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| Carrie Nation. |
The Cortland Democrat, Friday, Aug. 30, 1901.
CARRIE NATION IN CORTLAND.
A large crowd of people gathered at the Lackawanna depot Saturday evening to catch a glimpse of Carrie Nation, the saloon-smasher of Kansas, who went south on the evening train from Tully, where she spoke in the afternoon.
Mrs. Nation has a very pleasant face and she seemed delighted with the attention given her by the crowd on the platform. One young man held up his lighted cigar, but Carrie did not go into spasms, merely raising one of her hatchets and shaking her head, as if to say, "You naughty young man." Later she was seen to point the finger of scorn in another direction, and of course all eyes were turned to see what caused Mrs. Nation's sudden outburst of pantomime indignation, where a lad with a cigarette was blushing to the roots of his hair.
Mrs. Nation stated to a reporter that she expected to pay Cortland a visit soon, when it is probable our saloon keepers will enclose their places of business with heavy armor plate.
300 HOMES FLOODED.
TERRIFIC STORM BURSTS OVER NEW YORK CITY.
Another Sky Scraper—Dropped From a Balloon and Sank to His Chin in Mud—Ten-cent Collar Button Causes a $2,000 Lawsuit—8 O'clock a Girl, 8:30 Another, at 9 a Boy.
New York, August 21.—A storm of unusual severity brought traffic, both by train and trolley, to a complete standstill last Saturday afternoon. In four hours 2.75 inches of rain fell and the wind for a time blew a gale. The heavy downpour inundated West street for many blocks, greatly interfering with the traffic over the New Jersey ferries. But the storm's serious damage in this vicinity was done in the Bronx.
There 300 families were made homeless, railroad tracks were covered with many feet of water, and damage was done which is estimated by the police at more than $200,000. Scores of persons had narrow escapes and there were many thrilling rescues.
There are four tracks in the railroad cut, which extends from Melrose to Williamsbridge. The walls are from twenty-five to thirty feet high. When the rain began to fall the water poured over the sides of the walls onto the tracks. It was rising steadily. There is a big sewer under the tracks, with a manhole directly in front of the Fordham station, which was forced open. This is the lowest point of the sewer, and when the increased water poured in from both directions a geyser was formed, which speedily made the tracks invisible. The spouting water had a diameter of three feet, and it shot up into the air eight feet.
The tremendous volume of water speedily converted the railroad into a canal, and for nearly an hour the iron fences between the tracks, which are four and one-half feet high, were completely covered by water.
◘ Another eighteen-story sky scraper is to be erected at Broadway and Maiden Lane. The plans have been approved and ground has been broken. This will be a unique building and will cost $2,725,000. Above the ground floor there will be 340 offices, 16x30 feet. It is expected that these will be used by industrial corporations, and they will be fitted up in magnificent style. The homes of the poor, too, are receiving attention. Over on Avenue A a model tenement is to be constructed which will comfortably house more people than there are in some of the small villages of the state that enjoy a fully equipped municipal government. This building is the first to be started under the new building law. It will occupy the front of an entire block on Avenue A and will be five stories high. It will contain 186 separate apartments of from three to five rooms, all of which will be light and well ventilated from the open air. It will be as nearly fire proof as it is possible to make it and will cost $180,000. Figuring on five persons in a family it will house nearly 1,000 persons.
◘ After falling several hundred feet from a balloon because his parachute failed to work, Benj. Benjamin of this city narrowly escaped death by drowning and from the bites of myriads of mosquitoes in the Hackensack meadows Saturday. After going up in a balloon several hundred feet, he cut loose his parachute, which failed to work, and he fell to the earth at a terrific speed. He was some distance from the place of ascension, but several people hastened to the spot and found him in a perilous position. He had sunk in the slimy mud and water to his chin. He prevented himself from sinking further by clinging to a hummock of grass. Covering the man's face and arms were thousands of mosquitoes which he could not brush off. He was not seriously injured by the fall but was suffering greatly from the stings of the mosquitoes.
◘ Over a 10-cent collar button arose a dispute that has led to an expenditure in the shape of retainers and lawyers' fees that would buy a couple of barrels of buttons and has been productive of a suit to recover $2,000 which was tried in court Monday.
◘ Max Simon and his wife Dora brought their four children from Wilkesbarre four months ago and went to live at No. 345 Osborne street. Every day since, Max has been vainly looking for work.
Sunday night Mrs. Simon was ill. An event was expected, and at 8 o'clock Mrs. Lord, a neighbor, who had come in, announced to the disconsolate Max that it was a girl.
At 8:30 Max was again greeted by Mrs. Lord.
"Congratulations again," she said. "There is another girl. Both of them are good and healthy." Max became more disconsolate.
The door opened again at 9 o'clock and Mrs. Lord appeared for the third time. "Goodness gracious,'' she grasped to the astonished Max, "there is another one. This time it is a boy."
The triplets weigh six pounds each, are strong and lusty, and the neighborhood has made pilgrimages to the Simon house this week to see them.
◘ Killing cats seems to be an expensive job in this city. A gentleman had one of these canines which annoyed him very much, and he took a club and knocked the nine lives out of the animal. He was hauled up in court and fined $5 for the luxury of killing the animal.
NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.
News Gathered and Condensed From Our Wide-Awake Exchanges.
Groton is to have a savings bank.
A glove company has just been organized in Owego with $10,000 capital.
Beans bring $2 per bushel in Orleans county, the banner county for beans in the state.
The school voters of Lenox have decided to pay the salary of $10 to the trustee. A new departure.
Alleghany county produces an even $1,000,000, worth of butter and cheese every year. There are 103 cheese factories in the county.
An Italian named Eynie Tonawanda horribly burned his 8 year-old son's hands over a fire as punishment for taking and eating a banana.
A firm in Hornellsville is experimenting in the manufacture of fireproof lumber, and if successful will enter into the business on an extensive scale.
In Orange county 35,000 bushels of red onions have been lost by the flood. One man lost four acres. It is likely to send up the price of red onions in the market.
Sand fleas are the latest pests in Utica. They are small insects of a reddish brown color familiarly called "red devils" and cause a great deal of annoyance in the houses which they infest.
A milk condensary plant, to cover five acres, employing over sixty men, and to cost $44,000 is to be built within two months at Delphi, provided $10,000 of the stock is subscribed by farmers of the vicinity.
Last week Benj. Warner of Penn Yan disposed of the last of a barrel of Baldwin apples which he had kept in his cellar since last fall. Mr. Warner says he exercised some care in keeping the fruit cool, and about April 7 opened the barrel and wrapped each apple in paper while they were in the process of sweating.
The National salt company which has been sinking a salt well on the outskirts of the village of Canandaigua has struck at the depth of 50 feet an immense bed of salt. The promoters are surprised and they stated to a representative of the Rochester Herald that the find of salt so near the surface had surprised them beyond their fondest hopes.
Running at a speed of 25 miles an hour the south bound train on the Auburn branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad crashed into an immense mass of earth caused by a landslide, two miles north of Kings Ferry Saturday night, the engine plunging into the lake killing the fireman and seriously injuring the engineer. The passenger cars remained on the track.
The manufacturers of Syracuse employ 20,000 persons, turning out $25,000,000 worth of products per year, and pay $7,375,000 in wages annually. The leading manufacturing industry is foundries, employing 7,000 persons who turn out $4,500,000 worth of products yearly, $2,000,000 being paid for wages. Clothing, steel and beer rank equally in value of products and wages paid.
In the village of Catherine, two miles from Montour Falls, a curious robbery occurred a few days ago. The people of the village awoke one morning recently to find that the corner stone of St. Paul's Episcopal church had been pried from its foundation and robbed of its treasure, which consisted of many rare and valuable gold coins, important documents and other articles of worth. The villagers were naturally very much incensed by the action of the sacrilegious vandals and a search was made in the hope of securing some trace of them, but without avail.
THE LATE MRS. JOHN C. EATON OF WILLET, N. Y.
Included in the list of Willet's citizens who have been removed by the hand of death during the past year is Mrs. John C. Eaton, a lady widely known and one who is missed by the entire populace of that place. Mrs. Eaton was born in the town of Willet and her home has ever since been confined within its borders. Her maiden name was Malvina A. Wilson, and she was next to the eldest of eleven children of Harry and Sarah Wilson, the date of her birth being March 27, 1830. She was married to John C. Eaton December 31, 1846, and commenced life's serious battle near where she was born and reared.
Mrs. Eaton was the mother of five children, three of whom survive her, viz.: Mrs. Florence R. Burgett and A. D. V. Eaton of Willet, and Rollin S. Eaton of Binghamton. Nearly fifty years ago, both she and her husband joined the M. E. church class, then on Eaton hill, where both remained true and ardent workers until a society was organized in Willet several years later, when they joined hands with that church, both being charter members, and they have ever since been valuable workers in the church. Mrs. Eaton's life has always been fully consistent to the faith she believed and professed. All who knew her were numbered among her friends to the very last. None were turned from her door hungry, none were ever refused a place to sleep. She gave freely always with a bountiful hand.
For several months previous to her death her life was spent in Willet village, resting and waiting for her reward. Last Christmas there was a family gathering at the residence of their son, A. D. V. Eaton, where the relatives met for the last time as a united family. None were absent, and little did the company think that the mother would soon be summoned to enter upon that ''journey from whose bourne no traveler ever returns.'' But such proved to be the case. After returning to her home that day she retired early, and between 7 and 8 o'clock Mr. Eaton was summoned to her aid. She had arisen from her bed, and said to him that she thought she must be lost. He helped her to bed, and Dr. McBirney was summoned. That was the last time she ever spoke. Despite all efforts to restore her, she continued to grow weaker until she breathed her last. The funeral was held at the M. E. church December 31, 1900, that date being the 54th anniversary of their wedding. The church was filled with sorrowing friends, Rev. J. B. Wilson preaching a very affecting sermon in respect to her memory. Fourteen grandchildren attended the funeral, six of them performing the sad duty of laying their grandmother's remains in the village cemetery. Her relatives have the blessed assurance that their loss is her gain. She was ever a faithful wife, a loving mother, and a true friend to all who knew her.
GROTON BRIDGE COMPANY.
Incorporation of Another Concern with $50,000 Capital.
Although the former shops of the Groton Bridge company [pdf] were shut down last week by order of the governing syndicate, Groton will not lose the profits of the industry, as another company has been incorporated and new and probably more extensive works will soon be built.
On Saturday night last, an order was received at the Bridge works from headquarters to close the works. Consequently large numbers of men were immediately thrown out of work. The foremen of the different departments, most of whom have built homes in Groton, are not disposed to move to other localities to seek employment, immediately congregated for a conference. A proposition was made for the starting of new works which was minutely discussed, before the meeting adjourned until Monday night. In the second meeting the question was definitely decided and a messenger was immediately dispatched to Albany to secure a certificate of incorporation.
Thursday morning the certificate of incorporation was received for record at the Tompkins county clerk's office. The capital stock of $50,000 has been pledged and the new company, which will be known as the Groton Bridge company, will immediately begin the construction of new works which will be equipped with new machinery.
The directors of the company are Fred Mackey, A. D. Campbell, E. S. Burtenshaw, Elwin E. Dye, James Walpole, Fred H. Hurlbut and Arthur Walpole.
THIS SCHOOLMASTER'S DESK.
Saturday Night Sketches For Thoughtful Readers.
(Written for the Democrat.)
Good citizenship is the primary object of education. Free schools are maintained solely on the ground of public necessity, of self preservation, of safety to the state. To quote Washington: "In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.'' Dr. Arnold put the case rightly when he said, ''It is clear that in whatever it is our duty to act, those matters also it is our duty to study.'' No one who looks into the future can escape the conviction that our national prosperity will depend in no slight degree on the diffusion of satisfactory economic and political education. An intelligent vote is founded on conviction. A man should vote one way or another because of his knowledge of public affairs, not in spite of it. If he can give no better reason for his Democracy than that his grandfather voted for Jackson or assign no other cause for being a Republican than that his father supported Lincoln, his education is at fault. The intelligent voter decides for himself on which side of public questions he will stand and with what party he will act. He can do this only when he understands the government under which he lives and knows the history of its growth. If he is ignorant of affairs, out of touch with real political life and unacquainted with American history, he is a poor citizen and the state has failed in its purpose in educating him.
While these facts are self evident, it is certainly strange that the study of history should be so woefully neglected. Children in the common schools only receive meager instruction or none at all. Teachers themselves find history the bane of their examination for license, although the questions submitted are most elementary. The fault is not altogether with the school system, the teacher, or the child. We have departed from the ways of our ancestors when families of kinsfolk were accustomed to build their homes near together and every township as of one blood; when the traditions were handed down for generations and each son emulated the patriotism of his fathers. What a potent factor in our national life if it were the custom in every home to gather in the kinsman on national holidays and tell the story of the family! Father, it may be, fought in the civil war, grandfather in the war with Mexico, and so on back through the wars of 1813 and the Revolution against England and the earlier struggles with England against the French and Indians. Many homes in this country tell the whole story of American history. There was the ancestral flight from England, the settlement in the Massachusetts wilderness, the migration to Rhode Island or Connecticut, the pushing westward beyond the Hudson, the entrance on new lands in western New York, the pouring into the fertile valley beyond the Alleghenies with the song—
"You girls card and spin.
We boys will plow and sow,
We'll reap and we'll mow.
And we'll settle on the banks
Of the beautiful Ohio.''
Always some left behind to perpetuate the name in each locality, always some pressing forward toward the land of promise, of opportunity, of rewards. Each does his part, each adds his strength to form the sun of human endeavor, each is a force of producing American civilization and world-wide empire. The hardy woodchopper and the charcoal pit have a place in history quite as important as the statesman and the battlefield. The political life, habits, and forms familiar to our fathers were such as their surroundings and experiences developed out of English originals. With the proper family background history would be the most interesting subject taught in the schools.
Some years ago when the writer was teaching in western New York, he came upon a family name which in itself told an interesting tale. Among the Danes who came to England in the times of Egbert and Alfred were families that settled along the eastern coast of the island on lands won by force of arms from the Saxon occupants. They became farmers and herdsmen and in consequence were known to their Saxon neighbors as the Danes with herds, or Herds-Danes, from which came the name Herendeen.
The history of our country must antedate the discovery of America. The English race, long before it came to the shores of Britain, learned the art of self-government. The old town life on the shores of the Baltic forms an interesting study entirely within the scope of the district school. No one can comprehend the Declaration of Independence who has never heard of Magna Charta. There is no child old enough to attend school who is too young to learn something of geography, of history, and of civil government. These three subjects are so closely related that it is easier and better to teach them together. One of the most important functions of elementary geography is to teach the names, locations and characteristics of the countries into which man has divided the earth. This study begins with the school district and the town, and very soon includes some knowledge of the state and of the United States. Under right instruction the future citizen learns step by step the story of his people, making the family the starting point. He bases his knowledge on the first form of government, the first political divisions with which he comes in contact. Home and school unite in making clear subjects generally vaguely understood, and the real object in free public education is reached and accomplished.
Death of Mrs. J. J. Taggart.
Mrs. J. J. Taggart of Binghamton, a lady well known in Cortland, having lived here many years previous to 1878, met with an accident last Saturday which caused her death Wednesday morning. While at work in the kitchen she fell, breaking her hip, and because of her advanced age she was unable to withstand the shock. Her remains were brought to Cortland yesterday afternoon for burial.
HERE AND THERE.
An Oklahoma editor, who is a deep thinker, has fixed a table of rates for publishing things, "not as they seem," as follows: "For telling the public that a man is a successful citizen when everybody knows he is as lazy as a government mule, $2.75; referring to a deceased citizen as one who is sincerely mourned by the entire community, and when he knows he will be missed by the poker circle, $1.08; referring to some gallivanting female as an estimable lady whom it is a pleasure to meet, when every business man in town rather see the devil coming, horns, hoofs and all, than to see her coming towards them, $3.10; calling an ordinary pulpit pounder an eminent divine, 60 cents; sending a tough sinner to heaven with poetry, $5.00."
In 1855 it required on the average four hours and thirty-four minutes of the time of a laborer to do the plowing, harrowing, cultivating, etc., that went to the producing of a bushel of corn and the price of that labor was 36 cents. To-day machines have changed conditions. Their use has reduced the necessary time of the laborer to about thirty-four minutes, and the cost to about 10 1/2 cents.
Herbert Converse, who has had charge of Mrs. Crumb's farm in Cuyler for several years past, goes to Cortland March 1st to take the management of the well-known Wickwire farm. He receives $600 a year and everything furnished but his groceries. Mr. Converse is one of our best farmers and Mr. Wickwire is fortunate in securing him.—DeRuyter Herald.
Commission merchants and others are said to be making efforts to corner the apple crop, which is very light in different parts of the country. The fruit promises to sell for all it is worth next season.
Peaches are quite plentiful in the Cortland market, but dealers complain that they rot quickly this season.
Labor day comes next Monday. There will be no general observance in Cortland.
The city schools will open next Tuesday.
The Normal school will begin its fall term September 11.
The annual reunion of the Gardner family will be held at Cortland park September 7. All relatives are cordially invited.
The two new trolley cars received by the Traction company this week are a much needed acquisition to the rolling stock of that company.
L. W. Potter & Son have purchased the building on Pendleton-st., formerly occupied as a junk shop, and have moved their hide and tallow business.
The [State League] ball game for the benefit of Pitcher Mullen will be played on Athletic field next Tuesday afternoon. The opposing teams will be Binghamton and Waverly.
The Utica division of the Lackawanna road is having much trouble with tramps, some twenty taking charge of a train Saturday morning. They were arrested at Norwich, N. Y.
The Jacob D. Haynes farm in Preble was sold at sheriff's sale Saturday for $4,625 to John Van Buskirk, who transferred the title to F. T. Van Hoesen of New York. The farm is composed of 140 acres.
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