The Cortland Democrat, Tuesday, August 29, 1899.
The Daily Democrat.
With this issue we present to the public a DAILY DEMOCRAT. Its publication will continue at present for the four days of the Cortland county fair only, but this is expected by the publisher to be the forerunner of one which shall at a not very distant date appear every day.
It seemed that the great interest which Cortland business men are taking in our county fair should be general and our best way to help boom Cortland and its fair seemed to be to issue a paper which should give those in attendance the news of the day and all the fair news, hence the DAILY DEMOCRAT.
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| Cortland County fairgrounds and racetrack, 1894 map. |
THE COUNTY FAIR.
VERY AUSPICIOUS OPENING.
The Exhibits Promise to Be Larger Than Ever—The Special Attractions—Several Herds of Stock Arrived Yesterday.
The fates smile kindly upon the Cortland county fair thus far, the rain of Saturday night and Sunday falling at an opportune time, laying the dust and putting the roads in splendid condition.
Yesterday was an ideal day, the weather being delightful and the indications to-day are that no rain will interfere with the exhibition throughout. More people than usual for Monday were on the grounds yesterday, most of them being exhibitors clamoring for space, and Secretary Greenman and his assistants were at their wits' end to comply with all the demands. At no time in the history of the Cortland county fair has there been so great a spread of canvas on the grounds as is seen this year, this condition being necessary because of the increased demand of the exhibitors.
At the north side front is a mammoth tent for the exclusive display of poultry, and the indications are that before to-night the tent will be full. The superintendent in charge of this department is W. Eugene Powers, who is thoroughly at home in the care of poultry.
North of the main exhibition building is a large tent used by the W. C. T. U. as a dining hall.
To the left of the main entrance to the grounds is a tent 24 by 36 feet in size, filled with exhibits from the Farmers' Exchange of Peck Bros. Farm wagons, harness, blankets, etc. are displayed to good advantage.
The H. M. Whitney Wagon Co. has a mammoth tent near that of Peck Bros., in which is displayed fancy wagons and buggies from the factory in this village.
A fair cannot be satisfactorily run without a merry-go-round, and the managers, therefore, have allowed Messrs. Wright & Lyme of Candor to monopolize this feature.
The large hall is necessarily given up almost entirely to exhibits of business men, mostly from Cortland, and the building presented a busy scene yesterday afternoon as the many booths were being decorated and made ready for exhibits, which will be placed in position to-day.
The first booth to the right of the eastern entrance, south wing, is occupied by W. W. Bennett, who will have a display of stoves and ranges.
Next comes C. C. Spencer with his Cedric bicycles. Across the way next to the stairway is a large exhibit of the Worcester Salt Co. by C. W. Ryan.
Palmer & Co. have one of the largest and prettiest booths in the hall, draped in white, and in which will be shown an array of dry goods and fancy goods that will be worth examining.
Between the two south doors are three booths, one of which is taken by Mrs. G. T. Chatterton, who displays many of the elegant skirts for which make she has become famous.
Next comes H. B. Hubbard with fancy China and dinner ware, and his exhibit is well worth inspection.
E. A. McGraw has a mania for wheels, but they must be good ones, and he proves it by letting the public examine them.
On the west next to the stairway in the southwest corner is the exhibit of the Fair store.
Next is a long booth, beautifully draped, in which are displayed the rich fabrics from the well known store of Dey Bros., Syracuse. This booth is in charge of George E. Bates, a former Cortland boy who holds a responsible position with that firm.
In the center of the hall L. R. Lewis has a large booth for his exhibit of furnaces and plumbers' hardware.
On the east side of the hall Mrs. Darby-Turner has a beautiful exhibition of hair goods which seems to win the admiration of the ladies.
Burgess, the only Burgess, has a large handsomely decorated booth in which he will display a magnificent stock of clothing and gents' furnishing goods. Edwin H. Hyatt has a very unique picture gallery just east of Burgess' booth which attracts much attention.
It is safe to say that Smith & Beaudry have the most beautiful design for the display of their fancy wall papers that is seen in the hall, being in the form of a cone placed on four standards, the whole trimmed in white and green. Styles of paper are shown in the decorations.
Messrs. Chase & Smith of Syracuse have a large booth devoted to the exhibit of pianos and organs.
Towards the north end the agricultural society is having erected a refrigerator for the storage of butter placed on exhibition. Lewis S. Hayes has a very pretty booth for the display of chairs made at his factory, and the variety is well worth an examination.
The Champion Milk Cooler Co. have considerable space for exhibiting their coolers which have become so famous, and the farmers and dairymen seem much interested in the invention.
Buck & Lane have an immense display of the celebrated Andes stoves and ranges, and also plumbers' work. Theirs is one of the finest exhibits in the hall.
This year the entire space on the second floor is devoted to mercantile exhibits, something never before known in the history of the fair.
On the north side Messrs. Warren, Tanner & Co. have a large and tasty booth, which will be filled with as fine a display of dry goods as can be secured, for which the reputation or the firm is well-known.
Across the entire east end of the north wing Messrs. McKinley & Doubleday have a display of fancy wall papers, bicycles and cameras that attracts much attention, for the reason that the entire exhibit is exceedingly tasty and well arranged. In this booth Fred J. Graham will give entertainment on his mammoth phonograph, which seems also to be a drawing card.
Pearson Bros. have a booth filled with handsome furniture from their store on Main-st.
In the south wing, east end, Messrs. Beard & Peck have something worth seeing, and the DEMOCRAT urges all to examine the beautiful furniture placed there for inspection. It is this firm which was instrumental in securing the marriage of … [the ceremony] taking place on Thursday, the particulars of which are given elsewhere.
W. H. Morgan has a booth for the display of harness, blankets and other horse furnishing goods.
Angie M. Eadie has a fine exhibit of sewing machines and mackintosh goods in a tasty booth on the north side of the south wing.
A very attractive booth, arrayed in black, yellow and pink, is fitted up by the managers of the Model clothing store, and in which will be displayed clothing and gents' furnishing goods. Geo. A. Ames comes next with his fine show of shoes and rubber goods.
The Gillette Skirt Co's booth is located on the south side of the south wing, upstairs, and is filled with skirts and dress goods.
Glann & Clark exhibit their popular shoes and rubbers in a tastily arranged booth.
Mrs. J. T. Davern & Co. will show a handsome variety of millinery goods in the center of the hall. McGraw & Osgood are on deck with a handsome exhibit of shoes for ladies and gents, their booth being in the center of the hall, up stairs.
Bennett & Starr of Homer have a large booth containing a stock of shoes and other footwear. E. V. Bowkers booth is filled with articles offered by him as premiums.
G. W. Fisher has the general superintendency of the hall, and Mrs. George H. Hyde and Mrs. B. R. Knapp have charge of special departments. Owing to the great demand for space in the hall, the society is compelled to use a large tent north of the exhibition building for the display of fruit, vegetables and flowers, in each department of which there will be an excellent variety.
In the care of stock the society has adopted a very humane system, several large awnings having been erected near the west end of the grounds, under which the cattle will be sheltered from the hot sun. Up to last night the entries in the cattle department, which is under the superintendency of Lloyd F. Rice, were very large, though but very few herds had arrived on the grounds. L. H. Dunham of Freeville has twenty head of handsome Holsteins, and Irving Johnson of Marathon drove eighteen head of thoroughbred Durhams on the grounds. Hon. O. U. Kellogg will exhibit some of his fancy Holstein stock, Willard Nye of Preble will to-day place on exhibition nineteen head of Holsteins, and I. J. Foster of East Homer will also show fourteen head of the same breed. John Reagan of Messengerville will exhibit two Holstein cows, two grade Durhams, a mare and a colt.
Other superintendents are as follows: Of horses, D. Edgar Kinney; sheep, B. K. Knapp; swine, Frank Blanchard; dairy and field, H. T. Coon. The races will be in charge of C. F. Wickwire.
To-day will be devoted to the entry and arrangement of stock and exhibit. As early as 9 o'clock this morning people began to arrive on the grounds and at 10 o'clock the indications pointed to a record-breaker first day.
To-morrow afternoon an automobile or horseless carriage will be on exhibition on the track, and races will be pulled off as follows: 2:40 class for purse of $150. Three-year old class, bred or owned in Cortland county, purse $100. Bicycle race for a purse of $50.
Special attractions will be the balloon ascension, day fireworks and corn dance by the Ollagolla Indians [sic].
Three car loads of poultry arrived over the D. L. & W., road this morning, two of which are from the poultry houses of W. A. Smith, Whitney Point.
W. W. Rainey of Rainey's harness emporium of DeRuyter will be on hand with a fine assortment of harnesses, whips, robes and umbrellas.
Fred A. Mantanye will exhibit a pair of sliver Barless swallows, the only pair in America. He has fifteen entries of swallows, tumblers and carriers, all of the pigeon species.
Wilbur E. Kenyon Kills Himself.
Saturday evening Wilbur E Kenyon, formerly of McGrawille and a brother of Frank M. Kenyon of Cortland, was found in an unconscious condition in a room in the City hotel at Binghamton. He died a few hours later, in spite of all efforts of physicians to revive him from the effects of morphine, which he had evidently taken.
Kenyon came to the place on Friday evening and asked for a room. As the hotel keeper thought the man had been on a spree and was without money, he was about to turn him away, when a friend interceded, and offered to be responsible for the pay. Kenyon was accordingly given a room, and left to sleep off the effects of his spree.
No further attention was paid to him until the next evening, when the hotel man went to his door and called him. Receiving no answer, he went in and found Kenyon lying on the bed, breathing heavily and in a stupor.
Chief Moore and Coroner Hills were at once summoned. In the room was found a dram morphine bottle, from which most of the powder had been taken. Dr. Hills at once applied all possible antidotes, and did everything that he could to restore the man, but the drug had had too much time to perform its fatal work.
Kenyon resided on Hudson-st in Lestershire. He had been employed at the shoe factory, but has not been at work for several days. He is survived by a wife.
The body was brought to Cortland yesterday and the funeral will be held tomorrow.
HERE AND THERE.
Every day of the fair will be the best.
The schedule gives Cortland [baseball] only six more state league games this season.
The worst place of road in Cortland county is between this village and East Homer.
WANTED—A strong healthy boy to learn printer's trade. Apply at once at this office.
The attractions at the circus were too much for the village board last evening. Result, no meeting.
The ferocity of the 1899 house fly brings to mind the quaint saying of Josh Billings: "Darn a fly anyhow."
Don't try to catch a trout after Thursday. The strong arm of the law says you must not enjoy that sport after August 31.
Nathan Pierce, the cattle buyer, is patronizing crutches as the result of bucking a railroad car in Oswego county last week.
Beef and other meats are advancing rapidly in price, which can be accounted for by scarcity of stock, as alleged, or the meat trust, whichever way you choose.
The fine rain of Saturday night and Sunday will prevent the removal of a large quantity of Cortland soil in the form of dust upon the wearing apparel of the visitors to the fair.
It is not probable that the trial of John Truck on the charge of murder will take place at the September term of supreme court for Cortland in 1899.
Prof. Carl E. Myers and Carlotta, the most expert female aeronaut in the world, will furnish pleasing entertainments for the crowds which will be on the fair grounds to-morrow, Thursday and Friday.
Cortland advertisers know a good thing when it is presented to them, and for this reason this first issue of the DAILY DEMOCRAT is full almost to overflowing with announcements from our wide-awake business men.
C. B. Peck, the popular livery man of Port Watson-st., on Saturday received a very handsome, gold-mounted, rubber-tired hack from the Cunningham factory in Rochester. The vehicle was purchased through parties in Albany, and is a model of neatness and convenience.
One of the special attractions on Thursday will be the Beard & Peck wedding, which will take place directly in front of the grand stand at 2:30 P. M. Among the valuable presents to the bride and groom will be a parlor suit given by Beard & Peck; a fine dress suit given to the groom by Bingham & Miller; an elegant wedding hat to the bride by J. T. Davern & Co.; a fine pair of patent leather slippers by McGraw & Osgood; white wedding gloves by Palmer & Co.; The wedding supper will be served at the Cortland House at 6 P. M. by Landlord D. C. Smith.
FREEDOM FOR CUBA.
The First Steps to That End Are Taken.
M'KINLEY'S PROCLAMATION.
An Election Is to Be Held on the Island and Self-Government Is to Follow at Once. United States Troops to Be Withdrawn as Fast as Local Authorities Perfect Their Scheme of Government—All Cuban Newspapers Will Publish Proclamation.
Washington, Aug. 28.—President McKinley has signed a proclamation which is to be promulgated in Cuba soon. The proclamation is to the effect that the census ordered for Cuba is to be the beginning of the movement looking toward the establishment of an independent government for that island. When the census, the proclamation says, has been completed, arrangements will be made by the United States Government for the holding of local elections in the various provinces throughout the island with the view of establishing civil governments, thus giving an opportunity to the Cubans to demonstrate their ability to conduct in their own why the affairs of the island.
As fast as the local authorities perfect their scheme of government, the United States troops will be withdrawn. The proclamation, it is said, will be printed in all the newspapers in Cuba. Its reported object is to contradict the stories circulated in the island that the United States Government does not intend to carry out the will of Congress and give independence to the Cubans.
The proclamation will be the first official act on the part of the Administration to give assurance to the Cubans that the present military form of government is not to continue longer than is absolutely necessary.
It is said at the War Department that the proclamation can not be given out before it is published in Cuba.
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