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| Fairgrounds oval track and clubhouse, middle left, off Homer Ave. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, August 10, 1900.
THE COUNTY FAIR.
A Ferris Wheel One of the Attractions—Magnificent Special Premiums.
The people may trust Secretary W. J. Greenman [Book of Biographies, page 452] to provide something of an interesting nature for the patrons of the Cortland county fair, which will begin one week from next Tuesday, August 21, and continue four days.
Among the many special attractions will be a Ferris wheel which will carry the people up in mid-air to a height commanding a magnificent view of the city and surroundings. This feature will be well worth the price of admission to the grounds. Other special entertainments will be announced next week.
The special premiums of a Pease Cabinet Grand piano, offered by Mr. A. Mahan and the society, and the rubber tire leather top buggy by Keator and Wells, will draw thousands to the fair and somebody will secure these as well as other special premiums to the number of several hundred. On the last day some disinterested person will announce the award of both the piano and the buggy.
Messrs. Beard & Peck, who each year spring some happy surprise on the public at the annual fairs, will this year manage a ladies' driving contest on the track at 1 o'clock sharp on Thursday, August 3. Any lady may enter the contest who is a bona-fide resident of any town in Cortland county, and of Dryden, Groton, McLean. Summer Hill and Peruville. The entrance will be free and the driver may use a two or four wheeled vehicle. To the lady who will harness her horse, hitch to vehicle and drive one mile or twice round the track, the driver having the privilege of trotting or running the horse, any way to get there, and make the best time, will receive an elegant chamber suit worth $25; second prize, a sideboard worth $14; third, bamboo parlor cabinet worth $7.
There will be races each day except Tuesday and some fine trotters are entered.
THE LAZY REPORTER.
What He Has Observed While Wandering About the City.
This matter of street lights has been a scientific study with me, and the final conclusions of my deep investigations are summed up in the statement that whoever located the additional lights ordered by the village or city fathers within the past year or so possessed the massive brain of a Daniel Webster. I perambulate about this beautiful city and I find these conditions: That Main-st. and the adjoining business avenues are very poorly lighted; that somewhere in the neighborhood of East Homer or Truxton, and also half way to McLean. or possibly less, are electric lights which, if located in the business center would be of some practical use; and that there are streets in the city which have only one gas lamp, and even these have not been lighted within the past six or eight months. I am not a chronic kicker, but will any candid man deny the assertion that if the city cannot afford more lights, a more judicious rearrangement of those in use would best serve the entire populace?
If I was a clerk I should commend the action of the grocerymen and meat marketmen in closing their stores at 6:30. If I was a customer I should use the same letters transposed to express my opinion of the early closing movement. I presume every reader of this item will readily solve my meaning.
George C. Roberts, the gifted editor of the Chenango American, published at Greene, N. Y., is one of the handsomest newspaper men in the state of New York, and such being the case he views with alarm the coming danger of being on the streets after dark. Here is his last wail, which is extremely touching and which will draw to him the sympathy of his editorial brethern everywhere: "Horror upon horrors! We are shaking in our boots. We don't think you will catch us out on the streets after dark from this time forward, without a body guard. Just listen! A girl has been arrested in one of the northern towns of this state for waylaying a man on the street and kissing him 38 times in rapid succession. We had rather go to China and fight the Boxers, than pass through an ordeal of such long drawn out sweetness. But we men are never safe."
Can any one tell me
why Orchard-st. was so named? At the present time there isn't an orchard within
a half mile of the street.
The city of Cortland has eight streets named after ex-presidents of the United States, or at least so named. They are Arthur, Cleveland, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Madison, Taylor and Washington, placing them in their alphabetical order.
One of the prettiest growths of ivy to be seen in Cortland is on the premises of James E. Tanner, 17 Lincoln-ave. It covers an arch extending from the house to the sidewalk and the sight is well worth looking at.
The history of every country recounts many deeds of bravery, but none of them can exceed the nerve required to umpire a base ball game in Cortland or anywhere else. The umpire must be a hero, and future generations will doubtless give him his full credit for bravery.
A funny play on names can be made with the wife of a minister living near Bainbridge, who has been married three times. Her maiden name was Partridge, her first husband was named Robbins, the second Sparrow and the present one Quayle. There are two young Robbins, one Sparrow and two little Quayles, and the family live on Jay-st. One might almost be forgiven for suggesting that the lady is a "bird."
A good story on a Cortland young man was told me the past week. Just when it occurred, or who the victim was I shall never tell. He saw an advertisement in a story paper making the announcement that for seventy-five cents a certain firm would send a book giving forty ways to get rich. Here was the chance of his life time, and he promptly mailed the cash required. In due time the book came, and the young man hastened to the privacy of his room to learn the methods proposed. On the first page of the book, in boldfaced type, was the following advice:
"Work like the devil, and don't spend a cent."
This was all right as far as it went, and he turned over the leaf. On the second again appeared the words:
"Work like the devil, and don't spend a cent."
And the third page was a facsimile of the second, and the fourth was the same, and so on through the forty pages. The advertiser fulfilled his contract to the letter, but not in a way pleasing to the young man, and 'tis said he was somewhat huffy whenever any one referred to the matter.
Say, but it is outrageous, the way the water is allowed to leak from the hydrant at the corner of Church and Railroad-sts., keeping the crosswalk covered with water, and making a mud hole in the travel way just north of the brick pavement. Why can't the street sprinkler get water at some point less frequented?
Neighbor Henry Seymour has a pear tree so heavily laden with fruit that it has already become necessary to prop up several limbs. The fruit looks very tempting, too.
The Fitzgerald lot east of the D., L. & W. depot, I observe, bears the appearance of a mill yard, the poles for the new telephone line being piled up all over the field. Workmen are engaged in stripping the bark from them with the view of having them look tasty when erected.
CORTLAND HOME TELEPHONE CO.
Poles and Insulators Arrive—Work on Construction Will Soon Begin.
That The Cortland Home Telephone Company, organized and incorporated several weeks ago, intends to establish a service in this city and county that will be a credit to the promoters is evident from the initiatory work already done. As stated in the last issue of the Democrat, a portion of the poles have arrived and on Tuesday twenty-five barrels of insulators were received. The poles are taken to the vacant lot owned by Hon. L. J. Fitzgerald, east of the D., L. & W. tracks, where the bark is taken off and each pole shaved smooth so that they can be neatly painted.
The location of the central office has not yet been decided upon, but it will be conveniently located and when selected the work of setting the poles will begin. Those near the central office will be 60 feet high and they will grade down to 50, 45, and 40 feet as they are located away from the business portion of the city. Between 500 and 600 poles will be required in the city alone.
The company will also extend the line to Homer, where an equally good service will be given, and within a year or two every hamlet in Cortland county will be in telephonic communication with this city.
From the central office the wires will be taken in cables containing fifty wires each, and as these cables reach the location of customers the connection will be made with two of these wires, thus giving each customer a special metallic circuit.
At the central office a switchboard for five hundred phones will be placed and a cabinet large enough for eight hundred.
The company expects to have the city line in operation by the first of December, after which the work of extending the service will continue. The names of the gentlemen who compose the company have heretofore been given in the Democrat and they are known to our citizens as persons of high standing and they propose to give the best possible service.
Flag Made From Cornstalks.
That a beautiful representation of the stars and stripes can be made of cornstalks seems almost incredible, yet one of our townsmen, John Dowd, Sr., who is an adept at fine work with this hitherto considered worthless material, has in his possession a handsome United States flag made entirely of cornstalks with the exception of the stars. The flag is about 30 by 36 inches in size and is woven so closely that at a short distance away one would think it was made of cloth. The husks comprising the red stripes were colored before weaving. Mr. Dowd has also an elegant foot rest made from the same material.
BASE BALL NOTES.
Cortland Still in the Lead—The Home Team Does Excellent Work.
Of the seven games played the past week, Cortland won six and lost one. The boys are coming down the home stretch at a winning clip and the prospects are that this city will land the pennant of 1900. Last Thursday Cortland won from Rome, 8 to 3; Friday, Cortland 6, Elmira 0. Monday two games were on with Binghamton, the first being won by Cortland, 12 to 5, eleven innings, and the second forfeited to us by Binghamton. Tuesday the game came to Cortland 5 to 1. Wednesday at Utica the interest was intense, as the two leaders played a strong game for supremacy, Cortland winning by the score of 3 to one. The standing of the league teams Wednesday night was as follows:
PAGE FOUR—SHORT EDITORIALS.
Talk of friction between Hill and Croker all comes from Republican sources and is without foundation.
A careful poll in Indiana shows that ninety per cent of the Gold Democrats who were against Bryan in '96 will support him this year.
The trusts rule Mark Hanna; Mark Hanna rules McKinley and McKinley rules the American people—and wants to rule the Pacific savages. It's tough on the people.
Just as long as the Republicans of this county walk up and keep the vote normal, just so long will the perpetrators of the "corrupt and drunken'' caucus of three years ago continue to hold the Republican reins in the county, and control the pap [sic]. Give them a good set back by voting the Democratic ticket, and voting it straight this fall, and Duell, Dowd and Dickinson, with Nate, and Tige, will be relegated to the back ground.
From present indications, the 'canned beef" scandal was a small affair beside one now being enacted in the Philippines. Over three weeks ago General MacArthur informed the War department that our soldiers are dying at military stations all over the islands for want of medical aid and that several thousands are down with wounds, tropical fevers and other diseases and are utterly without medical supplies or skill to aid them. No wonder the war department did not publish the information. It leaked out. If the [Hanna-McKinley] administration will keep up a senseless war, they should, in all common decency, at least provide medical aid for their soldiers.
POLITICAL NOTES.
As Mr. Dooley says, "Roosevelt was alone in Cuby" and there is none to share with the Rough Rider the honor and glory of the war with Spain. Roosevelt did it all and the rest were "cowards." The brave men who faced the bullets and shells in more than one battle will resent his mean slander on election day.—Lockport Union-Sun.
Every vote for McKinley is a vote to go on killing Filipinos, a vote for their Perpetual subjugation to the United States, a vote to endorse the unspeakable perfidy we have practiced toward them, and a vote to imperil their public by a foreign policy like that which probably brought Rome to ruin.—Letter to Springfield Union.
Their flag was once made a reproach to the American people because it professed to be the symbol of universal freedom and in fact waved over a subject class and it was stigmatized as the "flaunting lie." The reproach was purged in blood. Is our flag to be proclaimed the "flaunting lie" once more before the civilized world? Will not the reproach be just if it wave as a symbol of sovereignty over peoples made into a subject class in our name by the Republican party? Is not a subject class as un-American under our flag at a distance as at home?—Chicago Chronicle.
The recent exploit of Roosevelt's unruly tongue prompts the Washington Times to remark: "In the minds of a great many Americans who, until recently have felt kindly toward Theodore Roosevelt, it is a great pity that the supposed exigencies of the present presidential campaign should have placed him in a position to let the country see and understand what manner of jabberwocky he really is. The result will not be votes for McKinley.'' "Teddy" has probably found out that the case of the g. o. p. is desperate enough to necessitate resort to mud as a campaign argument.
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| "Rough Rider" Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt. |
Roosevelt Shows His Calibre.
Roosevelt by his vicious outburst at St. Paul in which he declared "All Democrats are dishonest and disorderly at home and cowardly shirkers abroad," has stirred the indignant contempt of thinking men of all parties.
That any man, a candidate for the high office of Vice-President, should be capable of such an utterance almost seems incredible, but with the bragging, blustering Roosevelt such denunciations come easy. He thinks no more of indiscriminately characterizing 6,000,000 of his fellow citizens as scoundrels and cowards than the heedless fish-wife of "calling names" at every one in sight.
Roosevelt's big list of Democratic cowards includes Dewey, Schley, Lawton, Miles, Wheeler and thousands of actual heroes of the Spanish-American war. But then it must be remembered that Teddy was "alone in Cuba," and the only simon-pure patriot who fought for his country in the recent war with Spain.
This is not the first time that Theodore Roosevelt has slandered thousands of his fellow countrymen. During his legislative career in the early eighties Roosevelt wrote of our German and Irish citizens in a sneering manner, and denounced in bitter terms the observance of St. Patrick's day by the latter, and the traditions of the Fatherland by the former.
More recently in writing of life in the west, he expressed his contempt of the farmers and working men of the East. He referred in eulogistic terms to the cowboys, and declared after touching lightly on their defects, "they are much better fellows and companions than the small farmers and mechanics of the East."
No wonder Republican campaign managers are seeking to gag this chump of conceit, who has so little respect for hosts of honest citizens. No wonder that Roosevelt, who has posed and strutted so carefully before an admiring public, is becoming more of a laughing stock and less of a hero day by day.
HERE AND THERE.
Grange excursion to Binghamton next Wednesday.
Regular meeting of Cortlandville grange this evening.
Family reunions will be quite numerous for the next few weeks.
Do you realize that the Cortland county fair will begin one week from next Tuesday?
A. J. Goddard has bought the house and lot No. 50 North Main-st., and intends to erect a handsome residence upon the premises.
M. R. Faville began his duties as chorister in the Presbyterian church last Sunday.
The corn fields in and around Cortland never looked finer than they do this season, and the indications are that the crop will be immense.
Frank W. Rogers, whose native place was Cortland, but left here for Norwich in 1869, has been appointed agent of the Lackawanna railroad at that place.
Eddie Barber, a young lad nine years old, was run into by Bert Bosworth's lunch wagon Friday afternoon. He was thrown from his wheel, and narrowly escaped being run over.
In cases where poor children are not properly clothed for attending the public schools, Superintendent Skinner has decided that the poormaster of the town in which they live must provide proper clothing for them.
Referring to the woman's dress that mops the street, an observer says:—''Suppose we men were to have our trousers made three or four inches too long and then walked up and down the street with a firm hold on each leg, trying to prevent ourselves from stepping on them."
Down at Centre Lisle last Thursday morning the people were astonished to find a slight frost, an unusual occurrence for July. Centre Lisle is a mighty lively little place, and it has some exceedingly fine people, but it is so strongly impregnated with Republicanism that it becomes very chilly at times. We look for milder weather soon, as it is understood that many Centre Lisle Republicans will vote for Bryan next November.
Civil service examinations will be held on or about September 1 in various cities throughout the state for the following positions: Assistant to legislative librarian, salary $600; director of boys industrial department, state school for the blind, Batavia, salary $900; director of music, state school for the blind, Batavia, salary $900; gas meter tester, salary $3.50 per day; instructor in music and gymnastics, House of Refuge for women, Hudson, salary $420; officer, institutions for women and children, salaries $300 to $600 and maintenance; parole officer, salary $720; physician, Eastern New York Reformatory, salary $2.000.
It is [Police] Chief Parker yet.
The Patrons of Industry turned out in great force at their annual picnic at the park Wednesday.
Mrs. Delia H. Whitcomb will have charge of the art department at the Conservatory of Music next year.
Mrs. John C. Purcell of No. 6 Venette-st. was taken ill with appendicitis Tuesday, but it is hoped it will not be a serious case. Dr. S. J. Sornberger attends her.
Next week Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday Prof. J. W. Cudworth will not be in his office, as he expects to attend the meeting of the American association of Opticians at Detroit.
The bee-keepers of Cortland county will hold their annual picnic at Higginsville early in September. They evidently have in view the neighborly character of the next superintendent of the poor, Watts S. Freer.
Ralph H. Davis, the Cortland representative of the Syracuse Post-Standard, [whose office] was damaged by smoke and water at the fire Monday morning, has opened his office in the room formerly occupied by James Farrell, three doors west of his former location.
Miss Bertha J. Kinney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Manley Kinney, residing west of Cortland, was obliged to submit to an operation for appendicitis last Sunday, Dr. Dana performing the operation, assisted by Drs. Neary and Higgins. The young lady stood ordeal well.
Messrs. F. H. Cobb & Co. began excavating Monday for their new block east of their present quarters in Railroad-st., of which the Democrat made mention three months ago. The block when completed will be an ornament to the city, and will give the firm greater facilities for the transaction of its growing wholesale trade.
SCHOOL TRUSTEES.
Officers of school districts were elected at the annual meetings held Tuesday evening:
McGrawville—Trustees, W. J. Buchanan and W. H. Huntley.
Preble—No. 11, trustee, Daniel O'Shea; clerk, J. P. Currie; collector, James T. Steel.
Preble—No. 6, trustee, Frank Dailey; clerk, H. C. Haynes; collector, George Masters; treasurer J. C. Crofoot.
Preble No. 9, trustee, G. W. Maycumber; clerk, J. B. Underwood; collector, G. W. Maycumber.
Groton City—Trustee, Walter Abbott; clerk, Wm. French; collector, Charles Cooper.
Texas Valley—Trustee, Thomas Johnson; clerk, David Wallace.
Lapeer—No. 7, trustee, Orrin Johnson; clerk, P. M. Francis; collector, Henry Gardner; treasurer, Seth Davis.
Cortlandville—Brick school district, trustee, Henry Ellsworth.
Cortlandville—No. 7, trustee, Clinton Lamont.
Homer—Trustees, P. C Kingsbury, H. L. Bates and Dr. F. R. Thompson.
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