CHAUNCEY DEPEW TALKS AND ALTON PARKER SERENADED

Chauncey M. Depew.

Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, November 4, 1897.

DEPEW TALKS.

Odds Were Strong Against Republican Success—Low's Strength Surprising.

   NEW YORK, NOV. 4.—Chauncey M. Depew, who supported Tracy [for mayor of Greater New York], said that the election resulted just as he had feared it would.

   "We made the best possible fight, but the hope of a victory against Tammany with the anti-Tammany forces divided is almost futile. The wonderful showing made by Mr. Low is surprising, to say the least.

   "Those who are inclined to view this election in New York city as being of national significance are away off in their reckoning. New York is a cosmopolitan city. New York has only about 20 per cent of Americans—that is American-born inhabitants. The rest are from Europe and all parts of the world and they retain the habits, language and characteristics of their native countries.

   "The election in New York has no national significance, but with an alarming falling off of the Republican vote in the state, with heavy losses in New Jersey, Ohio and other states, the Republican party is confronted with the incontrovertible truth that Bryanism and bimetalism are not dead. It warns them that they must take steps at once and emphatically to settle this currency question beyond any hope of reopening it."

Alton B. Parker.

PARKER SERENADED.

Citizens of Kingston Cheer Their Fellow-Townsman's Election.

   KINGSTON, N. Y., Nov. 4.—There was a big demonstration here last night over the election of Alton B. Parker to the chief judgeship of the court of appeals. Amid burning colored lights, several thousand citizens, accompanied by a brass band, gathered before the residence of Judge Parker and gave him a serenade.

   State Committeeman Betts introduced Judge Parker, who followed with a speech, thanking his neighbors and the citizens for their interest in his behalf.

Arms For Cuban Rebels.

   KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 4.—The tug Dauntless arrived here from Cuba, where she landed a full cargo of arms and ammunition for the insurgents successfully. She put in here for provisions.

Frost at Montgomery, Ala.

   MONTGOMERY, NOV. 4.—The official report of the board of health gives seven new cases of yellow fever and one death. Frost was reported in this section, but it was not a killing one. It is clear and cold with prospect of another light frost. The board of health officially advises refugees not to return now.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

The Cuban Situation.

   A new hand has begun to write Spanish history in Cuba. Blanco comes in and Weyler goes out. The exit of Weyler is a cause for the congratulation of the civilized world. His slaughterhouse idea of government was too much for even the nation of the bull fight. He has left to the history of warfare in America a name unparalleled for deliberate and long continued brutality.

   Blanco has a whiter name and record, but the opening proclamations of the new governor general have not a merciful sound. He does not mention the autonomy which Spain is offering to Cuba, but speaks the words of a man of war, whose determination is to fight down insurrection and get it out of the way as speedily as possible.

   The insurgents meanwhile cling to their ultimatum: "Independence or Death." They have a distinguished exemplar in the great country to their north, which more than a century ago raised the same cry and fought it through. The outlook is no more favorable to Spain than it was before Weyler tried the policy of devastation and extermination, of making Cuba by fire and sword a desert.

   The insurgents seem to have an unfailing resource in outside sympathy. Spain recognizes that filibustering is the nurse of insurrection, and desperate at the inability of Spanish vessels to prevent the filibustering expeditions from landing, charges the United States with responsibility for the sailing of such expeditions. This government needs only to point to its record. A considerable portion of the national navy has been for a long time patrolling our extensive coast at much expense in the endeavor to catch the filibusters. The number of vessels has been increased recently, and now there are eight ships doing police duty.

   This is a difficult and dangerous service, and Spain's sullen despair is shown in her failure to appreciate the fairness of the United States in respecting international law even when the effect is counter to the popular sympathies. It has just been discovered that even the British dependencies have been harboring Cuban filibusters.

   Spain is in desperate straits, and she will accumulate and hasten disaster by airy defiance of a country that has already done more for a monarchy against a budding republic than any student of history could have anticipated.

The Cost of Yellow Fever.

   The losses to southern trade due to the yellow fever and the yellow fever scare are estimated in the millions directly and other millions indirectly. Certainly the public health authorities and others in a position to speak by the card in these matters will prove recreant to science, to country and humanity if they let this epidemic pass by without determining upon such a plan of action as will save the South and southern commerce from such an embargo. Surely enough is now known whereby a practical method of localizing the disease can be put in operation which will not result in the profound demoralization reported daily in the news dispatches.—Philadelphia Press.

   One of the incomprehensible things is the failure of communities in the South to adequately protect themselves from the danger of yellow fever. Certainly they have had sufficient warning, but repeated deadly experiences seem to have little or no effect, so far as local action is concerned. New Orleans and Mobile are important shipping points, with a large interior and domestic trade. Their business is now paralyzed by the yellow fever scare, and they are losing millions of dollars as a result. There is little doubt that proper sanitary measures would have prevented the visitation from the fever, or at least so checked its ravages as to leave no cause for serious apprehension.

   The situation furnishes the strongest argument for a quarantine system under national authority. But even this, wise as it might be as a means of confining the epidemic within certain bounds, would not be effective in stamping out the disease unless the local government co-operated with energy and intelligence. The yellow fever scourge is by no means as terrible as it has been in former years. It need give no great cause for alarm if the southern communities exposed to it would take adequate precautions.

Pink line on map represents Erie & Central New York railroad between Cortland and Cincinnatus, N. Y.

NEW MILK ROUTE

Established on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R.—Express Arrangements Soon.

   One of the special advantages which it was anticipated would come to the people of the Otselic valley and the intervening territory with the opening of the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. was that this would take to their very doors a market for their milk. That expectation has been fulfilled. A special milk train has not yet been put on; that will come a little later, but the transportation of milk from Solon to the New York market has already begun. Mr. H. A. Wadsworth of Solon is the first shipper and he has begun sending three forty quart cans daily which are transferred to the milk train at the junction in Cortland. Others are arranging to follow his example. As soon as the quantity guaranteed is sufficient a regular through car will be put on. Until that time the cans will be brought to Cortland in an ordinary freight car and will be transferred at the junction.

   Mr. G. A. Perry of Binghamton, route agent for the United States Express Co., has been in town making preliminary arrangements for the establishing of that Express company on the new road.

   Three days' work is now all that is required to complete the grading to the trestle at the mouth of Gee brook. Work will at once be begun on the big cut on the other side of the trestle and only a few days more will be required to complete the grading to the Gee brook terminal.

   Rails are expected in a day or two and then the track laying east of Solon will be pushed ahead. It will take but a short time to complete the railroad and get trains running to the mouth of Gee brook.

   The passenger traffic has started off far in advance of all anticipations. The management only hopes that it will continue at the same rate. Between Cortland and McGrawville Mr. Bundy has made the special rate of twelve trips for $1. The tickets, however, are good only for the original purchaser, but are good till used up and are good on any regular train. The tickets are known as labor tickets, and the purchaser must be a bona fide laboring man or woman living in one place and employed in the other.

GAS FOR CORTLAND.

TWO PARTIE8 MAKE APPLICATION FOR A FRANCHISE.

Rival Companies Anxious for the Privilege of Laying Pipe in the Village for

Natural Gas—Other Matters Considered by the Board of Village Trustees.

   The board of village trustees held its regular meeting last night at the office of the village clerk, and the session lasted until past midnight. All the trustees were present. On motion of Trustee Wallace, the board adopted the following resolution:

   WHEREAS, The village of Cortland has heretofore and on or about Nov. 17, 1896, issued its bond to Cortland Savings bank for the sum of the $13,700 for the procuring of funds to pay the contractor, the Jamestown Construction Co., the balance then due for paving Railroad-st., and

   WHEREAS, Said bond became due by its terms on Jan. 16, 1897, with interest at 4 per cent, and there was paid the sum of $10,895.44, at which date the accrued interest amounted to $91.33, and the balance remaining due was $2,895.89, which sum now remains due and owing to the bank, and

   WHEREAS, the village of Cortland is in litigation with the Cortland & Homer Traction Co. over its share of the expense of paving Railroad-st., and it is expected that from this litigation in whole or in part the village will realize the funds for the payment of said bond, and

   WHEREAS, The Cortland Savings bank is unwilling to longer carry said bond as an overdue obligation, but is willing to exchange the same for a corresponding obligation due three years from Nov. 1, 1897, with the privilege of the village of Cortland to pay the same or any part thereof at any time,

   Resolved, That the issue of such new bond be authorized.

   Lewis Bouton appeared before the board in behalf of Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt, asking permission to place a railroad switch across South Main-st. to afford access to the south part of her lot near the Lehigh Valley station. The petition was placed on file, and the president and Trustee O'Leary were appointed a committee on the matter.

   Mr. H. V. Beckwith appeared before the board and requested the board to furnish plank to put in proper shape the crosswalk on the north side of Tompkins-st. across Broadway. No action was taken.

   Chief Barber of the fire department asked that the horse used by the Hitchcock Hose Co. be maintained in whole or in part at the expense of the village, and the board appropriated $50 for that purpose.

   The bond of the village collector was extended until Dec. 7.

   On motion of Trustee Nodecker, the street commissioner was instructed to haul in gravel to reduce to grade the highway at the corner of Hubbard and Garfield-sts.

   On motion, the extension of Rickard-st. was accepted.

   Attorney John Courtney, Jr., appeared before the board and urged the granting of a franchise or privilege to lay mains, pipes and appurtenances necessary for the proper distribution of natural or manufactured gas other than coal gas as now supplied to the village. The petitioners named in the application are Marsh C. Pierce and W. K. Pierce of Syracuse, and John Courtney, Jr., C. S. Bull, W. W. Hout and Wm. Martin of Cortland. The franchise is asked for a term of forty-nine years. If natural gas is to be found in the vicinity of Cortland, these gentlemen wish to be first in the field in Cortland, but at an adjourned meeting of the board this morning, there appeared another applicant for a similar privilege. He is F. H. Morse of Pittsburg, Pa., who has been in the county several weeks, leasing a large number of farms in the western and northern parts of the county for the purpose of testing for gas. Mr. Morse did not have a formal application for a franchise prepared, and asked that the board hold the matter open so that he could prepare the necessary papers. The question will therefore come up at the next meeting, Nov. 15.

   This morning the application of Mrs. Hyatt was referred back to her with the suggestion that the application come from the Lehigh Valley railroad company.

   On motion of Trustee Warfield the following resolution was carried:

   Resolved, That the employment of F. A. Bickford, as engineer and janitor at

Fireman's hall, be discontinued from and after this date.

   The following bills were ordered paid:

   Street commissioner's pay roll, $273.20

   Jennie E. Ireland, supplies, 95.86

   H. M. Kellogg, supplies, 17.73

   F. A. Bickford, salary, 50.00

   S. B. & N. Y. R. R., freight, 1.10

   Sager & Jennings, supplies 2.10

   Sager & Jennings, supplies, 22.13

   Electric Supply Co. of Syracuse, 20.00

   Davis, Jenkins & Hakes, insurance, 32.00

   G. J. Maycumber, insurance, 64.00

   W. J. Moore, health officer, 25.00

   Cortland Standard Printing Co., 6.00

   Cortland Democrat, 2.80

   Dougherty & Miller, term fee, 10.00

   F. D. Smith, supplies, 5.67

   L. R. Lewis, plumbing, 14.78

   Police force, 252.00

   J. B. Morris, livery, 1.00

   Fred Hatch, clerk, 33.38

   Cortland & Homer Electric Co., 455.60

BREVITIES.

   —The Ithaca Democrat has changed its publication day from Friday to Thursday.

   —Rev. J. C. B. Moyer, pastor of the Homer-ave. M. E. church, will be present at the Thursday evening prayer-meeting.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—F. E. Brogden, Corn Cure, page 6; Opera House, Bessie Morton Co., page 5.

   —Mars will be evening star until Nov. 21. Venus is morning star and is still the most brilliant object in the eastern morning sky.

   —Attention is called to The STANDARD'S special rates for periodicals in its clubbing list found in another column, and to the terms under which these rates can be taken advantage of.

   —Sleeping cars are worth $15,000 each, locomotives $10,000, baggagecars $3,000 and ordinary coaches $5,000. These figures develop from the Central

Hudson wreck at Garrison.

   —Mr. James Haight of East Homer, the taxidermist and owner of Height's museum, died at his home on Tuesday. Nov. 2. The funeral was held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the East Homer church.

   —The coroner's jury at Groton has exonerated the Lehigh Valley railroad from all blame in the death of Miss Elizabeth Barry. Miss Barry was struck by a train Sunday night at the crossing of the Lehigh Valley about three-quarters of a mile north of Groton.

   —The Cortlandville town board will be in session Friday and Saturday at the office of Town Clerk E. C. Alger for the auditing of bills to be presented to the board of supervisors next week. All persons in the town having claims against the town should present them on one of these two days.

   —George Jenman does not know of any one who has raised larger or finer state corn this year than he upon the farm of A. D. Blodgett. One ear that he picked out almost at random measures 14 1/2 inches in length and a second was 13 1/2 inches. Both were finely formed and perfect in every respect.

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