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Cortland
Evening Standard, Thursday, November 11, 1897.
RECEPTION
TO DR. NANSEN.
Leading
Vermont People Turn Out In Force—Norwegian Drapery.
BURLINGTON, Nov. 11.—Dr. Nansen, the
explorer, lectured in this city last evening. Leading people from all parts of
Vermont were present. During his stay in this city he was a guest at the home
of A. E. Richardson.
A reception in Dr. Nansen's honor by Mr. and
Mr. A. E. Richardson and Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Richardson was given. The house was
decorated with chrysanthemums and palms, and over the entrance were draped the
Norwegian and American national colors, the Norwegian flag being the one used
at the unveiling of Leif Ericson's statue in Boston, which was sent for this
occasion by Mrs. Ole Bull of Cambridge, Mass., widow of the Norwegian
violinist.
The guests at the reception included
Governor Grout, Lieutenant Governor Fisk and other state officers, and Mayor
Peck of Burlington.
Dr. Nansen was agreeably surprised by the
appearance at the reception of two young ladies in complete Norwegian costumes.
Removed
by Marshal Blanco.
HAVANA, via Key West, Fla., Nov. 11.—Marshal
Blanco has removed from his command the local military commander at Gibara,
province of Santiago de Cuba, for allowing a demonstration in honor of
Lieutenant General Weyler when he went on shore there a few days ago from the
steamer Montserat, which had put into Gibara owing to a mishap to her
machinery. It appears that General Weyler and the members of his staff accepted
the demonstration and that the principal streets of the town were decorated.
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To
Receive Weyler.
MADRID, NOV. 11.—According to a dispatch
from La Coruna, the port at which the steamer Montserat, with Lieutenant
General Weyler will dock, a flotilla of steamers will meet General Weyler off
the port and he will he received with music and other incidents of an elaborate
ovation. He will be tendered a luncheon immediately on landing and in the
evening there will be fireworks.
The socialists are paid to be planning a
counter demonstration.
The cabinet council has decided to empower
Marshal Blanco, governor general of Cuba, and General Primo de Rivera, governor
general of the Philippines, to grant amnesties.
A
proposal to build two ironclads was also approved.
TO
GOVERN CUBA.
Members
of the House to Be Elected of the People—The Debt.
LONDON, Nov. 11.—The Madrid correspondent,
describing the institutions to be established in Cuba under the new autonomous regime,
says:
The lower house will consist of 60 members,
all elected on the basis of universal suffrage. The upper house will be
virtually a council of administration as Senor Canovas proposed, but with
extensive attributes. Half its members will be elected by popular suffrage and
half will sit by right of the offices they hold.
Great reserve is maintained as to the
intentions of the government in the settlement of the Cuban debt, but it is
believed that the debt contracted for the present war will be considered
national, the bulk of the burden to fall upon Spanish taxpayers and Spanish
budgets.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
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New Orleans expected to be
entirely rid of yellow fever by the middle of the month, and in this hope the
people of all sections of the country will fervently join. The siege has been
long and severe, but it has taught several lessons that should prove useful.
One of the most important is that good results in checking an epidemic of this
kind cannot be obtained by the quarantine.
DAMAGES AWARDED
For the Building
of a New Highway in Virgil, N. Y.
The commission, consisting of Alonso D.
Blodgett of Cortland, A. T. Baird of Harford and Eugene
Johnson of Lapeer, appointed some time ago by County Judge Eggleston to
determine upon the necessity of constructing a new highway in the town of
Virgil and assess the damages therefor, held its last meeting at the offices of
Dougherty & Miller this morning and decided that the proposed road should
be built. Damages amounting to $36 were awarded to Charles Ryan and $12 to Adeline Holbrook.
The proposed new highway will be about one
mile in length on lot 46 in the town of Virgil, beginning at the highway
running from the farm of Jacob Shults to Harford and passing eastward through
lands of Adin Courtney, H. Conrad, Minnie and Emeline Conrad, Lewis Ryan,
estate of William Ryan, and terminating at a point intersecting the road
passing the residence of Adeline Holbrook on lot 46.
McLean's Fire
Department.
The village of Dryden has just completed a
system of gravity waterworks, by which there is enough pressure at the hydrants
to dispense with the services of the excellent hand engine of which the place
has long been the possessor. The village of McLean has purchased the engine and
600 feet of hose for the very low price of $100, and took possession of the
property yesterday. A test was made of the engine and it was found to be in a
very satisfactory condition, McLean has such an abundance of water from the
presence of the millpond and flume in the center of the village that it will
never lack in that direction. If McLean had possessed this engine at the time
the recent fire started the flames would have been quickly extinguished without
the great loss that was incurred.
Directors and
Officers.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Cortland Wagon Co. was held yesterday and the following directors were
elected for the ensuing year: Messrs. L. J. Fitzgerald, Hugh Duffey, O. U.
Kellogg, Wm. B. Clark, G. S. Smith, F.
C. Straat, C. M. Boles, Thomas Clarke, F. M. Powell.
The following officers were then elected:
President and Treasurer—L. J. Fitzgerald.
Vice-President and General
Superintendent—Hugh Duffey.
Secretary—F. M. Possell.
BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS.
Proceedings of
Cortland County's Lawmakers and Financiers.
Third Day,
Thursday, Nov. 11.
The board met at 9 A. M. and was called to
order by Chairman Crane. All the members were present.
A petition from the assessors of Truxton was
read asking for the refunding to M. Burlingham of $5.96, erroneously assessed.
Referred to committee on erroneous assessments.
A similar petition from the assessors of
Truxton was read asking for the refunding to Frank Livermore $6.28, erroneously
assessed. Referred to committee on erroneous assessments.
A statement was read from Cornelius Steele,
executor of the estate of George G. Steele, complaining that the property of
George G. Steele had been assessed in both the towns of Truxton and Cuyler, and
that he had paid the taxes in Truxton under protest. He asked the refunding of
the tax. Action deferred till later.
A bill was presented from St. Mary's Home,
Binghamton, for the board of five children, Lewis Dillon, Rob Dillon, Eddie Lee,
James Lee and Willie Lee. The bill amounted to $208.50. Referred to the
committee on appropriations.
The bill of H. B. Parsons for supervisor's
manuals was referred to the committee on miscellaneous bills.
The report of Hon. J. E. Eggleston,
surrogate, was presented and referred to the proper committee.
The report of Oscar P. Miner, superintendent
of the poor, was read and referred to the committee for settling with the
superintendent of the poor.
The annual report of the superintendent of
the poor, O. P. Miner, is a complete and comprehensive record of the business
of that officer for the year ending Nov. 1. The report shows that in the matter
of caring for the poor and dependent, the total disbursements for the year
amounted to $11,603.38, and the total receipts $11,119.23. Of the
disbursements, $4,283.25 were county house expenses, and the expenses incurred
by the overseers of the poor in the several towns were $5,644.05 divided as
follows:
The total number of weeks' board furnished
at the countyhouse was 2,888.
The expense for
maintenance, after deducting receipts for board of inmates, the estimated
amount saved from their labor and costs
for permanent repairs but not including the products of the farm was $3,156.64,
making the average expense per week for each inmate $1,093. The number of
inmates at the countyhouse Nov. 1 was 45 as against 56 one year ago. The only
child now remaining in an orphan asylum is Charles Overton, a cripple, in
Onondaga County Orphan asylum at $1.60 per week. It will be noticed that there
are eleven less inmates in the countyhouse than a year ago, the number now
being less than in many years. The amount expended at the countyhouse has
decreased each year for the last three years, while the aggregate amount
expended for temporary relief by town overseers during the same period has
increased.
The superintendent regards this relief if
not wisely administered, as one of the worst evils connected with the dispensing
of alms to the poor. In some cases it
works an injury, rather than a benefit. In many cases it is absolutely
necessary and cannot be dispensed with, but if not properly managed, it tends
to create and perpetuate pauperism rather than to diminish it.
The superintendent believes that if an addition
to the county farm could be purchased, the labor of many of those who receive
this aid could be utilized to reimburse the county in part at least for their
support. Twenty-five orphan and dependent children who were in orphan asylums when
the present superintendent came into office have been removed and placed in
good family homes or returned to their parents and the county relieved of their
support. Nine other children who during this period had become county charges
have been provided with good family homes instead of placing them in asylums. A
saving to the county of nearly $3,000 per year has thus been elected. Twenty-five
of these thirty-four children have been provided with good family homes by the
superintendent, excepting the few returned to their parents, without any
compensation, and with no cost to the county except the actual expense incurred
for advertising and transportation. Nine of these children, for whom homes were
not readily found, were procured good homes by an agent, Rev. W. J. Maybee, for
which he was paid $50 each. To the report is appended a complete
inventory of all the property at the county farm.
The special committee appointed at the last
annual session to visit the several towns and investigate and compare valuations
of real estate and assessments through its chairman, Mr. Childs, presented the
following report, which was referred to the committee of the whole:
To the Board of
Supervisors of Cortland County, N. Y.:
The committee appointed by your honorable
body at the last annual session to investigate, determine and report as to the
relative value of the real property in the several towns in said county, would
respectfully report that we have visited all the towns aforesaid and
accompanied by the supervisor and in some instances the assessors of such
towns, have taken the assessment of a large per cent of each town and compared
the same with what we deemed its actual value, taking into consideration
location, bonded indebtedness, and everything likely to enhance or decrease the
value of such property, taking the assessment of 1896 as the basis. And after such investigation we find that
said towns are assessed at the following per cent of their actual value, to
wit:
On motion of different supervisors several
bills were added to the town audits, the same having been duly verified, but
not having been presented to the town boards for audit. Home bills were also
removed from the town bills and added to the county bills.
A call was also made for printing the
Supervisors' Journal for this year. The necessary specifications were dictated.
The board then engaged in routine work till
11:30 and then adjourned till
1:30 to complete
their labors as a board of county canvassers.
Death of Duportal
S. Sprague.
Duportal S. Sprague died at 4:30 o'clock
Saturday, Nov. 6, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Willard H. Knapp, in
Cortlandville. Funeral services were held in the Baptist church at Fabius, N.
Y., Nov. 8. Interment was made in the Fabius Evergreen cemetery.
The deceased was one of the oldest residents
of the town of Fabius, Onondaga county, N. Y., and made his home in that
village until recently, when falling health caused him to seek a home with his
daughter about three miles northwest of the village on Cortland.
He was born Sept. 22, 1823, on a farm a few
miles east of Fabius village,
and at an early age moved with his parents into the house now owned by
Charles Lee in that village. His education was received at the old Fabius
academy. Upon finishing his schooling, he with an elder brother, E. H. Sprague,
embarked in the mercantile business at the eastern end of the village on the spot
where the store of Edgar Thomas now stands. Not making the business pay, he
soon gave it up for farm life, purchasing the place 1 1/2 miles north of the
village which is now owned by John Gallinger.
The deceased was married June 21, 1849, at
Fabius to Mary Elizabeth Cadwell of Keeney Settlement, and to them were born
four children, two of whom are now living, Mrs. Willard H. Knapp of
Cortlandville, and Mr. Jesse O. Sprague of Ithaca, N. Y.
After twenty-five years of farm life, he went
back to the village and moved into the residence now owned by Henry H. Clark.
Here he made his home until spring of the present year. Here he met with the
great bereavement of his life, the death of his wife and helpmate. He never
seemed the same man after this trial. A light had gone from his home. He was
much attached to his home and family, and he could not do enough for them.
As a business man the deceased was shrewd
but was never known to cheat a man out of his dues. He made it an aim in his
life to pay all just debts, and he labored so hard for this that his health was
impaired in early life.
However, it was not as a farmer that he made
a name. Like his father and grandfather before him, he learned by the light of
his own fireside and practical experience, the profession of land surveying. He
was well adapted to this work, being quick at figures and withal a good
mathematician. Day after day he tramped among the hills and valleys of
Onondaga, Cortland and Madison counties, locating farm lines and corners,
dividing estates, laying out roads, etc. He became a well-known person among
the rural class. His advice was continually sought in matters of land
litigation involving surveys and division of property. He was, it can safely be
said, familiar with more town lines, farm lines and corners than any surveyor
between Syracuse and Cortland. He seldom failed to satisfy contestants. His
word was law, and his surveys were final ones where litigation was involved. He
never had a case decided against or contrary to his surveys.
The great work of his life was connected with
the Fabius Evergreen cemetery. He was one of the prime movers in the
organization of this association back in the sixties, and has been connected with
it ever since in the capacity of secretary of the board of trustees. After
Jonathan E. Pettit's plans for the grounds were accepted, Mr. Sprague went
ahead and conducted the field work and surveys. When the grounds were added to
a few years ago, Mr. Sprague's plans for laying out the new grounds were
accepted, and again he conducted the field work and survey. This was the last
hard work of his life. There was nothing in his business or professional life
that he took as much interest in as the improvement of the cemetery grounds.
The deceased had marked literary abilities.
During the prime of his life he was often times called upon for public speeches
and papers upon various topics from politics to literature. He was not active
in politics, but was always an advocate of good citizenship and temperance, and
did all in his power to promote these objects. He never sought a public office.
The office sought him. He was public spirited and did all he could in his
unassuming manner to advance the cause of education and the prosperity of the
community.
For more than twenty years he served as justice
of the peace of the town. He was justice of sessions, school and corporation
trustee, member of the board of trustees of the Fabius Evergreen cemetery, and
trustee of the First Baptist church. He was a member of the Royal Templars of Temperance,
Centena lodge, No. 100. He was not a church member, yet when able he was always
in his position in church and Sabbath school. As superintendent of the Sunday
school and Bible class teacher, he witnessed for Christ and the cause of Christianity.
He studied the Bible from Genesis to Revelations. He read and re-read it,
making himself acquainted with large portions of it.
As a man he was honest, upright and
conscientious in all that he did. When in health he always reached out a
helping hand to those in need. He was generous in deserving objects, and the church
ever found him a ready helper. ***
Cortland, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1897.
BREVITIES.
—The Loyal circle of King's Daughters will
meet with Mrs. T. A. Price, 76 Railroad-st., Friday, Nov. 12, at 2:30 P. M.
—The Central school football team was
defeated by the Dryden High school team at Dryden last Saturday by the score of
2 to 0.
—M. H. Kingman is building a large addition
to his livery stable and hitching barn on Main-st. in the rear of the Messenger
House.
—The second of the series of winter parties
will be given by the St. Vitus Dancing club in C. A. A. hall to-morrow evening
from 8 to 12 o'clock.
—Neptune Hose Co. of Dryden is planning for
a grand fair to be held at the Opera House in that place on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, Nov. 23, 24 and 25.
—Water Witch Steamer & Hose company will
give a dancing party in Athletic hall, April 20. The committee of arrangements
consists of F. L. Doughty, Frank Merchant and Fay Millen.
—A requiem high mass will be celebrated to-morrow
morning at 8:30 o'clock in St. Mary's church for the repose of the soul of
Francis Johnson, being his first anniversary at request of the family.
—The Lehigh [railroad] is doing an immense business and
the shops at Sayre are taxed to their utmost capacity. Some of them have been
running on Sundays in addition to the extra hours every day.—Ithaca Journal.
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