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| Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, April 22, 1901.
WORK OF LEGISLATURE.
Record Made In Amount of Business Done.
ODELL'S DOMINANCE APPARENT.
Mostly All of His Suggestions Have Been Met and His Will Executed—Cutting Down of Expenses and New Tax Bills Insure Low Tax Rate.
ALBANY, April 22.—The legislature of 1901 has practically completed all of its labor, except the fixing of the tax rate and the passing of the Greater New York charter amendments. It will go down into-state political history as one of the few legislatures that has accomplished at least 90 per cent of the work which the chief executive of the state outlined for it in his message, and Governor Odell will be the first governor in many years whose dominance over the component branches of government has been so great that 90 per cent of his recommendations have been carried out.
This is the more notable because many of his suggestions were of a radical nature and aimed at methods of taxation and retrenchment, subjects that have always been the most prominent in raising opposition.
It is estimated that the revenues of the state will be increased at least $3,700.000 annually by the tax bills suggested by the governor and put on the statute books by the legislature. It is also estimated that at least $1,700,000 will be saved by the consolidation of the various departments, the cutting down of legislative printing contract prices and the general retrenchment in other quarters. Indeed, it is possible for the adjourning legislature to make the tax rate for the coming fiscal year almost nothing if all the revenues to be derived are anticipated.
This, however, will not be done, although the tax rate will be very low. In addition to this, and while the bill imposing a state tax exempt generally from local taxation, the localities are also to gain somewhat in taxable values by the revenues to be derived from the tax for local purposes to be imposed upon state and national banks.
Reduction of Expenses.
In addition to the state revenues Governor Odell, with the assistance of Senator Frank Higgins and Assemblyman J. P. Allds, have proceeded in another and very unusual direction. They estimate that, with the reduction of the state officials and the pruning of department expenses of government this year by at least $1,783,000.
Of 42 suggestions for legislation made to the legislature by Governor Odell. 36 have been made, or will be made laws, and only six have failed to pass. Briefly noted the measures are as follows:
Taxing trust companies 1 per cent; taxing savings banks 1 per cent; taxing insurance companies 1 per cent; taxing general corporations 1 per cent; economy in collection of inheritance tax; economy in legislative printing; economy in legislative employes; economy in state departments; lower organization tax for corporations; more liberal corporation law; fewer special attorneys; consolidation of labor bureaus; consolidation of forestry boards; employers' liability bill; more stringent anti-sweatshop law; consolidation of prisons' commission; single-headed health board; abolition of sealer of weights and measures; abolition of special juror commissioners; taxing state and national hanks; amending liquor tax law; parole system in prisons; indeterminate sentences for criminals; revision of New York charter; improvement in New York dock facilities; power of removal of New York police commissioners; extending civil service to laborers; in New York city; repealing Ramapo bill; separating New York bureau of election from police department; appropriating money for state good roads; appropriating money for preservation of Palisades; appropriating money for state fair; forbidding savings and loan associations from investing in second mortgages; cutting down appropriations for care of insane.
Recommendations of the governor which failed of adoption were but six in number. They are briefly: The $26,000,000 canal improvements; single-headed state charity commission; putting gas and electric companies under state railroad commissioners; special statutory revision commission of legislator; amending, the divorce laws; removing the tax on mortgages.
The mass of legislation introduced this session has been very great. In the senate there were introduced 1,088 bills. In the assembly there were introduced 1,698 bills. The number of bills printed and on the files is 1,303 in the senate and 2,575 in the assembly. Of the bills passed and sent to the governor he has signed 460 up to Saturday night and has vetoed 45. This latter is the largest number of vetoes ever sent to a legislature. The number of vetoes does not include, many bills sent back to members and withdrawn to avoid vetoes.
Important Measure.
In addition to the measures which noticed in the governor's message became anti-party measures the legislature passed the following important bills: The Weekes' common law marriage bill; the Price bill providing for military drills in public schools; the O'Connell bill, closing all butcher shops on Sunday; several bills allowing municipalities to accept gifts from Mr. Carnegie; Senator Eisberg, reducing the amount of organization tax in the slate from 1/8 to 1/2 of 1 per cent; Assemblyman Everett's anti-ticket scalpers' bill; the congressional reapportionment bill; to amend the banking law, relative to the examination of agencies of foreign banks; exemption from jury duty of duly licensed engineers of steam boilers actually employed as such; changing the state flag from buff to blue; amending the Greater New York charter, relative to the school teachers retirement fund; making possession of a lottery or policy slip prima facie evidence of guilt; providing for fire drills in the schools of this state; for protection of wild moose, elk, caribou and antelope; and also providing for restocking the Adirondack region with wild moose; amending the tenement house laws for New York city; amending the labor law, relative to providing washrooms and waterclosets [toilets] in factories; the Stevens bill, forbidding laundrying in apartments used for living and sleeping; Assemblyman Costello, compelling the posting of the factory law in factories; the Costello bill, forbidding the employment of women and children in buffing and polishing.
Important Bills Killed.
Important bills killed in the legislature other than the six recommended by the governor were: The 1/2 of 1 per cent mortgage tax bill; the bill abolishing capital punishment; the various bills for punishment for kidnapping; the anti-palmistry and fortune telling bill; the bill to license stationary engineers; the various pure beer bills; the anti-Christian Science bill; the bill to license osteopaths in this state; the bill increasing the tax on racing associations; the bill to provide for a state constabulary; providing for 60-cent gas in New York city; providing free transportation for bicycles on steamboats; the $5,000,000 good roads building bill; the compulsory arbitration bill; the Lyman big type bill; the bill compelling stock tickers to be furnished on demand; New Jersey bill for New York city approaches; providing for a new approach to the Brooklyn bridge; the Brooks amateur boxing bill; the street railway car vestibule bill; the so-called alum baking powder bill.
Chemung River Bank Full.
ELMIRA, N. Y., April 22.—The Chemung river was bank full last night and the basements of the stores in Water street are filled with water, which is being lowered by means of steam pumps and the fire engines. The railroad trains are many hours behind schedule time. Rain continued to fall all day until 6 o'clock last night.
WATER IS HIGH
And Rain is Doing Much Good in This Section.
The news columns are full of accounts of high water in the western country. There is a little touch of it in this vicinity [Cortland]. The water came up when the great mass of snow began to melt and it has kept up ever since. Mr. Wayne Watkins of East River says he has never known the water in the East river to remain high so long before at one time. It is four or five feet higher than the average and they have not been able to turn a wheel in the grist mill in that place in three weeks.
And now comes a rain of three days. It has taken off the snow banks that till two days ago were still visible on the hill sides. And it is starting vegetation at a rapid rate. The grass turned green in a night. For two years there has been a shortage of rain and the land will stand a good deal of rain very well. It is getting it now. To-day it is rash to go out of doors without an umbrella and one had better keep it up all the time. It is needed first to protect from the flood of rain that comes down with remarkable ease, and five minutes later it comes into use as a parasol. Just before 1 o'clock this afternoon there was a hailstorm and hail stones larger than peas fell for a few minutes. Buds on trees are starting well and a little warm weather now will bring out the leaves.
TRACTION COMPANY SALE.
All its Property to be Closed Out by Referee To-morrow at 11 A. M.
The receiver's sale of the franchise, plant and entire property of the Cortland & Homer Traction Co., which has been advertised in these columns for several weeks past, will occur at the car barns near the fair grounds at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. The property will be sold by the referee, James M. Milne. It will probably be the greatest sale of property ever held in Cortland.
Shock of Apoplexy.
Mr. Seth Hobart, one of the most highly respected residents of Preble, had a shock of apoplexy at 2 o'clock Sunday morning, At that time he was alone in the house with his wife. Mrs. Hobart did what she could to make him comfortable and then hastened for Dr. Hunt, who responded at once to the call. Throughout the day yesterday and the night Mr. Hobart's mind seemed rather clouded and while not unconscious he seemed to think and to understand with difficulty. To-day he is better and his mind is clearer. It is hoped that he may recover. He is 71 years old.
A FREAK OF NATURE.
A Calf Born in a Solon That Was Turned Inside Out.
A cow belonging to Mr. Chas. Bingham, who lives a mile and a half from McGraw, gave birth Sunday to a calf which was in its way a freak of nature and a peculiar and interesting case of malformation. The head, neck and legs were all fully developed and normal. The peculiar feature of the case was that all the internal organs, including heart, lungs, liver and intestines were on the outside, instead of within the abdominal cavity. In fact there was no abdominal cavity, the viscera being all on the outside and the whole seeming to be a case of reversing the usual order of things. The calf literally seemed to be turned wrong side out. Dr. C. F. Wade, the veterinarian says that while the calf was dead there is every indication to show that it was alive until a very short time before parturition. Dr. Wade also says that this is the first case of the kind that ever came to his attention and so far as he knows is the first of the kind on record.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
◘ A New York waiter who has brought a legal action against a restaurant proprietor in that city alleges that his weekly earnings as a waiter amounted to $100 and that he never made less than $10 a night. These figures show to what an extreme the custom of "tipping" waiters has been carried. Undoubtedly in many cases the men who receive the tips are worth more and are earning more money than the men who give them. Yet the custom is kept up even by those who cannot afford it, simply because most of us are cowards and slaves to custom.—Troy Times.
◘ America will have to look after her laurels as the fastest nation on earth. Here is Germany, with an electric motor train that travels 125 miles an hour, and without difficulty according to our consul-general at Frankfort. England, unless the plans of the promoters fail, is also to have a high-speed electric line between Manchester and Liverpool, that will cover the distance, 34 miles in twenty minutes, or at the rate of 102 miles an hour.
◘ Canada's unpatriotic $4 bill, on which is printed a picture of the United States, instead of the Canadian, lock at Sault Ste. Marie, has been severely condemned in the Canadian house of commons for advertising a foreign enterprise. One member suggested, "Why not put on a picture of Mr. and Mrs. McKinley?" which was greeted with a derisive, "Yes, yes!" The withdrawal of the bill from circulation is considered.
THE MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Dates Fixed for the Week of June 17, Rehearsal to Begin Immediately.
Managers Bowen and Wellman have arranged the dates of the Cortland county Music festival for the week of June 17 at the Cortland Opera House. The work of organizing choruses in the different towns, which will form the grand chorus at the festival, will be rapidly pushed and rehearsals commenced by May 1. The children's chorus will begin rehearsing Thursday afternoon of this week at Taylor hall. The managers are in correspondence with a number of prominent vocalists and instrumentalists and expect to be able to announce the full list of artists in a few days.
Barbers Dissolve Partnership.
Drexler & Tift, who have for some time conducted a barbering business in Cortland, and who for a few months have been located at Orchard-st., have dissolved partnership. Mr. Drexler will continue the business at the old stand while Mr. Tift has accepted a position as organizer for the Modern Woodman of America. Paul will secure a first class assistant, and will be pleased to see all of his customers at the shop under the new management.
FINE HOLSTEIN STOCK.
E. C. Rindge Has Twenty-eight Thoroughbreds in a Herd of Eighty.
Mr. E. C. Rindge was in Syracuse Thursday and Friday attending one of the most remarkable sales of registered Holstein cattle that has ever been held in this vicinity. The two herds of Charles Hunt and W. C. Hunt of Liverpool and Delphi respectively were sold at public auction. Two hundred people attended the sale. One hundred thirty-six animals were sold at a price exceeding $15,000 in the aggregate. The prices ranged from $30 to $500, the latter being paid by H. D. Crossman of Cayuga county for a cow and a calf. One buyer from San Francisco bought thirty head for $2,995. The 136 averaged over $110 each.
Mr. Rindge came home feeling pretty will satisfied with his own herd. He has eighty head in his dairy, of which twenty-eight are registered thoroughbreds and the remainder high grades.
Klasina Payne give 102 pounds of milk in one day [sic]. She has a butter record of 11 pounds, 7 ounces in three days, 97 pounds, 6 ounces in thirty days, and 125 pounds, 5 ounces in forty days. Doetje Welling DeKol's dam was Doetje Willing, imported, milk record 67 1/2 pounds in one day. All of Royal DeKol Perfection DeKol's ancestors in the fourth generation, two in the third and one in the second were imported. Seven out of ten of his nearest female ancestors have butter records which average 24 1/2 pounds, 3 ounces in a week, and eight out of ten have milk records which average 81 pounds, 9 ounces in one day.
A short time since he visited the Pioneer herd owned by N. F. Shoales of Earlville, N. Y., and purchased a fine young Holstein-Friesian bull to head his herd. Mr. Shoales has recently purchased the entire Maple croft herd of Holstein-Friesians, formerly owned by Messrs. J. B. Dutcher & Son of Powling, N. Y., which contained many of the largest milk and butter producers in the world. The seventy-nine head purchased of Messrs. J. B. Dutcher & Son combined with about one hundred head which he previously owned gives him a herd containing much of the best blood in the country and a fine one to select stock from.
The name of the bull purchased by Mr. Rindge is Royal DeKol Perfection DeKol. He is very handsomely marked and very fine in form and finish, a good handler and straight as a line and very stylish in appearance. Combined with his superior individuality he has a wonderful breeding and milk and butter-record backing. His sire is DeKol Netherlad Clothilde whose dam DeKol 2nd's Queen has a butter record of twenty-eight pounds, seven ounces in a week as a 3-year-old, and her dam DeKol 2nd has a butter record of thirty-three pounds, 6 ounces in a week and is too well known to need farther description. DeKol 2nds Queen's sire is Foster; he by Barringto out of Lilith, both imported. DeKol Netherland, Clothllde's sire, is Clothildes 5th's Netherland. He is by Netherland Statesman, out of Clothilde 5th, butter record 21 pounds, 10 ounces in a week. She is out of Clothilde with a milk record of 101 pounds, 2 ounces in one day, 26,021 pounds in one year and 28 pounds, 2 1/4 ounces of butter in a week.
Clothilde's 5th sire was Netherland Prince. He won three first prizes and for two years stood at the head of the Gold Medal herd at the New York state fair and won gold medal for bull and five of his get it at New York state fair in 1886. He won this same prize at the New York state fair and the International fair at Buffalo in 1889. Eight of his daughters, 1 5-year old, 1 4-year old and 5 3-year olds and 1 2-year-old average 20 pounds, 3 1/2 ounces of butter in seven days, only taking 17.28 pounds of milk to make one pound of butter. Twenty-five of his daughters average 15.73 pounds of butter in seven days, averaging one pound of butter from 18.28 pounds of milk. Netherland Statesman's sire was Netherland Prince, dam Lady Fay, butter record 22 pounds, 3 1/2 ounces of butter in a week and 97 pounds, 5 ounces milk in one day. Royal DeKol, Perfection DeKol's dam, was Doetje Wellings DeKol, a well marked, highly bred, rich skimmed, rich milker. Her sire was DeKol's 2nds Netherland, he by Netherland Alban out of DeKol 2nd. Netherland Alban was by Netherland Prince out of Albino, butter record 17 pounds, 4 ounces in a week. Albino's dam [sic, TGIF].
Universalist Church.
"Youth and Age: a Contrast," was the subject of Rev. U. S. Milburn's sermon at the Universalist church yesterday morning. To illustrate his subject he chose two texts from an account of the life of Moses, one an incident in his early life: "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens and he saw an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand"—Ex. ii:11,12. The other was an incident after the lapse of forty years: "And Moses said unto God, who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"—Ex. iii:11.
Conference meeting Thursday night as usual. Subject for discussion, "The Temptation of Jesus."
The Ladies' Aid society will meet in the church parlor for a business meeting next Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. A "Rubber Social" will be given under their auspices that evening (Wednesday) at 8 o'clock in the Sunday-school room. A literary and musical program will be rendered and ice cream and cake will be served to all who wish for 10 cents.
THE NAME "TIOUGHNIOGA."
Shagbark Hickory and Swift Water are Two Meanings Given.
In response to the question asked in The STANDARD the other day for one of our subscribers as to the meaning of the word Tioughnioga, the name of our local river, two answers have come to us.
The first is a reference to Goodwin's History of Cortland county published in 1859, at page 265 where a foot note reads "The Tioughnioga river, as called by the Indians o-nan no-gi is-ka, signified Shagbark hickory." This seems a little strange for very few shagbark hickory trees have ever been found growing near this river. Though this meaning is published in a history it may be added that Goodwin's history has not always been found to be altogether reliable in every respect.
The second meaning submitted is from Mr. Lester Cooper who informs us that the name Tioughnioga is a name from the Onondaga Indian language and that it means "swift water." He says that from his earliest childhood he has been given this meaning for the name. He calls attention to the fact that there used to be Indian villages on the west bank of the east branch of the Tioughnioga river just above the point where the west branch joins the east branch.
We may add that there is no question whatever about this last mentioned fact for the appearance of the land on the farm of A. D. Blodgett bears witness to it every time it is plowed. There are large circles near the river where fires were evidently kept for years. The soil is blackened and the stones in these circles are all broken in irregular pieces as if by heat, while the stones outside of the circles are of an entirely different character and appearance. In years gone by hundreds of Indian arrow heads have been picked up near these fire circles whenever the land was plowed, but they are nearly all gone now and it is rare that one is found. They have all been secured.
Mr. Cooper's traditional meaning surely seems to be the more probable, as the water is swift enough every spring, no matter what it may be in the dry time in the summer, and in the earlier years it used to be higher all the year around than now, but the clearing off of the forests which used to cover so much of the land in the headwaters of the river has had the effect of drying up the sources of the river and lessening the volume of water.
Wanted Relief from City.
Mary Sheridan, 9 East Garfield-st., applied to Commissioner of Charities F. E. Price this morning for help in the support of herself and five children, claiming that her husband, Jame Sheridan, did not provide them support. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Sheridan, as the commissioner is of the opinion that every able bodied man in the city should support his own family. The woman was destitute and claimed that she had had no coal in the house for several days. She was given temporary relief.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
And Was Then Given Ten Days in Jail for Drunkeness.
William Pendall, who was arrested by Chief of Police Barnes Saturday afternoon after having tried to take his life by throwing himself in front of a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western train near the Grant-st. crossing, and afterward by hacking his neck and face with a painter's knife, was brought before City Judge R. L. Davis this morning, where he pleaded guilty to the charge of public intoxication. He stated that he was painting Saturday and had to leave work because he was drunk. In response to a question, he said that he had earned about $30 since March 1 and this had all gone to the support of his family. This the court branded as being false, stating that his family of a wife and six children did not get more than a quarter of his wages, and that in consequence his family was on the city [relief] a portion of the time. He was given ten days in the county jail, and was told that when he got out the police would keep close watch of him.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of the Royal Arcanum council will be held Tuesday evening, April 23, at G. A. R. hall at 7:30 o'clock.
—Superintendent D. L. Bardwell will deliver an address before the Monday Afternoon club this afternoon.—Binghamton Republican.
—The Normal reopened this morning for the last half term's work of the year. Faculty and students were refreshed by the week's breathing spell.
—Principal J. E. Banta has received notice of his appointment as instructor in civics and school law at the coming Summer Chautauqua.—Binghamton Republican.
—The condition of Col. Alfred Greene who has been ill for some time at his house on Church-st., has since Saturday been such as to cause his family and friends serious apprehension.
—Work was begun this morning at the court house and a thorough renovation will be given the building. The work was begun in the sheriff's office. The rooms will be papered and painted.
—New display advertisements to-day are—E. E. Bates, Optician, page 6; City Steam Laundry, Laundry, page 6; Mitch's Market, Meats, etc., page 5; Hudson Crockery Co., Crockery, page 7; A. S. Burgess, Shoes, page 8; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 2; Baker & Angell, Shoe sale, page 7; J. W. Cudworth, Optician, page 7.
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