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| Hotel Brunswick, Cortland, N. Y. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, June 16, 1899.
TWO EXCISE ARRESTS.
ALLEGATIONS OF INFRINGEMENT OF THE LIQUOR TAX LAW.
William Riley Held for the Grand Jury— Complaint of Mrs. Albert Totman—Irving Carpenter Lodges Information for the Arrest of Michael Nix, Whose Examination Has Been in Progress To-day.
William Riley, a young man employed at Hotel Brunswick, was arrested by Chief of Police Parker yesterday afternoon on a warrant issued by Police Justice Davis upon complaint of Mrs. Eliza Totman, wife of Albert Totman, of 120 Main-st., charging him with "selling and trafficking in liquors without having lawfully obtained a liquor tax certificate and in a town in which a liquor tax certificate is prohibited by law in a quantity less than five gallons in violation of chapter 812 of the laws of 1897 and amendments thereto."
Mrs. Totman in her affidavit and complaint says that on or about May 20, 1899, she met her husband on the corner of Main and Court-sts. and noticed that he was somewhat under the influence of liquor. She asked him to buy her some liquor and they went to the Hotel Brunswick, entered the side door and took seats at a table where they were waited upon by Wm. Riley, said to be employed at the hotel. Mrs. Totman claims that she called for whiskey and that Riley said that he could not serve it in that room, but that they would have to go into a side room in order to get it. She says he went out of the room, and came back and said the side rooms were all full. Mrs. Totman claims that she then said she wished to get some in a bottle; Riley replied that he would see, and deponent's husband got up from the table, and followed him out towards the bar. In a short space of time, she says Mr. Totman, Riley and one Dick Duell came out, and deponent saw Duell hand a bottle of whiskey to her husband, who immediately turned around and brought it to deponent. Deponent's husband informed her that he had handed Riley 25 cents in payment for the whiskey so purchased. Mrs. Totman further alleges that she is familiar with the taste and smell of whiskey and that the article purchased in the half pint bottle was whiskey.
Albert Totman, husband of the complainant, alleges in his affidavit that when he went back toward the bar he handed the bottle to Dick Duell, also a quarter of a dollar; that Duell handed the bottle and money to Riley, and that Riley went back in behind the bar and came out with the bottle filled and handed the bottle to Duell who banded it to him, Totman, who tasted and smelled its contents and called it whiskey.
Riley was arraigned before the police justice last night, and he pleaded not guilty to the charge. He waived an examination and was held in $1,000 bail for appearance before the next grand jury, B. F. Taylor going upon his bond.
Upon complaint of Irving Carpenter, Michael Nix of the East Cortland House was arrested last night by Chief Parker upon the charge of violating the excise law.
In police court this morning he pleaded not guilty and demanded an examination which was granted and proceeded with. B. T. Wright appeared for The People and T. E. Courtney for the defendant.
Carpenter, the complainant, was first sworn. He testified that on May 7 last he made three purchases at Nix's place. Soon after 9 o'clock in the morning he claimed to have purchased a quart of lager beer for 10 cents, and took it home in a pail; that at 11 o'clock he paid 5 cents for a drink of ale, and that in the evening he bought two quarts of ale, paying 20 cents for it, and that all three purchases were made from the defendant in the barroom.
Mrs. Carpenter, the wife of the complainant, testified that she tasted the contents of the pail her husband brought home, and judged it to be beer.
The complainant in the case gave in his testimony the names of several persons he claimed to have seen at Nix's place May 7 when he was there, among them David Morris, Orville Carpenter, James Costello, John Garvey, Eugene Harrington, Thos. Costello.
With the conclusion of Mrs. Carpenter's evidence, the prosecution rested and adjournment was taken until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when the evidence for the defendant began with the testimony of David Morris, who boards at the East Cortland House, and who testified that he was away from there all day May 7, was at Truxton at James Burroughs' and Thos. Smith's in company with Lenox Ellis. He did not see the defendant Nix sell Carpenter any beer on the day in question. The faucet for drawing beer had been removed the Saturday before May 1, and had not been in place since, but he had seen it once in the gun cupboard. In answer to a question from the court, he said he fixed the date of his Truxton visit as on the Sunday following the opening of the trout fishing season (April 15) and also stated in answer to Mr. Courtney's question that he fixed it as the Sunday after liquor selling was stopped (May 1.)
Orville Carpenter, brother of the complainant, swore that he did not see Nix sell his brother any beer on May 7. James and Thomas Costello each testified in the same way.
Owing to the failure to get service upon some additional witnesses for whom subpoenas have been issued, the examination was at 3:30 adjourned until Wednesday, June 21, at 10 A. M.
CENTRAL SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT.
Program of Exercises and List of Graduates—Class Song.
The commencement exercises of the Central school will occur at the Cortland Opera House this evening at 8 o'clock. The especial feature of the program will be the address by the Hon. Danforth E. Ainsworth of Albany, deputy superintendent of public instruction. The program will be as follows:
Orchestra—Selection from a Runaway Girl.
Invocation—Rev. W. J. Howell.
Orchestra—Waltz—The Fortune Teller, Herbert.
Chorus—The Song of the Vikings.
Orchestra—Selection—Idol's Eye, Herbert.
Address, Hon. D. E. Ainsworth, Dep. State Supt. Public Instruction.
Orchestra, March—The Merry American, Wheeler.
Presentation of Diplomas.
Class Song.
Benediction —Rev. W. J. Howell.
The list of graduates is as follows: Sarah Frances Baldwin, Jessie Louise Jones, Mabelle May Ryan, Mabel Ingram Rynders, L. Ruby Rockwell, Amy Smith, Maybrie Elizabeth Tyler, William Niver Brown, Thomas Street Clark, Harry Britian French, Patrick Joseph Garrity, Frank McClure Geer, Max Smith Higgins, Claude G. Ryan, A. T. Smith.
The class motto is "From Possibility to Reality," and the words of the class song, which were written by Miss L. Ruby Rockwell, are as follows:
Through the years that now have faded
Into memories pure and sweet,
Side by side we've toiled together
That success our lives might meet.
Many slopes we've climbed ne'er doubting
That the goal our eyes should see.
May these hopes so fondly cherished,
Prove a glad reality.
Chorus.
As we're standing on the threshhold
Of the future bright and gay,
May our lives reflect the teachings
We've received from day to day.
Possibilities before us
We may grasp them, then there'll be
For every one, success well won,
A grand reality.
As we close our pleasant school days,
And the race of life begin,
May the future now before us,
Be untinged by guilt or sin.
May we seek a mental grandeur
Whence the stream of knowledge flows.
May we walk the paths of duty
Where God would have us go.
A CAVE OF GIANTS.
They Were Seven and One-half Feet Tall—Skeletons Found.
CHICAGO, June 16.—A special to The Tribune from St. Paul, Minn., says: Jose Heranda, a Mexican sheep herder in the employ of McLeod Brothers, while rounding up horses in the Sweet Grass hills twenty miles north of Columbus, Minn., discovered a large cave, the opening of which has been concealed by heavy underbrush.
The cave, 70 feet in length, 85 feet in width and 10 in height, has been cut partly out of solid rock. In the centre, lying side by side, were the well preserved skeletons of five human beings. These skeletons measure from seven to seven and a half feet in length. Three knife blades evidently made of hardened copper, two bowls hollowed out of granite blocks, two stone hammer heads and some broken fragments of pottery were also found in the cave.
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| Harper's Weekly, Sept. 7, 1899. |
MAZET INVESTIGATION.
After an Interesting Session the Committee Adjourns Until August 1.
NEW YORK, June 16.—The sittings of the Mazet investigating committee proved very interesting, and in at least one instance exciting, and after a squabble with the minority members over the matter of adjournment the sessions were adjourned until Aug. 1.
Chief of Police Devery was called upon by Mr. Moss to explain why he first threatened to stop the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries prize fight and then went to the ringside and allowed it to go on. Chief Devery admitted that he took an interest in prize fighting, and upheld prize fighting and the Horton law.
Devery said the recent fight complied with the law and was in all respects a "clean-cut contest." He fenced a great deal regarding whether Fitzsimmons was knocked out, and ended up by saying he thought the Cornishman had had enough.
Mr. Moss then questioned Devery as to whether he had made any attempt to close poolrooms since he was last on the stand. Devery said he had not. A wrangle ensued between the two and the chief was indulging in unpleasant personalities when Mr. Mazet ordered him to leave the room. As he made no move the chairman called the sergeant-at-arms. Devery then stepped down from the stand and went from the sitting.
In the afternoon session testimony was given to the effect that policemen were guilty of blackmailing disorderly women. This was testified to by a 16-year-old girl, who once attempted to kill herself in a Bowery music hall. She said the policemen had a regular schedule of prices for protection to the women of the lower east side which the women had to pay under pain of arrest.
Struck Natural Gas.
WATERTOWN, N. Y., June 16,—Watertown is excited over the discovery of natural gas in the town of Pemelia, adjoining this city and just outside the city limits. The well is on the property of Michael Virkler of Crogan, Lewis county. He owns several building lots in the town and on one of these a dwelling was in the course of construction. Workmen were engaged in drilling for water when they struck a pocket of natural gas which is now burning, the flame being 10 feet high already and very strong.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Wealth of Waiting.
Everybody who has visited New York city is more or less familiar with the triangular block where Broadway and Fifth avenue reach Twenty-third street. It is familiarly known as the Flatiron, from its shape. This plot of ground is only 144 feet long, 58 feet broad at the base of the angle and 2 feet at the apex, but it was sold for $750,000, or at a square foot valuation of $202.70. Mr. William P. Eno, the owner, bought this property in 1855 and paid $32,500 for it. When he bought it, there was a sunken common where the Fifth Avenue hotel now stands, and the tent of Franconi's circus was conspicuous there. A white wooden picket fence, very much out of repair, surrounded Madison Square park. If you take a pencil, you can figure out that the plot made for Mr. Eno between 1855 and 1899 about $16,000 a year by its own increment. And this opens the view to the enormous wealth that has accreted to the Astors and others by a sort of parasitic clinging to the great vital municipality and living off it. Those men who years ago had sufficient faith in the city and possessed the necessary clinging power all got wealthy by the mere expansion of their environment. Thousands of other old men walk New York who have expended a hundredfold more personal energy in the battle of life than the Astors, but whose heroic efforts in trade or commerce have met with ultimate reverses simply because they failed to hitch on to the momentum of the city itself. And what is true of New York is still truer of those great western cities whose growth has far outstripped in speed that of New York. Twenty years before Mr. Eno bought that triangle, then in upper New York and now in the very heart of its turmoil, lots could be bought in Chicago for $500 an acre, and any man who could see the direction in which his country was moving and had the staying power could become his own Astor and establish a savings bank for every one of his descendants.
If any one supposes for a moment that the American has not learned the lesson here taught, let him turn his eyes to the Ute lands recently opened in southern Colorado. The scenes around the Arboles section have probably never been surpassed. Here are armies of crusaders coming up to possess the land. Never before did the virgin soil invite such a cohort, and every one of these men, viewing the wilderness, sees in it all the possible cities of the future. This is where faith in one's country takes a very practical shape, and with the aid of the agricultural implements manifests itself in good works.
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| Wickwire Bros. Wire Works, South Main Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
ADDITION TO WIRE MILL.
Wickwire Bros. Secure More Land from W. R. Randall.
Messrs. Wickwire Brothers have at length succeeded in purchasing another plot of land next their wire mills from Mr. W. R. Randall. They have for some time desired to secure this, but Mr. Randall was not inclined to sell, and the best they could do was to lease some land for a term of years. Upon this basis they decided to use the leased land for storage of lumber and for general yard purposes, but not to build upon it. They desired to make some additions to their wire drawing department and those were to be built upon that portion of their own land which was not yet built over, though that was already pretty well covered. Piers and part of the foundation walls had been built for the additions when it was found that Mr. Randall would finally consent to sell to them, and about three more acres were secured.
As a result there is quite a complete change of plan, and all work on the additions already begun has stopped till the new plans can be perfected. A new factory will be built to afford larger facilities to the wire drawing department and this factory and the additions now in mind will be on a considerably larger scale than that originally designed. As soon as the plans can be drawn the work will be started and it is expected that the new building will be up and the machinery in operation early in the fall.
During the past year Wickwire Brothers have added nearly 200 men and boys to their payroll, making over 500 people now employed at their works. The addition now in immediate prospect will make a still further increase in the number of employees, though at present it cannot be stated exactly how many.
BREVITIES.
—John Wanamaker has just made a contract with the New York Journal for a page advertisement six days each week for one year for $250,000.
—New display advertisements to-day are—New York Clothing House, Great bargain sale, page 7; F. Daehler, Straw hats, page 7; E. O. Dean, Cut prices, page 7.
—The baccalaureate sermon at Cornell university will be delivered on Sunday, June 18, at Sage chapel by Rev. E. Winchester Donald, D. D., rector of Trinity church, Boston.
—The attempt was made in the crowd at the Ithaca races on Wednesday to steal a $400 diamond from the shirt front of L. F. Fisher of that city. The man was caught in the act and was held up.
—Geneva's Grand Army men are so disgusted on account of the turning of Memorial day into a public holiday for sports and other recreation that they have decided to hereafter abandon any observance of the day.—Ithaca Journal.
—Auburn had a cloudburst at noon yesterday and 1.17 inches of water fell in just fifteen minutes. Sewers and streets were unable to carry off the water and cellars were inundated. The damage to stocks in stores ran into the thousands of dollars.
—Five barrels of Ithaca water are to be shipped to Poughkeepsie Saturday for drinking purposes for the crew which goes that day, in preparation for the big race on June 27. Coach Courtney is determined to have none of his men put under the weather by a change of water.
—The prize-winning Baker band of Binghamton has been engaged by Defiance Hook & Ladder company, No. 5, of this village to accompany them to the annual convention of the Central New York Volunteer Firemen's association, which meets this year at Ithaca Aug. 3.—Owego Times.
—Rev. Wm. Searles, D. D., for fifteen years chaplain of Auburn State prison, died at his home in Auburn Saturday last, aged 71 years. He greatly overtaxed his strength at Skaneateles [on] Memorial day, where he delivered an address, and that evening took to his bed from which he never arose.
—The drought was broken yesterday afternoon by a very refreshing rain, the only trouble with it being that it was not enough. But as far as it went it was good. The oppressive heat also seemed to disappear with the coming of the rain and the temperature fell steadily to 48 degrees at 5 o'clock this morning. A light overcoat is not uncomfortable to-day.
—The Ithaca papers are trying to help the work of the Tompkins county sidepath commission by publishing as a "roll of honor" the names of the wheelmen buying tags, as fast as they are taken. About seventy-five have been sold so far. It would be something of a task to publish the names of the over 1,500 holders of badges in Cortland county. The number is rapidly increasing too.
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