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| Dr. Lydia A. Strowbridge. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Saturday, Aug. 21, 1897.
THE HAMMOND
FAMILY.
THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REUNION HELD FRIDAY.
At the
Home of Henry Hammond in McGrawville—Many Present and a Good Time Enjoyed
—To Be Held Next Year at the Same
Place.
The Hammond family held their twenty-second
annual picnic with Henry Hammond in McGrawville yesterday. His daughters, Mrs.
Thomas Taylor of
Bridgeport,
Ct., and Mrs. Wheeler of Binghamton, assisted the father and mother in
welcoming the relatives and friends.
There are residing in and around McGrawville
several families nearly all descendants of Luther Hammond. They all joined in
making the meeting one of the pleasantest on record. Among those who were
present from away representing the Hammond family were C. A. Hammond and wife
of Syracuse, Rev. B. F. Hammond, wife and daughter of Oliphant, Pa., and
Frederick S. Hammond and daughter of Oneida, who is engaged in collecting facts
in regard to the genealogy of the Hammonds in this country; also Mrs. Van Auken
and son of Brooklyn, Mrs. Edminister of New York, in all about ninety.
At 2:30 o'clock the president called for order
and after reading minutes of the last meeting officers were elected for the coming
year. The registrar reported seven marriages, five births and one death in the
year.
The officers elected were:
President—S. S. Hammond of Freetown.
Vice-President—Henry Hammond of McGrawville.
Secretary—Dr. L. A. Strowbridge of Cortland.
Treasurer—Samuel Hammond of McGrawville.
Registrar—Mary Allen of Freetown.
Executive Committee—Dr. Allen, Harris Hammond,
Samuel Hammond.
Frederick S. Hammond, who is secretary of an
association to prepare a genealogy of the family gave some very interesting
facts connected with the history of the family. A vote of thanks was tendered
Mr. Hammond for his remarks.
The secretary and treasurer were instructed
to purchase a book wherein to have each year every individual who attends register
his name. A letter from
Joseph
Hammond of Moscow, Ida., was received. He is the only surviving child of Deacon
John Hammond, who moved to Marathon. Cortland county, in 1813. Remarks were
made by Charles Hammond and Rev. B. F. Hammond.
Mrs. Taylor, the wife of Mayor Taylor of
Bridgeport, Ct., being called on said:
At my mother's request I shall attempt to
say a few words to you to-day on this the twenty-second anniversary of our
Hammond picnic. The idea struck her very suddenly this morning and my only
object in saying this is that you may make all due allowance for what I may
say. These mothers, you know, have sometimes very exalted opinions of their children
and think them capable of almost anything, even to the making of an impromptu
speech that would be interesting, hence I crave your indulgence and patience.
That it affords me great pleasure to be with
you on this occasion, I do not need to say. It is, I think exactly twenty-one years
since I left your midst in the old Empire state, and went to what seemed to me
then a very distant part of the country, whereas it seems to me now but a few
miles away, and while my lines have fallen in pleasant places I have grown to
be very fond of New England, and especially of the Nutmeg state of Connecticut
(I never believed) those nutmegs were really wooden, there is still, as there
will ever be, a very warm corner in my
heart for the old friends and the old places and scenes of my
childhood. It has always seemed to me that as we grow older and our interests take
us further apart we are inclined to forget and to grow away from the old
associations, whereas they should as the years go by become something nearer
and dearer. To me it has ever seemed a sad and sorrowful thing to see fathers
and mothers, brothers and sisters, and all other relationships, growing away
from each other. Our hearts are large and should be able to take in all the new
friendships, ties and attachments, and still cherish with added love each year,
all the old ones.
And while we sit here to-day surrounded by
all that is beautiful and sweet in nature, under the kindly shadow of these
beautiful trees, and while over it all rests God's beautiful blue sky, I should
like to say a word on a subject which is very dear to my heart. It may seem to
you that this is no place in which to speak of such things, but any place is a
good place in which to speak a word for the right. It is this: We who are
gathered here to-day, each and every one of us, is in possession of at least the
necessities of life, and while none of us lives in luxury, I am as sure there
are none of us who do not have the comforts of life, and I want to ask you each
and all, as the approaching winter comes on to remember those who are not so
blessed.
All over this our fair, free land with its
boasted civilization are thousands, yes hundreds of thousands, walking the streets,
asking, begging only for work to bring to their loved ones the barest
necessities of life. There is not one here to-day that cannot do something to help
these, our brothers and sisters in distress. Charity is indeed a beautiful
thing, and the rich were never so liberal with their money as to-day in giving
it to found institutions and to help in every way, but to my mind it is a blot
on our country that there exists the necessity for such institutions and for
the yearly expenditure of so much money for the support of our poor. The cause
of this condition of things is hard to see, but we shall see it some day and be
able to remedy it, and to-day we can deal only with effects and those effects
are poverty and distress and it is this I would ask you each to remember, and let
each one of us do our little. If this were done by all, and selfishness done
away with, the present condition of wretchedness, poverty and misery would not
be possible.
I beg you to excuse me if I seem unduly warm
on this subject. My husband was recently elected mayor of our city—a small one
of only 65,000 people and this has brought me in contact with much of this side
of life hitherto unknown to me. But could you read the letters which come to
him every day begging, pleading for work if only for a few days on our streets,
just to keep starvation from the wives and children whom they love as dearly as
we do ours, could you see those of the men and women who come to my house to
beg me to intercede for them, I know you well enough to believe that your
hearts would ache and go out to them as warmly as does mine. To me it is
especially sad to see the old in this condition, but I see more of the old than
of any other class.
But enough of this, I only ask you again to
remember the poor who are in the midst of our plenty. My feeling of pleasure at
being with you to-day is not unmingled with sadness, as I look over your faces
and notice that many once so familiar to us but now living only in memory are
gone. It has been many years since I was permitted to be with you and many of
the faces I saw then I do not see to-day. Perhaps they are still with us. Let
us cherish this belief, for to me it is a beautiful and comforting thought to
think that though our loved ones are gone from our sight, they are with us in
spirit, and while our earthly eyes are not opened to their presence, their
spiritual vision may still behold us.
I hope this custom of holding a Hammond picnic,
established years ago, may never be dropped. May the Hammond family never grow
less—and here I would say that the younger ones do not seem to be doing their
duty as their grandfathers and grandmothers did—and may we have these annual
gatherings as long as there is one person left by the name of Hammond, and
when the Hammond family with all other families are gathered into the one great
family into the loving Father's arms, may we meet and know each other.
Mrs. Taylor then sang several beautiful selections,
and an adjournment was taken to meet at the same place next year.
Under New
Management.
The Dry Goods Chronicle says: "The A.
P. McGraw Corset company of McGrawville, N. Y., has purchased of the McGraw
Corset company their plant and business, and will continue the manufacture of
corsets, waists and skirts under the able management of A. P. McGraw, who has
so successfully carried on the business at this location for the past twenty
years. It is certainly a sign of better times to see him in possession of the
entire management of this new company as his reputation for honest make and
up-to-date styles is the leading feature."
WON FROM THE LEADERS.
CORTLAND
DEFEATED PALMYRA BY PERFECT PLAYING.
The Phenomenal
Pitching of Yerkes and Excellent Support Did It—The Mormons Hit Safely But
Twice, and Only Three of Them Saw First Base.
The Cortlands played their record game of
the season yesterday afternoon when they gave the State league leaders an example
of their capabilities and possibilities. There were plenty of features. Every
man on the Cortland team was a feature by himself. In the first place there was
Yerkes, steady, heady and full of speed. For the first five innings the Palmyras
were retired in one, two, three order. To be sure they hit the ball some, but
there was a Cortland fielder right under it every time.
Out in the field were Meara, Ketchum and
Ross who bagged everything in the air, and then the infield, M. Friel, Nugent,
Stout and Townsend, were a veritable stone wall. The Cortlands could not have
played better, and the victory is all the more pleasing because it was over the
strong State league leaders. Only three visitors saw first base, Northwang and
Vought who got hits in the sixth and Connors was hit by a pitched ball in the
ninth. The Cortlands could not hit Mitchell effectively, but made their two
runs in the second inning on an error by Hart, a hit by O'Neil, a stolen base
and a passed ball. There was plenty of enthusiasm up to the end of the game,
for no one knew but that the visitors might get to batting and gain a victory,
but Yerkes was steady as a clock to the last.
The beautiful fielding of Nugent at short
could not have been improved upon. The game was a clean one all through and no
fault can be found with the umpiring or the conduct of the visitors who are as
gentlemanly an aggregation as often comes here. For the visitors Connors made a
brilliant left hand catch of a line hit from Meara's bat.
The score:
BASEBALL
COMMENTS.
The
Lyons team is in a bad way financially. Baseball is an expensive game. It has
been more expensive for Lyons this year than was expected, and the first subscriptions
have all been used up, and more too. In the first place O. F. Thomas offered to
contribute a large sum, which has been paid in at the rate of $150 per month
for four months, or a total of $600. This munificence was seen not to be
sufficient, and after every known expedient for swelling the second subscription
exiled for a fortnight since, had been exhausted. Mr. Thomas was again appealed
to, and very generously responded with a second subscription of $200 on
condition that the directors would raise $400 more, or enough in all to carry
the nine through the season. The directors are hopeful of doing so, thus
allowing Lyons to be in at the finish—an outcome that seemed highly improbable
until Mr. Thomas once more demonstrated his fondness for the sport, and his
interest in the happiness of the community.—Lyons Republican.
A new pitcher, W. M. Bothwell by name, has
been signed by the Palmyra management. He was secured from the Buffalo Eastern
league team. He pitched but a single game for the Bisons and won that. Still he
was an unknown quantity and as Buffalo is after the pennant and has a full
pitching staff, Bothwell was released to the Mormons. The rumors as to the sale
of Bernhard are without foundation. Four pitchers will be kept from now on and
the pennant will be landed if possible.—Wayne County Dispatch of Palmyra.
The game between Geneva and Canandaigua at
Lima on Thursday will count in the standings. President J. H. Farrell telegraphs:
"Yesterday's game at Lima was regularly scheduled. It must count." It
was counted by this paper. Managers have no right to agree that regularly scheduled
games shall be exhibitions.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
This makes The Chronicle's standing of the
Cortland team correspond with that of The STANDARD as that paper has
straightened out the games between Cortland and Lyons July 1 and 2, the latter
of which proves to be the championship game, and the former the exhibition as
held by The STANDARD.
The New
Railroad.
Mr. A. H. Jacoby, supervising engineer of
the construction of the E. & C. N. Y. R. R., is in Buffalo to-day to see
what he can do toward hurrying up the ties for further track laying. Up to this
time the lack of ties has really not delayed the final completion of the road,
for the men have simply been put to work ballasting and working upon another
part of the process of building. If now the ties cannot be obtained there would
be genuine delay, but it is expected that they will arrive on Monday or Tuesday
at the latest.
To-day the men are finishing the grading and
by night everything will have been done that can be done up to the laying of
the track toward the completion of the road into McGrawville. When the ties
arrive three days' work will lay the track to the Corset city.
BREVITIES.
—Rev.
M. H. Pogson of New York will preach at the First Baptist church to-morrow morning.
—Rev. Lathrop C. Grant of Hamilton will preach
at the Presbyterian church to-morrow morning.
—There will be free dancing at the park
to-night and McDermott's orchestra will furnish music front 8:30 to 10:30
o'clock.
—The annual picnic of the Cortland Union Bee
Keepers' association will be held at Freeville park, Freeville, N. Y.,
Wednesday, Sept. 1.
—New display advertisements to-day are—D.
McCarthy, ready for state fair week, page 7: Andrew Cone, great opportunities, etc.,
page 4.
—E. A. McGraw is planning to take to the
Dryden fair the wheel exhibit which has attracted so much attention at the
Cortland fair this week.
—President "Jakey" Smith of the George
Junior Republic will speak at the First M. E. church to-morrow morning upon the
republic and its operation.
—A large excursion from Scranton passed over
the D., L. & W. a little
before 11 o'clock this morning en route to Pleasant Beach on Onondaga lake.
—Rev. D. A. Whedon, D. D., of East
Greenwich, R. I., will preach at the
union service to-morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Congregational church.
—The Gillette Skirt Co. is to have an exhibit
at the state fair at Syracuse next week. Mr. J. D. Dimon, accompanied by Miss
Cora Howard, drove to Syracuse this afternoon and will have charge of the
exhibit during the fair.
—An electrician advises bicyclists to lay
their wheels down flat on the ground during a thunder storm and go some distance
away. He says a mounted wheelman is in far more danger of being struck by
lightning than is a man underneath a tree.
—A lecture will be given at Salvation Army
headquarters in Homer on Tuesday evening, Aug. 24, by Rev. Dr. Stewart. Subject,
"The Growth and Outlook of the Afro-American." Admission 15 cents.
The proceeds to go for the benefit of the Zion mission.
—The third annual race meet of the Owego
Athletic club will be held at Owego on Wednesday, Aug. 25. There are to be six
races: One-mile novice, two-mile handicap, one-half mile boys', half-mile open,
one-mile handicap and one-mile county championship. Valuable prizes are
offered.
—Mr. A. P. Rowley has left at the STANDARD office
for exhibition some stalks of state corn which he raised upon his farm at South
Cortland which measure 10 ft. 9 in. high. This is the same variety of corn upon
which Mr. Rowley won a diploma (first prize) in the New York state exhibit at
the World's Fair at Chicago.
—Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Stockwell of 33 James-st.
took the first premium at the fair on their display of gladiolus and their
exhibit was indeed most beautiful. the flowers being of unusual size and of a
large variety of shades. The exhibitors left with The STANDARD a large bunch of
the premium flowers for which we extend our thanks.
—All the Smiths of all the states are
invited to attend the twenty-second annual reunion of the family on the farm of
the late Peter Z. Smith, at Peapack, N. J., at 10 o'clock next Wednesday. The local
directory credits Cortland with 68 members of the family, Homer with 20, Marathon
with 13 and McGrawville with 4—a total of 105. Doubtless they will all attend.
—The funeral of Mrs. George Couch of Homer,
which was held at St. Mary's Catholic church this morning, was one of the most
largely attended funerals ever held at the church. Rev. J. J. McLoghlin made
very appropriate remarks regarding the deceased. The flowers which surrounded the
coffin at the house were very numerous and of rare beauty. Aside from many
loose flowers, they included three pillows, one cross, two wreaths, two
crescents and many baskets and bouquets.
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| Glen Haven Waterfall. |
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| 1852 engraving. |
"GLEN
HAVEN ECHO."
Devoted
to the Interests of the New Public Library.
One of the tastiest pieces of work which has
ever been issued from the
STANDARD
job rooms is the Glen Haven Echo, a twenty-four page pamphlet, with pages the
size of Life. This publication, which had an edition of 500 copies, is devoted
to the interests of Glen Haven, and more particularly to the proposed building
for the Glen Haven library.
To comparatively few people in this vicinity,
who make flying [quick] trips to the Glen is it probably known that there is at
that place a circulating library which now numbers 817 volumes. The history of
this library is interesting, starting as it did from very small beginnings. Some
of the regular summer visitors at the Glen have undertaken as a little
missionary work the erection of a suitable building for a public library in
which to preserve the books already obtained in the hopes and expectation that
these may become the nucleus of a larger library which shall prove valuable and
beneficial, not only to the residents of the place, but also to the summer
visitors in future years as well. The history of the library and the plans for
the future cannot be told better than in the following which appeared upon one
of the first pages of The Echo:
The Glen Haven Public library was begun by
the children. After securing a beautiful United States flag for their school in
1893, they handed over to the district the sum of $50 with the request that a
room for books be fitted up in the schoolhouse.
This was done, five trustees were chosen, a
charter received from Albany, and a sum of money given by the state, under
the library law providing for such appropriations, equal in amount to that in
hand. These $100 were spent in book. To these were added a small collection of
Sunday-school books and the Glen Haven library began its circulation in
November 1893.
From that time new books have been added
twice a year, in June and November. To-day the number of volumes catalogued is
eight hundred and seventeen.
That the library is appreciated and enjoyed
by the district dweller as well as by the transient summer guest is an
indisputable fact. No one doubts it is a potent factor in the education and
development of the community. A reader of this library may one day take his or
her stand in a high place of the nation, and send back grateful tribute to this
little collection of the world's best thought, acknowledging its influence in
the development of his or her latent talents. Who knows?
Now the trustees want to make it still more
of an influence. They want to put it into a house of its own, to erect a suitable
building which shall not only hold more conveniently its accumulating treasures,
but which may be used for readingroom, lectureroom and clubroom and occasional
social gathering place.
We have an architect's plans and specifications
in detail, and we are told that they may be realized in wood and stone for
$1,000 or $1,200. It seems to us worth while to make the effort to secure this
shelter. Already there are in the hands of the trustees in money and pledges,
$100 towards this fund. A small beginning, to be sure, but we know many great
enterprises that have been evolved from small beginnings.
Our hope is to raise all this money before
April, 1898, and to have the building ready for occupancy by the middle of August.
The trustees hope for a response from all who
feel the least interest in the undertaking.
Subscriptions or money contributions may be
sent to Miss Anna Redfield Phelps, Glen Haven, Cayuga Co., N. Y., or to any one
of the building fund committee, and they will be gratefully acknowledged.
The following named persons constitute the
building fund committee, authorized to receive subscriptions and money: Mrs. C.
T. Redfield, Mrs. S. G. Perry, Miss Frances T. Darby, Miss Wilhelmina W.
Phelps, Miss Anna R. Phelps.
The plans referred to for the building were
drawn by Architect Ehrick K. Rossiter of 94 Liberty-st., New York, who very
generously donated his services in making the drawings, and the exterior view
of the proposed library and the floor plans are shown in The Echo. The way in
which it is hoped to raise the money for this building is still further set
forth in The Echo as follows:
There are ways and ways of making money for
a worthy object. The fair method is denounced on all sides, but that does not justify
unfair schemes.
None of
these proposed by the Glen Haven library building fund committee may be classed
under that head. All are honest and worthy of encouragement.
First—A subscription paper is in circulation
to which those who prefer this direct way of signifying their interest in the
cause may affix their names with amounts expressive of that interest.
Second—A concert was enjoyed on Aug. 9.
Third—A card party was given on Thursday of
this week at "Brookside," the charming home of Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
Redfield, under the direction of Mrs. A. Carleton Chase and Miss Wilhelmina W. Phelps.
Fourth—Already two of a series of four
readings have been given in the schoolhouse, to which a small admission is charged.
Miss Anna Chase, Dr. S. G. Perry and others have furnished the evening's
entertainment.
Fifth—A sale of useful and decorative
articles will take place Saturday, Aug. 21. Most
of these are contributions from friends, among them the most valuable being a
fine fishing-rod made by Mr. Fred D. Divine of Utica, and given by Mrs. Divine.
Will some one suggest how to make money all
the year 'round? A kind of continuous program?
Perhaps volunteers may offer to spread the idea
of the library's needs, something after the manner of the "Ten Times
One" circles. If ten leaders will interest each a circle of ten to give,
or earn, or collect, for the fund we shall be nearer realizing our hopes in
April, 1898. Who will volunteer?
The committee also hope to realize something
from the sale of The Echo, which can be obtained for 15 cents per copy, or two
copies for 25 cents. They are on sale at The Glen, at the newsstands of G. F.
Beaudry, Cash Bookstore and McKinney & Doubleday in Cortland, at C. A.
Skinner & Co.'s in Homer. Every one who has visited the Glen will want one
as a souvenir. It is a very attractive looking publication, printed on a
superior quality of paper and illustrated with handsome half-tone cuts of the
Glen and original sketches. The first page contains a half-tone cut of the
proposed library building with a heading and border from an original sketch
by Mrs. E. D. Blodgett. An appropriate sketch by T. S. Sullivant, the
celebrated illustrator of Life, has a prominent place in the publication. A
life like picture of Dr. Thomas adds value to the work in the eyes of his many friends.
From a literary point of view both in prose and poetry The Echo will be sought
by many, and its features are so numerous and so attractive each in its own
line that no one can overlook it as a souvenir.
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