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| Admiral George Dewey. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, April 5, 1900.
DEWEY PLEASED.
Gratified at the Manner In Which Candidature Was Announced.
WASHINGTON. April 5.—Admiral Dewey expressed himself as very much gratified over the manner in which his announcement to be a candidate for the presidency has been received by his friends. His manner likewise indicated that fact as he chatted with a reporter for the press at his home last evening. Many telegrams have come to him, particularly from the South and some also from the Far West, indorsing his course in the campaign which he will make. The admiral was in excellent humor and talked interestingly of a number of things in connection with his proposed candidacy though concerning most questions asked him he requested that nothing be said at this time, as in due time he would make a statement to the public on the subject.
Much comment has been indulged in today by the public as to which of the great political parties the admiral will ally himself with.
To questions bearing on this subject he declared he preferred not to make any statement at this time. To those who have talked with him privately on the subject, however, and who are fully acquainted with his views, it is evident that he does not expect a nomination to come from the Republican party.
The admiral, friends say, has very decided views on the question of expansion, on that of a tariff for Porto Rico and others of great public interest, but declined politely last night to indicate them on a plea that this is not the proper time for that.
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| William J. Bryan. |
Dewey or Bryan?
DETROIT, April 5.—Daniel J. Campau, Michigan member of the Democratic national committee, wired the New York World in response to an inquiry whether Dewey would not be a stronger candidate than Bryan, as follows:
"In the present crisis the Democratic party needs a leader of positive conviction. The Democratic candidate must not only stand firmly upon the Democratic platform, but must be a platform in himself. Mere personal popularity is never sufficient to win, and especially at a time when voters are studying as now. The Democratic party is strongest when fighting aggressively for principle, and weakest when supporting mere popular heroes. Proud as Democrats may be that Dewey is among those who desire the downfall of imperialism, I think it would be a grave mistake not to place in nomination William Jennings Bryan, whose vote of 1896 was larger than had ever before been required to elect, and whose following today is larger by far."
Strike in B. and S. Shops.
ELMIRA, N. Y., April 5.—The machinists and blacksmiths' helpers in the Buffalo and Susquehanna railroad shops at Galeton, Pa., went on strike. The machinists demand $2.50 instead of $2.25 per day and time and a half pay for overtime. The blacksmiths' helpers ask for 15 cents per hour instead of 12 1-2.
LOOKS LIKE A FAKE.
The Land Deal That Has Been Agitating Preble and Tully.
For several weeks some of the farmers of Preble and Tully have been considerably exercised over a real estate transaction that they hoped would materialize, but which has so far failed to do so, though the date fixed for the maturity of the scheme is already several days past. The STANDARD has been keeping track of the affair, but has refrained from publishing anything in regard to it heretofore for the reason that it looked like a huge April fool joke. The only thing about it which would seem to interfere with that belief is the query as to who would take so much trouble and go into it on so large a scale simply for a joke.
Some weeks ago parties called upon farmers in Preble and Tully and asked for options upon their land. The territory embraced covered all that region west of the D., L. & W. tracks, north of the road leading from Preble station over to the village, east of the so-called west road which extends north and south along the west side of the valley, and south of the east and west road just north of Tully lake park. The park itself was not included. The only land east of the D., L. & W. tracks was a part of the farm of Mr. Barnett Cummings which lies on both sides of the track and comes out to the so-called east road; also the farm of Benedict Weingartner, which extends up into the hills on the east side and has upon it an abundance of good limestone.
The parties who were there represented themselves to be from Pittsburg, but they did not stay there long, but engaged some Preble men to secure the options for them. These were secured at prices running up to $200 an acre, and Mr. Cummings who has 500 acres was looking forward with keen anticipation to receiving his check for $100,000, according to the option which was given.
What was the object of all this and who was behind it was the mystery. At first it was believed that it proceeded indirectly from the Solvay company of Syracuse whose salt wells are just over the brow of the hill in Christian Hollow, and that they were simply looking for a way to get control of the water of the lakes to supply their pipe line and carry the salt water down to Syracuse. The water shed is about a quarter of a mile north of the northernmost of the chain of lakes. It would not be difficult to cut a channel through and send the water north to Lake Ontario instead of south to Chesapeake bay. Some still think it is a move of the Solvay company, but that belief would seem to be refuted by the fact that a year or more ago the Solvay company arranged with a Cortland attorney to secure options upon land surrounding the north lake with the idea of securing the water. The attorney secured the options and named the price to the Solvay people, but they thought it too high, and made other arrangements for water. This price, however, was but a fraction of the price now offered by these new people, and the old option is still open to the Solvay company if they desired it at the old figure.
Then came visions of the Standard Oil company looking for oil or salt or coal or most anything, but there is really no particular ground for that belief. While one of the Pittsburg parties was in Tully trying to arrange an option with one of the Preble men he had occasion to telegraph to Pittsburg several times. He sent the messages collect, and one time sent twenty words. He is quoted as saying to the Preble man whom he was talking with that a reply came to him "send your letters in future by mail and not by wire." That measure of economy on a deal of this magnitude surely does not look like Standard Oil methods.
These parties tried to get Mr. A. King of Tully to accept the presidency of a new bank which they claimed they were going to establish there, but he decided that they were altogether too mythical for him and he wanted nothing to do with them.
Letters have come from time to time to different men of these parties who had given options, encouraging them to make their arrangements to get off their land as the options would be taken up on April 1 and the money would them be forthcoming to pay for all the farms. But the peculiar feature of this matter is that none of the letters came by mail, consequently there is no postmark to show their origin. All are delivered by some one who goes from house to house passing them out by hand. So far as can be learned all of these letters are written on plain paper, without a letter head, and are enclosed in plain envelopes. They are dated at certain streets and numbers in Pittsburg, or Allegheny City or Philadelphia or New York, and in a number of cases inquiries concerning these streets and numbers have been made and it proves that there is no such street in the city or if there is such a street the numbers do not run so high as the numbers given. All of this has tended to mystify the people of Preble and Tully to an extent that they hardly know what to think.
Some have been planning to take up mortgages on their places, others are wondering what to do with the fabulous sums that are to come into their hands when the deeds are passed. A Cortland man who has an interest in a hotel property there has been given a tentative offer for his interest, and he is wondering what is coming.
A Cortland lawyer has been engaged by some of the parties to go up there to examine the deeds before they are passed to see if they are all right, and he has been asked to hold himself in readiness to respond to a telegram at any time. He has already examined some of the options which are given out and says they are the queerest documents he ever saw for anything which purports to be of a legal nature. They are not all alike in form, and some of them really do not bind anybody to anything and would not hold in court.
On Monday morning, the day when according to anticipation that $300,000 was to have been distributed among the farmers of Preble and Tully, the customary messenger went about to the houses and said that the parties were not ready to take up the options that day, but would be ready soon, and that no one need come till he was sent for, but that when they were ready they would send for the people holding the options wished for. Up to this morning no one had been sent for, and the local attorney had not been summoned to examine deeds about to be passed.
Some have thought that a new company was to be found to manufacture soda ash which would be a competitor of the Solvay company at Syracuse, and they have looked to see a new city spring up in a night on the Preble flats. Some have thought a New York millionaire was going to establish an experimental farm in this fertile region which is a sort of garden of the earth, and some have called it a fake from the beginning.
Some of the Preble people have had representatives in the county clerk's office here more or less for a week past looking up the searches to be given with the deeds, and some will be sorely disappointed if they are not to sell. But it is a question who wants it and what it is wanted for and now indeed it is a question whether any one wants it at all.
THE GILLETTE SKIRT CO.
NOW LOCATED AND IN OPERATION IN ITS NEW FACTORY.
One of the Hustling Industries of the Place—Its Trade Extends all Over the Country—Additional Facilities in Ladies' Tailoring Department—A Branch Industry Also Undertaken.
The Gillette Skirt company is now well established in its new factory on Homer-ave. in the buildings formerly occupied by the Cortland Corset company. In these larger and more convenient quarters the wheels of the quilters, ruffiers and hemmers are already spinning around, changing plain fabric to dainty costume; the boxes are being packed for shipment to every quarter, and a general air of thrift and prosperity pervades the whole.
This industry was begun in Cortland by Mr. Gillette, Jan. 1, 1897, on the second floor of a small building on the south side of Port Watson-st., just below the Messenger House. Alter staying here for three months, the business having outgrown the facilities there afforded, a change was made and the six machines that before constituted the factory's equipment were moved to the Wells block on Clinton-ave. and increased to nearly ten times that number. Here, by judicious management, the business has continued to increase till this spring it was found necessary again to seek a larger building and so the Corset company's factory was purchased by Mr. Gillette, thoroughly overhauled and moved into last week.
The building which the company now occupies has been put into excellent condition for the company's work. The offices, three in number, occupy the part of the main building that face Miller-st. The general office is spacious and well arranged. It is finished in red with doors in natural grain. The other two offices, the private office and the stenographers' office, are papered with the same pattern as is the general office, but with a different color. All the paper for this work was made by the Wallace Wallpaper Co., as Mr. Gillette is a firm believer in the policy of patronizing home industries. The offices are all conveniently arranged and, since they are in close proximity to each other, the private office and the stenographers' office opening into the general office, they form a suit, that for general working utility would be difficult to surpass.
Just to the west of the offices in the main building is the cutting room. Two tables somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty feet long and admirably fitted for cutting purposes, extend in parallel lines the length of the room.
On the lower floor of the "L" which is about fifty feet in length, is the commodious shipping department with its four rows of order-filling racks, capable of holding six hundred dozen skirts.
Up stairs in the main building is the large work room where are run the big sewing machines at a rate which seems almost incredible. These machines were just humming when a STANDARD man stepped into the room, and Mr. Gillette's figures concerning the rate of speed they attained did not appear an exaggeration to the representative. The ruffling machines make about twelve hundred stitches in a minute; the quilters, about twenty-two hundred, and the hemmers will fly through a garment and leave in their tracks fully 2,400 stitches in this time. The machines are all under full control, and the women who use them seem to understand them perfectly.
The cloth, which was being used at the time, was for the greater part a special sateen, in colors, a line of mercerized goods or Italian silk which so closely resembles silk as to be difficult to distinguish between them. These goods derive their name from Mr. Mercer in England who invented the process.
It is the aim of this company to make the best goods which it is possible to produce, and to keep thoroughly up to date in all styles. A new plaiting machine was ordered built a month ago at an expense of nearly two-hundred. This is promised within a week. The difficult side and accordion plaiting which has previously been sent to New York can in future be done in Cortland.
The ladies' tailoring department is receiving especial attention. It is situated on the second floor of the "L." It now employs a double row of sewing machines and will be so arranged that its facilities may at any time be enlarged, consequently the work will at all times he turned out promptly. Madam Alsoop of Nottingham, England, is at the head of this department. She makes a trip to New York often to look up the styles and is arranging for one of these trips at present. This is a department in which Mr. Gillette appears to take especial pride. Heretofore the demand from outside customers located in nearly every state in the Union has kept this department so busy that but little local work could be taken it. Now, however, with the additional facilities they have begun to undertake work from residents of Cortland which previously they had been compelled to refuse. They are turning out some marvels of beauty in shirt waists and tailor made jackets and gowns for spring wear. Mrs. Ella Hoag, who has been general superintendent of the business since it started, is giving especial attention to this department with a view of increasing the local trade.
Just off these rooms is the reception room for the ladies who come to get tailoring work done. This is suitably fitted up and will be used as a waitingroom. It seems that in remodeling the building the proprietor has forgotten the comfort of no one, and the girls who work in the establishment also have a room of their own which is supplied with a cookstove. Here they can eat their dinners, make coffee and feel at home. A bicycle room will be built in connection with the employees' entrance for storing their wheels. A new walk, 180 feet in length, has been laid from Homer-ave, to the factory. Mr. Gillette is making preparations to give a reception in the building about the first of May, at which time all the departments will be running and every one will have an opportunity of seeing the skirts made.
Aside from skirt manufacturing which is carried on by Mr. Gillette, that gentleman and Mr. H. B. Pomeroy of Syracuse are conducting a large business known as the New York Skirt and Wrapper Co. Both of these gentlemen have had a long experience in this line of work, and were formerly with the Warner Bros. of New York and Chicago. Messrs. Gillette and Pomeroy began this business in January, 1899, have kept increasing it, and the sales for the first two months of this year exceeded the sales for the first six months of last year. Then, too, while at the beginning the firm's territory was necessarily limited, It is now widespread and the STANDARD man was shown a large consignment which was being packed for shipment to a western city.
The firm will make a special effort to secure the large wholesale trade, and to this end Mr. Pomeroy will go West about May 1, and visit Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, St. Louis, etc. He expects to be gone about six weeks.
The building will be lighted throughout by electricity and is to be connected with the central telephone office.
A 20-horse steam engine furnishes power for running the machinery, and a boiler of much larger capacity supplies steam both for the engine and for heating the building. The elevator is also operated by steam power.
The building is, in all, particularly well adapted to the business which has been moved to it. It has the advantage of being well located near the trolley line and the D., L. & W. tracks. Aside from this it is roomy and affords a chance for expansion which is a necessary quality in an industry conducted by two wide awake business men such as are Messrs. Gillette and Pomeroy.
WALLACE WALLPAPER CO.
Factory Running Day and Night—Salesmen Go Out on Road.
The Wallace Wallpaper company has had its six printing machines running day and night for a long time, and its lines of goods have taken so well, especially the higher grades, that it has not been able to send out its traveling men for some weeks now, as all the orders it could fill came directly to the home office by mail. But it is now catching up with orders, and last night three traveling men started out, Mr. O. C. Smith going to New York and Brooklyn, Mr. A. M. Johnson to Philadelphia, and Mr. Lawson to Baltimore.
His Mother Put It Up.
Mr. G. W. Davenport of 38 Lincoln-ave. was ill a few days ago and opened a bottle of currant wine that his mother put up for him forty years ago. It had been tightly corked and sealed all these years and was simply delicious when opened, Mr. Davenport asked several of his neighbors to sample it and all pronounced it fine. Many times in the past he had been on the point of opening it, but had postponed doing it, and he wondered how it would prove, but it was all right.
Funeral of Mrs. Harmon.
The funeral of Mrs. Ann C. Harmon, who died at her late home, 11 Cleveland-st., Monday, April, 2, 1900, was held from the house yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock P. M., and at the First Baptist church at 3, Rev. W. J. Howell officiating.
Mrs. Harmon was born in Cortland, N. Y., sixty-four years ago, and was a daughter of Royal and Margaret Gilbert. She is survived by three children, Alva R. and George M. Harmon both of Cortland, and Mrs. J. W. Stilson of Auburn. She has two surviving brothers, Andrew and Orvil Gilbert, and four sisters, Mrs. D. M. Ayres, Rossville; Mrs. H. D. Lock, Ellis; Mrs. Warner Livermore, Lisle; and Mrs. Herbert Smith, Great Bend, Pa.
Mrs. Harmon was a charter member of the Woman's Relief corps and was until the last two or three months of her life an active and efficient worker in the order. She has held several offices in the corps during her connection with it. The corps attended the funeral in a body and conducted the burial service according to the ritual.
BREVITIES.
—The regular meeting of the Y. W. C. T. U. is postponed this week,
—Walter Russell has been employed to manipulate the shoe brush at Peckham's shaving parlors.
—The Cortland baseball team will play an exhibition game about April 20 with one of the Atlantic league teams.
—Cortland Commandery, No. 50, K. T., will confer the Order of Temple at a special conclave Friday evening.
—New display advertisements to-day are—A. S. Burgess, Spring top coats, page 8; F. E. Brogden, Celery bitters, page 8.
—The Y. W. C. T. U, will give a reception to the teachers attending Institute on Monday evening, April 9, in the Normal [School] parlors, from 8 to 10 o'clock.
—A meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the First Baptist church will be held in the church parlor Friday afternoon, April 6, at 2:30 o'clock.
—Mr. C. L. Kinney's new automobile appeared on the streets to-day. Cortland now has two machines of this kind. Mr. Kelsey's has a blue gear and Mr. Kinney's a wine colored gear. Otherwise they are quite similar in general style.
—Bicycle thieves got a bad blow in the South Carolina courts a few days ago. Prior to this a bicycle thief had been taken before the justice's court and got thirty days in jail, but a newspaper man lost his wheel, caught the thief and took him to a higher court. The judge put bicycle stealing and horse stealing in the same class because both could be ridden, and he sentenced the criminal to five years in the state prison at hard labor.
—It is a very foolish thing for any one to leave a horse unhitched upon the street with all the things incident to a busy city to scare him and start him off to wreck not only the vehicle to which he is attached, but also anything he may chance to run into. But it is particularly unwise to do so now that the new and strange automobile, which proves so awe-inspiring to horses has appeared upon the streets. A word to the wise is sufficient. Take care of the horses.
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