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| Main Street, Cortland, N. Y., 1899. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, November 22, 1898.
WANTS FEWER POLICEMEN.
PROPOSITION OF TRUSTEE NODECKER OF THIRD WARD.
By Common Consent His Motion to That Effect Was Laid Over Until the Next Meeting of the Board—The Village Brought Into Justice's Court by Norman Thompson—A. C. Walrad Appointed to the Board of Health from the Second Ward.
The regular meeting of the board of village trustees was held last evening in the office of Village Clerk W. C. Crombie, and was somewhat enlivened by a proposition from Trustee Peter Nodecker of the Third ward to reduce the number on Cortland's police force from five to four. This proposition from the Third ward member seemed unexpected to the rest of the board and no one seconded his motion, but by common consent it was laid over until the next meeting, when doubtless the proposition will come up again.
Trustee Nodecker did not hesitate to express the reasons for his motion. In the first place, he thought the force too large for the work it does. He thought the enginehouse would not run away anyway, and that there was no use in keeping officers there to watch it, especially since some of the firemen sleep there every night.
President Stilson could not see which man should be laid off, and gave the impression that he thought there should be no change, inasmuch as the time is near at hand when particular vigilance should be exercised in the watching of stores, etc.
Trustee Nodecker again said that for three months in the summer, when the officers were taking their vacations, the village got along just as well with the four officers as with five at any other time. He thought that the officers were off duty altogether too much now, and the taxpayers ought not to be expected to pay them for such time when not on duty.
Trustee O'Leary said that he believed that there is just as much need of having the full force now as ever.
Trustee Sprague reminded the board of a resolution adopted last spring in reference to this matter, and Trustee White thought that he remembered something of that sort, and asked the clerk to look up the record.
Clerk Crombie found that on April 6, on motion of Trustee White, seconded by Trustee Sprague, the board adopted a resolution to the effect that the police force remain as then constituted, at the pleasure of the village president.
This closed the incident, which it was informally understood would be brought up again at the next meeting.
Superintendent W. T. Smith of the Keator, Wells & Co. works on Elm-st. entered complaint before the board that an overflow of surface water had entered the cellar of the company's plant and was likely to do considerable damage. The street commissioner was directed to investigate and remedy the matter.
Village Collector W. A. Pierce reported that of the total amount of tax to be collected, $45,551.63, he had collected $42,625.45.
Mrs. Frederick Knight presented a claim of $50 for a maple tree which stood at the corner of Main-st. and Frederick-ave., and was cut down when the new pavement was laid. Paving Engineer Allen said that when the plans for the new pavement were made, it was on the theory that Frederick-ave. was an accepted street, and so the plans provided for a curb and approach for that street, in which case the tree would have to come out, and so it was ordered cut, but as it developed the cutting of the tree was not strictly necessary, the street not being an accepted street. No action was taken on the claim.
The following bills were allowed:
John Garrity, hauling truck, $23.00
Jas. F. Costello, salary, 25.00
C. L. Hicks, labor, 3.00
Street commissioner's payroll, $241.00
Police force payroll, 126.00
Collector Pierce reported further that a lady on Elm-st. had paid all of her taxes excepting the sidewalk tax, and this she proposed to contest. The village built a sidewalk for her, and assessed it in her taxes. Collector Pierce was referred to Village Attorneys Kellogg & Van Hoesen.
A communication from the board of sewer commissioners recommended that the contract for building the sewer extension on Graham-ave., 430 feet in length be awarded to L. A. Coates at 35 cents per foot. The recommendation was adopted.
President Stilson reported a summons which had been served on him in an action brought by Norman Thompson against the village, returnable before Justice of the Peace E. C. Parker at the courthouse Friday at 10 A. M. Mr. Thompson seeks to recover for damages claimed to have been done his garden produce on Elm-st. by reason of overflow of surface water. The matter was referred to Kellogg & Van Hoesen, the village attorneys.
On motion of Trustee White of the Second ward, A. C. Walrad was appointed to the board of health from that ward to succeed George Latimer, deceased.
The board adjourned to Dec. 5.
WHERE IS LEON BALLARD?
Left Home Yesterday Morning, Not Returned This Afternoon.
Leon Ballard, the 7-year-old son of Dwight Ballard who resides at 50 Groton-ave., left home yesterday morning for school and had not returned at 2:30 this afternoon when a reporter for The STANDARD called at the house.
Leon is a pupil in Mrs. Benedict's room at the Schermerhorn-st. school, and was in his usual place yesterday forenoon until 10 o'clock when he was excused. From there he went to the residence of H. T. Bushnell on Arthur-ave and asked for something to eat. Mrs. Bushnell gave him something and he made the remark that he was not going home to dinner. That is the last trace of him. By his not returning last night his parents became quite alarmed and instituted a search for him, but up to the hour stated above their efforts to locate him had been fruitless. The police were notified of the lad's disappearance last night.
SICK MAN ESCAPED.
WANDERED ALL NIGHT IN THE COLD WITHOUT CLOTHING.
Thomas Foley, an Employee of the Warren-Scharff Paving Co. Ill With Typhoid Fever, Eluded His Nurse, Left the House and Walked Two Miles Wearing Only His Nightshirt—Ten Men Searched All Night for Him.
Thomas Foley has for the past nine years been one of the most efficient employees of the Warren-Scharff Paving Co. He understands every branch of the business. He has worked for the company summers and been retired on half pay during the winters when work was dull. Two weeks ago while employed on the Cortland job he was taken ill with typhoid fever. He has since been cared for at his boarding place, Mr. Fuller's on Winter-st. For several days he has been delirious. Yesterday afternoon he became possessed of the idea that he had had a fight and that the police were after him and that he must elude them, as if he should be captured it would mean from two to six years in prison for him. He talked about it continually.
Last night at 11:45 o'clock his nurse, Arthur Seaman, had occasion to leave the sick room on an errand. Mr. Foley was apparently asleep. Mr. Seaman was gone not to exceed five minutes. When he returned the patient was gone. The room was on the first floor and a window was up half way, but the blinds were tightly closed. Mr. Seaman knew, however, that he must have gone through that window. No clothing was gone and it was apparent that the sick man had on nothing but his nightshirt. Mr. Seaman aroused some of the men in the house and some of the neighbors to join in a search. Some one came down town and notified the four policemen. In all there were ten men looking for the escaped one. They hunted all night long, but to no purpose.
At 5 o'clock this morning Mr. S. E. Curtis, who lives two miles west of Cortland on the Groton road, was awakened by a knocking at his door. His son Harry came down stairs at about the same time, having heard the knocking, and they went to the door. There stood a man clad only in his nightshirt. He was talking away in a rambling sort of way seeming to be hard at work upon some job, and he coughed frequently. They spoke to him and he walked away up the street. Mr. Curtis and his son hurried after him, but he had already disappeared in the darkness. They went back for a lantern, and while lighting it the man was again heard at the door. This time they secured him and brought him inside. He was chilled clear through. He made no resistance, but continued to talk, asking one to hand him a hammer, and telling another to put that nail keg here and another to hurry up with those stones. They placed him by the fire and after getting some clothing upon him got his feet into hot water and finally into some warm stockings.
A messenger went up for the next neighbors, Messrs. A. H. Sanders and E. H. Scott. At about 8 o'clock Messrs. Curtis, Sanders and Scott brought the man to Cortland. He could give no account of himself and they went first to police headquarters. No one was there and so they went down to the jail. Sheriff Brainard received the man and got him to bed in one of the upper cells of the jail and sent for Dr. Sornberger.
The paving company knew that their man was missing, and as soon as they heard of his return and where he was, gave orders to have him taken back to his boarding place and to have two nurses employed, one to relieve the other, so that he might not be left alone at all. They also directed that a physician should give him the best of care and that all bills be sent to them each Saturday night and they would all be paid at once.
Dr. Sornberger is not prepared to speak with confidence of the outcome of this case. He said the man went through enough to kill a well man, and for a man seriously ill with typhoid fever it was simply worse.
FOR CORTLAND'S NEEDY ONES.
The King's Daughters Can Use All Cast Off Clothing.
As the cold weather comes on the King's Daughters are more busy than ever in supplying the wants of the needy ones who are to be found right in our midst. A STANDARD man yesterday called upon Mrs. Lyman Jones, the superintendent of the local charity work, at her home, 50 North Main-st. and had a little talk with her upon the subject of her work.
Mrs. Jones is right in touch with the most of the worthy needy ones of the place. She never bestows money, food or garments without looking up the case and knowing that it is a worthy one. She is a difficult woman to impose upon and the cases are probably very rare indeed where any one has secured help from her under false pretenses. But so wide is her information as regards all the applicants who come to her that she has a place for everything that comes into her hands where it can do good. While the STANDARD man was there yesterday Mrs. Jones had four different callers, all of whom were there to secure clothing.
Mrs. Jones says that because of the large amount of work upon the paving here in Cortland this fall nearly every one who wished work has secured it, and the result is there is scarcely any demand for food, except among families where there is sickness. Men have earned enough to supply their tables. But this is not true of clothing. There is a great need of clothing, especially for children, though it is acceptable for both old and young. Under clothing and bedding are especially needful. Mrs. Jones noted a number of pitiful cases (the names being always omitted) where families were actually suffering from the cold. She spoke of a case where there is illness and where a lady had only three small pieces of sheets to supply four beds, with no chance of anything for a change. Sheets are needed, parts of sheets too—soft cloths—all can be used. Mrs. Jones said she knew of eight families sleeping without sheets. She spoke of one family where an old piece of carpet had to be utilized for a bedquilt, and she knew of other families where they had to go without bedquilts and had not even a carpet for a substitute.
Mrs. Jones says a great change has come over some of the people who now receive local aid. Formerly they were almost helpless unless the garments were in fairly good repair. Now they have learned to patch and remake. One gentleman in Cortland furnishes to Mrs. Jones all the needles she requires and when she gives out a garment that is in need of stitches she gives with it needle and thread, and perhaps patches and tells the recipient how to go to work, and some of the results are surprising. Little children come around, sent by their mothers, to show Mrs. Jones how well the cut down and made over garments look. There is a need of shoes—large and small—for adults and children. They can be used in all stages of wear.
Mrs. Jones has a good word for the Raines law. She cited one case where a husband and father earning good wages drank it all up and his family was in hunger and rags. The wife came to Mrs. Jones for aid and the facts came out. Mrs. Jones gave her advice rather than aid and the wife served formal notices on several saloonkeepers where her husband got his liquor that her husband was a drunkard, and that if any one of them furnished him with a single drop of liquor and she could prove it, that man would surely have his tax certificate revoked under the law. And that stopped the drink business. Not one of them dared sell to this man, and now his money comes home to his family. Having gone without drink for a while he does not crave it so much as formerly, and now the family does not need public aid.
Mrs. Jones said that if any one had a desire to furnish any material for a good Thanksgiving dinner she would guarantee to see that it went to a place where it would be thankfully received and where they would not otherwise have such a dinner.
Mrs. Jones concluded by saying that carpet bugs were a great blessing. The STANDARD man replied that they had never been so considered at his home or at any place with which he was acquainted. They are, persisted Mrs. Jones, they are a blessing indeed. They make people pullover their old clothes, ransack their clothespresses and bureau drawers, and when they find something that has attracted the bugs or seems likely to do so; the people always give those things away and they do some one some good at once. Otherwise they would be hoarded up for a long time. Mrs. Jones advised every one to make an immediate search for carpet bugs.
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| William Rufus Day, United States Commissioner. |
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| Signing Treaty of Paris. |
AN ULTIMATUM GlVEN.
Our Terms of Peace Made Known to Spain.
WILLING TO PAY SPAIN $20,000,000.
The Americans Declare the United States Must Have the Entire Philippine Archipelago—Spain Given One Week to Make a Reply to the Demands.
PARIS, Nov. 22.—The American peace commissioners have delivered the following as their reply to the Spanish memorandum and the final and irreducible terms which the United States will accept:
The proposal of arbitration and the Spanish interpretations of the third article of the protocol are rejected, because they would be a virtual surrender of the functions of the peace commission.
The Americans declared the United States must have the entire Philippine archipelago, and for a treaty cession of the islands the Americans tendered to Spain $20,000,000.
The United States further declares a policy of "open door" in the Philippines and also the mutual resignation of all public and private claims between Spain and the United States since the beginning of the Cuban insurrection. This is intended to contemplate each government will settle the claims of its own citizens against the other country and the re-establishment of the ante-bellum treaties.
The foregoing is within the scope of the protocol. The United States adds an offer to treat for the purchase of one of the Caroline islands and the cable stations at various points. America also insists upon the religious liberty of the Carolines under the treaty of 1866. Spain is given until Nov. 28 to answer.
For the first time in the course of the peace negotiations, the Spanish and American commissioners left the meeting simultaneously. Both sides appeared to be satisfied with what had been done.
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| Lord Salisbury. |
AMERICA GENEROUS.
Opinions of the London Papers on Our Peace Proposal.
LONDON, Nov. 23.—The morning papers concede the generosity of the offers of the United States peace commissioners and express the opinion that Spain would be foolish to reject them. They express universal gratification at the announcement of an "open door" policy in the Philippines.
The Daily Mail calls the offer of $20,000,000 as indemnity "a surprising act of generosity.''
The papers generally take it for granted that the "open door" will be adopted in the West Indies also.
The Daily News says: "The United States have now become an Asiatic power, and Lord Salisbury clearly had reason to predict that the expansion of the United States would give Great Britain a valuable ally in the China seas."
Thanksgiving Day Attractions.
J. E. Toole and his strong company will be the Thanksgiving day afternoon and evening attraction at the Cortland Opera House. "Rip Van Winkle" will be played at a matinee and "Killarney and the Rhine" in the evening. Press notices follow:
Music hall was well filled again last evening at the third performance of "Rip Van Winkle" by J. E. Toole's company. The opinion prevails among those who have seen Mr. Toole in the character of Rip, that if Jefferson can be forgotten during the Toole performance, the latter's delineation is equal to that given by Jefferson. People have so long associated the two—that is, Jefferson and Rip—that they imagine no one but he can give a satisfactory interpretation. Surround Toole with equally elaborate scenic accessories such as are used by Jefferson, add three or four to the cast, and give Toole a couple of weeks' steady playing of the part, and we believe he would equal Jefferson. He certainly gives an artistic portrayal of the Catskill vagabond, and that it is appreciated is shown in the liberal attendance.—Times, Wilkes Barre, Pa.
"Killarney and the Rhine,"a title which suggests music and song, and shillelaghs and wooden shoes, is a play of real merit. The plot is good, the characters are given employment, and there is yet ample opportunity for the songs and dances incident to an Irish and German entertainment. Mr. Toole sings like J. K. Emmet. He even looks like Emmet looked fifteen years ago. Miss De Woolf is a pleasing actress and a charming singer, one of the kind rarely seen in Sedelia. There is a naturalness in her every word, and she affects no hysterical emotion. John E. Lane, Fred Jerome and Richard Anderson are all men of ability and all succeeded last night in pleasing the audience. There is that subtle difference between the play of these people and the playing of some others who have been here which marks the line between art and artificial.—Times, Memphis.
BREVITIES.
—The Fortnightly club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Mrs. H. L. Smith's, 53 Prospect-st.
—The Ladles' Literary club will meet to-morrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with Miss Martha Roe, 77 Railroad-st.
—The next meeting of Grover post, No. 98, G. A. R., will be held on Tuesday evening, Nov. 29, instead of to-night as mentioned in The STANDARD yesterday. The annual inspection will take place at that time.
—The Buffalo Express on Sunday had a large halftone illustration of the football team of the University of Buffalo. One of the most prominent members in the group is Herbert W. Knight, formerly of Cortland, but now a student in that university.
—New display advertisements to-day are—McCarthy & Sons, Holiday furniture, page 4; Baker & Angell, Jenness Miller shoes, page 7; Opera House, Vogel's Minstrels, page 5; Bingham Bros. & Miller, Correct clothing, page 8; Palmer Bros., More bargains, page 8; Model Clothing Co., Let's be thankful, page 4.
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