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The Cortland Democrat, Friday, April 13, 1900.
CORTLAND IN 1882.
INTERESTING LOCAL EVENTS OF THAT YEAR.
Congregational Church Built—Anna Borrowdale Convicted of Manslaughter—Cortland & Homer Street Railroad Built—Several Burglaries—Vicinity Fires—Marriages. Etc.
These historical sketches, which have been exceedingly interesting from the initial number up to the present, are now passing through an era which brings many citizens who are now prominent in the business and social circles of Cortland to the front, and for this reason they are read with eagerness by hundreds of our city people, as well as many former residents of this place who are now located in other states. We shall continue their publication nearly three months longer, or up to and including 1893, making an even quarter of a century of Cortland's history which will be preserved by many who are perusing them, and in after years they will form a souvenir that will be highly prized.
HORSE RAILROAD.
We suppose Cortland people were happy when it was announced that communication with Homer was to be made by horse cars, for the newspapers of 1882 frequently made felicitous allusions to the project and quoted citizens of both towns as being very enthusiastic over the promised road. On the 8th of March a petition was presented to the then village boards of both villages asking for a charter allowing the company to construct and operate a road from the U., I & E. (now Lehigh) depot in Cortland to the north boundary of Homer. The company was organized with a capital stock of $40,000, which was taken by the two villages, and the directors were as follows: H. P. Goodrich, R. H. Duell, S. E. Welch, W. S. Copeland, J. M. Milne, L. J. Fitzgerald. J. C. Carmichael, Ernest M. Hulbert, J. S. Barber, W. E. Taylor, Chas. C Taylor, W. H. Clark and Oliver Glover. The officers were: President, H. P. Goodrich, treasurer, Edward Keator, secretary, Jas M. Milne. Surveyors began work on the proposed line April 12, and grading of the road was begun in June.
THE BORROWDALE TRAGEDY.
At the trial of Anna Borrowdale and Daniel and John Delaney, charged with the murder of Thomas Borrowdale, the particulars of which were given in the DEMOCRAT last week, the woman was convicted of manslaughter in the third degree and was sent to Onondaga penitentiary for a term of four years. District Attorney B. A. Benedict, assisted by G. S. Forbes, conducted the prosecution, and Mrs. Borrowdale was defended by Attorneys W. H. Warren and John Courtney, Jr. The Delaney boys were sent to the Elmira Reformatory.
GREAT YEAR FOR DEMOCRACY.
It was in 1882 that the Democrats of New York won a phenomenal victory by electing Grover Cleveland governor by the unprecedented majority of 192,000. Mr. Cleveland was mayor of Buffalo, and his running mate for lieutenant governor was David B. Hill, mayor of Elmira. Neither of these two men were known to any great extent outside of their respective cities until the convention, held at Syracuse, placed them in nomination. The Republican nominee for governor was C. J. Folger, a capable and upright man, but the manner in which he was nominated gave offense to thousands of Republicans, who voted for Mr. Cleveland as a rebuke to the party managers. The Democrats of Cortland county were also in a jolly frame of mind on the night of election over the returns, which gave Dr. J. C. Nelson, Democratic candidate for member of assembly, a majority of 861 over Chas. W. Gage. They also elected R. W. Bourne county clerk over Robert Bushby by 2,103 majority, and Irving H. Palmer district-attorney over H. L. Bronson by a majority of 1,605. Harlow G. Borthwick, the Republican candidate for sheriff, squeezed through by the narrow majority of 61 over J. L. Cotton, who was nominated by the Democrats and temperance people.
A feature of the campaign was the organization of Independent Republicans. At a meeting of this faction held in Cortland September 30, to protest against what they termed "ring" rule, such well-known Republicans as Col. Frank Place, James H. Tripp, B. T. Wright, Chas. W. Collins and Frank J. Collier made speeches, and the result was the convention voted to support Geo. L. Waters, the temperance candidate for member of assembly, R. W. Bourne for county clerk, I. H. Palmer for district-attorney, and H. G Borthwick for sheriff.
At the February town meetings the Republicans elected nine supervisors and the Democrats six.
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OF INTEREST TO FIREMEN.
The officers of the Cortland fire department in 1882 were as follows: Chief engineer C. E. Ingalls; first-assistant B. K. Miller; second-assistant Robert Bushby; secretary W. P. Robinson; treasurer O. C. Smith.
Al Fisher, who was president of Homer village last year, was chief of the fire department of that place in 1882.
The foreman of Emerald Hose company was James Fitzgerald.
A. J. Barber was foreman of Water Witch Engine company.
The officers of Orris Hose company were President G. J. Maycumber; vice-president Chas. F Brown; foreman C. S. Strowbridge; first-assistant T. T. Bates; treasurer E. F. Knight.
Fred W. Kingsbury was foreman of Excelsior Hook and Ladder company.
In September Emerald Hose company purchased of Fountain Hose company, Binghamton, the elegant parade hose carriage which is so much admired whenever it is taken out for parade.
MARRIAGES.
The following people now well known in Cortland were married during the year 1882: February 8, by Rev. J. W. Putnam, A. D. Wallace, then of Auburn, and Miss Emma L. Hodson of Cortland. February 15, by Rev. A. H. Shurtleff, Wm. McKinney of Cortland and Miss Emma V. Hutchings of Virgil. April 3, by Rev Mr. Nichols, W. J. Greenman of Cortland and Matie A. White of Jersey City. June 15, at Rochester, Hugh Duffey of Cortland and Miss Vinnie McPhall of Buffalo. September 5, by Rev. J. L. Robertson, Albert W. Edgcomb and Miss Sarah F. Ballard, both of Cortland. September 20, by Rev. S. N. Westcott, Dr. M. R. Smith and Miss Ida Youmans, both of McGrawville. September 27, by Rev. E. Horr, Webster Young and Miss Minnie Holden, both of Cortland. October 17, by Rev. J. A. Robinson, J. Seaman Bull and Miss Grace C. Webb, both of Cortland.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Mention was made last week of the organization of the Congregational church in 1881, and the society made rapid progress in preparing a meeting place. Early in January, 1882, the Rev. H. T. Sell of Lysander was called to the pastorate at a salary of $l,200, which call was accepted. Early in the spring the society bought of John S. Samson a house and lot on the corner of Elm and Clinton-sts., on which to build a new church. In July the contract for building the edifice was let to J. E Van Cleek of Syracuse for $11,000, and work was pushed rapidly, the dedication occurring in the following year, which will be chronicled next week.
TRAGEDY AT SLATERVILLE.
One day in the month of August two Slaterville men named John Schoonmaker, and Henry Yandemark went to the woods hunting. They became separated, and shortly after Mr. Schoonmaker saw a grey object through an opening and fired, supposing it to be a grey squirrel. It proved to be the grizzly beard of Mr. Yandemark, whose head was filled with shot, and who died the same night.
BURGLARS.
Burglars operated quite extensively in Cortland in the fall of 1882, their first appearance being on the night of October 5, when they entered the house of Mr. Holcomb, corner of Union and Owego St., and from which they were frightened away. They then broke into Peter Van Bergen's house, two doors farther east on Union-st., where they stole a gold watch and $8 in cash. November 9 the Cortland House safe was broken open and a large sum of money stolen. On the night of November 21 the drug store of G. W. Bradford was entered and cigars and a small amount of money taken.
FIRES.
The fire record for 1882 was not very serious in Cortland, though the neighboring village of Homer suffered severely on the night of December 16, when what was known as the Smith block was partially destroyed, entailing a loss of $10,000. The Cortland fire department was appealed to for help, and so prompt was the response that in 55 minutes from the time they were called, the Cortland boys had a stream of water playing upon the fire.
On the night of December 5 a house owned by H. C. Harrington, located on the corner of Hubbard and Clinton-sts., was burned.
December 22, the steam sawmill owned by W. S. Hoxie, below Blodgett Mills, was entirely destroyed by fire, the loss being placed at $2,000.
A fire in Bradley's fancy goods store on the second floor of the Garrison block, December 26, caused a loss of $200.
BREEZY PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago grange, located a few miles west of Cortland, has one of the best arranged halls for the purpose to be found in the county. This hall was dedicated on the evening of January 2, 1882, an immense crowd being present. Marvin Wood presided over the meeting, and Zera H. Tanner served as marshal.
In January W. D. Tisdale sold a house and lot on Port Watson-st. to C. L. Kinney of McGrawville.
Chas. W. Stoker withdrew from the firm of C. W. Stoker & Co. early in the year, and was succeeded by Geo. W. Edgcomb, the firm name being Squires & Edgcomb. Mr. Stoker afterwards became associated with E. H. Brewer in the manufacture of box loops for carriage trimmings and harnesses.
In February Harrison Wells bought the A. J. Stout property on Mill-st. (now Clinton-ave.) and during the summer he erected the brick block now occupied by him and by the McEvoy Bros.
Frank A. Bickford sold a house and lot on Prospect-st to Wm. H. Clark for $1,550.
Henry S. Bliss conducted a hat store in 1882.
In February, L. J. Fitzgerald bought the Ballard farm on the west road to Homer, 110 acres in size, for $7,100.
The year 1882 was a boomer for the Cortland Wagon company, its weekly payroll amounting to several thousand dollars. On the first day of March orders were received for 975 wagons of the value of $60,000.
Dr. E. F. Butterfield sold the Sperry House in March to A. C. Carr for $13,200.
At the charter election in March, Irvine H. Palmer was chosen president, and Harrison Wells and Daniel E. Smith trustees.
A special election was held April 18 to vote upon a resolution appropriating $5,000 for the purchase of two sites and for the erection of two one-story school buildings, one in the southern and one in the northern part of the village. The appropriation was carried by a majority of 21.
April 14 Frank Place was chosen secretary of the Cortland Wagon company.
W. S. Copeland leased the Messenger House in April to R. M. Smith of Norwich for a term of five years.
Cortland was somewhat excited over a case of smallpox in Pomeroy-st. early in the spring.
During the month of March, E. M. Hulbert, J. M. Milne, W. H. Clark and J. C. Carmichael purchased a lot on the corner of Main and Tompkins St., on which to build the present large brick block, paying $6,000 for it.
James Dougherty, then of Solon, was admitted to practice law at Ithaca in March.
A pretty little speed contest between Delos Bauder's chestnut gelding Tom Murphy and Sackett L. Wright's bay gelding Cricket took place on the fair grounds in May, Tom Murphy winning four straight heats.
The telephone exchange was opened May 11, 1882.
W. D. Tisdale built his present house, corner of Pendleton and Port Watson-sts., in the summer of 1882.
On Decoration day in Cortland, the address at the monument was made by George L. Waters, and the cemetery address by J. E. Eggleston.
A man named Michael Murray, who was stealing a ride on a coal train, fell through the false bottom of a coal jimmy at Blodgett Mills and was killed.
The Presbyterian church extended a call to Rev. J. L. Robertson of Cleveland to become its pastor at a salary of $2,000.
Otis C. Smith was the victim of a thief at the Osborne House, Auburn, on the night of July 11. When he arose the following morning his pocket book, containing $35, was missing. It was afterwards learned that a fellow who occupied an adjoining room was the thief.
L. J. Fitzgerald was president of the county agricultural society.
In 1882 Hugh Duffey secured a patent on an automatic oil cup.
G. J. Maycumber, the present city chamberlain, was deputy county clerk during a portion of the year.
A controversy between the village and the Syracuse, Binghamton & New York railroad company was settled August 19, the company agreeing to move its buildings so that Railroad-st., would be three rods wide, a street being allowed along the tracks from Railroad to Port Watson-st., and a lane from East Court to Port Watson-st., the Cortland Wagon company giving some land for the latter purpose.
Barnum with his mammoth elephant Jumbo was in Cortland August 26. It was estimated that 16,500 people were present.
Frank M. Ingersoll bought of Prof. J. H. Shultz the house and lot on Greenbush-st., still owned by him, for $2,200.
On the second day of December Chas. E. Chesebrough of Cortland was struck by a locomotive at Canastota and thrown twelve feet in the air, landing on the cow catcher. He held to the flagstaff until the fireman could reach him, and was carried three-fourths of a mile before released.
Andrew Seaman, an employee at Hitchcock's wagon works, was killed by being caught between an elevator and the floor above, his head being fearfully crushed.
The State Dairymen's association met in Cortland Dec. 20 and 21.
PATHMASTERS.
H. M. Phillips, commissioner of Highways of the town of Cortlandville, has appointed the following pathmasters for the several districts of the town for the ensuing year, the figures preceding the names denoting the number of the district:
1—Horace W. Brown.
2—Daniel Thomas.
3—Ephraim Moore.
4—Manley Kinney.
5—Bert Dickinson.
6—Fred Launsberry.
7—Jerry O'Leary.
8—C. H. Munson.
9—Frank Higgins.
10—Eugene Graham.
11—Thomas Hinds.
12—Fred Dunbar.
13—Frank Dunbar.
14—Henry Phelps.
15—Cyrus Heath.
16—Page Van Hoesen.
17—G. H. Gillen.
18—William Norcutt.
21—John Tucker.
22—B. D. Hicks.
23—Bert Sears.
24—W. P. Robinson.
25—Henry Doxtater.
26—Irving Alexander.
27—Walter Angel.
28—Ezra Eldredge.
29—Wm. Johnson.
30—S. E. Greenwood.
31—Frank Blanchard.
32—Amos Tryon.
33—Wm. Elster.
34—John Brooks.
35—Lyman Eisman.
36—Chester Park.
37—Miner Merrick.
38—Millard Raymond.
39—John Rakes.
40—David Crane.
41—David Hodges.
42—Barton Davis.
43—Jerome Hall.
44—C. E. Millen.
45—David Pettis.
46—Julius Whiting.
47—Charles Odell.
48—J. Wooden.
49—Arthur Edwards.
50—Charles Sperry.
52—A. F. Tanghe.
53—Edward Owens.
54—John Eades.
55—Charles Gallagher.
56—David Barry.
57—William Moore.
58—E. C. Rindge.
59—Robert Beljay.
60—Barnum McElheny.
61—Asber Robinson.
62—Albert Harvey.
63—Peter David.
64—Nelson Walworth.
65—Charles Baldwin.
66— Earl Hitchcock.
67—John H. Phelps.
68—Roscoe Rowe.
69—Wilbur Shultz.
70—W. R. Biggar.
71—Fred Kenfield.
72—Wm Summerville.
73—W. J. Miller.
74—George Brooks.
75—Byron Rounds.
76—Harmon Kinney.
77—E. Jacobs.
78—P. Holland.
79—Z. H. Tanner.
80—Patrick O'Neil.
81—Stephen Johnson.
82—Chas. E Humphrey.
S3— Howard Reed.
84—P. S. O'Connor.
HERE AND THERE.
Everybody is glad to see spring come.
Country roads are getting dusty in some places.
Spring work will soon be started by the farmers.
The small boy and his fish pole and bait will soon be seen on the banks of the Tioughnioga.
The ones who talk so much about the world's owing them a living usually do not have energy enough to collect the account.
The D. L. & W. railroad company have purchased the ice houses at Chenango Forks of R. E. Westcott & Co. and the same are being put in excellent repair by employees of the company.
An exchange says that cycle dealers are on the verge of a war, affecting the price of tires, sundries and repairing. The one benefitted by this "run'' is the rider who has lots of repairing.
The cost of government which was $5 for every man, woman and child in the country in 1897, has now reached $8 each. This way of putting it brings the cost of imperialism home to the average taxpayers more closely than rows of big figures.
If our local wheelmen will purchase a cycle path badge promptly the money thus raised will enable the Sidepath commissioners to put the paths in condition for immediate use. The fee is 60 cents, the same as last year, which entitles the owner to ride on any cycle path in the state.
A bill has been introduced in the state legislature requiring the principal of every public or private school in the state having more than 100 pupils to instruct and train pupils by means of drills, so that they may be able to leave the school building in the shortest possible time in case of fire.
We are in receipt of a copy of the Syracuse university catalogue, which shows wonderful development of the university for the past year. A page of statistics shows the progress by five-year periods from 1871, when there were 41 students, to 1895 when the number had increased to 891. The largest growth of any year since the opening is that of the present year. The 1,130 of 1898-9 has increased to 1,402 in 1899-1900, an increase of more than 24 per cent. There are 136 professors and teachers. An important showing is the large number of students in the college proper (Arts courses). In 1875 the registered number was 149; in 1898, 644; in 1889, 727. The growth has been steady and healthy.
Lamb-like April? Well, possibly.
The trout season will open Monday.
The roads are drying up rapidly.
Nobody weeps for the late departed March.
The bicycle girl was very much in evidence last Saturday.
Beating carpets and other enjoyable outdoor sports have begun.
Will the ladies who are appointed census enumerators rank as countesses?
No one need mistake the DEMOCRAT'S awning for Archie Burgess's this year.
The DEMOCRAT will contain a history of Taylor and its people in its issue of April 27.
It s a good time to set hens, to set out shade trees, and also to set your foot down on the feeding of tramps.
A new brick chimney or smoke stack, sixty feet or more in height, will be erected this spring at the water works.
The Onondaga Independent says: "They are calling Cortland the baby city, but it's a pretty healthy infant just the same '' Right you are.
The members of the Degree of Pocohontas will give their first annual ball in C. A. A. hall next Tuesday evening.
A young son of Thomas Crozier was bitten by a dog near his home in Madison-st. Tuesday. The wound was dressed by Dr. W. J. Moore.
The Epworth league of the First M. E. church has voted to send $25 to the starving poor of India. This is a most commendable example for others to follow.
This week has been a great week for the city of Cortland, hundreds of teachers, many of them pretty and a few very plain looking, being present at the institute.
The city of Cortland is at the mercy of two hundred or more school teachers this week, and the sensation is a very pleasing one to the young men especially. To the credit of the visiting teachers, nearly all of them are attending strictly to business.
In passing through the Normal school grounds people will hereafter do well to confine themselves to the walks, as the janitor has orders to arrest any person walking on the grass. A sensible order, too.
A sure indication that spring is hovering over the city of Cortland is the beginning of bicycle thievery, Adelbert Green being the first person arrested on this charge. He was arraigned before Judge Davis Monday and was sent to the Industrial school at Rochester.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Dewey fiasco has reached a stage where rumors of withdrawal begin to appear.
Those Boers aren't doing a thing to "Bobs," et. al. just now. The big British generals seem to be getting pretty hard raps and are unable to retaliate.
Of all the unpopular political schemes, that of Mrs. and Admiral George Dewey seems to be about the most ridiculed. The boom was weak at its inception last week and is on a decided wane.
If Mrs. Dewey runs the admiral on an independent ticket, he will certainly defeat McKinley. In fact this may be Mrs. Dewey's object in running her husband for she is not credited with being very friendly toward the Executive.
Yes, the Republicans kept the tax rate down to 1.93, but their appropriations call for $23,170,579.92 which is the high water mark in state appropriations. Immense inheritance taxes—one of $2,000,000—and others indirect furnished the money to lower the rate. It was not economy, not by any means.
Syracuse Democrats will give a Jefferson dinner in that city on Monday evening, April 23, at which prominent Democrats from all over the state will be present. It is hoped to stimulate Democratic endeavor throughout Central New York. We are under obligations to Mayor McGuire for an invitation.
Cortland county has never had a better sheriff than Arthur E. Brainard, a better district attorney than Edwin Duffey, nor a more efficient county clerk than Hubert T. Bushnell, who were all elected by Democratic votes. Isn't this good evidence that the Democratic party is a safe organization to manage county affairs?
A needed resolution has been introduced in the House asking the secretary of war for information and authorizing an investigation into the report that 500 men of our Philippine army are now in insane asylums. If reports are in any small respect true a scandal to rival that of embalmed beef would be the result of such investigation.
POLITICAL NOTES.
Mr. Macrum has returned and Mr. Webster Davis has returned. If there are any more American politicians in the Transvaal, will Mr. Kruger please keep them?—Philadelphia Ledger.
The admiral is too late, and he doesn't represent anything in particular. It is too strenuous a year for the success of such a venture as that. Such is the cold, hard truth regarding this new candidacy, as time is likely to further prove it. — Springfield Republican.
The cost of government, which was $5 for every man, woman and child in the country in 1897, has now reached $8. This way of putting it brings the cost of imperialism home to the average taxpayer more closely than rows of big figures.—Portland Argus.
"I can't help it, boys," said Speaker Nixon to the Brooklyn Republicans, when they grumbled at Platt's order to adjourn on the 6th, "we've got to do as the old man wants." If the Legislature is a representative body, whom does it represent?—Brooklyn Citizen.
The admiral was a much greater figure on the Olympia in the harbor of Manila than he is as a resident in a Washington house, and neither the politicians nor the people now attach anything like the importance to his opinions or wishes that they commanded before he came home.—N. Y. Evening Post.
Let the free-traders stand to their guns, and let the tariff men take notice. The storm is not going to blow over. The man who imagines that, imagines a vain thing. If the tariff bill is passed every line written against it in the Republican press will be so much ammunition for the Democrats when the national campaign begins.—Washington Star (Ind.).
There is one thing that goes with the flag, you may be sure. Read the organs of the liquor trade, which have noted with satisfaction that "beer and whiskey go with the flag into our new possessions." Meanwhile, the constitution will have to stay behind, according to the program of the country's rulers. The expanding power of whiskey beats the devil himself, and is equaled only by its own pull.—Springfield Republican.
To lend color to the claim that organized war on the part of the Filipinos has ceased, intimation has been recently given from Washington that some of the troops will soon be ordered home. Our army in the islands must number about 60,000 men. This is a remarkably large force to maintain in a country where no real war exists. Although we are told persistently that the war has ceased, all those soldiers in Luzon seem to find plenty of employment.—Buffalo Courier.
While imperialism, trust aggression and a violation of the Constitution will cause a large aid respectable segment of the Republican organization to refrain from supporting the dominant faction of that party led by Hanna and McKinley, there is no likelihood whatever of schism or division in the Democratic ranks. While the Democrats who wandered away are coming back, there is no diminution of the allied forces of Populists and silver Republicans. This is a Democratic year—Kansas City Times.
When the State fair was held alternate years in Albany, Utica, Elmira, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, it was a State affair, and obtained strength from each part of the State where exhibitions were given. Before it had been permanently established in Syracuse, it was predicted that interest in it would be no better than a local show, and that the end would be a failure. The State fair managers, however, were obstinate, and now the whole debt ridden concern has been saddled on the taxpayers, to become, probably, an auxiliary to the Republican machine.—Oswego Gazette.
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