Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, November 14, 1898.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
BEGINS ITS ANNUAL SESSION THE YEAR 1898.
List of the Board and Who They Are—Many of Them Have Served the County in Previous Years—Organization—J. Harris Hammond of Marathon is Chairman; A. E. Seymour is Again Clerk; Oscar P. Miner is Janitor.
The annual session of the board of supervisors of Cortland county was begun in their rooms in the county clerk's building this afternoon. Politically the board is Republican, nine of its members having been chosen on the Republican ticket last spring, one, Supervisor Wallace of Cortlandville, as an Independent Republican, and the other five are Democrats. The personnel of the board is as follows:
Cincinnatus—Dr. Benjamin Kinyon.
Cortlandville—David F. Wallace.
Cuyler—John Wesley Patrick.
Freetown—Harvey Z. Tuttle. *
Harford—Josiah H. Brown. *
Homer—Augustus H. Bennett.
Lapeer—James R. Robinson.
Marathon—J. Harris Hammond. *
Preble—Dr. Herman D. Hunt. *
Scott—Fred A. Crosley.
Solon—Johnson G. Bingham. *
Taylor—Willis H. DeLong. *
Truxton—John O'Donnell.*
Willet—John D. Coe.
Virgil—Walter L. Chaplin.
(Republicans in Roman 10, Democrats in italics 5, member of previous board*.)
The town of Cincinnatus is represented by Dr. Benjamin Kinyon, one of the leading physicians of the eastern part of the county. Dr. Kinyon is not unfamiliar with the duties of a supervisor, having served on the boards of 1893, 1894 and 1895.
Cortlandville's representative on the board is a new man in David F. Wallace. But the town's interests will be well guarded, for Mr. Wallace is recognized on all sides as a man of unusual business and executive ability. He will quickly grasp the situation and will no doubt perform the duties of his office with the ease of a veteran.
The town of Cuyler sends John Wesley Patrick, who enjoys the unusual distinction of having been chosen as his town's representative without opposition. Mr. Patrick was Cuyler's supervisor in 1879 and 1890.
Harvey Z. Tuttle begins with credit to himself his third consecutive year of service as supervisor from the town of Freetown, and the town of Harford is ably represented by Josiah H. Brown, who begins his seventh consecutive year as supervisor—a longer consecutive term than that of any other member of the present board.
Mr. Augustus H. Bennett, cashier of the Homer National bank, is the representative of his town, having been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Wm. H. Crane. Mr. Bennett was Homer's supervisor in 1888, 1889 and 1890.
Lapeer is represented by James R. Robinson, an extensive dealer in cattle in that town, and who also served his town in that capacity in 1880.
The town of Marathon sends for the third year, J. Harris Hammond, who is one of the most prosperous and progressive farmers of his town.
The board will not lack for medical attention this year, as there are two physicians among its members, Dr. Kinyon of Cincinnatus and Dr. Herman D. Hunt of Preble. Dr. Hunt was a worthy member of the boards of 1892, 1893, 1896 and 1897.
The town of Scott sends one of its brightest young men in Fred A. Crosley, who is a new man on the board. Mr. Crosley is a young man of push and energy, and will doubtless prove a valuable representative.
One of the veterans on the board is Supervisor Johnson G. Brigham, who has represented the town of Solon with distinction and credit continuously since 1893.
Willis H. DeLong, the supervisor from Taylor, has been his town's able and popular representative since 1895.
The only lawyer on the board is Attorney John O'Donnell of Truxton, who is serving his fifth term as supervisor, and who bids fair to continue to represent that town as long as he will accept the nomination, because by reason of his personal popularity he has drawn from the Republican vote in a town that is in any case almost hopelessly Democratic, so that his nomination has been practically equivalent to an election.
Walter L. Chaplin, who represented the town of Virgil with credit continuously from 1881 to 1888, and in 1891, is again a member of the board.
Like Mr. Crosley of Scott, John D. Coe of Willet is a new man, having been elected for the first time last spring.
Arthur E. Seymour of McGrawville, the clerk of the last board, called the session to order at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, and a temporary organization was perfected by the selection of J. Harris Hammond of Marathon as temporary chairman. A recess was then taken for thirty minutes.
Upon re-assembling, on motion of Mr. Crosley of Scott, Mr. Hammond was chosen permanent chairman by acclamation. Mr. Seymour was re-elected clerk in the same manner, on motion of Mr. Bingham of Solon, and in like manner, on the motion of Mr. DeLong of Taylor, Oscar P. Miner of Cortland was chosen janitor.
The order of business observed last year was adopted for this session, and the hours of the session were fixed at 9 to 12 A. M. and 1 to 4 P. M. Several communications from State Comptroller James A. Roberts were read and referred to the committee on appropriations. When appointed, Clerk Seymour was authorized to procure the necessary stationery for the board, and to have a telephone placed in the rooms.
Supervisor Hunt of Preble offered a resolution that the committee on equalization consist of five members instead of seven as in previous years, and a ballot being ordered, the resolution prevailed by a vote of 9 to 6.
When the board adjourns to-day, it will adjourn to meet as a board of county canvassers to-morrow morning at the county clerk's office to canvass the vote cast at the recent election.
Supervisor Hammond is an excellent choice for chairman of the board, and—as his selection indicates—has been and is very popular with his fellow members. He is a man of excellent executive ability, strong common sense, cordial manners and sound judgment. He will make a most acceptable presiding officer.
Clerk Seymour has already served with marked acceptance for two years in this same place, and to specially good clerical abilities he now adds an experience which has given him a thorough knowledge of all the business of the board. He has been a pleasant as well as a successful official.
Mr. Oscar P. Miner's appointment as janitor assures the keeping of everything about the supervisors' rooms in first-class order, and also the presence of a gentleman who will have the respect and friendship of every member of the board.
A NORMAL VICTORY.
Defeated Cascadilla at Football at Ithaca Saturday Morning 16 to 6.
The Cortland Normal [School] football team went to Ithaca Saturday and defeated the Cascadilla team by the score of 16 to 6. The game was played in the morning in order to enable the Normal boys to see the Cornell-Layfayette game which occurred in the afternoon.
In the first half the Normals kicked off to Cascadilla's 10-yard line. The Cascadillas were held and in order to get the ball from their goal punted. Davis caught and advanced the ball 10 yards. Then by an end play by Griswold it was advanced 15 yards more. Robinson was sent through the line for a 35-yard gain and the first touchdown resulted in less than 5 minutes of play. Pierce kicked the goal.
Cascadilla kicked to Robinson who advanced 10 yards. Then by more rapid plays and good team work the ball was again carried over by Robinson. Pierce missed the goal.
At this point Cascadilla braced up and the Normals seemed to weaken and after a hard fight the Cascadillas went over the line for their first and only touchdown. They kicked the goal.
In the second half the Normals seemed weak and Cascadilla advanced to within three yards of the Normal's goal when the Cascadillas fumbled and Davis secured the ball within 8 inches of the Normal's line. Then the old Cortland spirit revived and by rapid and sure work the Normals once more showed their superiority and forced the Cascadillas back to within 5 yards of their goal only to lose the ball on downs. Cascadilla punted to Pierce who advanced 20 yards. The next play Pierce went through for a touchdown, but missed the goal. Score: Normal 16, Cascadilla 6.
The features of the game were the playing of Robinson and Griswold at half, Davis at quarter and Patrick and Byrne in the line. For the Cascadilla Smith at center played the most of the game.
The Normals are loud in their praises of the way they were used while in Ithaca.
Many Potatoes Not Dug.
Owing to the extremely wet weather during the past fall a large acreage of potatoes yet remain undug in the fields along the route traveled last week by the STANDARD man in the northern portion of Broome and the extreme southern part of Cortland counties. The farmers claimed that the acreage of tubers at this late season of the year yet remaining in the fields is almost equal to that already dug. And it is feared winter will set in before the crop can be fully secured. Many fields of corn are also standing out in the shock which it is expected will be husked with very cold fingers.
Office Removed.
Dr. C. D. Ver Nooy has moved his office to the Murphey house at 50 Port Watson-st., and by reason of the pressure of outside business he has also been obliged to curtail his office hours. They will hereafter be from 2 to 4 P. M. and from 7 to 9 P. M.
MINISTERS IN SESSION.
Cortland County Association Met in Cortland To-day.
The Cortland County Ministerial association held a well attended and profitable meeting in the Y. M. C. A. rooms to-day. The sermon in the morning was delivered by Rev. E. J. Lavis of Truxton. This afternoon Rev. Adelbert Chapman of Cortland gave an interesting talk on "Chips from an Old Preacher's Workshop," which was brimful of valuable suggestions to the ministers in attendance. A profitable discussion on "Noted Preachers I Have Heard or Known," was opened by Rev. G. N. McDonald of Preble.
The ministers in attendance were Rev. Messrs. Adelbert Chapman, G. H. Brigham, C. L. Rice, Isaac Stewart, W. H. Pound, J. T. Stone, and J. C. B. Moyer, of Cortland; J. H. Behrens and E. A. Baldwin of Tully; F. H. Dickerson of Varna; L. Heinmiller of Scott; B. Franklin of Fabius, G. N. McDonald and A. C. Smith of Preble, presiding Elder Theron Cooper of Syracuse; W. S. Bull of DeRuyter; J. H. Zartman of Groton; Mr. Greene of Summerhill; F. Fletcher of Virgil; E. H. King and Edson Rogers of Cincinnatus; E. J. Lavis of Truxton; W. S. Warren of Blodgett Mills and S. S. Bradford of Homer.
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| Newspaper Caricature of Nicola Tesla. |
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
CAMPAIGN'S CLOSE TO BE FOLLOWED BY NORMAL CONDITIONS.
Progress of Undertrolley Installation—Early Opening of the Holiday Trade— Nikola Tesla, Electric Inventor, and His Personality.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—[Special.]—Now that the activities of an unusually intense political campaign have been brought to a close the people of this big town will directly have an opportunity to pick up the various threads of general interest which perforce have been lost sight of for several weeks of turbulent struggling for the spoils of office. It is true that the newspapers will not be ready for a few days to abate the abnormal space they have recently been giving over to politics. Those journals which championed the winning candidates must devote a few columns to self exaltation because of the outcome, while those whose candidates were defeated will need to use considerable white paper in explaining their defeat. But neither jollification nor excuses can take very long, and the majority of the newspaper readers, even among those greatly interested in politics, will be much relieved when the aftermath of the campaign has been cleared away, and the nonpolitical news of the day is again allowed to occupy its usual space.
The campaign this year has had a decidedly depressing influence upon many lines of business, almost as serious indeed as is usually the case in a presidential year. But there have been two well defined forms of human activity this fall that have not been affected in the slightest by the stress and strife of the political contest. Neither the laying down of the undertrolleys nor the prosecution of the annual holiday trade has been affected in the least.
Holiday Trade and the Undertrolley.
Hour after hour, day after day and week after week hundreds of men have been busily digging and hammering away at the task of installing the new method of electric propulsion on various of the city's main thoroughfares all through the excitements of the campaign, and now the work is nearly completed. By the date of the average first snowfall hundreds of smoothly, swiftly moving electric cars will be in operation along the north and south avenues that until a short time ago were traversed by jerky, jingling horse cars. Added to the mileage of undertrolley roads previously laid out, it is safe to say that by the time the work now in progress has been completed the greater part of the surface line mileage on Manhattan Island will be operated by this most nearly perfect form of electric traction.
At the same time work on the great plant for squeezing air to a sufficient pressure for the propulsion of cars on the crosstown lines has been progressing just as vigorously as on the undertrolley. And, while compressed air cars may not be placed in regular service as soon as the trolley cars on the avenues, an enormous amount of work has been done in preparation for the abandonment of horses on east and west lines since Roosevelt and Van Wyck were placed in nomination.
With regard to the holiday trade the statement is made on behalf of several of the largest dealers in all sorts of Christmas goods that it began weeks earlier this year than it ever has before, and that the holiday sales have already been as large as they generally are by the middle of November, if not larger. This state of affairs is in direct conformity with the tendency of the Christmas trade to begin earlier each year that has been going on for at least a decade. Unless it is checked, the people of New York may eventually come to prepare for the holidays as early as the magazine editors begin to get their Christmas numbers ready, and this is rarely later than midsummer.
Tesla, the Electrician.
Harking back to electrical matters for a moment, a word about Tesla, the inventor, may be in order. Like the layers of the undertrolley and the fair women who are the chief purchasers of holiday goods, he has been as hard at work as ever through all the political excitement—was, indeed, as devoted to the perfection of his ingenious harnessings of the mystic fluid while the Spanish war was on as at any other period of his life.
This was clearly shown almost two weeks in advance of this election day when one of the electrical papers came out with a somewhat detailed exposition of his scheme for transmitting power over long distances without wire. Compared with this invention wireless telegraphy sinks into something very like insignificance but there is no conceivable reason why both should not prove practicable if either may be accomplished. Tesla has long believed in the possibility of both, and that their practical development will be wrought out before the next century is many years old, as he has told the writer more than once. It may be added that he is actively engaged in developing still more marvelous electrical inventions.
In some respects Nikola Tesla is one of the most remarkable men living in New York today. Tall, olive skinned and attenuated by reason of his never ceasing activities, his large dark eyes flash and glow as he talks in a way that is strangely suggestive of the mysterious form of force to the study of which he has dedicated his life's energies. A native of a small province in southern Europe under the rulership of the Emperor Franz Josef, the inventor has never yet found time thoroughly to master the English tongue, and his speech is peculiar not only for its piquant accent, utterly untransferable to the printed page, but also for the quaint idioms by means of which he indicates his thought to the listener. Yet, despite both these things, his talk is ever entertaining, even when he is discoursing on the most abstruse electrical topics with a person entirely ignorant of electrical principles, for he manages somehow to impart the most difficult facts with a simplicity of diction that makes everything clear and plain.
Wrapped Up In His Calling.
So absorbed in his calling is Nikola Tesla that you can persuade him to talk about subjects other than electrical with the greatest difficulty only, and when he does consent to speak on general topics he finds his memory constantly playing him false as to facts and dates, especially the latter. But whenever he can be induced to relate his reminiscences of boyhood as he lived it in his wild south European home or to tell of the adventures he passed through as a young man on the strange heights that overlook the Adriatic sea, the listener is treated to a series of tales that are singularly entertaining, and there is a conviction that had Tesla not turned his attention to electricity he might have been a narrative writer of exceptional grace and unusual power.
BREVITIES.
—Mr. P. H. Whiting has moved from 71 River-st. to 128 Port Watson-st.
—L. W. Aldridge, the optician, has removed from 29 Lincoln-ave. to 40 Lincoln-ave.
—The monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the rooms to-night at 8 o'clock.
—There is no truth in the report that the Schermerhorn-st. school has been closed on account of a smallpox scare.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Model Clothing Co., Men's suits, page 4; C. F. Brown, Nurses, page 7.
—The choir of St. Mary's church has already begun the rehearsing of Marzo's celebrated first mass for Christmas music.
—George J. Miller, while at work at his residence on Homer-ave. Saturday afternoon, fell from a ladder, severely spraining his right arm,
—The Epworth league of the First M. E. church will hold a parlor meeting Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Mary Oday, 76 Railroad-st.
—The regular monthly tea of the Christian work committee of the Y. M. C. A. will be served by the Women's Auxiliary at the rooms at 6:15 o'clock to-night.
—The regular meeting of Grover Relief corps, No. 96, will occur on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 2:30 P. M. It is hoped that every member will be present, as the inspector will be in attendance.
—A meeting of the local visiting committee to the Cortland county poorhouse will be held Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 2:30 P. M. at the residence of Mrs. L. K. Shankland, 36 Tompkins-st., Cortland.
—For sometime past there have been fourteen receiving care at the hospital. This taxes the accommodations there to the utmost. Two nurses have given up their rooms for patients and are sleeping wherever a vacant corner can be found.
—The "Nancy Hanks'' show and the Ferrer-Phillips Concert Co. which had appointments at the Opera House to-night and Wednesday night respectively have both canceled their dates and neither one will appear here at this time.
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