barn
belonging to St. Mary's parochial residence on North Main-st. was discovered to
be on fire at a little before 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon of last week. The
fire had gained considerable headway before being discovered, and it was with
difficulty that the horses were rescued. Most of the property in the barn was
saved except the hay and grain and a very handsome double harness with
silver-plated mountings, which was a present to Father McLoghlin on his return
from Europe in 1892.
The barn
was an old one and not of great value and what was left of it will be removed
to make room for modern stables. Considering the headway which the fire had
gained before being discovered and the close proximity of the barn and dwelling
to the south of the barn burned, the fire department did remarkably well in confining
the fire to the one structure.
Mahan's Music Festival.
The
prospects for a large attendance at the coming Music Festival the first week of
June are excellent, and the large array of fine artists certainly insures great
concerts on the afternoons and evenings of June 3d and 4th. We give a few press
notices of the Misses Westervelt and Horlocker, who sing in the afternoon and evening
of June 4th:
Miss
Louise Westervelt, in a stunning French mauve gown (she always looks stunning,
does that girl!) quite captured her audience with Gounod's Mirelle.—Musical Courier, April 12.
Miss
Louise Westervelt, who was recalled several times after singing an air from
"Carmen," has a very pure, agreeable voice, exquisite in its higher
range, and sings with intelligence.—New
York Post, Oct. 19,
'96.
The
musical part of the evening was equally charming. Miss Westervelt showed in the
slightest details of her work an unfailingly good method and remarkable perfection
of style. The crystalline purity of her voice was especially beautiful in the
florid and difficult Bell song from Lakme.—La France du Nord.
Miss
Horlocker sang an aria from "Samson and Delilah." Her singing made a lasting
impression on all who heard her. Her voice is of notable depth and richness, and
shows careful training.—Saint Paul's Press.
Miss
Horlocker's rich and powerful contralto voice was a revelation and the applause
was most enthusiastic.—New York
Herald.
Special
mention should be made of Miss Horlocker whose splendid alto produced an
impression that will be lasting. She was encored again and accepted her success
sweetly and becomingly.—Bridgeport Post.
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| Mark Hanna. |
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| New York Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| Tom Platt. |
Washington
Letter.
(From
Our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, May 10,1897.—Is there to be
another sugar scandal? That is the question that is being asked oftener as the sugar
schedule in the amended tariff bill is becoming better understood. Washington
is full of ugly rumors concerning that sugar schedule and the manner in which
it was adopted, one being that a copy of the schedule was in the bands of a
broker several days before the bill was reported to the Senate, and was used
for speculative purposes. Senator Jones of Nevada is reported to have stated
that at the last meeting of the republican members of the Senate Finance
committee, which he was invited to attend, it was definitely understood that
the provision expressly continuing the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty should
remain in the bill, yet when the bill was reported to the Senate the next day
that clause was left out.
It is notorious that the sugar trust has
been working to get the treaty with Hawaii abrogated. It is also known that the
majority of Congress is opposed to the abrogation of this treaty. Can it be
wondered at then, that it should be charged that the treaty provision was left
out of the bill so that money might be made speculating in the stock of the
sugar trust? Prominent republicans have openly denounced this sugar schedule as
indefensible and as being intentionally muddled and mixed so as to confuse the
public as to the benefit the sugar trust would derive from it.
The Dingley bill as passed by the House gave
the sugar trust protection to the extent of one quarter of a cent a pound on
sugar, but Representative Swanson of Va., a Democratic member of the House Ways
and Means committee, who has carefully analyzed the present schedule positively
asserts that "the least possible protection to the sugar trust in the schedule
adopted by the Senate Finance committee is nearly half a cent a pound." Whether
the present schedule be allowed to stand or not, the sugar trust people and those
who stand in with them have probably already utilized it to make a big pile of
money by speculating.
Mr. Claude M. Johnson, the gold democrat
who, as a personally requested favor of ex-Secretary Carlisle, is being allowed
to remain at the head of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is getting some
rough raking over from Democrats. He is accused of recommending the
reinstatement of Republicans whose dismissal he had recommended to the
Secretary of the Treasury for specific cause, under the late administration, and
is said to take especial pleasure in a Republican reinstatement that pushes a
regular Democrat out.
The country is likely to get an idea very soon
of why Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, some time referred to as "Scrapping Teddy," was
made Assistant Sec. of the Navy, as Mr. Roosevelt will this week begin an
investigation of the New York navy yard, with special reference to its
employment of labor. It has been hinted that boss Platt has had an
understanding with Mr. Roosevelt, and that the New York navy yard is to be
utilized in behalf of the Republican machine in greater New York, but it will
not be believed by those who have faith in Mr. Roosevelt's professions of
reform, until there is proof in sight.
Now that the [Great Britain-United States] arbitration
treaty has been rejected, largely by the efforts and votes of Democratic
Senators, lots of those who were at one time advocating the ratification of the
treaty are talking about what a lucky escape the United States had.
Recent news from Ohio has not been at all
satisfactory to Boss Hanna and his hopes of retaining the seat in the Senate that
John Sherman was compelled to give him, and he has gone to Ohio to study the situation
at close range, and figure up how much cash he shall put into the campaign. His
republican colleagues in the Senate showed how transient they regarded him by
failing to make him chairman of any committee and by giving him unimportant committee
assignments. They could not very well have made plainer their belief that the
next Ohio legislature would be Democratic and Mr. Hanna's successor a Democrat.
It was given out by Mr. Hanna that he was going home for a rest by order of his
physician.
If indications are not very deceptive the influence
of the sugar trust is quite as potent in the White House as in the Senate. Mr.
McKinley has been unable to stand the pressure and will, there are reasons to
believe, save the New York broker (Chapman) who refused to divulge the names of
Senators who speculated in sugar through his firm from the ignominy of serving
the term in jail to which he was sentenced by pardoning him. If he does, the
pardon will indirectly result in saving the two members of the sugar trust who are
under indictment for contempt in the same case, as the indictments will
probably be not pressed if Chapman is pardoned.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
TOMPKINS.— C. E. Wood has been appointed
postmaster at Ludlowville in place of C. G. Benjamin resigned.
Col. R. G. Ingersoll delivered his new
lecture on "Truth" at the Lyceum, Ithaca, on May 10.
Sage College has a rowing crew and a match
with Wellesley college girls on the water is expected.
The Frontenac will begin regular trips on
Cayuga lake on May 31st, and the Ithaca on June 28th.
The Groton News after nineteen weeks'
existence gave up the ghost. The decease was foreordained before its birth.
S. W. Reed of Ithaca has sold the mare Belle
Knox, bred by him, to Dr. Rappleye of Boston, for $600. The animal was shipped
Thursday, May 6th.
News has been received of the death of Samuel
McGraw, formerly of Dryden, which occurred at the residence of his nephew, S.
M. Smyth, in Scottsville, Mich., on April 27th.
The copy for the premium list for the coming
county fair is in the hands of the printer. The fair belongs to everybody, and
it is hoped everybody will do so to make it a success.—Ithaca Journal.
Prof. Roberts of Cornell has made
arrangements so that an instructor from the College
of Agriculture will go to Freeville once a week and give instruction in farming
to the boys on the George Junior Republic.
Frank Baker, says the Kittanning, Pa., Times,
has resigned as superintendent of the Daugherty Typewriter Works and George
Bacon has been appointed to his position. Mr. Bacon is a Groton boy and his
friends will be pleased to learn of his advancement.
The Rev. D. E. Croft, pastor of the First
Baptist church of Groton, was in New York last week, where he was to deliver a
lecture. Mr. Croft is connected with the Redpath Lyceum bureau and through the
winter has given many lectures throughout the state with excellent success. He
has a remarkable gift of oratory.
HERE
AND THERE.
The Loyal Circle of King's Daughters will
meet with Mrs. Bickford, 28 Elm-st., Friday, May 14, at 2:30 P. M.
C. F. Brown, the druggist—well, Brown always
has something new to say. Keep your eye on Brown, he will bear watching, he
will.
The Normals have added one more scalp to
their belt in the defeat of the Cazenovia baseball team on Saturday last.
Score, 16 to 13.
A new cigar store has been opened in the
small store lately vacated by Mortimer Filzinger
on North Main-st. W. A. Pierce is the proprietor.
A new meat market [located] at 39 Elm-st.,
formerly occupied by George Larrabee, Jones
& Matthews will be the new dispensers of choice meats.
The Seneca Falls Reveille bemoans the fact that no sooner does a man
get the kinks out of his back from shoveling snow than be must tackle the lawn
mower.—Ex.
The Alpha Delta society of the Normal [School]
will hold a social at the park to-morrow afternoon. Next Wednesday evening the Eureka
club will hold a dance in the pavilion.
The baseball team of the intermediate department
of the Y. M. C. A. of this place paralyzed the Groton high school team in that
place, on Saturday last.
Score, 52
to 3.
W. J. Perkins & Co. of the City
drug store have something fresh to say to the people this week. There is
nothing "fresh" about Perkins, they simply do not believe in stale ads.
The case of John Card against Charles Munson
comes up at 10 o'clock this morning before Justice Dowd and a jury. The claim
is for $100 damages for misrepresentation of a horse.
T. T. Bates has been awarded the contract
for plumbing at the court house and the work is now being done. The work will
doubtless be done in Mr. Bates' usual workman-like and satisfactory manner.
The Cortland branch of the A. O. H. are making
arrangements to run a large excursion to the Thousand Islands, similar the one
last year. The same rate, $2.75 will be obtained and the date will probably be
July 17.
"Happy Bill" Daniels and the
Ithaca band at the Armory to-night. Dance all night for 50 cents.
Material has been distributed east of
Cortland on the Elmira and Cortland branch of the Lehigh Valley and men are at
work, beginning at Camden on a system of block signals for the running of
trains.
A prospectus of Cayuga Lake Park has been
received at this office, describing the beauties of this place of resort. The
park contains about 50 acres, located at the foot of Cayuga Lake and has all of
the usual attractions of similar resorts in the way of pavilions, boating, etc.
It is reported that Mrs. Emma J. Watson is
about to commence an action against the S. B.
& N. Y. R. R. through her attorney, B. A. Benedict, for damages arising from
the death of her husband, Lewis Watson, who was killed by a freight train at
Blodgett Mills a few weeks since.
The matter of Sheriff Hilsinger against the
Salt Springs National Bank of Syracuse was up for argument again before Justice
P. B. McLennan on Saturday last. Attorneys Jno. Courtney, Jr., and W. C. Crombie
appeared for Sheriff Hilsinger and B. A. Benedict, Esq., of Cortland and W. T.
Gridley of Syracuse represented the bank. Papers in the case received and decision
reserved
The Cortland Conservatory of music is now on
its last half term of the first school year. Its register shows nearly 200
names of pupils, certainly a fine showing for the enterprise, and a great
testimonial to the ability and efforts of the faculty, and the management. Many
are registering now to take advantage of the excellent methods and low prices
prevailing at this institution.
VIRGIL.
VIRGIL, May 10—Mrs. Rudolph Price has the
grippe.
Mr. Wm. Reese is suffering with rheumatism.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Holton of Freeville. were
guests in town over Sunday.
Rev. Dr. Franklin left to day for Buffalo, and
will spend the week there.
Mrs. Dr. Tripp of Auburn spent a part of
last week with Mrs. Clinton Seager.
Dr. Robinson of McLean was in town a few
days ago, looking after his patients.
An ice cream social will be held at the Baptist
church Friday evening the 14th.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Seamans are visiting their
daughter Mrs. Ed. Livermore in Lisle this week.
Rev. Dr. Franklin and wife attended the
funeral of the Rev. Mr. Terry in Dryden, last Tuesday.
John Ellison and wife of McLean visited at
the home of their son, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gallagher, recently.
Mrs. Webb Corbin and daughter Hattie of
Dryden, and Carl Mott visited at their father's home, Mr. S. Mott one day last week.
Mrs. A. T. Brown and sons Charlie and Julian
of Syracuse have been pleasantly entertained for the past week at her father's home.
Mr. J. C. Seaman's, and have also visited friends in this place last week.
Epworth League leaders for May are Henry
Hollenbeck, F. D. Marcy, Orrin Pond, Mrs. Nina M. Pond. Next Sunday evening the
Epworth League anniversary exercises will be held in the M. E. church.
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