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| Hugh O'Donnell. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Friday, October 1, 1897.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Coal
Strike and Its Cause.
A letter from Hugh O'Donnell, the labor
leader, in the Philadelphia Times, gives a history of Pennsylvania coal
strikes, likewise a view of the present situation in the mining region.
Up to 1869 there was no trouble. The
Hazleton mining district was formerly the most prosperous of any, and the
miners were the most independent. The coal was of exceptionally fine quality,
and the miners were not too many. The strike of 1869 had a curious origin,
worth [noting]. Some professional labor agitators conceived the idea of fixing
a sliding scale of wages for miners, to go up and down with market price of
coal. As a beginning the miners dropped off work six weeks in order to let the
supply of coal get low on the market and bring up the price proportionately.
The six weeks passed, and the coal in stock ran low. The miners then prepared to
return to work. Then, however, the coal operators, who up to this time had had
nothing to say, turned the tables on their employees with the information that
the operators themselves were not ready to resume yet. The strike was continued
thus some weeks longer.
From that time on troubles between mine
operators and mine workers became frequent. In consequence the operators
adopted the plan of quietly importing foreigners to displace the English-speaking
miners. This has been done till the American and British miners have been
almost excluded from the Lehigh region. For a long time the operators had it
all their own way after the foreigners came. They fixed wages at their own
figure. They made the foreigner buy his domestic supplies at the company store,
where Mr. O'Donnell says the necessaries of life cost the miner 50 per cent
more than the same goods would outside. Thus the money paid to the miner goes
back to the company in the extortionate price charged for goods he is forced to
buy at the company store or be discharged from work. But at last the worm has
turned.
The company store Mr. O'Donnell
characterizes is the worst outrage perpetrated on the miner. Another is the 75
cents a month dues he must pay to the company doctor. The company store is a
better paying investment to operators than their mines are, the writer
declares. These two things, the company store and the company doctor, are the
worst grievances of the miners. If they were abolished, the foreigners could
manage to live, even at low wages. Unless the abuses named are abolished the
Pennsylvania soldiers will apparently have a permanent job. At least they will
be needed until the miners and their families die of starvation. Such is the
conclusion one draws from Mr. O'Donnell's letter.
The primary cause of the trouble, however, is
perhaps to be found in overproduction of coal. In their desire to cheapen wages
the companies have continued to bring foreign miners into the country in such
numbers that now there cannot be found steady employment for them. If all the miners
in the Pennsylvania region were to be worked steadily, they would produce at
least three times as much coal as the whole country could consume. The figures
given by the Philadelphia Times show that 200,000,000 tons of coal are the
utmost quantity that can be consumed in our country in a year. There are now miners
enough to produce 600,000,000 tons in a year.
The only permanent remedy will be to find
other occupations for the thousands who are glutting the mining labor market.
This can be done, and all interested labor organizations, coal companies and
everybody else, can cooperate to accomplish it.
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One regrets to observe that the
lynching habit has spread from the rude and uncivilized United States even to
the peaceable and enlightened republic of Mexico.
The killing of Ignacio Anulfo, who attempted to assassinate President Diaz, was
a murder precisely like so many of the lynching murders of the United
States. Something must, of course, be allowed to the overwrought feelings of
those who see a beloved chief barely escape a violent death at the hands of an
unknown miscreant. But in the case of
the attempted stabbing of the Mexican president the assassin was undoubtedly
insane. His behavior after his capture showed that unmistakably. The murder of
a crazy man has somehow rather an ugly look on the face of it.
Three
Cases Reported From Clinton, Miss.—Leaving Town.
CLINTON, Oct. 1.—Excitement rose in Clinton
again when it was announced that Rev. J. L. Pettigrew, his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Mary Pettigrew, and little grandson had been taken sick with yellow fever.
All were
associated with the Ellis family, three members of whom are already sick. The
disease is plainly traceable to Edwards.
The town is rapidly being depopulated.
Six More
Cases at Mobile.
MOBILE, Oct. 1.—The official bulletin of the
board of health shows one death and six new cases of yellow fever. All the new
cases are located in the infected district. Total cases to date, 74; total
deaths to date, 11; discharged, 34.
Situation
at New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1.—There was neither
improvement nor aggravation of the yellow fever situation here.
FUSION
WITH THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS.
D. W.
Van Hoesen for Member of Assembly, Edwin Duffey for District Attorney, H. T.
Bushnell for County Clerk, A. E. Brainard for Sheriff, Dr. Benjamin Kinyon for Superintendent of the Poor,
Dr. H. J. Ball and Dr. H. D. Hunt and Dr. D. K. Allen for
Coroners.
The Democratic county convention was held in
Taylor hall this afternoon instead of Fireman's hall as announced in the
official call, as it became evident when the delegates began to assemble that
the latter hall would be insufficient for the accommodation of the crowd. There
was an unusually large number of Democrats present from all over the county
when the convention was called to order, special interest being attached to the
convention and its results owing to the division among the Republicans. When
the convention was organized nearly every seat in the large hall was filled,
and many were standing. There were noticeable among the spectators a large
number of Republicans who watched the proceedings with interest.
The assemblage was called to order at 2
o'clock P. M. by J. R. Schermerhorn, chairman pro tem of the county committee, who
nominated James Dougherty of Cortland as chairman whose nomination was ratified
by the convention. Mr. Dougherty in taking the chair thanked the delegates and
said that it was important that the convention be entirely harmonious, and put
forward the very best men for office.
H. E. Wilson of Marathon named as secretaries
Alex Thompson of Marathon and Dayton J. Bolster of Cincinnatus, who were duly
elected, and the oath was administered by Notary Public F. M. Benjamin of
Cincinnatus.
On motion, the roll of towns was called and
the chairmen of the various delegations submitted the lists of delegates as follows:
Cincinnatus.—F. M. Benjamin, D. D. Ufford,
D. J. Bolster. J. H. Griswold, S. S. Beckwith, W. W. Wood.
Cortlandville.—J. H. Wallace, B. F. Taylor,
James Riley, W. B. Howard, C.
M. DeVany,
B. H. McNiff.
Cuyler.—L. Holmes, A. L. Boice, C. Garner,
E. J. Albro, C. L.Vincent, Richard Winne.
Freetown.—Horace Martin, Richard Phalen,
Chas. Monroe, Norman Pickert, Victor Hall.
Harford.—F. G. Wilcox, W. Stacy, G. A.
Wavle, Ray Sexton, Geo. Wagoner, R.
Blodgett.
Homer.—E. W. Hyatt, J. W. Fassett, R. E.
Wilmarth, Jerry Donohue, Luke McEvoy, James Johnson.
Lapeer.—W. E. Hunt, J. R. Robinson, P. N.
Gray, J. D. Talbot, J. Frees, J. R. Schermerhorn.
Marathon.—E. L. Adams, H. E. Wilson, J. L.
Smith, C. S. Myers, Fred C.
Carter,
Alex. Thompson.
Preble—H. D. Hunt, John Ackles, Frank
Dailey, Chas. Dennis, Timothy Shea, Frank Woodmancy.
Scott.—F. M. Hazard, Archie Goned, N. C.
Black, H. J. Ball, Geo. Cottrell, D. J. Cottrell.
Solon.—Henry Kelly, E. B. Maybury, D. S.
Brown, H. Doran, James Dougherty, Geo. Warden.
Taylor.—Valentine Jipson, G. P. Rockwell, D.
D. Fisk, E. S. Crane, W. N.
Smith, L.
D. Finn.
Truxton.—D. D. Pierce, J. L. Goddard, John
O'Connor, H. D. Lazelle, Patrick O'Connell, D. N. Barry.
Virgil— D. E. Stillman, Henry McKinney, S. H.
Bouton, John Warwick, R. E. Holton, S. B. Low.
Willet.—A. E. Ingersoll, Morell Morey, John
Hopkins, W. D. Valentine, Emmett Delevan, Jefferson Greene.
Chairman Dougherty called for nominations
for a candidate for member of assembly, and E. W. Hyatt placed in nomination
Supervisor John O'Donnell of Truxton. Ed L. Adams of Marathon in a short speech
nominated Attorney David W. Van Hoesen of Cortland. F. M. Benjamin of
Cincinnatus seconded the nomination of Mr. .Van Hoesen and the convention
proceeded to an informal ballot with the following result:
Whole number, 90
Van Hoesen, 69
O'Donnell, 21
Mr. O'Donnell moved that the nomination of
Mr. Van Hoesen be made unanimous in a brief speech in which he took occasion to
thank the delegates who had voted for him, and paid a tribute to Mr. Van
Hoesen. The motion was seconded by E. W. Hyatt of Homer, and Mr. Van Hoesen was
declared the nominee. There were calls for the nominee, and that gentleman took
the floor and accepted the nomination, referring to the pleasure it gave him to
be nominated at the time, and referring especially to the division in the ranks
of the Republicans, severely denouncing the alleged methods by which the
Republican ticket was nominated.
The chairman called for nominations for
district attorney, when Hon. O. U. Kellogg arose and offered the name of Edwin
Duffey of Cortland. John Courtney, Jr., seconded the nomination, which was
declared unanimous.
Nomination for the office of county clerk
being called for, C. M. DeVany offered the name of H. T. Bushnell, the nominee
of the Cortland House Republicans. Delegate J. W. Fassett of Homer inquired of
the chair if Mr. Bushnell was a Democrat, whereupon Mr. Dougherty stated that
he had understood that Mr. Bushnell had been identified with the Republican party.
Delegate Doran of Solon inquired if it was not a fact that the convention was
called to nominate a Democratic ticket for Democrats. No one replied. F. M.
Benjamin of Cincinnatus moved that a ballot be cast for Mr. Bushnell, but the
motion of H. E. Wilson of Marathon to proceed to ballot prevailed.
Delegate Phalen of Freetown nominated W. A.
Holton of Virgil for the position, but Mr. Holton declined, saying he
understood that the nomination of Mr. Bushnell had been agreed upon. The ballot
was taken with the following result:
Whole number, 82
H. T. Bushnell, 56
W. A. Holton, 6
Dr. Benj. Kinyon, 17
Blank, 3
Dr. Kinyon and Mr. Holton withdrew their
names.
Delegate J. W. Fassett of Homer moved a
formal ballot, but the motion was amended on motion of F. P. Hakes that the
ballot be declared formal, which prevailed, and Mr. Bushnell was declared the
nominee.
Ed L. Adams [editor of Marathon Independent--CC editor] of Marathon presented the name
of Arthur E. Brainard for sheriff and urged his nomination. Mr. Brainard is the
candidate of the Cortland House Republicans.
Dr. H. J. Ball of Scott said he was opposed
to the nomination of Republicans when there were Democrats who wanted a
nomination. He understood that there was no Democrat who cared for the
nomination of county clerk, but offered the name of F. M. Hazard for sheriff.
The informal ballot resulted as follows:
Whole number, 88
Arthur E. Brainard, 48
F. M. Hazard, 38
M. A. Mynard, 1
Blank, 1
The ballot was declared formal and Mr.
Brainard was declared the nominee.
Dr. H. J. Ball of Scott proposed the name of
J. C. Atwater of Homer, the Cortland House Republican nominee, for
superintendent of the poor. F. M. Benjamin nominated Dr. Benjamin Kinyon of
Cincinnatus, and E. W. Hyatt of Homer offered the name of Ralph Butler of
Homer.
A formal ballot was taken with the following
result:
Whole number, 82
Benjamin Kinyon , 55
Ralph Butler, 25
J. C. Atwater, 2
Dr. Benjamin Kinyon of Cincinnatus was
declared the nominee, and briefly thanked the delegates for the honor.
Drs. Halsey J. Ball of Scott, H. D. Hunt of
Preble and D. K. Allen of Freetown were unanimously named for coroners.
The delegations handed in their nominations
for members of the county committee as follows:
Cincinnatus—F. M. Benjamin.
Cortlandville— W. J. Greenman, F. L.
McDowell, H. R. Maine, John Dalton, B. H. McNiff, J. R. Schermerhorn.
Cuyler—G. A. Vincent.
Freetown—M. A. Mynard.
Harford—John Wavle.
Homer—John Toomey, E. E. Wilmarth, Wade
Stephenson, E. W. Hyatt.
Lapeer—J. R. Robinson.
Marathon—A. Thompson. F. C. Carter.
Preble—Frank Daley.
Scott—F. M. Hazard.
Solon—Henry Kelley.
Taylor—L. D. Finn.
Truxton—John O'Connor.
Virgil—W. A. Holton, W. S. Dickinson
Willet—Jefferson Greene.
The convention then adjourned.
The county committee is to meet early next
week for organization.
A Smooth
Machine.
A caucus which can be disposed of in a single
paragraph, and that paragraph tell everything worth telling, is worthy of
special notice, which the Democratic caucus of day before yesterday has been
receiving. It was a beautiful product of a well oiled, perfectly working, one-man-handled
political machine. The election of officers seemed totally unnecessary, except
to comply with the law: "The secretary was instructed to cast a ballot"
for the delegates, says the report, and they "were unanimously elected."
Then a town committee was appointed and the caucus adjourned. A neat piece of
work is always worth looking at, and this one was very neat.
What a surprise it would be if a Republican caucus
in Cortland was thus harmonious! And "how people would talk." The
inquiry now is as to what it all meant. Was it a Simon pure article of harmony?
Or was one faction dead and willing to stay dead for the time being? Or was it a calm before a storm? Or were some of
the brethren whetting knives for the ribs of some of the other brethren? Or was
some devilment of some other kind brewing? Such a caucus savors of
"bossism" or trouble in the wind—or perhaps both.
SETTLEMENT EFFECTED.
THE E.
& C. N. Y. R. R. PAYS THE RANDALL ESTATE.
And
Takes a Receipt for the Same—A Bomb Explodes Without Hurting Any One and Work on the Road is
Progressing at Full Speed.
There was a meeting of the directors of the
E. & C. N. Y. R. R. yesterday and one of the results of this was that
immediately afterward the amount of money due the Randall estate for right of way
was paid and the following receipt was taken:
Supreme court, Cortland County: Erie & Central New York Railway
company, plaintiff, vs. William R. Randall, Wilhelmina Randall and Antoinette
R. Huntington.
Judgment docketed on the 16th day of
December. 1895, in favor of the defendants and against the plaintiff in
condemnation proceedings:
For damages, $2,256.00
Costs, 162.80
Total, $2,418.80.
Received of the Erie & Central New York
Railway company the sum of two thousand, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and
twenty-nine cents ($2,261.29) being the amount in full due upon the judgment in
the above entitled action, this 30th day of September, 1897.
J. &
T. E. COURTNEY,
Attorneys for Defendants.
Another matter which came before the
directors related to the further building of the railroad. For some time
Attorney Palmer has suspected that a plot was under cover which had for its aim
the blocking of the further work of construction of the railroad. He has watched
the signs, as a cat does a mouse, and as the time advanced and his suspicions
were strengthened he began taking steps to checkmate the scheme if it should be
sprung upon them. The time came, his suspicions seemed to be verified, and Mr.
Palmer informs us that the bomb was exploded, and nobody was hurt. The
checkmate was complete.
Yesterday there were 300 men and 56 teams at
work, and they are at work today and are to continue at work. Everything is
going swimmingly and the directors are happy, though angry at the plot which
was raised against them. There is still no reason why the completion of the
road is not to be secured in the near future.
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| Brewer building is No. 4 on this map. |
Incorporated—Capital
$100,000—List of Directors and Officers.
One of
those concerns in Cortland which is always and forever doing business and which
goes quietly along in its own way without saying a word about it to any one is
the Cortland Carriage Goods Co., whose factory is on Port Watson-st. next the
D., L. & W. R. R. Within the last month an important change has been made
in the government of its affairs, though it remains practically under the same
management as before, but no one outside seems to have heard of it till The STANDARD
finally smoked it out.
Previous to Sept. 9, though doing business
under the name of the Cortland
Carriage
Goods Co., it was in reality a partnership, and the partners were Mr. Edward H.
Brewer and Mr. David H. Brown. Upon Sept. 9 it was incorporated under the same
name with a capital stock of $100,000. The directors are Edward H. Brewer,
Andrew J. Murray, David H. Brown, Andrew Ainslie and M. W. Brown. The officers
of the company are:
President—Edward H. Brewer.
Secretary and Treasurer—Andrew J. Murray.
Superintendent—David H. Brown.
This step was taken for two reasons. Mr.
Brewer's health is such that he finds it highly beneficial to spend his winters
in Florida, where he has bought a fine estate, as was noted in The STANDARD
last winter. The business is also largely increasing and branching out in new fields.
This fact would naturally add new responsibilities and greater care to Mr.
Brewer's shoulders where he really desires to be relieved in part. To secure assistance
in the management the corporation has been formed. Mr. Brewer's brother-in-law,
Mr. Andrew J. Murray, has come to Cortland to take the office of secretary and
treasurer in the company and assist in the conduct of the business. Mr. Murray
was for many years the highly successful superintendent of schools at Sault Ste
Marie, Mich., and later for a few years held a similar position in Coldwater, Mich.,
which position he resigned to come to Cortland. The fine executive ability
which he displayed in his former profession and which contributed so largely to
make him the successful and popular superintendent which he was will no doubt
be directed in new channels to make him quite as successful in this business.
His family, consisting of Mrs. Murray and two children, has already come to
Cortland and they will be an acquisition to the social life of the place.
A week ago, as already stated, the factory of
the Carriage Goods Co. began running day and night with double force. Even with
this extra exertion it will be difficult to keep up with orders, and a condition
of prosperity and business success even greater than formerly seems to be
before this company.
COURT
PROCEEDINGS.
A Witness
Forgets—Judge Eggleston Recommends Him to the Grand Jury.
In the case of John W. Card, appellant, vs.
Charles Munson, respondent, trial of which was begun Wednesday and continued nearly
through Thursday the jury reported a verdict for the defendant.
The case of The People vs. Joseph H. May of
Harford was called. The defendant was indicted last February for selling two glasses
of cider on July 4, 1896, without a license. The chief witness in the case was
Edwin Wilcox, upon whose testimony the indictment had been secured. He had
testified before the grand jury that he had bought two glasses of cider of the
defendant. When called to the witness stand in county court his memory failed
him absolutely. He could not remember buying the cider of May on the day in
question or on any other day. He would make no definite statement in the case.
The result was that the indictment was dismissed, but Judge Eggleston rebuked
the witness
very sharply, intimating that either upon this occasion or before the grand
jury perjury had been committed and recommended that the district attorney look
up his evidence before the grand jury and report his case to the next grand
jury with a view to securing his indictment on the charge of perjury. The
district attorney appeared for The People and Dougherty & Miller for the defendant.
Court then adjourned sine die.
BREVITIES.
—Dr. E. M. Santee's residence has been connected
with the telephone exchange.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Warren,
Tanner & Co., furs repaired, etc., page 8.
—Cortland officers are on the watch for a
horse and buggy stolen from the barn of C. C. Magee of Bath Monday.
—Attorney W. C. Crombie is to-day removing
his office to the rooms formerly occupied by Phil Sugerman over Whitcomb's grocery.
—Messrs M. H. McGraw and A. F. Tanner were
last night re-elected elders of the Presbyterian church and Mr. A. B. Nelson was
elected deacon.
—The fourth quarterly meeting services will
be held at the First M. E. church Sunday morning, beginning with love feast at
9:30 o'clock.
—The Y. M. C. A. state convention will this
year be held at Rochester on Feb. 10, 11, 12 and 13. It will not be divided
into districts this year as was the case last year.
—Miss Lizzie McMahon entertained a number of
her friends at her dressmaking parlors on Wednesday evening, in honor of her
sister, Miss Catharine of Binghamton.
—Mr. H. B. Hubbard has received word of the
death in Boston, on Tuesday night, Sept. 28, of Mr. John A. Givens of Cortland.
No particulars have yet been received.
—A committee from the Ladies' Aid society of
the Presbyterian church has in preparation the art entertainment recently noted
in the Ladies' Home Journal. The entertainment will occur toward the latter
part of the month.
—On account of the pleasant weather to-day
the management of the park has decided to give one more free dance at the park
to-morrow night if the weather continues auspicious. McDermott's full orchestra
will furnish music. The park [street] cars will run as usual.
—The STANDARD acknowledges an invitation
from Mr. I. Whiteson of the firm of Simonson, Whiteson & Co. of Louisville, Ky., to the grand fall opening of
their mammoth department store which occurs on Oct. 1 and 2. The store occupies
four floors of a whole block.
—Mr. John Miller, of the firm of Bingham
Bros. & Miller, a member of [C. F. D] Orris Hose Co., while engaged in one of
the hose races at Homer yesterday, stumbled and fell to the ground, one wheel
of the hose wagon running over him. He is in bed to-day as a result, quite
badly bruised on the back and shoulders. No bones were broken.
—C. S. Strowbridge has secured the local
agency for the brokerage house of Greulich, Martin & Co., corner Broad-st. and
Exchange Place, New York and his office was to-day connected with that house by
private wire. The stock reports in The STANDARD will be resumed to-morrow, the
quotations coming from that house.
—Buckwheat is being bought by the rural
millers of this county at 40 to 45 cents per bushel. A year ago the price was
28 and 30 cents. It is believed that it will go to 50 cents. Potatoes bring 60
to 65 cents to the grower.—Ithaca Journal. Buckwheat is already 50 cents a
bushel in this county and one whole crop was sold at that price to-day.
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