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| John Raines. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, December 17, 1898.
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE.
THE OCCUPATIONS OF ITS MEMBERS POINTED OUT.
Lawyers Predominate—Less Farmers Than Usual—Real Estate and Insurance Agents on the Increase—Dr. Johnson of this District One of the Two Physicians in the Senate.
ALBANY, Dec. 17, (Special.)—Though the official count and soldier vote are necessary to decide in a few cases, the bulk of the membership in the next legislature is settled and it is interesting to note what sort of men will compose it. As usual, in both houses lawyers are in predominance, but the farmers are not so many this year. In the senate there are twenty lawyers, though one of them, Senator Coggeshall, is down as a lawyer and farmer, and another, Senator Raines, of Raines' law fame, combines that of lawyer with that of insurance. There are three farmers in the senate, James Norton of Glen Cove, who comes in this year for the first time; Henry S. Ambler of Chatham, another new member, and Senator Coggeshall. There are two physicians, Frank M. Boyce of East Schodack, who will come to the senate for the first time, and William E. Johnson of Waverly, who served in the senate during '96, '97 and '98. There will be eight merchants in the senate, five real estate men, two bankers and one miller, in the person of Charles T. Willis of Tyrone who served in the assembly in '91. The official count and soldier vote is necessary to decide between George Hope Mairs, Republican, and William J. Graney, Democrat, in the Twenty-second district and in the Forty-seventh district between Nathaniel Willis Norton, Republican, and William Fleming Mackey, Democrat. As it now stands the senate has twenty-seven Republicans and twenty-one Democrats with two doubtful.
In the assembly the lawyers number forty-one and the farmers only sixteen or seventeen. Seneca county sends a dentist in the person of Moses C. Gould and Warren county a tobacconist. The lone journalist of the assembly of 1898 will not be in that of next year, but there will be two editors and publishers in the persons of J. N. Hallock of Suffolk, and Clarence A. Sprague of Sullivan county. James K. Apgar, who was speaker's clerk for several years to General James W. Husted and afterwards was clerk to Lieutenant Governor Saxton, will represent the Third Westchester county district, gives his occupation as that of secretary. John Mulligan, whose election from the First Westchester district depends on the official count and soldiers' vote, describes his occupation as grand clerk of the K. of H., and Thomas D. Lewis of the First Oswego district describes himself as "retired." Edward B. Sabine of the Third Onondaga district is a clothing cutter, the only one in the legislature, and George W. Doughty of the Third Queens is the only oyster planter. The assembly has a miller in the person of Benjamin B. Babcock of Brasher Falls, who combines that occupation with those of coal dealer and electrician. William Button of the Second Rensselaer district combines the business of livery and insurance. Robert A. Snyder of Ulster is a bank and steamboat president and James A. Rierdon of the Second New York is a silk hatter.
One commercial traveler will sit in the assembly, Morgan Bryan of the First district of Jefferson county. The business of hotel and real estate is that which occupies the attention of Orlando Beede of Essex, and Assemblyman Eddie Bronnan of Brooklyn will come back as real estate agent and lawyer. John J. O'Connor is occupied with real estate and printing, and Addison L. Clark of Lewis county with farming and insurance. S. Fred Nixon of Chautauqua is both farmer and manufacturer. There is a plough manufacturer from the First district of Cayuga and a land and lumber business man, Henry M. Sage of the Fourth Albany district, and Julius Harburger of the Tenth New York district writes "collections" after his name. A. T. Fancher of Cattaraugus is an oil producer and farmer; William A. Tripp of Dutchess is a freighting and boat merchant; William K. Sanford of Kings, is superintendent of the Townsend sarsaparila; M. J. King of the Sixth district of Erie county is secretary of the Knights of St. John; another member from Erie county, the Third district, Anthony Barrett, is assistant yard master of the Erie railroad. Henry A. Ball of Kings is an iron molder and Joseph Wingfield is the solitary bookkeeper in the house.
There will be a plasterer in the person of John J. O'Connell of the Twenty-sixth New York district and a bricklayer from the Twenty-third, John J. Eagan. Louis Meister of New York is a jeweler; James B. McEvan a manager and Adrian H. Dean a landlord. In the same line is also Charles D. Wissell as a hotel proprietor. Two grocers were re-elected from Rensselaer county in the persons of Benjamin O. Brewster and Michael Russell. Charles J. Kullman of Richmond does not sign himself as of any occupation, but he is a former justice of the peace. The first drayman to appear in the assembly, for some years at any rate, is William J. Sullivan of the First Oneida district. Assemblyman Maher was a hackman before he came to the assembly, but he is now a clerk. Mr. Sullivan defeated Assemblyman Williams who was the Republican candidate for re-election.
"Boston Tim" Sullivan of the Sixth New York district, nephew of "'Dry Dollar" Sullivan, comes back as a law student as does also Patrick Trainor of the Thirteenth district. John B. Fitzgerald who has served four terms from the Twenty-fourth New York district is an ice dealer and Charles H. Cotton of the Fourth Kings district is a stationer. Colonel Patrick H. Roche is down as a dealer in real estate, Francis P. Gallagher is a general contractor. There are several other contractors and builders in the new assembly and also a decorator in the person of Charles Juengst, the Democratic member from the Fifteenth Kings. John T. Smith of Dutchess is the only member exhibiting the combination of broker and drygoods merchant. George J. Grossman of the Thirty-fifth New York district gives his occupation as that of a broker. There are not so many clerks and salesmen as there have been in other years, but real estate and insurance agents have increased in numbers. Produce, coal and grain dealers appear in about their usual numbers.
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COST OF TWO VOTES.
Cortland County's Soldier Votes May Cause an Expense of $70 Each.
Few people realize what will be the expense of securing, casting, returning and canvassing the votes of Cortland county's two soldier boys which were received at the county clerk's office Monday morning. The votes are those of John C. Dormody of Cortland and Charles E. Wilber of Cuyler. In the first place, the boards of inspectors of election in the town of Cuyler and in district No. 2 of the town of Cortlandville are to be convened next Tuesday at 10 o'clock for the purpose of counting these ballots, Surely not a very arduous task. A day's work will be charged for by these eight inspectors, an expense of $16. The fee for the return of the vote from Cuyler to the county clerk's office is $5. No fee is allowable for a return made from any election district in Cortlandville as the office of the county clerk is located in the same town. The mileage allowed for the filing of the returns will probably be $1.52. Then on Dec. 22 the board of supervisors as a board of county canvassers will meet to canvass these two votes. The fees of the fifteen supervisors will be $4 each, or $60, and in case mileage each way is charged this item will amount to $30.24. This makes a total of $112.76, or $56.38 per vote. But in this estimate no account is taken of the fees of the county clerk, whose duties are about as manifold as for the general election, and whose fees will probably amount to enough to make the total expense $140, or $70 for each of the two votes cast.
CIVIL SERVICE WORK.
Resolutions Adopted by the National Association Convention.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 17.—The National Civil Service Reform association, in convention here discussed the report of the committee on resolutions, which charged the present national administration with a violation of the spirit if not the letter of the civil service rules.
The resolution, as finally adopted, congratulates the lovers of good government on "the failure of the recent attack in congress upon the merit system"; assert that the convention has heard with grave concern the report that the president of the United States intends to withdraw from civil service rules a large number of positions under the government and expresses the belief that such action is contrary to the interests of the public service; cites a number of instances of alleged departure from civil service rules within the past year; charges that the administration has failed to redeem its promise to "extend the rule wherever possible," and in conclusion asserts that the rule of the newly acquired dependencies will result in disaster and disgrace, if conducted on the plans of the spoils politicians.
The following additional officers were elected after which the convention adjourned for luncheon at the Arundel club, which is composed of the advanced thinkers among the women of Baltimore:
President, Carl Schurz; vice presidents, Charles Francis Adams of Boston, Henry Hitchcock of St. Louis, Augustus MacDonough of New York, H. C. Lea of Philadelphia, Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago, Bishop H. C. Potter of New York, Bishop P. H. Ryan of Philadelphia, William Potts of New York.
BASE BALL DEAL.
Brooklyn and Baltimore Clubs Have Amalgamated—Other Changes.
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—That something of a startling nature was to be sprung during the meeting of the National Base Ball league, which has been in session for the last four days at the Fifth Avenue hotel, was an open secret, and when the announcement was made that the Brooklyn and Baltimore clubs had amalgamated no one was surprised.
When the matter was announced as a certainty it was generally regarded as a great boom for base ball in Greater New York, and by some it was considered the forerunner of many changes which will take place in the near future. As a business venture the deal is regarded as a promising one financially for both clubs. Neither has been making money of late. On the contrary they have been losing. By the terms of the amalgamation the respective clubs shall pool all gains and losses. Those who figure a profit on the Brooklyn club say that this will more than counterbalance the Baltimore losses next October.
The players who are spoken of as being likely to be transferred from Baltimore to Brooklyn are: Kelly, Keeler, Jennings, McGann, Demontreville, Corbett, Maul and McJames. Manager Ned Hanlon will have charge of the Brooklyn aggregation and William Barnie is talked of as his successor in Baltimore.
Many persons who claim to have inside information are of the opinion that there will be two leagues of eight clubs each, under the governing hand of the National league by next season. They say the 12-club schedule has been found to be unwieldy, that a 10-club circuit would prove quite as difficult a proposition, and that eight of the leading clubs should be brought together in a major league and the four remaining should form the nucleus of a minor body.
The Philadelphia club bought Pitcher Frazer from the Louisville club, but the price was not given out.
Buck Ewing has made a money offer, in addition to some players for Pitcher Rusie, but Manager John R. Day will confer with President Freedman before he gives Ewing a definite answer to the proposition.
Messrs. Hart and Rogers were appointed as a committee on amendments to the constitution and they are to report to the delegates at the next schedule meeting.
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| Calvin Stewart Brice. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Calvin S. Brice.
Calvin S Brice, who died in New York City Thursday, was a second Jay Gould. He was so poor that he had to pawn his watch when he went on his wedding journey, but he died worth many millions. He got his money by constructing and reorganizing railroads and by the manipulation of the stock market. After he had made a fortune, he went into politics. Here he and Gould differed. Gould was a Republican in Republican cities and a Democrat in Democratic cities; a Republican in Republican years, and a Democrat in Democratic years; but Brice was a Democrat always and everywhere, and went into politics, not to make money or to control legislation, but to gratify personal ambitions—to gain distinction for himself and social position for his family. But the methods of the two men were the same. They accomplished their purposes in politics by the lavish expenditure of money; they got legislatures as they got railroads—by purchase.
Mr. Brice was born in Denmark, Ohio, September 17, 1845. In 1861, when only 15 years old he left school and joined the army, serving in the Virginia campaigns of 1861-62. Then he returned to Miami University, graduating in 1863. A year later he organized Company E of the One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio Infantry and went with his regiment to join the Twenty-third army corps in Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas. He was promoted to be major for bravery on the field of battle and was mustered out with that rank. Then he went to the law school of Michigan university and graduated in 1866. He began the practice of his profession at Cincinnati, devoting his attention to corporation law. He did not get on well; clients were not numerous and his resources were small. In despair, he applied to Governor Foster for a political position. That eminently practical politician declined, saying: "Why, Brice, you are a Democrat; how can I appoint yon when there are hundreds of Republicans standing around here looking for jobs?" But Governor Foster had some money which he wanted to invest; he put it into the hands of Mr. Brice, and told him to go to New York and purchase certain securities, and he gave the most explicit instructions. The young man went to New York, investigated the situation for himself and violated Foster's instructions from beginning to end; then telegraphed a brief statement of what he had done. To Governor Foster's angry demand for an explanation, Mr. Brice, as the story runs, replied: "I violated your orders because I found I could make forty thousand dollars for you." There was an illustration here of Brice's characteristics; he was nervy, daring, self confident, and in money matters extraordinarily keen and successful. His transaction with Governor Foster was the turning point of his career. He began to participate in the reorganization and construction of railroads; he was elected a director in one corporation after another; in 1887 he was chosen president of the Lake Erie and Western, and thereafter his wealth increased with wonderful rapidity. Three years ago his fortune was estimated at $20,000,000; his wife had $50,000 a year for spending money; each of his children had $10,000 a year and he maintained palatial residences in three cities and traveled about the country in special trains.
In 1876, 1980 and 1881 Mr. Brice was on the Democratic electoral ticket, but in those years be did not take an active interest in politics. Later on, he determined to be a candidate for senator of the United States. In the campaigns of 1888 and 1889 he expended an enormous amount of money in Ohio, and canvassed the state from end to end, over and over again. The result was the election of a Democratic legislature and in January, 1890, Mr. Brice was elected to the Federal senate for the six-year term beginning March 4, 1891. The Fifty-second congress did not assemble till December of that year and as the Republicans in the elections of the previous November had won control of the legislature of Ohio it was proposed to contest the right of Mr. Brice to a seat in the senate on the ground that at the time of his election he was not a resident of the state of Ohio. It was discovered that Mr. Brice and all the members of his family had been enumerated and recorded in 1890 as residents of New York; and it was known that for years Mr. Brice had evaded the payment of personal taxes in Ohio by claiming that he was a resident of the metropolis. But although suit was brought against Mr. Brice for the collection of back taxes, no action was taken in the senate and he served his term. As a senator he was active in behalf of all corporate interests; he was a member of the "combine" that held up the Wilson tariff bill; he was in daily consultation with the confidential agents of the Sugar trust, and it was at his house that Havemeyer met certain Democratic senators and "conferred" with them—possibly to their financial advantage and certainty, as events proved, very much to the advantage of the trust itself. Subsequently, in the Democratic convention in Ohio in 1894, which Mr. Brice attended, a delegate advocated the nomination of a candidate for the senate, to be supported by Democratic members of the legislature, and in urging the adoption of his plan made a furious attack on Mr. Brice, saying:
What one of you looks upon the United States senate as displaying the best intelligence and manifesting the greatest patriotism? Nobody. When a senator of the United States is to be elected the question is no longer, "What is his worth, what are his talents, what service has he done the states?" but "How much is he worth?"
You all know that the senate of the United States has become a mere rich man's club. It is the renting place of trusts, understandings, and combines to defeat the rights of the people. You know, all of you know, that in the senate of the United States the Sugar trust has raised its hydrahead and in the name of the community of trusts has seized the national democracy by the throat and compelled it to stand and deliver.
Mr. Brice had the delegates, and the resolution was defeated, but this attack seriously weakened him before the people and later on the Republicans had little difficulty in electing one of their number to succeed him in the senate.
The Lehigh To Enter Scranton.
On January 1, 1809, the Lehigh Valley Railroad company will enter Scranton by getting control of the Delaware and Hudson road between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. This is stated, on the authority of Valley road officials. Recently the Valley company suffered options to expire on property which it contemplated purchasing for depot purposes. A route has been surveyed by way of Pittston, Austin Heights and Taylor through West Scranton, with its terminal in the vicinity of Dockash place. The arrangement which the Delaware and Hudson company effected with the Erie when it was decided to abandon the gravity road and the canal made the road between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre superfluous as far as coal traffic is concerned, and the Lehigh Valley company realizing this, offered to take this portion of the road off the Delaware and Hudson company's hands and the offer was accepted. The Delaware and Hudson company has no coal breakers between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. What coal it mines in Wilkes-Barre and Plymouth can be sent, and at all events most of it will be, over the Erie and Wyoming road, under the arrangements with the Erie, whereby the Delaware and Hudson is to deliver its coal to the Erie at the most convenient connecting point.—Port Jervis Gazette.
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| The Kremlin Hotel, Court Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
Sunday Dinner at the Kremlin.
The following is the menu for Sunday dinner to-morrow at 1 o'clock at The Kremlin:
Died in Iowa.
Mrs. Eva Champlin, wife of Herbert R. Champlin, died of heart disease at her home in Smithland, Ia., on Friday, Dec. 2, at the age of 34 years and 11 months. Mr. Champlin spent his boyhood days in Marathon and Homer, and is the only son of Ransom Champlin, deceased, formerly of Pitcher, N. Y.
BREVITIES.
—Taxes are now payable at the Second National bank at 1 per cent. The last day is Jan. 15.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Stowell, Everything Goes, page 7: McGraw & Osgood, Nice Shoes, page 5.
—The Cortland Political Equality club will meet with Mrs. M. H. Yale, 40 Prospect-st., Monday, Dec. 19, at 3 P. M. All ladies invited.
—Arrangements are being made to light the auditorium of the Presbyterian church by electricity. It is hoped that the new apparatus will be ready for use by Christmas day.
—The Misses Dillon entertained informally at their home on Pendleton-st. last evening in honor of their guests, Miss Henrietta Mackinney of Syracuse and Miss Aria Garrison of Tully.
—A slight error crept into the table yesterday of Main-st. paving assessments. The number of feet frontage for which J. B. Kellogg is assessed $198.97 is 47 instead of 470.8 as appeared.
—A movement is on foot for the organization of an indoors baseball team in Cortland to play teams from nearby cities and towns. It is probable that the armory building will be used. The team will consist of State league players wintering in Cortland, and also some local players.
—A large audience enjoyed a very pleasant evening last night at Normal hall with Mr. Hoyt L. Conary, "the funny man." His stories that were supposed to have been related around the stove in a country store were told in a most amusing manner and his personations were very perfect indeed.
—If the proposed plans of a great ship canal though central New York from Lake Ontario to the Hudson are adopted, Sylvan Beach will be wiped off the map. It would be necessary to raise the lake several feet, overflowing the present site of the village and flooding a vast amount of country besides.
—The Lehigh Valley R. R. has again put out a fine calendar. It is ornamented by a handsome cut of the popular Black Diamond express, and also shows a map of the whole Lehigh system, which has come to be a perfect network of tracks through eastern Pennsylvania and central New York.
Little York.
LITTLE YORK, Dec. 15.—Mrs. John S. Gillette of East Scott spent the fore part of this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Perkins.
Mrs. Will Isbell who has been spending the past two weeks in this place has returned to her home.
F. N. Salisbury and T. Luker went to Scott Tuesday looking up cabbage. They are caring again at this station, the price being from $5 to $6.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Clink of Tully called on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Wilcox, recently.
Lester Conine of Tully Center is to work for Bert Gates for the winter.
The ice season is at hand with prospects of a good harvest, it being from 5 to 6 inches in thickness.
W. W. Briggs and daughter Libbie went to East Homer Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Thomas Gushing.
Mr. Clark Pickens who was ill at our last writing is better so that he is at work again.
Miss Jeanie Barber is on Brake hill with her sister Mrs. Chas. Stoker.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Babcock of Scott spent Wednesday at B. J. Salisbury's.
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